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Yogurt and Mint Dip! This is such a easy recipe to make and can accompany with so many dishes. like tandoori chicken, Tikkas, Parathas, Briyani or Pulao, you can serve this with anything you like and it tastes great..xx

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https://youtu.be/oVh2Q-atGLQ

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Dahi Baingan | Eggplant In Yogurt | Rumana's UK Kitchen

One of the Easy and tasty egg plant recipes, is made with few aromatic spices and yogurt base gravy, which will make you feel wanting more and more of it. This dish can be made even without using onion and garlic. But do try out my version and i promise you and your family will love it.. X

Can be served with Roti, Naan or Vegetable Pulao.

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Overnight Oatmeal.

Overnight Oatmeal this has become favourite meal in my family and I make this atleast twice a week. It makes a morning job easy and gives a quick meal of the day, which keep the whole day energetic and healthy.

Ingredient's for Soaking.

1 cup oats

1 cup curd

1cup milk

2tbsp honey.

Ingredient's for Garnishing.

Hand full of chopped dry fruits

1 slice banana

1tsp flax seeds

2tbsp dried cranberry.

Making Method.

In a large bowl, add the oats,curd,milk and honey. Mix it well and refrigerate overnight.

Next day, In a large serving bowl, add the soaked oats and garnish with dry fruits, banana, flax seeds and cranberry. 

Serve cold.

Chocolate Brownie Milkshake.

Chocolate Brownie Milkshake this is a incredibly delicious milkshake I have ever made. When you have chocolate, brownie, milk and vanilla ice cream in a one glass who will say no to this and worry about calories. So simple and delicious milkshake to have for breakfast and be energetic whole day and feel good about it.. Be it a summer or winter this drink will get a smile on your face anytime.. All you need is few ingredients and a blender, just blend everything together and enjoy your milkshake..

Ingredient's.

1 cup of chocolate brownie

1/2 cup vanilla ice cream

2 cups milk

1/2 cup melted chocolate

1/2 cup yogurt

Few ice cubes.

Method.

In a blender, mix all the above ingredients and blend everything together to a smooth consistency.

Then pour them into the tall glass and serve chilled.

Oats Cheese Cake With Britannia Nutrichoice Oats Cookies. Diabetic Friendly.

Healthy version of Oats Cheese Cake made with Britannia Nutrichoice Oats Cookies and honey, which I learnt at Diabetic Food Trail Masterclass. It was so yummy yet healthy and that stole my heart and never wanted to wait for trying this recipe at home with my own twist. Here comes the recipe of oats cheese cake with my own twist and it taste as good as the original recipe and I must say this is an a awesome dessert or breakfast for the health conscious people who might be bored of eating that plain and tasteless food.. Seriously I can't believe that diabetic food also can be made so tasty until I attended this event. A big thanks to Ms.Seema Pinto and Mr.Manoj Pinto for coming up with this diabetic food trail and making those people happy who are banned to eat something sweet.. There are many more recipes coming up which I have learnt in the event.. People do try this healthy cheese cake you'll definitely fall in love as I have.

Ingredient's.

1 cup quicker oats

1/2 cup cream cheese

3/4 cup yogurt

1/2 cup milk

10 Britannia nutrichoice oats cookies

5 tbsp honey (add more if needed)

1/ 2 cup chopped dry fruits (almonds, cashew and pistachio)

1 tbsp strawberry compound.

Method.

In a mixing bowl, add oats, cream cheese, milk, yogurt and 2tbsp honey and give nice mix. Then cover the lid and refrigerate over night or atleast 4 to 5 hours.

Then finely grind the oats cookies and take it out to another mixing bowl, add the 3tbsp honey and make a crumble, (add more honey if needed, for me this much of honey was enough since we don't like much sweet)

Now take serving glass/bowl, add the cookies crumble down and make a base, then take out the overnight cream cheese mixture and add half of the dry fruits and give a quick mix. then pour the mix on top of the cookies base and garnish with strawberry compound and leftover dry fruits. Then put the glasses back to refrigerator for atleast 25 to 30 minutes to set.

Serve chill.

Eggless Red Velvet Cake!!

Eggless Red Velvet Cake. This cake was baked for one of my good friend in my apartment on her birthday. After seeing the cake she was very happy with look and the taste. Since there are few friends in our group are vegetarian and they don't even eat egg, so only I had to bake eggless cake. Otherwise I love the eggs in cakes. The cake had turnout very moist and tasty. I could not cut the piece and take a picture from inside since it was a birthday cake. But its in my list, next time when I bake this cake then I'll take a inside picture and update on my blog. I'm sure when you'll try this eggless cake, will definitely leave you speechless..

Ingredient's.

1+1/2 flour

1+1/2 tbsp coco powder

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 cup oil

1 cup curd

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup sugar

2 tsp lemon juice/ vinegar

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 to 2 tsp tomato red food color.

Ingredient's for Icing.

100 gram creme cheese

1/2 cup unsalted butter

1 tbsp vanilla essence

1 cup icing sugar

1/4 cup water and 2tbsp sugar (to moist the cake while icing).

Baking Method.

Pre-heat the oven to 180c for 10 minutes.

In a dry mixing bowl, sieve the flour, coco powder, baking soda and salt.

In another mixing bowl, add the oil, sugar and curd, beat them till creamy. add the lemon/vinegar, vanilla essence and food color. beat all together for 3 to 4 minutes. 

Now add the dry ingredients and beat until all the ingredients are incorporated well.

Then pour the cake mixture into a nonstick baking tray and bake the cake for 31 to 35 minutes. Or insert the tooth pick to check, when it comes out clean. Then your cake is baked.

Icing Method.

In a mixing bowl take a creme cheese and beat for a minute. Then add the butter. sugar and vanilla and beat all together until you get a creme consistency. (you can add 1/2 cup more sugar if you like you cake more sweeter) In a small cup take the 1/4 cup water and 2 tbsp sugar, dissolve the sugar and keep it aside.

Cut the baked cake into 2 circular half and pour the sugar mixture on both equally divided. 

Take a star shape nostril and place into a piping bag and pour some of the creme icing and keep it aside. Apply the creme cheese icing onto one piece of cake, then place the other piece of cake on top. Now apply the rest of the icing on to the full cake. (Now its your choice to ice the cake as you like)

Serve at the room temperature.

Carrot Cake With Walnuts. (Butterless Sugarless)

Carrot Cake With Walnuts is an a awesome cake with little hint of nutmeg and cinnamon and it taste very good and lite. Using vegetable oil makes this cake very light and fluffy. Usually its icing with cream cheese, since I was out of cream cheese so I did with icing sugar glaze and it was not a bad decision.. It looked as beautiful and tasted as it suppose to be.. Since it's less calories and you don't have to worry after eating a piece and there is no compromise on the taste.. Try this recipe you'll love it..

Ingredient's.

3/4 cup honey (if no honey use 1 cup sugar)

1/2+1/4 cup vegetable oil

1+1/4 cup plain flour

1 egg

1/4 cup curd

1+1/2 cup shredded carrot

1/2tsp cinnamon powder

1/4tsp nutmeg powder

1/2+1/8 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup chopped walnuts.

Ingredients For Glaze.

1/2 cup icing sugar

2 tbsp milk.

Baking Method.

Pre-heat the oven at 180c for 10 minutes.

In a mixing bowl. beat the oil, honey, curd and egg together for 2 to 3 minutes or till fluffy

In another bowl mix the all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon

Then add the shredded carrot and dry ingredients to the wet mixture and beat for another 1 to 2 minutes. Now add the walnuts and give a quick mix. Then transfer the batter to the non-stick round baking tray and bake for 35 to 40 minutes.

Then cool completely on a wire wrack.

Mix the icing sugar and milk together to a pouring consistency. Then pour the glaze on the cooled cake and Serve.

Mutton Kheema Pulao. (Pressure Cooker Version)

Mutton Kheema Pulao. This dish can be called Briyani or Pulao. I always love anything which is one pot-meal and gets cooked in no time. This dish takes no time when you cook in pressure cooker all you have do just put all the ingredients together and you have delicious pulao ready in 10minutes. I do prepare many other version but some how I always like this, very soon I would be putting other recipes also for kheema briyani. Do try and enjoy..

Ingredient's.

100gram mutton/lamb kheema

1 cup normal rice

1 small onion, 1 medium tomato (cut into julienne)

2 green chillies

1tsp red chilli powder, 1/2tsp turmeric

1/2tsp garam masala, 1tsp coriander powder

1/2tsp cumin

1tsp ginger garlic paste

1tbsp lemon juice, 2tbsp curd

2tbsp green peas

2tbsp coriander leaves and mint leaves (finely chopped)

2cups water

Salt and Oil to taste.

Cooking Method.

In a pressure cooker, add oil, when oil is hot, add cumin when they splutter, add onion and whole green chillies and fry for a minute. Then add kheema, red chilli powder, turmeric, garam masala and coriander powder and fry for 2 minutes, add tomato, ginger garlic paste, lemon, curd, green peas and salt, mix them nicely.

Now add rice and water, adjust the seasoning and close the lid and cook for 3whistle (1 in high flame and 2 in low flame) allow the pressure to go before opening the cooker.

Serve hot with Onion Raita.

Chicken Dum Pulao/ Chicken Pulao.

Chicken Dum Pulao. I cook chicken dum briyani very often and everybody loves it and this time for a change I cooked this pulao with very less ingredients and it tasted awesome like briyani only. This is very easy to cook dish and can be cooked as dum or even in pressure cooker too. Actually this pulao tastes better when it cooked 5 to 6 hours before and served with chilled onion raita..

Ingredients.

1/2 kg rice or Basmati rice 

Chicken 1/2 kg

1/2cup green peas

2 big size onion

3 green chilly (chopped) 

4 to 5tbsp of chopped coriander and mint leafs

2tbsp Ginger, garlic paste

1/2tsp turmeric, 1tbsp coriander powder, 1tbsp garam masala 

1/2cup curd, 2tbsp lemon juice

2 bay leafs, 1 cinnamon stick, 2 green cardamom

2 cloves, 1 big black cardamom, 2 star anise

1tbsp shah jeera

Salt as per taste

Oil as per your requirment.

Cooking method.

Wash and soak the rice in enough water for 20 to 30 minutes.

Heat the deep frying pan add oil, when oil is hot, add shah jeera, bay leaves, cinnamon, green cardamom, cloves, star anise and leave till it become's brown. 

Then add onion, ginger garlic paste fry for till the onion becomes lite golden brown, then add chicken, turmeric, and salt, fry it till the chicken starts leaving oil. 

After that add coriander powder and garam masala, give a quick stir, then add curd, lemon, green chilly, green peas and mix well, then add 2tbsp of mint and coriander leafs and mix it well.

Half boil the rice in a seprate pan. add water in to rice as per it required's. drain the water from rice and then add the half boiled rice into the chicken pan and give gentle stir. Then sprinkle from top left over mint and coriander leafs. (you can make as layers also like dum briyani , but I have made it together like pulao). Cover the lid and cook till the rice is completely cooked in a medium flame.

Serve hot hot with Raita.

Kadai Paneer. A Creamy Cottage Cheese Curry With Capsicum.

Kadai Paneer. A creamy cottage cheese curry with capsicum. This is very famous north Indian dish which you will find in all the Indian restaurant. I even have already a post of kadai chicken which is the same cooking method and same ingredients except the chicken. This dish can be cook dry or even gravy. I personally feel little bit of gravy makes it nice combination for the roti, naan or rice.

Ingredient's to make kadai masala.

1tsp whole coriander seeds

2 dry red chilli

1/2tsp cumin

1/2tsp black pepper

3 bay leaves

2 green cardamom

3 cloves

1inch cinnamon stick.

(Dry roast all the above in ingredients and grind it to a fine powder)

Ingredient's.

250g paneer (cut into medium pieces)

1 big onion (finely chopped)

1 cup tomato puree

1 medium green capsicum (cut into small cubes)

1tsp ginger garlic paste

1tsp red chilli powder, 1/2tsp turmeric, 1tsp coriander powder

1tbsp kadai masala, 1/2tsp garam masala

1tsp kasoori meethi (dry fenugreek leaves)

1/4cup curd, 1/4cup milk

1tsp lemon juice

Oil and Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

In a wok, add oil and fry ginger garlic paste, then add onion and fry for 2 minutes. Add turmeric and salt, fry for 2 to 3minutes. Then add red chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala and kadai masala fry for another 2 to 3 minutes. Then add the tomato puree, curd, milk and capsicum and cook for 4 to 5 minutes or till all the masala is coated well to the paneer and oil starts floating on top. finally add lemon juice and kasoori meethi and give a quick stir.

Serve hot with Naan. Roti or Rice.

Kadai Chicken.

Kadai Chicken is also known as a kadai ghost prepared with mutton or lamb and this dish is originated from Pakistan and North India. This dish is known for it's spicy and flavourful taste and can be served with naan, roti or jeera rice. As everybody knowns this days cooking is all about experimenting and cooking something different and that how I keep trying something new every time. I have added capsicum in to this dish which is optional and I have used milk instead of cream and it still gave me the thick and creamy gravy which went very well with homemade garlic naan. It is worth trying this recipe and you will be very happy with the results.

Ingredient's to make kadai masala.

1tsp whole coriander seeds

2 dry red chilli

1/2tsp cumin

1/2tsp black pepper

3 bay leaves

2 green cardamom

3 cloves

1inch cinnamon stick.

(Dry roast all the above in ingredients and grind it to a fine powder)

Ingredient's.

1/2kg chicken (cut into medium pieces)

1 big onion (finely chopped)

1 cup tomato puree

1 medium green capsicum (cut into small cubes)

1tsp ginger garlic paste

1tsp red chilli powder, 1/2tsp turmeric, 1tsp coriander powder

1tbsp kadai masala, 1/2tsp garam masala

1tsp kasoori meethi (dry fenugreek leaves)

1/4cup curd, 1/4cup milk

1tsp lemon juice

Oil and Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

In a wok, add oil and fry ginger garlic paste, then add onion and fry for 2 minutes. Add turmeric, salt and chicken, fry for 2 to 3minutes. Then add red chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala and kadai masala fry for another 2 to 3 minutes. Then add the tomato puree, curd, milk and capsicum and cook for 7 to 8 minutes or till all the masala is coated well to the chicken and oil starts floating on top. finally add lemon juice and kasoori meethi and give a quick stir.

Serve hot with Naan. Roti or Rice.

Instant Rava Idli.

Instant Rava Idli is the best and healthy breakfast. Idli use to be only breakfast dish before in my house but nowadays it has taken the place in lunch, dinner and even evening snacks too. I'm a very big fan of idlis because there is no oil or any masala and they taste great without chutney too. Here in England I'm not able to make over night idli or dosa batter because of the horrible climate, since last 4days it is continuously raining. Keeping this climate in my mind I came up with instant idea using little bit of active yeast.. I know it wont give the same taste but it's better then nothing and I'm happy with it. For this rava idli instead of yeast I have used baking soda and they were very soft and spongy. If your idli is soft and spongy then what else you want.

Ingredient's.

1 cup rava (sooji)

3/4 cup curd

1/2tsp finely chopped giner

1 small onion, 2 small green chillis (finely chopped)

2tbsp chopped coriander leaves

Pinch of baking soda

1/4cup of water

Salt to taste.

Ingredient's For Tempering

1/4tsp channa dal

1/4tsp urad dal

1/4tsp mustard

Few chopped curry leaves

1tbsp oil.

Cooking Method.

In a big mixing bowl, add rava(sooji), curd, onion, green chilli, ginger, baking soda, salt and water, mix them all together well and set it aside for 10 minutes.

In the mean time heat water in a idli steamer and make tempering using all the tempering ingredients. Then mix the tempering into the rava mixture and give quick stir, add more water if you needed to bring it to the right consistency of idli batter. Now pour the ladle full of idli batter into the idli maker trays and steam them for about 15 to 20 minutes.. Take idlis out.

Serve hot with Coconut Chutney and Sambar.

Kesar Shrikhand. (Low Calorie Yogurt Dessert)

Kesar Shrikhand is healthy Indian dessert made from strained curd. This is a low calorie, rich and creamy yogurt. Shrikhand is generally flavoured with saffron, cardamom and dry fruits even it is served with fresh fruits or as a standalone dessert... I was not knowing what is shrikhand and how it taste, I had heard about it but never tasted before I meet my H, I still remember that day when he had got a pack of Haldiram's shrikhand and I told him that why did you get such a expensive curd, you should have just bought a pack of curd which will not cost more then 10rs. He look at me and said you don't know what is this? and I told him yes ofcourse I know this some weird color curd. He started laughing and said this is shrikhand my dear and I can't belive you have still not tasted this and my reaction was ohhh this is shrikhand from then I know what is shrikhand and how it taste like..

I made this dessert last week and it tasted better then the store bought and I did not get the perfect color of saffron while I was taking pictures and I did take the pictures soon just because I knew that it will be over and I was not sure when I will make this dessert again.. After 2 hours I had got the perfect saffron color and it was looking beautiful... Do try this wonderful low fat dessert and serve as you like...

Ingredient's.

2 cups yogurt

1/2 cup powdered sugar (add more if you like)

10 to 15 saffron strands

3tbsp finely chopped dry fruits (pistachio, almond, raisin and cashew)

2tsp milk

Pinch of cardamom powder.

Method.

Spread clean muslin cloth on a big plate. Place yogurt in the center. Wrap and tightly tie muslin cloth.

Hang yogurt for 2 to 3 hours or until all water is drained off from yogurt. It should become very thick.

After that untie muslin cloth and transfer thick strained yogurt to bowl.

Add sugar and cardamom powder and mix well until smooth.

Dissolve saffron in milk and add it to the yogurt mixture and mix well. Then refrigerate for at least 1 to 2 hour before serving.

Garnish it with dry fruits nuts and serve chilled.