Recipes

The below recipe makes a firm and heavy cheesecake, nicely flavored with lemon.

Ingredients

For Cake:

2 ½ pounds softened cream cheese
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 tablespoon corn starch
3 tablespoons flour
zest of one lemon
1 teaspoon vanilla
5 large whole eggs
2 large egg yolks
¼ cup heavy cream

For Crust:

5 ounces Barnham and Bailey Animal Crackers,or, Sweet Digestive Biscuits,(but no extra sugar with these).
3 tablespoons sugar
4 tablespoons melted butter

Procedure

For Crust:

Butter bottom and sides of 10 inch springform pan.

Easy to make, this sandwich will leave you hungry for more!

Ingredients:

Almond Butter, ½ cup
Honey, 1 tablespoon
Ground Cinnamon, 1 teaspoon
Sliced almonds, 4 tablespoon
Raisins, 4 tablespoon
Whole Grain Bread, 8 slices

Procedure:

Mix the honey, almond butter, and ground cinnamon in a bowl.
Spread two tablespoons of the almond butter honey mixture on a slice of bread.
Sprinkle one tablespoon of sliced almonds and one tablespoon of raisins over the bread slice.
Top it with the other slice of bread.
Repeat the steps for each slice of bread.

Enjoy strawberry bread with cream cheese.

Ingredients :

3 cup flour
2 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp salt
20 grams strawberries, frozen
1 cup oil
4 eggs

Procedure:

Preheat oven to 350 F while you grease and flour two loaf pans.

Combine dry ingredients; mix well. Make a well in the center of the mixture and pour all liquid ingredients into it.

Pour mixture into pans and bake for 1 hour, until tester inserted in center comes out clean.

Can be frozen, slice thinly before completely thawed.

Give your taste buds a delicious treat with Pineapple bread which is as good as a cake.

Ingredients :

2 1/2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup and 1 tbsp oil
6 broken eggs
3 cups flour
6 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
3/4 tsp soda
2 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
3 cups crushed pineapple, undrained
2 1/4 cups walnuts

Procedure:

Combine brown sugar, oil and eggs. Mix well. Sift flour, powder, salt, soda and whole wheat flour. Add pineapple and walnuts.

Topping:

6 tbsp white sugar
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Procedure:

Mix sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle on top of batter.

Ingredients:

150g Baby Leaf Spinach
2 Medium Eggs
2 Medium Tomatoes

Procedure:

Rinse the spinach thoroughly, and leave it to drain.
Turn the grill on.
Heat a pan of water and hard-boil the eggs.
Slice the tomatoes in half, place under the grill.
While the eggs and tomatoes are cooking, arrange the spinach leaves on a plate.
Once the eggs are cooked, cut them into four pieces each.
Place the quartered eggs and tomatoes over the bed of spinach and dig into the delicious Warming Breakfast Salad. You’ll agree that there’s no better way to start your day!

Yields: 4 to 5 servings
Prep time: 15 min

Ingredients:

Sweet corn 5 ears (husked and silk removed)
Red onion (small) ½ cup diced
Cider vinegar 3 tbsp
Extra-virgin olive oil 3 tbsp
Coarse salt or sea salt ½ teaspoon
Black pepper ½ teaspoon coarsely grounded
Basil leaves ½ cup

Preparation:

Scrape the corn kernels by using a sharp knife. Cut off the stem end to give a flat base. Hold the ear, tip end up, then cut downward, removing a few rows at a time.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup carrots (chopped)
1/4 cup french beans (flas beans) (chopped)
1/2 cup peas (matar) (shelled)
1 1/2 cup tomato (tamatar) puree
1 tsp garlic (lasan) paste
1 tsp ginger (adrak) paste
2 tsp coriander leaves (dhania patta) (chopped)
3-4 tsp butter
3 glasses of water
salt (namak) and pepper to taste
for garnishing :
cheese granted

How to make mix vegetable soup:

Melt butter, fry ginger and garlic paste, add tomato puree, carrots, French beans, peas and water. Pressure cook for 5-6 minutes.
Add coriander leaves.
Boil for 2-3 minutes.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 kg Strawberries
4 cups Sugar (Cheeni)
1 tsp citric acid

How to make strawberry jam:

Remove the stalks and wash the strawberries.
Put the fruit in a heavy pan and stir till it boils, mash, and add sugar and lemon juice.
Stir until sugar is dissolved.
Remove the scum.
Boil rapidly till it sets when tested.
Cool, pour into clean and dry jars.
Seal with wax and close the lid tightly.

Ingredients:
• 4 cup Milk
• 1/4 cup Badam (Almond)
• 1 cup Sugar
• 5 Cardamoms (crushed)
• Saffron Strands for garnishing

How to make Badam Milk Shake:
• Boil the almonds in a pan for 5 minutes. Remove and drain.
• Peel the skin of the almonds and grind in a blender with sugar to a smooth paste. Keep aside.
• Now heat milk in a heavy bottomed vessel and bring it to a boil.
• Add crushed cardamom, almond-sugar paste, stir and continue to boil for 2 minutes more.
• Remove from the heat, garnish with saffron and serve hot or chilled.

Looking for some change, try South Indian breakfast.

Ingredients:

1½ cups rice
1/2 cup urad dal
Salt to taste
2 large potatoes
1 medium onion (chopped)
1/2 teaspoon yellow split peas
1/2 teaspoon mustard seed
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1-2 green chilli
1 tablespoon oil

Procedure:

Separately soak rice and urad dal at least 6 hour or overnight in water. Grind to paste.

Mix together, add salt with water to make batter.

Leave in room temperature overnight.

Mix onion and chillies to the thin batter.

Heat pan or griddle with little ghee or oil.

Vegetable idli makes a perfect nutritious recipe for breakfast.

Ingredients:

Two cups of Rice
1/4 cup urad dal
1 Potato
50 grams shelled green peas
1 carrot
25 grams carrot
1/4 cup chana dal
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 small onion, minced
1 bunch of sliced coriander leaves
2 tblsps finely grated coconut
4 green chillies, minced
A pinch of eating soda
Salt as per taste
1/2 inch ginger

Procedure:

Soak dal and rice in water for around 6 hours.

Steam cook all the vegetables and mince them.

Extract thick juice from coconut.

Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake is a delicious and sweet dessert.

Ingredients

Cooking spray
2½ cups buttermilk pancake mix
½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
? cup sugar
½ cup sour cream
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
½ cup water
¼ cup sugar
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup finely chopped nuts

Procedure

Preheat oven to 375°F.
Use cooking spray to lightly coat an 8 or 9 inch baking pan.
Combine baking mix, chocolate chips and a cup of sugar and stir until barely mixed.
Add sour cream, vanilla, and water, and mix well.
Spoon into 16 2-inch dough balls.

Ingredients:
1 kg fish fillets-cut into 1.5 ” cubes
2 tbsp oil
1 cup onions-grated
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp garam masala
1 tbsp coriander powder
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
1.5 tsp salt
1 cup hung yogurt
1 cup coriander leaves-chopped
green chillies to taste-finely chopped
1 tsp biryani masala
1/3 cup browned onions

For the rice
2 cup rice-cleaned and washed
2 tsp oil
4 cloves
4 peppercorns
1 cinnamon-broken
4 green cardamoms
1 tsp salt
3 cups hot water
saffron or color mixed in 1 cup warm milk

Method:

Ingredients

Tender coconut – 1
Milk – 1/4 litre
Sugar – 1/4 cup

Method

Blend tender coconut flesh, water, sugar.
Add milk, blend again, store in the fridge and serve chilled.

Ingredients

Oats ( powdered ) – 2 cups
Corn ( cooked ) – 1/4 cup
Peas ( cooked ) – 1/4 cup
Cabbage ( cut finely ) – 1/4 cup
Onion – 1
Capsicum – 1
Tomato – 1
Coconut ( grated ) – 1/4 cup
Ginger green chilli paste – 2 tsp
Lime juice – 1 tsp
Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder – 1/4 tsp
Mustard – 1/2 tsp
Cumin – 1/2 tsp
Coriander leaves – a handful
Oil – as needed
Salt – as needed

Method

1. Cut onion, tomato, capsicum finely.
2. Heat oil in a frying pan.

Ingredients :

1 kg. thick curds
¾ cup powder sugar
a few saffron strands
1 tbsp warm milk
2 tsp elaichi powder

For garnishing :
Silvers of pistachios and almonds

Method :

Hang the curds in a muslin cloth in a cool place for about 3 hours until all the liquid had drained off.
Rub the saffron into the warm milk until it dissolves.
Combine together the hung curds, sugar, saffron mixture and elaichi in a bowl and churn using a hand blender.
Decorate with slivers of pistachios and almonds.
Ready to serve.

Ingredients :
1 kg chicken in cut pieces
1 tsp pepper powder
1-1/2 tsp jeera owder
2 tsp any ready curry masala.
1/4 tsp garam masala powder
1-1/2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vinegar
2 tbsp Oil

Whole spices :
2 elaichi
2 cinnamon
2 cloves
5 pepper corns
2 red chilles
2 bayleaves

Method :
Heat oil hot and fry the whole spices lightly and rub the powdered spices well onto the chicken pieces.
Fry the chicken pieces till all are lightly browned.
Put into the pressure cooker, and cook for one whistle.

Ingredients :
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup bread crumbs
Oil for frying

Mix together for the patties :
250 gms codfish, cooked and minced
2 potatoes, boiled and smashed
1 small onion, chopped finely.
1/2″ inch ginger, grounded into paste
3 garlic flakes, grounded into paste
5 green chillies, chopped finely
1/2 tsp garam masala
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp coriander leaves
Salt as per taste

Method :
Add to the patties mixture ½ of beaten egg. Mix it well.
Make small rolls of the mixture and flatten it. Heat oil for frying.

Tomato soup tastes yummy and is very easy to make.

Ingredients:

4 Ripe Tomatoes
Salt to taste
Pepper
Coriander leaves
Butter

Procedure:

Put the tomatoes in boiling water for 2 min.

Then immediately transfer them to ice-cold water.

Peel the skins and cut the tomatoes into small pieces.

Now take water in a pan, boil it and add the chopped tomatoes.

Add coriander and salt to the boiling mixture. Boil for about 5-6 minutes.

Cool and blend the tomatoes with the help of a mixer.

Sieve the blended mixture to discard the seeds.

Try this succulent soup recipe today.

Ingredients

2 red pepper, seeded and quartered
1 eggplant, quartered
4 tbsp olive oil
salt and ground black pepper
1 large onion, chopped
2 celery stalks, chopped
4 garlic cloves, chopped
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
4 cups hot fish stock
1 cup creamed tomatoes or tomato puree
2 sprigs fresh thyme
1 tsp sugar
9 oz fillet haddock or cod, cut into 1 inch chunks
9 oz raw shrimp
9 oz squid rings
juice of 1 lime
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley

Procedure

This rice recipe is easy to make and goes well with curry or dal.

Ingredients

2 tablespoons vegetable oil
4 whole cloves
3 black cardamom seeds
6 whole black peppercorns
2 (3 inch) cinnamon sticks
2 teaspoons garlic powder
2 tablespoons water
1 cup frozen green peas, thawed
2 cups uncooked basmati rice, rinsed and drained
4 cups water
salt to taste

Directions

Want to make an innovative evening snack? Try out this lip smacking pakora recipe.

Ingredients:

4-5 Eggs (boiled)
1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
1 1/4 tsps Dry Mango Powder
Oil to deep fry
1 cup Bengal Gram Flour
1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
1 pinch Black Pepper Powder
Salt as per taste

Procedure:

Peel and cut boiled egg into two halves.

Then, sprinkle red chilli powder and mango powder on each piece.

Mix the gram flour with red chilli powder, salt, pepper powder and sufficient water to make a slightly thick batter.

Try out this delightful raita recipe.

Ingredients:

2-3 Ripe mangoes, peeled
3 Ripe tomatoes, seeded and diced
2 Cups non-fat plain yogurt
1/4 Cup finely chopped red onion
½ tsp powdered brown sugar
1 tsp Red Chilli powder
2 tbsp Chopped fresh cilantro leaves
Black salt to taste

Procedure:

Cut mango flesh into 1/4-inch dice and place in a bowl with the onion, tomatoes and and mix.
In a different bowl, mix the chilli, sugar and yogurt. Spoon the yogurt into the fruit, sprinkle with the salt, and fold in the cilantro.
Cover, refrigerate at least for one hour. Serve chilled.

Try out this mouth-watering fish pakora recipe and enjoy the cool, refreshing monsoon rains.

Ingredients:

250 grams deboned fish pieces

1 tsp paste of green chilli and garlic

1 pinch carom seeds

2 tbsp corn flour

1/2 cup bread crumbs

2 tbsp chopped coriander leaves

Oil for deep frying

1/2 tsp red chilli powder

Salt to taste

1 tsp sesame seeds

Procedure:

Heat oil in a deep bottomed pan. Mix together all other ingredients except bread crumbs. Make round balls, roll in bread crumbs, slightly flatten them and deep fry in oil. Serve piping hot.

Try this Chinese delicacy with steamed rice.

Ingredients

1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
2 teaspoons freshly squeezed ginger juice
1 level tablespoon cornstarch

Sauce:
2 tablespoons hoisin sauce
2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
2 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon granulated sugar

Other:
1 clove garlic
1 tablespoon green onion
1/4 cup cashews
4 tablespoons oil for stir-frying, as needed
1 cup vegetables for stir-frying (your choice)
Instructions