For the Cheesecake Layer: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Set a kettle of water to boil. Using an electric mixer, beat cream cheese on medium until fluffy, scraping down side of bowl. Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy. Beat in lemon zest and juice, and salt. Beat in eggs, one at a time, scraping down...
Mixed Fruit Smoothie
In a blender combine frozen banana, orange juice, all the other fruit and milk. Blend until smooth. Pour into glasses, stir in a few drops of rose water for scent in each glass and serve. “Ek healthy smoothie, simple se twist ke saath!”
Mango Lassi
Put mango, yogurt, milk, sugar and cardamom into a blender and blend for 2 minutes, then pour into individual glasses, and serve. Sprinkle with a little cardamom or small crushed pieces of mangoes. For a twist, top the lassi with one scoop of vanilla ice -cream. “Enjoy this traditional South Asian drink with a cool...
Delicious Lauki Ka Halwa
Peel and grate the bottle gourd (lauki) with seeds. Heat and dry it in a pot. Add milk and cook on medium low flame till reduced half of the milk. Add fresh cream, sugar and cardamom and cook till milk dry fully. Add the butter and stir constantly. Add some almond, pistachio (save rest for...
Ladoo Mawa
Firstly, grate the khoya/mawa, and keep aside. Then in a pan add 2 tsp ghee and roast the dry fruits (almonds, pistachios and cashew nuts) on medium flame and keep aside. In a grinder, chop all the roasted dry fruits and raisins coarsely and place it in a bowl. In a separate bowl, put 5-7...
Lab-e-Shireen
Make jelly as per instructions and put in refrigerator to set. Heat oil and fry vermicelli till slight brown. Put boiled milk in it and cook on low flame for a while then add sugar cook till vermicelli changes color. In a little milk dissolve custard powder or corn flour pour in vermicelli stirring continuously....
Laal (Red) Velvet Cake
Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Beat 2 oz. cream cheese and sour cream in large bowl with mixer until blended. Add egg whites and cake mix; mix well. Pour into 2 (9-inch) round pans sprayed with cooking spray. Bake 30 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 min.; remove...
Khopra Pak Mithai ( Coconut Sweet)
Heat a pan, add the grated coconut and hot milk. Keep stirring till all the milk has evaporated. Then add the sugar, stir at regular intervals and when the mixtures starts sticking to the pan, add the ghee. Stir again, then add the cardamom powder and empty this into a flat thali. Cool, cut and...
Kaju Ki Barfi
Prepare sugar syrup by dissolving sugar in three fourth cup of water and bringing it to boil. Add saffron and cook till it forms a syrup of three thread consistency. Melt ghee and add to this syrup. Add cashewnut powder and mix thoroughly. Allow to cool. Spread it on a greased plate about half centimeter...
Healthy Twist chai
In a saucepan over high heat, bring the soymilk to a boil, then reduce heat to medium. Stir in the ginger, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and ground fennel. Simmer for 15 min., stirring occasionally. Sweeten the taste with brown sugar. Strain the mixture into another pot. Serve hot. “Ek chai ka cup hi kafi hai sab...
