Tulsi leaves are natural blood purifier which is good for hair and skin.
Serves: 2
Preparation time: 10minutes
Fresh Tulsi drink
Ingredients:
1 cup – Fresh basil leaves
1 tsp – Grinded pudina (mint) leaves paste
Lemon juice
Sugar as per sweetness
2 cups – Water
Method:
ü Take fresh tulsi leaves and chop them
ü Add tulsi leaves, pudina paste, sugar and water in the grinder
ü Add little more water and grind again
ü Squeeze 1 lemon and grind again
ü Strain out in ice cubes filled glasses
Serves: 10-15
Preparation time: 20minutes
Ingredients:
For Puris: 
1 cup – Rava
3 tbsp – Maida
1/4 tsp – Baking soda
1/2 tsp – salt
Oil for deep frying
For Pani: 
1/2 cup – Imli Pulp
2 Cups – Water
2 tbsp – Roasted Jeera powder
2 tbsp – Unroasted Jeera powder
1/2 cup – Coriander leaves
3 Green Chillies
1 Cup – Pudina
1 tbsp – Kala Namak (Black salt)
1 tbsp Boondi
2 tbsp – Crushed Gur (Jaggary)
For stuffing:
2 – Boiled potatoes
1/2 cup – small chickpeas
Salt as per Taste
Green & Red Chutney
Method: 
To Make Puri:
Mix Maida, sooji, soda in a large bowl.
Add warm water to knead stiff dough
Cover with Muslin cloth and set aside for 30minutes
Make small balls and roll thin small rotis
Round shape can be made with help of cutter or any container lid
To Make Pani:
Grind coriander, pudina and green chillies into thin paste.
Add all spices, green paste in the water. Now dissolve jiggery properly. Now adjust the tanginess as per taste
Strain through wire strainer if required
Points to remember before frying :
The oil should be hot enough such that puris puff up well
Add only 3-4 puris at a time
Press them from the centre while frying
Take puris out on the kitchen towel
Let the puris cool and then use (can be stored in air tight containers).
Serves: 4
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
200 gms – Paneer
4 – Medium Onions
1/2 – Capsicum (sliced)
Small piece – Ginger
3-4 cloves – Garlic
3-4 – Green chillies
1/2 cup – Milk
2 tbsp – Butter
2 tbsp – Oil
Salt, Red chilli powder, Garam Masala
Pinch of Red color ————– (optional)
Microwave cooked paneer
Method:
Make paste of 2 onions, ginger, garlic and green chillies
Take 2 tbsp of oil in a Microwave safe glass bowl and heat for a minute in Microwave
Now add the onions, ginger, garlic and green chillies paste to it and Microwave again for 3minutes
Now add milk and red chillies powder and Microwave again for a minute
In a separate bowl add butter and Microwave for a minute
Now add 2 onions and 1/2 capsicum sliced into the butter & microwave for 3 minutes
Add all this to the 1st bowl and put salt, Garam Masala and red color now
Mix well and Microwave for a minute
Now add the paneer cubes to it and Microwave for a minute again
Serve Hot
Serves: 3-4
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients 
2 cups –Milk
1/2 cup- Malai (cream)
1 tbsp – Milk Powder
2 tbsp – custard powder
4 tbsp – sugar
1/ 2 cup – chopped dryfruits ( almonds, pistachios or any other)
Elaichi powder
1/4 tsp – Vanilla essence ———————————— (optional)
Method
Making of Ras madhuri
Add 2 cups Milk in a bowl and put in Microwave for 5mins
v {Put on gas which may take time but move till the milk reduces to slightly thick consistency like in kheer}
Now add custard Powder, sugar, vanilla essence to the Milk and Microwave again for 2minutes
v (same pattern can follow if done on gas)
Now add dryfruits, elaichi powder and put on Microwave for a minute again
Making of bread
Take 8 -10 slices of bread
Cut into circular shape using any small bowl
Mix milk powder, Malai and elaichi powder in one bowl and mix well
Add this mixture on one bread coin and put another on top
Make all ready and set all aside
Take a new bowl and dip the bread coins in the Custard Milk
Now pour the remaining mixture of custard Milk on top and allow setting for 5-10minutes
Serve the sweet Bread Ras Madhuri
Serves: 5-6
Preparation Time: 30minutes
Ingredients
Cake mixture
1/2 cup – Maida (all purpose flour)
1/2 cup – Milk Powder
3/4 cup – Grinded Sugar
1/3 cup – Butter/Oil
1/2 to 1 cup – Milk
Warm water -If required (for batter)
1 ½ tsp – Baking Powder
1 – Vanilla/ Chocolate/Pineapple essence
1/2 tsp – Soda
1 tbsp – Cocoa Powder
1 tbsp – Drinking Chocolate Powder (optional)
Chocolate Cake
Method:
Add Maida, Milk powder, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, soda in one bowl
Add Oil/butter, Milk, Vanilla Essence into another
Now slowly add the wet ingredients into the dry slowly and mix well
You can even grind/blend mixture to remove lumps
Grease the aluminum cake pot with butter/oil and dust Maida
Pour the mixture into the pot and preheat the Microwave Oven on from 150 degree to 170 degree for 5minutes
Put the pot inside and set same temperature for minimum 20minutes (As per oven)
Insert a toothpick in middle and check if cake is baked completely
Once done, set aside the cake pot for 1/2 hour to cool down
Decorate, cut and serve
A popular healthy Gujrati snack which suits perfect for morning and evening.
Serves – 4
Preparation time: 15minutes
Ingredients:
1 cup – Wheat flour
1/4 cup – Semolina (Rawa)
1/2 cup – Cooked rice (Rice can be of a day before also)
1/2 cup – finely chopped fenugreek
1/2 cup – crushed lauki (bottle guard) —————— (optional)
1 small piece – Garlic
3-4 colves – Ginger
2-3 – Green chillies
Pinch – Soda
Salt, 1/4 tsp- sugar, 1 tsp – Garam Masala (all spice powder), 1 tsp – red chilli powder, 1 tsp – Chat Masala
1/2 Tbsp- Oil
Tadka:
1/2 Tbsp- Oil, Cumin seeds, green chillies, Nylon sev for Garnish, Pinch – Asafoetida, lemon juice
Method:
Mix wheat flour, lauki, methi, rawa, rice, ginger-garlic chilli paste, soda, all spices in one bowl
Add little water till dough is ready 
Now give them long shape and keep in a Microwave safe bowl with half lid covered (to allow steam pass easily)
Put into the Microwave on 100% for 3mins approx —– (if undone, then Micro again for a minute)
Tadka:
In a pan, allow the oil to heat and add cumin seeds to crackle, add green chillies now
Cut small pieces of muthiya and add in the pan
Now add lemon juice and mix again
Generously add nylon sev
Cover it for 3-4 mins of medium flame to make it crisp 
There are many myths about Microwave cooking like:
Waves kill the nutrients of the food and make it unhealthy
Microwave cooking cause Cancer, heart problems and more
Overcoming the Micro wave cooking MYTHS:
Tips for Microwave Cooking
Most of the Microwaves will have 4 main options namely:
Microwave, Grill, Convection, Combination
Microwave – In which food in cooked by the micro-waves.
Note: Only Microwave safe plastic bowl and glass Bowl (mainly Borosil bowls) should be used
Grill – In which the food is, grilled (gets brown color) on top like in pizzas, Roast chicken, Paneer Tikka & more. Grilling is done with help of the rod which is on top in the Microwave. Therefore, grilling stand is provided with Microwave Oven.
Note: Only Metal and Glass can be used in Grilling Mode
Convection – In this mode the Microwave, gets converted into an Oven which allows you to make Bake easily.
OR
If not required, just directly start baking Cakes, Pie’s, cookies and lots more as instructed in your User Manual.
Note: Metal, Silicon Cake pots can be easily used
Combination –
The mode in which either 2 of the 3 modes (microwave, grill, and convection) will be used as per requirement of food cooked. It is mostly used for Non vegetarian and less for vegetarian food.
A popular chilled yoghurt grape drink serves perfect for summers. This creamy drink is perfect to arrest the summer thirst.
Serves – 2
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients
1 1/2 cup – unsweetened yoghurt
1 cup – crushed ice
1/2 tsp – cumin seeds
3 tsp – sugar
1 cup – chopped black/green seedless grapes (WE used green grapes)
Pinch of Salt
Mint leaves to garnish
Method: 
Roast the cumin seeds on medium flame till aromatic. Now grind into powder form mixture
Put the yogurt, grapes, crushed ice, cumin powder, salt, sugar into the blender
Add chopped grapes at the bottom of the drink glass
Pour the drink into chilled tall glasses and garnish with cumin powder and mint leave
Serves: 3-4
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
150 gms – Mushroom
4 – Onions (chopped)
7-8 – Tomatoes
Ginger – garlic paste
2 – Green chilies
Salt to Taste
Red chilly powder
Garam Masala
Sugar
1 cup- Malai
1/2 – cashew nut paste
3 Tbsp- butter
Method: 
Cut mushrooms into equal pieces
Chop other vegetables also
Heat the ghee in small pan till it turns pink
Add ginger-garlic paste, tomato, green chillies
When tomato secretes the oil then blend it in the mixer
Now cook this mixture in a pan and add red chilly powder, spices, sugar, salt, cashew nut paste
Now cook for 5minutes on medium flame
Add sliced mushrooms in it
Remove it off flame when softens
Serve hot with rice to Naan
A traditional kind of sweet popular in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Goa and Gujarat of India
Serves: 4
Preparation Time: 20 minutes
Ingredients:
3 cups – Chana Dal
200 gms – Wheat Flour
4 cups – Sugar or Jaggery (Gud)
1 cup – All purpose flour (Maida)
4 tsp – Oil
Grated Nutmeg
50 gms – Powdered Elaichi
Method: 
Wash Chana Dal properly in appropriate quantity of water
Drain the excess water to add jaggery/sugar
Now cook the dal on low heat till the mixture attains thick consistency
Allow this mixture to pass through the sieve while hot only
Now add the grated cardamom & nutmeg powder
Now mix well to keep it aside to cool
Now mix Maida, wheat flour, oil and water to make smooth dough
Set the dough aside for 2-3 hours
Make small balls of gram mixture and put inside the flour dough
Now roll it slightly like any paratha (Stuffed)
Cook on any flat tawa just like roti’s & fry properly
Serve hot with Milk or ghee
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