South Indian Hot Toordal Soup with vegetables
Ingredients •1¼ C toor dal •5-7 C water •½ Tsp turmeric powder •1½ inch ball of dried tamarind pulp •1 C hot water •2 Tsp ghee/oil •1½ Tsp black mustard seeds •¼ Tsp yellow asafetida powder •1 green chili chopped •2 dried red chilies broken in halves •1 Tbsp ginger, finely grated •9-10 fresh curry leaves •½ Tsp fenugreek seeds •1 C carrot cut into slices •1 C green beans cut into 1-inch pieces •1½ C bell pepper (capsicum), diced into...
Cardamom Shortbread Cookies
Ingredients: • Unsalted butter, at room temperature – 1 cup • Crushed cardamom seeds -1 tsp or Fresh ginger paste – 2 tsp • Superfine sugar or jaggery – ½ cup (110g) • Unbleached white flour – 2½ cups (300g) • Fine semolina (pasta flour) – ½ cup (85g) • Salt – ¼ tsp • Baking powder – ¼ tsp Preparation: 1. Preheat the oven to 250 F (120 C). 2. Cream the butter and cardamom or ginger in a mixing...
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...
Wood Apple Juice
Ingredients • Ripe Wood Apple(Bel fruit) – 1 • Grated Jaggery – 1/2 Cup • Cardamom Powder – 1/2 tsp • Salt – a pinch Preparation 1. Cut the bel fruit. 2. Remove the pulp in a vessel. 3. Add 2 cups of water and squash the fruit in the water using hands. 4. Sieve and keep it aside. 5. Add 1 cup water to Jaggery and melt it completely. 6. Sieve Jaggery water and add it to the fruit pulp. 7. Add Cardamom powder and...
Panakam
Ingredients • Dried ginger powder (sonth powder) – ¼ tsp • Black pepper powder (kali miri powder) – ¼ tsp • Salt – ¼ tsp • Juice of one large lemon (2 tbsp) • Cardamom Powder • Jaggery – 4-5 tbsp • Water – 3-4 cups Preparation 1. In a large pitcher take 4- 5 tbsp of crushed or grated jaggery. 2. It also depends upon on the sweetness of your jaggery. 3. Stir in 3-4 cups of drinking water. 4. Stir them till they get...