Surprise Your Brother By Making Some Delicious Dishes This Rakhi 2012

By Author: Yash Misra
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Rakhi is undoubtedly one of the most famous festival celebrated in different parts of India. Rakhi or Raksha Bandhan is celebrated to commemorate the eternal love bond between brothers and sisters. Rakhi is a promise to protect this sacred bond throughout their life. Apart from various rituals and feasting, exchanging gifts also plays a very important role here. Thus various online gifting portal have emerged to facilitate the customers especially those who are settled abroad due to their varied commitments. GiftstoIndia24x7.com deserves mention due to its customer care support and quality client service. Availing our service you can easily send Rakhi to India. This Rakhi you can make your memories sweet by sending mouth-watering sweets or chocolates. As cakes are the widely accepted gifts on any occasion, you can also send cakes coupled with Rakhi to India available in the site.

This Rakhi 2012 you can cook delicious food for your dear brother and make the occasion even more grand. Here are few recipes you can easily prepare at home -
PANEER KORMA RECIPE
Ingredients:

250 gms Cottage Cheese (Paneer) ...
... How to make paneer
4 Tomato (Tamatar)
3 Onion (Pyaj)
1 " long piece Ginger (Adrak)
2 Green Chilly (Hari Mirch)
1 cup Mava
1/2 tsp Red Chili Powder (Lal Mirchi)
1/4 tsp Turmeric (Haldi)
1/2 tsp Garam Masala\n 1/2 tblsp Clarified Butter (Ghee)

Method :

Cut paneer in square pieces.
Grind onion (pyaj), ginger (adrak), green chilly (harimirch).
Grate mava.
Heat clarified butter (ghee) in a pan.
Add onion (pyaj), tomato (tamatar) paste.
Continue cooking it on medium flame till ghee/oil begins to separate.
Add mava, cream (malai).
Simmer for 2 minutes.
Add salt, red chili powder (lal mirchi), turmeric (haldi), garam masala.
Add cottage cheese (paneer) pieceswith 1/2 cup of water
When the gravy thickens put off the flame.
Take off the fire and serve hot.

VEGETABLE BIRYANI

Ingredients:

45ml/3 tbsp ghee
1 onion, chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
2.5cm/1 in cinnamon stick
225/8 oz mixed vegetables, diced
225g/1 cup long-grain rice, soaked
600ml/1 pt vegetable stock
50g/2 oz paneer, cubed and lightly fried
100g/1 cup nuts and fruit, chopped
2 bay leaves
6 black peppercorns
5 cloves
5 cardamom pods
Add salt according to taste

Method :

Heat the ghee and fry the onion until golden.
Remove and reserve half the onion. Add the tomato to the pan, stir in the spices and cook for about 5 minutes until the ghee appears on the surface.
Add the vegetables and salt, cover and simmer for about 5 minutes.
Stir in the rice and stock, bring to the boil then simmer gently for 5 minutes.
Add the paneer and nuts and mix well. Cover and simmer for a further 5 minutes until all the moisture has gone.
Serve hot, sprinkled with fried onion.

COCONUT BARFI

Ingredients :

Scrapped coconut -2 cups
Coarsely shredded coconut -1 cup
A few drops of yellow color
8-10 strands of saffron soaked in 1 tbsp warm water
sugar-1 1/2 Cups
Milk-1 cup
Ghee -1 tbsp
Cardamom powder -1/4 tsp

Method :

Mix both scrapped and coarsely shredded coconut in a large pan.
Add milk to the mixture and cook till froth starts appearing.
Stir the mixture while cooking. Do it for about 15 minutes.
Now, add saffron, color and cardamom to the existing mixture.
At the same time, start boiling sugar to make sugar syrup.
Pour it into the coconut mixture, stirring gently and continuously.
Afterwards, add ghee and continue stirring, till a soft bulge is formed.
Put the whole mixture into a large plate which is greased. Spread the mixture very lightly.
Cool the mixture so that it solidifies and cut it into squares or any other shape that you want.

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About the Author:

The author writes for GiftstoIndia24x7.com which specializes in delivering Rakhi to India. This site will help to send Rakhi to India from the various parts of the world by the global NRIs on Rakhi 2012.