Banana kesari - Banana rava kesari

Banana kesari is a simple and yummy dessrt that can be made very easily..

Ingredients:

Ripe banana:1

Rava:1 cup(sooji or semolina)

Sugar:1 cup

Milk:1.5 cups

Cashews:few

Cardamoms:few

Ghee:1/4 cup

Food colour:a pinch

Preparation:

Mash the ripe banana and keep it aside..

Take pan and keep it on medium heat..

Pour little ghee and fry the rava for a few minutes...

Now pour the milk to the rava and stir well...

Add in the sugar and mix well..

Now add in the mashed banana...

Keep on stirring on medium heat...

Add in the food colour and mix well...

The mixture will thicken slowly..

Add in the ghee fried cashews and cardamoms...

Add in the ghee when the mixture starts to leave the sides of the pan..

Transfer to a greased plate and let it cool...

Enjoy the banana kesari!!

Related recipes:

Apple kesari

Mango kesari

Milk burfi - Milk sweet

Milk burfi is easy to make and tastes heavenly..Here are step by step pictures that can be easily followed..Enjoy making the milk burfi..Milk burfi is one of my dear favorites..

Ingredients:

Milk:2 cups

Sugar:2 cups

Milk powder:2 tbsp

Rava:2 tbsp(sooji)

Cardamom:few

Cashews:few

Preparation:

Take milk in a non-stick pan and boil it..

Reduce the flame and keep on stirring..

Meanwhile ghee fry the rava and add to the boiled milk and stir well..

Once the milk reduces in volume,add in the milk powder and sugar and mix well..

Keep on stirring..

Do the stirring only on medium heat..

Do not increase the heat..

The mixture will thicken little more..

Then add the cashews and keep on stirring..

Once the mixture starts to leave the sides of the pan reduce the heat further and stir well..

Grease a plate and transfer the contents to the plate..

Once the burfi cools down,slice in to pieces..

Milk burfi is ready!

Enjoy the milk burfi!

Related recipes:

Milk sweet made from condensed milk

Chicken liver fry - Spicy chicken liver fry

Chicken liver fry is a delicious treat for people who relish liver..It makes a yummy dish..

Ingredients:

Chicken liver:1/4 kg

Vegetable oil:2 tsp

Onion:1,small,chopped

Garam masala powder:1 tsp

Cumin powder:1/2 tsp

Yoghurt:1 cup

Ginger:1/2 tsp,powdered

Salt to taste

Preparation:

Take a frying pan and heat it on medium flame..

Fry the chopped onion until golden yellow..

Add the chicken liver and fry till they become firm..

Add the garam masala powder,salt,powdered ginger and cumin powder and fry again..

Stir in the yoghurt and cook for few more minutes..

Tasty and spicy chicken liver is ready!

Enjoy the spicy chicken liver!

 Related recipes:

Beef liver fry

Spicy beef chilli

Chicken cutlet

Butter chicken

Pear delight

Pear delight is a easy to make pear dessert...

Ingredients:

Pear:1

Fresh yoghurt:1 cup

Honey:1 tbsp

Dark brown sugar:1/2 tbsp

Water:3 tbsp

Raisins:1 tbsp

Preparation:

Take a bowl and pour the yoghurt in to this..

Beat the yoghurt well with honey till it gets creamy..

Heat sugar in a pan along with the water and raisins and keep on stirring till it becomes a thick brown liquid..

Add this prepared brown liquid to the beaten yoghurt and mix well..

Cut the pear in to rounds of ½ cm thickness..

Microwave them for 2 minutes…

Now transfer the pear rounds on to a flat dish and pour the yoghurt on these pear slices..

Chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes and serve!

Enjoy the pear delight!

Tomato paneer pulao

Tomato paneer pulao makes a yummy one pot meal..As this pulao contains paneer,kids also will love this..

Ingredients:

Basmati rice:1 cup

Curd:2 tbsp

Paneer:200 grams,cubed

Ginger-garlic paste:2 tsp

Green chillies:2,slit

Onion:1,large,chopped

Tomato puree:3 tbsp

Ghee:1 tsp

Oil:1 tsp

Garam masala powder:1 tsp

Coriander leaves: a bunch,chopped

Cashews:few

Raisins:few

Preparation:

Clean the basmati rice in water and soak for 20 minutes..

Drain the water and keep the rice aside..

Take a pan and add the ghee and oil…

Fry the chopped onion till light brown..

Then add the ginger-garlic paste and fry followed by the slit green chillies..

Add the paneer cubes and tomato puree and mix well..

Then add the curd..

Add little garam masala powder and chopped coriander leaves..

Add the rice without water and fry the rice along with the masala..

Then add 2 cups of water and salt and mix well..

Transfer the contents to a pressure cooker…

Keep it covered and wait for the first whistle..

Keep on low flame for 5 minutes..

Wait for another 5 minutes and then open the lid of the pressure cooker..

Add the ghee fried cashews and raisins..

Tasty tomato paneer pulao is ready!

 Related recipes:

Green peas pulao

Matar paneer

Rasgulla

Pop corn - Homemade popcorn - How to make pop corn at home

Pop corn can be made at home in just a few minutes..Follow this simple preparation..

Ingredients:

Corn:1 cup

Ghee:1 tsp

Salt to taste

Red chilli powder to taste

Preparation:

Take a big non-stick pan and heat it..

Add the ghee and then put the corn and fry slowly..

Add the salt and chilly powder and fry till borwn dots appear on the corn..

Keep on high flame…

Then lower to sim and keep the pan covered till the popping or cracking sound disappears..

Open the lid of the pan and serve the pop corn crisp..

Enjoy the pop corn!

Mutton masala

Mutton masala is a great side dish and is best served with naans..

Ingredients:

Mutton:1/2 kg

Onion:1,sliced

Coriander seeds:1/4 cup

Red chillies:4

Grated coconut:3 tbsp

Pepper corns:4

Cinnamon stick:2 cms

Cloves:4

Ginger-garlic paste:2 tbsp

Coconut milk:1/2 cup

Oil for frying

Preparation:

Heat oil in a pan and fry the sliced onion..

Cool the fried and sliced onion..

Grind in to a paste in mixer..

Clean the chopped mutton well…

Marinate the mutton pieces with ginger-garlic paste and keep this aside..

Now take a pan and fry the coriander seeds,pepper corns,cinnamon stick,cloves,red chillies and grated coconut…

Let this cool down..

Now grind this to a fine paste along with little water in a mixer..

Now take the marinated mutton pieces and shallow fry these pieces in little oil..

Then add the ground masala paste and let this fry for a while..

Add the onion paste,coconut milk and water to cook the mutton pieces…

Add salt to your taste..

Let this masala simmer for a while..

Remove from heat..

Serve with hot paranthas or naan!

Enjoy the mutton masala!

Moong dahi pakoda - Moong pakoda in curd

Moong dahi pakoda is a yummy and healthy version of pakoda..Tastes awesome when served with yoghurt...

Ingredients:

For pakodas:

Whole moong dhal:1 cup

Ginger:1 inch

Green chillies:3

Big onion:1,large,chopped finely

Salt to taste

For dahi(curd) base:

Curd:1 cup

Red chilly:1

Mustard seeds:1 tsp

Cumin seeds:1 tsp

Curry leaves:few

Salt to taste

Preparation:

Soak moong dhal for 2 hours and grind with ginger,green chillies and salt..

Grind this to a coarse paste..

Now add the chopped onion to the batter..

Make small balls out of this batter..

Now heat oil in a pan..

Now deep fry these balls in this hot oil…

Keep them on a plate..

For the curd base:

Take a small bowl and pour the curd in to it..

Beat the curd in to smooth paste..

Add salt to it..

Now heat little oil in a pan…

Add red chilly,mustard seeds..

Once the mustard seeds splatters,add the cumin seeds and curry leaves..

Add this to the curd base and mix well..

Pour the dahi base over the pakodas…

Yummy and tasty pakodas are ready!

Enjoy the pakodas with the curd!

Icecream recipes

Hello,

Thank you all for sending in yummy snacks recipes last month..So go ahead and take a look..Make use of those recipes and make your kids happy this summer!

For the month of may,i have decided to host icecream recipes..Kids love icecreams ofcourse and to beat the summer heat,we can all treat ourselves with icecream!!The event will be open from may 1st to 31st..

The recipe must be homemade..The icecream can be a softy icecream or a sorbet.It can be eggless or with eggs..It can be made with any fruit also..

Kindly read the rules before you link up

The rules for linking:

Link up only the recipe URL and not your name.

Link back to the entered recipe on your blog is a must.

Entries without a link back on your blog will be deleted!

Archived entries are also allowed but they must be reposted.

Five entries per person is allowed.

Usage of the event logo will be appreciated.

Related recipes:

Homemade chocolate icecream

Homemade banana icecream

Homemade mango icecream

Homemade vanilla icecream

Homemade pineapple icecream

So what are you waiting for!

Start linking up your icecream recipes and letz all melt ourseleves in them!!

Hare bhare mutton chops - Mutton chops

Mutton chops make a great side dish with biryani..These mutton chops have been prepared with coriander and green chillies paste..

Ingredients:

Mutton:1 kg,chopped

Oil for frying

Eggs:2

Bread crumbs:1/2 cup

For marinating the chopped mutton:

Ginger - garlic paste:2 tbsp

Coriander leaves:100 grams

Green chillies:8

Salt to taste

Preparation:

Clean the chopped mutton pieces well and keep them aside in a large bowl..

Chop the coriander leaves and green chillies..

Now put together the chopped coriander leaves,green chillies,salt and ginger-garlic paste in a mixer and grind to a fine paste..

Now using this marinade,marinate the mutton chops for about 2 hours..

Pressure cook the marinated mutton…

Once the mutton is cooked,heat a pan on medium flame..

Transfer the cooked mutton chops to this pan and fry till the moisture disappears..

Then remove the pan from the heat..

In another bowl mix together the eggs and ass little salt to it..

Place the bread crumbs in another bowl..

Now coat the mutton chops with the egg batter and then roll in the bread crumbs..

Now deep fry in hot oil..

Yummy hare bhare mutton chops are ready!!

Enjoy the mutton chops!