Ingredients: • ½ cup flat rice • 2 tables fresh grate coconut • 1 teaspoon salt • 1 and ½ cups milk • Sugar / Gur to taste How to make: 1. Wash the flat rice and soak in water for 1hr. 2. Blend all ingredients together. 3. Serve Chirar Shorbot / flat Rice Smoothie chilled.
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Chirar Polau / Fried Flat Rice is a simple handy recipe which you can modify as your taste bud. Chirar Polau / Fried Flat Rice is usually made as a vegetarian dish but I like to use egg to make a complete food. You can use peanut instate of egg to make it vegetarian dish. Even you can use your choice vegetables for this recipe. Ingredients: • 1 cup flat rice or pressed rice • 1/3 cup diced capsicum • 1/3 cup diced cauliflower floret • 1 tablespoon chopped onion (optional) • 2 green chillies • 1 egg(optional) • ½ cardamom powder • ½ black pepper • 1 teaspoon poppy seeds • 1 teaspoon sugar • 3 tablespoon oil • Salt to taste Ingredients: 1. Wash the flat rice and soak in water 15 minutes. Strain it and keep aside. 2. Heat the pan with 1 teaspoon oil and make scramble egg with pinch of salt. Keep aside the scramble egg. 3. In same pan add 1
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In Ramadan it is good to have lots of water, fruit juice or beverage. But we love to have oily fried stuffs. That’s why we need to make our beverage interesting and tasty. Lassi / smoothie is an easy simple tasty but healthy recipe. You can make lassi/ smoothie with mango / banana or with your favorite fruit. I gave 2 different recipe one bengali and one in English, reason for that Misti doi (sweet yogurt) is not available in abroad, but typically lassi is made with sweet yogurt. So english version I used greek yogurt and Bengali version I used sweet yogurt . With love, Rownak N.B. Some of us love to add pinch of salt in it specially black salt (bit lobon) Ingredients: • 2 cup diced ripe mango or mango pulp / banana • 2 cup milk • 1 cup Greek yogurt • sugar to taste • 2 drops of rose water (optional) How to make: Blend all things together and make it smooth. Serve mango lassi/mango
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Jeerar Sharbot / Cumin Juice is a very healthy juice. Some of us even call tamarind Sharbot / Tamarind juice. As you know, we have lots of oily fried stuffs in Ramadan. This juice is good for digestion. Though this recipe is taste as you go, I tried to go a measurement. Hope you will enjoy. Ingredients: • 4 cups water • 3 tablespoon tamarind • 6 tablespoon sugar / palm sugar • 1 tablespoon roasted cumin powder • 2 teaspoon black salt How to make: 1. Soak the tamarind in 1 cup water at least 1 hour. 2. Strain it and take tamarind water. 3. Mix all ingredients with tamarind water and mix well. 4. Let it sits in refrigerator about ½ hour and serve chilled Cumin Sharbot/ Cumin Juice.
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Hi! How are you going? Hope that everybody is happy in her/ his life. Nowadays my mum complains that I am doing complex recipes with too many spices which are not available at home. So I will give some simple but healthy recipes with 6-7 ingredients. Hope you will love this recipe. Ingredients: • 2 cups of frozen peas • ½ medium onion sliced • 4 green chillies chopped • 1 tablespoon chaat masala • 1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves • Salt to taste • Oil for shallow fry How to make: 1. Defrost the peas and take paper towel to let it dry. We don’t want any excess water there. 2. Make smooth paste of peas. 3. Mix all ingredients and make flat ball with pea’s paste. It will make about 10-12 balls. 4. Shallow fry it till it becomes golden brown (don’t overcook). 5. Serve Peas Fritters / Motorshutir Chop as a snack or as a side dish with rice. Tips: If the pea’s
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Haleem By Rownak Jahan, March 27, 2012Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook time: 45 minutes Yield: 4-6 serves Haleem is basically spicy lentil soup. I found that soup mix is a handy thing to make it. Though I mix moog dal with soup mix in this recipe. Soup mix actually mix of wheat, red lentil, split peas mixture . If you want to make by yourself , just use equal amount of wheat red lentil, split peas, moong dal and green moong(mashkolai / urad dal). I skipped green moong (mashkolai dal in this recipe) and added moong dal with soup mix here . Hope you will like home made the flavour of haleem. Ingredients: • 1 and ½ cup soup mix • ½ cup moong dal • 2 tablespoon kali jeera rice ( enhance flavour a lot) • 500 gram beef or mutton(curry cut) • 2 large onion sliced • 1 tablespoon chilli powder • 1 tablespoon curry powder • 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder • 2 teaspoon ginger paste • 1
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Falooda / faluda By Rownak Jahan, January 16, 2012Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook time: 5 minutes Yield: Serve: 2 Falooda/faluda is a cold and sweet beverage for summer. Falooda is very refreshing. Traditionally it is made with lots ingredients; here I try to make it simple to keep it original flavour. If you like, you can use basil seeds. First need to soak basil seeds, drain it and add with it. Ingredients: • 1 and ½ cup milk • 2 tablespoon seed tapioca/ tapioca pearls/ sago • 3 tablespoon sugar • 1/8 teaspoon cardamom powder • ¼ banana thinly sliced • 1 cherry sliced • 6-8 grapes cut from centre • ¼ apple thinly sliced • 2 scoops ice cream(mango flavour) • 1 tablespoon honey How to make: 1. Soak seed tapioca in milk at least 15 minutes. 2. Cook milkwith cardamom powder till seed tapioca becomes tender and add sugar. 3. When sugar dissolves, remove from heat and let it cool down. Put it into refrigerator. 4.
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Chingri Bora / Prawn Fritter By Rownak Jahan, March 12, 2012 Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook time: 25 minutes Yield: 12-14 Long time I haven’t posted anything. Sorry for my silence and hopefully I will be regular from now. In this recipe I use fresh grated coconut. Instead of fresh grated coconut you can use 2 tablespoons desiccated coconut soaked in 1 tablespoon coconut milk/milk. Ingredients: • 150 gram prawns • 2 tablespoons red lentil • 3 tablespoon grated coconut • 1 medium onion sliced • 4 green chillies chopped • ¼ teaspoon turmeric powder • 2 tablespoon coriander leaves chopped • Salt to taste • Oil for deep fry How to make: 1. Soak lentil about ½ hour in water and drain water thoroughly. 2. Make paste of lentil, coconut and prawn and mix rest of things with it. 3. Heat the pan with oil. When oil is ready add make flat fritter and put on oil carefully (you can use spoon and don’t squeeze the mix).
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Piaju / Onion Lentil Fritter By Rownak Jahan, January 16, 2012Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook time: 20 minutes Yield: 8-10 Piaju / onion lentil fritter is delicious snack which is must item in Ramadan month. It is very easy and handy. Only tricky part is not to make smooth lentil paste, make it coarse. Ingredients: • 1 cup red lentil • 1 large onion sliced • 3 green chilli chopped • 1 tablespoon rice flour/ semolina • 1/6 teaspoon turmeric powder • 1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves(optional) • ¼ teaspoon black salt(optional) • Salt to taste • Oil for deep fry How to make: 1. Soak the lentil 20-30 minutes and drain with enough water thoroughly. 2. Make coarse paste and mix with rice flour, onion, chilli, turmeric, coriander and salt. 3. Mix lightly. 4. Place the pan on medium heat and when oil is ready, make flat fritter and put on oil carefully(you can use spoon and don’t squeeze the lentil mix). Don’t overcrowd the pan. 5. Fry
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Vegetable Cutlet/ Sobjir Cutlet By Rownak Jahan, January 15, 2012Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook time: 15 minutes Yield: 10/12 Vegetable Cutlet/ Sobjir Cutlet I want to show vegetable cutlet and to keep it as a vegetarian dish I have not used egg. But if you want to dip in egg and roll on bread crumb, you can do it. I use cauliflower, broccoli, bean and corn here. Habanero chilli (bombai morich) can be used it this cutlet. Ingredients: • 1 cup diced potato • 2 cups choice vegetables(broccoli, cauliflower, carrot, peas,bean, green pawpaw etc) • 1 and ½ sliced onion • 3-4 green chilli • 2 tablespoon cornflour • Salt to taste • Oil for deep fry How to make: 1. Boil diced potato and vegetables in microwave separately. For microwave boiling you dont need water. Just place into microwave proof bowl , close the lid loosely and put into microwave. If you are boiling in water, you need to drain water straight away and place into strain
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