Thursday, December 17, 2009

Tapeswaram Kaja




Ingredients :

Allpurpose flour - 2 cups
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Rice flour - 3 tbsp
Butter - 1/2 cup
Cooking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Oil - For fry

Procedure :

- Take Allpurpose flour in a blow, add cooking soda and butter.
- Add sufficient amount of water and make a dough.
- Knead the dough well, it should be like a chapathi or a puri dough.
- Mix rice flour in 3 to 4 tsp of butter.




- Roll the dough into chapathis.
- Now take the rice flour-butter mixer and spread on the chapathi.
- Place one chapathi on other and again spread the rice flour.
- Repeat the above process untill for 4 chapathi's.
- Now roll it like a mat and cut them in to small pieces.
- Make a suger syrup.
- Deep fry Kajas in oil and drop them into sugar syrup.
- Let them absorb the sugar syrup.
- Remove from the syrup and serve.








Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Capsicum - Paneer Curry


Ingredients :
Capsicum
Aloo
Carrot
Paneer
Onions - 2
Tomatoes - 1
Cashew nuts - 10 to 12
Dry Coconut - 1 tbsp
Kaskas - 1tbsp
Elachi - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 2 tsp
Red chilli powder - As per taste
Salt - As per taste
Dhana - Jeera Powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp
Milk - 1/4 cup

Process :
- Take 1/4 cup milk and soak Cashew nuts, dry coconut, kaskas and elachi seeds for 1/2 hr.




- Heat oil in a pan, add chopped onions and tomatoes and cook untill they become tender.
- Let it cool and grind to a fine paste.
- To the paste add soaked cashew nuts, dry coconut, kaskas and elachi with milk.
- Grind all the ingredients to a fine paste.



- Heat oil in a pan add the grind paste.
- Add ginger garlic paste.
- Add Chopped capsicum, aloo and carrot pieces.
- Cover and cook untill they become tender.
- Add Salt, red chilli powder, dhana jeera powder, sugar and tamarind powder.
- Mix well


- Finally add fried paneer pieces and garam masala.
- Serve hot with bread.