Misc

Soup
This soup is healthy, easy to make and tasty too! You could use almost any vegetable in your refrigerator and use it to make this soup. You could chop the vegetables in advance and make the soup in a jiffy before serving.

Ingredients:
1 cup Mix vegetables, chopped very fine (could be carrots, beans, spring onions, cauliflower, capsicum, cabbage, mushrooms)
2 tbsp cornflour
5 cups water
Salt, pepper

Method:
Keep the water for boiling, and simultaneously mix cornflower well with half a cup of water.
Pour the cornflower mixture into the boiling water and stir for some time.
When the water becomes almost clear, add all the vegetables.
Turn off the heat in exactly 2 minutes, and add the salt and pepper to taste.
Serve hot
Puran poli
 1/2 kg Maida (All purpose flour) 
• 1/2 kg Lentil (Gram dal) 
• 1 tsp Cardamom powder 
• 1 tsp Ghee 
• 1/2 kg Jaggery 
• 100 ml Oil 
• Salt to taste |
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How to make Puran Poli: |
  • | Wash and boil the lentil with water and 1/2 tsp salt till it becomes soft. |
• | Cool slightly and strain the dal using a strainer. |
• | Add cardamom powder and jaggery and grind to make fine paste. |
• | If the paste is sticky, keep it on fire to dry up completely. This is puran. |
• | Knead 1/2 kg maida with water and 1/2 tsp salt. Do not make it hard. |
• | Add oil and knead the maida again till oil gets absorbed. |
• | Prepare equal number of balls from maida and puran. |
• | Roll out maida balls to make small pooris. |
• | Stuff these pooris with puran ball. |
• | Roll them again into balls. |
• | Roll out to make chapatis. It is called poli. |
• | Heat a griddle and roast each poli. |
• | Apply ghee on both sides when done. |
• | Serve with hot cup of tea |
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Moon dal halwa
• 2 Cups soaked Moong Dal 
• 1 Cup milk 
• 2 Cups sugar 
• 3/4 Cup khoya 
• 2 Cups ghee 
• 1/2 Cup mixed dry fruits (Almonds, Cashewnuts, and Raisins) |
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How to make Moong Dal Halwa: |
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