Fresh Fruit Smoothie

Serves 6.
Ingredients:
1 Cup Watermelon; Cut Up
1 Cup Cantaloupe Or Honeydew;
1 Cup Pineapple; Cut Up
1 Cup Mango; Cut Up
1 Cup Strawberries; Halved
1/4 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Orange Juice
Crushed Ice

Method:
1. Mix all ingredients except ice.
2. Fill blender container 1/2 full of mixture.
3. Add crushed ice to fill to the top.
4. Cover and blend on high speed until of a uniform consistency.
5. Repeat with remaining mixture.
6. Serve immediately; garnish with fruit, if desired.

Egg Biriyani

Serves - 3-4

Ingredients
2 cups of basmati rice
3 and a half cups of water
6-8 spoons of oil
4 boiled eggs
5 green chillies
2 spoons ginger-garlic paste
1 onion
2 small sticks of cinnamon (dalchini)
3 cloves
1/4 spoon haldi
salt to taste
coriander leaves

Method
1. Cut eggs into half (8 pieces), also chillies and onion into small pieces.
2. Add oil in a pan and heat it. Then add cinnamon, cloves, ginger-garlic paste, chillies, onions and fry it for 3 minutes.
3. Wash the rice and add water, the above mixture, haldi, eggs and salt to taste.
4. Cook this in electric rice cooker.
5. Serve this hot with coriander leaves on top.

Rag Tag Dosa

Ingredients
semolina/rava - 1 cup
flour(preferably wheat flour) -1 cup
lassi -1 -2 cups to get a loose paste.(or plain water and lime juice can do)
finely cut onion - 1
1/4 tsp each chilli powder and pepper powder
ginger 1", finely sliced (an even use readymade ginger paste)
coriander leaves - 1 small bunch.
jeera-1 teaspoon
hing-solid pinch
salt (-about 1 tsp(according to taste)
optional shredded carrot/cabbage/capsicum/radish/or few methi leaves/palak finely cut)-
just a little.

Method
1. Mix the atta, semolina, add salt and hing and mix into loose paste, with lassi or water and
lime juice or plain water.
2. Add the other ingredients and mix well.
3. Heat the tava, spread a little oil with half an onion (spreads evenly and better that way) and
pour a big ladle of the dough and move the tava around to ensure it spreads.
4. Turn over after two minutes.
5. And then just eat it. If you think you want it. Have it with anything on hand. Even plain
salted butter!

Jalebi

Ingredients
200 gms. plain flour (maida)
20 gms. gram flour (besan)
200 gms. sugar
few drops yellow colour
2 tbsp. milk
ghee to deep fry
a plastic easy squeeze bottle

Method
1. Sieve 100 gms. maida and besan together. Make a batter using warm water.
2. Keep aside for 24 hours. Add remaining maida and food colour and more warm water if
required.
3. The batter should fall easily when poured - Not too thick not too thin, keep aside.
4. Make syrup of the sugar by adding water and boiling.
5. Add the milk and all the scum to form while boiling. Make one string syrup. Strain.
6. Fill bottle with batter. The nozzle should have a hole the thickness of a knitting needle.
7. Heat ghee well in a shallow frying pan and form jalebis in the form of concentric circles about 2 inches on the outside.
8. Fry till crisp, drop into hot syrup. Drain with a perforated spoon, serve hot.

Orange Cake

Ingredients
1 cup orange juice
3 oranges segmented, peeled and deseeded
1 cup cream
3 1/2 tbsp powdered sugar
1 tbsp orange jam
1/2 gelatine
8-10 cherries (glaced, blanched or carred)

Method
1. Bake sponge cake with additions (orange essence and orange colour) . Mix 1/2 tbsp sugar in the orange juice.

2. Cut cake in 2 horizontal halves. Soak them by sprinkling half the juice.

3. Whip remaining sugar and cream till light and fluffy. Do not overbeat.

4. Spread half the cream on the lower half. Put remaining in an icing gun. Keep in fridge.

5. Save 8-10 segments of orange for topping. Spread remaining over the cream. Place other half cake on top.

6. Sprinkle gelatine over remaining juice, keep for 2-3 minutes. Stir in jam, warm over slow fire till the solution has no crystals. Do not boil. Cool.

7. Pipe a border of whipped cream. Pour gelatine in this boundary on the top.

8. Allow to set in fridge.

9. Decorate by arranged orange segment and cherries. Chill for 1/2 hour before
serving.