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Badam Halwa

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This is one of my favorite, hope you guys like it too  J Ingredients : Almonds - 1/2 cup heaped Sugar - 3/4 cup Water - 1/2 cup Ghee  - 4 tbsp. Condensed Milk  - 1 tbsp. (optional) Milk - 1/8 cup + 1/8 cup Cardamom powder - a pinch(optional) Saffron - a tiny pinch Yellow food colour - a tiny pinch ( Optional – Only if you want Soly’s  Eye to pop out ) Increase the ingredients if you want make a big portion. Method : 1.         Soak almonds for 2 hrs. Then peel off the skin and make it ready. 2.         Then grind the almonds along with 1/8 cup of milk to a fine/semi coarse paste. 3.         Take another 1/8 cup of warm milk crush saffron and add it. Add the yellow food colour and set aside. 4.         In a pan - add sugar with water and let it boil until sugar completely dissolves. Then add the badam paste and stir it continuousl...

Chettinad Chciken Curry: Ginger ½ inch piece Small onion-10 Garlic-10 pods Green chillies-2 Chilli powder-1 table spoons Coriander powder-2 table spoons

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Chettinad Chicken Curry Ingredients Chicken – Off-course ( You can increase the quantity of ingredients according to size of the chicken) Small onion 30 or big onion 2 Tomatoes-2 Garlic 20 pods and Lots and lots of LOVE…….. To Grind No 1: Ginger ½ inch piece Small onion-10 Garlic-10 pods Green chillies-2 Chilli powder-1 table spoons Coriander powder-2 table spoons To Grind No 2: Coconut grated-5 table spoons Cashew nut-5 Fennel seeds-1 teaspoon To Season: Cinnamon-2 pieces Fennel seeds-1 teaspoon Clove-2 Cardamom-2 Birinji leaf-little Mint leaf-handful Curry leaf little To Marinate: 1 teaspoon Samabar podi Salt-1 teaspoon Curd little Ginger garlic paste-1 teaspoon Procedure : 1.    Marinate the chicken for an hour before cooking. 2.    Mince the onion, garlic and tomatoes. 3.    Keep the kadai in the stove. Season the curry with the items given in To Season in 2 tablespoons of oil. 4.    Add the onions and saute with a pinch of salt f...