NAMKEEN DALIA

 

Prep Time : 15 mins
Cooking Time : 15 mins
Serve : 2

INGREDIENTS
Dalia - 1 cup
Green peas - 1/2 cup
Chopped carrot - 2
Chopped tomato - 1
Chopped onion - 1
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste ko
Water - 3 cup
Clarified butter - 2 tbsp
Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp

METHOD
Soak dalia for half an hour
Heat clarified butter in a pressure cooker,add cumin seeds to crackle,add onion and saute for 2 - 3 mins,now add green peas and carrot and saute for 2 - 3 mins.
Add soaked dalia and salt and mix well,add three cup of water and cover the lid and pressure cook.
After one whistle simmer the flame and cook for ten mins.
Serve hot.

DALIA

 

Prep Time : 25 mins
Cooking Time : 15 mins
Serve : 2

INGREDIENTS
Broken wheat/dalia - 1 cup
Clarified butter - 2 tbsp
Water - 4 cup
Sugar - 2 tbsp
Milk - 3 cup

METHOD
Heat clarified butter in a pressure cooker and saute for five mins in medium flame add four cup of water and boil in a pressure cooker.
Heat milk in a pan and add boiled dalia and sugar and cook for ten mins in a medium flame.
Turn off the flame.

CHOLE BHATURE

 

Prep Time : 15 mins
Cooking Time : 30 mins 
Serve : 2

INGREDIENTS
For chole ko
Kabuli chana      -   1 cup
Tea bag    -  1
Water    -  2 cup
Red chilli powder   -  2 tsp
Turmeric powder   - 1 tsp
Coriander powder  - 1 tsp
Roasted cumin powder   -  1 tsp
Dried pomegranate seeds  - 1 tsp
Ginger garlic paste  - 1 tsp
Chopped onion   - 2
Slit green chillies   -  3 - 4
Baking soda   - 1 tsp
Salt  -   to taste
Oil    -  2 tbsp
Chopped coriander leaves   -   1 tbsp
 For Bhature
       Maida         -2 cup
     Sugar            -1 tsp
      Salt              - to tsate
 Curd           -      2 tbsp
   Oil           -     for frying

METHOD
For chole
Wash and soak chickpeas or kabuli chana for 4 - 5 hours and add 1 tbsp baking soda.
Pressure cook with tea bags and 2 cup of water for 10 mins.
Drain chickpeas and store the water.Roast anardana and make a powder.
Heat oil in a kadai ,fry the chopped onion till brown.
Add ginger garlic paste, coriander powder,red chilli powder,turemeric powder and slit green chilli and saute for 2 - 3 mins.
Now add salt and dried pomegranate powder and mix well.Add boiled chickpeas along with water and cooked simmer for 10 mins.
Garnish with roasted cumin powder and coriander leaves.
Serve chole with bhature.

For bhature
  Take a bowl mix , maida. sugar, salt and curd altogather
.Knead to make a dough
.Keep aside for 2-3 hours
.Make equal size balls
.Flatten the balls into thin round puri.
  Heat enough oil in a pan and add the bhature, lower the heat and fry till light brown.
 Fry both sides until light brown.
      Serve hot with chole

CARROT HALWA

 

Preparation time- 20 minutes
Cooking time- 1 hour
Serve - 10

INGREDIENTS
Chopped carrot     -  2.5 kg
Milk   -    1 kg
Sugar    -   500 gms
Mawa    - 250 gms
 ghee     -   1 cup
Cardamom powder    -   1 tsp
Almonds   -   2 tbsp
Chopped pistachio    -    2 tbsp


METHOD
Wash, peel and chop the carrots
. Pressure cook the chopped carrots and milk.
 When cooker release the whistle turn off the flame. Once cooled, open the lid.
Simmer the flame and stir continuously till it gets thick
. Add   ghee and sugar and mix well
. When the mixture (carrot and milk) gets dried, add mawa and saute for 4-5 minutes.
Add cardamom powder, raisins and cashew nuts and mix well
Garnish with almonds and  pistachio and serve hot.