Egg Recipes

Cilantro Egg Masala

Ingredients:

6 Eggs                                                                          

1 ground Onion

1 tbsp Ginger-garlic paste  

1 tsp Coriander powder

1 tbsp lemon/lime juice

Green chilies 5-6

1/2 cup cilantro/ Coriander leaves

Procedure:

• Cut chilies in small pieces and soak in the lemon/ lime juice for at least 2-3 hours.
• Grind onion with coriander leaves and soaked chilies together. Keep few green chilies for garnishing.
• Heat oil, add ground onion and ginger-garlic paste.
• Add coriander powder.
• Add little water so that masala do not stick at the bottom.
• Stir till oil separates.
• Add little water.
• Add Eggs and cook for 5 minutes.
• Add garam masala and cover with lid and wait another 5 minutes.
• Garnish and serve.

Dessert Recipes

Butter Ice Cream

Ingredients:

Brown Sugar – 1 cup

Water – 1 cup

Salt – a pinch

Egg – 2

Butter – 2 tbsp

Milk – 1 cup

Cream – 1 cup

Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp

Rum or Sherry – 1 tsp

Roasted pistachio – ½ cup

Procedure:

• Boil water with brown sugar and a pinch of salt
• Beat egg and add to the above mixture.
• Stir continuously while pouring.
• Put the lower flame and stir continuously.
• Add butter when the mixture dense.
• Turn the gas off and cool down.
• Add rum or sherry and vanilla essence to dense milk and add the mixture to the sugar syrup.
• Add cream and keep in freezer.
• Blend the half frozen ice-cream and add pistachio.
• Finally keep in freezer and serve while frozen.

Raw Mango Kulfi

Ingredients:

Milk – 3 ½ cup

Condensed Milk – 1 can (400 gm)

Khowa kheer – 100 gm

Thin Arraroot Biscuit – 2 powdered

Green Mango Essence - a drop

Green Food Color (optional)

Procedure:

• Turn the refrigerator on its coolest temperature.
• Keep the aluminum foil 1 hour into the refrigerator.
• Boil milk, turn the heat off and cool it.
• Mix with biscuit powder, essence, khowa and condense milk.
• Blend the mixture.
• Pour the mixture into the aluminum foil and keep in freezer.
• Serve after 5-6 hrs.

Misti Doi

Ingredients:

1 can condensed milk

1 can [12 oz.] evaporated milk
1 8 oz. plain yogurt


Procedure:

•   Mix condensed milk, evaporated milk, plain yogurt well with electric hand mixer or in a blender til froth forms on top. 
• Pour the mixture in a baking sheet or cake pan, cover with aluminium foil and put in preheated 300F (150C approx) oven for half hour.  
• Turn off the oven and keep the doi inside.
• Don't open oven door at any time during the process overnight. 
• Take out doi in the morning and put in refrigerator. 
• Keep at least 3/4 hours before serving.

Veg Recipe

Stuffed Baked Mushroom

Ingredients:

Mushroom – 250 gm
Sweet Potato – 1 big boiled and mashed
Onion – 1 chopped
Tomato – 1 small chopped
Green Chillies – 2 chopped
Ginger-garlic paste – 1 tsp
Turmeric – 1 tsp
Coriander leaves - chopped
Oil - 2tsp


Procedure:

Stuffing

• Clean mushrooms with salt and water and wipe it.
• Take out the steams of the mushrooms carefully.
• Chop mushroom stems and keep aside.
• By the meantime, heat 1 tsp of oil and add ginger-garlic paste.
• Add finely chopped onion and salt.
• Add tomatoes, green chillies and chopped mushroom stems.
• Add turmeric and all masala powder and a little water so the the masala powder do not get burnt.
• Add mashed sweet potato and mixed all ingredients nicely.
• Turn the heat off and add coriander leaves.

Finally,

•  Pre-heat oven at 375 deg F for 20 minutes.
• Fill the mushrooms with the stuffing.
• Put the stuffed mushrooms into the oven, wait for another 30 minutes  and stuffed baked mushrooms will be ready for serving.

Begun Basanti

Ingredients:

Eggplant - 1 big cut lengthwise
Cashew - 1 tbsp
White sesame - 2 tsp
Mustard paste - 2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Sugar - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste
Rose water - 1 tsp
Coconut Milk - 1 tbsp
Sahi Garam Masala - 1 tsp


Procedure:

• Marinade eggplant with turmeric and salt.
• Fry it and keep aside.
• Make a smooth batter of cashew paste (make the paste with yogurt), white sesame paste, mustard paste, turmeric powder, sugar, salt and water.
• Heat mustard oil in the frying pan
• Add batter to it and keep mixing.
• Add coconut milk and mix well.
• Add the fried eggplant, sahi garam masala and rose water.
• Cover it with a lid and give 2-3 minutes standing time.
• It goes well with hot rice, roti and paratha.

Chinese Recipe

Garlic Prawn with Broccoli

Ingredients:      

Prawn 250 gram                                            
4-5 cloves of chopped garlic
Broccoli 500 gm cut into small florets
Yellow Onion – 1 chopped finely
Green Pepper - 1 small
Oil – 2 tbsp
Salt to taste
Sugar –1 tsp
Black Pepper 3 tsp
Red chilly powder
Soy sauce
Tomato sauce
1 cup chopped scallions
5-6 green chillies chopped

Procedure:

• Add salt, 1 tsp of black pepper, red chilly powder and soy sauce and marinate prawns for half an hour.
• Heat ¾ tbsp of oil and stir fry the prawns. (You can also deep fry the prawns for better taste  ) Keep aside.
• Heat rest of the oil in separate pan and add chopped garlic.
• Add chopped onions and stir.
• Then add green pepper and green chillies.
• Add broccoli and give a quick stir, then add soy sauce, tomato sauce, sugar and 2 tsp of black pepper.
• Close the lid and wait for 4-5 min till it is completely cooked.
• Add the fried prawn and remove from heat after 5 minutes.
• Garnish with chopped scallions.
• It takes 15 minutes to cook and goes well with fried rice or plain rice.

Italian Dishes

Rotini with Mushroom and Red Pepper

Ingredients:                       

100 gm Rotini Pasta

Mushroom

Red Pepper

Diced Onion

Olives (optional)

Salt to taste

Dried Oregano

5-6 Basil Leaves

Extra virgin olive oil

3-4 pod chopped garlic

1 cup Tomato Puree

1 cup vegetable stock

Procedure:

• Bring water to a rolling boil.
• Add salt to taste and add pasta.
• Boil uncovered for 9 min, drain well and keep aside.
• Meanwhile, heat extra virgin olive oil in a pan and add garlic.
• Add onion, red pepper and sauté.
• Add tomato puree and vegetable stock and mix well.
• Add vegetable stock and bring it to a boil. Add oregano and basil leaves.
• Add the drained pasta, mix well and put the heat off.
• Garnish with grated cheese and serve.

Baking Recipe

Upside Down Pineapple Cake

Ingredients:

8 pieces of sliced canned Pineapple

8 Cherries

1 cup all purpose flour or Maida

A pinch of Baking Powder

A pinch of Salt

Quarter cup powder Sugar

½ cup brown Sugar

Quarter cup Butter

3-4 eggs

1 tbsp sugar syrup

Whipped Cream

Procedure:

• Preheat oven at 350 degree Fahrenheit.
• Beat eggs.
• Add maida, baking powder, salt, sugar and ½ cup butter mix well.
• Take out the pineapple from the can and add the juice to the mixture.
• Warm rest of the butter and pour it into the cake pan.
• Sprinkle brown sugar and adjust the pineapple slices and cherries on it.
• Pour the batter over pineapple.
• Keep this in preheat oven for 45 minutes.
• Check if it’s done. Prick a tooth-pick; if the tooth-pick comes out clear put the oven off
• Let it cool
• Sprinkle some sugar syrup and over the cake and flip it.
• Cut along with the pineapple slices.
• Spread the whipped cream sidewise (not on the cake).
• Refrigerate and serve.

Black Forest Cake

Ingredients:                      

1 cup all purpose flour or Maida

A pinch of Baking Powder

A pinch of Salt

Quarter cup powder Sugar

½ cup brown Sugar

Quarter cup unsalted Butter

3-4 eggs

Vanilla essence

1 tbsp sugar syrup

Cherries

Whipped Cream                                                            

6 oz Chocolate

½ cup sugar syrup

Procedure:

·       Preheat oven at 350 degree Fahrenheit.

·       Melt 4 oz chocolate and ½ cup butter.

·       Beat eggs, sugar, baking powder, vanilla essence and melted butter-chocolate until very thick and fluffy.

·       Warm rest of the butter and pour it into the cake pan.

·       Sprinkle all purpose flour and pour the batter over it.

·       Keep this in preheat oven for 40 minutes.

·       Check if it’s done. Prick a tooth-pick; if the tooth-pick comes out clear put the oven off and let it be cool.

·       Sprinkle sugar syrup.

·       Laterally cut the cake and make it two.

·       Spread whipped cream on one of the cake pieces by spatula.   

·       Spread cherries on it.

·       Put the second layer on the top of it as shown in the pic.

·       Spread whipped cream.

·       Grate chocolate and sprinkle on the cake.

·       Decorate with cherries or strawberries.

Fish Recipe

Machli Bahar (Fish)

Ingredients:

4 pieces of Rohu Fish (Rui)

1 tbsp Ginger paste

1 tbsp Garlic paste

1 cup Tomato Puree`

½ cup Onion Juice (grind onion and squeeze the juice) 

½ cup Yogurt

1 tsp Red Chilly powder

2 Green Cardamoms (Chota Elichi)

2 inch Cinnamon

2 Bay Leaves

2 tbsp Paprika (Kashmiri Mirch)

3 tsp Nutmeg powder

Kasoori Methi (optional)

Salt to taste

Procedure:

Marinate fish with salt, turmeric and 1 tsp of nutmeg powder.

Fry fishes and keep aside.

Heat oil and add cinnamons, cardamoms and bay leaves.

Add ginger and Garlic paste to oil. Stir for couple of minutes and add onion juice slowly.

Add nutmeg and stir for a minute.

Add tomato puree`, paprika and salt to taste.

Add yogurt and mix it thoroughly. Add kasoori methi (optional).

Once the gravy is done add fish.

Wait 2 minutes and put the oven off.

Give 2 minutes of standing time and then serve.

Serving Suggestion : Machli Bahar goes well with hot rice