Creamed Spinach with Fresh Curd Cheese
Ingredients: • Chopped fresh ginger – 1 tsp • Fresh hot green chili, seeded and minced – 1 • Ground coriander – 1 tsp • Sweet paprika – ½ tsp • Ground cumin – ½ tsp • Turmeric – ½ tsp • Ghee or oil – 1 tbsp • Large bunches of spinach, washed, trimmed steamed, drained and finely chopped – 2 • Cream – 4 tbsp • Fresh homemade curd cheese (panir) made from 2 litres milk, cut into 1.25...
Bengali Spinach
Ingredients: • Raw almonds, peanuts or pistachios, with skins – 2/3 cup (100 g) • Warm water – 2 cups • Ghee or sesame oil • Black mustard seeds – 1 tsp • Cumin seeds – ½ tsp • Fenugreek seeds – 1/8 tsp • Jaggery or dark brown sugar – 1½ tbsp • Scraped, fined shredded or minced fresh ginger root – ½ tbsp • Seeded and minced hot green chilies – 1 tsp • Fresh spinach, trimmed, washed and...
Tulsi Apple Cake
Ingredients 1. Maida/All purpose flour- 2 cups 2. Apples green/red- 2, peeled and grated 3. Baking powder-2 tsp 4. Baking Soda-1 ½ tsp 5. Eno- ½ tsp 6. Butter, melted- ½ cup 7. Sugar- 1 cup 8. Milk-7 tsp 9. Salt- a pinch 10. vanilla/rose essence- ½ tsp 11. Colour- green/orange-red- ½ tsp 12. kismis- 2 tsp 13. whipped cream/ 1 cup heavy cream whipped with 3-4 Tbsp sugar 14. Apple pieces Method 1. Mix and sieve together properly-Maida,...
Apple Salad
Outside of Kashmir, where most of India’s apples are grown, the texture tends to be mealy –a sure sign of over ripening due to long storage at warm temperatures. On the whole, I do not find them as good as most. American varieties. Use any crisp salad or all-purpose apple: for example, Newton, pippin or McIntosh, which are crisp, sweet and juicy, with a tangy overtone; anything from sweet red or Golden Delicious to tart granny Smith...
Whole Cauliflower Crowned with Creamy Avocado
India’s intense heat prevents the widespread use of salad greens both for home gardeners and on a commercial scale. During northern winters, some green thumbs are successful with a few hardy types. In my search for salads with staying power, using available ingredients, I happened on this variation. It is eye-catching on a salad buffet, and often the first to disappear. Preparation time (after assembling ingredients): 10 minutes...