“Danedar Besan Ke LADDU (with all possible Tips, Do’s & Don’ts)

“Danedar Besan Ke LADDU (with all possible Tips, Do’s & Don’ts)" Recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Sweet
Prep Time: 20 mins   | Cook time: 20 mins    | Serves:4-5

Ingredients  

                           

2 cup Besan or Bengal Gram flour

1 cup ghee (don’t use refine oil) 

2 cup powder sugar

1/2 teaspoon green cardamom powder

2 teaspoon mix dry fruits powder

1 teaspoon water

Kitchen Tools Required

1 deep fry pan

1 spatula

1 flat big size plate

1 mithai box or any container to keep laddu

            

           

               

                                     Step by step procedure:

Prepare Laddu mixture

Step-1 Heat deep kadhai, now keep the flame to medium-low, then add ghee(less than 1 cup~3 teaspoon less). Now add besan into the kadhai and mix everything very well. Make sure that there is no lumps in the besan. On low flame continuously stir upto atleast 20 mins.After 20 mins you will see oily besan mix. It means besan mix is about to cook properly.Also  yellow color of besan become lil brownish and nice aroma comes from besan.

Step-2 Now add lil water(totally optional step) to maintain nice texture of besan k laddu. Now give it a nice mix for 2 mins and then switch off the flame.

Step-3 Immediately transfer the mix into big flat plate and let it for rest till it goes from hot to warm stage. Don’t let it cool completely.

Step-4 Now add  Powdered sugar, dryfruit(Powdered or coarsely grind) and green cardamom powder. Now mix everything very well and add leftover ghee(not hot) into it. Finally mix again and check if it binds into the laddu. If needed add lil more ghee accordingly. Now using your hands make round shape besan ke laddus. Decorate them with few dry fruits pieces or anything you like. Keep all laddus in a air tight container. You can enjoy this laddu at-least for15-20 days.

Tips:

• Make sure to cook Laddu’s on low flame in the pan. If you will cook it on high flame then mixture will burn and will not cook properly.
• Don’t use refine for besan k laddu. Laddu will not taste good.
• For perfect besan k laddu you need a balance quantity of all the ingredients (as mentioned above).
• Don’t add powdered sugar at the beginning of cooking. Add it as mentioned. So that sugar will not get dissolved in the hot besan and you will get nice Danedare texture as you get in the market.
• Cook besan for atleast 20 mins.
• Don’t add more or less amount of ghee in the kadhai (to maintain danedar texture) while cooking.
• Adding water is optional step. If adding then make sure mixture is cooked properly.
• Make sure that mixture is warm (not cooled completely) while Making round shape laddu.

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“Paneer Chatpata”

“Paneer Chatpata” Recipe

Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Lunch/Dinner
Prep Time: 40 mins    | Cook time: 40 mins     | Serves: 2-3

Today I tried Something new with paneer, other than all the existing variety of paneer recipes..all they says to add onion..then..ginger garlic paste..then tomato paste along with dry masala powder.so old..no taste :-)
This is from one of the street food recipe, i enjoyed during my holiday time. I saw making him by very different way and then decided to try it at my home. After few trials..great success..taste is best

 Whenever you try..plz let me know

Ingredients:

250 gm fresh paneer (from market or homemade) Recipe below

2 onions (finely chopped)

1 teaspoon cumin seeds

1/2 teaspoon ginger garlic red chili paste

1/2 Cinnamon stick & 1 green cardamom (fine paste, use lil water)
 

1teaspoon butter

1 cup milk and cream (optional for paneer chatpata)
Salt as per your taste

Water as required

Ingredients to make boiled tomato masala:

1 green chili

2 onion

2 cups water

1/2 teaspoon vinegar

4 tomatoes

¼ teaspoon ginger paste

½ teaspoon garlic

Salt as required

1 teaspoon refine oil

Dry masala Ingredients:

1/4 teaspoon yellow food color

½ teaspoon red chili powder(optional)

½ teaspoon chaat masala powder

½ teaspoon turmeric powder

1 teaspoon garam masala powder

1 teaspoon coriander powder

                            

Kitchen utensils required:

• 2 non-stick pan

• 2 Spatula
• 15 bowls
• 1 Mixer-grinder
• 1 Chopper  

• 1 Water jug

                                              

                                   Step by step procedure:

To make paneer at home:

 Step-1 Take deep fry pan. Heat deep fry pan and add milk. Let it boil on high flame, when milk is boiled then switch the flame to low. Now add lemon juice into milk very slowly and stir it continuously until whey water fully separates. Here you will get curdle milk.

Step-2 Take muslin cloth or dupatta and pour curdle milk into it and wash it with cold water to get soft paneer for making paneer Recipes. Now hang it for 30 minutes so that excess water is removed.

Step-3 Now take out paneer in a bowl and keep it in a freeze for at least 1 hour so that it is completely set to cut into pieces.

 To make gravy

Step-1 Prepare boiled tomato puree.

Heat nonstick deep fry pan, add 2 cups of water. Now add all the boiled tomato masala ingredients listed above. Add refine when it is completely boiled. Now switch off the flame and let it cool down. Now make fine paste of it in a mixer grinder.  

Step-2 Heat a deep fry pan. Add butter, cumin seeds. Now add finely chopped onion and fry it.

Step-3 Add ginger garlic red chili paste in it and fry it for 1 minute.

Step-4 Use grinder to make fine watery paste(first grind them as dry then add water and grind again) of cinnamon stick and green cardamom. Transfer the paste into the pan, fry it for one min.

Step-5 Now add boiled tomato puree prepared in step-1. Add it according to quantity of gravy you want to prepare. May be 1 cup or 1 ½ cup. Now add all the dry masala powders listed above. Cover the pan with lid and cook it for 4-5 minutes at low flame until oil comes on top of masala’s.

Step-6 When masala is cooked well then at low flame add ¼ cup water into the pan and cook it on high flame for 2 mins. Now add milk and cream (optional, slowly with continuous stir, on low flame) and let it boil once. When it is cooked then add salt and let it cook for 2 minutes on medium flame.

Step-7 Add paneer and let it cook for 2 minutes on high flame. Finally at the end add ¼ teaspoon garam masala powder, red chili powder (optional).

When done, garnish it with coriander leave and grated paneer.

Enjoy it with paratha or naan or with pulav.

                               

Tips:

• Add very less amount of water for making thick gravy.
• Cook masala very well.
• Always add milk and cream on low flame and slowly with continuous stir otherwise milk will curdle.  

     

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“Mozzarella Cheese fingers”

“Mozzarella Cheese fingers” Recipe

At tea-time family members (specially kids) ask Moms to prepare any different tasty yummy snack.

Mozzarella cheese fingers is just perfect, rich, easy snack...it’s an all time favorite snack for party too....Rich, crispy from outside and gooey from inside...All you need is to keep few things in mind before making these cheesy sticks and then add this snack in the list of your kitchen recipes :-)

 

Recipe Cuisine: Italian | Recipe Category: Snacks
Prep Time: 2 hours   | Cook time: 10 mins    | Serves: 2-3

 



Ingredients 

                            

Oil or ghee to deep fry 

Cheese fingers Ingredients

1 block mozzarella cheese (at room temperature)

½ cup all-purpose flour (maida)

1 cup Italian bread crumbs (recipe below)

2 eggs (at room temperature)

½ teaspoon milk (at room temperature)

                          

                                           

                                        Step by step procedure:

Prepare Cheese fingers (cheese sticks)

Step-1 Take mozzarella cheese block and cut it into equal size sticks (approx 8 sticks)

Step-2 Take bowl, whisk egg very well. Now add milk and mix it well. 

Step-3 Prepare Italian bread crumbs (recipe below) and transfer it in a bowl.

Step-4 Take all purpose flour in a plate.

Step-5 First take all the cheese sticks and coat every stick very well with all purpose flour. 

Step-6 Now dip all those cheese stick into the egg mix and then takeout all stick, keep all on the plate.

Step-7 Now take each stick one by one and coat them well with Italian bread crumbs.

Step-8 Repeat again the same process of step-6, step-7 for nice crispy coating.

Step-9 Keep all coated sticks on plate and then put them in a freeze for at-least 2 hours.

Step-10 Heat deep fry pan, add oil to deep fry. When oil is hot (not smoky) then put the heat on low and drop few (not all) cheesy sticks into oil. When done to golden color then take them out and similarly prepare rest of cheese fingers.

 When done, enjoy it with Marinara Sauce, tomato sauce etc.

Tips:

• Make sure not to fry cheese sticks on very high flame bcz cheese will not cook from inside.

Italian Bread crumbs recipe

Ingredients

3-4 white bread slices

1 teaspoon Italian seasoning

1 teaspoon ginger powder

1/4 teaspoon black pepper powder (optional)

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon onion powder

Method

Take mixer grinder jar and put all the ingredients listed above. Grind it for few seconds. Now transfer them into a bowl. An Italian Bread crumb is ready to use.

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