PLATES OF FLAVOUR

Hello readers🙏Welcome to today's blog! Happy rakshabandhan guys😊Lets make the easiest recipe of kheer. Kheer is simply the milk, rice, dry fruits pudding. Kheer has the history. Its present for like 100 of years, perhaps 1000 of years.

It is said that kheer was introduced by ancient Ayurveda. And it is there from the age of ramayana and mahabharata. Back then kheer was the mixture of milk, sugar and rice. Kheer also known as payas, payasam( tamil).

Now kheer has modified forms😅. Kheer is basically base root of every indian festival. I don't know many sweet dishes. So I make kheer. Atleast we should know how to make kheer. This recipe will be useful for beginners. Let's start the recipe.

Ingredients needed:

1.Milk - I used 1/2 litre+1/3 cup

2.Sugar- 1/4 cup or acc to your taste.

3.Rice-2-3 tbsps..

4.Dryfruits- chopped almonds, elaichi powder/ cardamom powder -3-4 crushed elaichi, I used nuts and berries mix.

5.Use saffron if you wish.. I didn't.

Preparation : Time taken: 45 mins( Serves-3)

1.Take full cream milk- I used normal one. And add to a heavy- bottomed pan/ utensil.

2.Soak the rice before half n hour.

3.Let the milk boil. Boil the milk on medium flame.

4.Add soaked rice after 1 boil and let it cook. Let it become somewhat thick.

5.Add sugar and elaichi powder and let it boil for half n hour more. It should bwcome half.

6.It should be slightly thick and even color should change. The kheer should be creamy also.

7.Top the pudding with Dryfruits( you can add pistachios, almonds, cashews ).

8.Our kheer is ready to be served. Serve it slightly hot/ cold.

Note:

1.If you want to add custard powder, you can take 1tbsp and mix the hot milk and them add. If you add directly in milk, lumps will form and it will be hard to break them till end.

2.Stir it at regular intervals. Add saffron when its fully prepared. i didn't add.

3.Kheer should not be runny. The rice should be mixed properly with milk. Cook it till its half.

Try this recipe and comment below for other recipes. You can comment even on my fb page. Thanks for taking your precious time for reading the recipe. Meet you in next blog till then always stay beautiful.

Hello readers🙏 Welcome to plates of flavours. So kids, do you like pasta? Pasta noodles/ spaghetti /macaroni. I know the kids will love them. Basically I am not a big fan of pasta.. I don't like macaroni. I thought of trying pasta like those in restaurant style. Well it didn't come out well, but thought of sharing with you all. You can say this recipe was not that good as I lacked in some ingredients and made some mistakes.. Will come to that.

History of pasta :

Some would think pasta was invented in Italy but no! It was brought by marcopolo from china. So we can say pasta were the noodles used in south east asian countries. And pasta was made with hard wheat in italy. Pasta has variations like wheat flour, refined wheat flour or semolina or even legumes.

We all have eaten macaroni/ white sauce pasta and even red sauce pasta. Today I am sharing pink sauce pasta which is a mixture of white sauce+ red sauce pasta.

Lets get started..

Ingredients needed:

1.Pasta/ macaroni -1.5 cup

2.Veggies: capsicum, carrot, onion, green chilli, ginger- garlic( chopped) or gg paste ( all veggies -1/2 in qty), Tomatoes-3, beans

3.Blanched tomatoes -3 and puried/ paste

4.Refined flour -1.5 tbsp.

5.Butter-2 tsp.

6.Milk-2 cups( cold or room temperature )

7.Red chilli flakes-1 tbsp

8.Italian seasoning-2 tsp or as per your taste

9.black pepper powder-1 tbsp.

10.salt- as per taste.

11.oil-2 tbsp

12.coriander leaves for garnishing

Procedure:

1.Take a pan, add 2 cups of water, when boiled add 1/2 tsp salt and 1 tsp oil and add the pasta to it.

2.Boil the pasta till 80 % cooked.

3.Now cool the pasta and keep it aside.

4.Now take the tomatoes and boil them in hot water till the skin comes off. Cool it and peel the skin and grind it in mixer.

5.Take a non-stick pan, add 1 tsp of butter and 1/2 tsp of oil, when heated well add garlic and ginger. Sauté it and add chopped onions. Cook them till translucent.

6.Add green chilli, capsicum,beans and salt and let it cook for 5 mins.

7.Now add the blanched tomato puree amd let it Cook.

8.On the other side, Heat a non-stick pan, add 1 tsp of butter and add 1.5 tsp of refined flour / maida. Saute it for 3 mins and then add cold milk - 2 cups.

9.Mix it well and let it cook. Add salt.

10.After cooked, add black pepper powder and chilli flakes and it will become thick. Now turn off the gas and add that mixture to the tomato puree mixture.

11.Mix all the veggies well and let it boil for 2 mins. Finally add the boiled pasta.

12.Mix it well and add the chopped coriander leaves and pizza seasoning to the pasta.

13.Our pink sauce pasta is done.

14.Your kids will love it.

Make this recipe on sunday lunch/ dinner.

But wait!. As in the beginning I said I made it this way and it didn't come out well. So?

Tips :

1. I added 3 tbsp of maida/ refined flour. And I made the pasta and kept. So it became so thick that only pasta was seen and no sauce. So add 1 tsp of maida.

2.Eat it as soon as you prepare this as maida will become thick as time passes.I added more milk kn order to adjust the consistency but no use.

3.The milk should be cold. Like it should be taken out from fridge and used. Or atleast room temperature.If you use hot milk, lumps will be formed.

4.You can add veggies like mushrooms, corn, red and yellow bell peppers or brocolli.

These were the mistakes I made. Thanks for taking your precious time to read it. Try the recipe and share. Meet you in next blog till then always stay beautiful.

Hello readers 🙏welcome to new blog. Today I am going to share a pancake recipe. It's not sweet but it's savoury.

American corn or sweet corn are used for making corn chat Or simply boiled corn. We can use in gravies like palak corn and many more.

I thought of making cheela with eat. I used moong dal for binding as it will taste good with sweet corn. Lets get started..

Image: Archanas kitchen from google.

It appeared like these only.

Ingredients needed:

1.Dals/ lentils/ pulses: yellow moong dal, green moong dal chilka and masoor dal( all 2 tsps).

2.Boiled sweet corn-1 cup or 3/4 cup

3.Besan-2 tsps

4.Rice flour- 2 tsps

5.Masalas: salt, red chilli powder, ajwain( carrom seeds), cumin seeds,garam masala,sugar-1/2 tsp , turmeric powder-1/2 tsp

6.ginger( finely chopped), green chili-2( finely chopped), beetroot-1/2 ( grated).

7.oil for baking the cheela

8.Oil -1 tsp for adding to the batter.

9.sour curd-1/2 cup for softness

Procedure:

1.Firstly take a bowl, add the dals( moong, moong chilka and masoor) and soak for 1 hour if in hurry otherwise soak for 3-4 hrs

2.Boil 3/4 cup sweet corn by adding salt in it for 10 mins and let it cool off.

3.Now when the dal is soaked, in a mixture grinder add the dals, boiled sweet corn, salt, green chilli, cumin seeds and chopped ginger and pulse it without water. Don't add water or add 1 tsp.