Friday 18 January 2019

Oats green cheela

Oats is very healthy and versatile grain. Here I will share with you all recipe of oats cheela or pancake with twist of whole green moong. Adding green moong enhances its taste and nurtritional value too.

Ingredients:-

• 1 cup Oats
• 1/2 cup soaked whole green moong
• 2 Garlic cloves
• 10-12 Curry leaves
• 1/4 cup Coriender leaves
• 1” Ginger
• 3 Green chilies
• 1 tsp Cumin seeds
• 1/2 Lemon juice
• Salt as per taste
• 1 cup water
• Ghee

Method:-
Step 1
To prepare batter, in mixer jar add garlic, ginger, curry leaves, coriander leaves, green chillies, cummin seeds, soaked green moong, lemon juice, oats and salt. After that add 1 cup
water to make smooth batter by grinding it.

Step 2
Put non stick tava on medium flame, greese itwith ghee and spread the batter evenly in acircular form to make chella.

Step 3
Allow it to cook untill it edges start leaving tavasurface. Put 2-3 drops of ghee and flip it to cook
other side.

Its ready to serve. Enjoy hot and spicy green oats cheela with green chutney or curd.

Monday 7 January 2019

Gajjar halwa and custard shots

Gajjar halwa is an India dessert. It is very nutritious and delicious too. Today i will share its recipe with a twist of custard. I had prepared halwa in microwave which is very easy and convenient. 

Ingredients
  • 2 cups gajjar (carrot) shredded
  • 1 cup milk powder 
  • 1 tbsp ghee
  • 1/2 cup sugar and 1 1/2 tbsp 
  • 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
  • 1 tbsp each cashew nuts, raisins and  chopped almonds (dry fruits)
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 tbsp custard powder
Method
Step 1:-


Take a microwaveable glass bowl. Add 1 tbsp of ghee add above mentioned dry fruits to microwave it for 1 mins.
Step 2:-


After then remove all the dry fruits from the melted ghee and keep a side. Then add carrot to ghee and microwave it for 5 mins.
Step 3:-


Add 1 cup of milk powder, 1/2 cup of sugar and mix  well to microwave it for 10-15 mins. After 5 mins check it and mix well.
Step 4:-


Microwave it until the mixture becomes sticky and it will start leaving glass bowl surface. In the end add cardamon powder as well as fried dry fruits. Gajjar halwa or carrot halwa is ready.
Step 5:-
For custard take 1 cup of milk and dissolve 2 tbs custard powder in it. Then add 1 1/2 tbsp of sugar and on slow flame allow it to boil. It is very important to stir the mixture continuously to avoid lumps so will get thick and smooth custard. Maximum cooking time is 5 min.  and lastly allow it to cool.

Step 6:-

To assemble take shot glasses. There will be 1 layer of custard  sandwich between 2 layers of gajjar halwa. First for bottom layer arrange halwa and refrigerate it for 20 mins. Then for middle layer add custard and again refrigerate it for 20 mins. Lastly for top layer add halwa and garnish it with  almond.

Enjoy this yummy dessert with your dear and near ones.