Musk melon Granita

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Description:
A true treat to beat the summer heat and good news is so easy to prepare.

Ingredients:
1. Musk melon - 1/2 or 1 full(as per your requirement)
2. Lemon - 1/2
3. Sugar - 1 to 2 tspn

Procedure:
Cut the musk melon into small cubes and drop them in the blender. Add the sugar and squeeze in the lemon juice. Puree all the ingredients and transfer to a container/bowl and cover with foil. Freeze for 1 hour and take it out. Mix and mash the parts that are frozen. Cover and freeze again for 2-3hrs.

Scrap out the granita before serving. Enjoy.

Note:
I prefer the natural sweetness from the fruit, thats why added very less sugar. Add as per your requirement.

Pork masala roast

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Description:
Pork is rich in potassium, protein etc. This recipe turned out to be lip smacking and the aroma of the spices filled the house.

Ingredients:
1. Pork - 500gms
2. Onion - 1(medium)
3. Tomato - 1(medium)
4. Shallots(small onion)- 5 to 6
5. Ginger
6. Garlic
7. Grated fresh/dry coconut - 5 to 6 tspn
8. Black pepper corns
9. Green cardamon(Elachi)- 3
10. Cloves - 4
11. Garam masala
12. Chilli powder - 2 tspn
13. Whole Coriander powder - 2 to 3 tspn
14. Oil
15. Pepper powder - 1/2tspn
16. salt to taste

Procedure:
Clean and wash the pork. Cut into small cubes shapes. Slice the onion, tomatoes and crush the ginger/garlic. Take a bowl and add 1 tspn of chilli powder, pepper powder, crushed ginger/garlic and salt. Make a paste adding some water and drop the pork pieces into it.

Mix well and keep aside. Dry roast the pepper corns, elachi, cloves, shallots, whole coriander powder and coconut. When the coconut starts to change colour turn off the stove and allow it to cool down. After cooling transfer into a blender and grind to make a paste adding some water.

Take a cooker and drop the marinated pork pieces. Add water until the pork pieces are submerged. Close the lid and cook for 5 to 6 whistles.

Take a non stick pan/wok and add very little oil. Since the pork contain fat so use little oil for cooking purpose. Drop in the onions first and saute till they starts to change color. Next goes in the tomatoes. Cook without lids.  Stir frequently  to make sure the ingredients don`t stick to the bottom as you are using little oil. Throw in the remaining crush ginger/garlic. Add salt. Cook till the tomatoes dissolve and then add the remaining chilli powder. Next goes in the coconut paste. Mix everything nicely and then cook on low/medium flame. Give occasional stirs in between and cook till the masala gets dry without any moist.

Finally add the cooked pork pieces. Discard the stock and just take out the pork with a spoon . Mix properly till all the pork pieces are coated with the masala. Cook for few minutes and turn off the stove.

 Pork roast ready to be served with roti, appam, rice etc. Enjoy.

NOTE:
Make sure to cook the pork properly till its done. In cooker let it cook for 5 to 6 whistles otherwise allow it to cook on medium flame for atleast 30 minutes.

Mushroom stir fry

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Description:
This recipe is so easy to prepare.

Ingredients:
1. Mushrooms - 1cup
2. Red bell pepper - 1
3. Pepper powder - 1tspn
4. Fish sauce/soy sauce - 1tspn
5. Oil
6. Salt to taste

Procedure:
Chop the mushrooms and the bell pepper. Take a wok and pour little oil. Add the chopped veggies into it and close the lid. Cook for sometime and remove the lid. Now you can see water have oozed out of the mushrooms. Add the pepper powder, salt and fish sauce/soy sauce. Cook till the mushroom is done with no lid. The moist will eventually disappear.

Enjoy with fried rice/salads etc.

Motichur laddu

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Description:
Laddu are sweets that are often served during festivals or religious occasions. They are mainly prepared with flour, sugar and other flavours.

Ingredients:
1. Besan/gramflour - 2cups
2. Rava/semolina- 2tspns
3. Food color- red or orange
4. Cashew nuts
5. Almonds
6. Saffron
7. Cinnamon powder
8. Sugar - 1/2 to 1 cup(depends on the sweetness you prefer)
9. Oil  for deep frying
10. Ghee - 2tspn

Procedure:
Preparation of boondi:
Take a bowl, add the besan and rava. Incase the rava you are using is coarse powder then its preferable to make it into fine powder by grinding in the blender once or twice. Add some water to make a batter but don`t add too much of water and make the batter very runny. We will be using a perforated spoon so the batter should be able to pass through the holes. Finally add the food color(red or orange) and mix well. Set aside the batter.

Preparation of sugar syrup:
Take a pan and pour 1/2 to 1 cup of water in it. Add sugar to it and mix well. Allow the water to boil of high flame. Once it starts to boil reduce the flame to low and let the syrup thicken slowly. The consistency shouldn`t be too thick or too thin. When you take out the spoon after dipping in the syrup the last drop must form a string and thats the correct consistency. Turn off the stove and add saffron, cinnamon powder. Let it to cool down a bit.

Preparation of Motichur laddus:
Take a wok and pour oil for deep frying. Heat the oil properly and you can see bubbles forming. Hold the perforated spoon on top of the wok and with another laddle pour the batter on top of the perforated spoon. The batter will drop down through the holes and form boondis. Incase some boondi stick together or forms tails thats completely fine. Repeat the same with the remaining batter. Take out the boondis when they are cooked and slightly soft. Don`t overcook till they become crispy. Place the boondi on tissue paper and allow them to cool down.

 Cut the almonds and cashews into small pieces. To remove the skin of almond just soak it in hot water for 10minutes.  Add this nuts into the boondi. When the boondi have cooled down transfer them  into a blender. Add the sugar syrup. Sugar syrup should be slightly warm. Blend everything once or twice and shift to a bowl.

Finally its time to make the motichur laddu :). Take the ghee in a separate bowl. Rub your hands with the ghee and take small portions of the boondi mix onto your hands and slowly shape them into balls. Repeat the same for the remaining mix.

Place a piece of Almonds/pistachios on top of the Motichur laddus. Enjoy.

Note:

Even though we are preparing a sweet dish here but add sugar as less as possible.