Prabha Ki Rasoi - Recipes in Hindi and English

Kanji Vada Ingredients: White Urad Dal - 1 cup Salt - 1.5 tsp Yellow / Black mustard seeds - 2 tsp Hing (Asafoetida) - 1/2 tsp Red Chilli Powder - 1 tsp Black Salt - 1 tsp Water - 8 glasses (2 litre) Oil for frying Method: 1. Wash dal nicely and soak it in water for 4-5 hours 2. Grind dal into fine paste using very little water 3. Now add 1/2 tsp salt in it and beat it nicely with your hand till it becomes fluffy. 4. Heat Oil in a Kadahi to fry the pakodi or vada 5. Keep dropping small pakoris of dal paste in the oil 6. Fry the pakodis till they are golden brown 7. Keep the pakodis in a plate and let them cool 8. Boil water and let it cool 9. Grind mustard seeds 10. Take a glass or ceramic Jar (Don't take a plastic or metal container) 11. Add 1/2 glass boiled water in it 12. Add salt, black salt, red chilli powder, hing, ground mustard in this water 13. Mix all the masalas nicely 14. Now add rest of the water and mix nicely 15. Add the pakodis in th...

Bel Sharbat | Wood Apple Juice Ingredients: Bel Fruit - 1 Black Salt - 3/4 tsp Roasted Cumin Powder- 3/4 tsp Sugar - 4 tbsp Method: 1. Slightly hammer Bel fruit along one of the circumference by rotating it slowly. Cut it into two parts 2. Using a spoon extract the pulp from it. 3. Soak the pulp in 4 cups of water for about 2 hours. 4. Mesh the pulp in water properly with hand. Don’t use mixer, as it will crush the seeds making the juice bitter. 5. Sieve the pulp to remove fibers and seeds. 6. Add little more water in the sieve and extract the remaining pulp from the fiber and seeds of the sieve 7. Now we have the smooth bel fruit extract 8. Add sugar, black salt, 1/2 tsp jeera powder in the juice and mix till the sugar dissolves 9. Keep it in refrigerator to cool 10. For serving, first add little ice in a glass and then pour the juice. 11. Sprinkle little cumin powder and serve it chilled 12.  Bel  juice is  useful  in curing of constipa...