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Chat Masala

Ingredients A. To be roasted Red dried chillies - 10 whole Jeera - 4 tablespoon Black pepper 2 tablespoon  ( mix 6 peppers if you like) Cloves - 8 nos Carom seeds - 1 teaspoon Cinnamon stick -2 inches Coriander seeds - 2 tablespoon B. To be added later Salt 2 teaspoon Mango powder - 4 tablespoon Red chilli powder - 1.5 tablespoon Mint leaves dried - 6 tablespoon Rock salt - 3 tablespoon Saunt powder - 1 teaspoon Citric acid - 1 teaspoon Method 1. All ingredients listed in "A"  must be roasted separately for a few seconds in a dry pan . This extracts the aroma of the ingredient. 2. Let them cool 3. In a mixer grinder add all ingredients from list B and roasted ingredients of list A together to a fine  powder 4. Store in an air tight container.

Maa Cholia di daal

Ingredients 1/3 cup tooti black urad  broken dal ( tooti urad ki chilkewali dal) 1/3 cup chana ki dal 1/3 cup soaked small red rajma ( 20 mins) 1 inch ginger grated 10 cloves of garlic 1 green chilli 1 red chilli 1 big onion finely chopped 1 large tomato finely chopped Ghee for tempering 1 tsp jeera 1 pinch hing 1 tsp red chilli powder ( adjust as per taste) 1/4th haldi Salt to taste Method 1. Wash the dals and keep aside. 2. In a cooker take ghee, add jeera, hing, garlic, ginger. Add onions once garlic is brown. 3. Add tomatoes once onion are nice and brown. 4. Cook tomatoes and add haldi, namak and mirchi 5. Keep stirring till the tomatoes leave oil ( for 5 minutes) 6.  Add dal and six times water ( ~ 6 cups) 7. Slow the cooker after 1st whistle and  slow the cooker 8. Let the dal cook for an hour on slow flame 9. Enjoy with rice , roti, naan or rumali roti

Balushahi

Ingredients 2 cup maida 2 serving spoon pure ghee 1 pinch salt 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/2 cup curd 1.5 cup sugar 3/4th cup water Few strands of saffron 1/4th tsp elaichi powder Milk for kneading Ghee for frying Method 1. Mix maida with salt ,ghee and baking powder. 2. Consistency of dough should be that of crumb 3. Add curd and knead dough. Add some milk to make the dough like the chapathi dough. 4. Make balls and indent them from the center 5. Fry these balls in pure ghee 6. Fry till golden and cooked properly on  a low flame To make chashni or syrup. 1. Mix sugar , water, kesar and elaichi, 2. Heat slowly and should be of 1 thread consistency 3. Once chashni is ready Add hot balushi in chashni.