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Sikanjvi/ Shikanjvi/ Limu Paani/ Home Made Lemonade

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A famous Pakistani summer drink …….

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Ingredients:

  • 1.5 ltr. Water
  • 2 cups crushed ice
  • 2 large sized limes (sqeezed)
  • 1 tspn salt/ 1 tbspn salt
  • 1 tbspn sugar/ 1 tspn sugar

Procedure:

-Squeeze lime juice on a pro citrus juicer. Discard the residue and keep the juice. Add some salt and sugar in the juice and mix well.

-Take some water in a bottle or a jug and introduce this lime mixture to it. Close the cap of the bottle tightly leaving some space between the water and the lid. Shake well.

-Put some crushed ice into 6 glasses and pour this mixture into each glass.

-Top each glass with a mint leaf and serve chilled.

Kadhi Pakora

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Kadhi pakora is a very famous dish of South Asian subcontinent specially among vegetarian community. Gram flour dumplings, dipped  in yogurt sauce with some nice aroma of curry leaves…….

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Ingredients:

FOR KADHI

  • 2 cups yogurt (old and sour yogurt)
  • 1 cup gram flour
  • 3 ltr. Water
  • Some salt
  • Some turmeric
  • Some red chilli powder

FOR TEMPERING

  • 1 scoop of desi ghee
  • ½ cup oil
  • 1 onion sliced
  • 1 tomato sliced
  • 20 – 30 curry leaves

FOR PAKORA

  • 2 cups gram flour
  • 1 tspn baking powder
  • Some water for making normal consistency batter
  • 2 potatoes sliced
  • 1 eggplant (small size) sliced
  • 2 green chillies sliced
  • 4 tbspns coriander (chopped)
  • 4 – 8 mushrooms sliced (optional)
  • Some sliced capsicum (sliced)
  • Paneer (optional)
  • 1 onion sliced
  • Salt to taste
  • Some red chilli powder
  • ½ tspn turmeric powder
  • Some coriander seeds
  • Oil for frying (1500 mL)

Procedure:

-For pakoras, mix everything (except oil) in a mixing bowl and mix well. Keep aside for 10 minutes. Heat oil and fry pakoras in it.

-For Kadhi, put everything in a blender and mix well.

-Pour this mixture in a deep pan and let it boil for like 30 minutes on medium heat.

-For tempering, heat oil and and ghee in a frying pan and fry everything else in it. When the tomatoes are done add this mixture to the boiling Kadhi and mix.

-Remove from heat.

-Now dip fried pakoras into it and garnish with some coriander. Serve hot with boiled rice or roti.

Malai Boti (without BBQ grill)

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Malai boti is a famous barbecue dish of Pakistan. Nearly, all the barbecue restaurants in Pakistan serve this dish and people really love it. Its mild, its juicy, its lite and its healthy. I have made this in a pan because we cant use BBQs in apartments and mostly people dont have BBQ grills at home so this is the home version of this beautiful dish. Do try this and fall in love with Ayesha’s Kitchen …..

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Ingredients:

  • 1 kg chicken thigh fillets (cut each fillet into 4 – 5 pieces)
  • 250 gms lite sour cream
  • 1 ½ cup yogurt (sour, but not Greek)
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbspn red chilli powder
  • 1 tbspn crushed ginger
  • 1 tbspn crushed garlic
  • ½ tspn turmeric
  • 2 tbspn Ayesha’s kitchen special garam masala
  • 1 tspn chicken powder
  • 1 tbspn meat tenderizer/ raw papaya paste
  • 6 tbspns oil (olive oil)
  • Some charcoal for tempering

Procedure:

-Cut thigh fillets into big 4 – 5 pieces.

-Apply some meat tenderizer on them and keep aside for 10 minutes.

-Now add all the other ingredients except oil and charcoal.

-Keep aside for 4 hours.

-Heat oil in a pan (pan with lid) and add the marinated chicken in it. Cook covered on low heat for 30 minutes.

-Then remove the lid and stir cook on high heat until the moisture is evaporated and oil comes to the surface. Remove from the heat.

-Heat charcoal on naked flames. When it is hot place it on an onion peel or on a piece of aluminum foil and place it on the top of the cooked chicken.

-Drizzle some oil over the coal and cover the pan with the lid.

-After 15 minutes take out the coal and the paper. Dish out the chicken and serve hot with coriander chilli raita.

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Ayesha’s Kitchen Special Kheer

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Ayesha’s Kitchen Special Kheer is a refined recipe. I have created this recipe after listening to many people. Try this at home and treat yourself with the most indulging and rich taste of kheer ……

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Ingredients:

  • 1 cup basmati rice (rinsed and soaked in water)
  • Water for boiling rice
  • 1 ½ litre. Milk
  • 1 cup water
  • 6 – 8 tbspns raw sugar/ sugar
  • 8 small green cardamoms (crushed)
  • ½ cup almonds (slivered)
  • ½ cup pistachios (slivered)
  • 2 – 4 chaandi ke warq

Procedure:

-Boil water and add rice. Strain and discard the water and keep the boiled rice aside.

-Boil milk and add crushed cardamom, rice, sugar and half of the almonds and pistachios.

-Cook covered on low heat for about 2 – 3 hours. Use non-stick pan.

-When the rice is mixed with milk and it gives a pinkish orangish colour, it means your kheer is ready.

-Dish is out and refrigerate for about 6 hours. Garnish with some chaandi ka warq, almonds and pistachios. Serve.

Ayesha’s Kitchen Special Sevayyan (with khoya)

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This is Ayesha’s Kitchen special recipe for vermicelli…… It is a Pakistani dessert which is often served on Eid – ul – Fitr and other occasions……

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Ingredients:

  • 160 gms vermicelli (Bareek Sevayyan)
  • 4 tbspns sugar
  • 4 tbspns raw sugar (Shakkar/ gur)
  • 2 ltrs. Milk
  • 1 cup raw khoya (unsweetened Barfi/ Kalakand) (Easily available at South Asian Mithai shops)
  • 1 tbspn cardamom seeds (crushed)
  • ¼ cup almonds (slivered) (for garnishing)
  • 2 tbspns crushed pistachios (for garnishing)
  • Chaandi ka warq (Edible silver foil)

Procedure:

-Boil 1 litre milk and add cardamom seeds. Add vermicelli and mix well. Now add khoya and sugar. Mix well. Now when you notice that the mixture is getting thick, add rest of the milk and let it cook on medium heat until you get the desired consistency.

-Take it out in a bowl. Garnish with some pistachios, almonds and chandi ka warq. Serve hot ot refrigerate for at least 6 hrs for serving it as dessert.

Fruit Chaat

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Fruit chaat is the most common way to consume fruits in the month of Ramadan in Pakistan. Nearly, everyone in Pakistan, make this fruit salad to give their bodies energy, vitamins and nutrients, moreover its very refreshing and if you are on diet or you want to lose weight, then this is the best thing you can have because it is filling and full fills all the healthy requirements of your body ….

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Ingredients:

  • 1 banana (sliced)
  • 1 apple with skin (sliced)
  • 1 pear with skin (sliced)
  • 5-6 grapes cut in half
  • 4 dates (firm, sliced)
  • 1 mandarin/ orange (squeezed)
  • Some salt and black pepper
  • A pinch of roasted powdered cumin
  • 1 strawberry sliced
  • ½ kiwi fruit sliced
  • ½ cup sliced pineapple
  • ½ cup diced guava (Optional)
  • 2 tbspns boiled chickpeas

Procedure:

-Combine all the ingredients in a deep mixing bowl and mix.

-Take it out in a serving bowl.

-Decorate it with some fruit slices and serve chilled in Iftar or as a desert.

Tips:

-You can use several other fruits like melon, pomegranate, Feijoas etc.