Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Cabbage&Peanut Salad

Ingredients
2 cups shredded cabbage
1 chopped tomato
1 green chili
1 tbsp cilantro
a dash of lime
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup ground peanuts

Method
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl well.
Chill for an hour, serve with rotis.

Palak Burji

1 bunch spinach, chopped
2 tbs oil
4 tbs garlic paste
2 tsp ginger paste
3 chopped tomatoes
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp coriander powder
3 tbsp butter
2 chopped onions
2 tsp red chilli powder
crushed paneer
4-5 green chillies
chopped coriander leaves

Heat oil in a pan. Add some garlic paste, chopped spinach and salt. Cook for some time till spinach starts losing water and is cooked.
Heat oil in a pan and add garlic paste , ginger paste and saute.
Add tomatoes, cumin powder and coriander powder. Cook for some more time till tomatoes are done.
Take butter in a pan. Add chopped onion and saute.
Add spinach and tomato paste.
Add salt, red chili powder.
Add paneer - spread it all over. Also add green chillies and coriander leaves. Cooking for some time.
Serve hot with rice or rotis.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Mango Mousse

2 big mangos(pulp removed)
1/4 cup castor sugar
150 gm cream
half a sachet of gelatine
2 egg whites
2tbsp cold water
1tbsp icng sugar
1 cup mango slices

Add castor sugar to the mango pulp and mix well.
Spinkle gelatine in cold water.
Dissolve gelatine by keeping the bowl in another bigger bowl of hot water.
Once disolved, mix well with the pulp.
Beat cream with icing sugar till it becomes soft and fluffy.
Now add the cream to the mango pulp and mix well.
Beat the egg whites well untill stiff.
Add the egg white to the mango mixture and mix well.
Pour into bowls and chill for 3 hours.
Decorate with mango slices and serve.