Posts

Golden Wheat Carrot Ring

Image
This golden Wheat Cake makes up to be the best, healthy and tasty breakfast cake. Things Needed: Grated Carrot - 100 grams or 1 cup Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp Wheat Flour - 63 grams or 3/4cup All Purpose Flour - 50 grams or 1/2 cup Salt - a pinch Baking Soda - 1 tsp Cinnamon - 1/2 tsp Egg - 1 whole/ 50 grams Melted Butter - 70 grams Sugar (or) honey- 125 grams or 1+1/4cup Raisins - 25 grams or 1/4 cup Method: 1. Take a clean bowl and mix all the dry ingredients together except sugar, sift them all once after mixing . Dry Ingredients: Wheat flour, all purpose flour, salt, soda, cinnamon 2. Take another clean bowl and whisk in all the wet ingredients together until well combined.  Wet ingredients: grated carrot, lemon juice, egg, melted butter, sugar (or) honey and raisins. 3. Pour in 1/4 portion of wet mix into the dry mix and whisk, do this in 3 or 4 installments until all the wet mix is added and the cake batter comes together. The batter must be fairly thick...

Classic Butter Cream Frosting

Image
19th August 2015: I got my first kitchen weighing machine :D, yeah finally i got mine now so i can gladly go for the gram measures instead of cup measures. I wanted to bake a special cake for my fiance' for a long time and here it is. He loves coffee and i am going to make the same old coffee cake which is my all time favorite with a classic coffee and chocolate buttercream frosting. Here is how i mixed it all up (^_^) Click Here to get the recipe for my --->   Coffee Cake Things Needed:  Butter - 50 grams (cubed and in room temperature) Sugar - 22 grams Egg Yolk - 1 (or) 12 grams (room temperature) Water - 13 grams Coffee powder- 1tsp Chocolate powder - 1tsp Vanilla essence - few drops Method: 1. Lets keep everything handy, Dissolve coffee and chocolate powder in few tablespoons of water and vanilla, and make a thick paste . 2. Beat the egg yolk on high speed for a minute. 3. Add water to sugar in a pan and bring to a boil, let it boil until u get the ...

Chicken Cutlet / Simple chicken patties

Image
This is a lip smacking dish. It could be had as a tea time snack with a dip or it could be used as a Pattie for burgers or you can even make a yummy wrap by adding fruits like pomegranate, apple or pineapple or you can also make a good sandwich with it. No matter how you eat it, it tastes good and gives you a want to eat more. This is one of my fiance's all time favorites, but he likes the beef version more. You can substitute chicken with beef, mutton or pork or even a mixture of veggies. So versatile, easy and a must try food at every home. Things you'll Need : Chicken - 1/2 kg (Boneless) Egg - 1 large Bread crumbs Boiled and mashed Potatoes- 4 medium sized Onion - 1 medium sized Green chilly - 2 small Ginger - 1 tsp Garlic - 1 tsp Coriander and mint leaves - 1 tbsp Oil - 1 tbsp + 7 tbsp for frying Salt to taste Chilly powder / garam masala to taste Method: 1. Prep all the ingredients. Chop onions, chillies, ginger, garlic and the herbs very FINELY. DO ...

Nandu Rasam / Crab Soup

Image
A Hot Soup that goes well with rice. It really helps when you want to get rid of common cold. Best served with rice or you can filter it and drink it as such.  Things Needed: Whole Garam masala's -  2 each (cinnamon, clove, cardamon, black pepper, curry leaves, dried red chillies, cumin seeds and fennel ) Small Onion - 5 to 6 (sliced) Tomato - 1 (chopped) Green chillies - 2 large (sliced, scale up to taste) Oil- 2 tbsp Crab - 2 large (wash well, clean, apply turmeric and keep aside) Fennel - 1 tbsp Whole black pepper - 1 tbsp Cumin Seed - 1 tsbp Garlic cloves - 7 to 8  Ginger - a small slice Curry leaves - 2 sprigs Poppy seed - 1tbsp Cashews - 2 or 3 Thin Coconut milk - 1 cup Ghee - 1 tsp Coriander stem - 1tbsp (chopped) Method : 1. Prep all your ingredients 2.Freshly grate coconut and make a thin milk by adding enough water 3. Make a paste of poppy seeds, cashew, few curry leaves, 1tsp cumin seed, 3 to 4 garlic cloves and ginger. Keep ...

Easy Carrot Cake

Image
A delicious dense Cake for all occasions   Things Needed:   For Cake: Grated Carrot - 2 cups Hot Milk - 1/3 cup Powdered Sugar - 1+1/4 cup Vegetable Oil - 1/2 cup Vanilla Essence - 1 tbsp Eggs - 3 Flour - 2 cups Baking soda - 1 tsp Baking powder - 1 tsp Cinnamon Powder - 1 tsp Clove Powder - 1 tsp Salt - 1/2 tsp For Icing Fresh Cream - 1 cup Icing Sugar - 1/4 cup Orange Zest - 1 tbsp Method: 1. Instead of vegetable oil, i used 1/4 cup of oil and 1/4 cup of melted butter for a soft texture.   2. Keep all your ingredients ready before baking. 3. Take a mixing bowl, add in the grated carrot, hot milk, sugar, vanilla essence and lightly beaten eggs. Mix well.   4. In another bowl mix all the dry ingredients ( flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon powder, clove powder and salt ) 5. Add the dry mix to the wet mix and prepare the cake batter. 6. Pour the batter in a greased baking tray and bake for 20- 25 mins a...

Roasted Prawns || Eral Varuval

Image
Things You Will Need: Prawns - 300 grams (a small bowl full) Chilli Powder - 2 tbsp Tamarind - 1 very small ball Water as required Coconut Oil - 2 tbsp Cumin - 1/2 tsp Crushed Ginger and Garlic - 1 tbsp Onion - 1 small Tomato - 1 small Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp Rock Salt as required Coriander powder- 1/2 tbsp Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp Method: 1. Take the cleaned prawns, tamarind, salt chilli powder in a heavy bottom pan or a earthenware. 2. Add enough water to cook the prawns. Don't add too much water or the prawns will turn rubbery when cooked. 3. Once the prawns are cooked they'll start to curl beautifully. Allow the water to dry out.   4. Take another pan or kadai. Add coconut oil and cumin.   5. Add the crushed Ginger and garlic. 6. Add the onions and cook till the onions turn golden brown. The trick is to saute every other ingredient well other than prawns.  7. Once the onions are done add all the masalas and salt to t...