Nutty Chocolate Roll...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: , , , ,

This nutty chocolate roll looks realy yummy na...and it tastes also very good. Everyone will like this roll. It is chocolate role stuffed with nuts and strawberry syrup.And chocolate syrup on top of it makes it damn yummy. By luking at it one may think that it will be very difficult to make this rolls, but it is damn easy. Kids just love this roll.We see such rolls outside in pastry shops and buy from there. We never think of making them at home,as they seem very difficult to make.But now we can make such roles at home that too with less effort.This role requires ingredients that are easily available at home.

INGREDIENTS:

For Roll:

2 cups marie biscuits crushed(fine powder)
3/4 cup drinking chocolate
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup dessicated coconut
1/2 cup chopped cashewnuts, pisatochos and almonds
1/2 cup strawberry syrup
1/2 cup icing sugar
9-10 cherries
1 tea spoon butter

For Chocolate Sauce:

1/2 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
1 tea spoon cocoa powder
1 tea spoon drinking chocolate


METHOD:

Take a bowl and add marie biscuit powder , drinking chocolate and sugar in it. Mix it well.Add sugar according to your taste. Add milk and kned it well so that it becomes very soft and firm like a dough.Apply butter to make it smooth and keep aside.

Now the stuffing need to be done. Mix the coconut, with dry fruits and mix. Add icing sugar to it to make it enough sweet.Mixture is ready.

Take a piece of dough ball and give it round shape. Flatten it using hands and role it using icing sugar. Make a thick flat roti of it by rolling, do not make it thin.Now cut the big roti in to long strips of 2 inches broad.

Now apply the strawberry syrup on the top side on the cut strip. Add the coconut and nuts mxture above it. Role it into a roll as shown in the above pic. Side ways it will look like the pic below.

Now we need to make the chocolate sauce. Mix the water and sugar and heat the mixture when the sugar and water mixture starts boiling up add the cocoa powder and drinking chocolate powder and stir. Let the mixture boil again and become thick. When the mixture becomes thick remove it from heat and cool for some time. Choco sauce is ready.

Now take the rolls and add chocolate sauce on them and garnish them with cherries. Serve them.





NOTE: This rolls can be stored in refrigerator for 4-5 days.
Filling can be changed according to your needs. Even cut strawberry pieces can be added to this roll mixture, but they have to be consumed soon , they cannot be stored for more then a day.

Preparation Time: 20 mins.

Penne Arrabiataa...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: ,

'Penne Arrabiata' is a pasta cooked with cherry tomatoes and herbs. By seing the name of the recipe one will think that it is some very difficult recipe...but certainly not... its a very easy and quick recipe.Pasta is originally a dish from italian cuisine. I have used penne pasta in this recipe made from durum wheat flour, which is one of the traditional pastas of italy. I have used cherry tomatoes as i just love them, they are so cute, i cant resist myself to buy them when i see them in the grocery store.I have put a pic of them below:-) This pasta recipe is so simple yet it tastes very good.

INGREDIENTS:

200 grams Penne pasta
2 tomatoes
6-7 cherry tomatoes halved
7-8 garlic cloves finely chopped
2 tea spoon red chillis crushed
2 onions sliced
1/2 cup tomato puree
1/2 tea spoon oregano
1 tea spoon fresh basil
1 table spoon chopped parsley(or cilantro)
olive oil
salt

METHOD:

First the penne need to be cooked. Add 2 litres of water ina vessel , let it boil. When the water starts boiling add some salt and 1 tea spoon oil. now add the penne and let it cook on medium flame.

Cook the penne till al dante ( italian: meaning "to the tooth" means not too soft, just cooked).Now drain the water and keep it under running water so that it separates out.Now keep it aside.

Blanch tomatoes( not cherry tomatoes), peel, remove seeds and chop roughly. This is called tomato concasse.

Heat some olive oil in a pan. Add chopped garlic and saute till light brown.Then add red chilli flakes and countinue to saute for 40 secs. Now add the chopped onion and saute till they turn soft and translucent.Now add cherry tomatoes and saute for some time.

Add tomato concase to it . Add tomato puree and mix.Add salt and oregano and mix well.Cook for 3-4 mins till it gets a sauce consistency . Sauce for pasta is ready.

Take one more pan and heat little olive oil in it. Add the herbs and toss.Add the amount of penne required to serve and toss well. Now add the required amount of sauce and toss gently for some minutes.While tossing be carefull so that the penne do not break.

Garnish with parsley and serve hot...!!!


NOTE: Any type of penne pasta can be used.
Use of cherry tomatoes is not compulsory.
If olive oil not available use butter.

Serves:3-4

Preparation Time: 20 mins.

Bread Pattis...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: ,

This snack is very tasty and easy to make. If you are boared eating bread and sandwitches, you can try this. It is different from it and has a nice taste. It does not require any extra items, all ingredients are mostly present at home.

INGREDIENTS:

4-5 bread slices
11/2 cup basen
1/2 cup finely chopped onion
3/4 cup grated cheese
2-3 green chillis chopped
2 table spoon corainder leaves chopped
1 tea spoon chilli powder
3/4 cup tomato-chilli sauce
salt
oil/ghee

METHOD:

Take a bowl and mix besan with onion, chilli powder, green chillis, corainder leaves nad salt. Add water and make a thick paste.Do no make a a thin paste.


Now cut the breadslices into two pieces.Heat oil in a pan.

Now take a half part of bread slice.Apply the besan paste all over it on one side. sprinkle cheese on it and put it for shallow fry. The side on which besan has been applied must be placed downwards.

When its geting fried. Apply besan paste to the other above side of the slice and sprinkle cheese. When the lower side is fried that it is become golden brown, turn and let the other side get fried.

Repeat the process with all the other bread slice halves.

Serve hot by applying tomato-chilli sauce all over it.

Preparation Time:10 mins


Shahi Fruit Salad With Custard...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category:


Fruits are everyones favourites. They are eaten either plain or by making some dishes using them lik fruit chaat, salads etc. This fruit salads and chaats become more healthy as they contain mixed fruits. So i am posting a similar recipe of fruit salad with custard.

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups chopped mixed fruits( apple, sweetlime, grapes, chickoo,orange, kiwi,banana etc)
2 table spoon vanilla custard powder
500 ml whole milk
1/4 cup sugar
1 table spoon butter(optional)
4-5 table spoon cashewnuts
8-10 cherries
2-3 table spoon raw papaya tooty frooties
2 mawa Pedas(optional)

METHOD:

Keep the milk for boiling. When it gets little warm remove 4 table spoon of milk in a bowl and let the remaining boil.

Add the custard powder to milk in bowl and mix properly to form a paste.When the milk boils remove from flame and add the custard paste and stir well. Add sugar according to your taste.Now keep it again on medium flame and keep on stirring countinously. Let it cook for 3-4 mins. It will become thicker in consistency.

Now Remove it from flame and add butter. Mix well and keep for cooling. When it cools down keep it in a refrigerator to set.

Cut all the fruits and mix in a bowl. Add cashewnuts and tooty frooties and mix properly.Now take the fruits and nuts mixture in a serving bowl and add the set custard mixture on top.Make pieces of pedas and mix.

Garnish with cashewnuts, tooty frooties and cherries.

Serve directly or chill and serve.



Note: Butter is added to custard as it gives it a shine.
Any type of seasonal fruts can be added ot to this salad. But avoid adding fruits which make it watery like watermelon or other melons.

Preparation Time: 20 mins

Cheese Carrot Rolls...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: , ,

Most of the people who have realy less time 2 cook need some easy recipes. And those recipes need to be healthy too. This cheese carrot roll is very quick recipe and is very healthy too.It has carrot which is a very nutritious vegetable.I had read this recipe in some megazine some months ago. I thought the combination of cheese and carrot wont taste good, but when i tried it it tasted awesome. And the best thing about this dish is u get tasty and nutritious snack in very less time and effort.

INGREDIENTS:

5-6 bread slices
1 cup grated carrot
1/2 cup grated cheese
1 tea spoon finely chopped ginger(or ginger paste)
1 tea spoon chilli finely chopped(or chilli paste)
1/2 tea spoon chat masala
1/4 tea spoon pepper powder
Amul butter( or any other brand)
salt

METHOD:

Take the grated carrot in a bowl and add cheese and mix well. Now add the chilli, ginger and chat masala and pepper powder and mix well.

Now remove the sides of the bread slices. Take 1 slice and roll it a bit to flatten it. Now apply little water to it and press and remove water. Roll again to flatten it more.

Now add the carrot and cheese mixture in the center and close the slice and seal. Repeat the process with the other slices also.

Now heat a pan and add butter. Shallow fry this rolls on low flame till crisp and brown on both sides. Add butter in middle of frying.

Serve hot with tomato-chilli sauce.

Note: Using butter to fry this rolls is a must.Using oil or ghee wont make them as tasty as butter.

Preparation Time: 15 mins.


Mashmelon(Chibud) Dessert...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: ,



Mashmelon is a type of fruit from the melon family. It is called 'chibud' in konkani.It tastes good if u use it in some things. Personally i do not like it plain.I like it in its shake or desert. Here is a recipe of mashmelon dessert.It is very simple 2 make and tastes realy good. Many types of simple desserts can be made from it. Here is one of them.

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups mashmelon pieces
1 cup coconut milk
1/2 cup jaggery
1/2 cup beaten rice(phov)
1/2 tea spoon cardoman powder
salt

METHOD:

Soak the beaten rice in water and remove after 30 secs and keep them aside.

Take the coconut milk in a bowl and add jaggery to it and mix it well so that whole jaggery dissolves in it. Add amount of jaggery accoring to your taste.

Now add the mashmelon pieces to it and mix. Now add cardoman powder.

Put it in a serving bowl and add 2 table spoon of beaten rice to each serving bowl. Add beaten rice only before serving. Do not add it before.

Preparation Time :15 mins.



Delhi Style Aloo Chaat...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: , ,



Aloo chaat is one of the famous chaats in north india. It is crisp fried potatoes tossed with spices and lemon juice.In delhi its very famous.I had aloo chaat of delhi and its damn tasty. I remembered the taste and tried at home and it turned out good.Here is the recipe.

INGREDIENTS:

3-4 potatoes
1 large chopped onion
2-3 green chillis finely sliced
2-3 table spoon corainder leaves chopped
1 big lemon
1" ginger piece
1 tea spoon chat masala
1/2 tea spoon chilli powder
1/2 tea spoon cumin powder
pinch pepper powder
salt
oil

METHOD:

Cut ginger into thin long strips. Apply lemon juice and little salt to them and keep in the refrigerator.

Chop the potatoes into small cubes of 1/2 inches.Heatoil in a kadai till medium hot. Deep fry the potato pieces till crisp and golden. Fry on low flame or else they remain uncooked and hard inside.Remove and keep on a absorbent paper.

Now take the pieces in a bowl. Add onion, chilli powder, chat masala, cumin powder, coriander leaves, green chillis and salt. Mix well.Squeeze lemon juice on it and miz again.

Now put it on a serving dish and garnish with ginger strips.

Serve immediately.

NOTE: You can even add tamrind-dates sweet chutney and green spicy chutney in this chaat you want it to be more spicy.

Preparation Time:15 mins

Mashmelon Shake...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: ,


In summer shakes are the best beverages to beat the heat. Shakes can be made from many fruits. Here is a recipe for mashmelon shake. It is nice n healthy shake.

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup mashmelon pieces
250 ml chilled milk
2-3 table spoon sugar
1/4 tea spoon cardoman powder


METHOD:

Put all the things in a mixie and blend it for 2-3 mins till froth is formed. Add usgar according to your taste.If the fruit is too sweet then sugar is not required also.

Ice cube is not required as mashmelon produces lot of water.

Preparation time: 5 mins.





Mushroom Kathi Rolls...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: , ,


Different types of kathi rolls and plain rolls of vegetable and chicken are famous in india. I am posting mushroom kathi role recipe today. Its for a change from the normal vegetable and chicken kathi roles.I had seen normal vegetable kathi role recipe on net and modified it into a mushroom kathi role. It tasted very good . My idea of adding tomato-chiili sauce and fresh butter worked out well.Tomato-chilli sauce and fresh butter bleands well with mushrooms and gives a nice taste and wetness to the mushroom mixture.Perfect for rolls.

INGREDIENTS:

For Mushroom Mixture:
1 cup chopped natural mushrooms(or artificial)
2 big onions finely sliced
1 tea spoon chilli powder
1/2 tea spoon corainder powder
2 tea spoon garam masala
1 table spoon ginger-garlic paste
2 table spoon fresh butter
1 table spoon cream
1/2 cup tomato-chilli sauce
salt
oil

For Roti:

1 cup maida(or plain flour)
1 table spoon corn flour
1/2 tea spoon baking soda
1 tea spoon butter
salt


METHOD:

Take 1 cup of plain flour in a bowl. Add to it a pinch of salt, butter, and corn flour and soda.

Knead the mixture into soft dough by adding water. Cover the dough with a wet muslin cloth and keep it aside for half an hour.

Meanwhile we need to make the mushroom mixture. Heat oil in a pan and fry onion till golden brown.add ginger-garlic paste and saute for 2 mins.

Now add the mushrooms, add salt and cover and cook on low flame till mushrooms get cooked well.Natural mushrooms take time while cooking.

When mushrooms are almost cooked add chilli powder, corainder powder and garam masala and mix properly. Add cream after 1 min and mix well.Now add butter and stir on low flame.

After 2mins add tomato-chilli sauce and mix and remove from heat. Mixture is ready.keep aside.

Now, take a small portion of the dough and roll it giving a round shape. Make it as thin as possible. Cook each side of roti lightly on tawa by applying little ghee

Now, fill the roti with enough of mushroom mixture. Roll it into a swiss role.

Now Fry the role on tawa for 2-3 mins by turning again and again. Cut the rolls into small pieces and serve hot.

Reapeat the same process with remaing rotis.

Preparation Time :35 mins

Banana Cake(Eggless)...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category:


Normally cakes are made with eggs,so many people who are veg cannot enjoy them.But eggless cakes can be made very easily and they taste as good as cakes with eggs and are as fluffy and soft like them. This banana cake is very simple 2 make and tastes realy good. In this rava is used instead of maida which gives it a good taste and its healthy campared to maida cakes.In goa the traditinal cakes like cumcumber cake, or jack fruit cake are made from rava.

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup rava
11/2 cup ripe bananas pulp.
2 cups fresh thick coconut milk
1 cup sugar
3-4 table spoon cashew nut pieces
1 tea spoon baking powder
salt(optional)
ghee/butter

METHOD:

Fry the rava in little ghee til it gets bit light brown colour and aroma comes from it.Now cool it.

After cooling , soak it in coconut milk for 2-3 hours. Till then it will absorb coocnut milk and become soft thin paste.

Now add the banana pulp in it. To make banana pulp , grind ripe banans in a mixie.Add sugar ,soda and mix well.

The batter must have proper consistency. When the batter falls froma height it must fall in ribbon shape, that is the perfect cake batter.Add cardomen powder and cashewnuts and mix.

Now grease a baking dish with butter and add the cake batter. Microwave it on 60% power for 6-7 mins or bake as usual.

When a knife poked in the baked cake comes out clean , that means the cake is baked properly.

Preparation time:30 mins.

Kharvas/ Posu/Colostrum Milk Pudding

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: , , ,

Kharvas is made from colostrum milk also called as first milk.It is produced by cows for few days after gving birth to a calf.Usually it is prepared by the first 3 days milk from the cows who gave birth to calves. It is one of my favourite sweets. This is shravan month and its said that many cows give birth to calfs mostly in this season. So you get lot of this milk in this month.It tastes very nice and is famous in goa,maharahtra and karnataka. In most of the sweet shops they sell this sweet dish, but they do not use colostrum milk at all. They use normal thick milk and mix some other ingredients in it to get the thickeness. It tastes best only with colostrum milk.

INGREDIENTS:

1 litre colostrum milk
400 ml fresh coconut milk
1 cup jaggery
2 tea spoon jeera powder(cumin)
1 table spoon khaskhas(poppy seeds)
1 tea spoon turmeric
1/4 nutmeg
4 table spoon cashewnut pieces
1 tea spoon cardoman powder

METHOD:

Take the colostrum milk in a bowl. Mix the jaggery in it so that it dissolves completely in it. add jaggery according to your taste.

Now take a mixer and add cashew nuts, cumin powder, poppy seeds, turmeric powder. Grate a little nutmeg in it and grind the mixer to a paste.

Mix this paste with the milk and jaggery mixture.now add the coconut milk and cardoman powder to it and mix well to form a even mixture.

Pour it into a vessel and steam for 20 mins. It will became hard.Let it cool.

After 2-3 hours of colling cut into pieces and serve . It needs some standing time of 2-3 hours then it tastes its best.Can be served chilled also.

Preparation Time:30 mins



Mushroom Momos...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: , , ,


Momos or momocha are Steamed Dumplings. It is a popular recipe from the land of china, tibet and north eastern india. It is famous in many north-eastern restaurants in many parts of india. normaly momos are stuffed with vegetable filling or chicken stuffing.They are usauly served with momo sauce.I had lots of mushrooms at home and wanted to try something new so decided to make mushroom momos and believe me they turned out realy yummy...:)

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup maida(all purpose flour)
1 cup chopped natural mushrooms(or artificial)
2 onions chopped finely
1 veg maggi cube
1 table spoon soya sauce
1 tea spoon chilli sauce
1 tea spoon garam masala
1/2 tea spoon baking powder
salt
oil/ghee

METHOD:

Take maida ina bowl and mis baking powder and salt. Add little oil and kned well using water.Keep for 40 mins.

Now take a kadai.Add oil and fry onions till golden brown. Now add the mushrooms in them and mix them and close the lid. Let them cook on low flame.

When the mushrooms are cooked well. Add salt, maggi cube and garam masala and stir well. when its almost done add soya sauce and cook for 1 min and remove from heat. Keep aside.

Now make small balls of the dough.Roll them into small thin puris and put 1 table spoon of the filling in the center.Close the puri and seal it. Same like we make modaks here.

Steam them for 20 mins in a steamer.

Serve hot with tomato-garlic sauce.

NOTE: You can even bake them and serve after steaming.

Preparation time: 30 mins

Palak Pakode Ki Chat...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: , ,


Palak pakodas tastes realy nice and if we prepare chat from them then it becomes cherry on a cake.This chat is very tasty and becomes ready in no time. It is a very tasty evening snack.

INGREDIENTS:

1 tea spoon chat masala
1 tea spoon roasted cumin powder
1 tea spoon chilli powder
200 grams sev
salt

METHOD:

Prepare palak poakodas from the recipe mentioned in the link.As you fry the spinach leaves some of batter will form little balls.Deep fry them till golden and crisp.Drain and palce them on absorbent paper like pakodas.

Keep the hot pakodas on a plate.sprinkle the cumin powder,chilli powder,chat masala and salt on the pakodas evenly.


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Drizzle a little sweet tamrind chutney and green spicy chutney according to the taste on the pakodas.crush the batter balls and sprinkle on top along with sev. Add more chutney if required.

Serve immediately.

Preparation time: 20 mins.

Apple Toffee...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: ,



This apple toffee is one of the famous chinese deserts.Inside a crisp toffee is soft and tender apple with all the juices trapped in the shell.I had read this recipe in some magazine and tried it at home and the try was very succesfull-:)

INGREDIENTS:
2 fresh crisp apples
1 cup maida
1/4 cup corn flour
2 cup jaggery
2 table spoon sesame seeds(Til)
oil
baking powder
salt
10 ice cubes
1 litre chilled water

METHOD:

Chop the apples in cubes of approx 1 cm. Mix maida, cornflour, baking powder and pinch of salt and make a thick batter using water.

Heat oil in a kadai.Deep the apple cubes in the batter and deep fry them in oil till they become crispy. Fry all the cubes and keep aside.

Put the ice cubes in chilled water and let the water become very cold.Now heat a pan with deep bottom and add the jaggery it.

When the jaggery melts completely and becomes bit dark in colour ,deep the fried apple pieces in it fully and coat them completely with the jaggery and remove.

Immediately put the jaggery coated pieces in cold water so that the jaggery coating becomes hard. Keep in chilled water for 15-20 secs and remove on a plate.

Sprinkle sesame seeds on them and serve immediately.

Preparation time: 20 mins.

Mushroom Dum Biryani...!!!

Author: Siddhi Shirsat // Category: , ,

This is one more recipe with mushrooms. This season we get lots of natural mushrooms in goa. There was a big bundle of them lying in our refrigerator so i decided to try mushroom dum biryani, and believe me it tasted awesome.I layered cooked rice with the spicy mushroom gravy and cooked it on low fire and it was yummm.The rice gets a nice aroma of the mushrooms.Natural mushrooms are prefered in this recipe.Button mushrooms can also be used but taste will be compromised.

INGREDIENTS:

11/2 cups natural mushrooms( or artificial mushrooms)
2 cups rice
2 large onions thinely sliced
1 tomato very finely chopped
1/2 cup yogurt
2 table spoon whipped cream
2 tea spoon chilli powder
1 table spoon ginger-garlic paste
2 tea spoon garam masala
1 tea spoon corainder powder
1/2 tea spoon jeera powder
1/2 tea spoon turmeric powder
5-6 cloves
5-6 peppercorns
2 big cardomons
3-4 bay leaves
4" cinamon stick
1/2 cup corainder leaves finely chopped
1/4 cup mint leaves finely chopped
salt
oil
pinch of kesar(optional)
1/4 cup milk(optional)

METHOD:

Soak rice in water and drain it. then add a tea spoon of oil and keep it for drying by spreading it on a muslin cloth for 30 mins.

After that take a vessel and add oil.When it gets heated add all the whole masalas and fry for 2 mins. Now add the rice and stir and fry it for 3-4 mins. Now add 3 3/4 cup water and let the rice cook.Add some salt also.

Meanwhile take a pan and add 1 table spoon oil and fry the mushrooms for 3-4 mins till they become soft. Remove them and keep aside.

Now in the same pan fry the chopped onions in oil till light brown. Then add ginger-garlic paste and mix and saute briefly.

Add red chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder,salt and turmeric powder. Stir-fry briefly and add the chopped tomatoes and whipped cream.Mix well.

Continue cooking over high heat for another two to three minutes, stirring continuously or until masala is fairly thick.Add yogurt, garam masala powder . Stir well and cook for two minutes more.

Add the quartered button mushrooms and salt to taste. Add half the quantity of chopped fresh coriander and mint leaves. Stir-fry over high heat for two to three minutes and remove from heat.keep aside.

Rice will be ready.Now its time to assemeble rice and mushrooms and give dum for the biryani.

Take a flat bottemed vessel.Add ghee to the bottom.Arrange the cooked rice and mushroom masala in alternate layers , sprinkling the remaining chopped fresh coriander and torn mint leaves and saffron dissolved in milk after each layer. Ensure that the top most layer is of rice and then sprinkle chopped corainder and mint leaves.

Cover the assembled biryani with a tight fitting lid and seal the edges with kneaded atta dough.
Keep the sealed dish on a medium hot tawa and leave for 15-20mins on low flame . You can also place a few burning charcoals on the lid.

Break the seal and open the biryani, just before serving.

Preparation Time: 35 mins

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