Namak Pare (Salty Indian Snack)

Hi All..........
Back with another recipe for diwali, esp love by kids. Namak pare is a salty crunchy snack made by frying. Main ingredient is maida (all purpose flour). You can store them for long in air tight container.

Ingredients:

1 cup  all purpose flour (maida)
1/2 cup whole wheat flour (atta)
6 tbsp oil
1 tbsp salt
1 tsp  ajwain (caraway seeds)
Water 
Oil for frying

Method:

1. Mix  all purpose flour, whole wheat flour,  salt and  ajwain.  Add  water and knead into a medium stiff dough.
2. Keep it aside for 1-2 hrs.
3. Divide the dough in equal portion. Roll each ball into a chapati.Then cut it into  1/2 inch wide strips lengthwise and then into 2 inch across.
4. Heat oil in a kadhai. Drop the strips into the oil and fry them on medium heat till golden in colour.
5. Remove them from oil on an absorbent paper.
6. Once they cool down, store them in an air tight container.
7. Serve along with tea or keep them in your kid's snack box.

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Gulab Jamun

Hi Friends ...

Kuch Meetha Ho Jaye ......Diwali is coming and something in sweets.....Sounds yummy.

My friend Pallavi made Gulab Jamuns for this month SNC EVENT, but I made the same recipe because of Diwali.....

I tried them for the second time, first time had a horrible experience but this time they came out perfect , Thanks Pallavi for sharing the recipe !!!

Ingredients:
1 cup Milk Powder (I used Amulya)
4 tbsp Ghee
1 1/2 tbsp Semolina (sooji)
3 tbsp  Maida
A pinch of baking powder
3 tbsp Cream 
Oil for frying
1 cup Sugar
1/2 cup Water
A pinch of Cardamom powder

Method:

1. Mix milk powder, maida, semolina and baking powder in a large bowl.
2. Add the ghee and mix well. Now add the cream, first add only 2 tbsp, and make soft dough out of it. Add another tbsp if you feel it is dry.
3. Knead it into soft dough.
4. Cover with a kitchen towel for 20-30 min.
5. To make sugar syrup. Mix sugar and water in a large pan and bring it to boil. Keep stirring in between till sugar dissolves completely.
6. Add the cardamom powder, mix well. Remove from fire and keep it aside.
7. Make small balls out of the dough. 
8. Heat oil in a kadhai, to check take small amount of dough and put it in the oil. If it comes up immediately then you oil is ready for frying.
9. Drop the balls in the oil and fry till golden brown in colour. Keep stirring in between to get an even colour.
10. Once done, remove from fire and put them in sugar syrup.
11. Keep them in sugar syrup for 30-40 mins.
12. Once they are lukewarm, Serve them.

Note: If you are storing them in fridge for further use, then make sure to warm them before serving.

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Namkeen Chivda (cornflakes)

Hi Friends ..

Today's recipe I learnt from my best friend Neelima ....She is always with me in my good or bad times. I am  very lucky to have a friend like her..bubbly, happy, smart, active and best quality talkative :-)

She is from Lucknow and they make lot of things at home ...She made this namkeen chivda at home and brought it to my place. I just loved it, asked the recipe and made it :-)

It came out perfectly ...thanks Neelima for sharing the recipe with me :-)

Ingredients:

1 small pack of Corn flakes

2 cups puffed rice
1/2 cup peanuts (with skin)
1/4 cup raisins

1/4 cup broken cashews
Few curry leaves
A pinch asafoetida
1/4 tsp red chilly powder

1/4 cumin powderSalt to taste
1 tsp Sugar

Oil for frying

Method:

1. Fry for raisins, cashews and peanuts in little oil and keep them aside. 
2. Deep fry the corn flakes in a kadai till golden brown in colour and take them out on an absorbent paper. 
3. Heat 1 tsp of oil in the non-stick kadhai, add curry leaves, puffed rice, raisins, cashews and corn flakes mixture. Mix well. 
4. Add sugar, salt, red chilly powder and cumin powder. Mix well. 
5. Your chivda is ready. Once it cools down, store it in an air tight container.

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