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Sep18

Instant Bread Gulab Jamun Recipe / How to make Gulab Jamun with Bread / Gulab Jamun Recipe

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Gulab Jamun and Rasgulla being my all-time favorite sweet right from childhood, recently when I came across this Bread Gulab Jamun from my friend, wanted to try it immediately. Luckily had 7 to 8 bread slices leftover from our breakfast, so tried out immediately.

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Instant Bread Jamun recipe / How to make Gulab jamun with Bread / Gulab Jamun recipe

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Bread Gulab Jamun is an easy, simple and instant sweet recipe that can be prepared easily and perfect by beginners. I have also shared out a video recipe for Instant Bread Gulab Jamun in my you tube, refer video for perfect texture. Let me share the recipe…

Making of Instant Bread Gulab Jamun / Bread Gulab Jamun Video –

Ingredients:

  • Bread slices – 7 nos
  • Sugar – 1 cup
  • Water for sugar syrup – ¾ cup
  • Rose white essence – 2 drops
  • Milk powder – 4 tbsp
  • Milk – 3 to 4 tbsp
  • Full cream – 2 tbsp
  • Cardamom – 2 nos
  • Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
  • Ghee / Oil – 1 cup (for frying)
Slice the corners of the bread
Roughly slice the bread into pieces
Bread pieces about to ground
Coarsely ground bread pieces
With milk powder
With fresh cream
Crumble with fingers
Sprinkle milk little by little and knead it gently
Kneading gently
Bread jamun dough ready
Dough rolled out to small balls
Getting deep fried
Drain the oil and remove it from fire
Sugar, water, crushed cardamom
Sugar syrup ready
Into sugar syrup
Into sugar syrup
Instant Bread Jamun recipe / How to make Gulab jamun with Bread / Gulab Jamun recipe

Preparation:

  • Cut the corners of the bread, chop them into medium pieces, grind them to coarse powder.
  • Add milk powder, full cream, crumble it well.
  • Sprinkle milk little by little, and knead it gently and roll it to a dough.
  • Divide the dough into small portions, roll it to small balls and keep it aside.
  • Meanwhile add sugar, pour water in a heavy bottomed vessel, cook in medium flame until it reaches slight syrup consistency.
  • Crush the cardamom, add it to the sugar syrup along with the lemon juice (to avoid the syrup from crystallizing).
  • Heat oil / ghee in a vessel, gently drop the rolled-out bread balls and deep fry it in medium flame until it turns golden brown.
  • Drain the oil and remove it from fire.
  • Transfer it to the sugar syrup, once its ready, let it rest for 3 hours.

Serve it. You can serve it along with ice cream.

 

Sep15

Creamy Garlicky Prawn Spaghetti recipe / Creamy Garlic Prawn Pasta Recipe

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Creamy Garlicky Prawn Spaghetti is one such rich, creamy and delicious dish made in minutes. Already I have shared White sauce pasta and Tomato pasta, this is one more addition to my pasta collection. Creamy Garlic Prawn Pasta is liked by all the kids and so it’s being one among the finger licking dish between the kids.

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Creamy Garlic Prawn Pasta recipe / Creamy Garlicky Prawn Spaghetti recipe

It is very simple, easy to prepare and its creamy nature comes from the butter, fresh cream in it. Let me share the recipe…

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Ingredients:

  • Pasta / Spaghetti – 200 gms
  • Green peas – 100 gms
  • Prawns – 250 gms
  • Onion – 1 o
  • Garlic – 10 cloves
  • Mixed Italian herbs – 2 tsp
  • Maida / All-purpose flour – 2 tbsp
  • Butter – 2 tbsp
  • Red chili flakes – 1 ½ tsp
  • Coriander leaves – 4 stalks
  • Salt – 1 tsp
  • Fresh cream – 150 ml

Making of Creamy Garlic Prawn Spaghetti –

Preparation:

  • Peel and finely chop the onions and garlic, clean and devein the prawns and keep it aside.
  • Boil 5 cups of water, add the spaghetti and green peas followed by a tsp of oil and ½ tsp of salt.
  • Meanwhile, heat butter in a heavy bottom vessel, wait until it melts.
  • Add the onions and garlic, cook until they turn golden brown in color.
  • Add prawns followed by salt, half the quantity of Italian herbs and red chilli flakes, cook until the prawn in half cooked.
  • Add maida / all-purpose flour, cook for a min, pour a cup of water and cook in medium flame.
  • Once the sauce starts thickening, pour the fresh cream, followed by half the quantity of coriander leaves, cook for 2 min in low flame.
  • Meanwhile drain the water from the spaghetti and green peas, add it to the sauce, sprinkle leftover Italian herbs and red chilli flakes.
  • Cook in low flame for 2 mins, remove it from fire and garnish it with the leftover coriander leaves.

Serve hot with Honey Glazed chicken.

 

Aug24

Millets Modak recipe / Millets Poorna Kozhukattai recipe / Millets Kozhukatti maavu recipe

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Wishing everyone a Happy Vinayagar Chaturthi

Usually all of us prepare modak or kozhukattai using rice flour, but this time thought of preparing with millets. Tried out with ragi/finger millet and kambu / pearl millet flour, it came out well, and prepared a very easy poornam with coconut and sugar. Everyone in my home liked it including my kids. So, shared the making of Millets modak dough with both Ragi or Finger millet (ragi modak dough / finger millet modak dough) and Kambu or Pearl millet (Kambu kozhukattai maavu recipe / Bajra modak dough) which will be useful for beginners, do check out the video below…

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Millets Modak recipe / Millets Kozhukattai recipe – Vinayagar Chaturthi recipes

Making of Millets Modak Recipe / Millets Poorna Kozhukattai Recipe –

Millets Modak is very easy and simple to prepare, also it takes just few mins but the healthiest ones. When the whole running behind millets to stay fit and healthy, why not our Ganesha? Let us make something different but healthy and celebrate the festival.

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Let me share the recipe…

Ingredients:

  • Kambu / Bajra / Pearl Millet Flour (store bought) – 1 cup
  • Ragi / Finger Millet flour (store bought) – 1 cup
  • Grated coconut – 1 cup
  • Sugar or Crushed Jaggery – ¾ cup
  • Cardamom powder – ½ tsp
  • Salt – 1 tsp

Making of Millets Modak / Millets Kozhukattai –

 

Preparation:

  • Dough preparation: Take the flour separately in separate bowl, add ½ tsp of salt. Boil 2 cups of water, it should form bubble (right consistency else the kozhukattai will break into pieces). Pour the water little by little to the flour, mix it with a spoon or wodden ladle, when its warm knead softly with your hands, roll it to dough and let it sit for 2 mins.
  • Meanwhile let us start preparing the stuff, mix grated coconut, sugar and cardamom powder.
  • If you don’t have mould, no issues you flatten the dough in between your plams, place the stuffing in the centre and roll it to ball or shape it to modak.
  • When you have mould, grease the mould with oil, close it, insert a small portion of dough, gently make a whole in the centre of the dough and stuff the filling to the modak and cover it. (Refer video for this stage).
  • Steam the modak for 5 mins in steamer, remove it from fire.

Serve warm.