Churma laddoo

Ingredients:
Wheat flour 1 cup
Gram flour 1/2 cup
Semolina 2 tbsp
Ghee 1/3 cup
Green cardamom powder 1 tsp
Sugar 1 1/2 cup
Cashewnuts

Method:
Roast the flours together till the raw smell goes off.
Powder the sugar and keep aside.
In a vessel mix together all the flours, sugar and green cardamom.
Add warm ghee, and make laddoos.
Decorate with cashewnut while making laddoos.

Thai stir fried vegetable in orange juice curry sauce

4 Persons:

Ingredients:
Brocolli 1 cup
Mushroom cut into half 1 cup
Green, yellow capsicum 1 cup
Baby corn sliced 6
Peanuts 2 tb sp
Sesame seeds 2 tb sp
Thai green chilli 2
Tofu cubed 100g
Salt to taste
Sesame oil 2 tb sp
Orange juice 1 1/2 cup
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
Corn flour 1 tbsp
Black pepper powder 1 tsp

Method:
Heat little oil and roast the sesame seeds and ground nuts, one by one and keep aside.
Add some more oil and fry the tofu cubes till light brown.
Add the green chilli and fry it.
Add all the vegetables,  and fry it for 4-5 minutes.
Mix the orange juice, salt,soya sauce, cornflour and add it to the vegetables and half cook it.
Add the roasted nuts and sesame seeds to it.
Add the black pepper at the end.
Serve hot with steaming rice and chilli sauce.

Chinese fried rice

4 persons

Ingredients:
finely chopped beans, carrot, capsicum, baby corn, Cabbage  2-3 cups
spring onions with green leaves , finely chopped 2-3
ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
Chilli oil 1 -2 tbsp
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
vinegar 1 tsp
salt to taste
Rice 2 cups

Method:
Cook the rice (1cup rice : 2 cups water ) with oil, salt and set aside.
In a pan add 2 tb sp of chilli oil and add the finely chopped spring onions bulbs to it. Saute for 2 minutes.
Add the ginger garlic paste to it.
Add the vegetables and cook it till tender.
Add the soya sauce, vinegar and salt to it.
Add the cooked rice to it and mix well. Cook it for 4-5 minutes.
Garnish with spring onion greens and serve hot.
Note: For chilli oil please refer to chilli garlic noodles in the earlier blog.
For rice, Jasmine rice is preferred.