Cabbage Carrot Fry

This is one of my favourite recipes because its so simple and great...And I just love making side dishes and never the main course...So here's the recipe with a few tips on the go :

INGREDIENTS

Cabbage - shredded

Carrot - shredded

Onion - finely chopped

Chilli

Oil

Mustard seeds

Turmeric powder - 1tsp

Pepper - crushed

Curry leaves

Corainder

THE MAKING

• Slit the chilli right in the middle..
• In a pan,add oil,mustard seeds,chilli,curry leaves.
• Add onion and cook till they have the glassy texture.
• Add turmeric powder,crushed pepper and salt.
• Add the cabbage,carrot. Stir on till the veggies have cooked well.
• Add corainder and serve...

TIPS

• Well cooked cabbage would become very soft,and have the glassy appearance.
• You can add red chilli flakes or chilli powder to this but fresh chillies are a better option.
• Crushed pepper gives more taste than pepper powder,so its your choice which one to use.
• You can also make cauliflower fry with this same recipe...

Yummy Indian Cake....

 The world's best food is obviously what our mom makes...Ohh God,let it even be a soup,the aroma of it is so great that there's no match for it in the whole wide world...So how special would be my mom's special cake which is so damn rich and soft and lingers down your throat so smoothly that you keep eating it until someone else snatches the plate from you...So here's the awesome recipe : 

INGREDIENTS

 Milk - 2 cup

Eggs -4

Sugar - 1cup

Badam or Almond - 25

Cashewnut - 25

Coconut -1tbsp

Ghee - 1tsp

Cardamom powder - a pinch

THE MAKING

• Boil the milk very well that its quantity reduces into half the original.
• Grind together almonds,cashewnuts and coconut.
• Beat together eggs and sugar.
• Now mix in the three of the above and add cardamom powder.
• Take a vessel and apply ghee on it.Pour the mixture.
• And now in pressure cooker fill water and place the vessel above and cook it until 4 whistles.
• Serve it either hot or cold..It doesnt matter since its taste is fab...!!!!

Rasam - a typical south indian curry

My sister's cooking have often made me go yucckkk....But sometimes her curries are just so awesome that I could never stop eating... So here's the recipe of her fab rasam that she made yesterday

INGREDIENTS

Oil

Mustard

Chilli Flakes

Curryleaves

Garlic - 5 to 6 cloves

Tomato - 4

Rasam powder - 2 tbsp

Tamarind paste

Turmeric powder - 1 tsp

Salt

THE MAKING

• Soak tamarind paste in a bowl of water and leave it aside for 10 minutes.
• Heat oil in a pan,add mustard,chilli flakes and curry leaves
• Add crushed garlic and cook until it becomes slight golden brown in colour
• Now add turmeric powder,finely chopped tomato and salt.
• Put the lid on and let the tomato get properly cooked.
• Add the tamarind water and when bubbles appear in your curry..Add the rasam powder.
• Cook for 2 minutes...
• Serve with steamed rice.

Apple Halva....

I have always dreamed of making halva since I was a kid...So few days back I stumbled upon an awesome recipe...So thought I would prepare it,and by chance I did so..So here's the recipe

INGREDIENTS

Apple Shredded

Ghee - 1 tsp

Sweetened Condensed Milk

Cardamom Crushed

Raisins

Cashewnut

Water

THE MAKING

• In a pan,melt ghee and add the shredded apples.Give a proper coating of ghee to the apples by constant stirring.
• Put on the lid and continue to cook it in medium heat for about 10 mins i.e., till the apples become soft.
• Add in 1/2 cup of water.(NOTE : the amount of water to be added depends on the apple.If your apple isn't too ripe add little more water)
• Now keep stirring the apples and let them start losing water and become a mass.
• Add in sweetened condensed milk as per your wish.Give a proper stir and let it cook for another 5-10 minutes.
• When the apples turn brown colour and have lost all water content,add in the crushed cardamom,roasted cashewnut and raisins..
• Let it cool down for some time and Serve !!!!!!

TIPS :

• You can add milk and sugar instead of sweetened condensed milk.