Lavender and Strawberry Popsicles

Ingredients:

 

Lavender - 1tbsp
Strawberry - 1cup
Milk - 1 cup
Greek yogurt - 1cup
Sugar - 1 cup

Recipe:

 

1. Heat milk with 1/2 cup sugar and 1 tbsp of lavender for 5 minutes. Strain the milk and let it cool down.

2. In a pan add remaining sugar and sliced strawberries in it. Cook them for 5 minute or until strawberry is cooked. Let it cool down at room temperature.

3. In a bowl pour the flavored milk which has been cooled down and add greek yogurt in it. Whisk it thoroughly.

4. In each mold pour 2 spoons of milk and yogurt mixture. Top it with 1 spoon of cooked strawberries. Fill up the remaining mold again with milk and yogurt.

5. Place the mold in freezer to set for 5-6 hours.

6. Once the popsicles are set, remove  it from the freezer. Keep it in hot water for10 seconds. This will help to remove popsicles from mold.
7. Lavender and Strawberry popsicles are ready to eat.

Easy apple pie

Ingredients:

Apple - 2 nos
Pastry sheets - 1 packet
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Butter - 2 tblsps
Ice cream for presentation

Recipe:

1. Let the pastry sheets rest until room temprature is obtained. Cut the pastry sheet in circle with the help of a small plate.
2. Preheat the oven at 200 degree celcius.
3. Apply some butter on the oven tray. Place the pastry sheet on this tray and prick it with a fork.
4. Deseed the apple with the help of a core remover. Skin the apple.
5. Slice it into thin round slices.
6.  Place these slices on the pastry sheet. Apply some butter over it.
7. Sprinkle 1/2 cup of sugar on these slices.
8. Bake it in the oven for 10-15 minutes or until the sugar gets caramalised.
9. Once the sugar gets caramalised, remove the pie from oven and let it rest for 3-4 minutes.
10. Top it with ice cream and serve.

Tilgul poli (Seaseme seeds and jaggery flat bread)

Ingredients : 

Refined flour - 1 cup
Wheat flour - 1/2 cup
Cheakpea flour - 4 tblsps
Rice flour - 2 tblsps
Seaseme seeds - 1 cup
Dry grated coconut - 1/2 cup
Jaggery - 1 cup
Ghee - 4 tblsps
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
Nutmeg powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt a pinch

Recipe:

1. Sieve refined flour,  wheat flour and cheakpea flour together.  Heat 2 tblsps of ghee and add it into this flour mixture. Mix well and a make a soft dough with the use of some water. Cover it and let it rest for some time.
2. Dry roast the seasme seeds and grated coconut separately. Add 2 tblsps ghee in a pan and roast 2 tblsps of cheakpea flour in it.
3. Mix these roasted seaseme seeds, coconut, cheakpea flour, jaggery, cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and a pinch of salt. Grind it once in a mixer. Stuffing is ready.
4. Take a small size ball from a dough. Fill it with the stuffing and close it. Roll a medium size poli (flat bread) from it. To prevent the sticking of poli (flat bread), apply some rice flour on it while rolling.
5. On a heated pan dry roast these polis (flat breads). Once they are done from both sides, remove them on a plate and apply some ghee on it.
6. You can serve these polis (flat breads) with ghee or milk. In the picture, I have served it with ghee and in the glass its served with vanilla icecream.

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