Gajar Ka Halwa (Carrot Halwa or Carrot Dessert)

Ingredients

• Grated carrots 2 cups
• Ghee (clarified butter) 3 to 4 table spoons
• Full fat/whole milk 1 cup
• Sugar 1 cup
• Cardamom 4 to 5 pods
• Milk powder 1/2 cup
• Flaked almonds (optional)
• Raisins (optional)

Method

1. In a large pan put ghee and add 2 crushed pods of cardamom. Use medium heat and allow the pods to splutter.
2. Put grated carrots in the pan and stir fry for 2 to 3 minutes.
3. Reduce the heat and cover the pan and cook for 5 to 7 minutes. Stir from time to time till done.
4. Add a cup of milk to it and allow to simmer for 5 minutes.
5. Make a paste of milk powder and add it to the cooked carrots.
6. Allow to simmer further for 5 to 7 minutes. Keep stirring.
7. Once the moisture from mixture in the pan is reduced, then, add sugar.
8. Stir and cook for next 7 to 8 minutes on low heat.
9. Add to it powdered cardamom for flavor.
10. For garnishing add flaked almonds and raisins.
11. Yummy Gajar Halwa (Carrot Dessert) is ready to serve.

Shahi Bread Pudding: Simplified, Yet Delicious

Ingredients

4 bread slices
2 to 3 table spoons unsalted butter
1/2 liter milk boiled and reduced to half the quantity
4 table spoons sugar
Saffron
Chopped almonds (for garnishing)
Raisins (for garnishing)

Method

1. Apply butter to the bread slices on both the sides.
2. Shallow fry the buttered bread slices in a skillet (frying pan) till golden in color.
3. Put them in a nice serving bowl.
4. Add sugar to the reduced milk. Add saffron.
5. Pour milk over the golden bread slices.
6. Add chopped almonds and raisins on to the bread slices.
7. Cool and serve.

Deliciously Wow Coconut Rice In Zippy

Ingredients

1cup of rice
1cup of sugar
1 cup of grated fresh coconut
A table spoon of ghee (or unsalted butter)
Two cardamoms (broken)
Two cloves
Saffron
Almonds

Method

1. Wash 1 cup of rice in a bowl and keep it aside.
2. Take a table spoon of ghee (or un-salted butter) in a pressure cooker and put two cardamoms (broken) and two cloves in it. Put the cooker on gas stove (or hot plate) and allow to splutter.
3. Take out the washed rice from the bowl and put it in the cooker.
4. Saute the rice for some 3 to 4 minutes in the cooker, then add 1 cup of hot water and 1 cup of milk in the cooker.
5. Cook the rice in the cooker. Allow one whistle of the cooker. Remove the cooker from fire and allow it to cool.
6. Take a large pan (or wok), put in it 1 cup of sugar and 1 cup of grated fresh coconut and cook on medium heat for 5 to 7 minutes. Stir with spatula and mix nicely.
7. Take the cooked rice from the cooker and spread it in a plate (dish) to remove the steam. Put the rice from the plate in to the pan and mix it thoroughly with the coconut mixture already in the pan and cook for 3 to 4 minutes.
8. Add saffron and almonds to the coconut rice.
9. Deliciously wow coconut rice made in zippy, ready to serve.

Spicy Assorted Indian Pakoras Simplified

Ingredients

1 cup gram flour
1 table spoon corn flour
Salt
Red chili powder (quantity depends on how hot and spicy you want your Indian Pakoras)
Refined edible oil
Cut slices of onion, potato, green pepper, egg plant and spinach leaves

Method

1. Take a 1 cup of gram flour, a table spoon of corn flour, salt to taste, red chili powder (quantity depends on how much spicy and hot you want your Indian Pakoras) and pour a table spoon of any refined oil in a bowl or container. Mix them well.
2. Add water in to this bowl to make a thick paste of the mixture.
3. Add to it the cut slices of onion, potato, green pepper, egg plant and also the spinach leaves and roll them in the paste so that they get coated by the paste.
4. Put the frying pan on the gas stove or hot plate, pour edible oil in to it and heat it for few minutes.
5. Put the rolled-in sliced onion, potato, green pepper, egg plant and spinach leaves in the heated edible oil in the frying pan and deep fry them until cooked.
6. Take out the spicy and hot Indian Pakoras on to a dish and they are ready to eat with tomato ketchup (keep a cup of coffee or tea ready to go with them).

Cooking Simplest Possible Omelet With Minimum Ingredients

Ingredients (for one person)

1-2 eggs

Chopped onion (quantity as per your liking)

Any edible oil or butter

Salt

Pepper

Method

Break egg(s) in a bowl.

Beat the egg(s) by an egg beater or spoon or fork till the yellow and white of eggs are completely mixed.

Add salt and pepper to the eggs.

Stir up all the ingredients in the bowl with spoon or fork.

Light the gas stove or switch on the hot plate on low or medium heat.

Put the frying pan on the stove or hot plate and allow it to heat for half a minute or so.

Pour a tablespoon of edible oil or butter in the frying pan.

Pour the ingredients of the bowl in the frying pan and spread them evenly in the pan with a flipper or spatula.

Allow to cook. You will know that the omelet is done when there is no liquid left in the eggs. You can turn the omelet upside down by the flipper or spatula and allow it to cook for a minute.

Roll the omelet onto your plate by the flipper or spatula.

Eat the omelet. Or you can insert the omelet between two bread slices to make an omelet sandwich and eat.