Geetika's Recipes!

a collection of practical recipes

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Banana blueberry pancakes

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Ingredients

  • Overripe banana – 2
  • Wheat flour – 1 cup
  • All-purpose flour – 1/2 cup
  • Milk – 1/2 cup
  • Baking powder – 1/2 teaspoon
  • Brown sugar – 1-2 tablespoon
  • Egg – 1
  • A handful of raisins and blueberry

Make a cake like batter by mixing all ingredients and make pancakes on a griddle/tawa using ghee or oil.

Serve with maple syrup

 

Saffron Milk Tea

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Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups raw milk
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 T.  tea
  • 15-25 saffron strands
  • 3 cardamom pods
  • 2 tsp. raw honey

Instructions

  • Place the water and optional cardamom into a small saucepan and bring it to a boil.
  • Simmer the pods for 5 minutes.
  • Turn off the heat and add the saffron threads. Allow the strands to steep for 5-8 minutes.
  • Add the remaining ingredients. Stir and heat the milk to warm, not boiling, to protect the living nutrients in the raw milk.
  • Strain and serve, adding more sweetener if desired, to taste.

Summer Salad with Melons Orange and Papaya

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Ingredients

4 cups watermelon, muskmelon and papaya cubes
½ cup orange segments
some chopped celery or you can use mint leaves

Dressing

2 tablespoons honey
4 tablespoons orange juice, or lemon juice tastes good as well
¼ teaspoon grated ginger

Method

Mix the fruits in a bowl. Blend the honey and orange juice/lemon juice, add the ginger. Pour over fruits as dressing. Serve chilled.

Walnut and Banana Cake

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Ingredients

1/2 cup wholewheat flour
1/2 cup refined flour
1/4 cup milk
1 big ripe banana
1/4 cup of Walnuts
2 tbsp of Yogurt or curd
2 tbsp of oil
3/4 cup of Castor sugar
A pinch of Salt
1 tbsp of Cocoa powder
A pinch of Cinnamon powder
1/4 tsp of Baking powder
1/4 tsp of Baking soda

Method

Grind together the banana slices, sugar, yogurt, milk, and oil in a blender. Keep it aside.

Add the baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder, salt and cinnamon to both the flour in a big vessel. Sift all the dry ingredients together.

Mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients by mixing with light hands.

Crush the walnuts into small chunks and add it to the batter.

Preheat the oven for 10 minutes at 180°C. Grease a cake tin with oil and dust it with dry flour. Pour the batter into the baking tin.  Bake the cake at 180°C for 30 minutes or till the cake is done. Check the cake by inserting a knife in it, if the knife comes out clean the cake is fully balked.

Bean Pasta

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Ingredients
3/4 cup cooked whole wheat penne
1/4 cup soaked and boiled rajma
2 tsp butter
2 to 3 black peppercorns
1 bayleaf
1 tsp finely chopped garlic
1/4 cup finely chopped onions
1 cup finely chopped tomatoes
2 tbsp tomato ketchup
1 tbsp fresh cream
salt to taste

Method

1. Heat the butter in a broad non-stick pan, add the peppercorns, bayleaf and garlic and sauté on a medium flame for a few seconds.
2. Add the onions and sauté on a medium flame for 1 to 2 minutes or till they turn translucent.
3. Add the tomatoes, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 2 to 3 minutes, while mashing with the back of the spoon.
4. Add the rajma, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute, while stirring continuously.
5. Add the tomato ketchup, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute, while stirring continuously.
6. Add the cream, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 1 minute.
7. Add the salt and mix well
8. Add the penne, mix well and cook on a medium flame for 2 more minutes, while stirring occasionally.
9. Remove and discard the bayleaf and peppercorns. Serve hot.