Green Peas Biryani: In simple 3 steps

Green Peas Biriyani

 

"A lunch box special, loved by all! Easy and very very yummiest dish! Goes well with onion raita!

Ingredients:

1. Fresh grean peas or frozen peas: 150 gms

2. Basmati rice: 1 cup, soaked for 20 mins

3. Onions: 2 sliced

4. Tomato: 2 sliced

5. Ginger garlic paste: 1.5 tspn

6. Biryani Masala: 3 heaped tspn

7. Kashmiri red chilli powder: 2 tspn

8. Curd: 1 small cup

9. Salt: To taste

10. Ghee-oil: 3 tbspn

11. Mint and coriander: to garnish

To temper:

Bayleaf, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, star anise, jeera, fennel seeds.

Method:

Step 1

Heat a cooker, add oil and ghee, once heated, add the tempering items. Fry for a minute.

Add sliced onion and saute till transparent, then add tomatoes amd saute until oil leaves the sides of the cooker.

Step 2

In the curd bowl, add ginger garlic paste, biryani masala, kasmiri red chilli powder and mix them well and add it to the onion tomato curry. Mix them well and add the soaked basmati rice after draining the water from it completely. Add 1:1, Rice: water ratio. Add required salt, mix well and place the weight.

Step 3

Simmer the stove and cook the biryani for 15 to 18 mins in extreme low flame. Once done, switch off and wait for the pressure to release. Garnish it with mint and coriander. 

Easiest and tastiest peas biryani is ready!!

Diwali special: Savoury: Ribbon Pakoda / Nada

RIBBON PAKODA / NADA

INGREDIENTS: 

(Just notice the ratio, take measurements in your available cup as per this ratio)

1. Gram flour/ Besan flour: 3 cups

2. Rice flour/ pachai arisi(ask for mavu arisiin shop): 1 cup

3. Butter: 3 tbspns

4. Salt and red chillies: as per ur taste

5. Hing/ Asafoetida/ Perungayam: 1.5 to 2 tspn

6. Oil: To fry

METHOD:

1. To Grind in mixie:

 Add required salt, red chillies(I used 4 redchilles) and hing to a mixie jar. Add some water and make it as a smooth paste and keep it ready.

2. Heat oil in a pan in medium heat for frying.

3. In a bowl, add gram flour, butter and rice flour and crumble well. Add the grounded paste to the flour. Add some water and a tspn of hot oil and make it like a soft chappathi dough. Not a very tight one.

4. Place ribbon pakoda shape plate/achu in the press, and squeeze it in hot oil like long strips or spiral style like murukku.

5. Turn both sides until it gets cooked. Tip: The bubbles and the bubbling noise will gradually reduce. This is the perfect stage.

Ribbon Pakkoda is ready!

Enjoy with your beloveds!!

Diwali Sweet Special: Instant Choco Balls / Choco Laddu : Fireless Cooking / In just 2 steps

INSTANT CHOCO BALLS

Blend of cadbury powder and milk powder, gel with condensed milk!

Ingredients: (3:1:1 ratio, you can use spoon level or cup level)

1. Milkpowder : 3 cups

2. Cadbury cocoa powder: 1 cup

3. Condensed milk: 1 cup

METHOD

STEP 1

Take a bowl, add all the ingredients one by one. Mix well with a spatula. Mixing it will form a coarse dough.

STEP 2

Take small portions from the dough and roll it in your palm to make small ball like structure and sprinkle some sugar crystals as a garnish! 

Instant choco balls are ready to eat!!

Make it fresh and consume it fresh! Dont store it! Kids will enjoy it!!

Diwali Special: Badam cake or Almond cake : In 3 simple steps

BADAM CAKE

INGREDIENTS:

1. Badam / Almonds: 1 cup

2. Sugar: 1&1/2 cup or 2 cups

3. Milk powder: 4 heaped tspns

4. Butter or ghee: To grease plate.

METHOD:

Step. 1

Soak almonds in hot water for  30 mins, peel off the skin and make it towel dry under a fan for 10-15 mins. Once dried, take them into a blender , add 4 heaped tspns of milk powder and grind all together to a fine powder and keep it ready.


Step. 2

Take a heavy bottomed pan or a non stick pan, add sugar and 1 cup water to make it as a sugar syrup. Attain 1 string consistency. Now add the grounded badam+milkpowder mix to sugar syrup and start stirring continuously. Make sure no lumps are formed. Stir continuously till it becomes POROUS. Once it reaches the POROUS consistency, transfer it to the ghee or butter greased plate.

Step. 3

After 10 mins, put pieces and serve!!

Badam cake is ready.... Enjoy with your family. Wish you all a happy and safe diwali!!!

Diwali Special Sweet: Cadbury Cake

CADBURY CHOCO CAKE

A perfect blend of calcium rich milk powder and cadbury cocoa powder!!!!!!!!

INGREDIENTS:

1. Milk Powder: 250 gms

2. Cadbury Cocoa powder: 4 tspns [you can use other brand cocoa powder if cadbury isn't available]

3. Sugar: 500 gms

4. Butter: 250 gms

METHOD:

1. Add milk powder and cocoa powder in a bowl and mix them thoroughly and keep it ready. In a wide plate, grease only butter or ghee and keep it ready

2. Heat a heavy bottomed pan or a non stick pan, add sugar and add 1 cup of water [the cup in which you measured milk powder and sugar].

3. Melt sugar to make a sugar syrup. Once the syrup comes to boil, add the butter.

4. As soon as the butter melts and mixes with syrup, it will boil with froth. Simmer the stove.

5. Add the mixed powder [milk powder and cocoa powder] to the pan.

6. Slowly stir them without forming any lumps. Once it is lumps free, increase the flame to slow to medium and stir the contents continuously.

7. Once the concoction becomes POROUS, pour into the greased plate and let it set.

8. After 10-15 mins, put pieces using a knife and serve!

             

Cadbury Cake is all yours!!! Happy Diwali Friends!!