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I promise to post the recipe soon............ I am so tired... today...........

Mango Mousse

Ingredients:

Mango puree: 2-½ cup
Icing sugar: 4 tbsp
Heavy whipping cream: 1 cup
Gelatin: 3tsp

Method:

Add 2 tsp of water and dissolve the gelatin, microwave for 30 seconds or until it dissolve.
In a blender jar, add the mango puree, sugar, gelatin and run for 1 min.
Add the whipping cream and blend together just few seconds.
Pour into small ramekin or custard cup;
Chill the cups for at least 4 hours

Rasmalai

Ingredients

Ricotta cheese: 1 qt
Sugar : ½ qty of ricotta

Method:
Mix and bake at 375 for 40 to 45 min.
close with foil while baking.
Let it cool once done.
Mix remaining sugar with half and half milk and pour it on cubes.

Kulfi

INGREDIENTS (20servings)

 Evaporated milk: 12 oz
 Sweetened condensed milk : 14 oz
Heavy whipping cream : 16 oz
Cool whip whipped topping: 16 oz
4 slices of white bread, torn into pieces (optional)
Ground cardamom : 1/2 tsp
Sugar : 1 tsp
Coarsely grounded nuts  : 1 tbsp (optional)

DIRECTIONS

1. Combine sugar, evaporated milk, condensed milk, heavy whipping cream and whipped topping in a big bowl.  Using electric hand blender or by hand gently mix all the ingredients together.Blend in pieces of bread .
2. Add in elachi powder and nuts. Mix well.
3. Pour into baking dish or plastic ice cube trays or into dixie style plastic cups.
4. Freeze for 8 hours or overnight.

Vegetable Juice

Ingredients:
Carrot – ½ cup
Beera kaayalu – ½ cup
Snake Gourd -1/2 cup
Lauki – ½ cup
Cucumber - ½ cup
Tomato – ½ cup
Dates - ½ cup
Beet root -½ cup
Small Lime – ½ in size
Honey – to taste
Mint – 4 twigs
Cilantro – ¼ cup

This recipe has been adopted from Dr.Manthena Satyanarayana garu.

Method:

Cut all the veggies and greens into small pieces.
Blend all items until smooth
Add little water if needed.

Veg Dragon

Note : I got this recipe from some blog.. I do not have the name but was in my notes.

Ingredients:
Carrot: Medium size 2
Beans – 100g
Cabbage – 100g
Maida – 2 tsp
Corn flour – 2 tsp
Chinese Salt – ¼ tsp
Tomato sauce- 1 tbsp
Onion – ½ medium size
Garlic – 2 cloves very finely cut
Ginger – ¼ inch grated
Green onion – 2 for garnishing
Oil – for deep fry
Salt – to taste
Cashews- 2tsp (Optional)
Peanuts- 2 tsp (Optional)
Chilli powder – 1 spoon
Cilantro - For garnishing

Method:

Cut carrot, beans, cabbage into ½ inch size
Boil them in water until it is half cooked with a pinch of salt added to the water
Remove veggies from boiling water and drain the water completely.
Add corn flour and Maida to veggies while it is hot.
Deep fry them in oil (I like to shallow fry this with little more oil as I am very health conscious).
Pat the veggies on paper towel to remove excess oil.
Fry cashews and peanuts in the same oil. Remove them from oil.
In another pan, heat 1 tbsp of oil.
Add onion, finely cut garlic and grated ginger and fry them until raw smell goes
Add tomato sauce, salt, chilli powder. Fry them for a min.
Add veggies and nuts. Mix them thoroughly.
Garnish it with green onion and coriander leaves.
Squeeze lemon juice on veg dragon to add more taste

Chicken Dum Biryani

Ingredients:

For marination:

Chicken : 2 lb cut into medium sizes
yogurt: 2 tbsp
salt: according to your taste
turmeric: 1/2 tsp
chili powder: 1 tsp
coriander powder: 1 tsp
ginger, garlic paste: 1 tsp
garam masala: 1/2 tsp
mint: 1 hand full finely chopped
cilantro: 1 hand full finely chopped
fried onion: 1 whole
oil: 1 tbsp

Method:
Squeeze the water completely from chicken and marinate with rest of the ingredients for at least 4 hrs. I like to marinate overnight for better taste. If using drum sticks, make a slit in the chicken pieces for marination. Use thick yogurt so that marination sticks to the chicken properly.


For fried onions:
Cut the onion length wise, deep fry it until it turns brown in colour. Save half of the quantity for rice.

For rice:

Rice: 4 cups
Onion: 1
Tomato: 1
Chillies: 8 in number
Garam masala: 1/2 tsp
salt: according to taste
ginger, garlic paste: 1 tsp

Method:
In 1 tbsp oil, add green chillies. Then add onion & tomato. Saute it until raw smell goes. Add rest of the items and fry it for few mins.
Mean while wash the rice and leave the rice aside. Add 1:1 (rice:water) to make the rice half cooked.
Mix the fried items to the rice and start cooking the rice. Make sure rice gets only half cooked.

For Dum:
Grease the pan generously with oil/butter/ghee.
Arrange marinated raw chicken first, then half cooked rice, then fried onions. Repeat these layers.. Add finely chopped mint & coriander on top.
Close the pan tightly with aluminium foil.
Pre heat oven at 350 f and dun the biryani for 35 min.

You can mix pinch of saffron color in the milk and sprinkle it at the top of rice before putting it in the oven. This adds beautiful color to the biryani once it is done..

Super moist home made Apple cake

Ingredients:

All purpose flour/maida : 3 cups
eggs : 3
sugar : 1.5 cups (alter according to your taste)
vegetable oil: 1.5 cups
baking powder: 1/2 tsp
baking soda: 1/2 tsp
vanilla extract: 1 tsp
milk : 1 tbsp
salt: a pinch
apples (peeled & cut into small pieces): 2 (I used Gala apples)
nuts(optional): 1 cup


Method:

• Beat milk, eggs, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, salt, oil and vanilla extract together.
• Then add flour slowly while beating the other ingredients and avoiding lumps.
• Once the cake mix is smooth, then fold in apple pieces and nuts into the cake mixture.
• Grease baking pan generously with oil/butter/ghee and pour the cake mixture.
• Preheat the oven to 350 F and bake for 40 - 45 min.
• Insert a took pick into the cake and if it comes our clean, your cake is ready to eat. yumm.............

***** I am not a big fan of nuts, so I always bake the cake without nuts. You can add grated carrot instead of apples and add a pinch of cinnamon if you need a flavour ******

Mango Lassi

Ingredients:
Mango pulp (1 can)
Milk: 500 ml
yogurt: 2 tbsp
sugar (optional) : 3 tbsp

Method:
Blend all the ingredients together and serve chilled.

Milk & yogurt can be altered according to your taste... If you need your lassi thin in consistency, then add more milk..