Saffron Sweet Rice

This sweet preparation is made with ingredients generally available in the house.This is quick and easy to prepare especially for bachelors,single people and ofcourse kids who have a sweet tooth and once in a while like to eat something sweet as a dessert. This is a gluten and casein free recipe and is for five people.

Ingredients	Quantity
Cooked Basmati Rice	1 ½ cups
Sugar	½ cups
Water	¼ cups
Ghee (Clarified Butter)	1 tbsps
Raisins	1 tbsps
Sliced Cashewnuts	1 tbsp
Sliced Almonds	½ tbsp
Cardamom Powder	½ tbsp
Saffron Strings	½ tbsp
Warm Water	1 tbsp

Method

1. Soak the saffron in the warm water and keep it aside.


2. Take water in a pan and add sugar and heat it till the sugar dissolves and forms a syrup.


3. Add the cooked rice and cook it for sometime in the sugar syrup.


4. Add the soaked saffron and cook till the water evaporates but still remains wet. Turn off the heat and add the cardamom powder and mix.


5. Take a small pan and add the ghee and heat it. Add the cashewnuts and almonds and fry them till light brown in colour. Add the raisins and fry them too.


6. Add these fried nuts and raisins to the saffron rice and mix lightly.


7. Serve hot or cold.


8. If basmati rice is not available, normal rice can be used.

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Spicy Potato Wafers - Be Great Chefs series for kids

Ingredients	Quantity
Potato Wafers	1 packet
Tomato Ketchup	1 tbsp
Lime Juice (Optional)	½ tsp
Chilli Sauce (Optional)	½ tsp

Method

1. Open the packet of wafers into a bowl.


2. Crush the wafers roughly with your fingers.


3. Add ketchup and chilly sauce and limejuice.


4. Mix them well with a spoon and serve it immediately so that the potato wafers do not become soft.

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Ice Cream Cake - Be Great Chefs series for kids

Ingredients	Quantity
Ice Cream (Any Flavour)	1 small cup
Cake Piece or Muffin	1
Milk Chocolate	1

Method

1. Take a piece of cake in a small serving bowl.


2. Add the ice cream from the cup and spread it over the cake.


3. Make small pieces of the chocolate and sprinkle over the ice cream.


4. Serve it cold.

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Ice Cream Soda - Be Great Chefs series for kids

Ingredients	Quantity
Ice Cream (Any Flavour)	2 scoops
Limca or Mirinda	½ bottle
Cherry	1

Method

1. Take a tall glass put your favourite ice-cream scoops.


2. Slowly pour the soft drink into it.


3. To decorate it place a small cherry on top.


4. You can drink it with a straw.

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Spicy Bhelpuri - Be Great Chefs series for kids

Ingredients	Quantity
Puffed Rice	1 cup
Readymade Mixture/Bujjia	1 small packet
Limejuice	½ tsp
Chilly Sauce (Optional)	½ tsp
Coriander Leaves	a few
Salt	to taste

Method

1. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl well.


2. Serve it immediately otherwise the puffed rice will become soft.

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Chocolate Biscuits - Be Great Chefs series for kids

Ingredients	Quantity
Marie or Glucose Biscuits	1 packet
Condensed Milk	2 or 3 tbsps
Cocoa Powder	2 or 3 rbsps
Milk	1 tbsp or less

Method

1. Take out the biscuits from the packet and powder them either by rolling a rolling pin over them or by pounding them. Place them in a bowl.


2. Add cocoa powder, condensed milk and mix them well.


3. Make small balls and shape them as you like and place them in a plate.


4. The delicious chocolate biscuits are ready to eat.

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Banana Chaat - Be Great Chefs series for kids

Ingredients	Quantity
Bananas	2 or 3
Lime Juice	1 tsp
Salt	a little
Chaat Masala Powder	½ tsp

Method

1. Take the bananas and peel them.


2. Cut the bananas into circles with a fork or a spoon in a bowl.


3. Add the salt, limejuice and chaat masala powder and mix well with a spoon.


4. Pick up the banana slices with a toothpick or a fork.

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Peppermints - Be Great Chefs series for kids

Ingredients	Quantity
Icing Sugar	100 gms
Peppermint Essence	2 to 3 drops
Green Food Colour	one drop
Milk	3 to 4 tsps

Method

1. Mix all the ingredients in a bowl with the tip of your fingers.


2. Slowly add the milk.


3. Do not make it too thin. If more milk is needed add more.


4. Spread it on a smooth surface like a back of a big plate or a rolling board.


5. Cut different shapes with a cookie cutter or with a bottle lid.


6. Set it in a refrigerator for half an hour and just eat it.


7. At first the mixture may look thin, but it will set after you have put it in the fridge.


8. If peppermint essence is not there, do not worry. You could use any of your favourite fruit essence and use food colour accordingly.

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Be Great Chefs

Hey kids! Hungry??

Most children enjoy cooking and there are benefits too in learning to cook. Like they become familiar with a variety of foods, can learn cooking skills, obtain knowledge of the nutritional value of foods, importance of kitchen hygiene and improve their eating habits too.

Well, before you go rushing to your mom to prepare your snack, do you want to be a little chef of your house and give your mom a well-deserved break?

Your wish may certainly become a reality! Here are a few mouth-watering recipes, which could be made just by you (without the use of fire/knives- so mothers be rest assured!). But a little help from mothers may be taken for getting the stuff required to make the dishes.

Finally it was you who made it right!


Following are the articles in the Be Great Chefs series of recipes for children to try out in their Summer holidays.

1. Peppermints


2. Banana Chaat


3. Chocolate Biscuits


4. Spicy Bhelpuri


5. Ice Cream Soda


6. Ice Cream Cake


7. Spicy Potato Wafers

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Cool Mango Panna

Cool mango panna is a cool drink best for Summer especially to beat the heat in the afternoon.This drink can be made and stored in the refrigerator for a few days.

This recipe gives you two or more glasses.

Ingredients	Quantity
Raw Mango	1
Sugar	½ cup
Salt	½ tsp
Roasted Cumin Powder	1 tsp
Water	3 to 4 cups

Method

1. Cook the washed mangoes with a cup of water in the pressure cooker till soft.


2. Cool them and squeeze out the juice from the mango by adding water.


3. Add the sugar,salt and cumin powder and mix well till the sugar dissolves. If the mango is very sour,more water or sugar or both can be added.


4. Chill the juice in the refrigerator.


5. Serve this panna in glasses decorated with mint leaves.

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Drumstick Pepper Dhal

Drumstick (Moringa oleifera) is a kind of vegetable that is shaped like a drumstick and so this name! This vegetable is rich in vitamins and minerals,especially the leaves that are very rich in nutrients. Moringa oleifera is commonly found in South of India which is mainly used in sambar ,sometimes made into a pickle because of its special and unique flavour.

This recipe is an old recipe which my mother used to prepare and has very little oil and is spicy because of black pepper corns. It can be made less spicy too. It is prepared in combination with dhal/lentils to make it more nutritious.

Following recipe is adequate for four or five people.

Ingredients	Quantity
Drumsticks	3
Tuvar Dhal	½ cup
Red Chillies	2
Black Pepper Corns	1 tsp
Cumin Seeds	1 tsp
Mustard Seeds	1 tsp
Black Gram/Urad Dhal	1 tsp
Asafoetida/Hing	a pinch
Curry Leaves	a few
Water	3 to 4 cups
Oil	1 tsp
Salt	to taste

Method

1. Wash the drumsticks and chop them into three inch pieces and steam them in the microwave or boil them with water seperately and keep them aside.


2. Roast the tuvar dhal in a pan till light brown and add cuminseeds, pepper corns and one red chilly and fry. Cool this.


3. Grind this dhal mixture in a grinder with water to a fine paste.It can be liquidy.


4. Add salt and mix it.


5. Take a pan and add the steamed drumsticks and dhal paste and add some more water and heat it on slow fire till the dhal is cooked. More water can be added as this absorbs a lot of water.


6. Remove the pan from the heat and put it in a serving bowl.


7. Take oil in a small pan and add the seasonings like the urad dhal,mustard seeds hing and last curry leaves and fry till the mustard seeds crackle.


8. Add this seasoning into the dhal and serve hot with hot rice or chappatis.

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