Nimona

Hi everyone,

Today I'm gonna share a new recipe called Nimona. This recipe a heard from my very near and dear friend Neelam, who is a Bhojpuri. Nimona is a favorite recipe of bhojpurias. The best taste comes in winters when farm fresh peas are available. In eastern Uttar Pradesh it is called nimona and in Jharkhand & Bihar it is called Gudila. Nimona best goes with rice and Aalu bhujiya. I have made it as it came to me because on internet there were various versions of it.

Ingredients:

Frozen peas – 1.5 cup

Potato -1 medium

Tomato – 1 medium

Onion – 1 medium

Green chilles

Cumin powder – 1 tsp

Coriander powder – 1 tsp

Tumeric powder – ½ tsp

Fenugreek seeds- pinch

Oil -  2-3 tbsp

Garam masala – ½ tsp

Badi elaichi – 1

Method:

1.      Soak peas in lukewarm water to defrost it.

2.      Grind the peas with one chilli in the mixer.

3.      Heat oil in a heavy bottom pan and put fenugreek into the oil and badi elaichi for aroma.

4.      Saute potato and chilli in the oil.

5.      After say 2-3 mins add the mashed peas and cover it for few mins.

6.      Add the cumin, coriander and turmeric powder to the mix.

7.      Saute for few mins,

8.      Add salt and tomatoes along with 2 cups of water and let it boil till oil separates from peas.

Custard Cookies

Custard cookies are beautiful easy cookies. Deliciously tasty and scrumptiously melting moments in your mouth. They are excellent shortbread with beautiful texture yet soft made with custard powder mix.

Butter 250 g
Sugar powder (or) icing sugar 155 g
All purpose flour 250 g
Custard powder 155 g
Egg 1 n
Castor sugar for coating

Procedure 
1. Take a bowl add butter, sugar powder, cream it and add egg mix it well.

2. In this add all purpose flour mixture (all purpose flour and custard powder)mix it well like a soft dough. If you over mix they can become hard so just fold in the flour and custard mix into creamed egg sugar butter mixture. 

3. Make them into round balls and coat with the castor sugar, transfer into baking tray, take a fork and press it on the top of the roundels

4. Bake them at 180 degree centigrade for 15 minutes. 

Microwave Chiki recipe

Hello,

Recently juggling with two kids I am pressed for time. So I try and find recipes that take a little time. Like this one here. I had tried this and proved a very good adapted from Madhura recipe turned out be a bonus.

3/4 cup Sesame Seeds
1 cup dark jaggery
1 tsp of ghee or clarified butter
1/4 cup of  roughly grounded cashew nuts /peanuts/ pistachios
1/2 tsp of cardamon powder
1 tsp of water


Procedure:
1. Microwave sesame seeds for total of 4 mins in the microwave at high power intermittently stirring after 2 mins in a microwavable glass bowl. Remove and keep it to cool.

2.   In the microwavable glass bowl add 1 tsp of clarified butter and add 1 cup of dark jaggery. Microwave for 2 mins intermittently stirring every 1 min.

3.  Once jaggery is melted add cardamon powder, sesame seeds, nut powder and mix it well before it gets cool.

4. transfer this on to a baking paper and sandwich between the paper adn just roll with the roller pin. Once rolled in desired thickness, say 0.5 cms, cut them in square or diamond shape with the knife or pizza cutter. And let it cool down for 30 min.

Your easy peasy til gul vadi for your Sankranti special made just under 15 mins. Enjoy!!!!!