I know its been long I haven't written anything as there were series of things happening in life and I was busy with them. Yeah but now I have finally taken out time for what I love to do...Cooking! I mean its not like I wasn't cooking all these days but yes haven't tried anything new which I finally did. Long time back I came across this recipe and when I tried it, came out really well. So here is my version of it. Please try it and if u like it please do drop a comment as it motivates me.



Ingredients

150 gms Paneer
1/2 Litre Milk
1 Cup Condensed milk
1 Tsp Corn flour
1 Tsp Rice flour
1/2 Cup Sugar ( if required)
1 Tsp Cardamom powder ( Elaichi powder)
Dry fruits of your choice

Methods

1. In a Pan heat the milk and bring to boil. Once it starts boiling add cornflour and keep stirring continuously so that it doesn't form lumps.
2. After this in a similar way add rice flour and let the milk boil on low flame. Make sure it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan.
3. When the milk starts boiling add crumbled paneer to the milk, stirring continuously.
4. Now to this add condensed milk and cardamom powder. Let it boil for couple of minutes and then put off the flame.
5. Now add desired dry fruits to it and serve chilled.

Note

• Mix corn flour and rice flour with 2 tsp of milk separately to avoid lumps while mixing.
• If adding sugar add it while adding condensed milk.
• If you block of paneer you can grate it with a grater.

Oats Bar/Cakes ~ My husband has been having a craving for this from many days So thought to surprise him today with this when he comes back from work. This one is very simple easy and quick.







Ingredients

100 gm Porridge / Oats
120 gm Salted Butter
50 gm Golden Syrup or Honey 
50 gm Sugar
2 tbspn cocoa powder
5-10 Almonds chopped
5-10 Walnuts crushed 

Methods

1. Put Butter golden syrup, cocoa powder,walnuts and sugar in a microwaveable container and heat it in microwave till the butter melts.
2. Once its melted take it out and mix the oats in the liquid.
3. Take another microwaveable tin or cookie cutter.
4. If using tin line it with a grease proof paper and pour the mixture into it. 
5. If using cookie cutter, just take a microwaveable tray and grease the cutter and tray with little butter.
6. Now place the cutter on the tray and fill it with a mixture and press it
7. Now place this in a microwave on cooking for 3mins or till you see the bubbles coming. 
8. After taking it out from the microwave remove the cookie cutter carefully and garnish it with Almonds.
9. Keep this along with the tray in refrigerator for and hour and then its ready to eat.

Variations

• You can add any Jam in place of cocoa powder and golden syrup depending on taste that you are looking out for. 
• Can add Raisins and sultanas in place of walnuts to get a fruity Oats Bar/ cake.

Note: Dont over heat the mixture else it would get burnt

Black Forest Milk Shake~ One of my facebook friend asked for it on a wall post so thought to write and share with him and he can try all by himself.

Image from net as wrote it in a hurry :-)







Ingredients
1 cup milk
4 whole cherries Frozen
1 frozen banana 
sugar to taste
1 Tbsp Cocoa Powder
Some Crushed ice

Methods

1. Put everything in a blender and mix well.
2. Serve Chilled!
3. Can be topped with a scoop of Vanilla icecream

Biscuit Brownies ~ From many day there were some biscuits lying in my kitchen cabinet that we were not interested in eating for a simple reason that they were tasteless. So I thought of adding some taste to it and make it useful and named it as Biscuit Brownies as it looked like it, you can name it what you feel like :-)



Ingredients

15-20 Biscuits ( of your choice or which you don't want to eat)
1/14 Cup  fresh double cream
1/4 cup mixed dry fruit  broken into pieces ( I took only walnuts)
10 Almonds powdered or 2 tsp ready made powder
2  Tbspn Sugar or Sweetener ( for Diabetics) 
1 Cup Whipped cream
4 Tbspn Chocolate Sauce

Methods

1. Break biscuits into coarsely powder in a mixing bowl using your hands.
2. Add the cocoa powder, broken walnuts, almonds powder, double cream and mixed well.
3. To this mixture add the Chocolate Sauce and mix well.
4. Pour this mixture one by one to the cup cakes moulds and keep in refrigerator for an hour
5. Before serving swirl whipped cream on top of it and sprinkle little cocoa powder. 

Note: Use sweetener which is used for cooking in place of sugar for Diabetic people and they enjoy the dish as well.

Lauki Halwa/ Bottle Gourd Dessert ~ Its my friends birthday today and she loves lauki ka halwa made by me. As we are quite distance apart in different country thought to write a post on this dedicating to her. A Small way to wish her :-)








Ingredients

Lauki/ Doodhi/ Bottle Gourd - 1 (thick)
Ghee/ Clarified Butter - 4 table spoon
Sugar - 1 cup
Milk - 1/2 Kg
Khoya - 1/2 Kg
Pistachio/ Pista - 10
Almonds - 10 (powdered), 5 - To Granish

Methods

1. Peel Lauki and de-seed it. Then grate it with a grater of medium size. Squeeze all the water form it.
2. Heat Ghee in a pan and add Lauki to it and let the remaining water dry.
3. Once it has dried to a desired amount add Milk, Almonds powder and Khoya to it. Let it cook for 5- 10mins till it become tender. Keep stirring to avoid it sticking to the pan.
4. When the mixture has started forming lumps add sugar to it and mix till it dissolves.
5. Garnish with Pistachio and Almonds and serve.

Note

• Don't add sugar immediately after pouring milk. 
• If you dont have Khoya available you can use any of the Barfi it would give the same taste.

Rasgulla ~ People often call it as Chene ka Rasgulla. I knew that its made from chena (Paneer) which is a milk product which is extracted from milk by adulterating it with lemon. But the case was different when I made it at home as the milk expired before its expiry date and I didn't want to throw it so finally decided to make Rasgulla out of it. 


Ingredients

Milk - 1.5 litre
Lemon juice - 2 tbsp 
Plain Flour - 1 tsp
Sugar- 4 Cups
Milk - 1/4 cup (If required)
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Methods

1. Boil milk and add lime juice till the water completely seperates off the chena (paneer)
2. Completely drain off the water and tie the chena in clean cotton cloth
3. Now add plain flour cardomom and dried panner in a bowl and knead continuously till the dough becomes soft
4. Make small balls and keep aside covering with a wet cloth
5. In a heavy bottomed container put sugar and water and stir well
6. Bring it to boil and add 1/4 cup of milk to remove dirt ( If there is any)
7. Then add the balls and leave it for 5 mins(do not stir) keep checking often
8. Then add 2 teaspoon of cold water and let it boil again
9. Repeat process for 20 minutes and you will see the balls becoming puffy. Take it off from the gas stove
10. Let it cool before serving.

Please do leave a comment about what you think about this recipe and the blog. :-)

Note

This can be used for 10-12 days by keeping in the fridge.