Spinach Potato Curry

Ingredients:

1 cup blanched spinach pure

1 cup chopped and fried potatoes

½ cup onion paste

1 tbsp garlic paste

2 tbsp green chili paste

Salt to taste

2 tbsp oil

Method:

Heat the oil in a pan add onion paste and sauté for 2 minutes add garlic paste, green chili paste and sauté for minute. Add spinach pure and mix it well and cook for 5 minutes on law flame. Add fried potatoes and salt, cook for 2 to 3 minutes on law flame. Serve hot with roti or paratha or rice..

Gulab jamun – How to make Gulab jamun from milk powder -janmashtami special recipes

Ingredients:

1 ½ cups milk powder

½  cup Maida (all purpose flour)

½  paneer

½ cup milk or as needed

3 cups sugar

2 cups water

¼ tsp cooking Soda

½ tsp cardamom powder

Saffron

2-3 drops rose water

Method:

Combine milk powder, maida, paneer and cooking soda, make a soft dough using milk. Make a small ball of this dough (they will become large while deep frying and larger when soak in syrup).

Meanwhile combine sugar and water in a non stick pan and simmer on a low heat until sugar dissolves. Add cardamom powder, saffron and rose water. Boil the syrup again until it is of ½ string consistency. Keep aside.

Heat the ghee  in a frying pan, fry the  balls till golden brown on low flame. Drain and soak in the sugar syrup for one hour.

Serve hot.

Eggless Chocolate Chips Cookies in cooker

Ingredients:

1 cup all purpose flour (maida)

½ cup ghee

½ powder sugar

 1 tsp baking powder

2 tbsp chocolate chips

1 tbsp butterscotch nuts

Method:

Spread 1 cup salt at the base of the cooker for maintains the temperature inside the cooker. Preheat pressure cooker for 10 minutes on high flame.

Combine all purpose flour, sugar and baking powder mix it well. Add melted ghee in the flour mixture and make soft dough. Take some amount of dough and roll it round shape, now flatten the ball by pressing it gently with your palm. Garnish with chocolate chips and butterscotch nuts. Grease the plate with ghee. Place cookies on a plate. Keep the cookies at some distance on plate.

Now place the plate inside the pre-heated pressure cooker over the separator plate and close with the cooker's lid. Do not place the regulator or whistle. Cook for 30 minutes on low flame, check after 20 minutes if it has got puffy and brown from surface that means it’s baked appropriately. If it still uncooked then bake it for 10 minutes more on low flame.  It takes 20-30 minutes for baking cookies. When it gets cool completely, store it in an airtight container.