Pumpkin Apple Soup
Mar01

Pumpkin Apple Soup

  Ingredients • Small pumpkin, peeled and cut into cubes(about 4 cups) – ½ • Apples (peeled and cut into cubes) – 2 • Water – 4 cups • Curry Masala – 2 tsp • Light cream or milk- 1 cup • Sugar – 2 tsp • Chopped coriander (to garnish) – ¼ cup • Garam Masala – ½ tsp Preparation 1. Take a pot fill it with water (4 cups, add extra...

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Iron rich porridge
Feb16

Iron rich porridge

  Ingredients •Garden cress seeds (Aliv) – 15 gm •Milk – 200ml •Grated coconut (Fresh) – 25 gm •Jaggery – 30 gm Preparation 1.Soak the garden cress seeds overnight. 2.Boil the milk in a pan, to this add the garden cress seeds and allow it to cook for some time. 3.Now, add the jaggery to this and cook till it dissolves completely. 4.Add the grated coconut and mix the porridge well. 5.Cook well till the porridge is completely mixed...

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Lettuce tomato salad
Feb09

Lettuce tomato salad

Ingredients1 Iceberg lettuce, cut into thin strips1 Tomato, cut into 2 cm cubesDressing•½ C Milk•1/3 C Olive oil•2 Tbsp Sour cream•1 Tsp Mustard powder•1 Tsp Yellow asafetida powder•1 Tbsp Honey•1 Tsp Fresh lemon juice•¾ Tsp SaltPreparation1) Combine the lettuce and tomato in a mixing bowl. Keep it in the refrigerator while you prepare the dressing.2) For the dressing; blend the...

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Homemade Paneer
Feb07

Homemade Paneer

Ingredients • 10 C cow’s milk • 1 C yogurt Preparation 1. Boil milk in a thick bottomed vessel. Keep stirring the milk. When milk starts boiling, add yogurt. After sometime, the curds will coagulate and separate from the watery whey. 2. Transfer the curds and watery whey to the muslin or cheesecloth. Tie the cloth tightly and hang it. When all the water is drained, transfer the drained curds to a plate. Now your paneer is ready to...

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Homemade Yogurt
Feb05

Homemade Yogurt

  When I refer to “plain yogurt” as an ingredient, I mean the kind that has been made for thousands of years in Vedic kitchens using whole milk, sometimes even thin cream or top milk, and a starter –nothing else. Most supermarket yogurt is made from low-fat milk, skimmed milk and even reconstituted powdered milk, and does not even resemble the custard-like smooth yogurt found in India, Greece and Middle East....

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