The festive season brings with it a lot of happiness. These happiness come from meeting each other, celebrating and eating delicious food. As soon as the festival comes, there is a rush of guests in the house. We get busy with hospitality and make a lot of preparations to make the guests at home feel special. Delicious dishes play the most important role in this.
It becomes a big task if suddenly a guest comes to the house and you have to cook something good and feed it quickly. Although any dish takes about 30-40 minutes to prepare, what if you can whip up some dishes quickly during the festivities? That is, by adopting some simple tricks and preparing in advance, you can prepare it in just 10-15 minutes.
So today Work news In this we will share some simple recipes that can be made in 15 minutes during the festive season. We will know its complete method and trick to make it fast.
Soapnut head – taste and health too Sabudana vada is very popular in Indian cuisine. It is made with sago, potato and groundnut. However, its preparation takes a lot of time. From soaking sabudana to making its chutney. In such a situation, you might be wondering how to make it in minutes. So we are telling you its easy trick. Check out his recipe first.
method of preparation
- Soak the soap for 5-6 hours. Then boil the potatoes in the cooker.
- Now mix these two and prepare the mixture by adding cumin, salt, green chillies, green coriander and coarsely ground peanuts.
- Now make round tikki like potato tikki.
- All the preparations of Sabudana head have been completed. Now keep these tikkis in deep freezer.
- When guests come home, all you have to do is take those tikkis out of the fridge and deep fry them to serve.
- When guests arrive, Sabudana Vada can be ready in just 15 minutes if you do all the preparation beforehand.
- Vada tikki can be kept in the refrigerator for about two days and in the deep freezer for up to a week.
- In such a situation, if you prepare a lot of tikkis on the first day of the festival and keep them in the deep freezer, all you have to do is put a pan on the gas, heat the oil, when the guests arrive. And put pre-prepared tikki in it and fry it.
- The hot tikki will come out of the pan and serve on a breakfast plate in just 10 minutes.
Let's prepare some semolina halwa
Who doesn't love semolina hot? This is an evergreen dish, which you can eat in any season. Its taste increases a bit especially during the festive season.
We will learn the trick of making halwa in ten minutes, but first check out its recipe-
Method of preparation
- First, fry the semolina on a low flame for 15-20 minutes until it turns golden.
- After that add ghee and fry for another 2-3 minutes.
- Now add four cups of hot water and cook it.
- When the pudding starts to thicken, add sugar.
- Stir for another 3-4 minutes. The halwa is ready.
- Now add cardamom powder and finely chopped dry fruits.
- To make halwa, roasting semolina takes the longest time. So, if you have baked the rava in advance, making the halwa is a matter of minutes when the guests arrive. But for that some advance preparation has to be done.
- Take a kg packet of semolina, roast it until golden brown, cool it and pack it in an air tight container.
- Similarly, finely chop the dry fruits, fry them lightly in ghee and store them in the refrigerator. Dry fruits should not be kept outside after cutting.
- Now we know that if guests arrive suddenly, we have to serve them something sweet immediately.
- So you take some ghee in a pan, add roasted semolina and stir for just 30 seconds. Then add water and sugar and stir for another five minutes and the halwa is ready.
- Now remove the roasted dry fruits from the fridge and arrange them on the halwa.
- Guests sitting outside in the drawing room will be amazed how this hot halwa is ready in five minutes.
Gram flour pakoras are different
Just hearing the name of gram pakoda makes everyone's mouth water. The taste of hot pakoras with tea is different.
The trick to making pakoras quickly is preparation in advance. First see the recipe, then we will tell you the trick.
method of preparation
- First of all we have to make the pakora pudding. For this sift gram flour in a deep bottom vessel.
- Then finely chop green chillies and green coriander.
- Now add cumin, ajmo, red chilli powder, turmeric and coriander powder.
- Add a pinch of baking soda and salt to taste and mix well.
- Then prepare chickpea flour pudding by adding water little by little.
- Remember that the mixture should not be too thin or too thick. Keep the consistency medium.
- Now strain the hot pakoras in oil and serve with green chutney and sauce.
- Gram flour cannot be stored in the refrigerator for more than a day and a half. So, prepare to make this on the same day when the guests are coming.
- All you have to do is put oil in the pan on gas as soon as the doorbell rings.
- By the time the guests arrive, sit in the room, meet each other, ask for information and drink water, round chickpea flour pakoras will have come out of the fridge and reached the hot oil.
- In the next five minutes it will be decorated in plates with chutneys and sauces. You will be smiling with pride and the guests will think that you are a magician who can prepare pakoras in the blink of an eye.
Method of preparation
- First of all, mix semolina and curd well and keep for half an hour.
- When the semolina swells with the curd, add garlic-ginger paste and salt to it and prepare the dwavan.
- The mixture should not be too thin or too thick. Keep the consistency medium.
- Now apply oil on the bottom of a plate. Boil some water in a pan on gas.
- Mix the sugar in the semolina solution and spread it in an oiled plate. Sprinkle some cayenne on top.
- Now place this plate on a pan of boiling water, cover it and cook for 15 minutes.
- Instant semolina dhokla is ready. Now cut it like barfi and serve.
- By now you must have understood how many such dishes can be prepared and reach the guests within minutes.
- Same is the case with semolina dhokla. You had already prepared the pudding and kept it in the refrigerator.
- When the guests arrive, put it on a plate and put it in a pan with boiling water on the gas. As soon as the conversation starts, prepare semolina dhokla in the plate and reach in front of the guests.
So enjoy these four recipes. Wishing you a very happy Navratri.
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