Saturday, November 24, 2007

Carrot Kheer

Ingredients :
Carrots - 2
Milk - 3 Cups.
Ghee, Cashewnuts- little.
Sugar - as appropriate.

Method of Prep :
1. Cut the carrots into slices.
2. Cook the carrot slices in milk till they become soft and the raw smell is gone completely.
3. Grind this in mixie or juicer with enough sugar and more milk, till carrot disappears completely!!
4. Fry cashews in ghee and mix with the kheer.
5. Serve chilled.

This is a very easy to prep kheer. Tastes very nice and has very less fat :)

Jeera Rice

Ingredients :
Jeeraga Samba Rice - 1 Cup. - We can get this rice in the market. This has a nice flavour and is used for this rice. If its not available, we can use normal rice also.
Cumin(Jeera) - 1 tbl sp
Ghee - 3 tbl sp
Coriander leaves - 1/2 bunch.
Salt - as appropriate

Method of Preparation :
1. Cook rice seperately with enough water.
2. Heat ghee in a kadai and add the jeera and fry till it becomes just light brown, (Dont let it turn black, that will spoil the rice )
3. Add the cooked rice to this with enough salt and mix well .
4. Garnish well with cut coriander leaves.
5. Serve hot with raitha or potato fry.

This is a very healthy and easy to prep rice !

Peas Pulav

Everything similar to the previous recipe. Just replace the vegetables with Peas alone and Peas Pulav is ready !!!

Vegetable Pulav

Ingredients :
Basmati Rice - 1 Cup
Coconut Milk Extract - 2 Cups
Carrot, Beans, Potato, Onion, Peas - All finely cut.
Garam Masala items - Cinnamon, Cloves, Elachi, Bay leaf.
Salt, oil as needed.
Lemon - Half

Method of Prep :
1.Take Coconut Extract, ready made is available in the market these days else Grind coconut with water and take the extract and strain through the strainer. Make 2 Cups, 1 Thick and 1 thin one. Or take 11/2 cups of extract and 1/2 cup of water.

2.Wash rice, and fry with a tsp of ghee.
3.Cook rice with the 2 Cups of Coconut extract for 10 mins in the pressure cooker. Squeeze half a lemon in this. This helps the rice retain color and also remains separate after getting cooked.
4. Boil all the cut vegetables(except onion) seperately, in such a way that the colour is not lost while cooking.
5. Heat oil/ghee in a kadai and fry all the masala items, and add cut onions and fry.
6. Add the cooked vegetables and rice and mix well.
7. Add salt as appropriate.
8. Serve hot with raitha.