Mixed nuts biscotti

Ingredients

1. 
   
   All-purpose flour - 1 cup
2. 
   
   Sugar - 1/4 cup
3. 
   
   Baking powder - 1/2 teaspoon
4. 
   
   Egg - 1
5. 
   
   Mixed nuts - 1/2 cup (I used almonds and raisins)
6. 
   
   salt - 1/4 teaspoon

Method:

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  Beat sugar and egg in a hand blender
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  Mix all the other ingredients except nuts.
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  Now add the dry ingredients to the egg batter in parts and blend to rounded mix
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  Finally add the nuts and just blend it softly along with the batter.
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  Take a baking plate and place the batter by forming a log and bake it for 20 minutes
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  Take the baked log out and allow it to cool
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  Cut the log sidewards and then bake it for 5 min for one side and the same for the other side.
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  Cool it and enjoy the biscotti with good coffee/tea

Jeera Rice - Veg Kuruma

Ingredients

1. 
   
   Basmati rice - 2 cups
2. 
   
   Cumin seeds - 2 tspn
3. 
   
   Bay leaves - 1 or 2
4. 
   
   Cardamom - 2
5. 
   
   Cinnamon stick - 2 small pieces
6. 
   
   Fennel seeds - 1/4 tspn
7. 
   
   Ginger-Garlic paste - as per taste(i used 2 tspn)
8. 
   
   Green chilli - 3
9. 
   
   salt

Method:

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  Wash the rice and fry with little ghee until the water is absorbed. Keep this aside
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  In a pressure cooker, add little ghee and olive oil.
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  When the oil gets heated, add bay leaves, cinnamon, fennel seeds and cumin seeds.
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  Then add the ginger garlic paste and fry until the raw smell goes.
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  Now add the green chillies and then the rice along with the salt.
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  Add water in the ratio (1:2) and then leave until 2 whistles.
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  Rice is ready to serve with mixed vegetable kuruma.

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