Instant Corn Dhokla

Preparation Time: 10 Minutes
Cooking Time: 15 to 20 minutes
Making Approx. 20 pieces

Ingredients:
1 cup sweet corn kernels (Makai ke dane)
½ cup curds (dahi)
1 cup semolina (Rawa / Soji)
5 long green chillies
1 small piece of ginger
Salt to taste
1 tbsp fruit salt
¼ tbsp lemon juice
¼ tbsp oil for greasing
¼ cup corn kernels for garnish
Ingredients for temper: 11/2 tbsp mustard seeds
2 tbsp oil
A pinch of asafetida ( Hing)
Method:
Step 1: Cut chillies and ginger and combine with the sweet corn and blen in a mixer till smooth.

Step 2: Add curd and blend it.

Step 3: Take the semolina in a bowl and add 1\2 cup water and salt.

Step 4: Add Ginger-green chilli paste and mix well.

Step 5: Just before steaming, sprinkle the fruit salt and lemon juice over it.

Step 6: When the bubbles form, mix gently.
Step 7: Pour spoonfuls of the batter immediately into thali or moulds and shake the thali clockwise to spread the batter in an even layer.

Step 8: Steam in a steamer for 15 to 20 minutes or till the dhoklas are cooked.

Step 9: Cool slightly and cut into square shape.

Step 10: If you like without oil then serve immediately granished with boiled sweet corn and coriander.

Step 11: Heat the oil in a small vessel.

Step 12: Add mustard seeds when the seeds crackle, add asafetida, mix well. Saute on medium flame foe few seconds.

Step 13: Remove from the flame. Pour this tempering over the dhoklas.

Step 14: Serve hot with tomato ketchup or fresh green chutney.:)

Recipe of tomato ketchup click here.

Recipe of Green coriander leaves chutney click here and here.

Recipe of red chillies chutney click here.

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Mix vegetable curry with white gravy

Something different flavor in curry….
Ingredients for white gravy:
1-cup milk
10-15 pieces of cashewnut
10 pieces of garlic
2 pieces of ginger

* Crush all this material in mixer.

Ingredients for grounded:

1-tbsp mustard seeds
1-tbsp cumin seeds
1-tbsp green raw fennel

* Crush all this dry masala in mixer.

Ingredients for boiled:
1-cup green peas
1-cup chopped potatoes
1-cup chopped cabbage
1-cup chopped cauliflower
1\2-cup chopped carrot

* Boiled all ingredients until they are soft.

Ingredients for curry:
1-cup chopped tomatoes,
1\2-cup chopped onion,
1-tbsp butter,
1\2 tbsp turmeric powder,
Coriander leaves for garnish

Method:
Step 1: Heat butter in thick bottom pan.

Step 2: Add chopped onion and cook for 2-3 minutes.

Step 3: Then add chopped tomato and cook until they are soft.

Step 4: Add white gravy and cook for 3-minutes.

Step 5: After that add turmeric powder and grounded masala in it.

Step 6: Add boiled vegetable in it.

Step 7: Mix well and turn off the flame.
Step 8: Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with roti.

Date Sweet/ Khajur Paak

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Ingredients
500gm date khajur packet
200gm fresh mava
50gm sugar
50gm ghee (1\4 cup)
20gm edible gum (Gaund)
1\2 cup water ( or simple milk)
Almonds chopped for decoration
Method
Step 1: Deseed the dates and roughly chop up dates.

Step 2: Take 1\2 cup water (or simple milk) in kadai and heat up to boiling and add chopped dates. Step 3: Keep stirring till all dates becomes soft and turn off the flame.

Step 4: Cool for 2-3 minutes and place into grinder bowl.
Step 5: Blend the date in a mixer till smooth paste (If it is too thick add a tiny amount of water to loosen it but try to make thicker pulp)

Step 5: Grated mava. Step 6: Grind 20 pieces of almond into mixer.

Step 6: Take another thick pan and heat the ghee in pan.

Step 7: Fry edible gum on medium flame.

Step 8: Finely chopped fry edible gum and keep aside.

Step 9: Then remove half of the ghee from pan and add prepare dates mixer.

Step 10: Add sugar and stirring till thick consistency.

Step 11: Stirring well up to all water part is burn and paste of date looks dark brown color.
Step 12: Add fry edible gum and mix it.

Step 13: Add grated mava on a low flame and keep stirring.
Step 14: Stirring up to date mixture sets in thick consistency.

Step 15: Take little part of mixer in hand and try to make small balls if it becomes in shape then turn off the flame. Step 16: After that add almond powder and mix well.

Step 17: Pure the batter of khajur paak or date sweet on the plate.

Step 18: Cool for 20 minutes after that take little ghee in your palm and make medium balls of date sweet or khajur paak.

Step 19: Decorate the balls with chopped almond and place in another plate.

Step 20: Store into container and place in cool.

Another recipe of Date Sweet is HERE

Note:
1. If you use sweet mava then you don’t add sugar because I thought that khajur were sweet enough.
2. If you don’t like to add water then you directly grind the dates into grinder but you need heavy duty grinder because dates are not soaked.
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