Steamed Semolina Breads (Dhokla)
Ingredients: • Semolina – 1 cup • Rice flour – 2 tsp • Chickpea flour – 1 tbsp • Salt – 1 tsp • Turmeric – 1⁄4 tsp • Fresh ginger, minced – 1 tsp • Fresh chilies, finely minced – 1 or 2 small • Fresh curry leaves, very finely shredded – 10 • Chopped fresh coriander leaves...
Shankarpali
Ingredients • Maida (Refined Wheat Flour) – 500 gms • Rava (Semolina) – 250 gms • Milk – 1 ½ cup • Dalda or Ghee – 1 cup • Sugar – 300 gms • Salt as per taste • Oil (around 3 cups) – 300 gms Preparation 1. Take a small pan, heat the Dalda and keep aside. 2. Now mix maida, rava, sugar, salt, warm dalda and milk. 3. Start kneading to form soft and...
Green Tomato Pakora with Cornmeal
If you have a trouble patch or even one plant on the patio, harvest 3 or 4 tomatoes when they are green and try this delicious dish. Alternatively, you can purchase green or firm red tomatoes, but if they are soft and ripe, they will exude too much moisture when heated. Though cornmeal makes the most flavorful coating, a mixture of half semolina and half chickpea flour is also pleasant. Semolina flour is sold at Indian grocery...
Ragda Puri
Ingredients For Puris: • Very fine semolina – 2 ½ cup • Salt – to taste • Water • Oil – to deep fry For Ragda: • Tamarind chutney • Boiled potato – 2-3 • Boiled Peas – 1 cup • Salt – as required For Seasoning: • Chopped coriander – ½ cup • Fine sev – 1 cup • Curds – 1 ½ cup • Green chutney...
Nankhatai
Ingredients • Sugar – 150 gms • Butter – 150 gms • Fine semolina – 100 gms • Yellow food color, optional – 1 pinch • Plain flour – 220 gms • Cardamom, ground – ½ tsp • Baking powder – ½ tsp • Cherries, to decorate – 13 glace Preparation 1. Heat the oven at 180 C. 2. Beat the sugar and the butter together until creamy. 3. Add...