Crochet infant dress

Materials required
pink wool
white wool
Crochet needle

Method
Dress:

1. Take the chest circumference and the length of the child
2. Make chains as much as the circumference and join the two ends with slip stitch(ss) and add 2 chain
3. Continue with dc in each chain and form a circle repeat till 10-15 rows to form the chest part of the child.
4. you can make 2 row of different colour  after the initial white wool as I did for the above dress
5. 16th row: chain 2 'skip 2 chain 2 dc,1 chain, 2 dc in the next chain skip 2 chain' repeat till the end. 
6. 17th row: chain 2  2 dc 1 ch 2 dc in the next loop of row 16 continue the same till the next 15 rows or till you get the desired length
7. To end the dress 1chain 7 dc in the next loop ss 7 dc in next loop continue till the end and finish with ss knot it and stitch the wool end into the dress.
8. make 4 long chains and atttach it to the top of the dress parallel to each other to form the strip so that you can adjust and tie it on shoulder.
9. Add a flower tot he dress or keep it plain

Navratna pulav

NAVRATNA PULAV

Ingredients

1. 1 onion sliced
2. 2 cups basmati rice soaked in water for half hour
3. 1 chopped tomato
4. 1 cup mixed vegetables (corn , green peas, carrots, potatoes(cubed), red peeper)
5. 1 cup mixed dry fruits (cashew nut, badam, raisins, pista, walnut)
6. 2 tbsn ginger garlic paste
7. 2 tspn finely chopped green chillies
8. 1tspn cloves
9. 2 cardamons
10. 1 piece cinnamon stick cut into pieces
11. 2 bay leaves
12. 2 tbsn chopped coriander leaves
13. 2 tbspn butter
14. salt to taste

Procedure

1. Add butter in the nonstick utensil/cooker
2. Add cardamons, bay leaves, cloves cinnamon, and dry fruits and fry till the aroma comes of spices
3. Add ginger garlic paste, green chillies and onion and saute til golden brown
4. Add tomatoes and saute till smashes
5. Add the vegetables and fry for 2-3 minutes
6. Add rice and mix well can add a little more butter if required
7. Add 3 cups water and salt and bring to boil and then simmer
8. Add coriander leaves and mix well
9. Wait until rice is cooked .(pressure cooked/plain) off the gas and wait for it to settle for 10 min and then serve with onions or salad or raita

Quick dal fry

Ingredients

1. 1-2 tbspn oil (to fry )
2. 1/2 tspn cumin seeds
3. 1/2 tspn mustard seeds
4. 1/2 tspn chilly powder
5. 1/4 tspn turmeric
6. 1/2 tspn garam masala
7. 2 green chillies slit
8.  2 cloves garlic
9. 1 tspn ginger powder (or finely chopped ginger)
10. 1 onion finely chopped
11. 1 tomato finely chopped
12. coriander leaves
13. 1/4 th cup toor dal(or u can add different dal, moong, urad, chanaetc)
14. water
15. salt

Procedure

1. Pressure cook dal and keep aside
2. Put oil in frying pan, add cumin and mustard wait till splutters,
3. Add garlic green chillies and ginger and cook til brown
4. Add onion cook til pink in colour
5. Add chilly powder, turmeric,and garam masala
6. Add tomatoes cook till tender or mashed
7. Add salt and sugar as per ur taste
8. Now add dal with water and cook till the gravy becomes a little thick in consistency
9. Add coriander leave
10. Serve hot will rice

Veg hakka noodles

Ingredients

1. 1 capsicum (long thin slices)
2. 3 french beans cut diagonally
3. 1 small carrot cut into thin rectangles
4. 1/2 cup  cabbage chopped..
5. 3 medium spring onions sliced or chopped
6. leaves of spring onions finely chopped
7. 2 finely chopped green chillies
8. 2 tbspn ginger garlic paste
9. soya sauce
10. chilly sauce
11. oil
12. salt to taste
13. azinamoto(optional)
14. noodles(take noodles and put in boiling water and remove in 2 min wen its soft
15. and drain water put oil and keep aside)

Procedure

1. Take 2 tablespoon oil in nonstick pan
2. Add ginger garlic paste and green chillies
3. Add onion fry till golden brown or atleast transclucent,  add leaves of spring onion
4. Add capsicum carrots french beans cabbage and fry till tender..(carrots should be cooked)
5. Add chilly sauce
6. Azinamoto if u want or else just a lil salt to taste
7. Add soya sauce
8. Last add noodles and mix well.
9. Garnish with spring onions green and Serve hot

green peas masala

GREEN PEAS MASALA

Ingredients

1. 1 tbspn oil
2. 2 onions (chopped)
3. 1 tomato(finely chopped)
4. 1 pinch cumin seeds
5. 1 bay leaf
6. 3 cloves
7. 2 greeen chillies
8. pepper if needed
9. 1 tspn red chilly powder
10. 1/4 th tspn turmeric powder
11. 1 tbspn garam masala
12. salt as per taste
13. green peas 1 mug full

Procedure

1. Add oil in a nonstick utensil / pan.
2. Add cumin, bay leaf, green chillies wait till cumin splutters...
3. Add onion fry till golden brown
4. Add tomato and fry fro 2-3 min till it mashes
5. Add red chilly powder and turmeric and garam masala(wait for about 1-2 min after mixing , keep on low flame till this procedure)
6. Add green peas and wait for 2 min (mix well)
7. Than add 3/4th mug water or just till it covers all the green peas,
8. Add salt and pepper(optional) (make the flame medium or high and boil till the water evapourates)
9. Garnish with coriander leaves

Gobi manchurian

Ingredients

1. corn flour : maida / 1:2 ratio
2. oil, (for frying the pakodas)
3. cauliflower , placed in salt water & drain
4. 1capsicum short thin slices
5. 1 spring onion finely chopped
6. 2 green chillies(finely chopped)
7. soya sauce
8. chilly sauce (green)
9. tomato sauce
10. spring onion leaves finely chopped
11. 1 tbsp ginger-garlic

Procedure

1. Make a thick paste of corn and maida with 1:2 proportion and add salt n water just to dip the cauliflower and make pakoras.
2. Heat oil, and fry the cauliflower florets dipped in the paste and keep aside this pakoras
3. In a pan add oil, onion ginger garlic paste, Green chillies & fry till golden brown
4. Add spring onion leaves, capsicum ,  and fry till cooked or tender,
5. Now add soya sauce , tomato sauce and green chilly sauce and azinamoto if required and a lil salt
6. Add the pakoras and mix well
7. If want gravy before adding pakoras add a little water and corn flour of about 1 tspn to make it little thick and then add pakoras and mix well
8. Serve hot.

Green peas pulav

Ingredients:

1.  basmati rice                                        (1cup/250gms)soaked for 1 hour in water
2.  fresh green peas                                  (1 cup)
3. onions                                                  (1 medium) sliced
4. ginger garlic paste                                1 tbspn
5. green chillies                                        2 slit/cut
6. bay leaf                                                 1 no.
7. cumin/zeera                                          1/2 tspn
8. clove                                                     4-5
9. cinnamon                                              1 inch stick
10. garam masala (Whole spice powder)   1/2 tspn
11. pepper powder                                      1 tspn
12. oil                                                          2 tbspn

Procedure

1. In a nonstick cooker/ or any vessel add oil, cumin, bay leaf, cloves, green chillies, cinnamon and fry till cumin seeds sputters
2. Add sliced onion and ginger garlic paste and fry till golden brown
3. Add garam masala powder, salt and pepper to taste
4. Add green peas and fry for 2-3 minutes
5. Add rice and mix well keep for a minute
6. Add boiling water 1 and 3/4th of the same cup as u had taken the rice.( add water just till the rice and green peas is covered with water)
7. Allow it to boil on  medium flame till rice is fully done and then simmer for 1 -2 min,and let it settle for 10 min after turning the gas off
8. Serves 2-3 people.

Mixed veg soup

Ingredients

1.  1 tbspn butter
2. 2 cup chopped mix vegetables (carrots, green peas, corn, cauliflower, red pepper)
3. 1 onion finely chopped
4. 1 tbspn ginger garlic paste
5. 1 green chilly finely chopped
6. 1-2 tomato puree
7. 4 cups of water
8. salt and pepper to taste
9. 2 tbspn corn flour.
10. 1/2 tspn garam masala(optional)
11. 2 tsp coriander leaves (dhania patta) (chopped)

Procedure

1. In a pan, Add butter, fry onions till translucent, 
2. Now add ginger garlic paste, green chilly and fry till raw smell goes, 
3. Add tomato puree, saute for 2-3 min
4. Add salt and pepper (garam masala)
5. Add  mixed veggies and mix well
6. Add the water and keep boiling till the veggies are cooked
7. Now add corn flour(mixed well in  1/4th cup room temp water) to thicken the consistancy
8. Once thickened now add coriander leaves and boils for another 1-2 min
9. Serve hot.