Homemade Italian Ravioli with Red sauce

Ingredients:
For making ravioli dough:

Maida 1 cup

Egg 1

Water 2-3 tbsp

For making stuffing:

Oil 4 tbsp

Chopped veggies

Garlic 2 tsp

Onion 1

1/2 Green and 1/2 Red capsicum 

Mushroom 1 cup

Sweetcorn 1 cup

Cheese grated 1 tbsp

Oregano and chilli flakes 1 TSP

Pepper 1/4 tsp

Salt 1/2 tsp

For making red sauce:

Tomato puree (3  tomatoes boiled,peeled,grinded) 1 cup

Garlic (chopped) 2 tsp

Onion (chopped) 1

Red chilli powder 1 tsp

Oregano and chilli flakes 1 tsp

Sugar 1/2 tsp

Tomato ketchup 1/4 cup

Peri peri masala a pinch

Salt 1/2 tsp

For making white sauce:

Butter 1 tbsp

Garlic (chopped) 2 tsp

Maida 2 tsp

Milk 1 cup

Chilli flakes and oregano 1 TSP

Cheese grated 1/4 cup

Salt 1/2 tsp

Procedure:

Making ravioli dough discs:

Take 1 cup maida and add one egg and add 1/2 tsp salt. Mix it thoroughly. Knead using water and make a medium consistency dough and refrigerate for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes make 3 small balls of dough and roll out chapati and using a circular mould make small equal sized dough discs. Sprinkle some maida/flour over all discs .Dry below  fan for 1/2 hr.

For making vegetable stuffing:

Take a pan add oil and add 2 tsp garlic,1 chopped onion,Green and Red capsicum 1 cup, mushroom 1cup ,sweetcorn 1 cup.Increase the flame of gas and drain all the water from veggies add salt,cheese and sprinkle some pepper. 

Your stuffing is ready remove it in a bowl and keep aside.

For making red sauce:

Grind 3 boiled,peeled tomatoes into fine puree.  In a pan add 4 tbsp oil,2 tsp garlic,1 onion,1 tsp red chilli powder,1 tsp oregano and chilli flakes, add 1 cup tomato puree. Let it boil. Add 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp sugar,1/4 cup tomato sauce,peri peri masala a pinch. Let it boil until raw smell of tomatoes goes.

Your red sauce is ready remove it in a bowl and keep it aside.

For making ravioli:

Arrange  all ravioli discs top them with first layer of vegetable stuffing then second layer Red sauce and third layer of cheese(grated).Apply water at edges of the above disc , close the disc with another disc, press the edges and seal the discs with fork as shown in the video. In this manner make all other ravioli discs.

Now take water in a pan add salt and oil and put all the ravioli discs in boiling water and cook for 5 minutes and then take them out in a strainer.

Your ravioli is ready.

Note :  Don't overcook the ravioli else they would be very hard and chewy.

For making white sauce:

Now in a pan add 1 tbsp butter let it melt then add 2 tsp garlic saute for a while then add 2 tsp maida saute till brown. Now pour 1 cup milk let it boil add 1/4 cup grated cheese let it boil until it thickens a bit switch off the gas and. Add 1/2 tsp salt.

Your white sauce is ready

Note: Don't add salt in white sauce when the gas flame is on because the milk might get curdled.

Serving the ravioli:

While serving the ravioli add ravioli in hot white sauce and serve with red sauce as shown in the video.

Enjoy your homemade yummy Italian ravioli.

Lasagna from homemade lasagna sheets

  Ingredients:

For lasagna sheets:
Maida 1cup
Salt 1/2 tsp
Egg 1 (optional)

For white sause:
Milk 1cup
Chopped garlic 2 tsp
Butter 2 tsp
Maida/flour 1 tbsp
Sweet corn (boiled) 1/4 cup
Chilli flakes+oregano 2 tsp
Cheese 1/4 cup
Salt 1/2 tsp

For red sauce:
Tomatoes (boiled and peeled) 5
Oil 3-4 tbsp
Chopped garlic 2 tsp
Chopped onion 1
Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
Red Chilli powder 1 tsp
Pizza masala 1/2 Tsp
Sugar 1/2 Tsp
Tomato ketchup 1/4 cup

For vegetable stuffing:
Oil 4 tbsp
Garlic 2 tsp
Below chopped veggies
onion 1
Tomato 1/2
Mushroom 1 cup
Green + Red capsicum 1cup
Sweet corn 1 cup
Red chilli powder 1-2 tsp
Cumin coriander powder 1tbsp
Salt 1 tsp

Procedure:

 For making lasagna sheets:

1. Take 1 cup maida and add 1 egg (optional) ,salt mix it and knead using water into a medium consistency dough and refrigerate for 15 min.
2. After 15 minutes knead the dough and roll out chapati and cut into rectangular lasagna sheets. Sprinky some maida and let the sheets dry for 1/2 hour
3. After 1/2 hour boil sheets and keep them on strainer dry them and use in making lasagna.

For making white sauce:

1. Now take a hot pan add 2 tsp butter then add chopped garlic roast it then add 2 tsp maida saute till brown then add 1 cup milk let it boil then add 1/4 cup cheese,2 tsp chilli flakes+oregano,1/4 cup sweet corn mix it thoroughly switch off the gas and then add 1/2 tsp salt (as cheese is already salty)
2. Take it out in a bowl for later use

For making red sauce:

1. Boil 5 tomatoes in cooker till 2-3 whistles then peel them and grind into puree.
2. Now in a hot pan add oil 3-4 tbsp oil,2 tsp garlic,1 chopped onion,1/2 tsp turmeric,1 tsp red chilli powder,1/2 tsp pizza masala,tomato puree,1/2 tsp salt,1/2 tsp Sugar,1/4 cup tomato ketchup,some pizza masala again. Let it boil till raw smell of tomato goes.
3. Now take it out in another bowl for later use.

Now Preheat oven at 150 degree for 20 minutes

For making vegetable stuffing:

1. Pour 4 tbsp oil in a hot pan add 2 tsp chopped garlic ,1 chopped onion,1/4 cup tomato sauce,1cup mushroom,1 cup red and green capsicum,1cup sweetcorn,1tsp salt,1-2 two red chilli powder,1tbsp cumin coriander powder saute all nicely until all water drains off from veggies but don't overcook.

For making lasagna:

Its time to assemble all things in baking tray and bake the lasagna.

1. Grease the baking tray with butter then add following layers :
2. First layer- cooked lasagna sheets over it  Second layer of white sauce and third layer of red sauce spread evenly with spoon then fourth layer of vegetable stuffing then fifth layer of grated cheese sprinkle some pizza masala over it and some pepper then again lasagna sheets keep on repeating the layers until you reach the edge of baking tin now the top layer would be of grated cheese.( I had few chicken sausages so I added them at top it's optional).
3. Now bake at 140 degree for 20 minutes (depends on your oven you can increase or decrease the temperature).
4. Now enjoy the yummy homemade lasagna.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Tip:   while making white sauce always add salt after you switch off the gas as adding salt before might spoil the milk and as we are adding cheese in white sauce which already contains salt so add salt a little less.

Kaju fruit basket mitai

Ingredients:
Cashew/kaju powder 125g
Sugar 100g
Milk powder 30g
Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp
Red,Yellow,Green and orange food colour 1-2 drops
Silicon fruit mould and modak mould

Procedure:

1. Make cashew mitai mixture as shown in blog link mentioned below http://ambykitchen.blogspot.com/2019/08/custard-apple-kaju-delight-mitai.html?m=1
2. Pour your cashew mixture onto greased plate.  let it cool a bit and knead nicely. Now use this cashew/kaju dough for making kaju fruit basket.
3. Firstly grease fruit silicon mould with ghee and keep it aside for a while.
4. Take a small portion of kaju dough and mix green colour in it and knead nicely.Green colour kaju dough is formed. Now  take out small balls from green kaju dough and insert them in grape shaped mould ,leaves portion of pineapple mould and apple stick press a bit to achieve the desired fruit shape and then take them out as shown in video.
5. Similarly make yellow ,orange and red colour dough.
6. Put the yellow colour kaju dough in pineapple mould (fruit part only as green kaju dough would be there in its leaves part as shown in video) and banana mould.
7. Insert orange kaju dough in orange silicon mould ;red colour kaju dough in apple mould.
8. Take out pineapple ,orange,apple and banana kaju mitai from respective moulds.
9. Everytime press the dough a bit inside the mould,flatten it and remove the excess dough and then take it out immediately to achieve the desired fruit shape.
10. Arrange all this fruits nicely in a fruit basket.
11. Now take the left over kaju dough in which colour is not added and press it inside the silicon modak mould (add few pistachios at the bottom of mould before pressing the kaju dough inside it) and immediately take them out.
12. Arrange this kaju modaks in a plate.
13. Serve lord ganpatiji this innovative mitai prasad.

Chocolate Modak And Assorted Dry Fruits Heart Chocolate

Ingredients:
Chocolate(Milk chocolate and dark chocolate in 8:2 proportion)  170g
Almonds 15
Sugar 4 tsp
Butter 3-4 tsp
Dry fruits chopped 1/4 cup

Procedure:

1. Weigh chocolate on weighing scale.Take chocolate in microproof bowl and add 1 tsp butter to it and microwave at high power for 1 minute.
2. Chocolate would melt mix both the chocolates properly 
3. Take almonds in a pan and dry roast at medium flame for 5 minutes then switch off the gas and add 1 tsp butter to it.
4. Switch on the gas and at medium flame dry roast chopped dry fruits for 2-3 minutes and take it out.
5.  In the same pan add 4 tsp sugar let it caramalise stir continuosly( keep the flame low) and when it turns brown switch off the gas and 1 tsp butter.
6. Now switch on the gas keep the flame low and add dry roasted dry fruits. Stir continuosly for 5 minutes and switch off the gas.let it cool down. After 10-15 minutes chikki is formed remove it from pan and add 1 tsp butter stir it continuously and add dry fruits.let it cool down.Then chikki would be formed after 10-15 minutes. Remove chikki from pan and mash it with the help of pestle in the same pan and keep it aside for a while.
7. Now grease silicon with butter or oil then fill half of mould with melted chocolate then add crushed dry fruit chikki layer in the middle and cover the top with melted chocolate as shown in the video. Fill the entire heart shaped silicon mould in similar manner.
8. Now take greased modak mould add roasted almonds in it and cover it with melted chocolate.
9. Tap both the moulds slightly to remove air bubble.
10. Refrigerate both the moulds  for about 30 minutes until chocolate hardens.
11. Now demould all chocolates as shown in the video.
12. Let ganpati have this innovative almond modak.

Tip: If after demoulding modak your almonds are visible then fill 1 tsp melted chocolate in modak mould and dip your chocolate modaks (whose almonds were visible) in it .Refrigerate and remove when chocolate gets hardened you would get a perfect finished look.

Custard apple kaju delight mitai

Ingredients:
Cashew powder 125 g
Sugar 100 g
Milk powder 30g
Mix chopped dry fruits 1 tbsp
Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp

Procedure:

1. Weigh all ingredients properly on weighing scale.
2. Grind cashews in grinder in 30 sec intervals because if grounded continuously cashew would turn into paste.
3. Now take 80 ml water in a nonstick pan and add sugar into it. Let it cook at medium flame.stir in between. When water starts boiling and entire sugar is dissolved then check for the consistency of sugar syrup.place the sugar syrup in between two fingers as shown in video.when one string consistency is achieved switch off the gas. Attaining appropriate sugar syrup consistency is very important step in this recipe so be careful about that.
4. Now add cashew powder and milk powder to the sugar syrup and again switch on the gas .keep the flame low and keep on stirring the mixture.
5. Now after 10-15 minutes mixture starts to thicken ;add cardamom powder.
6. Now cashew mixture starts leaving the pan as shown in the video.
7. Now switch off the gas and grease a steel plate with ghee and pour your cashew mixture onto it.
8. Let it cool a bit.When it turns lukewarm divide it in two portions.let one portion be large.knead both portions nicely.         
9. In the smaller portion add chopped dry fruits and knead it nicely. Make big balls as shown in video out of the smaller dry fruit mixed dough portion.
10. Make small balls out of larger portion of dough as shown in video.
11. Now take a large ball and start sticking the small balls to it as shown in video. Use ghee for sticking the balls. Until the cashew dough is lukewarm it would easily get attached.
12. Now take green food colour mix few water droplets in it and spread it and apply to your palms and now roll this custard apple mitai in your palms. It would exactly give the mitai appearance of a custard apple fruit. Press cloves at top of custard apple mitai for an authentic fruit look.

Mint chutney restaurant style veg /non veg kabab special

Recipe:
Coriander leaves ( chopped) 1 cup
Mint/pudina leaves 1/2 cup
Onion small size( chopped) 1
Green chilli 3-4
Hung curd 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Sugar 1/2 tsp
Lemon juice 1 tsp

Procedure:

1. Grind all ingredients together in mixer into a fine paste.
2. Your mint chutney is ready to be served

Chicken malai tikka

Ingredients:

Chicken 600gm

Cream 3 tbsp

Hung curd 3 tbsp

Green chilli(crushed) 3

Lemon juice 1 tbsp

Pepper 1/2 tbsp

Tandoori chicken masala 1/2 tsp
Salt 1 tsp

Cornflour 1 tsp

Oil 1 tbsp

Butter 2 tsp

Procedure:

1. Arrange all dry and wet ingredients mentioned above in a tray.
2. Now Marinate all chicken pieces with dry and wet ingredients from tray for 2 hours or more.
3. Prick all marinated chicken pieces for better marination.Refrigerate the marinated chicken.
4. Take out chicken 1 hour before making it and add 1 tsp cornflour and 1 tbsp oil.
5. Add 1 tsp butter on grilling pan and cook marinated chicken at low flame for 15 minutes.
6. Turn all chicken pieces after 7 minutes and continue cooking at low flame.
7. when chicken stock oozes out of chicken pieces just pour it back on chicken pieces as it contains all the flavours. Drain all chicken pieces.
8. Check if the chicken is cooked properly or not.
9.  Take out the cooked chicken in a pan.
10. Apply butter to your chicken malai tikka and sprinkle some chaat masala.
11.  Serve hot with mint chutney.

 Mint chutney recipe:

https://youtu.be/X2QC-qOEOYc