Badam Cake

One evening i got very bored when my son fell asleep. Then i thought of keeping me occupied till he wakes up. Only then i tried this following dessert. This one called as Badam cake came out very well...and you know what..i was able to give a rich snack for my son when he woke up and he enjoyed showing a yummy yummy face.

Ingredients:

1 cup Almonds
2 cups Sugar
1/2 cup Ghee
1/2 pinch Saffron
1 tbsp Milk

Instructions:
1. Soak almonds in warm water and peel the skin.
2. Grind the almonds using milk to make paste.
3. To this paste add the sugar and 2 tsp ghee and heat this mixture in a heavy non-stick pan.
4. Keep adding the rest of the ghee, Keep stirring.
5. Once it reaches a layered consistency, pour it onto a greased plate, spread the mixture, allow it to cool and cut into desired shapes.

Serve it after the dessert gets a little cold.

Paneer Butter Masala

My son is very fond of paneers..So i use to make him the following paneer recipe.
Goes well with rotis or chapathis.

Ingredients:
1 Cup - Paneer (cut into cubes)
1 No - Onion (chopped)
1 No - Large Tomato
10 No - Cashews
4 Tbsp - Cream
1 Tsp - Cumin seeds
1 Tsp - G/G Paste
1 Tbsp - Red chilly powder
1 /2 Tsp - Turmeric powder
1 Tsp - Garam masala
1 Tsp - Coriander powder
1 Tbsp - Kasturi Methi
2 Tbsp - Butter
Salt - to taste.
Method:
Grind tomato and cashew nuts together and set aside.
Heat butter in a kadai and fry the cubed paneer.
When the paneer is golden brown remove it from the kadai and set aside.
(Frying the paneer makes it crisp and enhances the flavor, you can avoid frying if you like the paneer to be soft)
Add Cumin seeds to the heated butter.
When the cumin seeds pop add the chopped onion and saute.
When the onion browns add the G/G paste,tomato-cashew paste, salt,garam masala, chilly powder,coriander powder,turmeric powder and stir well adding water as necessary.
cover and cook for 5 minutes and add cream, paneer and kasturi methi.
Cook for another minute and serve.