Gaajar ka Halwa Which Will Make Your Grandma Weep With Happiness!

So my friend Ketki got Gaajar ka Halwa to college the other day, and I really really REALLY wanted some but I never got the chance to try any. [</3] 

So I decided to make it on my own! And it came out pretty well, I must say. Not because I made it, no. Because it lasted for about 10 minutes before someone polished it off. 

What you need:

• Carrots- 500mg 
• Milk- 500mg (Warm)
• Sugar- 1/2 cup (According to your taste)
• Ghee [Clarified butter]- 3tbsp (+more if you like ghee.)
• Cashews

Method:

•  Wash, peel and grate your carrots.
• Take a pan, non sticks are the best, and put in a tablespoon of ghee. Sauté your carrots in the ghee for about 5-7 minutes. You'll see that the carrots start getting pale.
• Next, add your milk, and stir. You have to wait till the carrots go dry.
• Once you see that they've started to get dry, pour in your sugar. This'll make your mix get darker and a wee bit soggy, so don't panic!
• Keep stirring till this goes dry. Once it does, add ghee till it gets nice and glossy. 



Saute the carrots till pale



Keep stirring the carrots till they dry up 

• Now in another pan, heat ghee, and roast your chopped up cashews. Pour over your Halwa, stir and voila! You're cooking Indian desserts and soon suitors will be lining at your doorstep because girls, your grandma spread the word, that you can function in the kitchen! 

Points that need to be noted:

• Make sure all the milk has dried up, so you need to be patient!
• Sugar can be added as per your requirement.
• Make sure your cashews don't get burnt because I wasn't paying attention and they got slightly charred.



EAT ME. NAO.

• Be extra careful when you're grating the carrots. Seriously. Because I ended up grating my pinky finger and it hurts. God LORD does it hurt.

So, this one's for Ketki. Go check out her blog, show her some love. Don't stalk her. And tell me how it goes! 

White Sauce Made Easy

Let's start with something so simple, that my 3yr old cousin can make it.

What you need:

• One large onion
• One/two sticks of butter (Salted)
• Two tablespoons of  plain flour (Aata in Hindi)
• A cup of warm milk
• Pepper
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Melt the butter in a pan on a medium flame.
• Chop up the onions finely into tiny cubes and saute them in the butter.
• When the onions start to cook (They basically turn a very pale white.) put in the flour and mix thoroughly.
• After making sure you've incorporated the above properly, slowly add the milk while whisking thoroughly, till the mix becomes thick and smooth.
• Add the pepper and salt- if required.
• Voila! Your white sauce is ready! 

As I've mentioned in my first post, there's no such thing as too much butter! It you want to make it a lot more saucier, add more milk, and make sure that the milk is WARM. I learnt it the hard way when I found yucky lumps in my sauce.
You can use this for any kind of pasta! 

Food, Glorious Food!

So I can cook.

WHAAAAAAT!

I know. It came as a bit of a shock to me, too. I generally tend to set things on fire. (Including myself.. *Nervous laugh*) 

So this blog is for people who think that food is tough, and also who have tried my food and have loved it and pestered me for the recipes. Hope you're happy. (Sense the irritation. Never ask a lazy person to write down recipes immediately after they're done cooking. NEVER.)

My food is full of fat and butter and sugar and cheese and chocolate and fat. So if you're one of those "AHMAIGAD EEZ SA PHATTANEENG" types, go away. The rest of you can do what I do. Cook food way you love to (Or just follow my recipe, because, well.. It is MY blog after all. :|), enjoy every bit of the process, relish the final product, and then curl up under your bed and cry about your thunder thighs.

Hope you guys find this blog as entertaining and fulfilling as I do. Please feel free to post your own versions of it in the comments section, even ways you can make it better, go ahead and post 'em. If you get food poisoning, NOT my fault, because you're the idiot who didn't wash your hands or check your produce. Don't expect anything fancy or complex. But do expect acceptable results. No recipe will be posted after only a few trials, they will be tested plenty of times before I post them here.

And remember, there's no such thing as too much butter.