Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Homemade Donuts










Ingredients:












  • 2 cups all purpose flour




  • 1/2 cup sugar




  • 1/2 cup milk




  • 2 tbs vanilla extract




  • 2 tbs baking powder




  • 1 egg




  • about 1/2 stick butter




  • cooking oil for frying




Procedure:









  1. Melt the butter using the microwave.




  2. In a bowl, put the sugar, milk, vanilla, butter, baking powder, and the egg stir until smooth.




  3. Add the flour (do not use all of it) into the mixture, and mix everything again.




  4. Leave the batter in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.




  5. After the 30 minutes, put the remaining flour on a board and put the dough on top of the flour. Flatten it with a rolling pin until it is one inch thick (just like making rotis).




  6. Use a small bowl to make circles and then make a small hole in the center to make it look like a flat donut.




  7. Deep fry the donuts and take it out of the oil when it is golden brown.




  8. If you would like, add icing, frosting, whipped cream, sprinkles, etc.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Moongdal Kachodi


Ingredients:




  • 1 cup moong dal


  • 1-2 teaspoons somp


  • 1-2 teaspoons chili powder


  • 1 teaspoon kalonji


  • salt for taste


  • 5 cups atta (Wheat flour)


  • oil for deep frying


Procedure:





  1. Cook the moongdal for 25 minutes or however long it takes for it to cook.


  2. Let the moongdal cool for two hours.


  3. Take a pan and put 2-3 tablespoons oil in it.


  4. After it is heated put somp, chili powder, salt, and the cooked moongdal into the oil and let them fry until it becomes dry.


  5. Put the atta, kalonji, and a little bit salt along with a couple of spoons of oil in a large bowl. Then pour enough water so it becomes like a dough.


  6. Make round balls with the dough and put some the moongdal mixture inside it.


  7. Make the balls into round flat circles.


  8. Deep fry the circles.


  9. Enjoy this dish with Indian chutneys, and/or pickles!

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Green peas puri




Ingredients

  • 1 to 3 cups peas (frozen)
  • 3 to 4 green chilles
  • Small peice of ginger
  • 2 to 3 garlic cloves
  • Whole wheat flour (Atta) 4 to 5 cups
  • Salt to taste
  • Cooking oil to deep fry
  • Water if you need it


Method


First grind green peas.Then grind green chillies, ginger, and garlic. Add both pastes together and put garam masala powder and salt in a bowl.Then mix it all together. Now, put the whole wheat flour in it and make it like puri dough. Make round balls and squish it until it becomes like a round puri. Finaly, fry it in oil.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Alu chap Recipe

The Breadcrumbs, Curry, and the Stuffed Chap




These are the finished Alu Chaps



Ingredients



  • 4-5 potatoes


  • 1 pack of white bread


  • 2 big onions


  • 2-3 green chilles


  • 2-3 cloves of garlic


  • 1 small peice of ginger


  • 1 ts garammasala


  • a little bit of cuminseeds


  • salt for taste


  • cooking oil to deepfry


  • plain bread crumbs or soji


  • water


Method




  • First boil the potatoes.


  • Then make the paste of greenchillies, ginger,and garlic.


  • Cut the onions


  • Take a frying pan put oil put cuminseeds fry it then add greenchilles paste and onions


  • Fry it put the garammasla powder fry it add the salt now.


  • Put the boiled potatoes and make a dry curry and keep it aside.


  • Take water in a bowl. Take one slice of bread, dip into water and then squeeze the water. Take a plastic paper spread the bread in it then put the potota curry in it and close it then roll it in bread crumbs or in soji.


  • Make similar "rolls" with all the curry (look at the picture for the shape) .


  • Then deepfry it in oil until it becomes golden brown.


  • Enjoy them with ketchup or Chutney.-

Sunday, December 20, 2009

7 Cups Sweet


Ingredients:

  • 1 cup gram flour(besan)
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 cup grated coconut
  • 1 cup ghee
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 pinch of baking soda

Procedure:

  1. Take a wide dish or a deep-frying pan.
  2. Fry the besan a little bit.
  3. Put all the ingredients together in the dish or the pan on a stove.
  4. Keep on stirring until the mixture let goes of the pan or dish.
  5. Add the baking soda.
  6. Take it of the stove.
  7. Pour it into a greased plate.
  8. Cut it into peices.
  9. Leave it out to dry
  10. Once dry... Enjoy!



Thursday, September 10, 2009

0 oil Nuts Pakoda






Ingredients:




  • 1 cup grounds or cashews


  • 1cup gramflour(Besan )


  • 4 greenchillies


  • Small piece ginger


  • 2 cloves garlic


  • half cup water


  • Salt for taste



Procedure:





  1. Make the paste of green chillies,garlic and ginger.


  2. Take a microwaveable glass bowl.


  3. Put the besan then greenchillies,garlic,ginger past mix with water.


  4. Mix the nuts like pakoda paste.


  5. Then put the bowl into the microwave for 8 minutes, but mix it every 2 minutes.


  6. It will be dry and crisp.


  7. Leave it out for a while.


  8. Enjoy!

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Almond Burfee (an indian sweet)





Ingredients:









  • 1 cup almond flakes



  • 1 1/2 cup sugar



  • 3 teaspoons grated khoa



  • 4 1/2 teaspoons cardamom powder



  • a pinch of baking soda



  • 1 cup water


Procedure:

  1. Grind the peeled almonds coarsely


  2. put the sugar in a pot


  3. add water into the pot


  4. let it boil until it becomes a thick syrup


  5. mix the khoa, the cardamom powder, the grated almonds, and the baking soda into the syrup so it becomes a paste


  6. when the paste comes out of the pot without sticking, grease the plate with ghee or butter


  7. then pour the paste in the plate


  8. leave it there until it is cooled


  9. when it is cooled divide it into your choice of shapes


  10. if you wish then you may decorate your burfees with almonds or anything else you wish to decorate your burfee with