Lahsuni baby potatoes

Hi
Everyone,
Today I am going to share lahsuni baby pototoes ..
Very easy to  make and delicious too..
You can have this dish with roti or chawal.
This can be a side dish..
My mom always make it in morning breakfast with parathas...With curd..
Very simple but tasty .
Let's make it.. It can make within 10-12 minutes only.
Try ..
You will be happy to make it..

Lahsuni Aloo
Preparation time - 5 -7minutes
Cooking time- 10 to 12 minutes
Serve for 4 people


 Ingredient -
2 cup boiled baby potatoes (cut in halves or use as whole whatever you like)
2 tbsp garlic (lahsun) paste
½ tsp (haldi ) turmeric  powder
½ tsp red chilli powder
Salt to taste
6 tbsp of oil

For  garnish  -
1tbsp  of green  coriander leaves

 Method-
*Heat oil in a kadhai, add potatoes pieces and salt, mix well. Cover it by lid and cook on low flame for 4- 5 minutes or till the potatoes become tender or soft, while stirring occasionally.
*Open the lid. Add garlic paste, chili powder, turmeric powder, and mix well. *Cook on medium flame for 2 to 3 minutes or till the masala separates oil.
*Switch off the gas.
* Garnish  with  green  coriander  leaves.
*Serve hot with roti , paratha, naan.
I am sure that this dish will go with your breakfast and you will be happy to make it.


My mom tip -
* you can make it with large potatoes too.
But the taste is better when we use baby one. You can make with potatoes with skin also..for this do not boil ..just cut in half and follow above procedures.

Enjoy your breakfast with these yummy potatoes.

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Tea time snack - crunchy crispy flaky methi mathri

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Everyone ,
Welcome to our kitchen ..
Today we are going to share with all of you.. a simple salted craker snacks..which is very popular in northern india...
Flavoured with spices  kalongi ,pepper corn and kasuri methi enhance the taste this flaky snacks doubled.
People prepfer to have these mathris with mango pickle..or simply have with your tea..
You can make these crackers in a lots and store them in a air tight containers and used as required.
This will be fine with a month if u store in a air tight container.
Although it is made by refine flour (maida) only..but I prefer to make with half half..(half portion refine flour and half portion wheat flour)
 I am adding some spices too to enhance the taste of these flaky crispy snacks.

Mathris -

Ingredients -
1 cup wheat flour wheat atta)
1 cup refine flour (maida)
1/2 tsp kalongi (nigella seeds)
1 tsp crushed peeper corn
1tsp of kasuri methi
5-6 tbsp refine oil
Salt to taste
Water as required or approximately 1/2 to 3/4 cup
Oil for deep frying

Method -

* Seive wheat flour ,refine flour ,salt together . Keep aside.
*Add refine oil and rub with your palm for a minute ..mix gently.
* Add nagilla seeds (kalongi) ,crushed pepper corn and kasuri methi mix it well.
* Add little water at a time and start to knead  the dough. Sprinkle some water if needed. knead the dough very roughly.
*The dough should be hard or tight.
*Rest for 5 minutes and cover the dough with lid or cling film.
*Make a small size like ( tennis ball) from dough  and roll into a thick chapati  or puri about 3-4 inches in diameter.
Prick with the help of fork or knife on rolled puris.
*Prepare rest of them followed by same procedure.( mathris should be nor very thick or not  very thin)
*Heat some oil in a deep kadhai / or non stick pan.
*Put 4-5 mathris at a time in to oil.
Deep fry them on low heat for 5 minute.
In the mean time flip these mathris in every 1 minute until they turn golden brown in colour.
* Spread the fried mathris on kitchen towel or paper napkin so that napkin will soak all the excess oil from these  mathris.
*Likewise make all the mathris .
* Flaky tasty yummy salted indian biscuits are ready to eat.
You can serve them with evening tea or can have simply with pickles.
*Store them in a air tight container.

My mom tip -

* Mathri should be cooked on very low heat in a oil . In high heat they became browned very quickly from outside but do not get cooked from inside .
So, heat should be low for crunchy flaky mathris.

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Janmashtami delight - creamy fruit custard

Happy janmashtami and welcome to our kitchen.
Today is janmashtami..everyone is celebrating lord Krishna birthday.  Many of us goes on fast on the eve of lord Krishna birthday....janmastami...Make this awesome fruity creamy delight on your fast.
Everyone know how to make friut custard because this is very well known by us...fruit with custard make this delight very healthy and delicious too.
Fruit custard is one those popular desserts
that people of all age group love to relish it.
This very awesome treat is generally served as a dessert. But you can serve during your fast and strengthen yourself with some  vitamins nourishment in your fasting.
I have make some variation ...i use fream cream and dry fruits to enhance the taste of this yummy delight. You can add lots of seasonal fruits and jelly of jam according to your taste.

Let's quickly gone through my way of making creamy fruit custard.

Creamy fruit custard-

Preparation time : 25- 30 minutes
Cooking time : 15-20 minutes
Serve 4-6

Ingredients -
Bananas 4 peeled and roughly chopped
Pears 1 medium finely chopped
Apple 1 medium finely chopped
Mango 1 medium peeled and roughly chopped
Grapes 150 grams cut in half each pearls
Pomegranate pearls 1/2 cup
Pistachios 2tbsp (blanched and finely chopped)
Almonds 2 tbsp (blanced and finely chopped)
Raisin 2 tbsp
Cashew nuts 2tbsp finely chopped
Custard powder 5-6 table spoons
Milk 1/2 llitre
Sugar 20 teaspoons or according to your taste
Fresh cream 1 cup
Some pistachios ( pista) ,almonds, cashew nuts, raisin and pomegranate pearls for garnishing


Method -

* Take custard powder in a bowl Add 1/4 cup of milk (not warm or lukewarm). Prefer cold milk or in with normal temperature. Mix well.
Make sure that there is no lump in your mixture.
Keep aside it.

* Heat non stick heavy bottom pan.
pour  gently rest of milk in a pan . Let it bring to boil. Simmer the heat .
Add gently and  very slowly custard milk mixture to the milk while stirring continuously.
(Stirring is must to avoid in making lumps in  milkly custard batter.)
(If you are not aware and not stir well while pouring/ adding custard slurry to the milk there shall be chance to make lumps in your milk custard mixture.

So, be sure the heat is slow and you are stirring the mixture continuously.

*Cook on slow heat for atleast 5 minutes or until mixtures is thicken while stirring continuously.
*Add sugar and cook for a while or till sugar melt.
Switch off the heat.

(Make sure that custard mixture is not  very thin or nor very thick.(If it's thicken after cooled add milk accordingly.)

*Beat with spoon or  hand beater till smooth.
*Let it cool down completely while stir occasionally.
*once it cooled add chopped fruits and dry fruits and fresh cream to the custard mixture. Mix well.
*chilled in a refrigerator for an hour.
*Garnish with some fry fruits and pomegranate pearls .serve chilled.

Hope you all like my creamy healthier way of making fruit custard.
Make this fruity creamy
Yummy awesome dessert delight on your vrat relish yourself with sweet delight.
Enjoy janmashtami with blessing of lord Krishna.

Again Happy janmashtami.
We shall very soon with some more exiting and easy recipes.. till then bye.

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Fruit delight - Aam ras

Aam ras

Hi ,
Everyone..
Rainy season comes with showers of water with lots of fruity delights.
When summer shower with pleasnt water we feel craving of some sweet chilled delight in our meal.
Today, I am sharing with all of you a famous gujrati sweet delight...aam ras.
This is one of my favourite dish.
As sound by its name aam ras mean mango juice.
Aam ras is very popular in gujrat and Maharashtra.
They generally use alphanso mangoes to make this very special dessert.
But I use langda malda to make my sweet mango dessert.
Just make sure that mango shouldn't be very fibrous. It should be pulpy ,fleshy and fully ripen.
It is very easy to make and no fire recipe.It takes only couple of minutes to make it.

Before going to share the recipe ,I just want to say that traditionally it is serve with pooris.
But aam ras can also  be used as a dessert or sweet dish after meal.
Which way suit you ..you can follow..in any time this will be super super awesome and make your time delicious.

Here ,I am going to share with all of you a quick no fire very simple recipe of awesome aam ras.

Preparation time -15-20 minutes
Cooking time - 0 minutes
Makes 1 large bowl

Ingredients -
2 large ripen mangoes ( prefer  fleshy mangoes like langda malda or alphanso variety of mango)
1 pinch of saffron strands (thread of kesar)(soaked in 2 tbsp of  lukewarm water )
1pinch of saffron strand for garnishing
1 tbsp of chopped pistachios for garnishing
A pinch of cardamom powder
1/2 cup of powdered sugar or according to the sweetness of mangoes
1/4 cup of milk
1 cup of fresh cream (prefer low fat cream )

Method -

* Rinse or wash the mangoes with water.
Then after peel gently and cut into in small cubes.
*Blend the mangoes cubes in a blender to smooth puree along with sugar , cardamom powder and 1/4 cup of milk or according to te thickness of puree.(the puree should be nor  very thick or not very thin.Take it in a bowl .
*Add fresh cream and 1 pinch of saffron strand. Stir well.
* pour in a serving bowl  and garnish with saffron strands and chopped pistachios. Chill in the refrigerator for an hour.

* Awesome aam ras is ready to eat.
Serve with pooris/ chapati or have as a dessert after meal.

One should must try this one...awesome delicious delight is waiting for you.
Do enjoy this  chilled sweet bites with your near and dear ones.

That's all for the day.
We shall come back with some more sweet delight.
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Beat the heat of summer - Tamarind cooler drink

Hello ,
Everyone.
Today we are here with beat the heat series ..tamarind cooler drink.
Tamarind or imli is well known for its health benefits.
It is a good source of potassium , magnesium fibre and vitamins.
A very good source of vitamin C. Vitamin E, calcium and iron.
Tamarind is very helpful to lowering the blood cholesterol and promoting good and healthy heart.
It is very good for reducing inflammation, improve eye health, boost up respiratory health, heal skin condition, treat piles, prevent from cancer,helpful to improve in digestive system and  strengthen the immune system.
Tamarind is sweet and sour fruit has brown shell covering with sticky,fleshy, juicy pulp.
Tamarind has very healing effect in heat stroke.
It has tremendous value in fighting the sun stroke.
Imli efficacy is to cool your bdy and protect from summer heat and sun stroke.

Cocktail of tamarind juice is extremely beneficial. So, I am here with healthy Indian version of cocktail...
So, this summer try out desi heat cooler  instead of soda or any market bought carbohydrate cold drink.
Quench your thirst with desi imli tamarind  cooler  drink and beat the sun stroke naturally.


 Tamarind (Imli) cooler drink -

Tamarind cooler drink -

Preparation time : 1/2 an hour
Cooking time : 3-4 minutes
Serve 2 glasses

Ingredients -
1/4 cup of tamarind ( imli)
1/2 cup of warm water
8 tbsp of sugar (or as required according to sourness of tamarind)
1tsp of jeera powder (cumin seed powder)
1/2 tsp of black salt (  or according to your taste)
1/4 tsp of common salt
1/4 tsp freshly grounded black pepper (optional )
1tsp of lemon juice
2 glasses of cold water
Some ice cubes
Fresh mint sprig for garnishing


Method -

*Combine 1/4 cup of tamarind and 1/2cup of warm water in bowl.
Mix well, keep aside to soak for half an  hour.
*After 1/2 an hour squeeze out the pulp from soaked tamarind using your hand.
*Strain the tamarind pulp using a strainer or fine seive.
*Strain the concentrated pulp through 2 time more in tea stainer or fine muslin cloth to remove the wastage of tamarind.
*keep aside the paste.
*Heat the saucepan on medium heat add tamarind pulp,sugar and 1/2 glass of water. Let it boil for a 2-3 minutes while stirring occasionally.
*Take off the heat,let it cool down completely.
*Add lemon juice,cumin powder(jeera),black salt,salt and 1 1/2 glasses of cold water.
*Check the consistency  or thickness and sugar salt propotion.
*If required add accordingly.
*Pour in to a glass filled with lots of ice cubes.
*Garnish with mint sprig.
Sweet and sour tasty tamarind cooler is ready to serve. Serve immediately.

Hope ,you will make this a make your summer easy and enjoyable.
Must try this..this is awesome in taste.just like aam panna.
That's all for today.
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Beat the heat of summer - sattu drink (namkeen )

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Everyone,
Welcome to our kitchen. Today we are going to share with all of you a very refreshing drink- sattu  drink a very popular traditional summer drink  of Bihar and jharkhand as well as UP too.
Easily available at any departmental store.
If it is not available there , I am going to share in mom tips section how to make sattu at home in a easy way.


Sattu is originally made from roasted gram flour has immense health benefits.
Full of nutrition with cooling  properties rich in soluble fibre..very good source of protein and good for digestive system.
Because of its low glycemic index it is suitable and diabetic friendly.
This is also considered as a detox food that cleanse the body and aids in weight loss.

It's help to flush out the oil  consumed in diet.
It is better than any other cold drink because it is assimilated by the body easily and energies  and refresh the body immediately after the consumption.
Very good refreshing drink for instant energy.
As it is a good source of protein ,so it is very healthy for growing children's.
Daily consumption of sattu help to glow your skin.
So,
Go ahead, with sattu drinks and refresh yourself in this hot summer days.
There are two versions of sattu drink - sweet and savoury.. (Meetha and namkeen )
I am going to share a namkin version of making sattu drink.

Sattu drink (Namkeen)

Preparation time : 10 minute
Cooking time : 0 minutes
Serve 2

Ingredients -
4 tbsp of sattu flour ( channa ka sattu)
2 tbsp of lemon juice ( or as per your taste)
1/4 tsp of black salt
1/2 tbsp of roasted cumin powder.
1/4 tsp of salt ( or as per taste)
Some sprig of mint. ( mint leaves or pudina)
2 tbsp of  finely chopped onions
2 glass of water
Some ice cubes

Method -

* Take a pot add sattu flour, salt ,black salt  and water. mix well.
*Add lemon juice , roasted cumin powder and mix well.
Make sure that there is no lumps in the water mixture.
Check the consistency.It should be nor thick or not thin. Add finely chopped onions .
*Pour in to glasses add ice cubes and garnish with lemon ring and mint leaves and pinch of jeera powder or chaat masala powder.
Serve immediately.

My mom tips -
*you can use chaat masala powder or jaljeera  masala powder  instead of roasted cumin powder.
*Adjust salt, spices and lemon as per your taste.
But roasted jeera powder  are found in almost every kitchen. So it is convenient to use roasted jeera powder.
(You can make easily in a minute. Just roast the cumin for 2-3 minutes and cool for a minute and grind in the grinder). That's all. Roasted  cumin powder is ready to use. Use as required.. In dahi bhalla , raita or any dishes.
*If you want to make channa sattu at home then follow my simple method of man ng sattu at home.
*just bought some roasted  channa (without skin) at any departmental or grocery store.
Heat the pan and add roasted channa on medium heat for 3-4 minutes while stirring constantly.
Allow it to cool and grind to fine powder.
Seive in a stainer.
Home made sattu is ready to use.
This is a very easy way out of making sattu at home.
I am sure that you will make and enjoy this summer with this savoury salty refreshing drink.

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Beat the heat of summer - Aam paana

Hello,
Everyone.

Welcome to our kitchen.
Today we are going to share here a beverage  a well known for its  heat  resistantant properties.

Prepared with raw green mangoes ,sugar and spices. Consumed as a healthy and very very tasty beverage to fight against summer stroke.

In Indian culture  it is usually consumed by every family in summer.
It is a perfect cooled beverage to beat the heat of summer.

It's  quenches thirst and prevent excessive loss of sodium chloride and zinc from our body due to excessive sweating.

It's  a very good source vitamin C , vitamin B1, vitamin B2,niacin .
Curative for blood disorder and gastrointestinal disorder.
Because it's contain vitaminC is a rich in anti oxidant which help to fight against cancer.
So, the super cooler drink aam panna is not only tasty but it has some very essential health benefits.

People make this drink as different ways..

Some make by roasting green mangoes in gas flame until tender inside and then peeled the skin and use the pulp of its for preparing panna.

Some are use to boil in pressures cooker and the peel off the skin of mangoes and use the pulp as required.

Both of the methods are right.. You can use any of them as according to your preference.

Let's make the way I make it..
Note down the right recipe here.

Aam panna -

Preparation time : 10-15
Cooking time  : 6-10 minutes
Serve 2 glasses


Ingredients -

1 medium size green raw mangoes or  1/2 cup cooked raw manogo pulp.
1cup or 10 tbsp of sugar or as per sourness of the mango
1 tsp of roasted cumin seeds powdered
1tsp Black salt ( kala namak) or as per taste
Salt to taste
10-15 mint sprig ( leaves)
Mint leaves and mango pieces for garnish
Cold water as required. ( approximately 2 glasses)
Ice cubes


Method -

*Wash and boil the mangoes in pressure cooker or any utensil on medium heat for at least 5-7 minutes  using 11/2 cup of water or until it's tender inside.

Let them cool and peel the skin of mangoes and mash and pass the mixture through seive.
Puree in a blender with mint leaves (pudina) to a smooth paste.
*Add cumin seeds, black salt ,common salt and sugar. Mix well till sugar dissolves.
Keep aside in refrigerator to chill it.

*Add chilled water as required to dilute the paste as per your taste.
Use more or less amount of water according to your taste.
If you want some thick drink use less amount of water , if you want thin drink use more amount of water for preparing panna.

*pour into in tall glasses  add ice cubes

*Garnish with mint leaves and mango pieces.

*serve chilled.
Healthy super heat resistant cooler  is ready to sip.


My mom tips -

*Use less or more sugar according to the sournress of mango pulp.
If needed more sugar add accordingly.
*Use roasted cumin powder and black salt as per your taste.
If you like more cumin seeds powder use as per your taste.
*you can  ditectly roast green mango in  on gas stove fire on medium heat untill it become tender. Cool down completely and peel off the skin and use the mangoes pulp as required.
Roasting in a fire gives panna a smoky flavour taste.

That's all for today.
I am sure you will love to make it at your home and beat the heat of summer at this way.

We shall come very soon with some summer dessert and cooler.

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Beat the heat of summer - watermelon lemonade slush

 Hello,
Everyone.
These days summer is really very hot. Everyone wants to cool you off with these heat flashes.
For now, It is needed a perfect heat relief  is to drink a cool glass of refreshing  drink.
So, we made simple but healthy cooling  refreshing mood drink..watermelon lemonade slush.
100℅ natural and refreshing too.

Before going to share the recipe detail , I want to share with all of you very briefly It some health benefits of watermelon.

*watermelon decreases the risk of obesity diabetes, heart disease and promote a healthy complexion (skin) and hair.
Increase energy and best things is lower the weight.

*It is very beneficial for lowering blood pressure .

*Because of its red colour it's contain rich amount of lycopene  may help to protect against heart disease and cancer.. Especially prostate cancer.

*Because of its fiber content and water, it is helpful in constipation.

*It hydrate the body - because it make up of 92% of water and full of important minerals (electrolyte). A great drink or snacks  during summer month to prevent dehydration.
Loved by kids as well as adults too.

Watermelon lemonade slush -

Preparation time -10 minutes
Cooking time 3-4 minutes
Makes 2 glasses

Ingredients -

5cups of  seet watermelon diced ( cut into in chunks and deseed it)

1/4 cup or 4 tablespoons of lemon juice

4-5 tablespoons of simple syrup ( recipe in note)  or  (4 tablespoon of powdered sugar)


Ice cubes or crushed ices

Sprig of fresh mint( pudina), lemon rings

and watermelon chunks for garnishing..

Method -

*Put the watermelon chunks in a blender. puree it until smooth .

*strain  the liquid into a bowl through a fine soup strainer ( or seive)  to remove seeds or  its pulp or solid.
you will get about 4 cup of watermelon juice from this.
Refrigerate until cold.

*Add lemon juice, simple syrup or powdered sugar it it.
Stir gently to combine all the ingredients.
Add some  ice cubes and blend in a blender till smooth.

*pour the lemonade slushy into serving glasses with some cruhed ices.

*Garnish with mint sprig,  lemon rings and watermelon chunks.
Serve immediately ..serve cool  and enjoy this refreshing cool boon drink.

This is 100% natural drink and delicious too.

Make it for your family and friends.
You will find that they relish it and enjoy in this scorching summer and you will love to make it again and again.

( Note ) - recipe of simple syrup -

*For simple syrup -
Ingredients -
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar

*put I/2 cup of water in a small saucepan  and bring to boil on high heat.Add sugar.stir well. Cook until sugar completely dissolved.
Remove from the heat. Let it cool down completely. Store in a fridge. use as required.

My mom tip -

* Use fresh and red coloured watermelon for good and healthy drinks ,because the sweetness  of recipe depends upon how sweet and red watermelon are.

Taste it to check the sugar lemon proportion. If you find some sugar or lemon is inadequate,add as required.

*If you don't want to make simple syrup for any reason ..just skip it and add powdered sugar instead of sugar syrup.

(For powdered sugar - just grind sugar to fine powder in a grinder. Powdered sugar is ready to use.)

That's all for the day.we shall come very soon with some refreshing summer cooler.

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Beat the heat of Summer - Litchi mocktail

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Everyone..

Welcome to our kitchen.

Today,we are going to share here..our super delicious ymmmy summer cooler.

Ya, Litchi mocktail..!

Very easy to make and taste is just awesome.

Juicy and delicious  litchis comes with you in the beginning of summer.

 I am sure that , it's  refresh  your mood and you would love to relish this awesome drink again and again and soothing and refreshing sip of this  drink make your day.

Before going to share the right recipe here,
I am going to share all of you the benefits of litchis.

Every fruits has own health related  traits.

Likewise litchis also..

This berries brings soothing and cooling effect on human body  to beat the heat of this scorching summer days.

Litchi( lychee) contains very good amount of anti oxidants vitamin C ,vitamin B Complex and phytonutrients flovoniods that protect from various type of cancer and inflammation.

It's nutrient property arrest the rapid progress of degenerative diseases.

It is a metabolism booster which helps to cleaning out the body's system by flushing out excess sugar,protein and fat from the body.

Its also help to combating  insulin resistance.

Litchi is very rich source of the nutrients that required for the production of blood.

It's provide us magnesium, magnese, copper iron folate that required for the formation of blood.

It is a very good source of iron too.

Some of the nutrients of litchis even prevent from  heart related problems.

It's promote hair growth too.

It has so many  health related benefits.
It has high water content and   is full of energy. It has some composition of minerals make it as fuel of electrolyte balance in our body which is very necessary in this summer.
The body shouldn't be dehydrated by the scorching heat.
So, include litchis in your daily food requirements in this summer .

Let us quickly gone through the right recipe here.
Note down the recipes details and  refresh yourself with this super cooler yummy drink.
Load this cooler drink with lots of ice cubes.

Very very easy to make. Let's make it


Litchi mocktail -

Preparation time : 10 -15 minutes
Cooking time : 0 minutes
Makes :2 glasses of drink

Ingredients -
40 litchis (prefer red ripe lychee)
4 tbsp of lemon juice
Sugar 6 tsp ( prefer powdered  sugar)
2 cup of chilled limca or sprite/ soda water
Few ice cubes
Mint leaves , litchi pulp and lemon rings for garnishing


Method-

* peel the litchi and discard the seeds.
* puree the litchis in a blender.
*strain the litchi puree through soup strainer to remove any hard particles or impurities.
*Add lemon juice and sugar to the puree.
*Take a glass, pour  half of glass with  litchi drink / puree  .
* Then after add 1 cup of  limca/ soda water in  each glass of  litchi lemonade/ puree mixture.
*Add few ice cubes.
*Garnish with mint leaves ,litchi pulp and lemon rings.
*Serve immediately. Serve chilled in boring scorching summer afternoon.

My mom tips-
*If you have not limica or soda water ..just skip this.
Go with other ingredients of this easy recipe... litchi lemonade is ready to sip.

*Use powdered sugar to instead of granuled sugar because it will take less time.

*Use fresh ripe litchis. Adjust  sugar in litchis drink according to the sweetness of litchis.
If the lithcis are sour ..add more amount of sugar. I have mentioned  above a normal  requirements for this recipe.
*Always load this drink with lots of ice cubes for cooling and refreshing effect.

Thats all for the day.
I am sure that you will make this summer cooler at this very Sunday afternoon for your near and dear ones.


All the best.
We shall come very soon with some more summer coolers.


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Evening snacks - Kathal ke shammi ball / kabab

Kathal ke shammi balls / kabab

Hello,
Everyone..
Welcome to our kitchen.. plenty of  raw kathal / jackfruit  are seen in this season at market .
We are very fond of raw kathal preparations... you can make etheir kathal sabzi or tikkis / ball or biryani or anything do you want to make..
Here I am sharing you my family fav kathall ball / kababs
This will be very good as a starter for your evening party..
Just relish yourself by eating this lip smacking kabab on your weekend.

Let's quickly make it ..!

Raw Katahal ball / kabab  (tikki) -

Preparation time: 10-15 minute
Cooking time: 15-20 minutes
Makes 6 Tikkis


Ingredients -

For the balls / kabab  -

 500 gram boiled  raw Katahal pieces (jack fruit - prefer small tender Kathals)

1 tsp garam masala powder
Or
Black cardomom 2 (peeled the skin ..use only kernel of this spice)
Green cardomom 3 ( peeled the skin ..use only kernel of this spice)
Cloves 3
(Combine all of three  spices and  crushed in a porter or grind  with ginger in  a mixie while making adrak/ ginger paste)

11/2 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
3/4 cup of Split bengal gram ( chana daal) soaked for 4 hour and cooked  untill the daal become tender.
Or
3 tsp besan (Bengal gram flour/ chickpea flour)
1 tsp lemon juices
1/2 tsp of chaat masala powder or amchur powder
½ tsp red chili powder
½ tsp turmeric powder (haldi)
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying/ shallow frying
Or 10 tbsp ghee for shallow frying


For the kababs/ ball -

*Grind  the boiled  katahal  pieces and cooked chana daal  in a blender for moist  semi coarse paste without adding any water. ( not very thin or nor very thick)
(If you are using besan/chickpea flour in this recipe then skip chana daal - but prefer chana daal for actual shammi  taste)
*Combine all the ingredients (for kababs) in a bowl including lemon juice and chaat masala and mix well.Check the salt.
*Divide the mixture in to 8 equal portions and grease your palm  with ghee or oil then  roll  out each portion in to a desired  shape - either round ball shape or tikki or kabab shape.
I prefer round shapes...!
*Heat the oil in a kadhai and deep- fry a few balls / tikkis at a time  on medium heat till they turn  golden brown in colour from all the sides.
*Drain on absorbent paper ot kitchen towel.

Or
(  you can shallow fry them.

For this -

*Heat the  broad non stick  pan.Add 4 tbsp of ghee or oil at a time.
*Place gently  4 kababs  in a one batch on pan.
*Shallow fry then  on medium heat untill they become golden brown in colour from both of sides. Add more ghee or oil if needed.
*Like wise make all the kababs.

Note - This  shallow fry procedure is for kababs or tikkis  only.
*If you want round ball shape then you have to deep fry them)

*Serve hot with dhania chutney or tomato ketchup and onion rings.

Serve immediately.

My mom tips-

* If you follow shallow fry procedure ..then use ghee instead of oil. You will notice the differences..  frying with ghee make kababs very delicious,  you will find the  taste is  just awesome .Must try this.

*Use soaked and cooked chana daal instead of besan/ chickpea flour. It will taste super delicious.

* you can use chaat masala / amchuur along with of lemon juice.. use  little amount just to enhance the taste.

* Use garam masala powder instead of  whole cardomoms and clove and then grind it with ginger.

*Make sure that you have not added any amount of water in it while grinding the kathal pieces.

*If you are using chickpea flour / besan in this preparation then adjust the amount of besan accordingly.
The ball or kabab shouldn't be very hard.
If you feel that 2 tbsp is quite enough to make a ball / kabab ,then use only 2 tbsp while making kababs because each of kathal pieces absorb certain amount of water while boiling the peices ..they absorb besan accordingly.
So ,if you feel that some more amount of besan needed then add some amount accordingly.

Prefer easy procedure for making kabab.

* you can make some variations by adding cheese in filing of these balls.
you can  fill very small cheese  cubes ( prefer simple processed cheese for filling)
Cheddar cheeses will also taste good with this.  Then seal the edges carefully with the above ingredients and make a ball / kababs.
Then carefully  and gently fry all of them..!
Make sure that the cheeese will not come out  from the balls while friying.
So,please gently turn the balls while frying.

It is our suggesstion.. for enhancing the taste of balls/ kababs.
But if you want tradiotional one..then folllow the  procedures that i have mentioned above.


That's all for the day.
Enjoy your evening with these  kathal kabab/ balls with your tea.

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