Oatmeal Raisin Cookie

Ingredients

¾ cup sifted flour
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp baking soda
½ cup softened margarine
½ cup sugar
½ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup raisins
¼ cup walnuts
1 tbsp orange rind
1 ½ cup quick cooking oatmeal


Method

Grease cookie sheet, sift together dry ingredients.
Beat together butter and sugars until light and fluffy.
Beat in eggs and vanilla until well blended.
Stir in flour mixture until well moistened.
Stir in oatmeal, raisins, nuts and rind.
Drop by tsp fuls 2” apart.
Bake at 350 F for 8 min.

Onion yogurt dip

Ingredients

1 finely chopped onion
1 cup thick yogurt
Salt to taste
1/4 tsp cumin powder
1/4 tsp white pepper powder
1 tsp finely chopped coriander

Method

Whisk yogurt well.
Add rest of ingredients n mix well.
Serve with plain potato chips.

Pista Burfi

Ingredients

1 cup pista
2 cups sugar
1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cup ghee
milk just enough to grind the pista
pista essence two to three drops


Method

Soak pista for 4 hours in cold water.
Peel the skin and grind pista into a paste adding milk instead of water.
The paste must be like tomato sauce.
In a thick bottom vessel pour the paste and sugar and keep it on the stove.
Keep stirring constantly so that it does not stick to the vessel.
Once the sugar is dissolved start adding ghee little by little.
The cake will start thickening.
Add as much as ghee is needed.
Once the cake leaves the bottom of the vessel add the essence and stir once.
Pour it in a greased tray and let it cool for some time.
Then cut it in desired shapes.

Kaju Badam Burfi

Ingredients

cashew nuts -100 gms
badam - 50 gms
coconut grated - 1 cup
ghee - 200 gms
sugar - 200 gms



Method

Soak the cashew nut and badam in water.
Remove the skin of badam.
Grind coconut and the soaked badam, cashew to a smooth paste.
Make sugar syrup by adding little water.
Let it reaches one string consistency, add the ground paste to the sugar syrup, add
ghee.
When the mixture leaves the sides of the pan, pour over a greased plate.
Cut in to slices.