The Indian Food is a blend of huge number of spices and herbs. Its well known to be world’s most finest cuisine.

Indian Kitchen varies from region to region or rather home to home. Indians are known to be big foodies.Their tastebud likes all variety from vegetarian to nonvegetarian food. The best food for us is from mother's kitchen.

Presenting you straight from home, easy and heartloving food recipes.

Gajar Halwa

Ingredients
1. 1 kg Carrots
2. 1 litre Milk
3. 1 teaspoon Cardamom seeds
4. 3/4 cup Water
5. 3 tablespoons Ghee
6. 2 tablespoons Raisins
7. 2 tablespoons Almonds
8. 2 tablespoons Pistachios
9. 450 grams Sugar

Steps
1. Wash carrots throughly and grate the carrots.
2. Soak the raisins in water for 30 minutes.
3. Blanch and shred the nuts.
4. Starts boiling water and add grated carrots.
5. Cook for some times around 10 minutes.
6. Add milk
7. Cook on slow flame and stirring occasionally.
8. Add sugar, mix well and cook till the sugar has dissolved and all the milk has been absorbed.
9. Add ghee and simmer for 5 minutes.
10. Add chunks of crushed cardamoms and raisins.
11. Now serve and hot or let it be cool down to serve in dish.
12. Garnish almonds and pistachio
13. Serve cold, hot or at room temperature.

Chocolate cake

Chocolate cake is a dessert cake served at different occasions like birthday, parties, weddings and many mores that contains chocolate.
1. Sieve the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder and salt
2. Dissolve the soda in milk
3. In a vessel cream the butter and sugar till light and fluffy. In another vessel beat the eggs well.
4. Then add the eggs to the creamed butter mixture. Beat a little more.
5. Add essence. Fold in the sieved flour. Add milk to make a soft consistency.
Put in greased and lined tin and bake at 200 o C/ 400 o F for 20-25 minutes or till done

OAT & Raisin Cookies

Ingredients
1. Butter 4 tablespoon
2. Sugar(Castor) 1/2 cup
3. Egg(beaten) 1
4. Flour 1/2 cup
5. Salt 1/2 teaspoon
6. Baking Powder 1/2 teaspoon
7. Oats 2 cups
8. Raisins 3/4 cup
9. Sesame seeds 2 tablespoon

Steps
1. Lightly grease 2 cookie sheets.
2. In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
3..Add beaten egg and combine with above mixture.
4. Add flour, salt and baking powder into mixture.
5. Add oats, raisins and sesame seds to the mixture and mix.
6. Place spoonfuls of the mixture well apart(to allow spreading during baking) on the prepared cookie sheets and flatten them slightly with back of spoon.
7. Bake cookies in a preheated oven at 180C for 15 minutes.
8. Let cookies cool slightly on the cookie sheets.
9. Tranfer to wire rack and cool completely before serving.
10. Make 10 cookies.

Bengali Sandesh

Ingredients
1. 1 1/2(3 lb) litres whole milk
2. juice of one lemon
3. 3/4 cup water
4. 4-6 tablespoon sugar
5. chopped nuts or silver foil for decoration
6. 2 small green elachi powdered

Steps
1. Boil the milk
2. When starts to boil add the water and the lemon juice
3. when milk curdles take off fire
4. strain the paneer and wash it underrunning water
5. let all water starin out
6. In a non stick pan put paneer and sugar
7. cook on slow fire for about 5 mins
8. check that mixture does not stick to spoon
9. add the elachi powder
10. make small round decorate with nuts and silver foils in
11. server cool as desert.

Corn Fritters

Ingredients
1. 2 Eggs
2. 1 cup milk
3. 1 teaspoon baking powder
4. 2 cups flour
5. 1 teaspoon salt
6. 1 teaspoon sugar
7. 1/4 teaspoon sugar
8. 200 gms sweet corn kernels
9. oil for deep frying

Steps
1. Mix all the ingredients
2. heat oil in pan.
3. drop from spoon into hot oil.
4. fry till golden
5. serve with hot and sweet sauce.

Curd Chicken

Ingredients
1. 800 gms chicken
2. 1 whole garlic crushed to paste
3. 3 teaspoon kashmiri red chilli powder
4. 300 gms curd
5. 4 large onions finely sliced
6. 1 cup cooking medium
7. salt and sugar as per taste

Steps
1. First season the chicken with salt, garlic paste and curd
2. Keep aside for 1/2 hour heat oil in pan and deep fry sliced onion till golden brown3.
3. In the oil add the sugar, let it change colur.
4. Now add the chilli powder
5. Stir well and cook for sometime.
6. Add half the fried onions.
7. Cook on medium heat till well cooked.
8. Serve garnished with the golden fried onions.
9. Tastes best with hot bread.