Feed Your Soul by Ruchika

A simple and easy pizza / pasta sauce recipe! Ingredients: 4-5 tomatoes 2 white onions finely chopped 7-8 garlic pods finely chopped 2 Tbsp olive oil 1 Tbsp sugar(one can add little more too) 2 Tbsp tomato paste 1 Tbsp dried basil Method: 1. Take olive oil in a pan and add garlic and onions to it. 2. In another pan, keep the tomatoes for boiling with a slight slit on them. Keep turning them so that they are done evenly. 3. When they are done, set them aside to cool down. Once they cool down, remove the skin. We remove the skin so that when tomatoes get cooked, you don’t need to blend them in a mixer. They will get mushy enough for the sauce. 4. Next, chop them and put them in the pan with garlic and onions. 5. Now add the rest of the ingredients and add 1-2 cups of water to it. Let it simmer on low flame. 6. Once the tomatoes are mushy you can mash everything together with a potato masher and you will get a nice, thick sauce ready to use for your pasta. 7....

Ingredients: 2 cups chopped mango cubes 1½ cups Milk 1½ tablespoons Sugar or as per your liking 2-3 Ice Cubes 1/2 tsp tutti fruti 1 tbsp cashews n almonds 1 scoop vanilla ice cream Method: 1. Wash, peel and chop mangoes into small pieces and put them in the freezer for about 10 minutes. 2. After 10 minutes, take them out and transfer them to a blender jar. 3. Add sugar and ice-cubes to the cubes and give it a nice churn till it reaches a thick paste-like consistency. 4. Now add milk to it and blend until it is smooth and creamy. Make sure there are no mango chunks in it. 5. Pour prepared shake into serving glasses, garnish with cashews, almonds, some tutti fruti and a scoop of ice cream and serve! Notes: 1. I churn mango alone before adding the milk so that the mango threads get crushed nicely as my kids don’t like it while drinking. 2. The color of the drink depends upon the color of the mangoes.

Tried my hand at making the very popular and delicious desi biscuits, naan khatai. Naan khatai is an authentic Indian cookie widely popular in Northern India. Ingredients: 1 cup chickpeas flour 1/2 cup all purpose flour 2 tbsp semolina 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp cardamom powder 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1/2 cup ghee 1-2 tbsp milk (if needed) Slivered pistachio as needed Method: 1. Cream ghee and sugar with help of a whisker or a beater till it’s light. 2. Take a bowl and mix all the dry ingredients in it. 3. Now add the dry ingredients in the wet mix of ghee and sugar and knead lightly till a dough is formed. 4. If you feel the mixture is a little dry, add milk. Mine wasn’t dry since I used melted ghee. 5. Pinch lemon-size dough and make balls. 6. Place pistachio n sprinkle some cardamom powder on each. This step is optional. 7. Preheat the oven for about 5 to 7 minutes. 8. Place butter paper on a baking tray and place the prepared dough balls on it. 9....

Craving dahi vadas while fasting during Navratri? Try out this recipe of falahari dahi vadas! Falahari Dahi Vada Ingredients: 1 cup Samak Rice powder 2 Boiled and mashed potatoes 1/4 cup roasted Fox nuts 1 tbsp  green chilies and ginger paste 3 tbsp Finely chopped coriander 1 tsp Cumin seeds Oil for deep frying Sendha salt as per taste 1/2 tsp Black pepper powder 2 cups Beaten curd 1/4 tsp sugar (optional) 1/4 tsp red chilli powder For Tempering: 1 tsp oil 2 Whole red chilies 1 tsp Jeera 1 sprigs Curry leaves 1 tbsp peanuts Method: 1. Dry roast fox nuts till crisp and grind them into to a coarse powder. 2. Now, in a deep pan, take 1 cup water add salt and bring it to boil. 3. Next, add samak rice powder and cook on medium heat until it forms a dough consistency. Once done, switch off the flame and let it cool slightly. 4. Take boiled & mashed potatoes, in a bowl, add the samak rice dough, ground fox nuts, green chilies and ginger paste, salt,...

A quick and easy milk cake recipe, made with milk powder but tastes exactly like the traditional Halwai wala milk cake! Milk Powder ki Mithai Ingredients: Milk powder 8-10 tablespoons Clarified butter 2 tablespoons Sugar 5 tablespoons (can add or reduce as per your liking) Green cardamom powder Slivered Pistachios 5-6 Water to make batter Method: 1. Take milk powder and ghee in a steel box which has a tight lid. Mix little water to make a lump-free batter. The consistency of batter shouldn't neither be thick nor runny. 2. Next up, pour a glass of water in a big pressure cooker and place a stand in it (just like we keep while making Dhokla). 3. Now, cover the box with its lid tightly secured and put it on the stand. Cover your pressure cooker with the whistle. 4. Keep the cooker on low flame and let it whistle atleast 5-6 times. Once done, switch off the flame and let the pressure release. 5. Now take out the steel box carefully (caution since it will be hot...

Eating different types of seeds is considered healthy and is recommended by many nutritionist these days. So I have added them to my old masala gud recipe to make it more healthy. Masala Gud Ingredients: 500gms Jaggery (Gud) 1.5 tspn Caraway seeds(ajwain baarik wali) 2 tspn Fennel seeds whole (saunf ) 15-20 Almonds chopped or powdered 5-6 walnuts chopped  (optional) Crushed Green Cardamom (choti ilaichi) 2 tsp desiccated coconut or sookha nariyal (thinly sliced or grated as per the liking) 2 tsp ginger powder 1 tsp white roasted sesame seeds for garnish 1 tsp Pure ghee only for greasing the plate to set Method: 1. First of all dry roast saunf, ajwain all the chopped dry fruits and cardamom. 2. Dry roast desiccated coconut too for around1-2 minutes. Next up, dry roast some sesame seeds as well. 3. Now roast the seeds and keep them aside for garnish at the end. 4. Now keep grated jaggery for melting in a thick bottom pan on a low flame and grease the ...