Grated Mango Rice

A simple and quick lunch box option.

Ingredients

Raw Mango - 1
Green chilly - 1
Red chilly - 2
channa dhal & urud dhal&Cashew nuts  - as required
Curry leaves - some
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Hing - a pinch
Methi powder - 1/4 teaspoon
Salt - as required

Oil - 4 tablespoon


1. Grate the mango using a grater and allow it to dry for sometime

2. Prepare the things required to frying.

3. Pour oil in a wide bottomed kadai and add mustard seeds, once mustard splutters add the green chilly,red chilly, channa dhal,urud dhal, cashew nuts - fry them until golden brown

4. Add pinch of turmeric powder and add the grated mango.
 (chilly powder can be added to have more spicy)

5. Lower the flame and fry thoroughly .Add salt as required.

6. When oil oozes out, add astofodia/hing and methi powder, remove from flame and allow to cool.

7 Meanwhile cook rice and allow it to cool in a wide bottomed vessel.

8. Add the mango fry into rice and mix well.

Double ka Meeta (Hyderabadi Bread pudding)

Bread pudding dessert with loads of nuts and sweeeeet...
Recipe without Baking!

Ingredients

Milk - 1/2 litre
Sugar - 1 cup medium sized as shown in the above pic.
Water - 1 cup
Cardamom - 10 pieces
Cashew, Almond, Dry dates, Raisins - as required
Bread - 6 pieces
Milk powder - 2 tea spoon
Lime juice - 1 teaspoon
Saffron strands - few
Ghee - 150 ml


Step 1 : For 1 medium sized cup of sugar add same quantity of water and make them boil in lower flame.

Step 2 : Add some lemon drops and keep boiling until the syrup thickens. Syrup in same consistency as we do for Jamon.

Step 3 : Pour milk and boil in lower flame until it reduces to its half.


Step 4: Meanwhile in a wide bottomed pan- Take ghee and fry all the dry nuts.

Step 5:  Cut the bread into triangular shape and fry in the remaining ghee.. As bread will absorb all the ghee.. apply ghee to the sides of bread and fry until brown.

Step 6:  Add 2 teaspoon of milk powder in some water and mix well. Add some saffron strands to it.

Step 7: When milk is done to its half, add the milk powder paste and mix well. Boil until a thick Rabdi is formed.

Step 8 : When the syrup is done, add crushed cardamoms into it.

Step 9 : Now add the fried bread slices into the thickened sugar syrup.

Step 10 : Add the boiling milk Rabdi to into this and add fried nuts..

Yummy double ka Meeta is ready!!

Serve warmed...!!

Mango Custard with butterscotch topping

Yum yum Mango Custard!!

1. Mix custard powder in cold milk and add slowly to the boiling milk.

2. Mix well so that no lumps are formed . Continue stirring until you get smooth paste of custard

3. Cool the custard and add cut mangoes +  mango puree into it

4. Add nuts into the mango custard

5. Add Butterscotch toppings and serve chilled.