MasterChef recipes: Saundhi Meethas

We bring to you a bunch of recipes from the Masterchefs themselves. Make sure you try out this recipe out at home.

Ingredients:
2 cups - Rice
1 litre - Amul Milk
200g - Mawa
100g- Gud (Jaggery)
200ml - Amul Cream
To taste - Sugar
50g - Kaju Paste
2-3 pods - Elaichi Powder (Green Cardamom)
Few strands - Kesar (Saffron)
2 tbsp - Gulabjal (Rosewater)                                                        
Method:
In an earthen pot, boil basmati rice with milk.
When the rice is cooked, one by one add gud, kaju paste, mawa, sugar, Amul cream and elaichi powder.
Stir continuously till all elements are mixed with rice.
Mix few saffron stand in 1 tablespoon of milk and add saffron in rice mix.
Once Kesar flavor is infused, take the pot off the flame and add gulabjal.
Serve lukewarm/cold.

Top 5 world's most expensive ingredients

Money, money, money – is truly funny in a rich man’s world.
Oh to have all the wealth in the world to spend on the most luxurious things – that would be any man’s dream. Where larger parts of the world are riddled by starvation and poverty, here is a list of the most expensive foods in the world.

1. Most Expensive Spice:
This has to be saffron. Although grown worldwide, it is derived from the essence of the saffron crocus flower. A rare celebrity in its own world, about half a kilogram of dry saffron is extracted from 75,000 flowers. That is the area of 5 Olympic level swimming pools. Since it requires so much effort to procure and manufacture, the spice is priced at INR 5500 – INR 55000 per kilogram.

 

2. Macadamia nut:
The Macadamia nut, although utterly humble in looks, truly shocks you when you ask about its price and origins. It is the world’s most expensive nut, and accounts for the delicious chocolates that remain a rage throughout the world. The manufacturing alone is such a time-consuming process that it adds to the overall value and pricing of the nut. A tree can only produce these nuts after a decade of rearing. It requires fertile soil and very heavy rainfall. The wonderful thing about these nuts is the creamy white kernel, which tastes like heaven on a platter, that is, only after you manage to crack open its tough exterior. The kernel is composed of 80 pc oil and 4 pc sugar and its price exceeds INR 1650 per kilogram. 

 

3. Most Expensive Caviar:
It has been the dream of every high-roller to savour the tastes of life with caviar and bubbly in their hands. However, the most expensive caviar in the world doesn’t make this dream any easier. The Beluga Caviar is literally the Godfather of all the caviars available. This luxurious caviar comes from a fish whose ancestry dates back to the Jurassic Period, and has remained the only living survivor of those 120 million years. With such a royal and grand heritage, how can it be cheap? A mere kilogram of Beluga Caviar costs more than INR 2,75,000. Talk about expensive fish eggs! 

 

4. Most Expensive Mushroom:
Just when the world thought that mushrooms can sing happy and colourful songs in cartoon films, does the most expensive mushroom come around to surprise you. The white truffle mushroom grows in the fertile Piedmont Region and lives up to reach 12 centimetres in diameter and nearly 500 grams in weight. Nevertheless, it is the price that takes away the cake – the white truffle mushroom costs a whopper INR 2,79,984 per kilogram.

 

5. Most Expensive Potato:
Who would have thought that something as common as a potato would make this list? La Bonnotte is the world’s most expensive potato. With only 100 tonnes of this potato reared every year, a single kilogram can cost up to INR 34,998. Why? Because these potatoes can only be grown in the presence of a rare seaweed fertilizer in a climate shaped by the sea. This rare climate and seaweed, incidentally, can only be found on the island Noirmoutier in France. Now, wouldn’t you like to roast one of these on a spit?
Knowing such luxurious delicacies out in the world must make you ache with the desire to possess them. But since money only comes to those who seem to work hard, it might take a few lifetimes before you can afford these foods. Till then? Happy dreaming! 

Top 6 drinks to fight ageing

These six drinks fight aging. See what they are and when to down them.

1. Water.

 

2. Coffee.

 

3.  Green Tea.

4. Milk.

 

5. Red Wine.

 

6. Hot cocoa.

How much it cost to design these famous logos

The ‘Swoosh’ cost $35 or Rs 1921. The Nike corporate trademark was created in 1971 by Carolyn Davidson, while she was a graphic design student at Portland State University. But over course of time, Nike made sure the designer was paid handsomely for creating one of the world’s most iconic brands. 

 

The Pepsi logo came at a hefty price tag of $1,000,000 or Rs 5,48,80,000! According to Stock Logos, the new Pepsi logo was designed by the Arnell Group in 2008.
Note that the logo prices include a complete branding package unless otherwise noted.

The ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking) group logo redesigned in 2009 cost the organization $15,000,000 or Rs 82,32,00,000. 

 

The Accenture logo is priced at a whopping $100,000,000 or Rs 5,48,80,00,000. It was designed by Landor Associates in 2000, according to Stock Logos.

 

Coca-Cola logo also didn’t cost a paisa. The famous logo was created by the bookkeeper of the inventor of the beverage.
“The typeface used, known as Spencerian script, was developed in the mid-19th century and was the dominant form of formal handwriting in the United States during that period,” stocklogos.com says.

Now this logo is famous. And it cost nothing to design. According to Stock Logos, the original Google logo was designed in 1998 by Sergey Brin, one of Google's founders.
“Later it has been fine-tuned several times, but the original concept was kept intact.”

The brand was in the News in India just over a decade back: The Enron logo came at a price tag of $33,000 or Rs 18,09,225. 

 

The new BP logo (redesigned in 2008) had a price tag of $211,000,000 or Rs 11,57,96,80,000.

 

This was one of the most controversial logo designs when it was first revealed. The London 2012 Olympics logo was loved by many, slammed by as many and it came at a price tag of $625,000 or Rs 3,42,65,625. The logo was designed by Wolff Ollins in 2007. 

 

One of the world’s most admired brands and recognizable logos, the BBC one redesigned in 1987 cost $1,800,000 or Rs 9,87,84,000. 

 

TWITTER: The original Twitter logo was in use from its launch in March 2006 until September 2010.According to Stock Logos, the price tag was $15 or Rs 823. 

Know all about 'Facebook Home' app for Android

Facebook unveiled its most ambitious attempt yet to enter mobile computing without a phone of its own, introducing a new app that replaces the home screen on some Android smartphones. Here are some facts about the 'Facebook Home' app:

The 'Home' app will be launched first on HTC First phones and from April 12 it will available for download for free from Google Play.

 

With Home, everything on your phone gets friendlier. From the moment you turn it on, you see a steady stream of friends’ posts and photos. In simple words, after installing the 'Home' app, a user will see images from Facebook updates cover the entire screen, while status updates and icons of friends float on top.

 

The app has a feature called 'News Feed', that enables you turn on your phone or press the home button, you see a stream of posts. Cover feed puts the spotlight on whatever friends are sharing now—photos, status updates, links and more.The Home app also has a feature called 'Chat Heads' that allows users to see small icons of friends when they send a Facebook or text message.

The new app lets users comprehensively modify Android, to prominently display their Facebook newsfeed and messages on the home screens of a wide range of devices.

 

The idea behind the software is to bring Facebook content right to the home screen, rather than requiring users to check apps.

 

Notifications about calls, events, updates and other apps appear on your home screen and stick around until you need them.

 

Instead of traditional wallpaper or a lock screen, users with Home installed will see a new Facebook cover feed that displays a rolling ticker-tape of photos, status updates - and eventually, ads - from Facebook's network.

Zuckerberg said features like cover feed will be ad-free initially, but he envisioned advertising as another form of content that will eventually be integrated. Offering Facebook messaging, social networking and photos on the very first screen that Android users see could divert attention from the panoply of services, such as search and email, which generate advertising revue for Google.