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Mutton Paaya / Aatu kaal soup

2024-02-07T05:56:00.000-08:00

Recipe of Mutton Paaya / Aattu kaalu soup / Mutton shorba

A very healthy and delicious soup and more so easy to make.

This soup has much benefits as it is rich in calcium and helps bones especially for people with arthritis or knee/leg pain. It gives you strength and makes your bones stronger. Soup to be given to growing kids too.

Recipe:

Take 4 sheep/goat legs cut into 2 inch pieces and wash multiple times.

In a pressure cooker add the leg pieces, chopped onion, some garlic cloves, pepper powder, jeera powder, salt, turmeric powder, coriander and curry leaves chopped add like 6 cups of water. Pressure cook this for almost 30-45 minutes after the first whistle in low flame. Serve hot and adjust spices according to your taste.

It serves as an appetizer too.

Chilli Chicken - Andhra style

2024-01-24T05:21:00.000-08:00

How to make Andhra Chilli Chicken

Chilli Chicken is a dish that can be served both as a starter or main course.

Chilli chicken recipe

A very simple and easy dish that gets done quickly.

Ingredients:

Chicken (medium sized pieces) 500 gms

Chillies 20-30 (depending on the spice)

Turmeric 1 TSP

Salt as required

White vinegar 1 TSP

Dark Soya sauce 2 tbsp

Oil 2 tbsp

Corn flour 1 tbsp

Water half cup

Method:

Grind 15-20 chillies coarsely in a mixer without water and the rest of chillies slit and keep aside.

Heat a thick bottom pan and add oil.

Fry green chillies paste and the ones which are cut for 2 mins.

Now add the washed chicken, salt, turmeric and fry for 5 mins on high flame.

And then add the vinegar with soya sauce, mix well and cover the lid.

Cook for 6-7 mins on low flame.

And then add water - 4 tbsp and cook until chicken is well cooked. The remainjng 4 tbsp water mix with corn flour to make corn flour slurry.

Once chicken is cooked, add the corn flour slurry and stir well , check for spice and salt and adjust to your taste.

Switch off once the gravy thickens as per consistency needed.

Serve hot as an accompaniment or main course with hot rice.

Obbattu or Pooran poli

2023-04-01T06:20:00.003-07:00

Obbattu recipe or Pooran poli or sweet lentil filled pan cakes recipe

Indian sweets has many varieties and variants....and each festival calls for different type of sweets and savouries. One such dish is Obbattu or pooran poli made for Ugadi in Karnataka.

We love this sweet and it's special to the families here as it's of a high standard accordingly when we serve this to guests.

It's a little lengthy process and tedious for a first timer but worth the effort.

Ingredients:

Filling:

1 cup toor dal

1 cup jaggery powder

fresh coconut grating 1/2 cup

cardamom 2/3

Water to boil the toor dal

For dough:

Maida 1 cup

a pinch of salt and a pinch of turmeric

Oil as required - 1/2 cup and 1/2 cup

water as required

Method:

Firstly boil water in a thick bottom pan and add toor dal and cook almost until 3/4th done...press between fingers to see if it's getting just mashed. Don't overcook.

Strain the dal at this stage and separate water and keep aside. Then and add coconut grating, jaggery powder and cardamom to the dal, put it on stove and mix well to cook nicely until dal is done and the water evaporates to form a mixture.

Cool this and grind/blend smoothly and your filling is ready.

For the dough, in a large bowl mis maida, salt, turmeric and water little by little to form a soft smooth dough, softer than your poori dough.

Then smear oil on dough, cover with wet cloth and keep aside for an hour.

Then again add little 1/4 oil and knead well to form a pilable dough, which is stretching. Keep covered again for another 1 hour.

Now the time is to prepare obbattu.

Take the filling and make large balls of table tennis size ball. Make few and keep aside.

Take a butter paper cut into squares and apply oil, pinch little dough and spread in your hands and put filling and make a round ball... similar to aloo parata. And then on the butter paper pat with your hands to make obbattu like Paratha or use the chapati make to do the same.

Heat a tawa and put little oil, spread it and then put obbattu and cook on medium flame until the color changes on top and then flip to cook on other side. After done take it on plate and cool it before you told. And serve hot with ghee or hot milk.

Repeat with the left over filling and dough.

Bhaingan Bhaja (Brinjal Tawa fry)

2023-03-29T03:35:00.003-07:00

How to make Brinjal fry?

Brinjal fry recipe - Easy and quick to make starter, accompaniment with Brinjal

Delicious dish goes well with curd rice, dal rice, rasam rice or as a starter.

Ingredients:

Big Balloon Brinjal - 1 (the brinjal used for making bharta)

Gram flour - 2 tbsp

Chilli powder - 2 tsp (as per taste)

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp

Aam choor powder - 1 tsp

salt to taste.

Oil to shallow fry

Coriander for garnishing.

Curry leaves (optional) - add while frying the brinjal pieces

Method:

Firstly mix all the powders with flour and add salt; make a dry mixture by mixing well in a broad plate.

Slice the brinjal after washing into medium thin slices (of 1 cm thick).

Now rub and coat the brinjal slices well with the powder mixture on both sides; and arrange on a big wide plate and allow it to marinate for 7-8 minutes in refrigerator.

Heat a non-stick or any tawa and add oil for shallow frying....place the brinjal spices neatly (few at a time) and on a low flame fry them by turning two times on both sides. Repeat with other slices. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with any rice of your choice. Brinjal fry is ready to serve and tastes well ...a replacement for fish at my home sometimes :)

Chinese Veg curry

2023-03-12T23:44:00.005-07:00

Chinese veg curry recipe, easy to make and delicious to eat with your plain steamed rice or veg fried rice

Ingredients:

Mixed capsicum - 1/2 each chopped into cubes

Carrot - 1/2 cup cubed

Brocolli - 1 cup florets blanched

Cabbage - 1/2 cup chopped roughly

Paneer - 1 cup cubed

Onion - 1 chopped and spring onion greens chopped 2 tbsp

Ginger garlic - mince 1 tbsp Pepper powder - 1 TSP or as per taste

Salt to taste

Sauces - tomato, soya, chilli sauce 2 tbsp each

Corn flour slurry made with 1 tbsp flour and little water

Water as required for consistency

Oil - 2 tbsp

Ajinomoto (optional) 1 pinch

Method:

Firstly in a large pan heat oil and add the ginger garlic, onion, pepper and saute.

Then add the cabbage, carrots and saute well and then add the colour capcicums and saute...don't over cook the veggies, it has to be crisp. Then add salt and pepper and paneer and fry well for couple minutes. Now add the sauces and corn flour slurry spring onion and Ajinomoto...water if required...cook for another 2/3 minutes.

The Chinese veg gravy is ready to serve with hot rice.

Chibbada Harshale (Muskmelon pudding)

2023-01-30T19:11:00.003-08:00

A delicious quick and easy to make healthy dessert, the muskmelon pudding is so refreshing and soothing, it will take you to heaven.

If you have coconut milk readily available, it takes minutes to make this super delicious post lunch or dinner desserts.

Ingredients:

Muskmelon- one medium size : striped one works best

Jaggery - 1/4 cup grated or as per the sweetness required

Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

Coconut milk - 1 cup thick and 1 cup thin

Thin rice flakes/poha - 1 handful (optional)

Method:

Firstly extract the coconut milk (both thick and thin) from fresh coconut gratings if you don't have ready made.

In a large glass bowl, pour the thin coconut milk and add jaggery powder with cardamom, mix well and allow it to dissolve completely.

Wash and peel muskmelon, one half cut into tiny bite size pieces and the other half just squeeze with your hand roughly. Add the thick coconut milk, cut fruit and the squashed fruit to the coconut/jaggery mixture, mix well and put in refrigerator for an hour or two.

This can be served in glass bowls as it is or just before serving add the rice flakes mix well and serve.

In my house we eat without the rice flakes and children love this a lot.

Avarekalu huli (hyacinth beans gravy)

2023-01-23T19:57:00.003-08:00

How to make Avarekalu huli?

Recipe for Avarekalu huli Or the hyacinth beans curry is very simple, easy and quick to makebut very tasty.

Avarekalu during winter is widely available and each kannadiga household relishes this beans in various dishes and recipes.

Avarekalu huli is served with Ragi ball/ Ragi mudde and hot rice with ghee.

This doesn't need any other accompaniment.

Ingredients:

Avarekalu Or hyacinth beans - 2 cups (washed)

Potato and Brinjal (optional) - cut into large cubes

Water as required

Salt to taste

For grinding:

Coconut grating - 1/2 cup

Jeeta - 2 tsp

Coriander - little

Tomato - 2 big ripe

Tamarind - a marble size

Sambar powder - 2tbsp

Garlic - 15/20 cloves

Onion - 1 medium chopped

Little water to grolind to paste

To season:

Oil 1 tb sp

Mustard and curry leaves

Method:

In a large deep pan, heat and add oil to season with mustard and curry leaves.

And then add the beans and salt and water with vegetables if adding and cook till half done.

Then add the ground masala, mix well and add water to required consistency. Check salt and spice and add accordingly.

Now cook until the beans is Soft and also the vegetables cooked. Then summer for 2 mins and switch off.

The hot curry is ready to serve

Mambazha Pullissery (Mango curry recipe)

2022-05-05T09:48:00.000-07:00

How to make mango curry

Very tasty and easy to make mango curry, Kerala style.

Ingredients

4 small sweet and sour ripened mangoes (raspuri, sindhura Or sakkarai kutti) - just mashed and squeezed along with sweets after peeling skin.

Curd 1 cup

Coconut grating 1/2 cup

Green chilli 2

Cumin seeds 1 tsp

Coconut oil 2 tsp

Mustard seeds 1/2 tsp

Methi seeds 1/2 tsp

Red chilli 2

Curry leaves few

Chilli powder as per taste

Pepper powder 1/4 tsp

Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp

Hing a pinch

Salt to taste

Water

Method:

In a pan add the squeezed mangoes with seed and half cup water, salt, turmeric, pepper powder and chilli powder.. Bring them to a boil and cook for 5 mins in medium flame.

While this is boiling, make a paste of coconut, cumin, green chilli with curd. Switch off the flame and mix this paste nicely and adjust consistency by adding water.

Season by heating coconut oil, mustard, methi, red chilli, hing and curry leaves... Add this to the curry and enjoy with roti or hot rice.

Crab masala recipe

2022-02-15T00:16:00.002-08:00

Easy recipe of Crab Masala

Very tasty and family favorite Crab Masala fry

Ingredients:

Crab -1 kg /4-5(cleaned and halved)

Onion - chopped roughly

Curry leaves few

Oil - 4 tbsp

Green chilli 4/5 slit

Salt to taste

Ingredients to grind:

Onion - 1 big

Ginger/garlic paste 2 tbsp

Coriander leaves 2 tbsp

Cinnamon and cloves 4/5 each

Chilli powder 1 tsp or according to spiciness required

Turmeric powder 1 tsp

Coriander powder 1 tbsp

Cumin powder 1/4 tsp

Pepper corn 2tsp

Method:

Wash the crabs and keep aside.

Take a wide pan and heat oil, add onion, curry leaves and chillies, fry for 2 mins and then add ground masala and salt, fry well until oil separates. Now add crabs fry for few mins and then add water to immerse the crabs and cook on High flame for 20 mins, with lid. And then simmer for another 20 mins on medium to low flame. Check the consistency you need for the masala and add water and simmer for couple more mins.

Crab masala is ready to relish with hot rice or rotis

Mangalore Buns recipe

2022-01-26T12:45:00.003-08:00

Easy to make snacks for evening tea or breakfast.

Mangalore buns, a easy to make dish but tastes very yummy.

Ingredients

2 ripened bananas (the big spotted variety)

2 tbsp sugar

1/4 cup curds

1 tsp cumin seeds

A pinch of baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 cups refined flour

Oil to fry

Method:

In a bowl, mash the bananas and sugar together, nicely with a fork and dont use mixer.

Then add, curds, cumin, salt and soda and again mix well to make a smooth consistency.

Then add maida and make a smooth dough by kneading well for 5 mins.

Apply oil over the dough and keep it covered and rest for min 8 hours.

Heat oil in a pan, and roll out small pooris, by pinching small amount of dough balls. It should be little thicker disk than puris.

Now, deep fry on medium flame until brown on both sides.

Serve with coconut chutney and chai

Raw Papaya Halwa

2021-09-04T11:11:00.001-07:00

Raw papaya halwa recipe

A simple and yummy dessert

Ingredients:

3 cups grated raw or semi ripe papaya (peel and grate without seeds)

3 cups sugar

1 cup milk

Khova - 200 gms

Ghee 5-6 tbsp

Dryfruits chopped -cashew nuts and raisins and almonds chopped.

Cardamom powder 1/4 tsp

Few strands of saffron dissolved in milk

Method:

In a heavy bottom pan add 3 tbsp ghee, fry the nuts and keep aside.

In the same ghee, add the grated papaya and fry for 5 mins, and add milk. Cook by stirring continuously in low flame until the papaya is cooked and milk has evaporated. Now add the sugar and cook until the sugar is melted and absorbed. Now add The mashed khova, cardamom powder and saffron milk.

Mix nicely until you get the halwa consistency.

Now add the remaining ghee dry fruits and give a good mix. Halwa ready to serve... It tastes good both when hot or cold.

I really loved the taste, it's better than carrot halwa actually

Mutton Donne Biryani Recipe

2021-04-07T21:28:00.001-07:00

How to make Karnataka style Donne Biryani

Mutton donne biryani recipe... step by step

INGREDIENTS:

For marination:
1 kg mutton
Red chilli powder – 3 tsp
Turmeric – 1 tsp
Salt – taste
Ginger / garlic paste – 2 tbsp
Curd – ¼ cup

PASTE 1 - fry in oil and grind (add water)
Onion – 3 big
Cinnamon - 1 tbsp
Cloves – 1 tsp
Pepper - 2 tsp
Cardamom – 4-5
Green chilies - 15-20 ( according to taste)

Paste 2 – fry in oil and grind (add lil water)
Pudina 1/2 cup
Menthe 1/2 cup
Coriander leaves 1 cup

Other ingredients:
Oil – 1 cup
Jeera sambha rice - 1 kg

Cinnamon - 2 sticks
Cloves - 7/8
Cardamom - 4/5
Bay leaf - 2
Shahi jeera - 1 tsp
Kasuri methi - 2 tsp
Star anise - 2
Stone flower - few
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Onion – 2 big
Ginger/garlic – 2 tbsp
Lemon juice - 2 tbsp
Salt to taste
Ghee 3 tbsp

Method:
Firstly, in a large bowl add the cleaned and washed mutton, add curd, ginger/garlic paste, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, and salt required for 1 kg mutton.
Keep aside for marination for 30 mins minimum.

Next take a kadai, add 2 tbsp oil and fry the spices, onion and green chilli (as per paste 1 ingredients). Fry nicely until onion turns brown and allow it to cool and then grind to a fine paste and keep aside.

Next in the same pan, add the washed and dried greens and fry until it is cooked and cool and grind to a paste and keep aside.

Once the marination time is over, cook the mutton with the liquid of marination without adding water in a pressure cooker for 2/3 whistles... As it depends on the type and size of mutton pieces. Check. If it's too tender one whistle should be ok like you cook rice. Otherwise it might need 2/3 whistles. The mutton pieces should be just cooked and not over cooked as it's going to again cook with rice.

Same time, measure 1.5 times of water to the measurement of rice. Example, if you take 1 cup rice, 1.5 cups water is needed as there will be water in masala and cooked mutton .

Now wash the rice nicely and soak for 15 mins... This can be done same time when you start the biryani process on stove.

Heat a large thick bottom vessel, add the oil and all the spices and onion and fry nicely until brown and then add ginger garlic paste and fry well.
And add the cooked mutton, turmeric and mix well and then add the onion/spice paste 1 to it and mix well, cover and cook for 5 mins
And then add the green paste, mix well and allow it to cook for 2-3 mins.
Now add the mutton with water and allow it to boil nicely and then add the required amt of salt for biryani and lemon juice. Mix well and when it's boiling nicely add the soaked rice (ensure you drain all the water completely after soaking)...mix nicely and check for salt and spices at this step and add if required.
Close the lid and cook in medium flame until the water has just evaporated. Now put a tawa on the stove and place the vessel on it and cook in very low flame for 15-20 mins or until done. If you want keep a heavy object on top of the lid too.
Once the rice is cooked and no water left... Its done
Now add the ghee on top and give a nice mix from bottom and it's ready to serve with onion raita and cucumber slices.

Jigarthanda recipe

2021-03-25T02:56:00.001-07:00

Madurai Jigarthanda recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 liter full fat milk

1/2 liter any milk

4 tbsp + 4 tbsp sugar

Nannari sharbath as required

Badam gondh or badam pisin as required

200 ml fresh cream

Method:

You have to start your preparation one day before to make Jigarthanda.

Soak the badam pisin overnight in water as required and keep in fridge.

Firstly boil the full fat milk nicely in a low flame until it reduces to 1 cup. Keep stirring and keep scraping the cream into the milk, add the 4 tbsp sugar mix well and Switch off.

In another pan, heat the other 4 tbsp sugar and allow it to caramelize and 2/3 tbsp water to make it into a liquid syrup.

Once the milk Cools down, add half of the caramel syrup and mix well. And then add the fresh cream and blend in a mixture and store for two hours in freezer in an air tight box.

Next similarly, take the other half liter milk and reduce it to half by boiling and cool it down and add the remaining caramel syrup and refrigerate it until use.

Once the frozen milk mixture is taken out, blend again in mixer and freeze again for 6 hours similarly. This will form the ice cream.

Now comes the time to assemble and relish...

Take a tall glass and add 1 big spoon of badam pisin and then 2 tbsp of nannari sharbath (concentrate) and the add enough cold milk until the glass fills, this is the milk we have stored and mix well. Now add a scoop of ice cream and decorate with few drops of nannari sharbath. Ready to serve

Honey cake - Iyengar bakery style

2021-03-17T23:16:00.002-07:00

How to make Honey cake at home

Ingredients:

1 sponge cake (recipe for eggless sponge cake)

1/4 cup honey + 2 tbsp Honey

1/4 cup Sugar

1/2 cup water

Strawberry/mixed fruit jam - 1/2 cup

desiccated coconut for garnishing

Method:

In a pan, mix sugar and water and bring to a boil for a couple of minutes, switch off and allow it to cool a little. When the sugar syrup is warm add honey and mix well.

Prick the sponge cake with a fork and pour the syrup to soak the cake nicely and keep aside. use as much of this syrup as required to soak the cake nicley.

Next, take another pan and add the jam and honey, mix well on low flame until it just forms a mixture and don’t overheat it. allow to cool a little

Spread this mixture on the soaked cake nicely and evenly. And then sprinkle the desiccated coconut on top and the cake is ready to serve.

Eggless Sponge Cake Recipe

2021-03-17T23:07:00.005-07:00

How to make eggless basic sponge cake at home

Easy to make sponge cake /plain cake recipe

Ingredients:

¾ cup butter at room temperature

1 and a half (1 ½) cup milk

1 and a half (1 ½) cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

3 cup maida

1 tsp baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

¼ tsp salt

Method:

In a large bowl, mix the butter and sugar nicely with a whisk or beater until it becomes a creamy mixture. Add milk and vanilla essence and mix well to form a combined mixture. Now add sieved maida, baking powder, baking soda and salt into the mixture and mix well until it forms a smooth flowing batter.

Pour the mixture into a greased cake mould and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 40 minutes. Check after 30-35 minutes as it depends on oven for the baking time. Bake until an inserted tooth pick or fork comes out clean.

Chocolate pudding (eggless) recipe

2021-03-17T22:55:00.003-07:00

How to make Chocolate Pudding or Chocolate Mousse at home

Eggless Chocolate pudding / Chocolate Mousse Recipe

Ingredients:

1/4 cup - cornflour

1/4 cup - cocoa powder

2 cups - milk

1/2 or 3/4 cup - sugar

1 cup - cream

1 cup - dark chocolate grated (or broken into small chunks)

1 tsp - Vanilla extract

a pinch of salt

grated white/milk chocolate for garnishing

Method:

In a bowl, mix the cornflour and cocoa powder well. To this add the milk and whisk nicely until no lumps are there.

Pour this mixture into a deep/thick bottom pan and keep it on the stove and keep stirring on low-medium flame until it combines well. add sugar to this mixture and stir until sugar melts. now add the cream and stir nicely for a couple of minutes. Now add the dark chocolate and keep stirring until the mixture combines and becomes a little thick (pourable consistency) and turns glossy/shiny. switch off the stove, add vanilla extract and salt - mix well.

Now pour the mixture in desired bowls/cups or ramekins and refrigerate for 4/5 hours and then decorate with grated chocolate and they are ready to serve.

Red velvet cake or Beetroot cake recipe

2021-03-11T05:01:00.006-08:00

Beetroot cake or Red velvet cake using natural colour

Ingredients

Eggs - 2
Beetroot - 1 peeled and chopped
Sugar - 3/4 cup 150 grams
Wheat Flour - 1 1/2 cup 180 grams
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Vanilla essence -1 tsp
Oil - 1/2 cup 120 ml
Cocoa Powder - 1/4 cup 25 grams
Chocolate chips as needed (optional)

Method:
Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
LIne a baking pan with parchment paper and set aside.
Take all ingredients except wheat flour and baking soda in a blender and puree till smooth.
Add wheat flour, baking soda and mix gently.
Add choco chips and mix.
Pour into baking pan and Top with more chocolate chips if needed.
Bake for 30 to 40 mins at 180 degrees
Check at 30 minutes with a knife or tooth pick to see if it's done
Remove and cool completely.
You can do fresh cream frosting if you like before serving.

Slice and serve.

Thambittu recipe or rice laddu

2021-03-11T04:53:00.006-08:00

Thambittu recipe

Rice protein laddu, prepared for Mahashivratri especially in Karnataka

Ingredients:

Rice flour - 2 cups

Roasted bengal gram dal (putanna) - 1 cup

Ground nuts - 1 cup

Sesame seeds - 4 tbsp

Dry coconut grating - 4 tbsp

Elaichi powder 1/2 tsp

Ghee - 4 tbsp

Jaggery powder - 2 cups

Water - half cup

Method:

Dry roast the rice flour in low flame until nice aroma comes out. Keep aside in a wide large bowl.

Next roast the bengal gram in low flame for few minutes. Allow to cool completely and blend to a smooth powder and add to rice flour.

In the same pan, roast the ground nuts in low flame until the skin separates. Cool it completely, remove the skin and clean it. Blend it coarsely and keep few aside to get that nutty taste in between the bites. Add this to the rice flour mixture.

And then roast sesame seeds and dry coconut grating too one by one for few minutes and add it to the flour mixture.

Now add cardamom powder and ghee and mix nicely to a crumbled Moist mixture.

Now heat the jaggery and water in a thick bottom pan, melt and bring to boil for 3 minutes...it forms a single string consistency.

Immediately add this to the flour mixture and mix well nicely with a spatula.

And slowly with your hads knead and make laddus of desired size.

Allow to cool completely before serving and store if needed in air tight container, it stays good for atleast a week.

Almond cookies (eggless)

2021-03-03T01:49:00.002-08:00

Recipe to make Almond cookies (eggless)

Ingredients

1 cup almond flour (almonds roasted and ground)
3/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup powdered sugar (reduce if you don't want to sweet as my cookies were too sweet)
1/3 cup butter at room temperature
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp vanilla essence
Pinch of salt
Milk 3-4 tbsp as required
Almonds to decorate

Method:
In a bowl, take sugar and butter... Beat well for few mins.
In a large bowl, add the almond and wheat flour, soda, salt, vanilla essence... Mix well.
Add the butter mixture to the dry ingredients and mix nicely with hand adding milk as required to make a soft dough.
Keep it in refrigerator for 20 mins in a bowl covered with cling wrap or cloth.
Then take it out and make it into equal sized balls, flatten a little and place almond slightly pressed in middle of the cookie. Line them on to a tray lined with parchment paper.
Preheat the over at 180 degrees, and bake the cookies for 15-17 mins .. It depends on each oven so check after 13 mins.
Allow it to cool completely and serve or store in airtight container.

Apple Cake Recipe - Iyengar bakery

2021-01-27T06:21:00.006-08:00

How to make easy Iyengar bakery style Apple cake at home

Ingredients:

4 cups crumbled sponge cake or sweet bread

3/4 cup sugar

1/3 cup Water

2.5 tbsp cocoa powder

3 tbsp milk powder

3 tbsp butter

1/2 cup dessicated coconut + little for rolling the cake

Method:

Firstly measure the crumbled cup cake - 4 cups and keep aside.

Take a thick bottom pan and add sugar plus water, heat it and stir until a sticky solution is formed and no need of one string consistency. Now switch off the stove. Add the cocoa powder and mix well. Then add milk powder and mix well. Next add the dessicated coconut and mix well. Now add the butter and mix well. After it's mixed well. Add the crumbled cake and mix well without lumps. It forms a sticky dough. If it looks watery add few more spoons of cake/bread crumbs.

Now put it back on stove and mix continuously on low to medium flame. Until it forms a huge lump without sticking to pan. Take a small dough and check if it can form a ball without sticking to your hands. Now the cake mix is ready.

Allow it to cool until warm... Then form the round cakes as per size required and roll in the dessicated coconut mixture. Allow it to cool to room temperature before consuming.

Note: you can also use plain Chocolate cake or butter cream cake for this. However, if you use chocolate cake skip the cocoa powder and for butter cream cake skip the butter.

Tip: you can use the left over cake and biscuits and make the cake too. I have used some left over bread, biscuit and sponge cake to make this.

Banana bread or Banana cake

2021-01-04T20:49:00.003-08:00

Healthy cakes using Jaggery and wheat flour

Healthy and nutritious Banana bread or Banana walnut cake

Ingredients:

2 ripe Bananas (big ones)
1/2 cup grated jaggery or a little more if Bananas are not sweet
Refined Oil 1/4 cup
Buttermilk 1/2 cup
Wheat flour 1.5 cups
Baking powder 1 tsp
Baking soda 1 tsp
Cocoa powder 2 tbsp (optional)
Water if required
Cinnamon powder 1/4 tsp
Vanilla essence 1/2 tsp optional
Walnuts chopped or any dry fruits/nuts of your choice

Method:

In a blender add chopped bananas, oil, buttermilk, jaggery and blend until smooth
Then put it in a bowl and add the wheat flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon vanilla essence, baking powder and soda mix slowly with cut and fold method, add water only if required a little, ensure the batter is like thick idli batter. Now add the walnuts and give a mix and retain few for topping.
Now grease a bread tin nicely, pour the batter and tap twice and top it with nuts. Now bake for 35-40 mins in a preheated oven at 180 degrees.
Please check after 30 mins as Baking time differs from oven to oven..
Once baked, cool it completely and slice and serve.

Rava laddu or Rave Unde recipe

2020-12-22T03:16:00.002-08:00

How to make Rava laddu or Rave unde

Christmas goodies

Ingredients:

Fine suji 500 gms

Sugar powder 300 to 400 gms

Dessicated coconut - 4 tbsp

Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp

Poppy seeds roasted - 2 tbsp

Ghee 4 tbsp

Cashew nuts and raisins

Hot boiling water as required

Method:

In a kadai, heat ghee and roast the nuts and raisins, keep aside draining ghee.

In the same kadai, with the remaining ghee, roast the rava until aromatic And changes Color in a low Flame for 15-20 mins.

Then roast the dry coconut grating or dessicated coconut for Few mins

In a large bowl, add the roasted rawa, coconut, poppy seeds, sugar powder, cardamom powder, nuts and raisins and mix well.

Take the mixture little by little and add hot boiling water and mix well, and then bringing the mixture together make a small ball and make the laddu pressing tightly with your hands. See that you don't add too much water. Make the laddu as per your requirements, either soft or hard.

Repeat until done. Cool and store in air tight container.

Option: instead of water add hot milk for more tastier laddus

Shankarpali or Kalkals recipe

2020-12-22T00:05:00.001-08:00

Christmas special goodies homemade

Kalkals or Shankarpali recipe

Ingredients:

Sugar 1 cup

Water 1cup

Maida 4 cups

Sooji - 2 tbsp

Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Ghee- 4 tbsp

Oil to fry

Method:

In a large bowl, put water and sugar and melt it using a spoon

Add maida, sooji, cardamom, salt and ghee and mix nicely to make a dough like chapati dough.

Now divide into 4 parts. And roll the dough into thick chapati... And cut into diamonds using knife or pizza cutter.

Heat the oil and fry in medium flame until brown, repeat with all dough. And cool Completely before storing in air tight container.

For kalkals, take small little marble size balls and press it on the back of a fork and roll to shape of kalkals and fry.

Ande Ka Meetha or Egg sweet

2020-12-19T07:50:00.002-08:00

Egg sweet recipe or Anda Ka Meetha

Yummy and delicious sweet, no maida used.

Ingredients:

Eggs 6-8 nos. ... White

200 gms khova

200 gms sugar

200 gms ghee

Saffron few

Cardamom powder 1/4 tsp

Almonds... 10-15 soaked and made paste

Vanilla essence or rose essence

Method:

Beat slowly egg and sugar until it melts. Then add mashed khova and beat till it dissolves. Add ghee, cardamom powder, almond paste, essence and saffron and mix well. Pour it in a thick bottomed pan.

Keep it on the stove, and keep mixing in a low-medium flame. Until it forms a thick paste.

Then pour this into a baking tray, sprinkle with chopped almonds (optional) on top and bake for 10-15 mins at 160 degrees.

Atta Halwa / Wheat Halwa

2020-12-10T01:00:00.004-08:00

Healthy nutritious Wheat flour halwa

Atta halwa recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 cup ghee

1/2 cup wheat flour (I have used mix of kapli wheat and whole wheat home made atta)

1/2 cup warm water

1/2 cup jaggery powder

Dry fruits - cashew nuts and raisins

Cardamom powder 1/4 tsp

Method:

Heat ghee in a heavy bottom pan, fry dry fruits keep aside and fry wheat flour in low flame in same ghee until raw smell diminishes and changes colour.

Add luke warm water and mix until the water evaporates

Add jaggery powder and mix well until ghee separates

Add cardamom and dry fruits and give a Good mix