Mushroom Butter Masala

Mushroom Butter Masala is a delicious dish made from mushrooms, onions, tomatoes, milk, cream and Indian spices.

This is a semi-dry gravy recipe using mushrooms. It’s an easy no-grind mushroom masala recipe. You can easily make this recipe in 30 minutes or less. I love simple gravy recipes where I don’t have to grind anything. There are various variations to make this recipe. You can make this recipe as a fry, gravy, snack or as a filling.

Mushroom Butter Masala recipe is a great accompaniment to any Indian lunch spread. I'm a mushroom lover and have tried this recipe lot of times. It can be mostly eaten with chapatis, naan or with rice. It's a great comfort food and is simplest of them all. I just love the color and the taste. The cream adds the extra flavor. It's a must try recipe, if you are a mushroom lover!! 

 

How To Make Mushroom Butter Masala

 

You don’t need lot of veggies and spices to make mushroom masala recipe. You can totally experiment with it. The main ingredient of this recipe is mushroom itself. Other than that there are 2 main ingredients of this recipe are are milk and cream. And to make this vegan you can also substitute them with vegan milk, vegan cream and vegan butter.

Heat butter in a pan. Add garlic, ginger, chopped onions and green chili and sauté until translucent. Add chopped tomatoes in a pan to form a smooth paste. Next, add the mushrooms and sauté until it develops some color. Add all the spices like salt, red chili powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, garam masala to the cooked mushroom masala. Cover it with a lid. This might take about 4 to 5 minutes. Add milk, and bring to a boil. Add full-fat cream mix well, and cook for one minute or until you get the desired consistency. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

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Mushroom Butter Masala | Mushroom Makhani

Serves : 3-4 People

Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cooking Time : 30 minutes

Author : The Food Root

Ingredients 

2 tablespoons Butter

2 cups Mushrooms, chopped
4 Garlic cloves, chopped

2 Green chilis chopped

1-inch piece ginger, grated

2 Onions, chopped

3 medium sized Tomatoes, chopped or grind

1/2 teaspoon Red chili powder

1/2 teaspoon Turmeric powder

1/4 teaspoon Garam masala powder

3/4 teaspoon Coriander powder 

Salt, to taste

1/4 cup Milk

2 tablespoons full-fat Cream

Coriander leaves, for garnish

Preparation 

1. Heat butter in a non-stick pan.

2. Add garlic and ginger and sauté for about 2 minutes.

3. Add chopped onions and green chili and sauté until translucent or for about 3-4 minutes.

4. Meanwhile, add the chopped tomatoes in a pan to form a smooth paste.

5. Next, add the mushrooms and sauté until it develops some color.

6. Add all the spices like salt, red chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder to the cooked mushroom masala. Cover it with a lid. This might take about 4 to 5 minutes.

7. Add milk, and bring to a boil. This will take another 2-3 minutes.

8. Add full-fat cream, and garam masala, mix well, and cook for one minute or until you get the desired consistency.

9. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve Mushroom Butter Masala hot with rice or chapatis.

Notes:

1. You can also substitute non dairy milk, non vegan butter, non dairy cream with the vegan options. There are various options available in the market.

2. If you want to skip onions and garlic from the recipe, you definitely can.

 

Kheer or Rice Pudding prepared with the goodness of rice, milk, sugar, and garnish with crushed cardamom, dry fruits and nuts like pistachios, cashews and raisins.

Rice Kheer is easy to make, and is a one pan method. My family loves this recipe specially my brother. You can serve it both warm and and chilled and keep the leftover rice kheer in the refrigerator.

Kheer is generally made on the Sharad Purnima which is a harvest festival celebrated on the full moon day, marking the end of the monsoon season. It is considered to be the birthday of Goddess Laxmi. This year Sharad Purnima is falling on 30 October 2020.

As per ritual, kheer is left overnight in the moonlight and believe that the rays of the moon on Sharad Purnima has special healing properties. The next day it is consumed and distributed as prasad.

Kheer or Rice pudding is a popular dessert across the country as it is quick and easy to make. It can also be prepared on the holidays or special occasions like Diwali which is coming after a week or two.

Here is an easy recipe which you can give it a try. Write down in the comments below what you think about this recipe.

Kheer or Rice Pudding

Serves : 6 People

Preparation Time : 15 minutes
Cooking Time : 1 hour

Author : The Food Root

Ingredients

1 litre full fat milk

1/4 cup basmati rice
1/2 cup of sugar

Garnish it with crushed cardamom or your favorite choice of dry fruits or nuts like pistachios, cashews and raisins

Method

1. Rinse basmati rice with water to remove excessive starch.

2. Then soak the basmati rice for at least 15-20 minutes.

3. Take a deep pan and boil the milk on low flame.

4. Add rice and boil the milk and rice on low flame. 

5. You can add 1 cup of water, this step is totally optional.

6. Now keep stirring the rice, milk and water (in case if you added) so that the milk does not stick to the bottom of the pan.

7. Continue to cook on the stove, and keep stirring it on low flame. 

8. Now when you realise that the kheer is almost 80% cooked, add sugar.

9. Keep stirring sugar for next 10 minutes or till it turns light brown.

10. Turn off the flame, and add cardamoms and your favourite nuts by slicing them.

11. You can also garnish the rice kheer by these dry fruits.

12. Serve it both warm or chilled and keep the leftover rice kheer in the refrigerator.

Notes :

1. Use basmati rice (or kheer wale chawal) as they are the best to make Kheer or Rice Pudding.

2. Use condensed milk in the kheer as it helps in making your kheer more sweet.

3. You can also add brown sugar instead of white if you want.

4. Adding 1 cup of water while boiling rice and milk together, is totally optional. (This trick of adding water helps as the mixture of rice pudding begins to thickens a lot.)

5. You can also garnish it with saffron strands.

6. In case you like cardamoms or dry fruits, you can slice them and add them in the kheer.

7. You can serve the kheer both warm or chilled and keep the leftover rice kheer in the refrigerator.

Rasmalai Recipe - How To Make Rasmalai Recipe - Diwali Dessert Recipe

Rasmalai is a classic rich dessert, consists of the delicate flattened cheese balls cooked in a sugar syrup and dipped in flavoured thickened milk (rabri).

Diwali is in full swing! Around this time of the year, everyone is in festive mood and so are we! Festivals like these are time to connect, share moments, make memories, with your loved ones and are based around eating. And, eating with friends and family are indeed the moments we want to cherish every time. The Food Root, wishes everyone a wonderful diwali filled with with love, laughter, and good-food.

Diwali festivities calls for home decor, shopping and lots of sweets. Today, I have an easy and delicious dessert to share with you which can be prepared in an hour. So, lighten up your homes with diyas and flowers and make one of the delicious festive dessert recipe - Rasmalai.

Rasmalai is both creamy and comforting, exactly what i’m craving now. It has a nutty flavour and have a beautiful colour. Rasmalai is soft, smooth and spongy and melt in mouth completely. My kitchen smells like a heavenly bliss when i made this and i’m already looking forward to making it again.

Rasmalai is an easy homemade recipe. It's bit time-consuming since they are so many parts but if you make strain paneer (chenna) and flavored thickened milk (rabri) together, you'll be able to pace yourself.

Choose your Rasmalai ingredients to make this delicious recipe. Ingredients like milk, cornflour, lime-juice, sugar, and nuts are needed to make this yummilicious dessert. You need to prepare strain paneer (chenna) and sugar syrup and dip rasmalai balls in the sugar syrup. After squeezing the balls you need to make the flavored thickened milk (rabri) and add the balls into it and serve it with saffron strands and crushed cardamoms on top of it. This dessert takes about 6 hours to freeze or preferably overnight.

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Rasmalai Recipe : How To Make Rasmalai Recipe (Diwali Dessert Recipe)

Serves : 6 People
Refrigeration time : 5-6 hours
Cooking time : 1 hour
Author: The Food Root
Rasmalai Calories : 188 (1 piece)

INGREDIENTS

For strain paneer/cheese (chenna)

4 cups cow’s milk
2 tablespoon lime juice or vinegar
2 tablespoon cornflour
1/2 cup water

For Sugar Syrup

4 cups water
1 cup sugar

For the Rabri (Flavored Thickened Milk)

4 cups milk
1/4 cup sugar
few strands of saffron
5-6 crushed pistachios
5-6 crushed cardamoms

METHOD

For strain paneer/cheese (chenna)

1. Pour 4 cups of cow’s milk in a saucepan and bring it to boil over medium heat. Switch off the flame and add 1/2 cup of water, so that the milk cool down to the room temperature.

2. After 5 minutes, add lime juice and stir the milk slowly till it’s completely curdled. Using a strainer get rid of excess water and collect the paneer/cheese (chenna) in the muslin cloth. Keep it aside for 20 minutes.

3. Start kneading the strain paneer/cheese (chenna) to get a smooth dough for 8-10 minutes or until it starts leaving oil.

4. Add cornflour in the chenna so that it soak extra moisture and let it rest for 10 more minutes.

5. Gently flatten the chenna to get 10-12 smooth balls and keep it aside.

Sugar Syrup

1. For the sugar syrup, combine 4 cups of water and 1 cup of sugar, in a pan, and let it to boil until the sugar dissolves, about 4 minutes.

2. Dip the rasmalai balls into the prepared syrup and and let it boil for 12-15 minutes and turn off the flame and you will see that balls have got spongy, fluffy and double in size. Now, let it cool down to room temperature for some time.

3. Squeeze the dumpling balls to remove extra sugar syrup and transfer it into the flavoured thickened milk (rabri).

Rabri (Flavoured Thickened Milk)

1. Heat 4 cups of milk in another pan and bring it to boil. Once it comes to boil, lower down.

2. After, 15 minutes when the milk slowly starts to thicken, add 1/4 cup of sugar, soaked saffron, crushed pistachios and cardamoms, and, continue stirring over medium heat. Turn off the flame and let it cool down.

3. After 10 minutes, transfer the balls into the flavoured thickened milk (rabri) and freeze well or refrigerate for 5-6 hours.

4. Pour them into serving bowls and top it up with saffron strands and crushed cardamoms.

NOTES

1. Keep extra lime ready with you, in case the milk doesn't curdle.

2. You can curdle the milk with both lemon and vinegar.

3. If possible, use cow’s milk to make rasmalai balls as it will softer their texture.

CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP

There is nothing more comforting than digging into a bowl of cream of mushroom soup.

This warming, cream of mushroom soup is a pure comfort in a bowl. This is a simple, healthy soup to keep you and your family warm. It's a rich, flavorful soup, filled with cream, mushrooms, milk and organic seasonings. It's good as a side dish or as a meal on its own. I'm sure you'll never go back to canned soup once you've made this recipe. It's super simple and super delicious. You can make this at any time of the day.

I'm a big fan of soups. Whenever I dine out, I always order soup but I rarely make them at home. Yesterday, I got a packet of fresh button mushrooms from the market and thought of making it. I was skeptical at first but this soup turned out wonderfully!! It's a great appetizer and it'll surely win your heart. This silky, creamy mushroom soup is perfect for a lunch or a dinner party starter. It can help by filling you up without too many calories.

This soup is creamy and full of rich flavors and textures. I love the combination of mushrooms and cream here. It took me less than 30 minutes to make this recipe. You can grind the mushrooms in any type of blender. Frankly, I don't use my blender often but it's a very convenient way to make rich, creamy and velvety soups. You can substitute cream by adding more milk in the soup. It depends on your taste. Treat yourself to this hearty and warming cream of mushroom soup.

You can go through these step by step methods!

1. Clean 200 grams of button mushrooms with the damp paper towel and finely slice them. Keep them aside.

2. Heat 3 tablespoons of butter in a large saucepan, add 1/2 inch of grated ginger, 4 cloves of chopped garlic and sauté it for 40-50 seconds until they turn golden brown.

3. Next, add a chopped onion in the pan and saute it for 3-4 minutes.

4. Add sliced mushrooms in the pan. Sauté it for 2-3 minutes. Loosely cover the pan for 4-5 minutes. Stir occasionally. Turn off the flame.

5. Leave 4 tablespoon of mushrooms in the pan and grind the remaining cooked mushroom by adding 1.5 cups of milk in a blender. Whizz everything until smooth. Once you have grind the mushrooms, transfer it to the pan and reheat it.

6. Next, add 2 cups of water and 1/2 cup of cream, and bring it to boil. Season it with 1 tsp of salt, 1/2 tsp of black pepper and/or 1/2 tsp of oregano. Stir it well. SERVE PIPING HOT!!

CREAM OF MUSHROOM SOUP

Preparation time : 10 minutes

Cooking time : 20 minutes
Serves : 4-5 people
Author : The Food Root

INGREDIENTS
1 packet or 200 grams - Button mushroom, sliced
1/2 cup - Cream
3 tablespoon - Butter
1/2 inch - Ginger, peeled, grated
4 cloves - Garlic, finely chopped
1 medium chopped onion
2 cups of water
1.5 cup - Milk
1 teaspoon - Salt
1/2 teaspoon - Black Pepper
1/2 teaspoon - Oregano

METHOD
1. Clean 200 grams of button mushrooms with the damp paper towel and finely slice them. Keep them aside.

2. Heat 3 tablespoons of butter in a large saucepan, add 1/2 inch of grated ginger, 4 cloves  of chopped garlic, and cook it for 40-50 seconds until they turn golden brown.

3. Next, add the chopped onion in the pan and sauté it for 3-4 minutes.

4. Add sliced mushrooms in the pan. Sauté it for 2-3 minutes. Loosely cover the pan for 4-5 minutes. Stir occasionally. Turn off the flame.

5. Leave 4 tablespoon of mushrooms in the pan and grind the remaining cooked mushroom by adding 1.5 cups of milk in a blender. Whizz everything until smooth.

6. Once you have grind the mushrooms, transfer it to the pan and reheat it.

7. Next, add 2 cups of water and 1/2 cup of cream, and bring it to boil.

8. Season it with 1 tablespoon of salt, 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper and/or 1/2 teaspoon of oregano. Stir it well. SERVE PIPING HOT!!

NOTES
1. I used button Mushrooms, you can use any other variety of mushrooms

2. Use milk and cream at the room temperature.

3. You can grind your mushrooms with any type of blender you have.

4. You can also add vegetable stock in the soup instead of water and/or milk.

5. You can substitute cream by adding more milk in the soup.

6. You can also add 2 tablespoon of flour in the soup.