ABC Halwa

This recipe has been adapted from Rajiv Kapoor's version.

Ingredients:
Banana - 2
Apple - 1
Carrot - 2
Sugar - 150 gm
cashew and raisins for garnishing.
Ghee - 150 gm

Method :
Peel, core and chop the apple into small pieces. Peel and mash the banana. Peel and grate the carrots.
Roast the cashew and raisins and keep them aside. In the same pan, fry the grated carrot for a minute and then add the chopped apple and all of the sugar. Keep adding ghee in small quantities. Once you're done adding the ghee mix in the mashed banana and keep stirring till the mixture forms a ball and comes to halwa consistency. Garnish it. The colour of the halwa isn't bad, so few strands of safforn mixed in milk would do.

The original recipe calls for milk and desiccated coconut as well, but I feel the mashed fruit pulp would in itself take time to reach the desired consistency; so adding milk would mean more cooking time and the taste doesn't differ much. Also, I dislike crunchy coconut in halwa. This is ideal to leave the guests guessing on what's gone into the dessert. I did just that :)

10 Mins Gobi

Here is something I came up with, really a lazy man gobi, easy to make , turned out yumm to eat. Hope u enjoy it

Ingredients

1 whole Cauliflower - cut into bite sized pieces
50 gms thick Curd
1 tbs Coriander pwd
1 tbs Cumin pwd
1 tbs whole Cumin
1/2 tps Turmeric
1 tbs Chilli pwd
Salt to taste

Method

Wash the Cauliflower, set it aside. In a large bowl Mix all the dry ingredients and the Curd (except the whole Cumin). Toss in the Cauliflower into the Mixture. Let it rest for 30 mins.

In a saute pan in hot oil add in the 1 tbs of Cumin, then toss in the curd coated cauliflower. Toss on high flame till done evenly all over and golden brown in color. Done!