Nankhatai Cookies

Ingredients:

Butter - 1/2 cup / 4 OZ ( kept under room temp)
All purpose Flour - 1 cup
Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
almonds ( sliced) - few

Method :

1. Take a bowl and beat the butter along with sugar until it is creamy enough
2. Now in a separate bowl, add all -purpose flour , baking powder, salt mix it well & keep aside
3. Now in the butter mixture, add portions of the flour mixture(not all at a time) and mix it well into a soft dough
4. Rest it for about 10 min
5. Now make the dough into equal portions shape it in desired way, decorate with almonds
6. Preheat the oven up to 300C for 15 min
7. Now place the cookie tray in the oven and let it cook for about 20-25 min .
8. Switch off the oven and rest them for 5 min .
9. Now remove from oven and let the cookies cool down to room temperature.

A very delicious cookie recipe which can be stored for long time ..

Burnt garlic chilli fried rice

This is one of my fav recipes from Indo-Chinese restaurant at my place ,I love to it eat all the time.

Ingredients :

Sonamasoori rice : 2 cups

Water : 4 cups

Carrot : finely sliced

Capsicum : finely sliced

Spring Onions : a bunch sliced

Garlic pods : 4 very finely chopped

Olive oil (preferably) : 3 tsp

Soy Sauce : 4 tsp

Vinegar : 4 tsp

Dry red chilli flakes : 2 tsp

Salt : to the taste

Preparation :

1. Cook the rice and keep aside

2. Heat olive oil in a pan and fry garlic slices until they turn dark brown / burn a little

3. Add the vegetables chopped and saute for 5 min

4. Now add Soy sauce,vinegar,salt,chilli flakes and mix well

5. Now add the rice and fry it for 10 to 15 min

A very tasty Chinese recipe

Butter Corn

Ingredients :

American sweet corn (frozen) : 4 cups

Butter : 50g

Lime juice : 1 tsp

Black pepper powder : 1/2 tsp

Salt : to the taste

Corrinader : chopped , 1tsp

Preparation:

1. In a pressure cooker boil the corn upto 2 whistles / can just boil in a vessel with hot water

2. Drain the water completely and keep aside

3. Heat a pan and drop butter ,corn, corriander,salt,pepper powder and saute for 5 to 10 min

4.Remove from flame and add lime juice to it and serve hot

healthy and real tastey snack

Green gram Bullets

Hi friends,and all the followers of my blog......here am back after quite a long break and the reason for that is..Iam blessed with a baby boy.. named him Avyay Aaditya....who is keeping me busy all the day :) but am trying to start the blog again with some really delicious recipies.l...so shall we start !!!!

Ingredients :

Green gram ( whole moong daal) - 250 g , soak overnight

Rice flour - 4 tsp

Asafoetida ( Hing) - 1/2 tsp

Green chillis - 4 , finely chopped

Ginger - 1 inch finely chopped

Salt - to the taste

Oil - for deep fry

preparation :

1. Grind the soaked green gram daal coarsely without adding water.

2.Add rice flour,chopped ginger,asafoetida,chopped chillis,salt

3.Make the bullets as shown ,if the consistency is not proper to get the shape,can add some rice flour again.

4. Deep fry the bullets with simmer flame until they turn brown

serve with tomato ketchup / green chutney