Sabudana Kheer

Ingredients

1. 1 cup of Sabudana / Pearl Tapioca

2. Sugar to taste

3. 1½ cup of fat free milk or half n half (cream)

4. ½ tsp of Cardamom Powder.

5. 2 tsp of Milk powder

6. 1 teaspoon of Vanilla essence.

Directions

1. Soak Sabudana in warm water for 1-2 hrs.

2. Heat Milk in non stick pan on medium heat and keep stirring in 3 minutes intervals.

3. When Milk is up to boil add cardamom seeds and add sugar.

4. Heat for 5 minutes and add Sabudana.

5. Turn heat to low heat and keep cooking till the mixture turned thick and turned to very light pinkish brown.

6. When it is cooked cools it down for 30 minutes and serves hot or cold after that.

-Chitra

Shahi Paneer

This rceipe is dedicated my mom in law. She handed over this family recipe to me. I hope i am justfying this. It is yummy you must try this. Your family will ask for more so make sure you make plenty to serve all hungry audiences :)

Ingredients

· 2 finely chopped Onion
· 1 tsp. minced ginger
· 1 Diced Tomato can
· 3 half hut green chilies
· Salt to taste
· 1 tsp. red chili powder
· 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
· 250 gm. Indian cottage cheese / Paneer
· 1/2 cup Half n Half


Directions

· Cut cottage cheese/ paneer in 1 inch cubes and keep it aside.
· Now take a non stick pan and add onion and ginger to it.
· While onions are cooking puree you diced tomatoes in the chopper.
· When onions turn golden brown add tomato puree.
· Now cook the mixture till 5 minutes.
· Add Salt, Red chili powder and Turmeric and green chilies.
· Add half n half and ½ cup water let it simmer for 5-8 minutes.
· After cooking whole mixture/masala now add Paneer to this and let it simmer for 5 more
minutes.
· Garnish with green chilies.
· Serve not with Naan/Chapatti or Parantha.


-Chitra

Ras Malai

A very easy homemade Indian Dessert with a fancy name. A special dish for all Sweet tooth people. If you make with zero calorie sugar and Skimmed Milk then it will be low calorie dessert:).Everyone is so fascinated with this name and they think it’s too difficult to make but with this recipe you can make and serve in just a very less time with very few ingredients.

Ingredients

· One liter Milk (low fat/Skim Milk)
· Cardamom/Eliachi seeds powder
· 1 ½ cup Sugar (Zero Calorie)
· A few saffron strands (10) soaked in 1 cup of water.
· ½ cup almonds grated
· 2 tsp. condensed milk (low fat)
· One big whole lemon or 4 tsp. of fresh lemon liquid

For Garnishing
· ¼ cup sliced Almonds/badaam
· few drops of Kewra liquid


Directions

1) Pour the milk in a pan and keep it in medium low.
2) Add sugar, cardamom powder, grated almonds mixture.
3) When milk is ready to boil add saffron water along with saffron strands.
4) Boil the milk and separate it in two portions.
5) Separate 1/4 cup milk from the pan and heat separately in low flame.
6) Add condensed milk till the milk thickens.
7) Cool down the milk and refrigerate it.
8) To the rest of the milk (3/4 portion), add lemon. After milk is all curdled up and is all separated from water, sieve the cheese and take out in an oven tray.
9) Place the cheese in the oven for 15 minutes 350 degrees or less depends on oven to oven (cheese should not change brown color).
10) Take out the cheese and rest it for 10 mins till it cools down, then cut the cheese in circles with help of cookie cutter or any round shape cutter.
11) Put 1-2 drops of Kewra liquid on each and every cheese balls and refrigerate them for an hour.

Serve in Individual Bowls with thickened milk and garnish with few saffron strands and chopped almonds.

- Chitra