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 Moong Dal With LAU (LAUKI) :YELLOW LENTIL WITH BOTTLE GOURD. A very old and traditional bengali recipe. Mostly prepared during summers , it is said that this dal keeps the body cool and prevents us from heat. This is a very light to stomach recipe with minimum ingrediants. INGREDIANTS:  Moong Dal : 100 gms Bottle gourd :  1 (small) Mustard oil : 1 tbsp Cumin Seeds : 1 tsp Dry Red Chilliess : 2  Bay Leaves : 2 Green Chillies(optional) : 2 Coriander Leaves : 2 tbsp Sugar : 1 tsp Salt : According to taste. METHOD :  Fry the dal or lentil slightly and then boil it in a kadai till it is cooked properly or you can pressure cook it as I do it to reduce the. cooking time and save gas too. Cut the Bottle gourd into big cubes. To pressure cook the dal properly add around 300 ml water to 100 gms of dal. After 1 to 2 whistle add thecut gourd, salt and green chillies(optional) . If required add hot water at this time. Now wait till 1 whistle comes. when done keep it aside. ...

 Everything is available in this world at a click of a button on our mobile, be it grocery, clothing, food, furniture etc.Impulse buying is a common behaviourial problem these days. Resisting the craving of impulse shopping is difficult but not impossible. I too am fighting the same battle as many of you who are struggling with the habit of unnecessary buying. Hankering or impulse buying is related to unhappiness and anxiety, and controlling this would improve our psychological health. I shall share few tips which I adopted to come out of this web of impulse buying. We need to understand What motivates us to buy any object? Question your shopping with logic . Do you really need it? We need to understand the need and want of that particular object we wish to buy. Mostly people who are very much active in the social networks wish to look better and picture perfect, be it garments,shoes, makeup, etc or home  decoration stuff, kitchen stuff etc.  My first suggestion would be ...

  Kachki Macher (Ganga river Sprat) Chochori INGREDIENTS :                      Kachki Mach -300 grams                      Onion - 2 medium sizes, thinly sliced.                      Green chillies - 100 grams thinly sliced lengthwise                      Green coriander leaf -20 gms finely chopped                     Tomato - 2 medium sizes. Chopped                     Garlic - 1 (12 cloves)big bulb chopped finely                     Garlic paste -1 tsp                     Ginger paste - 1 tsp                    Cumin ...

SPICY CRISPY CHICKEN WINGS IN AIRFRYER : INGREDIENTS : Chicken wings: 1 kg ( 8 to 10 pcs) Garlic: 2 Tbsp (finely chopped) Lemon: 1 (juice) Black Pepper: 2 Tbsp Red chilli powder: 1 Tsp Red Chilli sauce: 1 Tbsp Tomato sauce: 2 Tbsp Soya sauce: 1 Tsp + 1Tbsp Salt: According to taste (here little less as we will use soya sauce in the recipe which is itself little salty) Olive oil: 1 Tbsp Sugar or Honey: 1 Tsp Cornflour: 3 Tbsp METHOD: First, we will prepare a marinade for the chicken wings, for this, we will add half lemon juice, soya sauce(1Tbsp)salt, black pepper powder and chopped garlic and marinate for about 2 hours. Now preheat the air fryer at 180 degrees for 3 minutes, meanwhile sprinkle flour to the marinade and coat the wing with flour properly. Then put half of the chicken wings in the air fryer and cook for 3 minutes at 180 degrees and turn it and cook for more 3 minutes.  In another bowl mix all the sauces, red chilli powder, sugar, lemon juice of the remaining half lemon...

 ORANGE CAKE Ingredients: Flour: 1 and 1/4th cup Orange: 1 medium size / 1/4th cup juice Baking powder: 1 Teaspoon Baking soda: 1/4th Teaspoon Milk: 1/4th cup (approx) Powdered Sugar: 1/2 cup Refined oil: 1/4th cup Milk Powder: 1/4th cup Orange zest: 1 Tablespoon Method:  First mix all the dry ingredients like flour, Milk powder, Baking powder, baking soda and Powdered sugar in a big mixing bowl. Now mix the wet ingredients that are,  Orange juice, refined oil and mix it well. Will add milk later. Now pour the wet ingredient mixture to the big mixing bowl with dry ingredients. Mix it nicely and slowly add the milk and mix it to a dripping texture. Grease a 1 pound cake mould and pour the mixture in it meantime you have to put a pressure cooker on the gas oven. Heat the cooker for abt 5 minutes on high flame with the jail or stand in it. Now after 5 minutes put the cake mould inside the cooker and the slow the flame and close the cooker with the lid without the whistle or ...

On 18th October 2020 competition was held in our complex from Nestle as a pre-Durga puja celebration event. It was said we have to use Milkmaid a Nestle product as the main ingredient. Many entrees were there and all gave their 100% to win the competition. As there was no age bar so from 18 to 80 all participated in the event the only condition was that whatever we made it should be innovative and original. I made this dessert named Nestle delight and won the 2nd prize. I am sharing the recipe with u all hope you will try it and enjoy it.  Preparation Time: 1 hr Cooking Time: 30 mins Freezing Time 7 to 8 hrs Serves: 10 people I ngredients for Walnut praline: Sugar:3/4th cup Walnut: 1/2 cup  Butter: 2 Tbsp Ingredients for Outside layer:  Britania biscuit: 200 gms Coffee powder: 2 tsp Condensed Milk: 1/4th tin / 100 gms Water: 3Tbsp Ingredients for filling: Unsweetened Cocoa powder: 2Tbsp Condensed Milk: 3/4th tin / 300 gms Butter: 1Tbsp White Chocolate Sauce:  While c...