Seasoning With Kalpana's Kitchen

Recipe of Hummus Ingredients 1. Chick peas(Chhola or Kabuli Chana)1.5 Cup Soaked for 8 hours 2. White Sesame Seeds-2 tbsp 3. Olive oil as required 4. Garlic cloves- 5 nos. 5. Lemon juice - 1 tbsp 6. Cumin seed Powder -  1 tsp 7. Salt to taste Method   Step 1: Boil the soaked chick peas with  water in pressure cooker till 6-7 whistles. Step 2: Put a pan on the stove and dry roastthe white sesame seeds on low flame  for 30 seconds. Step 3: Take a grinding jar and grind the roasted sesame seeds with 1 tbsp olive oil in a fine paste. Step 4: Now take out the boiled chick peas from pressure cooker and transfer it to grinding jar. In that jar ,also add garlic cloves, lemon juice,sesame seed paste( of step 3), cumin seed Powder,salt and 1 tbsp olive oil and grind all these  to a thick fine paste by adding  water stock of chick peas time to time in small quantity . ...

Recipe of Falafel Ingredients 1. Chick peas -1.5 cup ( soaked for 8 hours) 2. Onion -1 big 3. Coriander leaves- handful 4. Lemon juice - 1tbsp 5. Garlic cloves-   7 nos. 6. White sesame seeds - 1 tbsp Ground spices   1. Coriander Powder - 1 tsp 2. Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp 3. Salt to taste 4. Red chilli powder - 1/4 tsp 5. Black pepper powder- 1/4 tsp Method   Step 1: Take a grinder jar and put all the ingredients and ground spices. Grind them to a fine paste without using water. Step 2: Take out the ground paste in a separate bowl. Step 3: Now add 2 tbsp gram flour and 1/4 tsp cooking soda and mix them well. Step 4: Now turn the stove on and keep a pan on it. Add cooking oil for frying and let it heat. Step 5: In the meantime make balls of the ground paste. Step 6: Now fry these balls on low medium flame till it turns brown. ...