Friday, January 20, 2012

sanna polo ( cabbage dosa)

Ingredients-
  1. 3 hand full of rice ( soaked in water for 1 1/2 hour).
  2. Half cabbage ( makes 8-9 polo or dosa).
  3. 3- 4 fried red chilli.
  4. 1/2 tsp tamarind.
  5. Salt.
  6. Onion ( optional)
  7. Oil. 
  8. 2 tsp coconut powder .
Method-
  • Grind the soaked rice, red chilli, coconut and tamarind together with enough water.
  • The grinned batter should not be too thin or too thick.  
  • In a bowl, add grinned batter, cabbage, onion, and salt. Mix the cabbage batter thoroughly.
  • Heat a dosa pan, put some oil and then put the batter in a medium-high flame.
  • Close a lid for 2-3 min. 
  • Turn the other side of dosa on a low flame, put some oil .
  • Keep it for 10- 15 min.
 

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Bread usli ( upma )

Ingredients- ( servings for 2)
  1. 8-9 bread.
  2. 1 small onion.
  3. 1 small tomato.
  4. 1 tsp urad dal.
  5. 1 tsp chana dal.
  6. 2-3 curry leaves
  7. Red chilli ( as per your taste) or 1 green chilli 
  8. Mustard seeds
  9. 2 tbsp Oil.
  10. Salt.
Method- 
  • Cut the bread into small piece by using your hands.( do not use the edges of bread :)
  • Heat oil in a pan
  • Add mustard seeds, urad dal, chana dal. when it turns red add curry leaves to it.
  • Add sliced onion and fry it till the golden brown color.
  • Add sliced tomato fry it till the oil separates.
  • Add red chilli powder or green chilli and fry it for a min.
  • Add little salt as bread has salt in it
  • Sprinkle some water  then add diced bread and mix it well
  • close a lid of a pan for a min. and serve it :)



kichidi

Ingredients-

  1. 1 cup Jaggery  ( 4 -5 medium stone size ).
  2. 1 hand full of green moong
  3. 3 hand full of rice. 
  4. cashew-nut. (few)
  5. Raisins . (few)
  6. Cardamom.
  7. 2 - 3 tbsp coconut .
Method-

  • Fry moong in a  pan till the aroma of moong comes.
  • In a cooker put both rice and fried moong with 1 1/2 cup of water.
  • Take a pan add 2 tbsp of ghee.
  • Add jaggery make it a syrup( stir it continuously).
  • Add cooked rice to it and stir for 10- 15 min.( mid - flame).
  • Add ghee in between.
  • Finally put coconut, cardamom, cashew, raisins



note- If you prefer for more sweet then you can add sugar to it .

Friday, December 23, 2011

EGG LESS CHOCOLATE CAKE


 Ingredients- 

1. 1 ½ cup  All-purpose flour (maida).
2. tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder.
3.  ¼ tsp baking powder.
4. ¼ tsp baking soda.
5. 1 cup sugar (granulated).
6. 1 cup milk.
7. ½ tsp vanilla extract.
8. 3 tbsp butter or oil.

Method-
  • In a large bowl sieve - flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder so that we won't get any lump.
  • To that add- sugar, milk, vanilla extract, butter or oil.
  • Beat it nicely till you get a smooth paste.
  • switch this paste to micro-wave bowl. And micro wave it for 5 min. (to avoid overflow use large and deep bowl).

  
 For chocolate frosting

Ingredients- 

1. 1 cup sugar (granulated).
2. ¼ cup cocoa powder.
3. ¼ cup milk.
4. ¼ cup butter.
5. 1 tsp vanilla extract


Method-

Mix sugar, cocoa,  milk, butter and bring it to boil for 5 mins. Add vanilla extract. Cool partially and beat with mixer for 3 min. or until spreadable consistently

And finally decorated with icing-