this thread is for everyone who loves to cook. come and share your recipes, or even popular recipes for that matter. i am posting one of my favorites:

                                           Raj Doi

Ingredients: Sweet yogurt – 250gm, Watermelon – 1 (small),Orange – 1, saffron for garnishing, Cream for garnishing.

Method: Refrigerate yogurt.Scoop out the center of watermelon and keep the rest upward down in refrigerator.Peel off the oranges. Mix well yogurt, keora water and keora essence. Spread the mixture into the bowl made of watermelon.Decorate with oranges and scooped watermelons, saffron and cream before serving.

Quick pickled onions:-
Slice an onion into rings, put rings into a dish, sprinkle with sugar, cover with boiling water and leave for 1/2 hour.
Empty water from dish, cover rings with any sort of vinegar, leave for 1/2 hour then - eat!
These don't keep well so only make enough for 1 meal.

Italian Style Rice

Ingredients:

>Long Grain Rice - 1 and a half cup
>Green Peas - 2 cups
>Parsely (minced) - 1 cup
>Cheese (grated) - half cup
>Saffron (dissolved in 1tsp. warm milk) - few strands
>pepper- to taste
>salt - to taste
>milk - half cup

Method:

1. Put rice together with peas and parsely in a pan
2. put in salt and cover with 2 and a half cups of water and half a cup of milk.
3. bring to boil, reduce heat and cook till the rice is tender and dry
4. mix in cheese and saffron mixture
5. serve topped with tomato or any other  sauce of your choice.

Fruit Salad and Cheese


Cut up fresh fruits (your choices). Grate up some low-fat cheese--or cut it in small cubes, throw in some chopped walnuts or other nuts, and enjoy a tasty, nutritious breakfast.

Ingredients:

>grated coconut - 1 cup
>bread crumbs - 1 cup
>beaten eggs - 2
>hot milk - 4 cups
>sugar - 1 cup
>vanilla essence - half tsp.
>salt - pinchful

Method:

1. Soak the bread crumbs and coconut in the hot milk for about 1 and a half hours.

2. mix in all other things in moderately hot oven till well cooked. serve hot.