Carrot Salad

Naturally sweet, delicious and crunchy, carrots are healthy additions you can make to the vegetable list in your diet. Indeed, these root vegetables come with wholesome health benefiting compounds such as beta-carotene, vitamin A, minerals and anti-oxidants in ample amounts.
This nutritious carrot salad is as chic as it is classic.This recipe is refreshing and easy with very less ingredients.
So let's start to prepare a healthy carrot salad.

Ingredients:
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon mustard seeds
1 tablespoons olive oil
2- 4 carrots, peeled and shredded
salt to taste
2 green chillies
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley 
1 teaspoon sugar

Method:

1. In a small bowl mix the lemon juice, shredded carrots, salt and sugar together.
2. Heat the oil in a pan and add mustard seeds. When the seeds crackle add green chillies.
3. Pour this oil dressing into shredded carrots.
4. Add fresh parsley and mix well.

Your healthy carrot salad is ready to serve.

 

Chirote Recipe

Surprise everyone with a special sweet after food. Its crispy dipped in a sugary syrup dripping giving a wonderful experience to your taste buds to savor. It's  a Maharashtrian specialty and its called "CHIROTE". 

So, learn how to prepare Chirote.

Ingredients:

1 cup Maida (Refined flour)

1 tablespoon Rava (Semolina)

1 tablespoon hot oil

Clarified butter

1 tablespoon rice flour

pinch of salt

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup water

Saffron strands

1 teaspoon lemon juice

oil for frying

Method for Sugar Syrup:

Mix water, sugar and saffron in sauce pan and boil over medium heat for 6 to 7 mts.

Add some lemon juice once syrup is ready.

 Method for Chirote:

1. Combine maida (Refined flour), rava (Semolina), hot oil and pinch of salt and mix well.
2. Add water, milk and start to knead to make smooth and soft dough, like chapati dough.
3. Cover and keep it to rest for 2 hours.
4. Divide the dough into 3 equal portions.
5. Take ball and roll in very smooth roti (chapati), make 3 thin rotis (chapati)
6. In a separate bowl mix rice flour and butter together and keep it aside.
7. Take one roti, spread butter and rice flour mixture and place another layer of roti on the top of it.
8. Again spread some butter and rice flour mixture and place third layer of roti and repeat the same process.
9. Now roll three rotis.
10. Divide roti roll in equal size ball am-king slight cross cut.
11. Now Roll each piece of dough to make rectangular shape.
12. Deep fry until golden brown.
13. Deep this fried chirote into Sugar Syrup for 2-3 minutes.
14. After 2-3 minutes keep it on a plate to drip some extra sugar syrup.
15. Your Chirote is now ready to serve.
Enjoy.. :-)