Butter Cookies

Ingredients
1. Maida/Flour - 1 1/2 cup
2. Cooking soda - 1/4 tsp
3. Powdered Sugar - 1/2 cup
4. Ghee - 1/2 cup
5. Milk-1/4 cup
6. Vanilla extract-1 drop

Method:
1. Preheat the Oven at 180C
2. Blend sugar , Ghee and milk nicely.
3. Sift the flour with the cooking soda. Add this to the sugar-ghee-milk mixture.
4. Finally add the vanilla extract and mix it nicely.
5. Make a dough and divide into small balls.
6. Shape it into small balls of the required size and flatten it between the two palms.
7. Keep the balls onto a cookie sheet and bake for 20 minutes at 180 C.
8. Allow to cool and store in airtight containers.

Courtesy:Divya's Cooking

Fish Pickle!

Ingredients:-
1. Tuna Fish diced – 2 kg
2. Thinly sliced Ginger – 3/4 cup
3. Thinly sliced Garlic – 1 cup
4. Green Chillies Slices – 10
5. Pearl onion(Shallots)-1 cup
6. Kashmiri Red Chilly Powder – 4 Tbs
7. Vinegar – 1 cup
8. Water-1 cup
9. Curry leaves - 4 stems
10. Fenugreek powder-1/2 tsp
11. Mustard Seeds – 2 tsp
12. Salt – to taste
13. Oil – as needed

Marination
1. Turmeric Powder – 1/2 tsp
2. Red Chilly powder -1 tbs
3. Pepper powder-1 tbs
4. Ginger-Garlic paste-1 tbs(optional)
5. Salt – 1 tsp

Method:-
Clean and cut fish into small cubes.Marinate it with turmeric powder,red chilly powder ,Pepper powder and salt . . Keep it in a refrigerator for half an hour or more.Then shallow fry the fish pieces.

Heat oil in another pan,pop mustard seeds,add curry leaves and fry for a while.Now add ginger,garlic ,pearl onion and green chillies into it.Saute it for 5 mts in medium heat.Now add red chilly powder and let its raw is gone..Then add the vinegar and water ..let it boil.Put the fried fish pieces into the gravy and turn off the stove.Finally add the fenugreek Powder...Fish Pickle is ready.

Keep it in an air tight Container.

Kadamutta masala ( Quail egg masala)

Paneer Butter Masala

Ingredients
1. Paneer/tofu - 2 cups of small cubes
2. Onion - 1 medium, chopped fine

3. Ginger-garlic paste - 1 tbsp
4. Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
5. Garam masala - 1 tsp
6. Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
7. Tomato ketchup - 2 tbsp
8. Methi leaves - 1/2 cup
9. Milk - 1/2 cup
10. Cream - 1 cup
11. Oil - 2 tbsp
12. Butter or ghee-2 tbsp
13. Salt - to taste

Method
1. Heat 2tbsp of butter or ghee in a pan and fry the paneer/tofu cubes until golden brown. Drain and set aside.
2. In the same pan, add 1 more tbsp oil and fry the onions until golden brown.
3. Add the ginger garlic paste and fry for a minute.
4. Next, add the corriander powder, garam masala, chilly powder and some salt. Fry for few minutes.
5. To this, add the tomato ketchup and methi. Mix well and add the milk.
6. Lower fire and cook covered for 5 mins.
7. Open lid, add the fried paneer/tofu and the cream. Mix well and simmer for 3-4 mins.
8. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves .
Serve warm with Chappatis or pulav.

Tip : If paneer is fresh one no need to fry it...otherwise better fry it with little butter or ghee.

Rava ladoo...

Ingredients:

1. 1 cup fine wheat sooji/rava
2. 1 cup sugar
3. 2-3 cloves
4. 1 tea spn raisins
5. 1/2 tea spn cardamom powder
6. 1/2 cup water
7. 1-2 tbl spn Ghee

Method:
Slightly crush cloves and keep aside.You can use milk in place of water.Heat ghee and add cloves, raisins. The cloves and raisins slightly puff up in hot ghee. Add sooji and fry on medium heat mixing continuously till a nice aroma comes out of it. Take out the sooji in a plate. In the same pan, add water, sugar and heat. . Boil it for few minutes. Switch off the heat and add sooji and mix well. Add cardamom powder and mix well. At this stage, the mixture becomes too watery which is perfectly fine. It gets dry as time passes. Close the lid of the pan and let it sit for about 15-20mins. Once almost dried and can be handled, apply some ghee to hands and make ladoos.

Mani Kozhukatta

Steam kozhukatta the usual way. Make sure you make small balls than the usual ones for kozhukatta.

Shallow fry the steamed kozhukatta in little coconut oil after spluttering mustard seeds with some curry leaves and dry chillies

Serve it hot with sugar or honey !!!

Potato Bonda!

Ingredients:
1.Potato-2
2.onion-1/2 (finely chopped)
3.Green chilly-2
4.Ginger-1 tbs
5.turmeric pdr-1 tsp
6.Curry leaves-1 stem
7.corriander leaves-1/4 cup(optional)
8.mustard seeds-1 tsp
9.oil
10.salt



For Batter:
1.Besan flour-1 cup
2.Baking powder-1/2 tsp
3.Chilly powder-1/2 tsp
4.Asafetida-1/4 tsp
5.Salt
6.Water

Method:
Cook and mash potato.
Heat oil in a pan and splutter mustard seeds.Saute ing:2,3,4 with salt.
Add turmeric powder,curry leaves and corriander leaves.Mix it well with mashed potato.
Let it to cool and make small balls.
















Make batter with ing: flour,baking powder,chilly powder,asafetida, salt and water.Keep it aside for 15 mins.















Heat oil in a pan for frying .Dip small balls into the batter and fry it.

Courtesy:Priya's Kitchen