Veg Momos

Prep time: 10 min

Cooking time: 25 min

Serving: 12

Ingredients

for dough:

• 1½ cup maida / plain flour
• ½ tsp salt
• water for kneading
• oil for greasing

for stuffing:

• 3 tsp oil
• 3 garlic clove finely chopped
• 1 inch ginger finely chopped
• 2 chilli finely chopped
• 1 onion finely chopped
• 1 cup carrot grated
• 2 cup cabbage shredded
• ½ tsp pepper crushed
• ½ tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp soya sauce

Instructions

• First, prepare stuffing by heating 3 tsp oil and saute garlic, ginger and chilli.
• Add carrot, cabbage and onion and stir fry on high flame.
• now add ½ tsp pepper and ½ tsp salt.
• At last put soya sauce and mux well. Stuffing mix is ready.
• Knead the dough soft and put it aside for 19-15 min. Take a dmall sized momos dough and flatten. Dust with some maida and start to roll using a rolling pin.
• roll to almost medium thin circle. Make sure you roll from sides and keep the centre slightly thick.
• Now place a heaped tbsp of prepared stuffing in the centre.
• start pleating the edges slowly and gather everything.
• press in middle and seal the momos forming a bundle.
• heat a steamer and arrange the momos in the tray without touching each other.
• furthermore, steam momos for 10-12 minutes or till shiny sheen appears over it.
• Serve and enjoy the hot momos with red  chutney.

Eggless Banana Pancake

Preparation Time : 10 mins

Cooking Time : 1 to 2 mins per pancake

Serve: 10 pancakes

Ingredients:

Ripe Banana – 1

Wheat flour– 1 cup

Sugar – 2 to 3 tbsp as per taste

Milk – 1 to 1/2 cup

Baking Powder – 1 1/4 tsp

Cinnamon Powder – a pinch

Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp

Butter or Oil – 1 tblspn melted and more for cooking pancakes

Honey for serving

Method:

1.Take banana in a bowl, mash it with fork.

2. Now add in sugar, milk, vanilla and mix well.

3. Add flour, baking powder, cinnamon powder and mix well.

4. Now add in melted butter/ oil and mix well.

5. Heat oil in a nonstick pan/ tawa for frying pancakes, take a ladleful of batter and pour it over the pan. Let it cook for a min on one side till bubbles form on top. Flip over and cook for few more sec.

6. Remove it and stack on a plate.

7. Put some sliced banana on top. Drizzle with honey and serve.

* Instead of wheat flour you can use maida/ all purpose flour

* Instead of sugar you can use jaggery powder

Dalgona Coffee

"Dalgona coffee" is a beverage made by whipping equal proportions of coffee , sugar and hot water until it becomes creamy and then adding it to cold or hot milk. It was made popular by Jung II-woo, a South Korean actor who visited an eatery in Macau where he was served a similar beverage reminding him of "dalgona," a type of nostalgic Korean honeycomb, and later presented on a South Korean TV show called Pyunstorang("Convenience Store Restaurant").

In sumple language it is nothing but beaten coffee. Since it is trending and viral, I have to try it myself.

PREPARATION TIME-: 10 minutes 

SERVES-: 2

INGREDIENTS-: 

- Coffee Powder: 2 tbsp

- Sugar: 2 tbsp

- Hot water: 2 tbsp

- Ice cubes: 4-5 ( optional as per choice )

- Milk: hot or cold ( as per choice )

METHOD-:

1. Take coffee, sugar, hot water in a bowl. Mix well.
2. Use a hand blender to whip this till it gets light and fluffy. It will take around 3 to 5 mins.
3. Now take a serving glass. As oer choice put some ice cubes and fill with hit or cold milk.
4. Top with the whipped coffee and sprinkle some coffee powder on top and serve.
5. Mix well and enjoy.

Dalgona Coffee

Smoky Chicken Kebab

Soft and juicy yogurt marinated chicken kebab. This chicken kebab go very well as starter and it is healthy too. This is made on nonstick grill pan and smoked with charcoal.

INGREDIENTS:

• Chicken breast- 500 gms (Cut into small cubes)
• Hung curd- 3 tbsp
• Ginger garlic paste- 2 tbsp
• Salt as per taste
• Kashmiri red chili powder- 2 tsp
• Cumin powder- 1 to 2 tsp
• Coriander powder- 1 to 2 tsp
• Chicken masala- 2 tsp
• Vinegar- 1 tsp
• Charcoal- 1 piece to get the smoky flavour

METHOD:

1. Mix all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and marinate the chicken. Cover it well and keep it in fridge and marinate it for at least 3-4 hours.
2. Take a nonstick grill pan. Put the marinated chicken pieces in the grill pan and cover it with a lid. Cook it on medium flame for 5 minutes.
3. Flip them and cook it for another 5-10 minutes. 
4. Again flip it and put the flame on high and grill it for 2-3 minutes. Flip it again and cook for 2-3 minutes again.
5. Take a deep nonstick kadhai. arrange the grilled kebab in the kadhai leaving the middle space. 
6. Take the charcoal piece and burn it over gas. Once the charcoal is burnt put it in a small bowl and put 1 drop of ghee over the burnt charcoal and cover the kadhai completely with the lid and leave it for 3-4 minutes.
7. Remove the lid and serve the smoky chicken kebab with mayonnaise or mint chutney.

Mango Lemonade

Summer is here and the "King of Fruits- MANGO" is much loved and most looked forward to. Mango Lemonade is very easy, quick and vitamin C rich drink. This cool and refreshing drink is made up of all natural ingredients and is ready in just 5 minutes with just 3 ingredients.

CHEERS TO SUMMER!!

INGREDIENTS:

1. Mango- 1 cut into small cubes
2. Juice of 1 lemon
3. 1 glass cold water
4. Honey: 2-3 tsp (depends upon the sweetness of mango)
5. Mint leave for garnishing (optional)

METHOD:

• Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend it well. 
• Serve chilled. If you want you can use ice cubes as well.

Lemon Garlic Salmon

This Salmon fish recipe is easy to make and takes hardly 15 minutes. This is healthy and low in calorie.

INGREDIENTS:

1. Salmon: 4 pieces
2. 4-5 garlic cloves: finely chopped or crushed
3. Lemon juice: approx 4 tbsp
4. Salt: 1/2 tsp
5. Black pepper powder: 1/2 tsp
6. Green chili: 1 finely chopped
7. Ginger: 1/2 inch finely chopped
8. Coriander leaves: 1 tbsp finely chopped
9. Extra virgin olive oil: 2 tsp

METHOD:

• Sprinkle salt and pepper over the salmon pieces.
• Take a nonstick pan and put olive oil and place salmon pieces
• Cook for 3-4 minutes and then flip to other side and cook for 3-4 minutes
• Move salmon to the side and put chopped garlic and lemon juice and saute it for 2 minutes.
• Put lemon garlic over salmon with the help of spoon and cook until fish is cooked properly.
• Sprinkle chopped coriander leaves over salmon and serve hot.

Green Grapes Juice

Grape juice is sweet, tangy and refreshing summer drink. Get energized instantly with this healthy juice. It is full of antioxidants, vitamin and minerals and good source of fibre. Great for skin and curbs ageing.

Cheers to Summer!!

INGREDIENTS: 

• Green grapes: 2 1/2 cup 
• Lemon juice: 1 tsp
• Ginger: 1/2 inch (optional)
• Pinch of Black salt
• Ice cubes 
• Mint leaves for garnishing
• Sugar/ honey (optional if the grape is not sweet)

METHOD:

1. In a blender add grapes, lemon juice, ginger and salt
2. Blend them well.
3. Strain the juice using strainer add ice cubes and serve

*You can add few mint leaves while blending for refreshing taste.

 *Adjust the amount of sugar depending on the sweetness of grapes and taste.