Spices...Ahhh..... chilli......I need water!! Many of us have the same reaction when we talk about spices. Food is incomplete without spices and in India. People put loads of spices to make it more delicious and mouth watering. You feel water in your mouth before having indian cuisine and yes after too.

These spices not only add flavor to the cuisine but also have medicinal values. They help prevent and cure various diseases and also increase brain power. Yes I am talking about brain power, ability to think fast, absorb fast and remember long. Lets check out spices which help you increase your brain power.

HOT HOT Summers have come up in its full color. They lower your energies and make you feel lousy all the time. To keep your body hydrated and energetic, I have for you today 4 foods you should have in summers.


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Ingredients

·         Boiled  Pista – 1 cup

·         Apple - 1

·         Cottage Cheese (Milk + few  drops of Lemon) – 1.5 liter

·         Sugar – 3 table spoon

·         Cardamom Powder – 2 pinch

·         Kesar – 1 pinch

·         Badam and Pista to garnish

Method:

Boil pista grind coarsely and sugar syrup keep aside.

Grate Apple add sugar (opt) and if want then steam it, Keep aside.

Make cottage cheese at home add sugar and mash well add elaichi, kesar and  gulab jal .

Then in a dish layer Pista then Apple then Chenna decorate with slivers of badam, pista, kesar and serve cold.

 

Ingredients

·         200 gms    Red peppers, roasted

·         ¼ cup        Fresh breadcrumbs

·         1/3 cup    Walnuts and pine nuts, lightly toasted and finely chopped

·         2-3 large cloves Garlic, made into a paste with 1tsp salt

·         1tbsp    Lemon juice

·         2 tbsp pomegranate juice

·         1tbsp    brown sugar

·         1 tsp Cumin ground

·         ½ tsp Hot dried red chilli flakes

·         ¼  Extra virgin olive oil

·         Salt to taste

Method:

In a food processor blend together all the ingredients except olive oil until the mixture is smooth and with the motor running, add the oil gradually. Transfer the muhammara into a bowl and serve at room temperature with papdi. Want to know recipe of papri? Drop a comment below! or you can drop a mail as well :)

Want to stay healthy and live longer not by cutting your diet but by eating all what you want? Read below!

Today I have for you Australian dish. This best part of this dish is that it is cooked with beer. So for beer lovers this is one you will enjoy having.

Ingredients:

 6 small, boneless white fish fielts
salt
1 and 1/2 self raising flour
one egg
300 ml beer
flour for coating
cooking oil
Thai sweet chili sauce

Procedure:

1.Add egg and salt to self raising flour and mix it.
2. Slowly pour beer to it to make thin paste resembling cream. Now put it in fridge for 30 minutes.
3. Add oil in deep saucepan and heat it high.
4. Take fish pieces and roll them over dry flour. Now dip them in batter.
5.fry these fish pieces in oil .
6.Serve them with lemon slices and Thai sweet chili sauce.
You can serve it with french fries as well.



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‘A Class of Life’ was an appropriate title for the cooking Workshop which was hosted by Le Cresuet, French Cookware Brand at their Saket store. Le Creuset understands the need of today’s house-makers and that’s why they have organized this Workshop with Ms. Bharati Sanghi where she demonstrated her 3 signature dishes fused with Indo-western taste. These dishes are the perfect blend of brisk cooking and fit perfectly to relish the taste buds of your young ones in a healthy way.

Food Expert, Ms. Sanghi also shared her experience that how Le Creuset’s colorful range of cookware, bakeware and kitchen tools plays an important role in her cooking experiments. She is in love with their colourful Oval French Oven and says “It’s made of Cast iron which makes it a perfect fit for stir-fry, slow-cook and even to bake a cake”. She also likes to work with their amazing Spatulas and Nonstick Tri-Ply Stainless Steel Cookware as well.

Recipe by Ms. Bharati Sanghi

CHINESE SAMOSA

Ingredients

Boiled Noodles - 1 ½ Bowl

Vegetables: cabbage, carrots, beans and sprouts (opt) - 1 Bowl

Method:

Saute all these vegetables in oil if wanted you can add onions slices as well. Then add the boiled Noodles, Soya sauce, vinegar, salt and pepper and Tabasco. This is the filling. Make a maida dough and fill with the Noodles filling and seal the edges and deep fry. Serve with chilli Garlic sauce.

"The ChatterHouse" as the name suggests a place where people can sit relax and chat!! chat all day!!. A place which gives you comfort of being at home with delicious food and amazing drinks. 

About Chatterhouse: New Delhi’s latest watering hole arrives at Epicuria, the Food Mall at Nehru Place Metro Station to swing you into the ‘feel good’ mood.The Chatterhouse, is a perfect getaway from the mundane flow of life, bringing alive the very essence of the pub culture made famous by the typical pubs of Europe, offering a place to connect with friends, conversations, awesome food and drinks, in an ambiance that lets you relax and go with the flow. With The Chatterhouse, you are immediately transported to a place where the feeling of bonhomie and camaraderie ensues along with some fabulous food and beverages at a very competitive pricing.

INSPIRED BY NEW YORK, YET, UNABASHEDLY INDIAN

It’s fun, it’s quirky, it’s inspired by New York, yet, unabashedly Indian. Welcome to Monkey Bar! Monkey Bar, India’s first gastropub brand now joins New Delhi’s skyline with its promise to offer you anything but the usual! Located in the heart of south Delhi’s Vasant Kunj, Monkey Bar, the Indian avatar of the Gastropub, puts its own unique spin on the internationally popular concept. It has the essence of a pub and is backed by excellent food and service, at accessible prices. Kheema Bao, dry aged and wood-fired burgers, cocktails in Nutella jars and copper tumblers, Aam panna with vodka, Galouti Killer served with pav, onions and chutney, Spiked Nachos, Sundae Sandwiches and a whole lot more awaits you! Fresh, innovative and affordable cool. 

Cooking time: 2 Hours

Serves:8

Recipe Ingredients

DRY fruits

1 Almonds-soak in a water and remove skin

2 kaju-pcs

3 kishmish whole

 

For the  Aroma

1 saffron –soak  in milk

2 kewra water

Khada Garam masala

1. shahi zeera

2. Tej Patta

3. Big elaichi

4. laung

5. Dal chini (little)

6. kali mirch (whole)

7. ginger paste

8.khus khus paste.

9. Masala for gravy.

10. Potato cube and fried

11. Onion rings and fried

12. Cauliflower pieces and fried

13. Peas – just boiled

14. Bread cubes and fried.

Preparation

Soak the rice for half an hour then boil but not fully and put some garam masla+salt in the rice while boiling. And after that drain the rice and spread on thali and cool a little.and then we take curd, haldi, mirch, dhaniya, salt little aam choor, sookha pudina and make a paste. Then add ghee in a kadhai and warm it then add garlic paste onion paste after it is brown add ginger paste khas khas paste and cook well until the dahi is separated. Then add half a glass warm water and boil further. Add fried bread pcs. And take off the fire and layer the rice with dry fruits fry vegetables and the gravy and saffron mixture. Keep layering until the rice on the top then cover the entire thing with the thali so that steam doesn’t escape cook for slow fire for forty five minutes 

Cooking time: 15 mins

Serves: 4

Recipe Ingredients

*2 glasses Milk

*Half glass water

*5 tbsp Rose syrup

*½  cup Tukmeri seeds

Preparation

Soak the tukmeri seeds in water overnight. Next day, drain the water & keeps the seeds aside. Boil the milk till a little thick. Cool, add Rose syrup with water  & the tukmeri seeds. Pour in glasses .Add ice or vanilla icecream & serve.

 Simple, quick and easy to make recipe, something you will love to make and enjoy having this winter with your family.

Recipe Ingredients

* Bajra (Millet Flour) - 4 tbsp

* Yogurt - 250g

* Salt to taste

* Water - 15 cups

Preparation

Mix together the yogurt & water and the flour in a bowl and boil. Then add salt and let it simmer until it gets a curry like consistency.Serve warm. 

Recipe is shared by Bharti Sanghi

Bharti Sanghi infuses new life into rare and traditional delicacies, creating a special and imaginative spread that includes age old recipes, and new ones with an authentic twist. Bharti’s brand, Life, brings together specially created recipes for beverages handed down over generations. Today, Life offers a range of fruit beverages with two special sugar-free variants. Bharti has also developed food products and Farsaan as well as a special range of customized Indian sweets under the name, ‘Home Alone’


Some of her Rajasthani signatures include the following: besan masala puri, bedmi, kadai puri, baafla, panchmela daal, ker sangri and the famous gatte ki subji. Bharti has made a name for herself among food lovers with her melt in the mouth dahi and gunjia badas,stuffed bati and kabuli rice.  In the traditional Gujrati thali, she has unique innovations like white dhoklas, tiranga dhoklas, and water chestnuts with butter. Bharti has delved into ancient recipes, and even includes long forgotten dishes like the Nadru ki Shammi, Phogle ka Raita and the Gvar Pattha (a curry dish made from aloe vera).

Products are available on order:

D 15/1 Okhla Industrial Area, Phase II

New Delhi - 110020

or 

12, Golflinks, Nr. JLN Metro Station

New Delhi - 110003

For further Information:

Website: http://homealonefoods.com

Sitting on chair in evening with lovely green grass in the lawn and enjoying a hot cup of tea-this is one thing which you want always. Morning tea or evening tea or chit chat over a tea or official meeting over tea-let be any moment you want to talk, tea makes it different. Today we will discuss about the health benefits which tea provides.

You may have tried diet and might have changed your diet plans as well, that might not have helped you much. Today I don’t have any diet plan for you but yes five foods which have high thermogenic effect which will boost your metabolism rate and help you burn calories.