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...
Badam Ka Sharbat
Ingredients • Pint milk – 3/4 • Pint water – 1/4 • Sugar – 21/2 oz • Almonds powder – 1/2 oz • Pistachio powder – 1/2 oz • Cardamoms, powdered – 5-6 • Few flakes of saffron • Rose water – 1 tbsp Preparation 1. Mixed all the ingredients well. Add almond and pistachio powder to the Sharbat. Serve chilled with crushed ice. Decorate with fresh rose petals. By Bhaktin Priya...
Carrot and Raisins Salad
Ingredients • Carrots – 4-5 large sized • Raisins – ½ cup • Green chili – 1 • Fresh mint leaves – 6-8 • Lemon juice – 2 tbsp • Peppercorns (crushed) – ¼ tsp • Honey – 1 tbsp • Salt – To taste • Black salt – ¼ tsp • Walnut kernels (crushed) – 6 • Oil – 1 tsp • Pista – 2 tbsp Preparation 1. Peel, wash and thickly grate carrots, Refrigerate till use. 2. Wash, remove stalks...
Pistachio Milk Fudge
Plain milk marries well with chopped pistachios and rose water. The mixture can be left just marbled with nuts or tinted a pistachio green color. For a classic look, garnish with a piece of edible silver foil (varak) and slivered pistachios. Preparation time (after assembling ingredients): 30 minutes Ingredients • Sugar – ½ cup (110 g) • Water – 1 cup (240 ml) ...
Chick-pea-flour fudge
Ingredients •1.5 cup butter •3 cups chick-pea flour (besan) •2 cups milk •1.5 cup sugar •¼ cup chopped cashew nuts •2 tbsp grated coconut •2 tbsp cinnamon •¼ cup chopped pistachio Preparation 1.Melt the butter in a pan. Stir besan into the pan and cook for 15 minutes (need to stir constantly). Add coconut and nuts and cook for another 5 minutes. 2.In a saucepan, boil...