Soya Maida Chips

Combination of Soya flour, Wheat and Maida and the goodness of black pepper corns and Jeera is sure to go down well in your throat. You can add carom seeds too. Enjoy this also as a evening tea time snack with a cup of piping hot adrak ka chai!



Ingredients:


Soya wheat flour - 11/4 cup
Maida - 1/4 cup
Black pepper corns and Cumin  - 2 tsp, each, grounded.
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Ghee
Salt

Oil for frying

Method:

Take a bowl and bring everything together one by one and knead with water to a smooth dough as shown below.

Then take a medium size portion from the dough. Roll it flat, Cut in to diamond shapes ready to be fried in oil.

Repeat the procedure for rest of the dough and store the chips in an air tight container.

I used Datar's Soya Wheat flour. If you can get soya flour separately use one cup of soya flour and add 1/4 cup wheat flour, the other ingredients remain the same.

Arrowroot Milk Cakes

Arrowroot milk cakes can be refrigerated for future consumption,but am only mentioning this considering the nature of the sweet as it contains milk and coconut, but there wont be any left as soon as they are ready for consumption. It simply melts in your mouth and the best part is that just takes 20 minutes or so to prepare...!



Ingredients:

Arrowroot powder - 1 cup
Milk - 500 ml (Reserve 1/2 cup to mix arrowroot powder)
Sugar - 275 gms
Coconut - 2 tsp
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
Ghee for greasing

Suggested garnishing : Pistachios

Method:

Take 1/2 cup milk and mix the powder devoid of lumps. Boil the remaining quantity and lower the flame till the last stage of preparation. Add sugar. stir well. Add the arrowroot mix, along with coconut and cardamom powder and stir well. This has to be done really quickly as arrowroot powder tends to thicken pretty fast. Once you get a smooth consistency, transfer to a plate greased with ghee.

Take a flat ladle and spread it evenly. Allow it to cool really well. Cut into cubes. Garnish with pistachios or even almond pieces.

Polenta and Tomato Basil sauce

Ingredients:


Polenta Pronta : 1 cup
Water - 2 cups
Milk - 2 cups
Parmesan Cheese - 2 tsp
Salt

For Tomato Basil sauce:

Tomatoes  - 4 (blended)
Onion - 1 (large)
Black Pepper corns - 11/4 tsp
Basil - 1/2 tsp
Oregano - 1/2 tsp
Olive Oil
Salt


Method:


Take a large pan. Pour water and milk.Let it boil. Then add the polento powder while stirring with a ladle simultaneously. Add cheese and salt. Keep mixing until you get a nice smooth lump free texture. This would not take more than 10 minutes.

Then grease a plate with butter. Transfer the contents to the plate and refrigerate for about 3 to 4 hours.


Then cut into rectangle pieces as shown below and fry in oil.

For the sauce, Saute onion. Add ground pepper corns followed by blended tomatoes. Add the herbs fresh or dried form. Add salt. Mix well. Keep in low heat for 5 to 7 minutes and then switch off.

Polenta and Tomato Basil sauce is ready.

Bread Gulab Jamun

It would be apt to caption this as the twin of our ubiquitous Gulab Jamun! Needless to say it is simply delectable and the interesting aspect is that it is made using just bread, maida and Khoya. As nobody can deny savoring its predecessor same goes with this Bread Gulab Jamun. Made using home made khoya, maida and bread you can gorge as much as you can this diwali and for many occasions.

 You can prepare this sweet using store bought Khoya too.


Ingredients:


Bread - 6 slices
Maida - 1 1/4 tsp

For Khoya:

Salted Butter - 2 tbsp
Cream - 1/4 cup
Full fat milk - 1 tumbler
Milk powder - 1 cup


Method:

Take a bowl. Remove the edges of the bread slices and crumble into pieces. Add maida to it. Mix well and set aside.

Now to make Khoya/ Mawa.

Take a heavy bottomed pan. Heat it. Add butter. Let it melt.Then add cream. Mix well. Add milk. Then add milk powder in parts. KEEP STIRRING IN ONE HAND while adding the powder. Maintain LOW FLAME throughout the entire process of making Khoya. It took me around 35 minutes to make this as it has to reach a THICK AND SMOOTH  consistency.

Now this is khoya.

The next step is to Mix 3 tbsp of Khoya with the bread maida mixture. Add 2 to 3 tsp of water while kneading.

Grease your palms with ghee and make small balls from this and arrange on a plate.

Fry in oil.

Prepare sugar syrup. Toss these fried balls to the syrup. Then enjoy after a couple of hours.