"Whole mango kulfi recipe... "

Ingredients:

Mangoes -5 

Milk -500ml

Sugar - 1 cup ( you can add more) 

Good day biscuits - 1 packet

Butter - 2 tsp

Green Cardamom - 5 no. 

Method:

1. Wash the mangoes and make a cut on one side with the help of a knife. 



2. With the help of a spoon or knife, remove the seed carefully, make sure the pulp remains inside. 

3. In a pan boil milk and add sugar. 

4. Add butter and bring to boil. Keep stirring. 

5. Crush the good biscuits into a fine powder. 

6. When the milk begins to thicken add the gooday biscuit powder. Keep stirring. 

7. Add cardamom seeds and keep stirring till the mixture thickens. 

8. Let the mixture cool for sometime at room temperature and with the help of a spoon add this kulfi mixture to the mangoes which will act as a mould here. 

9. Cover the mangoes with the cut part and keep in upright position in a cup or a plastic box. 

10. Keep in the freezer overnight till the kulfi freezes and peel the skin of mangoes with a peeler. 

11. Slice and cut into round pieces and serve. 

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"Doughnuts recipe... "

Ingredients:

Whole wheat flour 3 cups

Maida 1 cup

Instant yeast 2 tsp

Sugar 2 tsp

Salt 1tsp

Vanilla essence 1 tsp

Eggs 2

Milk 1cup

Oil half cup

 

For glaze

Butter 3 tsp

Milk 1/4 cup

Sugar 2 cups

Cadbury chocolate 1

Milkybar 1

Edible sprinkles

Dessicate coconut

Method:

1. Take maida, all purpose flour, yeast, sugar and salt, oil, eggs, vanilla essence and make a soft sticky dough by adding warm milk in small amounts. 

2. Cover the dough with a wet cloth for 40 minutes. It will double in size. 

3. Knead the dough with light hands and divide into small ball sized equal portions. Roll into a thick portion and with the help of a doughnut cutter, cut into doughnut shape. If you don't have a dougnut cutter, cut the shape with the help of a steel glass and middle hole with the help of a bottle cap. (Try to cut the doughnut shape one by one by rolling the ball sized portion thick, preferably 1 cm).

4. Heal refined oil in a pan and fry the doughnuts one by one on low medium flame till they become golden brown on both sides. (Keep the flame low, otherwise they will not cook from inside). 

5. For glaze, take 3 tsp butter, 1/4cup milk and cups sugar and heat it to make a sugar syrup. 

Dip the fried doughnuts in the syrup in both sides and keep aside. 



6. Melt the cadbury chocolate in a water bath and dip the doughts on one side in the melted chocolate and keep aside. 

7. Repeat the same procedure with milkybar chocolate for white glaze. 

8. Decorated the chocolate coated doughnuts with dessicated coconut,edible sprinkles or whatever you like. 

9. Wait for 15minutes before serving. 

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"Kashmiri Roath recipe... "

Ingredients:

Whole wheat flour -2 cups

Maida -1/2 cup

Castor sugar - 1 cup

Milk - 1/2 cup

Ghee - 1/2 cup

Salt - 1 pinch

Baking soda - 1/4 tsp

Grated coconut - 1/2 cup (optional) 

Raisins - 2 tablespoons

Almond powder -1/4 cup

Green cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Almonds and cashews for garnishing

Poppy seeds for garnishing

Method:

1. Mix whole wheat flour, maida, salt, baking soda, almond powder, raisins, grated coconut and sugar in a bowl. 

2. Add the ghee and knead into a stiff dough. Add milk in small amounts till the dough forms a stiff consistency. 

3. Knead with both hands for 3-4 minutes. 

4. Grease a baking tray ( preferably rectangle shaped) with ghee and put this dough into the baking tray. Spread evenly with the help of your fingertips or a spatula. 

5. Take a tooth pick or fork and poke holes in this evenly spread dough. 

6. Take a brush and apply a small amount of milk and ghee mixture on this dough and put almonds and cashews on it and press these dry fuits with your fingertips ( you can also use the dry fruits of your choice. 

7. Now sprinkle poppy seeds over this dough. 

8. Pre heat the oven at 180 degrees for 10 minutes and then bake this roath at the same temperature for about 40- 50 minutes or till the upper surface changes it's colour. 

9. Let it cool for 2 hours before cutting into square pieces and serve. 

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"Tomul cxhott recipe... "

Ingredients:

Rice flour 1 cup

Salt to taste

Cumin seeds 1/2 tsp

Green chillies 1 chopped thinly

Water 

Oil 

Method. 

1. Mix rice flour, salt, cumin seeds, green chiilies and water in a bowl to make a paste. 

2. Heat a flat thick bottomed pan and apply a thin layer of oil. 

3. When the pan is hot enough, with the help of a large spoon put the rice mixture on this pan and spread the mixture evenly. 

4. Cover the pan with a lid and cook for 2-3 minutes on high flame. 

5. Flip the roti and cook for 1 minute on the other side too. 

6. Your tomul cxhott is ready to be served with kashmiri salt tea. ( nun chai) 

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"Caramel Pudding Recipe... "

Ingredients:

Milk 500ml

Eggs (2 eggs with yolk, 4 egg whites) 

Sugar 5tsp for caramel sauce, 5 tsp for pudding

Vanilla essence a few drops

Water 4 tsp

Method:

1. Take 5 tsp of sugar and 4 tsp water in a pan and heat until sugar is completely dissolved. 

2. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook until the sugar and water form a golden brown syrup, about 5 minutes. Do not stir. 

3. Remove from heat and let boiling subside. Carefully stir 1 tablespoon hot water into caramel syrup.

4. Pour this caramel syrup into four cups covering the bottom of the cups carefully with this syrup. 

5. Take 2 whole eggs and 4 egg whites in a pan and add sugar and whisk till the sugar dissolves.

6. Heat the milk (lukewarm not hot) and add to the milk to this egg mixture (dont boil the milk, only warm it on gas) Add vanilla essence. 

7. Pass this milk and egg mixture through a seive. ( don't skip this step) . 

8. Heat water in a large pan and put a stand in this water (basically we have to steam this pudding so if you have a steamer, well and good). 

9. Pour this mixture equally into the caramel covered cups equally. 

10. Cover these cups with foil and make holes in foil and put these cups in the steamer for 40 minutes. 

11. Take out the cups after steaming and remove the foil. Check with the help of a knife if the pudding is cooked. 

12. Refrigerate these pudding cups for 6 hours.

13. Run a knife around the pudding to loosen it. It will look like this. 

14. Place a plate on the cup and turn it upside down. 

15. The pudding will come out on plate like this. Serve chilled. 

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"Chicken Biryani recipe... "

Ingredients:

1 chicken cut into pieces. 

3 onions, sliced and fried to golden

1 tbsp ginger garlic paste

250 ml plain curd

oil (for cooking)

4-5 potatoes, peeled, cut into wedges and fried till golden

salt to taste

1 cardamom pod

3-4 small cardamom pods

2 cloves

Red chilli powder 2tsp

Dhaniya powder 1tsp

Garam masala 1 tsp

Cumin seeds 1/2 tsp

Peppercorns a few

Turmeric powder 1 tsp

Lemon juice 2tsp

4 cups basmati rice, washed 2-3 times then soaked for half an hour

salt

 

Instructions:

1. First marinate the chicken in the ginger, garlic, whole spices, lemon juice, curd, and salt. Mix everything together.

2. Marinate overnight or at least 4 hours.



3.Heat oil in a pan and add the marinated chicken with its marinade, and cook on medium heat for 10 minutes, then lower the heat to low and cook for another 10 minutes.

4. Keep the pan covered and give the mixture a stir after every few minutes. Add the fried potatoes once the chicken is tender and cook together on low heat for 5 minutes so that the potatoes take on a nice colour. The oil will leave the sides of the pan. Keep aside this masala. 

5. Wash then soak basmati rice in water for about 20-30 mins. Add water, some oil, salt and peppercorns in a pan and add this soaked rice. 

6. Cook until the rice is about 80 percent done, remove and strain out all the water.

7. In the same add a layer of this steamed rice, fried onions chicken pieces and some curry. 

8.Drizzle some oil too and repeat the same procedure for next two layers of chicken, it's curry, fried onions and potatoes. The upper layer should look like this. Dont put and chicken pieces on the topmost layer. 



9. Secure tightly with a lid and cook for 20-25 minutes on low flame. 

10. Wait for 10-15 minutes before serving and mix with a spatula before serving so that the masala, chicken pieces and rice gets mixed. 

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"Baked potato chips recipe... "

Ingredients:

Potatoes 2 sliced

Salt 

Red chilli powder 1/2 tsp

Pepper powder 1/2 tsp

Oil 1 tsp

Method:

1. Peel the potatoes and slice them. Not too thin, not too thick. Put some water in a pan and add salt and boil potatoes for 5 minutes.

2. Drain the water and let these chips dry on a towel. 

3. Put these chips in a large bowl and add red cilli, pepper oil and some salt. Mix well. 

4. Put these chips on a baking tray. 

5. Bake at 200 degrees for 15 minutes. 

6. Serve this baked snack with tomato ketchup. 

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