Guacamole | Avacado Dip | Butter Fruit Dip

Guacamole | Avacado Dip | Butter Fruit Dip is a famous Mexican dip made using ripe avocados  commonly taken with tortillas. Now it has spread to all regions. In India, avocados are commonly used for making milk shakes and smoothies.  We can find these in the menu card of many restaurants over here.

Avocados are healthy fruits since they are rich in folate, potassium, mono saturated fats, phytonutrients, anti-oxidants and many other essential vitamins and minerals. These components help to prevent heart disease, cancer and to regulate blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar levels, etc.

Guacamole | Avacado Dip | Butter Fruit Dip is a famous Mexican dip made using ripe avocados  commonly taken with tortillas. Now it has spread to all regions. In India, avocados are commonly used for making milk shakes and smoothies.  We can find these in the menu card of many restaurants over here.

Avocados are healthy fruits since they are rich in folate, potassium, mono saturated fats, phytonutrients, anti-oxidants and many other essential vitamins and minerals. These components help to prevent heart disease, cancer and to regulate blood pressure, cholesterol and sugar levels, etc.

Ingredients:

• Avacado – 1 No.
• Onion (finely chopped) – 2 tbsp
• Green chilli (finely chopped) – 1 tsp
• Cilantro | Coriander Leaves (finely chopped) – 2 tbsp
• Pepper powder – ½ tsp
• Lime juice – 1 tbsp
• Olive oil – 1 tbsp
• Tomato (chopped) – 1 tbsp
• Salt to taste

Method:

1. Cut the ripe avocado into two, remove the seed. Scoop out the pulp using a metal spoon from the peel.
2. Mash the pulp coarsely with the spoon and transfer it to a mixing bowl.
3. Add all the above ingredients except tomato to the pulp and mix everything well.
4. Tomato can be added at the time of serving.

Healthy Guacamole is ready for serving. You can serve it as a dip for any crunchy snacks or as a spread for any bread. We had this guacamole with toasted wheat bread abd enjoyed every bite of it!

Note:

• Only avocado pulp and salt are the main ingredients for this dip. You can vary the quantity of ingredients listed above or even eliminate some,  as per your taste buds.
• Before preparing guacamole, taste the avocado pulp and proceed. It may deceive you sometimes.

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Apple Pista Halwa/ Apple Halwa

Diwali is nearing and I want to post some of the easy Diwali recipes which will be of use to the working women and beginners. Apple Pista Halwa or Apple Halwa is one of the recipe which can be done without much strain and there are no hard rules to follow. It combines the goodness of apple and pista and hence this is very good for growing children. Those who already have a list of recipes to be done for Diwali, can include this sweet also because it will not take much time.

Above all else, I can proudly say that this Apple Pista Halwa is an innovation of mine for this Diwali. This delicious sweet can be prepared very easily and takes about 20 minutes with minimum ingredients. 

Ingredients:

• Apple (grated) – 1 cup
• Besan flour – ½ cup
• Pista ( coarsely ground) – ¼ cup
• Milk –  ½ cup
• Sugar – 2 cup
• Ghee – 3 tbsp

Method:

1. Peel the skin from the apple and shred it into thick pieces (not too fine) using a large hole on the grater.
2. In a thick bottomed kadai, fry besan flour in a tablespoon of ghee till the raw smell of besan flour goes off.
3. Add apple gratings to this besan flour and fry till the moisture content from the apple dries out.
4. Add milk and sugar and mix everything well.
5. Keep on stirring the mixture till it reaches halwa consistency.  Finally add rest of the ghee and the coarsely ground pista ( reserve some for garnishing). It will take only about 10 minutes.
6. Transfer the contents to the greased plate and allow it to cool. Garnish with pista.
7. Cut into squares of desired size.

Your nutty, soft Apple Pista Halwa is ready to be enjoyed!!

Note:

• Apple used should be crunchy enough so that the apple gratings can be tasted in between.
• Grating should be done in parallel with frying besan so that the colour of the apple does not change.
• I didn’t add any food colour. If you want, you can add some yellow colour.
• This halwa is too soft, if you want to make it in shapes as shown in pic,  you may  have to do it with little patience. If you find it difficult,  you can simply serve it like badam halwa.

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