Sunday, August 28, 2011

Oats Payasam


Ingredients

Oats - 1 cup

Water - 2 cups

Milk - 4 cups

Sugar - 6-7 tsp

Ghee - 2 tsp

Cashewnuts- few

Raisins - few

Preparation

Cook the oats by adding the required water, then add milk and stir it for few minutes, add sugar and vanilla essence.
In a saucepan add ghee and saute cashewnut and raisins till brown colour add this into the payasam.

Fruit Salad


Ingredients


Milk - 1/2 litre

Custard Powder - 2 tsp

Sugar - 6 tsp

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Egg - 1 nos

Fruits - Cherry,Grapes,Banana,Apple,Pista,Almonds,Dates,Cashewnuts,Raisins

Preparation


First boil the milk, to this boling milk add sugar, egg (beat the egg before adding), custard powder ( mix 2 tsp of custard powder with 4 tsp of milk). stir it for 5 minutes and finally add vanilla essence. Allow this to cool, finally add all the fruits.

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Marble Cake


Hi all of you..I am back after a long time. Hope u all might have known through my sis’s blog that I am gifted with a baby boy. As I am busy taking care of the baby I hardly get spare time to experiment in my kitchen. This month I am a bit relaxed, bcoz my hubby will be back home at noon. So it is really tough time for him to handle the little one.  So I promise you all that I will try to post some recipes this month. Today I am posting ‘’Marble cake.’’

Ingredients

Flour - 1 ½ cup
Baking powder - 1 ½ spoon
Unsalted butter - 125 gms
Coco powder - 2 spoon
Vanilla essence - 1 spoon
Milk - ½ cup
Egg         - 2
Sugar - 1 cup

Preparation

Mix Flour and baking powder and keep it aside. Mix butter and sugar by using a beater. Then add egg one by one and beat again. Then add the prepared flour & baking powder mixture into this and beat well by adding enough milk. Then finally add vanilla essence. Now the batter is ready. Pour this into a greased cake tin leaving ¼th of the mixture. Now add coco powder into the ¼th mixture and beat well. Add this unevenly on the top of it to get a marble effect. Keep the preparation in the oven at 180 degrees for 35-40 minutes.
 




Gobi Paratha


Hi everybody,


I still can't believe that I created a blog. I am a new bud in this field .I didnt know the basic's of cooking before marriage and was really worried that my mother in law would have a bad impression on me, but luckily she never asked me to cook anything ,I only had to help her in kitchen ,so I lost my first chance to learn cooking .Few weeks later I moved to U.A.E with my hubby and was worried about my cooking skills. Luckily the food blogs came to my rescue and I tried recipes from blogs and made delicious food for my hubby. Its my sister who gave me inspirartion to start a blog ,She has a food blog with awesome recipes and she is a good cook.Thanks to her for helping me out. You can find her recipes here.

Today I am going to post a simple recipe of Gobi parata. I was very weak in rolling round shape chappathy's.Its my mother in law who tought me to make perfect round shape,before that I used to make triangle and square shaped ones..and I really had a tough time learning to make the round ones.

Here is my recipe..


Ingredients


Onion - 1 medium size

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Garam masala - 1/2 tsp

Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp

Garlic -2 3 pods

Ginger - A small piece

Turmeric powder -1/4 tsp

Cauliflower - a small one

Corainder leaves

Atta - 1 1/2 cup

Oil

Salt


Method of Preparation


First we have to Knead the atta with enough water adding salt and keep it aside. In a sucepan take some oil and sputter cmin seeds.Add the chopped onions and saute for few minutes.Add all the powders,ginger garlic paste and suate for few minutes.Add the cooked Cauliflower and coraibader leaves and stir for few minutes and turn off the fire.Now the masala is ready.Make sure that masala is dry, mix it with the dough and make small balls ,Roll out the porotta's.It should be thicker than chappathy's.Heat a non stick pan,rub some oil and cook the paratta's.