India style mixed sauce pasta / macaroni

cooking time - 25 mins 

course - main

by: Monika Singh

Ingredients for white sauce

1 spoon butter

½ table spoon black pepper powder

2 spoon all-purpose flour (Maida)

1 cup milk

½ table spoon salt

 Other ingredients

2 cups of boiled macaroni

2 spoon chopped onions

1 spoon red bell pepper

1 spoon green bell pepper

1 spoon green bell pepper

2 spoon sweet corn

3-4 pieces of broccoli

2-3 spoon tomato puree

½ table spoon fresh ginger garlic paste

½ Parmesan cheese

½ table spoon Italian herbs

Recipe:

1.       To boil macaroni heat water in a pan and add ½ table spoon oil and salt in it and let the macaroni boil.

2.       Once the macaroni is boiled drain the water and keep aside.

3.       For white sauce heat a add butter, now add flour in it and roast for a minute.

4.       Now, add milk, pepper and salt in it and boil till it comes to consistency of sauce.(keep stirring it after short intervals)

Now it’s time to assemble all we have.

1.       In a pan heat butter

2.       Add chopped onions and sauté it.

3.       Add ginger garlic paste and cook for 1 minute

4.       Now broccoli and sauté for 1-2 minutes

5.       Add bell pepper and corn and gain sauté it for 2 minutes

6.       Add tomato puree and herbs and cook for 2-3 minutes

7.       Add the white sauce and mix properly

8.       Now add cheese to the mixture and mix well

9.       Now at last add boiled macaroni to the mixture and mix with light hands

1.   Serve hot

Aata Coconut Halwa

we all Indians have that sweet tooth. we all want to diet and be healthy but not as much as we want to have desert. this aata halwa is a all time favourite and easy to cook. it takes hardly 15-20 mins and very less efforts to make this

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Ingredients

1 Cup wheat flour
½ cup sugar
½ Cup grated fresh coconut
½ Cup Ghee
5-6 Chopped Cashew
5-6 peeled and chopped pistachios
2 cardamom
4 Cups Water

Recipe

1. Heat ½ Cup ghee in a non-stick pan or you can also use a normal pan.
2. Put the skewed wheat flour in the pan and roast for on medium flame until it turns its color to golden brown.

3. Now put ½ cup grated fresh coconut in it and roast for 2 mins.

4. Now, put cashew, pistachios and cardamom in it, keep roasting for nest 2 mins

5. Add sugar, I prefer ½ cup sugar. You can also add a bit more sugar if you want your halwa to be sweeter.

6. Add 4 cups of water and boil it till it changes its consistency to a halwa. Keep stirring it as it might start sticking to the pan.
7. Serve hot

Thanks

Monika Singh

Chicken Pulav Recipe

Chicken Pulav

This one is a easy recipe of pulav prepared which can be prepared in pressure cooker or a rice cooker. it has marinated chicken and all spices we have in biryani.

it has similar taste of Biryani...but cooked in a very simpler way.

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Ingredients

For marinating Chicken

1. 400 gm Chicken
2. ½ table spoon salt
3. ½ table spoon Kashmiri red Chilli powder
4. 1 tablespoon fresh ginger garlic paste
5. 2 table spoon finely chopped mint leaves
6. 2 table spoon finely chopped coriander leaves
7. 1 cup fresh yogurt
8. 2 split green chillies
9. 3-4 cumin
10. 2 broken green cardamom
11. ½ table spoon garam masala powder

For Pulav
1. 2 Cups of basmati rice
2. 2 medium size diced onions
3. 2-3 table spoon ghee
4. 1 cinnamon
5. 2 bay leaves
6. 1 star anise
7. 1 black cardamom
8. 1 table spoon salt

Recipe

To marinate chicken put all the ingredients mentioned in a bowl and mix well. Keep aside for 1 hr.

1. In a rice cooker or a normal cooker heat ghee, put cinnamon, bay leaves, star anise, cardamom and let them crackle.

2. Now put diced onions in the ghee and roast till they turn golden brown.

3. Now put marinated chicken and cook for 10 mins on high flame. Check when the chicken is half cooked.

4. Put washed basmati rice in the mixture and mix with light hands.

5. Mix 4 cups of water and cover the cooker (you can pressure cook or just allow the rice to cook just covering the cooker) let the rice cook.

6. Once the rice is cooked, leave for 10 mins and allow the pulao to settle down.
7. Serve hot with raita.

Thanks

Monika Singh