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Vanilla & Chocolate Panna Cotta (Italian dessert)

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Panna cotta (Italian for "cooked cream") is an Italian dessert of sweetened cream thickened with gelatin and molded. The cream may be aromatized with coffee, vanilla, or other flavourings. It is often cited as a traditional dessert of the northern Italian region of Piedmont. Here I’m giving you the recipe for 1 cup of milk and 1 cup of cream. But I had done it in lesser quantity. Instead of gelatin, I used agar agar sticks. If you get agar agar powder you can use it too. So, it’s a vegetarian version.   Here, I made two different flavours of panna cotta. 1.    Vanilla panna cotta. 2.   Chocolate panna cotta . *Ensure the read the note for the perfect panna cotta. Ingredients:         Vanilla panna cotta : 1.      Milk- 1 cup(Boiled & cooled) 2.      Cream – 1 cup 3.      Sugar – 2 ½ tbsp 4.      Agar Agar/ gelatin – 1 tsp 5.      Vanilla essence – 1tsp Chocolate panna cotta: 1.      milk- 1 cup(Boiled & cooled) 2.      Cream – 1 cu

Adai

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The ratio for this adai is my own ratio. There are a few variations in the ingredients/ratio for adai. This recipe is traditional Tamil Nadu break fast , an evening snack and a dinner. My ratio is 1 cup of rice and close to 2 cups of all dhal combinations. People who are planning to lose weight can follow this ratio. My mom and I usually, slightly ferment the batter for better digestion of dhal and to avoid gas formation in the digestive tract to a certain level. Ingredients:    For Batter: 1.      Raw rice- 1/2 cup 2.      Idily rice – 1/2 cup 3.      Toor dhal – 1 cup 4.      Channa dhal- 1/2 cup 5.      Yellow moong dhal-1/3 cup 6.      Black pepper- 3/4 tsp 7.      Whole Red chilly- 2 8.      Ginger – 1 inch 9.      Garlic – 3 pods 10.   Hing – 1 small cube 11.   Salt to taste Addon for batter: 1.      Finely chopped coconut 2.      Finely chopped onion 3.      Finely chopped curry leaves 4.      Finely chopped coriander leaves 5.      1

Veg Kofta Curry

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The Koftas are found from the Indian subcontinent through Central Asia, the Middle East, the Balkans, and northern Africa. Koftas are found in the traditional cuisines of Iran, Afghanistan, Albania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Greece, India, Morocco Pakistan Romania and Turkey. The first appearance of recipes for kofta are in the earliest Arab cookbooks . In India, this kofta is a traditional dish of north Indian and there are various types of kofta like malai kofta, lauki kofta, veg kofta and so on.   Here I had made veg kofta curry. veg kofta curry has 3 steps 1.      Making veg kofta ball 2.      Making veg curry 3.      Assembling them before serving.   Ingredients:   For Kofta Ball: 1.      Carrot - 2 Medium size 2.      Potato - 2 Medium size 3.      Green peas- 1/3 cup 4.      cauliflower -7 florets 5.      Capsicum – 1/4cup 6.      Cumin power-1/2 tsp 7.      Garam masala-1/4 tsp 8.      Red chill powder-1/4 tsp 9.      Gram flo