A PINCH OF HING

Ingredients: 4-Bread Slices 2 tbsp-Custard Powder 3/4- cup-Milk 1/2 -cup-Sugar 1/2 tsp-cardamom powder 1 tbsp-Butter few drops-Vanilla Essence Preparations: Cut  bread slices of four corner in equal size and keep aside. Grease a baking tray with butter and set aside. Arrange cut side down the bread slice in the tray without leaving space. Combine the milk, butter and sugar in a vessel and heat until warm.  Add the custard powder in water,cardamom powder and vanilla  essence to it and combine well. Pour this over the bread slices. leave it for 4 to 5 minutes. Bake it in a preheated oven for 30 to 45 minutes or until it crisp on top. Serve cool or warm it depend upon taste.

Ingredients: 1/2 cup-boiled dry white peas 1/2 cup-boiled potato cubes 1 cup-yogurt 1 cup-rice 1 tsp garam masala powder 1/2 tsp turmeric powder 1/2 tsp cardamom powder salt to taste Preparation: Wash and drain rice.In a pressure cooker add yogurt, rice ,spices,peas,potatoes and salt stir well close the lid and keep it for 5 min.to rest.After 5 min.remove the lid stir it well with 2 cups  of water.and cook on low flame till 1 whistle. Switch off the flame leave it for cool on room temperature. Open and serve with salad,chutney,curry,pickles or any type of side dish.    

Husband having diabetes that doesn't mean to force him to give up desserts.  Using sugar substitute give him flavorful desserts. Try these Rasogolla with full of flavor,smooth and absolutely delicious. Ingredients: 2 Lt   full cream milk 1 tbsp  lemon juice 1 tbs milk 4 cups sugarfree  1 tbs  cardamom pdr Water Preparations: Boil milk on high flame when milk start boilling; Mix lemon juice, stir now the milk start curdling. Line a colander with muslin cloth. Once, all the milk curdling, switch off the flame. Pass it through the muslin cloth lined colander. Now fresh cheese is ready for making rasogolla. Wash the cheese 2 to 3 times with  normal water. This will strain all the whey from cheese (the lemony flavor from cheese) and will also help in making soft cheese. Hold the cloth tight and squeeze out the extra water. Now fold the muslin cloth with cheese inside keep  square shape an...

Ingredients: 1 Mango 2 glass liquid soda pinch of peppermint. Preparations: Take a bowl mash mango now add half of soda and  peppermint stir well pour in serving glasses.  Garnish with mango cubes .No need add sugar.  If you want you may add.

Ingredients: 500 gm- chicken 1/2 tsp-turmeric powder  1/2 tsp-garam powder 2 tbsp- curd 1/2 tsp -ginger garlic paste 1 pinch chopped mint leaves  salt to taste Oil for fry Preparations: Cut the chicken into small chunks.  Add all above ingredients to chicken except oil and mix well. keep in refrigerator for 2 hours.After 2 hours toss  until they are  coated on all sides. Heat oil in shallow pan add  marinated chicken.Cover and cook in low flame without steering the chicken for 5 min. After 5 min. remove the cover Sprinkle some water and then  flip them over a few times until the pieces are coated nicely with  all spices. Cook the chicken for several minutes on each  side until they are golden brown.sprinkle some more water if needed.  It should be cooked all the way through by the time they get  brown on the outside.  So cook in low flame only.Low ...

Ingredients: 10 -purple long brinjal 1 pinch-asafoitida 1/2 tsp -mustard and cumin seeds 1/2 tsp -fenugreek and fennel seeds 10 to 12-curry leaves 1/2 tsp -black pepper 1/2 tsp-sambar powder 1 tbsp - tamarind paste 1/2 tsp -turmeric powder 1/2 tsp-red chili powder for stuffing 1 tbsp - sambar powder and salt mix oil salt Preparations: Wash and slit the brinjals into four keeping the stem  portion in tact. In a separate small bowl add sambar  powder and salt mix well  take a little portions of this mix and stuff  in each brinjal and keep aside. In a cooker heat the oil . In low flame add asafoitida,mustard , cumin fenugreek,fennel,curry leaves and black pepper when it  starts spluttering,Then add the stuffed brinjals and gently  mix it with the oil. now add tamarind paste,chili powder,turmeric powder, and  sambar powder and take palm full of water sprinkle over the brinjal. Cov...