Bread Butter Jam Pudding

A British lady came from South Africa to learn Reiki from me and stayed with us for ten days. Apart from Reiki training, we used to have fun too, cooking meals together was part of that. This is a dish that she made for us, I just love it! We became friends, and are still in touch after so many years.

Ingredients

6 slices of bread

Butter to apply on one side of the bread slices

Jam to apply on one side of the bread slices

1 ½ cups of milk

2 eggs

2 tbsps sugar

¾ tsp vanilla essence

Instruction

-          Pre heat oven to 180degrees

-          Apply butter on one side of all bread slices

-          Now apply jam over the buttered surface.

-          Grease a baking dish and arrange the bread slices, surface with butter and jam facing up.

-          Beat the eggs till fluffy, add the milk, sugar, and vanilla essence and beat again.

-          Pour it over the arranged bread slices and bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees. 

Black gram (udad dal) Khichdi

                                Udad dal khichdi with cabbage thoran, okra sabzi, salad and curd

This is a very delicious khichdi I ate in a Punjabi friend’s house. Immediately I took the recipe from her and has been making it for lunch every now and then.

Ingridients

1/3 cup black gram- split, with skin intact

1cup rice

3 Cloves

¼ tsp pepper powder

Salt to taste

1 tbsp oil or ghee

¼ tsp cumin seeds

1 onion finely cut

5 cloves of garlic finely cut

4 cups water

Instruction

-          Clean and wash the dal and rice together and soak in water for ten minutes.

-          Heat oil in the pressure cooker, add cumin seeds, cloves and cut onion.

-          Sauté it a bit, add cut garlic and pepper powder.

-          Stir for a few seconds on medium flame, add the soaked dal and rice, mix well.

-          Add the water and salt, pressure cook for 8 minutes. Remove from fire, let it cool.

-          Serve hot with curd, papad and pickle

Pumpkin Leaves Sabzi

 This is a delicious accompaniment for steamed rice and chapatis.

Ingredients

20 Pumpkin leaves with stems

1 Large onion peeled and cut fine

1 green chilli sliced

6 cloves of garlic cut fine

1 tblsp oil

¼ tsp mustard seeds

½ tsp udad dal

Salt to taste

Instruction

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Pumpkin  plant

                                                                                    

Wash and clean the leaves. Take off the transparent outer skin of the stems and cut the stems and leaves very fine.

-          Put them in pressure cooker with a tablespoon of water and put on high flame. When one whistle comes, switch off the flame and remove from fire, let it cool.

-          Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan, add mustard seeds. When they splutter, add udad dal. When they brown lightly, add cut onions and green chilli.

-          Add the cut garlic and sauté for a minute. Mix in the cooked leaves and add salt. Keep on low flame for two minutes, stirring in between, till it is dry. If you want you can add masala powders, but I love the flavour of the leaves and don’t add them.

-          Remove from fire and it is ready to be served.