Shilpi Kitchen - Best Indian Food Recipes

Every sip of warm and healthy vegetable soup is a divine experience during cold winter days. The simple yet flavorful soup recipe is not just easy to follow but also customization to bring in your favorite taste with selected veggies. But it also depending on how many veggies you use and how chunky you cut them. It's the easiest way to warm up your kitchen on a cold day and feed yourself and your family in one delicious and healthy bowl. Vegetable Soup A soup is an appetizing and easily digestible preparation made from a variety of foods and generally served as the first course in a main meal. It may be served hot or cold. Soup can be classified as a thin or thick soup. Nutritive Value of Soup The nutritive value of a soup depends on the ingredients used. Clear/thin soups are of value only to stimulate the appetite at the beginning of a meal, while thick/ cream soups are nourishing as well as appetizing. Thin soups have a very low calorie value as compared to thi...

Cuisine- Indian Course- Snack Prep time- 20 minutes Cooking time- 30 minutes Total time- 50 minutes Serving- 12 Pcs.                            Pyaz kachori Ingredients:    Dough :    2 cup maida or 1cup atta and 1cup suji    Oil or ghee: 4-5 Tsp    Salt:1/2-1 Tsp     For filling:    Onion: 1/2 Kg.    Potato: 3-4 medium size (Boiled and Mashed)    Besan: 3 Tbsp(Dry roasted)    Coriander seeds:  1 Tsp (crushed)    Coriander powder: 2 Tsp    Mustard seeds: 1 Tsp    Cumin seeds: 1/2 Tsp    Hing: 1/2 Tsp    Salt: To Taste    Amchur powder: 3 Tsp    Green Chili: 2 (Finely Chopped)    Ginger garlic paste: 1 Tbsp    Red chilli powder: 2 Tsp    Garam masala: 1/2 Tsp    Sugar: 1 Tsp   ...

A sore throat is a very common problem in the monsoons. A sore throat refers to pain, itchiness, or irritation of the throat. Throat pain is the primary symptom of a sore throat. It may get worse when you try to swallow, and you may have difficulty swallowing food and liquids. Flu season often gets with it fever, cold and coughing. The constant itch caused by a sore throat is often agitating, especially if it hinders your productivity at work and home. Here are some home remedies you can follow to get rid of this condition: Gargles : Our grandmother’s favourite cure for any sore throat infection, gargles are the best and most effective way of curing the sore throat.  A glass of lukewarm water with a pinch of salt will help increase the blood flow to the pharyngeal region which will eventually wash off the infection. Warm liquids : Teas such as cinnamon tea, ginger tulsi tea, lemon honey tea or simply a cup of desi masala chai can do wonders for your throat. As the throa...

Weaning Foods Weaning is the process of gradually introducing foods other than breast milk into the child's feeding schedule. The growth rate in infancy being high, breast milk is not enough to meet the child's increasing needs for energy and protein. Milk is a poor source of iron and also provides a small amount of Vitamin C. They are sufficient to meet an infant's need until the three months of age.     It is important to introduce foods rich in iron, vitamin C, energy and protein to the child after completing three months. They are called weaning foods Weaning should be a gradual and slow process so as to make the child adapt to the new foods. The consistency and amount of weaning foods should be slowly modified according to the increasing age of the child. For infants around the age of 4-6 months, liquid supplements are given. These include soups, juices, and animal milk For infants of 6-8 months, semisolid supplements which are well cooked and mashed or...

Rice kheer is a very common pudding made in almost every home of India especially during special occasions like in north- navratri, janmashtami, in south- pongal and in east- chhath puja. For me my favourite version of rice kheer is mango rice kheer.  This has the same taste as the ice cream when it served chill. Mango kheer is a easy to make dessert ready with ripe mango pulp,full cream milk,rice/vermicelli. Mango Kheer Cuisine- Indian Course- Dessert Cooking time- 40-50 minute Serving- 4 Ingredients: 1 litre- full cream 1 cup- mango pulp 1/4 cup- mango pieces 1/4 cup- rice(broken basmati) 5 tablespoon- sugar 1/4 teaspoon- cardamom powder 3/4 cup- mix nuts (almonds,raisin) How to make: Firstly in to the heavy bottom kadahi or in pan pour full cream on high flame until it boil. In a mean time soak rice in to the water.When milk boils reduce flame to low to medium. Pour rice in to the milk and stir continuously until rice cooked and milk reduce to half...

Mango masala papad Cuisine- Indian Course- Snacks Prep time- 10 minutes Assemble time- 5 minutes Total time- 15 minutes Serving- 2 Main ingredients- ripe mango and papad Mango masala papad Ingredients: Ripe mango- 2 Cucumber- 1 Onion- 1(big) Mint leaves- a handful Masala papad- 2 Salt- according to taste Red chilli powder- 1/2 tsp Roasted cumin powder- 1 Tsp Black salt- as per taste Chaat masala- 1/2 tsp How to make Mango Masala Papad: In a large mixing bowl, chopped mango, cucumber, onion, mint leaves. Now mix salt, red chilli powder, roasted cumin powder, black salt and chaat masala with above ingredients into the mixing bowl. Now roast papad on medium flame. and immediately make a shape of Katori with the help of a small bowl. Take one Katori and fill up with mango mixture. Garnished with the mint leaves and served as a side dish or as a chatpata snack.

Cusine- Continental Course- Dessert Prep time- 10 minutes Cooking time- 0 minute Servings- 2 Ingredients: 1 cup- Hung curd or dahi 1 mango- ripe and peeled 1 Tbsp- milk 1 pinch of Cardamom 1-2 tbsp sugar (adjust according to the sweetness of mango) 1/2 mango- chopped finely How to make: Combine all ingredients in a big mixing bowl and mix all ingredients well with the help of whisk or you can also use a blender for mixing. Now add finely chopped mango pieces and mix with the spoon as it increases the taste of mango yogurt. Refrigerate at least 1 hour and serve chilled garnished with tooti-frooti or mint sprigs.