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Thursday, March 6, 2008

Gajar Ka Halwa

Ingredients and Content

  • Grated carrot-1 kg
  • Mawa - 200 grams
  • Milk- 1 liter
  • Sugar-2 cups
  • Ghee-2 tbsp
  • Dry fruits(sliced)- 1/2 cups
  • Cardamom powder-1/2 tps

Method

Put milk and grated carrots in a heavy base pan and bring it to boil. Cook over medium heat until all the milk gets dried up. You should stir the mixture occasionally to prevent any sticking. Add sugar, cardamom powder, 1/4 cup dry fruits and continuously stir for 5-7 minutes. Add ghee and mawa. Stir well and fry on low heat until ghee starts separating. Decorate with remaining dry fruits and serve hot. (Optional- decorate with silver leaf). Add lemon juice and paneer pieces. Mix well so that all the paneer pieces gets properly coated with sugar. Allow it to cool.

Mutter Paneer Cream

Ingredients and Content

  • Paneer-1 packet
  • Cream-½ cup
  • Broken cashews- Handful
  • Mutter--2 cups
  • Cumin seed-1 tbsp
  • Oil-3 tbsp
  • Tomato paste-2 tbsp
  • Onions-2
  • Ginger paste-1 tbsp
  • Garlic paste-1 tsp
  • Masala powder-1 tbsp
  • Elaichis--3
  • Red chili powder--1tbsp
  • Chopped coriander
  • khus-khus

Method

Grind the ingredients the mixture of onions, ginger paste, garlick paste, red chili powder Khus-khus cream in a food processor. In a frying pan, add 3 tbsp of oil and add some cumin. Then add the paste from the food processor. Cook for about 9 minutes till all the water evaporates now add the peas, cover and cook for 5 minutes. Add cream to the frying pan and cook for 15 minutes. Now add the paneer, cashews and salt as per taste in to it. Mix well and heat up. Decorate it with coriander leaves and serve it.