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  Balushahi or Badusha is a one of the traditional and popular Indian sweet. Balushahi is made with all purpose flour and later glazed with sugar syrup. Balushahi has crispy from outside and soft , flaky texture from inside. Balushahi is one of my favorite sweet to prepare on Diwali. Making Balushahi or Badusha is very easy if you use correct ratio of ingredients and follow the process .We can store Balushahi at room temperature for about one week. Ingredients A ll purpose flour or Maida 1 cup Ghee  1/4 cup Curd or Yoghurt 2 tbs Baking Soda 1/4 tsp Sugar 1 cup Water 1 cup Cardamom powder a pinch Pistachios chopped for garnishing Method Preparing dough Take all purpose flour or maida in a bowl. Add baking soda into the bowl and mix well. Add ghee into the bowl and mix it together by rubbing with fingers. Add yoghurt and mix well. If you need , add 1 tbs of water and mix to bring everything together . In this recipe we should not knead the dough. Cover the dough and keep it asid...

  Samosa or Aloo Samosa is a very popular snack or appetizer in India. Samosa is fried all purpose flour pastry filled with spiced potato and pea mixture . Samosa can be enjoyed with any kind of chutney . My favorite way to serve samosa is with cilantro chutney and tamarind chutney . Ingredients ( For dough ) All purpose flour or maida 2.5 cups Carom seeds 1/2 tsp Salt 1/2 tsp Oil 1/2 cup Water 1/2 cup + couple of tbs extra (Samosa filling) Boiled potatoes 3 big Green peas frozen or boiled 1/2 cup Oil 2 tbs Asafoetida or hind 1/4 tsp Cumin seeds or jeera 1/2 tsp Crushed ginger 1 tbs and Green chillies (optional ) as your preference Coriander powder 1 tbs Garam masala 1/2 tbs Cumin powder 1/2 tsp Dry mango powder or amchur 1 tsp Cilantro finely chopped as required Salt to taste Method Preparing Dough Take flour in a bowl. Add carom seeds and salt in the flour and mix well. Add oil in the flour. Mix flour and oil very well. Add water little by little to form a firm and stiff dough. ...

Today I am sharing another our family favourite breakfast i.e. Sabudana Khichdi. I usually make sabudana khichdi for our breakfast .  Sabudana Khichdi is one of the most popular breakfast recipes . It is also cooked during fasting or upvaas. I have already shared one more Sabudana khichdi for fasting . In that recipe , I shared the way how we cook sabudana khichdi at home during fast. 

This time I am here with my childhood favourite recipe i.e. Aloo halwa or potato halwa. Potato halwa is  perfect dessert recipe for fasting . This is very easy halwa recipe which can be made with boiled potatoes and few more ingredients. The star ingredient of this recipe is potatoes . The best thing about potato is whatever way we cook potatoes , it tastes awesome.

Raw banana or Kaccha kela  is also known as Plantain . Here, I am sharing a very quick and easy recipe of spicy plantain curry . Whenever I buy plantains , I usually make plantain curry this way . This recipe is again another easy recipe like my other recipes . Here Ingredients are very simple and easily available in kitchen as well. Plantains are easily available in local markets and supermarkets. However it gives me a good alternate for lunch box . Everyone in my family loves to eat plantain curry .

Kheksi or Spiny gourd is a very popular seasonal vegetable and also known as Kantola . Kheksi or Kantola belongs to bitter gourd family but it is not as bitter in taste at all. Kheksi or Spiny gourd is seen in local vegetable market during monsoon only. Nowadays, we can easily get Kheksi in local markets or supermarkets. In our family , we all love to eat Kheksi ki sabzi or Kheksi stir fry . We can serve Kheksi ki sabzi as a side dish with dal-rice and taste amazing. Kheksi stir fry recipe is very easy and simple to cook. We only need five ingredients  ,  Kheksi , oil , onion , green chillies and salt to make amazingly delicious stir fry.