Homemade All Purpose Cleaner

Ingredients

Vinegar - 1/2 cup
Borax - 2 tbspn
Liquid dish soap or castile soap - 2 tbspn
Orange oil or tea tree oil or eucalyptus oil or lavander oil - 10 drops
Procedure

Dissolve borax in 1/2 a cup of hot water.Pour it in a spray bottle along with other ingredients. Top off with cold water & store it in a dry place.  Essential oil , borax & vinegar acts as disinfectant. Vinegar & soap helps to remove bodily oil & grease.  You can use this cleaner to clean bathtubs, tile & vinyl floors.  Do not use it on marble or granite surface since vinegar will etch the surface. Reduce the amount of vinegar when using on tiles.

Capsicum rice

Ingredients

Rice  - 1 cup
Bengal gram dhal - 3 1/2 tbspn
Black gram dhal  - 2 1/2 tbspn
Coriander seeds  - 2 tbspn
Cumin seeds  - 1/2 tbspn
Green pepper (capsicum) - 3
Onion - 1 nos
Cinnamon  - 1/2 inch
Cashews - 8 nos
Peanuts - 1 tspn
Coconut - 1 tbspn
Red chilli  - 4
Lemon - 1/2
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves for garnishing

Procedure

Dry roast urad dhal, bengal gram dhal, cinnamon, 3 red chillies & cumin seeds. Powder it when it is cool. Cook the rice & spread it in a bigger vessel to cool. The rice shouldn't stick to each other. In a pan add some oil & season it with curry leaves, mustard seeds, peanuts, cashews & 1 red chilli. Saute onions & green pepper along with some turmeric powder. When the pepper gets soft add the grated coconut, salt as per taste & ground powder. Turn off the stove & mix the cooked rice. Squeeze some lemon juice & garnish with coriander leaves.

Mutter paneer masala or Mutter tofu masala

Ingredients

Paneer or Tofu - 1 box
Red onion  - 2
Tomato sauce - 5 tbspn
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tspn
Green chilli - 1
curry powder
Chilli powder
Cashew paste - 2 tbspn
Methi leaves or coriander leaves - for garnishing

Procedure

Dice the onion & chilli finely & tofu or paneer to cubes. Fry the paneer pieces till golden brown. In a kadai heat some oil & add curry leaves, ginger garlic paste, onion & chilli one by one. Saute them for sometime & add the tomato paste, chilli powder & curry powder. Add salt to taste. Let it simmer for sometime & mix the fried paneer pieces & almond paste. Add some water if needed & cook for another 10 minutes. Garnish it with methi leaves or coriander leaves.