Beetroot halwa

Ingredients:

Beetroot-1 cup

Milk-1/2cup(1/4 cup water+1/4 cup milk)

sugar-1/2cup

cardamom-1-2

cashew-few

cucumber seeds-1tsp(optional)

ghee-2tbsp

Method:

Peel the skin of beetroot, grate and kept aside.Heat little ghee in the pan. (I always use rice cooker to make halwas and it comes out well).Fry the cashews and kept aside. In the same ghee fry beetroot until raw smell disappears.Add the milk to the beetroot and close the pan.Wait until beets are cooked well and milk is entirely absorbed. Now add sugar and ghee ,stir well until the mixture turns semisolid.close the pan again. wait until it comes to automatic warm or ghee seperates on top and the halwa doesn't stick to the sides of the pan.Garnish with fried cashews/cucumber seeds.

Mutton masala chops(Spicy)

Ingredients:

Mutton-1/2 kg

onion-2

Tomato-2

Red chillies-3

garlic-7 pods

Ginger-1 inch

Turmeric powder-1/4 tsp

Chilli powder-1-1/2 tsp

Curry leaves-few

Pepper-1tsp

Oil-2-3 tbsp

Salt-as required

Method:

Wash and clean mutton by adding little turmeric powder .Grind all the ingredients except mutton. Mix the paste to the cleaned mutton. Heat oil in a kadai and add the mixture.Stir well and close the pan until mutton is cooked well and oil seperates on top. Fry until golden brown. Serve hot.

Note-This masala chops is easy to prepare in one go.It is a perfect side dish for plain hot rice,dosas,idlies.