Papaya Halwa
Ingredient
- Papaya - 2 cups, 1 whole fruit ( grated or chopped into cubes)
- Sugar - 3-4 tbsp, depending on how sweet your fruit is
- Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
- Nuts(almond , cashew.,etc) - A fist full
- Ghee - 2-3 tbsp
Preparation
- Heat a pan with ghee, on medium flame add the nuts and saute until partially golden brown
- Remove the nuts from the pan and keep aside
- In the same pan with the remaining ghee add your papaya and start to saute on low flame for 10-12 minutes
- The fruit will change in color and release juices as you continue, now mash the fruit with a potato masher (if cubes)
- Continue to saute for another 10 minutes and you will notice a change in consistency of the fruit mixture
- Here add sugar if you wish to and continue to cook
- Finally once the entire mixture comes together and separates from the pan add cardamom powder and your nuts
- Serve warm and enjoy!
Ingredients
- Onion (Big size) - 1
- Finely chopped red, green and yellow bell peppers - 1 of each
- Finely chopped broccoli (Small sized) - 1
- Zucchini (Small sized) -1
- Black Olives(sliced) - 15-20
- Nuts (cashew, walnuts, pecans, almonds) - 1/2 cup
- Garlic - 2-3 cloves
- Tofu - 350g
- Cheddar cheese - 2 tbsp
- Mozzarella cheese - 2 tbsp
- Cottage cheese crushed (optional, you could use additional tofu here) - 150g
- Mixed, dried herbs (rosemary, oregano, thyme, parsley, basil) - 1 tbsp
- All purpose flour - 1 tbsp
- Corn flour - 2 tbsp
- Baking powder (optional) - 1/4 tsp
- Milk - 1 cup
- Olive oil -1 tbsp
- Salt - 2 tsp (or to taste)
Preparation
- Soak the nuts in about 1/2 cup of milk and set them aside for an hour
- In a small bowl, whisk all purpose flour and 1/4 cup of milk and keep aside
- Chop the Zucchini into thin circles and keep aside
- Grease you quiche pan and keep aside
- In a frying pan, heat 1 tbsp of olive oil and add onions and saute til they turn translucent
- Add the broccoli and bell peppers and toss
- Saute for a couple of minutes, then add 2 tsp of mixed herbs and salt and mix well
- Cover and cook for a couple of minutes
- Remove pan from flame, add the flour + milk mixture, mix and keep aside
- Grind the nuts soaked in milk, garlic cloves and cornflour together, then add the tofu and grind again to form a soft paste
- Add the rest of the milk to this paste and mix to get a batter like consistency
- Preheat the oven to 200C / 400F
- Mix 1/4 of this paste into the vegetable mixture and evenly spread this mixture on to your greased pan
- Next lay successive layers of crushed cottage cheese, cheddar cheese and zucchini
- Mix the olives into remaining paste mix and pour evenly. Sprinkle the mozzarella cheese at the end.
- Bake for about 30-40 minutes until the surface turns golden brown and the sides turn crisp
- Allow the Quiche to cool on a wire rack for 5-10 minutes
- Cut into slices and serve (you could serve this with an acidic salad and a light soup to make a full, healthy and delicious meal out of this!)
