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Falahari  Khatta Meetha Kaddu for Vrat Ingredients: Pumpkin (Kaddu) - 500 gm Desi Ghee - 1 tbsp Cumin Seeds - 3/4 tsp Roasted Cumin Powder - 1 tsp Amchur Powder - 1 tsp Black Pepper powder - 1 tsp Green Chilly - 2 (finely chopped) Rock Salt (Sendha Namak) - 1 tsp Sugar - 1 tbsp Method: 1. Peel and chop pumpkin in bite size pieces 2. In a Kadahi heat ghee 3. Add cumin seeds and allow to splutter 4. Add green chillies and fry for few seconds 5. Add pumpkin pieces and mix and stir for a minute 6. Add rock salt and sugar and mix well 7. Cover and cook on medium flame for 5-7 minutes 8. Stir the pumpkin nicely and again cover and cook until pumpkin becomes soft 9. Once pumpkin becomes soft, add cumin powder, black pepper powder, and stir gently 10. Add amchur powder and mix well 11. Serve hot with Singhara poori, Kuttu poori, Kuttu Cheela, Rajgira paratha, Sama Pulao फलाहारी खट्टा मीठा कद्दू सामग्री: कद्दू - ५०० ग्राम देसी घी - १ बड़ा चम्मच जीरा - ३/४ छोट

Falahari Sweet Potato Fry Ingredients: Sweet Potato (Shakarkand) - 250 gm Rock Salt ( Sendha Namak) - 1 tsp Black Pepper Powder- 1 tsp Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp Cumin Seeds - 1 tsp Desi Ghee - 1 tbsp Almonds (Chopped) - 1 tbsp Method: 1. Wash and Boil Sweet Potatoes in Cooker for 3 whistles 2. Let them cool and then peel them 3. Cut boiled sweet potatoes into circular about 1 cm thick pieces 4. Heat Ghee in a pan and   add cumin seeds and let them sizzle 5. Now add sweet potato pieces and stir 6. Add rock salt and black pepper powder and mix well 7. Keep stirring gently and cook for 3-4 minutes 8. Remove from fire 9. Add lemon juice and mix well 10. Transfer   Sweet Potato Fry   in a serving plate 11. Garnish with chopped almonds and enjoy it with a cup of tea on a Fast (Vrat) day or any other day as an healthy snack फलाहारी शकरकंदी फ्राई  सामग्री: शकरकंद - २५० ग्राम  सेंधा नमक  - १ छोटा चम्मच  काली मिर्च पाउडर - १ छोटा चम्मच  निम्बू

Falahari Peanut Curd Chutney Ingredients: Roasted Peanut - 1 cup Curd - 3/4 cup Green Chilli - 2 Lemon Juice - 1/2 tbsp Roasted Cumin Powder - 1 tsp Rock Salt (Sendha Namak) - 1 tsp Method: 1. Grind Peanuts coarsely 2. Add curd, rock salt, green chillies, lemon juice, cumin powder in it and blend in a mixer till smooth without using any water 3.  Store refrigerated in an air-tight container and use with  vrat or fasting snacks फलाहारी मूंगफली दही चटनी  सामग्री: भुनी मूंगफली - १ कप दही - ३/४ कप हरी मिर्च - २ निम्बू का रस - १/२ बड़ा चम्मच भुना जीरा पाउडर - १ छोटा चम्मच सेंधा नमक - १ छोटा चम्मच  विधि: १. मूंगफली को दरदरा पीस लें  २. दही, सेंधा नमक, हरी मिर्च, निम्बू का रस, जीरा पाउडर डालें और बिना पानी डाले महीन पीसे लें  ३. हवा बंद बर्तन में फ्रिज में रखें और  व्रत के नाश्ते के साथ परोसें 

Milk Powder Gujia Ingredients (Covering): Maida (Refined Wheat Flour) - 2 cup Desi Ghee - 1/2 cup Milk - 1 cup Ingredients (Stuffing): Milk Powder - 1 cup Desi Ghee - 1/2 cup Milk - 1/2 cup Sugar - 1 cup Dry Coconut (Grated) - 1 cup Raisin (Kishmish) - 2 tbsp Cashewnut - 2 tbsp Almonds - 2 tbsp Chironji (Chiroli) - 2 tbsp Green Cardamom - 10 Ghee (for frying) Method (Covering): 1. Take refined flour in any vessel and mix ghee to it. 2. Now add lukewarm milk in small portions and knead stiff dough 3. Cover and keep aside the dough for 20 minutes to set. Method (Stuffing): 1. Cut the cashews in small chunks 2. Cut the almonds in small chunks 3. Powder the cardamoms. 4. Heat 2 tbsp ghee in a wok and add milk to it. 5. Now mix milk powder in small parts and keep stirring constantly till it gets smooth and thick in consistency. 6. There should not be any formation of lumps in the mixture. 7. When the mixture appears same like mawa, then turn off the fla

Aate ke Ladoo | Wheat Flour Ladoo Ingredients: Aata (Wheat Flour) - 2 cup Boora (Powdered Sugar) - 2 cup Desi Ghee - 2 cup Gond (Edible Gum) - 50 gm Chironji (Charoli) - 25 gm Makhana (Fox Nut) - 50 gm Almonds - 1/2 cup Sonth (Dry Ginger) Powder - 1 tsp Method: 1. Micro wave makhana for 30 seconds and then stir it 2. Repeat this step to microwave and stir makhanas 3 times 3. Microwave gond for 30 seconds and then stir it 4. Repeat this process to microwave and stir gond 2 times 5. Heat 2 tbsp ghee and fry the gond till light golden and keep aside 6. Now add 2 tbsp ghee and fry the makhanas and keep aside 7. When gond and makhana are cooled, grind them coarsely 8. Chop almonds 9. Heat remaining ghee and add aata 10. Now roast the aata till it becomes golden brown 11. Now add almonds, chironji and mix well  12. Add grounded gond, makhana, sonth powder and mix well 13. Remove from fire and let it cool 14. When the Aata mixture is at room temperature add boo

Arbi Methi Masala Dry Curry Ingredients: Arbi (Colocasia) - 500 gm Kasoori Methi - 1 tbsp Ajwain (Carom seeds) - 1 tsp Hing (Asafoetida) - 1/4 tsp Salt - 1 tsp Red Chilli Powder - 1/2 tsp Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp Ginger - 1 tbsp (Finely chopped) Green chilli - 1 tbsp (Chopped) Curd - 1/2 cup Ghee / Oil - 5 tbsp Coriander powder - 1 tsp Amchur powder - 1/2 tsp Method: 1. Boil Arbi for 2 whistles in pressure cooker 2. Let them cool 3. Peel the boiled arbis 4. Heat 4 tbsp ghee /oil in a pan 5. Lightly press the arbi between your palms and flatten it 6. Add the arbi to the ghee 7. Fry the arbis till light brown 8. Take out the arbis in a plate and keep aside 9. Now heat 1 tbsp ghee / oil and add ajwain, hing 10. When ajwain crackles add green chillies, ginger and saute 11. Now add salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, amchur powder and mix well 12. Add 2 tbsp water and cook the masala 13. Add kasoori methi, curd and mix well 14. N

Hariyali Aloo |  Green Potato Curry Ingredients: Baby potatoes - 500 gm Oil - 4 tbsp Cinnamon - 1" piece Clove - 1 Green cardamom - 1 Garlic flakes - 7 Ginger - 1/2" piece (roughly chopped) Onion - 3 (sliced) Green chillies - 4 Mint leaves - 1/4 cup Coriander leaves - 1 cup (roughly chopped) Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp Butter - 1 tbsp Salt - 1 tsp Garam Masala Powder - 1/2 tsp Lemon juice  -1 lemon Method: 1. Boil potatoes in cooker for 2 whistles 2. Cool and peel off the skin 3. Heat 2 tbsp oil, add cinnamon, clove and green cardamom 4. Now add garlic flakes, ginger and give it a fry 5. Add sliced onion and fry on medium flame till golden in colour 6. Let it cool 7. Grind green chillies, mint leaves and coriander leaves to a paste 8. Add sauted onion and grind smoothly with little water 9. Heat 1 tbsp oil and roast the boiled potatoes until golden 10. Heat 1 tbsp oil, add bay leaf, cumin seeds 11. Add the ground paste and mix in medium flam

Amla Ki Launji | Indian Gooseberry Pickle Ingredients: Indian Gooseberry (Amla) - 250 gm Green Chillies - 4 Ginger - 1" piece Jaggery / Sugar - 3 tbsp  Red Chilli Powder - 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp Salt - 1 tsp Cooking Oil - 2 tbsp Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp Fennel seeds - 1 tsp Hing (asafoetida) - 1/4 tsp Method: 1. Take water in a vessel  2.  Wash and put the gooseberries in a colander 3. Once water boils, place the colander with gooseberries over the vessel and cover it 4. Cook for 8 minutes on high flame 5. Take out the gooseberries from the colander and let them cool 6. Remove the seeds from the gooseberries and separate the segments 7. Chop ginger in long slices and green chillies in big pieces 8. Heat oil in a pan and add fenugreek seeds, hing and fennel seeds 9. When it starts crackling add amla, ginger and green chillies 10. Saute for few minutes on low flame 11. Add salt, turmeric powder, chilli powder, jaggery/

Falahari Vrat Ka Lauki (Bottle Gourd) Raita Ingredients : Lauki (Bottle Gourd) - 300 gm Curd (Yogurt) - 300 gm Rock Salt (Sendh Namak) - 1 tsp Roasted Cumin Powder - 1 tsp Green Chillies - 2 (Finely Chopped) Method: 1. Wash and peel Lauki 2. Grate the Lauki 3. Boil Lauki in sufficient water for 15 minutes 4. Sieve it to remove water and let it cool 5. Beat Curd to make it smooth 6. Press the boiled lauki in fists of your hands to remove excess water 7. Add this lauki in dahi and mix well 8. Add Rock Salt, cumin powder, chopped green chilly and mix well 9.  Serve it chilled with Kuttu Poori or Singhara Poori or as side dish with any meal फलाहारी व्रत का लौकी रायता सामग्री: लौकी  - ३०० ग्राम दही - ३०० ग्राम सेंधा नमक - १ छोटा चम्मच भुना जीरा पाउडर - १ छोटा चम्मच हरी मिर्च - २ (बारीक कटी हुई) विधि: १. लौकी को धो कर छील लीजिये २. लौकी को कद्दूकस कर लीजिये ३. कद्दूकस करी हुई लौकी को पर्याप्त पानी में १५ मिनट उबालें ४. अब इसे छलनी से छान लीजिये और ठंड