Healthy Shahi Paneer 

As all of you know very well, Shahi paneer name itself shows it is very shahi dish, it is full of cream, butter and sugar, instead of all these things we replace it with curd, honey, cashew and almond Paste. We give a healthy version to my dish so that it will give you an energy in fasting days.  

I have some restriction making dish as we are using in fasting. Will give you another version also after some time. 

Ingredients:-

1 tsp oil

1 cup of tomato puree

1/4 cup  whisked low fat curd
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp red chili powder

1 tsp honey

1/2 cup alomd/cashew cream

250 grm low fat paneer , cut into cubes. 

How to make Shahi Paneer 

• Take a pan and heat the oil add ginger paste and sauté for few seconds.
• Add Tomato puree and sauté on medium flame for another 5-6 min while stirring occasionally.
• Add red chili, salt mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1-2 min.
• Add Cashew and Almond paste and mix well
• Add Curd, mix well and cook on the medium flame
• Add Honey, and cook for 1-2 min
• Add Paneer, mix well cook on a medium flame for another 2 min., don’t stir too much otherwise paneer will crack,
• Now Shahi Paneer is ready to be served. 

Step by Step:-

Arrange all things at one place

Heat oil and add ginger and saute for 2-3 min.

 Add tomato puree 

                                                           Cover the pan with lid

 

Add Cashew and almond paste and curd

Add red chili ,salt and honey 

 Mix well the gravy

Add Paneer Cubes and mix them well

Now stir continuously and check the water consistency

Now creamy and healthy shahi paneer is ready.

Palak Paneer

Palak Paneer
Palak Paneer is likely the most popular paneer dish from North India. Learn to  make delicious palak paneer recipe at home with step by step photos. 

Samak Ke Chawal ki Khichadi

Samak Ke Chawal ki Khichadi

This dish is made during fasting days

Ingredients

1. Two Cup Swang ke Chawal or Barnyard Millets
2. 7 cup water
3. 2 Medium Tomatoes
4. 2 Boiled Potatoes, peeled and cubed
5. 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
6. Green Chilies, chopped, to taste
7. Salt, to taste, You can use Sendha Namak also
8. Red Chili Powder to taste
9. Chopped Ginger,
10. 3 tbsp Ghee or cooking oil as per your taste. 

Arrange all things at one place

Boil potatoes and cut them in cubes. Keep aside.

Add some oil in a pot

Add Cumin Seeds

Add finely chopped ginger and saute for 2 min.

Add green chilies.

Add chopped tomatoes and toss them till they become soft and gooey.

Add cubed boiled potatoes. 

Add salt and red chili powder and mix them well

Add Samak to the  pan

Add water.

Close the lid and let it cook for 10-15 minutes. Check the water consistency as per your taste I prefer thin consistency.

  

Garnish it with green fresh coriander and serve hot. If you desire, add a spoonful of ghee  .

Vrat/Fasting Sabudana Khichadi

Sabudana pearls are light on the stomach, easy to digest and provides energy. It is commonly used during indian fasting months, whether be Navratri, Mahashivratri, Janmashtami, or any vrat this recipe is a popular fasting food. Preparation of sabudana Khichdi is a pre-planning dish, you have to soak sabudana pearls few hours ahead before you advance to the recipe. 

Main tricky part of this recipe is how to make perfect sabudana pearls. 

Most of the people get the end result with Mushy and sticky pearls all the time. Don’t worry check the below measurement for perfect sabudana pearls. 

1 cup Sabudana perals, 1 cup water soak for 4-5 hours after that drain water and you'll get the perfect pearls, Remember excess water will result in a gooey mess which cannot be reversed. 

When Sabudana pearls are ready, rest of the recipe is very quick and simple. For vrat, very simple steps with potato and peanuts, we use peanut here for some crunchy taste. but some people don’t like the taste of peanuts you can avoid it completely, If not fasting, You can make more variation with onion, veggies as per your taste and make it more healthier and colourful, you can’t go wrong with this recipe, otherwise it looks sticky and messy. We will try more variation with you later. 

Lets start this recipe note the following ingredients :- 

Ingredients

2 cup soaked sabudana pearls

2 chopped potato

½ cup peanuts

Salt to taste-Sendha namak

1 t/sp red chilli flakes

8-10 piece curry leaves .

1 Tablespoon Oil

Optional (if you use in vrat) – use haldi,, mustard seeds,

Mehtod:-

Take Peanuts and Peel potato can chop it into small pieces.

Heat oil in a pan, add peanuts and roast for 2 minute and add chopped potato and saute till turn in light brown colour,  Add salt and chilli flakes mix it well now add soaked sabudana and mix until blended. 

Roast the sabudana until they transculent. 

Garnish with green coriander. 

Serve hot

Enjoy bowl of Sabudana khichadi during fasting.