“Chocolate Nan Khatai”

“Chocolate Nan Khatai-Cookies” Recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Sweets
Prep Time: 1 hour    | Cook time: 15-20 mins     | Serves: 2-3

Ingredients:

3/4 cup all-purpose flour

¼ cup wheat flour

¼ cup fine suji or semolina

½ cup cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 cup powder sugar

½ cup butter (at room temperature) or ghee

¼ teaspoon nut-mug powder

¼ teaspoon green cardamom powder

1 baking tray

1 butter paper

3 teaspoon chocolate syrup

                                          Step by step procedure:

Prepare chocolate Nan Khatai

Step-1 Take bowl and add butter and powder sugar. Mix it well for at-least 2 min, till cream ans fluffy stage.

Step-2 Now take maida, suji,wheat flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, nut-mug powder and cardamom powder in a Strainer, strain all into the bowl containing butter and powder sugar mix. Now make soft dough of it(don’t knead too much, just cut and fold it until done). Keep it in freeze for at least 1 hour.

Step-3 Now take out the bowl and knead it once again. Make equal size round balls using the dough.

Preheat microwave

Start your microwave, put low rack into it now press convection button. Set temperature at 180 degree. Now start preheat. It will beep when microwave is preheated.

Step-4 Put butter paper on baking tray. Now out one by one all the chocolate nan khatai’s on the tray. Place them with some distance.  

Step-5 When preheat is done then place the tray with chocolate nan khatai on it into the microwave and set time of 15-20 minutes. Do check in between.

Step-6 When done, take out chocolate nan khatai’s and place it on another wire rack so that it cool completely. When cooled completely, decorate it with chocolate syrup and then put all nan khatai’s into an air tight container.

Tips:

• Make sure that balls of nan khatai don’t have any cracks.
• Mix butter with sugar till cream and fluffy stage.
• Make soft dough, if required add little milk.
• Place nan khatai with some distance.

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“Spicy Besan Kadhi Recipe with Aloo tamatar Sabzi Recipe ”

“Spicy Besan  Kadhi” Recipe

Recipe Type: Lunch/Dinner  | Recipe Cuisine: North-Indian

Preparation Time: 10 min | Cooking time: 50 mins     | serves: 2-3

Ingredients:

  Oil for frying pakoda’s

Tadka for Kadhi Ingredients:

½ teaspoon fennel seeds

2 teaspoon oil or ghee

2 red chili

Pinch of rai seeds

Kadhi Gravy Ingredients:

1 cup besan

2 teaspoon oil or ghee

1 teaspoon  garlic green chili paste

1 Large teaspoon bhara mirch pickle masala

½ teaspoon turmeric powder

¼  teaspoon cumin seeds

1 teaspoon lemon juice or 1 mango khatai

2-3 seeds of methi dana

Salt as per your taste

Water as required

1/2 teaspoon red chili powder

 

                                   

Kadhi Pakoda Ingredients:

1 cup besan

1/2 teaspoon  garlic green chili paste

Pinch of  cumin seeds

Salt as per your taste

                                            

                                    Step by step procedure:

1- Prepare Kadhi Gravy

Step-1 Heat deep fry pan, add oil in it. When oil is hot then add cumin seeds and methi dana. Now both when done add green chili and garlic paste. Cook it for a second.

Step-2 Now add turmeric powder and bharua mirch masala into the pan. Mix it well and cook it for few seconds on low flame.

Step-3 Mix besan and red chili powder with water and make fine paste of it. Now add this paste into the pan slowly on low heat. With continuous stir cook it for a minute until it get boil. Add more water if needed. 

Step-4 When boiled, add salt and lemon juice or khatai into the kadhi.

Step-5 Finally add kadhi pakoda’s(recipe below) into the pan and switch high to flame for a second, now cover the pan with lid and switch off the flame.

Step-6 After 1 minute stir once so that kadhi pakoda’s get soaked well with kadhi gravy.

2- Prepare Kadhi Pakoda

Step-1  Add besan, salt, green chili and garlic paste, few cumin seeds.

Step-2 Add very less amount of water so that to get thick paste of pakoda’s. 

Step-3 Now work on paste i.e mix it continuously until paste become light and fluppy. Use electric blender or use your five fingers for mixing paste of pakoda's to get light and fluppy paste. To check it, take a bowl fill it with water. Now drop besan paste with finger into the bowl. If besan paste comes up that mean in oil too it will come up and now paste is done properly.

Step-4 Let the paste rest for at-least 5 minutes. 

Step-5 Heat deep fry pan, add oil for frying pakoda’s.

Step-6 When oil become very hot, keep flame at medium. Now using your five fingers drop one by one pakoda’s paste to make pakoda’s. Do same with all paste.

Step-7 When pakoda’s are done then take them out and pour them into hot water. Keep them in hot water for atleast 5 minutes.

Step-8 Take them out and remove excess water from pakoda’s. 

Step-9 Now add all pakoda’s into the gravy of kadhi made in step-5 of gravy recipe.

3- Prepare Kadhi Tadka

Heat tawa, add ghee or oil. When oil is hot then add 2 red chili, fennel seeds and rai seeds into the oil. Now stir well and cook for a second. Transfer  it immediately into the kadhi made in above steps. 

When done, serve hot with aloo tamatar sabzi(Recipe below)and plain rice(Recipe below).. I am sure that every one will love the taste of these combination…enjoy.

Tips: 

• Don’t add too much besan for making gravy.
• You will need atleast one bharua mirch for this recipe.
• Adding green chili paste is necessary for good taste.
• Make sure that pakoda paste is not runny consistency.
• Mix pakoda paste till light and fluppy. 

Prepare Aloo Tamatar Sabzi

Ingredients

2-3 Boiled potatoes(cut into pieces)
1 Onion(finely chopped)
1 teaspoon jira
1 green chili(chopped)
1 tomato (finely chopped)
Red chili(optional)
2 teaspoon oil
salt ad per your taste

Method:
Take deep fry pan, heat it,add oil. Now add cumin seeds,now add chopped onion and fry it.Now add chopped tomatoes and fry it.When cooked then add boiled potatoes pieces,salt,red chili powder and then mix it and let it cook for 2-3 mins with lid on the pan.When done,garnish it with coriander leaves.



Prepare Rice

Ingredients

1 cup Basmati rice or good quality rice
Water as needed

Method:
Soak rice in water for 15 mins. Now in a cooker add rice and water(as needed).Cover the lid of cooker and cook it until 1 weasel.Serve it hot. 

                   

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