A PINCH OF HING

  Ingredients.... .¼ cup golden raisins ¼ cup black raisins (seedless) ¼ cup cashews ¼ cup chopped candied orange peels or candied citrus peels 8 dried apricots 8 to 9 dates – small to medium-sized ¼ cup tutti frutti – optional 2 tablespoons dried cherries or glazed cherries 1 cup rum or 1 cup fresh orange juice or apple juice 1.5 cups all-purpose flour – 187 grams 1 cup whole wheat flour – 120 grams 1.5 cups demerara sugar – 250 grams – can also add instead 250 grams brown sugar or 250 grams white sugar or 250 grams powdered sugar/confectioner’s sugar 1 cup oil or melted butter, use any neutral flavored oil 1 cup soy milk or any nut milk or dairy milk 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar or regular white vinegar 1 teaspoon baking soda ½ teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or ½ teaspoon vanilla essence stir nicely. Preparations... Start by chopping all the nuts and dried fruits. Put them in a bo...

  Dry Ingredients:     3/4 cup whole wheat flour     3/4 cup oat flour (ground oats)     1/2 cup  white flour     1/3 cup shredded coconut     1 tsp baking powder     1 tsp baking soda     1 tsp cinnamon     1/2 tsp salt     1 cup cooked quinoa Wet Ingredients:     1 cup shredded carrots     1/2 cup whole milk yogurt (thick)     2 eggs, beaten     1/4 tbsp unsweetened apple paste(ground the green apples)     2 T coconut oil     1 tsp vanilla Preparations: 1. Preheat oven to 350 2. Cook quinoa (about 12 min.) 3. Combine dry ingredients, excluding quinoa 4. Whisk together wet ingredients 5. Fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients and stir unti...

  Navratna pulao is a non-spicy but fragrant and exquisite recipe for pulao. Whole spices are there, like green cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and bay leaves, which impart flavor rather than heat. There is no spicy chili, peppers and ginger or garlic, used in this recipe.  In fact, its flavor profile is somewhat on sweeter side, because of the use of nuts, raisins, cherries and saffron milk. And that's exactly how it should be, soft, rich, flavourful and mild taste. Ingredients.... 1 cup – Basmati rice 1 Cup Paneer cubes Potato Onion Carrot  French beans Peas Cauliflower florets Corn  6 Green chilly chopped Nuts... 10 no. Cashew nuts 10 no. Raisins 10 no Cherries 10 no Sultana  Spices... 1 tsp Sahi jeera 1 Star anise 1 Javitri 4 Cloves 4 Cardamom  2 Bay leaf Desi ghee Water as required Salt to taste Rich products.... 2 tbsp few Kesar strings soaked in milk. 2 Cup thick milk Preparations..... Cut all vegetables into cubes. Fry paneer and keep aside. Soak rice fo...

  Ingredients.... 500 gm Jackfruit cubes  1 Onions sliced  2 chopped Green chilies 1 tsp GG paste  1 tsp Red chili powder ¼ tsp Turmeric powder ½ tsp Dhaniya powder 1 tsp Curry powder  ½ tsp Garam masala powder 4 tblsp Mustard oil  Salt to taste  Preparations..... Grease you hands and knife with generous quantity of oil. Skin the jackfruit and cut into cubes or your choice of pieces. In a vok add Jackfruit cubes, salt and enough water boil until done. Remove in a colander.  Heat oil in a kadhai add onion fry till brown, then add gg paste fry for a while now add all spices along with little water and salt stir well. Add boiled Jackfruit stir well, now start to fry and stir process until  the spices release their smell. Cook on medium flame, sprinkle water whenever you need but this dish should be thick without gravy. "Kossa" means typically consists of a base of all spices along with onion, garlic ginger being fried together to form a thick co...

  Ingredients...... 1 Potato 1 Brinjal  1 Drumstick ½ of Plantain 1 Tomato  Cut all vegetables into 4 equal length wise. For paste.... 2 Dry red chillies 1 tbsp Mustard seeds ½ tbsp Cumin seeds 5/6 Garlic cloves Grind into a fine paste. For seasonings.. 1 Onion sliced ½ tsp Funnel seeds ½ Cumin seeds  1 Dry chilli into half Few curry leaves ½ tsp Sugar Dry spices... Turmeric powder Chilli powder Salt Oil Preparations..... Heat oil in a kadhai add sugar and  all seasonings, when crackles add the onions fry until light brown. Add Rai paste, turmeric powder, chilli powder saute for a while and then add water accordingly veggies,when it's boiling point add all vegetables and salt cook until thick and with little gravy.