Easter Special Recipes

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Easter Dream Bar Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1-cup margarine
* 1-cup brown sugar
* 1 egg
* 2-cup flour
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* 12 ounce chocolate morsels
* 1 cup nuts, chopped

Method:

* Take a bowl and put margarine, brown sugar and egg in it. Now mix well.
* Add on 2 cups of flour and 1 teaspoon Vanilla to it.
* Stir until everything gets properly mixed.
* Spread the mixture on to the greased cookie sheet.
* The next step consists of baking at a temperature of 350 ° F for about 15-20 minutes. Keep baking till the color turns light brown.
* Take 12 ounce chocolate morsels and melt them.
* Do the topping with these melted chocolate morsels on the baked mixture.
* Spread chocolate nuts on it. Seeking the help of spatula, insert these nuts deep into the chocolate.
* Let the baked nutty mixture cool down and later on, cut bars out of it. And the yummy cookies are ready to be served.

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Apricot Squares Cookie Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1/2 cup (c) shortening
* 1/2 c sugar
* 1 ea Egg, well beaten
* 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
* 1 1/2 c flour
* 1 1/2 ts baking powder
* 1/2 ts salt
* 1/2 ts cinnamon
* 1 pn cloves
* 2 tablespoon milk
* 3/4 c apricot preserves

Method:

* Take about 1/2 cup shortening and cream it.
* Add on sugar to it and continue creaming till it becomes fluffy.
* Add eggs and lemon juice and beat them well.
* Take a bowl and put all the dry ingredients in it for sifting with milk.
* Take a well-greased pan and spread the batter prepared but only half the quantity.
* Add on apricot preserves to it for covering purpose.
* Put the remaining half batter into it.
* Bake the batter for nearly half an hour at a temperature of 400 degrees.
* When the color of the mixture has turned golden, take it out from the oven for cooling it. Once the batter has cooled down, cut them in the shape of squares.

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Apple Easter Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
* 1 (18 ounce) box spice cake mix
* 1 small box instant butterscotch or vanilla pudding and pie filling
* 4 eggs
* 1/2 cup vegetable oil
* 1/2 cup cold water
* 3 apples, peeled, cored and coarsely chopped
* 1 cup golden raisins

Method:

* Sprinkle walnuts in bottom of greased and floured 10-inch tube pan or 12-cup fluted tube pan; set aside.
* Mix cake mix, pudding mix, eggs, oil and water in large bowl with mixer at medium speed for 3 minutes or until well blended. Stir in apples and raisins if desired. Pour batter into prepared pan.
* Bake at 325 degrees F for 55 to 65 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan for 15 minutes; invert onto rack and cool completely. Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar before serving.

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Baked Smoked Ham Recipe

Ingredients:

* 1 large smoked ham, about 12 to 18 pounds
* Whole cloves
* 3 cups pineapple juice
* 1 pound dark brown sugar
* One 16-ounce bottle dark corn syrup

Method:

* Preheat the oven to 325° F.
* Take a shallow roasting pan and place the ham on it.
* Score the fat and cover it with cloves.
* Take the pineapple juice and pour it over the ham.
* Bake the ham for 12 minutes per pound.
* Remove the baked ham from the oven after 1 1/2 hours.
* Sprinkle brown sugar on the baked ham.
* Without touching the brown sugar, pour the corn syrup over the ham.
* Continue baking the ham but don't forget to moisten it every 15 minutes.
* Once the baking part is over, remove the ham from the oven and let it cool. But moistening with water has to be done at frequent intervals, till the ham gets completely cool. And the yummy dish is ready to be served.

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Angel Food Cake Recipe


Ingredients:

* 1 1/2 c- sugar
* 1 c- flour
* 1 ts -cream of tartar
* 1/8 ts- salt
* 11 ea- egg whites
* 1 ts- vanilla

Method:

* Sieve collectively the sugar, flour, cream of tartar, and salt 4 times.
* Beat the egg whites until it becomes dry. Fold the dry constituents into eggs.
* Now add vanilla.
* Bake the matter at 250 degrees F. for about 1 hour.
* Dust with crushed sugar or frost top and sides with desired frosting.

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Pork vindaloo



Ingredients:
1 kg Pork
5 small Potato (Aloo)
2-3 Cloves (Lavang)
4-5 Black Pepper corns (Kalimirchi)
2-3 Green Cardamoms (Elaichi)
3 Green chilli (Hari mirch)
1 tsp Sugar (Cheeni)
2 large Onion (Pyaj)
4 tblsp Vinegar (Sirka)
1 small stick Cinnamon (Tuj/Dalchini)
1/2 tsp Cumin Seed (Jeera)
1 tsp Coriander Seeds (Dhania)
1 tsp Turmeric Powder (Haldi Powder)
3 Garlic (Lasun) Cloves
1/4 tsp Ginger (Adrak) Juliennes
6 Red chilli (Lal Mirchi)
Salt (Namak)
Oil

How to make pork vindaloo:

* Make a fine paste of the ginger, garlic, red chillies, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and the cinnamon with malt vinegar.
* Heat little oil in a pressure cooker and fry the potatoes (halved) till they are evenly brown in colour.
* Remove and keep aside.
* Fry sliced onions, cloves, peppercorns, cardamoms and green chillies till the onions are transparent.
* Add the ground paste and saute till oil leaves the sides of the pan.
* Add the pork and pressure cook till almost done.
* Remove the lid, add the potatoes and 2-3 cups of water.
* Simmer for 10-12 minutes.
* Add vinegar and simmer for another 5-6 minutes.
* Garnish with coriander.
* Serve with steamed rice or bread.


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Beef Fry



Ingredients
Beef - 1/2 kg
Onion sliced- 1 large
Shallots - 15-20
Ginger thinly sliced- 3-4 tsp
Garlic sliced- 3-4 tsp
Ginger garlic paste- 2 tsp
Green chilly slit- 5-6
Tomato chopped- 1
Turmeric- 1/2 tsp
Pepper powder- 1 tsp
Chilly powder 1/2 (optional)
Garam Masala- 1 tsp
Fennel powder- 1/2 tsp
Coconut slices- 1/2 cup
Grated coconut- 1 tsp
Vinegar- 2 tsp
Cloves-2
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves
Coconut oil- 3 tsp
salt to taste

Method
Cut beef into small cubes and marinate with turmeric powder, pepper powder, ginger garlic paste,vinegar garam masala and salt for half an hour. In a pressure cooker add the marinated meat, crushed shallots, green chilly, coconut pieces and chopped tomatoes and half cup of water and cook till the meat is done ( Three whistles - if the water still remains open and cook till all the water evaporates).
Heat coconut oil in a pan and add two cloves, one tsp of grated coconut and curry leaves and fry till the coconut becomes golden brown. Add sliced ginger, garlic and onions and fry till golden brown. Now add the cooked meat and fry in medium heat for 8-10 minutes until it is dried up. Add fennel powder( you can add a pinch of pepper powder and garam masala if you like for extra flavor) and garnish with coriander leaves. Serve warm.