Punjabi Food Recipes

A banana shake is so simple recipe. kids also apply this recipe method to make banana shake at home when they are free. You can make banana shake in 10 minutes. Now see methods how to make simple banana shake at home:-


Serves:- 3
Preparation Time:- 10 Mintues

Aloo chatpata chat  is favourite dish of kids. Mostly kids like aloo snackes. I make often aloo snacks at home. Aloo chatpata is easy to make and serve. It takes few time to prepare.

Cold coffee recipe with step by step. It is cold beverage for the hot summers.
Know how to make a cold coffee. here in this post, i am sharing the way i make cold coffee, which gives you a nice coffee flavored. 



Simple, easy and refreshing Cold Coffee Recipe here:-
Preparation Time: 15minutes
Serves- 3(serving)

• 2 tbsp coffee powder
• 6 tbsp warm water
• 6 tbsp sugar
• 3 cups chilled milk
• 8 ice cubes 
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder (optional)

1. Mix coffee powder and cocoa powder with hot water. 
2.  Add sugar and mix it properly.
3. Now strain the mixture with a mesh strainer.
4. Combine 2 tbsp of the coffee with boil milk and ice cubes. Blend 2-3 mintues.
5. Serve cold coffee in glasses.

Rooh Afza is summer drink. Mostly people drink it in summer season. But in real life i saw some people like it in all seasons. It is my favorite  summer drink. It is easy to make and serve.
Now lets see how to make yummy rooh afza milk shake...
Serves: 4(serving)
Preparation Time: 10 Minutes

Ingredients

• 3 cups milk, boiled
• 5 tablespoons rooh afza
• 3 teaspoons sugar(depends on taste)
• 3 tablespoons almond flakes
• Cherries/strawberries (optional)
•  Ice cubes 6 
• Instructions how to make:-
  Grind the almonds along with skin to a coarse powder.
  Mix all the ingredients and blend it 1-2 minutes.
  Put cherries if you want to make more yummy.
  Now you can serve cold.
   
  
   
   
   

This is step by step recipe. Samosa is easy to make at home. I love to eat samosa at evening tea time. A samosa is a common snack in countries such as India, America, Canada, Nepal. 

  Prep Time : 20 mins 

  Cook Time : 30 mins

  Ingredients For Dough   

  Flour(for all purpose) - 2 Cups
  Carom seeds/Ajwain/omam - 1/4 tsp (optional)
  Oil - 2 tbsp
  Salt - approx 1/2 tsp 

 Ingredients for potato filling

   Onion - 2
   Green chilli -3
   Ginger - 1/2 inch piece
   Potato - 5 medium size
   Coriander leaves - 8-9 leaves
   Chilli powder -1 tsp
   Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
   Coriander powder -1 tsp
   Cumin powder -1/2 tsp  

    mint leaves - 7-8 leaves

   1/2 cup Green Peas (mutter)
 

  For the seasoning   

  Oil - 3 tbsp
   jeera(carom)seeds -1 tsp

Directions:

  1. Boil green peas and potatoes in a pressure cooker, put 1 tsp salt into water. Transfer them to a colander after boiling. Peel the potatoes and finely chop them.

2. While potatoes are cooking, let’s bind a dough for crispy outer layer. Take maida(flour), carom seeds, 3 tablespoons oil (or ghee) and salt in a bowl.

 3. Mix all the ingredients properly with hand.  Now, add water in small quantities and knead firm dough . Cover it with wet cloth and let it set for few minutes.

4. Now, let’s start to make stuffing for samosa. Heat 3 tablespoons cooking oil in kadai over medium flame. Add cumin seeds and green chilli-ginger paste. Stir and cook for a minute.

5. Add boiled green peas and stir-fry for a minute. Add red chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder, Turmeric powder, Cumin powder. 

 6. Stir fry for a minute.

7. Add chopped potato and salt.

8. Mix them properly and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add coriander leaves, mint leaves and mix them properly with hand.

9. Turn off the flame and transfer stuffing mixture to a bowl. Let it cool for few minutes.

10. After 15-20 minutes, remove the wet cloth and knead the dough again until smooth. Divide it into 8 small portions Like as ball.

11. Take one dough ball. And Make Chapati on Chakla. Cut it into two semi-circles.

12. Take one semi-circle piece and give it a shape of cone by folding it from both sides.

13.  Put one mutter at the bottom of the cone to keep its shape.
After it, Put 2-3 tablespoons filling in the cone. And seal it properly from all edges.

14. Now, fill all the semi- circle piece with stuff.

15. Heat oil in a  kadai over medium flame. When oil is medium hot, put 1-2 samosa in it and reduce flame to low

 16. Deep fry them on low to medium flame until they turn brown. Transfer fried samosas to a plate and serve with green chutney and tomato ketchup.

 

 

 

 

 

Shahi Paneer is a made with paneer and tomato based spicy gravy laced with spices. This is a traditional recipe that has been followed from all hotels, Punjabi dhaba's, at home.  In this shahi paneer recipe uses cashew nut based tomato gravy to bring in the rich texture and flavor.

Tomato rice is easy to make. It is south Indian recipe. Tomato rice recipe takes 40 minutes  to prepare for eat. If some guest come in our home then we can easily prepare this food. Lets talk about recipe of this spicy food..

INGREDIENTS (measuring cup used, 1 cup = 350 ml)

1. Rinse 1+1/2 heaped cup basmati rice or any regular rice in water.
2. then soak the rice in water for 30 minutes. After drain the rice and keep in bowl.
3. chop the tomatoes, onions and green chilies pudina and dhania patta. peel and crush the ginger-garlic in a mortar pestle.
4. Keep all spices required for the rice in bowl.

1. In a Pan, heat 3 tbsp oil. keep the flame to a low and add ½ tsp mustard seeds and crackle them. then add 4 to 5 methi seeds and just lightly saute them for a couple of seconds.
2. Then add ⅓ cup finely chopped onion and ½ inch cinnamon, 2 green cardamoms and 2 to 3 cloves.
3. Stir and saute till the onions turn translucent.
4. Then add 1.5 tsp ginger garlic paste, chopped 2 green chili and 8 to 9 curry leaves.
5. Stir and saute till the raw aroma of ginger-garlic goes away.
6. Now add ½ tbsp chopped pudina and ¼ cup chopped dhania patta.
7. Add the finely chopped tomatoes and ¼ tsp turmeric powder, ½ tsp red chili powder, ½ tsp black pepper powder or crushed black pepper, ½ tsp coriander powder and 1 tsp cumin powder. for a lesser spiced version add 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste, ¼ tsp red chili powder and ¼ tsp black pepper powder.
   
8. The tomatoes should soften and become pulpy with oil releasing from the sides.
9. Mix the soaked rice. stir the rice with the tomato mixture very well. saute for a minute.
10. Add 2 cups water.
11. Put salt as per taste.
    
12. Cover with lid, cook on medium flame. about 10 to 11 minutes to get a rice.
13.  then remove the lid and gently fluff the rice.
14. Now you can Serve tomato rice with  raita.
    

Everyone wants to aloo paratha in their breakfast. It is favorite dish of Punjabi  people. They Love aloo paratha. S now we discuss how to make aloo paratha. this is step by step process. You can follow this recipe to make yummy aloo paratha.

Gulabjamun is traditional dessert in India, Everybody wants to eat gulabjamun after lunch or dinner.
Hot Gulabjuman is very tasty. Do you love to eat Gulabjamuno. Lets see how to make Gulabjamun..
Ingredients-
1/2 cup Maida (All Purpose Flour)
1 cup grated Mawa (Khoya)
1/8 teaspoon Baking Soda
Ghee (or oil), for deep frying
4-5 Green Cardamoms or 1/4 teaspoon 
Cardamom Powder (Elaichi Powder)
7-9 Saffron Strands (kesar)
1½ cups Sugar
2½ cups Water

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
        
Method How to prepare:-
Step 1. Prepare 1/2 cup maida with hand and add khoya and 1/8 teaspoon baking soda. 
Step 2. Mix them properly with hand.
Step 3. Knead all of them together until smooth dough is prepared. If required add a few teaspoons of milk to knead a smooth and soft dough its your choice.
Step 4. Divide dough into small parts it should not be very large. It should be round goal shape. Grease hands with ghee and make smooth surfaced balls.

Step 5. Heat ghee or oil in pan. When ghee is little hot and dough ball into ghee according to pan size
it may 4-5 balls in pan. Boiling it until it become brown.
Step 6. Deep fry them until they turn golden brown, it will take around 6-7 minutes.

Step 7. Drain and transfer them  napkin and let them cool for 5-minutes. Now, the balls are increased in size after deep frying. Do not add them directly into warm sugar syrup.
Step 8. Add fried dough balls into warm sugar syrup, it should not be very hot. If you add them into hot syrup, they will shrink in size.
Step 9. Soak them for at least 2 hours before serving.
Step 10 Now, You can Serve sweet and hot gulabjamun..