Indian Cookie Recipe - Butter Scotch Cookies

Butter Scotch Cookies   
  
Preparation Time : 15-20 mins
Baking time : 12-15 mins
Serves / Makes : Makes 25-30 cookies
 
Ingredients :
Flour 11/3 cups
Shortening ¼ cup
Butter/margarine ¼ cup
Brown sugar 1/3 cup
Sugar 1/3 cup
Walnuts 1/3 cup
Egg 1 no.
Vanilla essence ¾ tsp.
Soda bi-carb ¾ tsp.

Directions : 
1.   Melt the butter & shortening. A
2.   Add both the sugars and mix well.
3.   Add the egg and blend well.
4.   Sift the flour & soda & add this to the egg mixture.
5.   Now add the chopped nuts & vanilla essence,chill and roll into balls.
6.   Bake on an ungreased tray in a moderate oven at 170 º C for 12-15 mins.
7.   Remove immediately,cool & store in air-tight containers. 

Courtesy : User Contribution at Tarla Dalal

Indian Dessert Recipe - Basundi

BASUNDI

Ingredients : 
2 litres Milk
2 tblsp Lemon Juice
1 cup Sugar
8 crushed Cardamoms
5 chopped Almond (Badam)
10 roughly chopped Charioli nuts

Directions :
1.   Boil the milk in a kadai.
2.   Keep stirring constantly and reduce it till it becomes thick and the quantity of the milk
      is approximately half a litre.
3.   Remove from the flame and keep aside.
4.   Add the lemon juice to the milk and stir the mixture so that it becomes granular in
      consistency.
5.   Return to a medium flame.
6.   Add the sugar and cook for another 10 minutes.
7.   Stir the mixture occasionally. Remove from the fire.
8.   Transfer to a bowl and add the cardamoms and the nuts.
9.   Mix thoroughly.  Serve hot or cold.

Courtesy : Indian Food Forever

Indian Drink Recipe - Shikanji

Shikanji

Ingredients :
1/2 cup: Freshly squeezed juice of limes
1 tablespoon: Juice extracted from fresh ginger root
1 cup: White sugar
2 cups: Water
 
Directions :
1.   Combine lime and ginger juice in a bowl.
2.   Heat water and sugar in a pan, bring to boil for 30 seconds.
3.   When syrup is cool, stir in lime and ginger juice and chill.
4.   To serve, add 2 tablespoons of syrup to a glass of chilled water, and add some crushed ice.

Courtesy : SurfIndia

Indian Left-Over Recipe

Stuffed Veggies  From Left Over Rice

Ingredients :
 1 capsicum
 1 tomato
 1 semi boiled potato
 1 brinjal (eggplant)
 2 cup leftover rice
 2 tsp. tomato sauce
 1 tsp. chili powder
 Salt according to taste
 1/2 tsp. Soya sauce
 1/2 tsp. sugar
 2 tsp. chopped coriander
 1/2 tsp. butter
 1/2 tsp. cornflour
 1 tbsp. grated cheese
 
Method :
1.   To make a stuffing, mix all ingredients (except vegetables & cheese) in a bowl.
      Knead a little.
2.   Cut a small slice from the top of the tomato, capsicum and potato.
3.   Carefully scoop out the their insides and boil the hollow veggies in some salted water.
4.   Fill stuffing into the hollow vegetables. Top with grated cheese. Dot with butter.
5.   Bake in pre-heated oven or griller till vegetables are cooked.
6.   Serve hot with toast and sauce.

Courtesy  : Ruchi's Kitchen

Indian Starter Recipe - Tandoori Soya Balls

Tandoori Soya Balls 
 
Preparation Time : 25
Serves / Makes : 4
 
Ingredients :
For the Balls :
1 cup Soya Bean(fine granuled)
4 Bread Slices
1 tsp Ginger Garlic paste
2 green chillies chopped
1 tbsp Corainder Leaves
1 tsp black pepper powder
1tsp garam masala powder
Salt to taste
Oil for Frying

For the Sauce :
1 Tomato Blanched and pureed
1 tsp Garlic finely chopped
1 tsp Ginger finely Chopped
1 tsp Red chilly powder
1 tsp tandoori colour
Salt to taste
 
Directions : 
To make balls :
1.   Soak soya bean in 1 cup of water for five minutes.
2.   Drain water and squeeze well to remove excess water.
3.   Now add all the other ingredients mentioned above for making the balls(except for the oil).
4.   Knead the dough well and make small balls.
5.   Now Deep Fry them in oil and remove till golden brown in colour.

To make the sauce :
1. Take a pan and add 1 tsp of oil add finely chopped ginger, garlic and green chillies,fry for a minute.
2. Now add tomato puree,red chilly powder,salt,red colour,tomato sauce and fry well till the oil separates out.
3. Now add the fried balls and mix well till the sauce coats well on the balls.
4. Remove from heat and garnish with corainder leaves.

Tips :
This is delicious and starter.You can serve these balls directly on the plattter or can fix a toothpick on each ball and serve it for easy pick. 

Courtesy : User Contribution at Tarla Dalal