Achu's Recipes

Ingredients Maida - 1 cup Whole Wheat Flour - 1 cup Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp Salt -  a pinch Unsalted Butter - 100 gms: (in room temperature) Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup Sugar - 1/2 cup Egg - 1 (in room temperature) Vanilla Essence - 1/2 tsp Chocolate Chips - 1 cup Preparation Method Seive together maida, wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and keep aside. Powder brown sugar and sugar and keep aside. In glass bowl, soften the butter with a hand-held whisk. Add powdered sugar and mix till the butter-sugar mix become creamy. Add egg and vanilla essence; mix till the it become creamy. Gradually add the flour and combine with whisk. Add chocolate chips and combine with whisk or hands and make a thick dough. Refrigerate the dough atleast for one hour. Preheat the oven at 180degree C for 10mins: Line the cookie tray with butter paper. Place one scoop or lemon sized dough in the baking tray. Bake the dough in oven at 180degree C...

Phirni - light, creamy, rose water flavoured, chilled rice pudding - is a perfect dessert for hot summer day. Ingredients Basmati Rice - 1/2 cup Condensed Milk - 200 ml Milk - 2 cups Cardamom Powder - 1/4 tsp Rose Water - 1/2 tsp Almonds (finely chopped) - for garnishing Rose Petals - for garnishing Preperation Method Wash and soak the rice in water for 30mins. Drain the water and grind to a fine paste. To a thick bottom pan, add milk and rice paste and heat together, stirring constantly so that the mixture does not stick to the bottom. Cook till the mixture become thick. Add condensed milk and bring to a boil stirring constantly. Once bubbles starts to appear , remove from flame. Add cardamom powder and rose water and mix well. Allow it to cool and transfer the phirni to serving bowl (preferably clay bowls) and refrigerate for 1-2 hours. Serve the chilled Phirni garnished with rose petals and chopped almonds.