Jackfruit Halwa | How to make Jackfruit Halwa | Medley-Of-Flavours

Ingredients:

• 1 cup jackfruit
• 2 tsp ghee
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tsp cornflour
• 1 tsp rice flour
• 1/3 cup jaggery powder
• Dry fruits of your choice

Preparation:

• Chop jackfruit into small pieces.
• Add cornflour and rice flour to the milk and mix them well.

Cooking:

• In a pan, heat ghee.
• Add chopped jackfruit and sauté.
• Jackfruit softens after a while.
• Add the milk mixture to the jackfruit.
• Keep stirring continuously. The mixture thickens after a while.
• Add jaggery. Mix everything well.
• Add your choice of chopped dry fruits.
• Jackfruit Halwa is ready to be served.

Preparation time: 5 mins

Cooking time: 5 mins

Servings: 4

Paneer Butter Masala | How to make Paneer Butter Masala | Medley-Of-Flavours

Paneer butter masala

 

Ingredients:

• 250 gms  Paneer cubes
• 3 Tomatoes 
• 2 Onions
• 10-12 Cashews 
• 1 tsp Red chilli powder
• 1 tsp Coriander powder
• 1/2 tsp Jeera powder
• 1/4 tsp Amchur powder
• 1/2 tsp Garam Masala
• 2-3 tbsp Butter
• 1/2 tsp Jeera
• Salt
• Coriander
• Honey for garnish

Method:

• Chop onions and tomatoes.
• In a pan, take some butter and sauté the chopped onion and tomatoes for a while.
• Add cashew to it. 
• Sauté them till the tomatoes become soft.
• Take it off the stove. Let it cool down.
• Blend it into a purée.
• In the same pan, heat some more butter.
• Add jeera, and the ginger garlic paste.
• Add the purée.
• Add jeera powder, coriander powder, amchur powder, red chilli powder and salt.
• Mix all of them together.
• Add 100ml water. Cover it with a lid and let it cook for 10 mins.
• Add paneer cubes, mix it with the purée.
• Add garam Masala and coriander.
• Cover it for  2-3 mins. Let it cook.
• Paneer butter masala is ready to serve. Garnish it with some more butter and coriander.
• Add honey if you like paneer butter masala to be sweet.

Preparations time: 10 mins

Cooking time: 20 mins

Serves: 2-3

Banana Pan Cakes | How to make Banana Pan Cakes | Medley-Of-Flavours

Pan cakes are fat cakes, often thin and round, prepared from a starch-based batter and cooked on a hot surface like a frying pan.

Check out the recipe for banana pan cakes below.

Ingredients:

• 3 small bananas
• 1 cup all purpose flour (maida)
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 2 tbsp Powdered sugar
• Pinch of salt
• Butter 
• Honey/ Maple syrup for garnish

Preparation:

• Peel the bananas and chop them into pieces.
• Mash the banana pieces, add sugar.
• Mix the mashed bananas and sugar together. Till everything mixes together.
• Add all purpose flour.
• Mix everything together.
• Add milk gradually and keep mixing.
• Add baking soda and pinch of salt.
• Mix everything together. 
• Add some more milk if the batter is too thick.

Cooking:

• Heat a pan, spread some butter on it.
• Pour the pan cake batter on the pan.
• Wait till you see few bubbles on the pan cake.
• Turn the pancake and let it cook for a while.
• Once it is done. Take it in a plate and repeat the process.
• Stake all the pan cakes and garnish it with butter and honey,
• You can also serve it with some maple syrup instead of honey.

Preparation time: 10 mins

Cooking time : 15 mins

Serving: makes 12-14 pan cakes depending on the size

Mango Fruit Salad | How to make Mango Fruit Salad | Medley-Of-Flavours

Fruit salad is a dish consisting of various kinds of fruit, sometimes served in a liquid, either their own juices or a syrup. In this recipe I used mango purée as the liquid. In different forms, fruit salad can be served as an appetiser, a side salad, or a dessert. 

                                  

Ingredients:

• 1 Mango
• 1 cup milk
• 2 apples
• 1 pomegranate 
• 3 bananas
• Few cashews
• 2 tbsp sugar

Preparation:

• Chop the mango. Add them to a blender.
• Transfer it to a bowl.
• Add sugar and milk to the blender. Blend them smoothly.
• Chop apple and bananas to small pieces.
• Chop cashews.
• Add the chopped fruits, pomegranate and cashews into the mango and milk mixture.
• Mix everything well.
• Let it rest in the refrigerator for an hour or two.
• Garnish it with few more chopped cashews and pomegranate seeds.
• Mango fruit salad is ready to serve.

Preparation time: 15 mins

Servings : 3-4