Tasty pasta salad

Serves 1
1 cup of cooked pasta
1 carrot diced
1 tomato diced
1/4 onion diced
Handful of lettuce
2 leaves of cabbage cut into thin strips
1/2 tsp of white pepper
2 Tbsp of vinegar
2 Tbsp of sugar or Honey
Salt as per taste
And mayonise garlic dip (1 Tbsp of mayonise + 1 clove of garlic )

Method
Mix all vegetables , vinegar, sugar, salt , white pepper. Now coat pasta with mayonise garlic dip . And top on vegetables and refrigerate for 1- 2 hours . This will allow marination of all veggies and pasta .

Easy rice fry

Serves 2
Ingredients
1 cup of rice (half boil it with salt and drain it to make grains separate )

A handful of ground nuts
1/2 tsp of mustard seeds
1/2 tsp of jeera seeds
1 medium size onion sliced
2 green chillied chopped
Coriander to garnish
1 tsp of tamarind soaked in half cup of water for 10 minutes.
Oil to temper about 3 Tbsp

Method
Take oil in pan and let it get hot .
Put mustard seeds let it splutter followed by jeera seeds , ground nuts .
Put onion ,Let onion get light brown . Thrown in green chillies and immedietly turn rice over the pot . Mix everything nicely and strain and pour tamarind water over rice , close the lid and let rice cook . If rice is not done sprinkle some more water. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with your choice of pickle and fried papad .

Makhni dal

Serves 4
Ingredients
1 cup black lentill (whole udad covered)
1 slitted green chilli
2-3 juvenile ginger pieces
1 Tblsp of coriander powder
3 Tbsp of butter
2-3 whole red chillies cut into pieces
1/4 cup of fresh cream
1tsp of garam masala

Method
Soak lentill for about 2 -3 hours or overnight .Boil with salt and slitted green chilli and ginger.   if you soak for lesser hours boil lentill with 3 glasses of water for 1 hour else boil with 2 glasses of water for 30 minutes .

In another pan take 2 tbsp of butter let it melt . put whole red chilli and coriander powder . pour cooked daal and give one boil.  now mix cream and give another boil . 

note: traditionally makhni daal is boiled for longer hours in low flame to get actual flavour .

serve makhni daal hot with melted butter with butter naam or hot steamed rice .

soft spongy almond cocoa cake

Ingredients
1. half cup almond ....grind it to powder.
2 .half cup ghee or butter
3. two eggs
4. 1/2 tsp baking soda
5. 1/2 tsp baking powder
6.  1 tsp cocoa powder
7. 1/2 cup sugar

method
churn eggs in mixer for a minute or two . pour oil into the egg . mix all dry ingredients separately and mix with eggs and butter . churn for another minute . grease the baking tray and pour cake mix.  pre heat oven at 180 degrees  for 5 minutes .
bake cake for 30 minutes . you can chk wheather cake is done by inserting tooth pick at the middle , if it comes out clean means cake is done else cook for another 5 minutes and chk again .

Pink pasta made with beetroot

serves 2
1 cup of whole wheat flour
1 whole beetroot
1 egg
salt to taste

method
this pasta is similar to plane pasta recipe posted earlier. only difference is it uses one egg because of the moisture it gets from beetroot juice .

1. Boil 1 cup of water , make flame to low and add washed beetroot into the boiling water . boil it for 1 minute .

2 . Take out beetroot hot from the water and wash beetroot with ice cold water immedietly.this makes it retain its beautiful colour.

3. Peel the skin and make small pieces enough to grind and make smooth paste. note :do not add water.

4. Take flour, salt ,egg and beetroot paste into a bowl and knead it to make dough . if you feel moisture is much add bit of more flour.

5. Let it rest for 1 hour .

6. Divide the dough into 8 portions .

7. Dust surface and roll into long flat dough about 15-20 inches depending upon how thin you want your pasta . or use pasta maker.

8. Cut them into thin strips or use pasta maker.

9. Dry them overnight to get best results in retaining colour of pasta.
or you can immedietly put them into boiling water and cook for 2 minutes . the more you boil it will loose its colour . I cooked pasta immedietly in the picture and not kept it overnight .

Stir fry okro in chinese way

Serves 2
250 grams of okro sliced thin
1 Tbsp of soya sauce
1 Tbsp of chilli garlic sauce
1 tsp of vinegar
1 Tbsp of ginger and garlic cut finely
take 60-50 % of garlic - ginger.
3 Tbsp of seseme oil

2 tsp of corn flour
1/2 cup of water
1 tsp of soya sauce

Method
Wash and dry okro nicely and cut into thin and diagonaly .

put oil in wok and let it get hot on high flame .

put ginger and garlic stir untill cooked followed by okro . stir continiously .

In separate bowl put soya sauce , vinegar , chilli garlic sauce stir it .

When okro gets cooked thrown in seasoning of bowl and stir nicely .

take corn flour in a cup and pour little water and soya sauce .pour the mixter into okro and stir it for another 1 minute .

Garnish with spring onion .

Veg cheese sandwich

Serves 2 sandwiches
4 slices of wheat bread
2 sliced mozrilla or cheddar cheese
handful of lettuce ...cut fine
handful of cabbage ...cut fine
one small size onion about 1/4 cup..finely chopped
1 Tbsp of mayonise
butter for bread

Method
Mix mayonise with all chopped veggies.
Spread butter on the bread and warm a bit.
Put cheese slice on one bread .
Spread veggies mix on top .
close with other slice of bread .
cut into triangle or any shape .