BENARASI KHEER

Ingredients: Milk 2 cups. Rice!/3 cup. Condensed milk ½ tin. Milk 1 litre. Almonds 10 nos (blanched and chopped.) Raisins 10-15  nos, (soak in water and then squeeze out the water. Small   cardamom 2-3 nos. (powder) Saffron  ¼ tspn (soak)

Method: Microwave high uncovered milk and rice together for twenty mins. Stir once after after 8-10 minutes. Add milkmaid and  kesar. Mix well. Microwave high uncovered for 10 mins. Stir in between. Simmer at 50 % power for 5 mins. Remove from microwave and mash well with and break the rice grains. Add almonds& raisins. Cool add cardamom powder.  Serve cold.  NB  Kheer becomes thick on cooling. Add milk to thin.

CHAT PATE PRAWNS 

Ingredients: Prawns 200 gmns.  Salt  to taste.  Lemon  juice1 tblspn.  Haldi ½ tsp. Red  chilli paste 1 tspn. Ginger and garlic paste 1 tblspn. Capsicum 1 no. Cut into slices. Small onions 2 nos. (cut into slices.) Potato 1 no (small ) cut into slices. Small tomato  1 no (cut into slices.) Oil  4 tblspn. Chopped coriander leaves 1 tblspn. Forgarnishing. Pepper corns crushed. ½ tspn.

Method: Wash prawns. Apply salt, red chilli paste, lemon juice and haldi. Keep aside. Microwave potatoes in 1 cup water with a little salt in a bowl cook for 6  mins. Put heated oil in a bowl add the prawns microwave high for 3 mins. Stir and microwave again for 2 mins. Remove prawns and keep aside. In  the same container, add ginger, garlic paste, microwave for a minute. Add onions with prawns, potatoes, capsicum and tomatoes. Sprinkle peppercorns. And mix. Serve hot garnished with coriander leaves.

SAUTED   MUSHROOMS

Ingredients: Mushrooms 200 gmns   (thickly sliced ) Oil 3 tblspn , Large onion 1 no (sliced ) Garlic paste !/4 tsp, cumin powder.1/4tspn. Salt to taste. Pepper pwd 1/2tspn.  Milk 3 tblspn. Cornflour  1 tspn. Coriander leaves Chopped 2 tblspn.

Method: Microwave high oil in the dish uncovered for 2 mins. Add sliced onion, garlic, cumin powder and microwave high uncovered for 3 mins. Mix in mushrooms and micro high covered for 5 mins. Mix milk and cornflour. Add to the mushrooms and mix well. Sprinkle salt and pepper and milk and mix well. Microwave high covered for 1 minute. Sprinkle chopped coriander leaves and serve hot.

KHANDAVI

Ingredients: Besan1/2cup. Curd ¾ cup.Water ¾ cup, Salt to taste. Haldi /4 tsp.
Hing (asafoetida ) a pinch. Ginger paste1/4tspn. Green chilli paste of 1 no. Tempering Oil ½ tspn. Mustard seeds ½ tspn. Chilli green 1no, chopped finely. Coriander leaves chopped. Grated coconut. Alittle.

Method: mix besan, curd and water well with a beater so that no lumps remain. Put in a bowl and microwave high for 3 mins mixture  Remove from microwave. Mix well and spread on a plastic sheet, and let it cool. Then cut into strips 1 broad.  Roll them into rolls and arrange on a platter. Heat oil add mustard seeds, green chilli and pour over the platter and microwave for a 1min remove & sprinkle coriander leaves and coconut. Mix and pour over the prepared kandvai.