Chole

1. Boil overnight soaked chickpeas
2. Chop onions into very small sizes.
3. Make paste of garlic, green chillies, ginger and tomato.
4. Heat the pan, pour some oil and heat it. Add Tej Patta, hing and the chopped onions.
5. Once the onions become brown, add the paste of tomato.
6. Add salt, haldi, dhania, mirch and garam masala. Stir it well.
7. Lower the flame and leave it for 6-7 minutes.
8. Add Chole and mix well.
9. Add half glass of water. Let it become thick.
10. Garnish with dhaniya patta.
11. Serve hot with rice or roti.

Paneer

1. Paneer , Capsicum, Tomato, Onion - Cut all in square big pieces
2. Take some oil, add choppes garlic, put all veggies above and saute.
3. Add salt, red chilli powder, Garam Masala, Chat Masala and Ketchup
4. Your Paneer is ready

Something I never cared about until now!

All highness, FITNESS 

1. Treat your body as the most prized possession. Nourish it! Protect it! Do not over-abuse the gift we have got to travel throughout our life.

2. Eat clean. Food is like fuel. Would you put bad fuel in your car if you know it degrades the performance and harms the engine? I try to avoid as much junk as I can except deserts! I really really have soft corners for them.

3. Exercise daily for 30 minutes. Be it walking, running, yoga, jog whatever suits you. I have started walking daily. Soon I am gonna start morning jogging and slowly try yoga. It takes a lot to come out of the comfort zone and not procrastinate.

Fitness is a lifestyle and addictive once you begin. You would never go back as it feels so good to be the best of yourself. 

Books to read on my list!

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Effective Java

Domain Driven Design

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Aloo Paratha

Ingredients: Potato, green chillies, onion, salt, mirchi powder, dhaniya powder, cumin powder, coriander leaves.

1. Boil potatoes and mash it.
2. Add finely chopped onion, chopped green chillies, salt, mirchi powder, little dhaniya powder, cumin powder, coriander leaves and mash it well with the potatoes.
3. Now stuff the above masala in the flour dough and make round parathas.
4. Make it with oil and not ghee, so that it is not very heavy.

Raita - Add chopped onion to the blended curd, salt and cumin powder. 

Palak Paneer

Ingredients: Palak, paneer, tomato, garam masala, ghee, salt, mirchi powder

Steps:
1. Boil cleaned Palak for few minutes in an open container or in cooker just for less than 5 minutes.
2. Grind the boiled Palak without adding any water to it.
3. Grate tomato.
4. Boil diced paneer ( or put it in very hot water)
5. Heat ghee in a pan, add grated tomato.
6. Add all the masala except haldi. Add garam masala and then stir.
7. Add grinded Palak and paneer.
8. Let it be there for 2-3 minutes and tada! Yummilicious Palak Paneer is ready.

Trying my hands on something which I never did, until now! Yes, its cooking!!

After getting married to the best person in the world ;) I thought this would be the right time to learn cooking because if I don't learn now, it would be never.! After getting married, my focus was to give my dear hubby lunch and some good dinner. I must say he has a lot of patience as he gulped down the weird food without ever complaining and always telling me that the food was good. I cannot still think of days when I had just started cooking and how I used to make some food which is everything but tasty.

With time, I feel my cooking has improved a lot and I can make good food. So my next few posts would be on my favorite quick recipes which I want to note it down so that I can teach some newbie like I was.! :)