Beginner's Recipe

It's summer time and it's the best reason to have an ice cream or ice pops (not that we need any reason to have ice cream😅). Here is how we make ice pops or juice from watermelon. It tastes good both ways. Try this at your home. And also, you can make this sugar free because watermelons are sweet most of time. So, it's healthy and also satisfies our cravings.😉 PREPARATION TIME: 5 MINUTES SERVINGS: 3 GLASSES OF JUICE/ 10-12 ICE POPS INGREDIENTS: 1. Watermelon: 1/2 medium sized watermelon 2. Salt: 1/4th teaspoon 3. Sugar: 1 tablespoon(optional) PROCEDURE: 1. 1st take you half cut watermelon and remove the peel. 2. Cut the watermelon into pieces and then add into a grinder jar. 4. Grind it for about minute and add the salt . If you want the juice to be more sweet, you can add the sugar and grind it for 30 seconds- 1 minute. (we didn't add the sugar as the watermelon was already pretty sweet). 5. After the grinding is done, remove the pulp ...

Okra fry is a simple and easy recipe to make, serve it with Pappu Charu or Tomato  Charu. Also don’t forget to check the nutritional values at the end of the recipe COOKING TIME: 25-30 MINUTES SERVINGS: 3 to 4 serves   INGREDIENTS: 1.       Oil: 3 table spoon 2.       Okra: ½ kg (bendakaya/ ladies finger) 3.       Turmeric powder: 1/2 teaspoon (haldi) 4.       Coriander powder: 1/2 teaspoon (dhania) 5.       Chilly powder: 1 teaspoon 6.       Salt: 1/2 teaspoon   OPTIONAL: Cumin seeds (zeera): 1/2teaspoon Coriander leaves: 1/4 th  cup    PROCEDURE: 1.       Chop the okra into small pieces. 2.       Take your frying pan, place it on the stove and ON the stove  3.       Add oil into pan and also you can add zeera  4.  ...

I feel that Pappu Charu is classic dish in our household. I remember when we were kids we used to crave for it at our grandparents house. It has a lot of ingredients and requires more time to cook, but in the end it’s worth it. It’s great to have with rice and also idli. We can also have another fry curry along with it for lunch, like okra fry, aloo fry or tindura fry.    Also don’t forget to check the nutritional values at the end of the recipe COOKING TIME: 30-40 MINUTES SERVINGS: 3-4 SERVES   INGREDIENTS: 1.       Toor dal: 1 cup (Thogar Pappu), almost 150grams or less 2.       Drumsticks: 1-2 (optional) 3.       Tamarind: 1/2cup 4.       Oil: 1 – 1 ½ table spoon 5.       Mustard seeds: 1/2 tea spoon (avalu) 6.       Garlic: 10cloves 7.       Fenugreek powder: 1/4 th  teaspoon (menthi) 8.   ...

  Pineapple icecream is one such icecream which is very rarely available and which tastes good. One place where I love pineapple icecream is creambell. So I thought why not prepare something which I love and which also tastes good. This is my second attempt and this icecream is actually delicious. Here is my recipe for pineapple icecream at home and you can make it without heavy cream too. Also don’t forget to check the nutritional values at the end of the recipe INGREDIENTS: 1. Pineapple: 2 medium sized 2. Full fat milk: 1 litre 3. Sugar: 1 teacup (or as per taste)  4. Salt: 1/4 teaspoon 5. Pineapple essence: 1 teaspoon 6. Heavy cream (optional) 7. Corn flour: 3 tablespoons PROCEDURE: 1. Firstly cut the pineapple, the way I do which has less wastage of pineapple is as follows: First remove the crown part of pineapple Then coming to the body part, remove the thorns and cut the bottom part.  Even after removing the outer thorns, we usually have the thorns in the pulp, here...

Hi there!! So here I am just another bored person trying to do something productive, hoping to come through this pandemic with a feather in my cap. I have started learning how to cook. But the problem is " Me + Kitchen = Disaster " . And my mom is just trying to turn me into a person who would not burn down the kitchen for a bowl of ramen. And in this process of learning to cook for dummies like me, I thought why not share this with people who might just be like me, and hoping to help them just like I am being helped. So this blog is just about that. To being able to cook in simple manner with not much hassle and still be able to make food that actually tastes good. Here, you will find recipes that are simple, tasty and healthy. Directly from my mom's kitchen to hopefully yours. Here's to hoping this goes well. AKSH!