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Broccoli soup :

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 Ingredients  : Broccoli. - 200 gms Salt as per taste Butter - 1 Tablespoon  Pepper powder - 1 pinch Maida - 1 Teaspoon  Spring onions - Handful Garlic - 2 Cloves  Milk - 1 Tablespoon  Onions - 1 small Method of preparation : 1. Boil the broccoli florets along with onions, and garlic in water till it gets cooked. 2. Make a purée of it and keep it aside. 3. Place a  sauce pan on the stove, add butter to it, then add little maida, later add milk to it and mix it till forms to a creamy consistency. 4. Into the sauce pan add in prepared purée, add pepper powder, salt and greens of spring onions chopped. 5. If you like you can add fried bread to the soup. 

Pani puri

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 Ingredients : chutney :- Dates - Handful Tamarind - Lemon sized Jaggery - 1 Tablespoon  Sounf - 1 Teaspoon  Salt as per taste  Red chilli powder -1 Teaspoon  Coriander powder-1 Teaspoon  Cumin seeds powder - 1 Teaspoon  Green chutney : Green chillies - 2 ( as per taste ) Coriander leaves - Handful Podina leaves - Handful Lemon juice -  Tablespoon  Salt as per taste Cumin seeds - 1 Teaspoon  Ginger - 1 inch cube Chat masala / amchur - 1/2 teaspoon  Black salt - One pinch  Cumin seeds powder  - 1/2 teaspoon  Aloo stuffing: Boiled and mashed potatoes  Onion finely chopped - 1 Green chillies chopped - 1 Coriander handful chopped Cumin and coriander powder - 1/2 teaspoon  Pepper powder  Salt as per taste  Puris - Sufficient number Method of preparation : 1. Take a pan , add tamarind pulp, jaggery, deseeded  dates, saunf, dry ginger powder, hing, black salt and add sufficient water , boil it for 7-...

Gobi Manchuria

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 Ingredients : Cauliflower - One big bowl of florets Corn flour - 1 Tablespoon  Maida - 1 Tablespoon  Salt as per taste  Pepper powder - 1/2 teaspoon  Garlic - 7 to 8 cloves chopped Green chillies - 1 slit Sesame seeds - 1/2 teaspoon  Soya sauce - 1 Teaspoon  Tomato ketchup - 1 Teaspoon  Green chilli sauce - 1/2 teaspoon  Vinegar - 1 Teaspoon Spring onions  - Finely chopped  Onion - 1 finely chopped Water as required Oil to deep fry Method of Preparation: 1. In a bowl add in cornflour, maida, salt as per taste and water to make a thick paste. 2. Into the flour mix add in the boiled cauliflower florets(water strained) and coat them well. 3. Heat a kadai, add in oil sufficient to deep to fry. Once the oil is heated, drop in florets one by one and fry them until golden brown ( You can fry them florets twice if you want the cauliflowers extremely crunchy). Place the florets on a tissue paper to remove the excess oil. 4. Take a wok, plac...

Rice semiya patties

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 Ingredients:  Rice semiya  - 1 Cup Salt as per taste Roasted Oats - 1 Tablespoon Coriander leaves - Handful Corn flour - 1 Teaspoon  Roasted Sooji - 1 1/2 tablespoon Besan - 1 Tablespoon  Green chilli and ginger  -   1 Tablespoon chopped  Cumin seeds powder - 1 Teaspoon  Garam masala - 1/2 Teaspoon  Peanut powder - 1 teaspoon Oil - For deep frying or shallow frying Method of preparation: 1. Add in boiled rice semiya, besan, roasted Sooji and oats, green chilli, ginger and dry masala powders. 2- Add in all the ingredients, mix them , bind them into some patties, with some corn flour or bread crumbs. 3. Place a pan on top of the stove, add in two tablespoons oil and let it heat up. 4. Gently place the prepared patties on the pan , and golden roast them both sides or you can bake them on 180 degrees for 12 to 15 mins (make sure to turn the patties halfway through , so that they are roasted both the sides ( bake them by spreading some oil t...

Kuska ( Tamilnadu dish)

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 Ingredients : Garam masala ( Raw)  - Cinnamon stick one inch, cloves, cardamom, star anise, bay leaves Fennel seeds - 1 Teaspoon  Cumin seeds - 1 Teaspoon  Curd - 1 cup Coriander leaves and mint leaves -  Handful Onions - 2 Tomatoes - 2 Ginger garlic paste - 1 Teaspoon  Green chillies - 2 Garam masala or biryani powder - 1 Teaspoon  Ghee - 1 Tablespoon  Basmati - 1 glass Salt as per taste Turmeric powder -  1 pinch Chilli powder - 1 Teaspoon  Method of preparation : 1. Soak basmati rice for one hour in water. 2. Chop the onions and tomatoes, lit green chillies. 3. Put a pan on the stove, add ghee and then add raw garam masala as given above, later add onions, tomatoes pieces, green chillies, garam masala powder, salt, chilli powder, ginger garlic paste, coriander and mint leaves, curd, turmeric powder, mix them well, stir it for few mins, till everything mixes well  little, then add soaked rice and water ( one and half  glass ...

Lotus seeds ( Makhana) chat

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Ingredients : Makhana ( Lotus seeds ) - 1 Cup Tomatoes - 2 Onions -  2 Capsicum - 1 Carrot - 1 Coriander leaves -  Handful  Spring onion -  1  Chat masala - 1 Teaspoon  Salt as per taste Lemon juice - 1 Tablespoon  Cumin seed powder - 1 Teaspoon  Green chutney  : Green chillies - 1 Coriander leaves - Handful Mint leaves - Handful Ginger garlic pieces Black Salt  - 1/2 teaspoon  Coriander powder and cumin powder - 1 teaspoon of each Curd  - 1 Teaspoon  Grind all the ingredients and keep it aside. Sweet chutney :  Tamarind pulp - 1 Tablespoon  Dates - Few Jaggery - 1 Teaspoon  Chilli powder - 1/2 teaspoon  Chat masala powder - 1/2 teaspoon  Coriander powder and cumin seeds powder - 1/2 teaspoon each  Boil the tamarind pulp for few mins, add  dates, chilli powder, coriander powder and cumin seeds powder, chat masala  powder , cook for few mins and grind it well.  Method of preparat...

Gatte ke sabji (Marwadi/ Rajasthani dish)

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  Ingredients  For gatte -  Besan - 1 Cup Salt as per taste Garam masala - 1/2 Teaspoon  Cumin seeds - 1 Teaspoon  Red chilli powder - 1 Teaspoon Asoefitida - One pinch Oil - 1 Teaspoon  Turmeric powder - 1/2 Teaspoon Chilli powder  - 1/2 Teaspoon Curd - 1 small cup Water  - Sufficient water For gravy : Onions - 2 Tomatoes - 2 Cumin seeds  - 1 teaspoon  Green chilli sliced  Ginger garlic paste - 1 Teaspoon  Cumin seeds powder - 1 Teaspoon  Coriander powder - 1 Teaspoon  Garam masala - 1/2 teaspoon  Curd - 1 Tablespoon  Lemon juice - 1 Teaspoon  Method of preparation  : To make gatte - 1. Add in besan,  red chilli powder, salt, hing ( asoefitida), cumin seeds, curd and make a very tight dough. 2. Take small amounts of dough and roll them into long cylindrical strips, and drop them into a kadai placed on stove with water. Let it cook for 8 to 9 mins or until there are small bubbles on the gatte ...