Friday, December 31, 2021

Rainbow Zebra Cake Recipe

Colourful rainbow zebra cake with step by step pictures. This bright cake has a rainbow zebra like pattern.   Rainbow Zebra Cake 2015 was a wonderful year for me, it was almost like a roller coaster ride, there were many ups and down in my personal life.But when considering my blog it was a fantastic...

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Tomato Paneer Curry Recipe

Paneer tomato curry which goes well with roti, rice, naan. This tamatar paneer curry taste delicious and is easy to make. Tomato Paneer Curry  Tomato paneer curry is my go to recipe. It is fast to make and taste yummy with chapati or poori or bhaturas. Its been a while since i shared any paneer...

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Thursday, December 30, 2021

Kabsa | Kabsa Rice

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Bread Omelette Recipe

Bread omelette is a popular street food recipe all over india. This bread omelette recipe shown here is made three ways with bread, eggs and cheese. It has a special chutney applied on top as well.     Bread Omelette (Three Ways) Egg and Bread omelette recipe made with bread, eggs, any filling of choice,...

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Lemon Bars Recipe

Tangy and Buttery lemon bars which has a crusty buttery flaky shortcrust pastry which is filled with a custardy lemony filling which taste so delicious. Lemon Bars Recipe Baking a Lemon Bar is my Dream. Along with the Apple Crumble, I longed so much to bake this lemon bars. I was a little bit worried...

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No Bake Lemon Bars Recipe

No Bake lemon bars with step by step pictures. Delicious no bake lemon desserts which is easy to make and taste yummy. No Bake Lemon Bars This is a delicious super easy lemon bars which can be made without baking. It is perfect for parties and taste really delicious. The topping is so lemony and...

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Sooji Ka Halwa Recipe

Sooji ka halwa, an Indian dish prepared with semolina, sugar and ghee as main ingredients. Let’s see how to make sooji halwa easily in this post with step by step photos and video.

sooji ka halwa
Sooji ka halwa

Sooji ka halwa is very popular during Ashtami as Puri halwa. Also is a prasad in other festival days. Make it anytime of the year as it is very easy to do and loved by all.

This is similar to my other south Indian version on this site, but just minor changes makes it different from how it is prepare in the North Indian states.

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To prepare suji ka halwa, roast semolina (known as suji/ sooji or rava in India) well until it is deep golden in generous amount of ghee.

Cook it with water and sugar and garnish optionally with nuts and cardamom.

This dessert is very similar to South Indian Rava kesari. In that version, ghee is slightly less. And mostly has artificial color.

Where as in Suji halwa, we roast very well to get that deep golden hue and only saffron is used for colour. You can make it without saffron too.

There are many variations of the same recipe changing from household to household. Can be altered according to individual preferences.

Please check my Variations section for more notes.

Wishing all my follower friends A Happy, Prosperous & Healthy New year 2022!

🥘 Ingredients

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Suji halwa ingredients
Suji halwa ingredients
  • Sooji – Semolina (Cream of wheat) Suji/ Rava.
  • Sugar
  • Ghee
  • Cardamom – I used green cardamom. Always have some stock powdered with sugar to use easily.

See recipe card for full list and quantities.

Instructions

  1. Heat a pan with ghee firstly. Add sooji to it.
roast semolina

2. Roast furthermore thoroughly until you get deep golden in color. Do it patiently in medium flame to avoid burnt semolina.

Especially towards the end. If it smokes, reduce the heat and keep stirring.

roasted sooji

3. Meanwhile, boil measured water with salt. Bring to rolling boil.

boil water

4. After that, add it to the roasted sooji carefully. It will splutter a lot, so carefully add.

add to roasted

5. Mix briskly and let it gets absorbed.

mix

6. Furthermore, cook covered for 3-4 minutes or until everything is absorbed.

cook covered
cooked

7. Then, add saffron soaked in warm milk, sugar and mix well.

saffron
add sugar

8. Eventually, it will loosen up as you mix.

loosen

9. Keep stirring continuously and the ghee will apparently ooze out and become non sticky. Hardly takes 2-3 minutes.

ghee
semolina halwa steps

10. After that melt a tablespoon of ghee and fry nuts until golden.

roast nuts

11. Add it to the sooji ka halwa along with cardamom powder. Mix well and switch off the flame.

add to halwa

Sooji ka halwa ready to enjoy!

sooji ka halwa recipe

👩🏻‍🍳 Substitutions

  • Sugar – instead of white, you can use un-refined or demerara for more deep hue. Not to confuse with brown one which may change the taste totally.

I would not suggest substituting other ingredients which may yield totally different results.

In case if you are wondering you could make a vegan semolina pudding, you can use vegan butter or Oil (any neutral smelling one like vegetable/ sun flower).

I recommend to use more cardamom or any flavor to suppress the oil smell.

Instead of milk, you can use almond milk.

📖 Variations

Giving the visitor ideas on how they can change this recipe to better suit their dinner guests, or their cultural cuisine, is a great way to increase the chances they make the recipe

  • Healthier choices – add any fruit puree like banana or dates and reduce sugar. You can use brown in place of white refined ones. Keep in mind all these are not low calorie but better choices, that’s all as well as they may be totally different in taste from the original taste.
  • Sugar quantity – Can be added according to personal preference. It can be as less as ½ to 1 cup for this recipe. I added ¾th and found it less sweet as I am sweet toothed. So it is up to you. If you ask me, I will suggest 1 cup as in my rava kesari recipe.
  • Water – Though I have added 2 cups, you can also add less. 1 & ½ is also enough which gives you slightly chewier result if you like that.
  • A note in method – I have seen most of the people boil sugar and water together. Then they add it to roasted sooji and cook together. I am used to do semolina first softly and then adding sugar. This gives softer results and there will be no chewy suji texture just in case if you run into trouble. This is foolproof method for beginners as well.

🍽 Equipment

I used my IKEA saute pan (stainless steel). You can also use non stick for easy handling, especially if you are beginner.

🥗 Storage

Good for 2 days at room temperature. Up to 5 days in fridge and 3 months in freezer.

Store in airtight container for storing.

You can re heat by returning the halwa to pan and stirring over medium flame until you see soft texture and ghee oozing out.

To use frozen suji halwa, thaw it first by leaving in counter top for 30 mins. Then do as mentioned above.

💭 Top tip

Make sure to cook the Sooji well for perfect texture. If it is not, then it may harden and give chewy texture.

Patiently stir it and do not over do.

Any type of sooji can be used (Bombay rava/ fine/ coarse/ roasted/ etc)

Even if it is roasted or not, it is must to roast again in ghee until dark yellowish in color.

Do not use semolina flour for this recipe.

After adding water, cook the semolina quickly in high flame. Do not do in low as it may turn the semolina too soft/ gooey.

sooji ka halwa
Sooji halwa

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Sooji ka halwa recipe

Sooji ka halwa, an Indian dish prepared with semolina, sugar and ghee as main ingredients. Let’s see how to make sooji halwa easily in this post with step by step photos and video.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Indian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Servings 6 People
Cup measurements

Ingredients

  • ½ cup Sooji Semolina/ Rava
  • ¾ cup Sugar Refer notes
  • 2 cups Water Refer notes
  • ½ cup Ghee Divided
  • 2 Cardamom Powdered
  • ¼ cup Chopped nuts Almonds, cashews
  • 1 Pinch Salt
  • 1 Pinch Saffron optional
  • 1 tablespoon Milk Warm, to soak saffron

Instructions

  • Heat a pan with ghee firstly. Add sooji to it.
  • Roast furthermore thoroughly until you get deep golden in color. Do it patiently in medium heat to avoid burnt semolina.
  • Especially towards the end. If it smokes, reduce the heat and keep stirring.
  • Meanwhile, boil measured water with salt. Bring to rolling boil.
  • After that, add it to the roasted sooji carefully. It will splutter a lot, so carefully add.
  • Mix briskly and let the water gets absorbed.
  • Furthermore, cook covered for 3-4 minutes or until all water is absorbed.
  • Then, add saffron soaked in warm milk, sugar and mix well.
  • Eventually, it will loosen up as you mix and sugar melts.
  • Keep stirring continuously and the ghee will apparently ooze out and become non sticky. Hardly takes 2-3 minutes.
  • After that heat a tablespoon of ghee and roast nuts until golden.
  • Add it to the sooji ka halwa along with cardamom powder. Mix well and switch off the flame.

Video

Notes

  • I added ¾ cup sugar, it was just right, if you are sweet toothed, you can add upto 1 cup.
  • Ghee measurement includes ghee I used for roasting nuts. ⅓ cup is enough for roasting sooji.
  • Instead of 2 cups water for cooking sooji, you can use just 1 & ½ cups too for firmer texture.
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Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Strawberry Milkshake Recipe

Strawberry Milkshake is a very delicious refreshing shake that can be made in a jiffy. Strawberry Milkshake is a perfect drink to celebrate summer as its so creamy with a bursting flavour of strawberries. Strawberry Milkshake Recipe with step by step pictures and video.

strawberry milkshake recipe

Strawberry milkshake can be made in many ways. I have given 2 ways one is the classic shake with strawberries and milk and another is a vegan option with almond milk.

About Strawberry Milkshake

Strawberry Milkshake is a cool delicious shake with the addition of fresh strawberries, milk and ice cream for the richness and creaminess. This is one drink you will crave for as its sweet, tasty and perfect especially for summer.

This milkshake is made with fresh strawberries, milk and sugar. In addition icecream is added to make the shake rich and creamy but you can skip it too. It is topped with whipped cream to fancy the shake more, you can even drizzle strawberry syrup likewise the topping options are endless.

It can fit into the desert category with the addition icecream and whipped cream as topping. If you want to go in a low fat or vegan option you can choose the seond recipe which uses almond milk and almonds.

It can be made using flavoured strawberry crush or even strawberry essence but nothing beats the tall glass of chilled fresh strawberry milkshake.Strawberries are so versatile that they can be used in many baked desserts, puddings, fruit salad etc.

Strawberries – Fruit from the heart!

Life is like strawberry – sometime sweet and sometime sour. But choosing strawberry is easy!

Fragrant strawberries are the fresh ones – smell them at a small distance to get your right ones. Choose firm, medium size and bright red strawberries with stem. Soft may indicate overripe fruit which may not long laster, small sized may not yield juice and the green ones may not be tasty when allowed to ripe in fridge!

Yes –Strawberry milk shake is bottled liquid heart! Strawberry shake with heart shaped strawberries on the side symbolizes our heart for the deared ones – make it on special occasions and enjoy with the family.

Colour of the strawberry shake gives a soothe comfort feel that we should pamper ourselves with before enjoying it!

Strawberry Milkshake Ingredients

Strawberry Milkshake needs just 3 main ingredients but to make it more fancy icecream and toppings are added.

  • Fresh Strawberries : Choose strawberries that are red, fresh and ripe.
  • Milk : Use full fat boiled, vooled and chilled milk. For vegan option you can use almond milk too.
  • Sugar : Sugar can be adjusted depending on the sweetness of the fruit. You can even skip it if you are adding more ice cream.
  • Ice cream : This is purely optional but is added to get a thick creamy shake just as in shops. I used strawberry icecream but alternatively you can even use vanilla ice cream.
  • Topping : I have used mildly sweetened whipped cream topping. You can drizzle strawberry syrup over whipped cream.

Strawberry Milkshake Methods

  • Classic Strawberry Milkshake : This is the classic version fof starwberry milkshake with fresh strawberries, milk and icecream.
  • Vegan Strawberry Shake : This is a plan based vegan strawberry shake which uses fresh strawberries, milk and sugar. This is a low fat version as there is no icecream included here. I have included frozen almond milk to make the shake more creamy.
strawberry milkshake ingredients

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Strawberry Milkshake

Strawberry Milkshake is a very delicious refreshing shake that can be made in a jiffy. Strawberry Milkshake is a perfect drink to celebrate summer as its so creamy with a bursting flavour of strawberries.
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Author Sharmilee J

Ingredients

  • 100 gms strawberries frozen
  • 1 cup milk boiled, cooled and chilled
  • 2 to 3 small scoops strawberry icecream
  • 1 tbsp sugar

Instructions

  • Measure and take 100 gms starwberries from the pack.
  • Rinse it well, pat dry it.
  • Chop of the green leafy part which is called hulling of starwberries.
  • Chop strawberries roughly.
  • Get all your ingredients ready.
  • Now to a mixer jar add strawberries first.
  • Now add milk to it. Boiled and cooled milk, preferable full fat milk to be used.
  • Add sugar to it. THough this is optional as we are adding icecream I added very less.
  • Add 2 to 3 scoops strawberry icecream to it.
  • Now all ready to blend.
  • Now blend until smooth and creamy. If you like chunky pieces in your milkshake then blend accordingly.
  • Rich smooth creamy strawberry milkshake ready!
  • Pour into serving glass.
  • Top it up with shipped cream with a garnish of strawberry.

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How to make Strawberry Milkshake

Preparing Strawberries

1.Measure and take 100 gms starwberries from the pack.

take strawberries

2.Rinse it well, pat dry it.

rinse it well set aside

3.Chop of the green leafy part which is called hulling of starwberries.

remove the leaf part

4.Chop strawberries roughly.

chop strawberrries roughly

Preparing Ingredients

5..Get all your ingredients ready.

strawberry milkshake recipe get your ingredients ready

6.Now to a mixer jar add strawberries first.

strawberry milkshake recipe to a mixer jar add strawberries

7.Now add milk to it. Boiled and cooled milk, preferable full fat milk to be used.

strawberry milkshake recipe add milk

8. Add sugar to it. Though this is optional as we are adding icecream I added very less.

strawberry milkshake recipe add sugar to it

9.Add 2 to 3 scoops strawberry icecream to it.

strawberry milkshake recipe add strawberry icecream

10.Now all ready to blend.

strawberry milkshake recipe all ready to blend

11.Now blend until smooth and creamy. If you like chunky pieces in your milkshake then blend accordingly.

strawberry milkshake recipe blend until smooth and creamy

12.Rich smooth creamy strawberry milkshake ready!

strawberry milkshake ready

12.Pour into serving glass.

strawberry milkshake recipe add to serving glass

13.Top it up with shipped cream with a garnish of strawberry.

top with whipped cream

Enjoy chilled!

Expert Tips

  • You can add fresh strawberries or frozen ones too. Make sure strawberries are rinsed well, hulled before use.
  • If you want to cut down icecream then replace it with frozen milk.
  • Adding sugar is optional depends on the sweetness of the fruit.
  • Choose strawberries that are ripe and sweet.
  • Blend until smooth if you are looking for a smooth creamy shake. If you like chunky pieces in your shake blend accordingly, first blend well then pulse it few times .
  • Wash the strawberries before eating or using it only. Do not wash the strawberries if you are storing them for later use. Strawberries soak up the water, which may make them mushy and reduce shelf life.
  • If you had bought strawberries with the stem, don’t pluck it off their stems to retain freshness and increase shelf life. You can remove the stem while using it for recipes.

Vegan Strawberry Milkshake

Strawberry Milkshake with almond milk delicious creamy shake with almonds and strawberries combo.Easy strawberry almond milkshake recipe with step by step pictures.

vegan strawberry milkshake recipe

More strawberries recipes

More milkshake recipes

Ingredients

  • 150 gms strawberries
  • 1/2 cup almond milk
  • 1/2 cup almond milk(frozen)
  • 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1/4 tsp vanilla essence
  • 10 nos almonds (to soak)

How to make Vegan Strawberry Milkshake

1.Soak almonds in hot water for 15 mins.

soak almonds in hot water

2.Peel off the skin, set aside.

peel of the skin

3.To a mixer jar add chopped strawberries.

add strawberries

4.Add almonds to it.

add almonds

5.Add sugar.

add sugar to it

6. Add almond milk to it. To prepare almond milk : Soak 10 almonds in hot water, peel the skin then grind it along with little water until smooth. Now transfer this to strainer, and strain the milk, almond milk ready to use. If you are not looking for a vegan option then use regular milk boiled and cooled.

add almond milk to it

7.All ready to blend.

all ready to blend

8.Blend until smooth.

blend until smooth

9.Now add frozen almond milk.

add frozen almond milk

10.Add vanill essence to it.

add vanilla essence to it

11.Blend well. Creamy delicious strawberry milkshake ready!

blend well

Serve chilled!

Variations

  • If you skip icecream then freeze 1/2 cup milk and add it along with 1/2 cup milk for a thick creamy shake.
  • You can make a combination shake with strawberry-banana or strawberry-mango etc.
  • Add dry fruits and nuts of your choice for a healthy shake. Just soak in hot water for 15 misn then add to yield a creamy shake.
  • Replace strawberry icecream with vanilla icecream for a unique taste.

Serving & Storage

  • Serve with shipped cream as topping, drizzle strawberry syrup and serve chilled.
  • You can serve the milkshake with a small scoop of strawberry / vanilla icecream.

FAQs

1.What is Strawberry Milkshake?

Strawberry Milkshake is a tasty creamy and delicious shake with full of strawberry goddness and flavour.

2.What is Strawberry Milkshake made of?

Strawberry Milkshake is made with fresh strawberries, milk and sugar. Additionally icecream is added and blended for a thick and creamy shake.

3.How do you thicken Strawberry Milkshake?

Add icecream or frozen milk to make a thick and creamy shake.

4.What is the best strawberry milkshake combination?

I love the strawberry vanilla combination which is subtle and gives the full flavour of strawberries. But its purely your preference as my kid loves strawberry with mangoes.

5.Can I use frozen strawberries?

Yes fresh strawberries are best to use in milkshakes but if you do not have access to it then you can add frozen strawberries too.

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