CHEEESE PASTA

Ingredients

1. 1 small onion chopped
2. 1 garlic minced(optional)
3. 1 tspn 0regano (as per taste)
4. 1/2 cup milk
5. 1 cup pasta
6. salt
7. sugar
8. 1 tbspn plain flour
9. boiled green peas( can use other veggies too)
10. 1/2 cup soft cheese or grated cubed cheese
11. tomato catch up(optional for people wanting tangy flavour)
12. 1/2 tspn pepper as per taste

Procedure

1. Boil the pasta untill just cooked or as per packet instruction and keep aside.
2. In a pan add butter and fry the onions till translucent and keep aside
3. Add milk in the pan and bring to boil
4. To that add plain flour and stir til it thickens up
5. Add  grated cheese salt and sugar and keep stirring till it thickens. (I usually add more sure as I like it sweet).
6. now add oregano pepper, fried onions and simmer for sometime
7.  Add green peas and pasta, mix well
8. for tangy flavor add tomato catch up and mix well...
9. serve hot sprinkling with grated cheese and some parsley/coriander

MUSHROOM XACUTI

Ingredients

1. 1 tbspn oil
2. 1 cup grated coconut
3. 2 cloves
4. 1 inch cinnamon stick
5. 4 peppercorn
6. 2 tspn coriander seeds
7. 1 petal star anise deseeded
8. 1/4 tspn fennel seeds
9. 1 mace
10.  a pinch of nutmeg powder
11. 1/2 tspn chilly powder
12. 1/2 tspn turmeric powder
13. 1 green chilly chopped
14. 1 clove gralic crushed
15. salt to taste
16. 1/4 tspn sugar
17. 1 small onion 
18. 1/2-1 cup coconut milk
19.  2 cups mushrooms
20. coriander leaves to garnish 

Procedure

1.   Fry or roast all the above ingredient from 1-14( till coconut becomes golden brown)
2. Once they cool add onion ,garlic and a little water. Grind it to fine paste.
3. In a utensil add mushrooms(chopped if too big) and coconut milk and boil til mushrooms are half cooked
4. to this add the ground paste, salt and sugar and cook till the paste is cooked.
5. garnish with coriander and serve with rice bread rotis etc.

PALAK PANEER

Ingredients

1.  Fresh Spinach 2 bunch
2. 1 tbspn Oil
3. 2-3 cloves,
4. 2 inch stick cinnamon
5. 2-3 cardamons
6. 1 Onions chopped
7. salt to taste
8. 1 clove garlic
9. 1-2 green chillies chopped
10. 1-2 tbspn Ginger Garlic paste
11. 1 Tomato chopped
12. 1 tspn  Red Chilly powder
13. 1/4-1/2 tspn Turmeric powder
14. 1 tspn Cumin powder
15. 1 tbspn Coriander powder
16. 1tspn fenugreek leaves crushed to powder
17. Cream 3 tbspn
18. 1 cup paneer cubes

Procedure:

 

1.  Boil Spinach till it cooks it for at least 5-10 mins.
2. Once cooked drain water and add in mixer/grinder and make a paste and keep aside.
3. add oil in a pan and fry all the whole garam masala till aroma comes of spices.
4. Now add onions, salt, crushed garlic, ginger garlic paste and green chillies and fry till onion becomes brown.
5. Add tomatoes and allow it to cook till the tomatoes are mashed
6. Add all the powder(chilly,cumin, coriander, turmeric) and cook for 2 min
7. Into this pan now add the spinach paste and allow it to cook on low- medium flame till the colour kind of get changed of the spinach. 
8. add fenugreek leaves by crushing it into this and cook for another 5 min.
9. now add cream (optional) and paneer cubes and simmer for another 5 min.
10.  Serve this dish with chapati roti nan bread rice.