Quick and Easy Milk Cake(Kalakand) from chenna/paneer

Kalakad is a famous Indian Sweet made out of milk which involves a hours of preparation.
Here is a quick and easy way to make it.
See below for the video recipe.

Ingredients:

2 L Milk

2 tsp lemon juice.

100gm sugar

1/2 tsp cardamom powder

Procedure:

Boil the milk in a pan, when it starts boiling simmer the flame and add the lemon juice diluted in 2 tbsp of water slowly little by little.

Switch off the flame and stirr it, milk should curdle and the milk solids get separated and the light green coloured whey will be seen.

At this stage filter the milk solids from whey and take it aside. These milk solids is called chenna or  paneer.

Now take a heavy bottomed pan and put the chenna in to it and cook it on medium flame. When  it starts bubbling add the sugar and cardamom powder and cook until it starts leaving the sides and thickens. Take a bowl or plate or mould where we want to put the kalakand and grease it.

After the mixture starts leaving sides, switch off flame and transfer it in to the greased mould.

Press it with a spoon or with back of a glass to level it, and let it cool till it reaches room temperature and then keep in the refrigerator for 10 min.

After 10 min take it out from fridge and cut it and serve. EWnjoy quick and easy Kalakand.

Rich Chocolate Chunks and Nuts Whole Wheat Cookies

Chocolate chunky cookies are the kids' most favourite and loved cookies which has big chocolate chunks that melt in mouth.
This recipe has chocolate in 3 forms that is cocoa powder, chocolate chips and big chocolate chunks and also some nuts of cashew and almond. So only these cookies are the richest ones.
Below is the text and video recipe.
Ingredients:
1cup/130 gm Whole wheat Flour
1/4 cup milk powder
3 tbsp Sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder

2 tbsp milk
1/4 cup ghee/butter
3 tbsp each of Cashewnut and Badamchunks
1 tbsp cocoa powder
1/4 cup each of chocolate chips and big chocolate chunks
Few drops of vanilla extract

Procedure:

Take ghee, suagr, vanilla and 1 tbsp milk and whisk till sugar is dissolved and looks fluffy and light.
Add cocoa powder and mix.
Now add the sifted flour and baking powder and mix gently to form a crumbly mixture.
Add all the nuts and choco chips and mix. Now add the milk powder and mix and then add the big chocolate chunks and mix and add 1-2 tbsp milk if required to form a cookie dough. Place in the freezer for 10-15 min.
In the meanwhile preheat the oven at 180C. 
Grease the baking tray and line with parchment paper and grease it also.
Make equal size cookies from the dough and place them on the tray.
After the oven is preheated place the tray in the oven and bake for 10 to 12 min till they are baked properly. Remove from oven and let them cool and store them in an air tight container and enjoy.

Healthy Whole wheat and nuts cookies

Most of us think that cookies made of any flour other than maida/all purpose flour does not taste good. But this recipe can prove them wrong.
I made these cookies only with Whole wheat flour, nuts, desi ghee and milk powder. They came up so tasty that i wanted to share them with everyone.
Here is the video recipe:

Ingredients:
1cup/130 gm Whole wheat Flour
1/2 cup/55gm milk powder
1 tsp Sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 pinch salt
2 tbsp milk
1/4 cup ghee/butter
1 tbsp each of Pista and Badam shavings(finely sliced)

Procedure:
Take all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Mix them thoroughly. It is better if you sieve them once or twice so that they mix uniformly. 
Then add the butter/ghee and gently rub against the flour with the finger tips to form a bread crumb texture.
Now add nuts to it and mix once.
Now add enough milk around 2 tbsp depending on the moisture content to make a dough. Do not knead the dough. Just gently mix to form a dough.
Now if the dough is moist and sticky then place it in the freezer for 5 min. Or if the dough is not sticky, then directly start making into cookies.
Roll the dough to 4 mm thickness and cut it in to circles.
Now make the good day cookies like arc design on them using a tumbler or glass.
Place them on a greased baking tray and place it in the freezer for 5 to 10 min.
In the meanwhile preheat the oven at 180C. After the oven is preheated place the tray in the oven and bake for 10 to 12 min till they turn golden brown in colour. Remove from oven and let them cool and store them in an air tight container and enjoy.


Note: 
1. Temperature and time differs from oven to oven, so adjust them according to your oven.
2. If you want to make for your kids and want to make them very rich you can increase the quantity of butter to 50 gm and sugar to 3 tbsp. This recipe also gives very tasty cookies eventhough the butter and sugar added are less.
3. Also you can add some cardamom powder or vanilla essence for flavoured cookies.
4. Also You can replace 50% of the flour with oats flour.




 

Good day like Oats and Nuts Cookies (100% Oats cookies with pista and badam)

Most of us think that cookies made of any flour other than maida/all purpose flour does not taste good. But this recipe can prove them wrong.
I made these cookies only with oats flour, nuts, desi ghee and milk powder. They came up so tasty that i wanted to share them with everyone.

Ingredients:
60 gm Oats Flour(Finely Ground Oats)
25 gm milk powder
2 tbsp Sugar
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 pinch salt
1 tbsp milk
25 gm ghee/butter
1 tbsp each of Pista and Badam shavings(finely sliced)

Procedure:
Take all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Mix them thoroughly. It is better if you sieve them once or twice so that they mix uniformly. 
Then add the butter/ghee and gently rub against the flour with the finger tips to form a bread crumb texture.
Now add nuts to it and mix once.
Now add enough milk around 1 tbsp depending on the moisture content to make a dough. Do not knead the dough. Just gently mix to form a dough.
Now if the dough is moist and sticky then place it in the freezer for 5 min. Or if the dough is not sticky, then directly start making into cookies.
Make equal portions of the dough and make balls. You can use a weighing scale to divide equally. My dough is divided into 16 gm balls. But it can be done approximately too.
Now press the balls and make disc like shape without any cracks. Now make the good day cookies like arc design on them using a tumbler or glass.
Place them on a greased baking tray and place it in the freezer for 5 to 10 min.
In the meanwhile preheat the oven at 180C. After the oven is preheated place the tray in the oven and bake for 10 to 12 min till they turn golden brown in colour. Remove from oven and let them cool and store them in an air tight container and enjoy.


Note: 
1. Temperature and time differs from oven to oven, so adjust them according to your oven.
2. If you want to make for your kids and want to make them very rich you can increase the quantity of butter to 50 gm and sugar to 3 tbsp. This recipe also gives very tasty cookies eventhough the butter and sugar added are less.
3. Also you can add some cardamom powder or vanilla essence for flavoured cookies.
4. Also You can replace 50% of the flour with whole wheat flour.




 

Indian way of making mexican tacos

Tacos are actually mexican snack in which taco shells are filled with baked beans and some vegetables ike lettuce, onion etc and topped with some sauces and salsa etc.
Here is a recipe to make tacos in Indian and simple way. Here I am using taco shells made of corn and wheat flour, Green chutney as a sauce, dal makhani instead of baked beans, sliced marinated onion.

Ingredients:
Tacos:
1 cup of corn flour
1/2 cup of whole wheat flour
warm water to make dough
salt to taste
oil for deep frying/baking.
Filling and Toppings:
Sliced Onion
Dal Makhani / Rajma masala/ Chole masala/chana masala curry
Green Chutney: 1 cup mint leaves, 1/4 cup coriander leaves, salt to tase, 3 green chillies, 1 tbsp curd/thick yogurt, 1/2 tsp lemon juice
For Marination: 1 tbsp lemon juice, 1/1 tsp pepper powder, pinc of salt.
 
Procedure:
Taco Shells:

Mix corn and whole wheat flour along with salt. Now add 2 tsp of oil and rub the flour. Now make a dough using warm water which is neither too hard nor too soft. Rest the dough for 30 min.
Now roll the dough in to thin sheets and cut the circles of 10 cm dia out of it. While rolling the dough has to be handled carefully. You can also roll it between 2 sheets of greased cling film. Also you may press it using puri press/roti maker.

  

Deep fry them in oil handling carefully same like we deep fry the puri. Now immediately after it is fried take it in to a tissue paper and press it with a rolling pin/belan to form the taco shell.

 

Green Chutney: Grind all the ingredients mentioned for green chutney in to smooth saucy consistency.
Curry/Filling: I used dal makhani curry here. You can use chole masala or rajma masala curry also.
Marinated Onion: Marinate the sliced onion rings in lemon juice, salt and pepper powder for 10 min.
Now fill the taco shell with the curry.

 Top it with the marinated onions.

Now top it with green chutney.

Yummy and crispy tacos are ready with desi twist.

Healthy Paneer Tikka Masala Whole Wheat Pizza

Paneer Tikka Masala is an authentic and great tasting Indian curry. Here I have come with Paneer Tikka Masala pizza where I used tikka masala as pizza sauce instead of commonly used pizza sauce.
This is a pizza for those who want to taste the complete Indian taste of pizza.
Watch this video for detailed recipe or follow the text below.

Ingredients:

Pizza dough and base(either whole wheat flour or all purpose flour(maida)): 
For whole wheat pizza base refer to the post whole wheat pizza and for maida(all purpose flour/plain flour) base refer to pizza pockets. You can also use store bought pizza base.
 200 gm mozarella cheese

Tikka:
200 gm Paneer(Cottage Cheese)
1 Green Capsicum(Green Bell pepper)
1 Red Capsicum(Red bell pepper)
1 big Onion
1 cup Hung curd(thick yogurt)
1.5 tsp Ginger garlic paste
1 tsp chilli powder
salt to taste
1/2 tsp amchur(dry mango) powder
2 tbsp mustard oil
1 tsp dried oregano and thyme(optional)
1 tsp lemon juice

Tikka Masala:
2 medium sized Onion
6 tomatoes
mustard oil
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp pepper powder
salt to taste
kasuri methi
1 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp lemon juice

Procedure :
Mix all the tikka ingredients except the vegetables and paneer and make a thick paste.
ow gently mix the vegetables and panner and coat the marination. Keep it in refrigerator for 20-30 min and after that place them on a mesh or rack and grill them in a tandoor or oven.

For Tikka masala heat some mustard oil in a pan and add grated onion and fry till light brown in colour. Add ginger garlic paste and fry. After that add pureed tomatoes and fry properly. Add chilli powder, coriander powder, salt and pepper powder and mix. Now add kasuri methi leaves, oregano and garlic powder and mix well. Switch off the flame and add lemon juice.

Pizza:
Take the pizza base add and spread the tikka masala on the base. Sprinkle some grated mozarella cheese. Now arrange the grilled paneer and vegetables(paneer tikka) on it and sprinkle some more cheese and bake in the preheated oven at 220C to 240C until it is done. Healthy paneer tikka masala pizza is ready to serve.

Healthy Baked Vegetable and Oats Manchurian

Manchurian is a chinese fast food where deep frying of the balls made of  chopped vegetables like cabbage, beans, cauliflower, carrot, capsicum etc. is involved and some corn flour and plain flour are used for binding and giving a crisp texture. Manchurian available outside may also contain some sauces and MSG that may be harmful for kids.

So I came up with a recipe which does not use deep frying, and also no corn and all purpose flour. It is my experiment and cameout very tasty and healthy. I used cabbage and capsicum but any number of vegetables can be used. Also to replace corn and all purpose flour i used rice flour and oats.

Here is the detailed step by step recipe with pics.

Ingredients:
Manchurian balls:
Finely chopped cabbage : 1 cup
Finely chopped capsicum : 1/4 cup
Finely chopped green chillies: 1
Finely chopped garlic : 1 tsp
Chilli powder:  1/2 tsp
Salt : To Taste
Rice Flour: 1.5 tbsp
Oats/Oats flour: As required(for binding the ingredients depending upon the moisture content).

For Saute:
Sliced Garlic: 2 tsps
Slit Green chillies: 2
Tomato Sauce: 2 tsps
Soya Sauce: 1 tsp

 Step 1. Partly/Semi cook all the vegetables in a microwave or steamer and finely chop them. Chopping can be easily done in a food processor.

Step 2. Add chilli powder, salt and rice flour to the chopped vegetables and blend them well.

 Step 3. Now add the required amount of oats depending on the moisture content and mix and make balls out of it.

Step 4. Preheat the oven at 180 C. Take a baking tray and grease it and line with a baking sheet/parchment paper and great it too. Now place the balls on it and brush them with a little amount of oil and place the tray in the preheated oven.

Step 5. After 5-10 min when they are partly baked in the oven take them out and brush with 1 tsp of oil again and place it back in the oven.

Step 6. Bake them until they are crisp on the outside and well cooked from inside. Baking takes sometime time compared to deep frying but they are far healthier.

Step 7. Now they are done. They can be had as it is dry also. But saute them again with some garlic, green chillies and soya sauce and tomato sauce to enhance the taste.
 Heat 1 tsp oil in a wok/khadai and saute the chopped garlic and slit green chillies. 

 Add the manchurian balls. Now add 1 tsp soya sauce and 2 tsps of tomato ketchup.Mix them well.

Healthy baked manchurian is ready to eat now. Try this recipe and let me know the feedback. Share the recipe if you like it.

Instant Oats and Broken Wheat and Corn Vegetable Idli

Idli is generally made by fermenting the batter which takes some time.
Instantly also we can make idli and there are many varieties of instant idlis that can be prepared like oats idli, rava idli, dhaliya idli, ragi idli etc.
This recipe uses Oats and Broken Wheat and Corn and also vegetables like carrot, sweet corn and beans. Ragi flour and other vegetables can also be added to it.
It is very healthy and also can be made istantly without fermenting and contains bundle of fiber and nutrients.Eventhough it is a breakfast recipe it can be had at anytime.

Here is the detailed video recipe:


Ingredients:
Corn and Wheat Dhaliya(Broken Wheat and Corn): 1/3 cup each
Oats: 2/3 cup
Carrots and beans (small chunks), sweet corn: 1 cup (lots vegetables can be added)
dry red chilies: 2
mustard seeds: 1 tsp
Curd: 1/2 cup
Salt to taste
Oil: 2 tsp
 cooking soda/baking soda: less than a pinch

Procedure:
Dry roast dhaliya of wheat and corn on a very low flame in a pan and take it aside. In the same pan dry roast the oats and remove.
Take all the dry roasted ingredients in a bowl and add some salt, curd and adjust the water to soak them and to make the idli batter consistency. Let it rest for 20 to 30 min.
In the mean while, in the same pan heat some oil and add mustard seeds, when the mustard seeds splutter add dry red chillies and fry. Then add the corn and after it is hald cooked add the remaining vegetables and saute lighty.
Add this vegetable mixture to the oats mixture which has been soaking for 30 min. Mix them properly and add a pinch of cooking soda and mix. Idli misture  is ready to be steamed.
Take some water in steamer/idli cooker and let it boil.
Put the idli misture on the greased idli plates and place them in the steamer/idli cooker with boiling water. Let them cook for 10 min and check. Cook until a clean and wet knife inserted comes out clean.Then switch off the flame and let the idlis stay inside for 5 min and remove slowly.
Idlis are ready and can be served with chutney/ sambar.

Baked Gulab Jamun (guilt free recipe without deep frying)

Gulab Jamun is a very famous Indian sweet dessert which is liked by most of the people around the world. It generally involves deep frying in ghee/clarified butter, the balls made of khoya/mawa/thickened wholemilk and soaking in the sugar syrup.
This is a guilt free recipe out of my experiments to provide a gulab jamun which are not fried in oil/ghee. This recipe involves baking instead of deep frying the khoya balls and soaking in the sugar syrup.Here is the detailed video recipe for the same. Try the recipe and share/subscribe if you like.

Mixed Vegetable Bhajia(Rainy Season Tea Time Snack

This recipe includes frying the sliced vegetables of your choice(potatoes and capsicum and green chillies are taken here) and making a snack by mixing with some raw onion and spices. Here is the detailed video recipe.

Moong Dal and Oats Sweet

This is a healthy and easy sweet recipe which is prepared using oats, split green gram and jaggery along with lots of nuts. It can be served as breakfast also.

Ingredients:
Moong Chilka Dal/Split green gram -1 cup(1/2cup is also enough, 1 cup is used to enhance the taste and health)
Oats-1 cup
Grated Jaggery-1 cup(for mild sweetness, 2 cups may be needed for mouthful of sweetness)
Crushed Cardamom - 2
Cashew nuts sliced-1/2 cup
Almonds Sliced-1/2 cup
Ghee/clarified butter-2 tsp
Procedure:
Soak moond dal in enough water for 1 hour. Cook in some water just until soft and keep it aside.
Melt jaggery in water and keep it aside. Heat 2 tsp of ghee in a pan and roast the sliced nuts till slightly crisp and add oats and roast them till the raw flavor is gone. Now add the jaggery water and the cooked moong dal to the pan cook by closing the lid till the mixture starts leaving the pan. Add more water if required.
After all the ingredients are combined and cooked well take it off the flame and let it cool and serve.


 

Rich Chocolate Brownie

Rich and easy Chocolate Brownie which can be easily made even by the first time bakers.
Here is the detailed video recipe.

100% Whole Wheat Pizza

Complete recipe for whole wheat pizza from scratch includes making of whole wheat pizza dough, pizza sauce, toppings, base, and baking the pizza.
Watch the video below for detailed recipe

Kadai Paneer(Indian Cottage Cheese curry)

Kadai Paneer is a delicious paneer recipe in which kadai masala is the main ingredient made by dry roasting at slow flame these ingredients: 2tbsp coriander seeds, 1 tbsp jeera, 1 tbsp fennel seeds, 1 tsp pepper corns, 1 tbsp kasuri methi, 10 dried red chillies, kasuri methi has to be added after roasting the other ingredients and after switching off the flame as it may burn due to its thin leaves. These are ground in to coarse powder to make kadai masala which can also be used to make other curries like kadai vegetable etc.

I gave a twist to this recipe by grilling the vegetables in the oven to get the smoky flavor. I ended up with a smoaky flavored kadai paneer which is very tasty.
Here is the detailed video recipe:

Ingredients:
1 green capsicum/green bellpepper diced in to cubes
1 yellow capsicum/yellow bellpepper diced in to cubes
1 red capsicum/bellpepper diced in to cubes 
200 gm paneer cut in to cubes
2 medium sized onions cut in to cubes and leaves opened
8 tomates pureed
1 tsp grated ginger 
1 tbsp of low fat cream
1/2 cup of milk

Kadai Masala: 
10 dry red chillies
2tbsp coriander seeds,
1 tbsp jeera,
1 tbsp fennel seeds,
1 tsp pepper corns,
1 tbsp kasuri methi
1 tsp garam masala

Method of preparation:
Kadai Masala: Dry roast all the ingredients except kasuri methi on a low flame till nice aroma is felt. Then switch off the flame and add kasuri methi and fry with the heat of the pan and the ingredients. Now grind them into a slightly coarse powder after cooled.

1. Slightly saute all the vegetables(all bell peppers and onion) in 1-2 tsp of oil till the oil is coated on them and transfer them to a greased baking tray, sprinkle little salt on it and grill them in the oven at 210-230C till you see some dark spots on them. After they are grilled remove from oven and sprinkle kadai masala on it and keep it aside.
2.  In the same pan add 1 more tea spoon of oil and add the paneer cubes and slightly fry them and sprinkle a little salt and kadai masala on it and keep it aside.
3. For gravy heat 2-3 teaspoons of oil and  add grated ginger and fry, then add 2-3 tsps of kadai masala and fry for just few sec on a very slow flame.
4. Then add the tomato puree and fry until oil separates. Now add 1/2 tsp of turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt as per the taste and 1 tsp garam masala .
5. Now whisk 1 tbsp of low fat cream in 1/2 cup of milk until well blended and add to the above cooking puree.
6. Mix and add the paneer cubes and vegetables and close the lid and pour some water on the lid and cook for 8-10 min until oil separates on a low flame.
7. Afetr oil separates, add the chopped coriander leaves and mix. Smoky and tasty kadai paneer is ready to be served iwth roti/biryani/pulao/white rice. 

Homemade Yeast

Recipe to prepare homemade yeast which can be used to prepare jalebi, pizza, bread, naan, kulcha etc wherever the yeast has the application.

Homemade Jalebi(using Homemade Yeast)

An Indian sweet dish made from deep frying spiral shaped fermented batter and soaking in a sugar syrup.
All purpose flour is either fermented for at least 12 hours or made with using yeast.
This recipe uses homemade yeast  to make jalebi. Here is the detailed recipe.

Brown Rice Sweet Pongal with Dates Jaggery

Pongal is a famous Indian sweet dish prepared with rice and the split green gram(with or without skins), and jaggery. Here is a recipe with brown rice instead of white rice and dates jaggery instead of sugarcane jaggery t make it healthy and tasty too.
Watch the video below for the detailed recipe:

Pizza Pockets

 Pizza Pockets are nothing but reformed pizza. Pizza dough is rolled in to pockets shape and the toppings and the sauces are mixed to form stuffing and stuffed in to the pockets and baked in the oven.
These are very healthy snacking recipe and very much liked by kids.
Here is the detailed recipe:

Homemade Pizza Sauce

Pizza Sauce can be easily made at home with very few ingredients available at home. Homemade sauce is very healthy as they do not contain any added colors or preservatives or any chemicals. Also it is very economical and made at very low cost at home.
Here is the video recipe.


Text recipe:
Ingredients:
Tomatoes: 8 tomatoes
Onion-2 medium sized onions grated
Olive Oil-  2 tbsp
Dry red Chillies-6
Pepper powder-
Dried Oregano-
Dried Thyme-
Dry Garlic Powder-
Salt- to taste(around 1 tsp)
Red Chilli Powder: 1/2 tsp to 1 tsp
Gralic sliced: 2 tsp
Procedure:
Heat oil in a pan and  add grated onions and fry till light brown in colour.
Puree tomatoes and dry red chillies and filter if required.
Add tomato puree half at a time and let it fry till it thickens and starts leaving the pan.
Now add chilli powder, salt, pepper powder, and other herbs and garlic powder fry for 2 min and switch off the flame.Pizza Sauce is ready and can be applied on the Pizza base for making pizza.
This sauce can be stored for 2 to 4 days in the refrigerator or can be used on the same day.

Homemade Pineapple Jam

Pineapple jam is a single fruit jam which can be easily made at home using pineapple and sugar.
It gives nice golden yellow colour naturally without adding any artificial colours.
Watch the video below for the details procedure.
Video Recipe:

Healthy Baked Paneer Kofta Curry

In Kofta curry koftas are normally deep fried in oil and lots of cream added due to which it becomes a high fat curry. I have come up with a low fat version of Kofta Curry which is healthy yet tasty.
I call it healthy and low fat because in this recipe we use low fat paneer(cottage cheese), less amount of khoya and koftas are baked instead of deep frying, and almond paste added instead of cream. So this is the healthy version of Malai Kofta.

Video Recipe:


Ingredients:
 Kofta Balls:
2 Boiled Potatoes
1 tbsp Khoya/mawa/thickened milk solids
200 gm low fat Paneer(cottage cheese)
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tsp  garam masala
 Gravy:
5 medium sized tomatoes cut into pieces and pureed
1 big onion paste
1 tsp of coriander powder
1/2 tsp of cumin powder
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
1 tsp dried kasuri methi
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp chilli powder 
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup of almonds soaked and make a paste of it
1/2 tsp garam masala 
1 tbsp freshly chopped coriander leaves
Procedure:
Kofta Balls:
Mash the potatoes, add paneer, khoya, salt and chilli powder, garam masala powder and mix the ingredients to make dough. Add 1 or 2 tsp of rice flour if the moisture content is more and difficult to make balls.
Make balls out of the dough and coat them with a little amount of oil and place them on a baking tray lined with greased baking sheet . Bake them in the preheated oven at 180 C till the balls become brown in colour.
Gravy:
Heat 3 tsp of oil and add onion paste. Fry it till it is brown in colour, then add ginger garlic paste, some salt, coriander powder, cumin powder, chilli powder, turmeric powder fry for a while.
Gradually add tomato puree 1 tbsp at a time and fry till it separates the oil.
Add almond paste and cook for a while. Add garam masala and add a little water to make gravy consistency and let it boil. Add coriander leaves and switch off the flame and keep it aside.
Serving:
Just before serving place the kofta balls in the serving dish and pour the hot gravy on top of it. Enjoy it with rice/roti/pulao/puri/paratha etc.

Homemade Apple and Plums Jam

Jam can be very easily made at home using the ingredients available at home. Homemade jam will be very healthy and tasty compared to store bought one as the homemade one does not contain artificial colors, preservatives, and added pectin. Pectin is important in jam making as this helps in jellying or bringing the fruit and sugar together. Pectin is present in most of the fruits naturally. Just we need to select the fruits that contain pectin. We can make jam with single fruit or with combination of fruits.
This recipe shows how to prepare apple and plums jam easily. 
You can watch the video below for the recipe.

Video Recipe:

Chocolate Chip Chunky Cookies Recipe

Chocolate chip cookies are the all time favourite of not only kids but of people of all ages.This is a perfect recipe which can be made at home easily. 
You can watch the video or go through the text below for the recipe.

Video Recipe:



Text Recipe:
Ingredients:

All purpose flour/maida/plainflour             120 gm
Chocolate Chips                                           50 gm
Butter                                                            60 gm
Sugar                                                            70 gm
Vanilla Extract                                            1/4th tsp
Salt                                                               1 pinch
Baking Soda                                                1/4th tsp
Baking Powder                                            1/4th tsp
Butter Milk                                                  As required to make the dough

Directions:
1. Mix the butter, sugar and vanilla extract in to a fluffy mixture.
2. Mix the dry ingredients flour, baking powder and soda, and salt.
3. Now add the flour mixture in to butter mixture little by little.
4. Now add butter milk as required and make a dough withough kneading much.
5. Place the dough in refrigerator for 5 min. Prepare the baking tray by placing the parchment paper on it and greasing it.
6 .Preheat the oven at 180 C. After the oven gets preheated take out the dough from refrigerator and add chocolate chips to it and mix well.
7. Scoop out equal amounts of the dough on to the tray, slightly press with the fingers on top and the place the tray in oven.
8. Bake initially at 180 C for 5 min and decrease the temperature to 160 C till the cookies are done.