Paavakai Chips (Bitter gourd chips)

Most of us hesitate to have Bitter gourd as the name itself tells us it is very bitter. This is a good evening snack. Got this recipe from Sharmispassion, but did small alterations. This is very flavorful and must try and doesn't absorb much oil.

Ingredients
4 Bitter Gourd 
2 1/2 tablespoon Rice flour
2 tablespoon Corn flour
4 tablespoon Chickpea flour
1 1/2 tablespoon chilly powder
1 tablespoon Fennel powder
A pinch of Cumin powder
Salt

Method

• Wash Bitter gourd and allow it to dry. Slice it evenly thin.
• Take a bowl and mix the rest of the ingredients together.
• Sprinkle the mixture to the sliced bitter gourd and add 1 or 2 tablespoon of water.
• Mix well, don't add too much of water. (The water is added so that all the dry ingredients get stick to the bitter gourd).
• Heat oil and fry them until most of the bubbles are gone or when it turns golden brown. 
• Leave these chips in a kitchen tissue paper so that it absorbs all oil and then store in a air-tight container.

Note

• Cut the Bitter gourd and refrigerate. Mix other ingredients on the next day,  by doing this way personally i felt it is much crispier than the usual chips.
• In most of the paavakai chips recipe, they have mentioned to bake for 5 mins, which personally i felt not required. 

Panna cotta

After a very long gap, i'm back to blogging:) 

As this is gonna be my first recipe for this year, lets start with a dessert.
Yeah...... definitely very easy recipe. PANNA COTTA.
When i first heard this word, i thought "oh very tough tough one to do at home".
 Panna cotta is a traditional, delicious Italian dessert. The time to preparation and cooking  of this recipe is just 15 mins. But one thing.... this takes time to set, You have to refrigerate for at least 4 hrs, but i definitely recommend to refrigerate for overnight. So if you are planning for a nice dinner, do this the day before.

Ingredients

1/3 cup milk
2 1/2 cup heavy cream
1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 envelope unflavored gelatin (1 1/2 teaspoon)

Method

• In a small bowl pour cold milk and sprinkle the gelatin powder and keep it aside. (Do not stir the gelatin but make sure it is soaked well).
• In a saucepan with medium heat, add heavy cream and sugar. Bring to full boil, when the cream is about to rise to the top of pan, switch off the heat.
• Pour the softened gelatin and vanilla extract to the cream mixture. 
• Do not boil the cream mixture after adding gelatin and vanilla.
• Strain your cream mixture with a filter.
• Pour the cream mixture in 5-6 ramekin dishes or any glass cup.
• Cool the ramekins uncovered at room temperature. When cool, cover with plastic wraps and refrigerate for at least  4 hrs but overnight refrigeration is preferred.

Note

• If you do not have ramekins, absolutely no probs you can pour in any glass bowl.
• Adding more taste to it, you can add caramel syrup or any fruit syrup of your choice.