Masala Chaas / buttermilk

Yummy yummy yummy!

Ingredients-
2 glasses curd

2 glasses water
1 tsp oil

1 tsp mustard seeds
2 tsp curry leaves (chopped if you prefer)
1 tsp ginger paste

pinch of asafetida
2 green chillies - optional
Salt to taste / use kala namak / black salt
A handful of finely chopped corainder leaves - optional

Method-

Mix the water and the curd well. Use a hand mixer or blend it. I used the traditional mathani. Hehe.

Add salt, green chillies. Keep aside.

In a tadka pan, heat oil. Add mustard seeds and before they begin to splutter like crazy, add the curry leaves, coriander leaves, ginger and asafoetida. All this in 30 secs flat!

Remove from fire, add to the buttermilk. Mix well. Serve in glasses. 

Poori halwa for dinner

poori, halwa and cabbage veggie

Yesterday was one of those days when you crave for good food someone else cooks for you.. I didn't have anyone to cook for me though. We were hungry at 7pm. What better to have a good early dinner! I made pooris, cabbage veggie and halwa.

Recipe for besan halwa-
Ingredients-
2 cups gram flour / besan
1/2 cup jaggery / sugar
3-4 tbsp ghee / oil
2 cups milk / water (you can also take 1 cup milk and 1 cup water)

Method-
Heat 2 tbsp ghee and roast the gram flour till the color changes. Add the milk / water to the flour and keep stirring to avoid lumps. Add sugar / jaggery and mix till it dissolves. Add the remaining ghee and mix till it becomes a lump. Serve in bowls. 

Optional- You can add some raisins and roasted nuts and also some cardamom.

To my halwa, I added 1 cup semolina / rava / sooji and 1 cup besan.