Lassi

Ingredients:
Curd-1 cup
Cold water-1/4 cup
Sugar- 3 tbsp or to taste
Ginger-1" piece

Method:
Mix curd, water, sugar and ginger in a blender. Blend for few seconds. Pour in individual glasses over ice, garnish with mint sprig and serve.

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Ethakka Vazhattiyathu / Fried Banana in Ghee

This is one of the simple and very tasty snacks my mom used to make. I still love this one any time of the day!!!!

Ingredients:
Ethakka/ Banana-2
Ghee-4 table spoon
Sugar-5 tbsp

Method:
Cut bananas in 1/2" circles. In a pan put banana pieces, sugar and ghee and cook in medium flame stirring in between till bananas turn golden brown. Serve warm!!!

Note:
You can adjust sugar according to personal taste. You can even reduce the amount of ghee if you make it in a non-stick pan….but tastier with lot of ghee!!!

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Cabbage and Carrot Thoran

Ingredients:

Cabbage -1 cup, shredded
Carrot - 1 no, grated
Freshly grated coconut- 1/2cup
Onion -1 medium
Green chilles-3 nos
Garlic -3 cloves
Cumin Seeds-1/4tsp
Turmeric powder- a pinch
Salt to taste
Mustard seeds - 1/2tsp
Curry Leaves- 2 springs
Oil -1tblsp

Method:

Grind coarsely, coconut, onion, green chilies, garlic, cumin seeds and turmeric powder and salt. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry mustard seeds. Add coarsely ground coconut mixture and curry leaves and fry for one minute. In to this add shredded cabbage and grated carrot. Mix well, cover and cook on low flame for 3 minutes. Open lid and stir well until all the water in it evaporates. Serve hot as a side dish with boiled rice.

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Rasmallai

Ingredients:

Milk Powder -1 Cup
Baking powder-1 tsp
Egg -1
Milk -1 litre
Sugar to taste
Cardamom
Cashew nuts and Badam, sliced – 1 tbsp

Methd:

Put sugar and sliced nuts in milk and keep it for boiling. Sieve milk powder and baking powder together and put this into egg which is not beaten. Knead it and make about 18 balls with this. Put this balls in the boiling milk till it reaches double the size in medium flame ( about 20-25 minutes). Add cardamom powder and serve either hot or cold.

Sandeepa this is for your RCI Bengal

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Contact Me

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About Me

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Dill Chutney

Ingredients:

1 Cup(1/2 bunch) Dill leaves, chopped along with stem
1 Cup Coriander leaves, chopped along with stem
2 green chillies
1 Onion, chopped
1" piece ginger
1 tsp amchoor ( dried mango) powder or lime juice to taste
1/2 tsp salt

Method:

Wash Dill and coriander leaves. Grind all ingredients and serve with Dosa, Kebabs, Tikkas etc

This goes to Chutney / Dip Mania at Mane Adige

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Mixed Dal Dosa

Ingredients:

3/4 cup Pachari / Long grain rice
3 tbsp Boiled rice
1/4 cup Urad dal /Black gram
2 tbsp toor dal
2 tbsp cherupayar parippu / moong dal
1 tsp ulluva / methi/ fenugreek seeds
5 dry red chilies
3/4 tsp Asafoetida powder
Salt to taste
Curry leaves -few

Method:
Wash rice, dals and fenugreek 3 to 4 changes of water or till water is clear. Soak this mixture in a big bowl together for at least 5 hrs. Grind it to a very smooth batter with all other ingredients and keep it overnight.

Heat tava/griddle to smoking hot. Pour a ladleful of batter on the tava and start spreading the batter in circular motion to form a round and thin dosa. Drizzle a tsp of oil/ghee/butter and cook it for about 2 to 3 minutes on a medium hot flame. When the dosa is cooked up to golden colour serve immedietly with any chutney of your choice. I served this dosa with Dill Chutney.

This recipe goes to Srivalli's Dosa Mela

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My Cake Decorations

Baking cakes and frosting them for special occasions has been a small sweet tradition that I have followed and I look forward to such occasions like birthdays, anniversary or Christmas. Recently I have seen several posts with photos of cake decoration. So I thought I would add some of my decorations here!!! Please remember I am not a trained cake decorator and have not taken any cake decorating courses. I have learned by trial and error and these are definitely not “the perfect ones", so please do not view these photos from expert’s eyes!!!!

• Chocolate Raspberry Cake

• Spaceship Cake

• Tiramisu Cake

• Chocolate Mocha Cake

• Sun Cake

• Sugarpaste Incing/ Fondant Icing

• Rich Fruit Christmas Cake 2009

• Rich Fruit Christmas Cake 2008

• One-Bowl Chocolate Buttermilk Cake

• Cat Cake

• Mickey Mouse Cake

• Toy Telephone Cake

• Heart Cake

• Doll Cake

• Race Car Cake



• School Bus Cake
  



• Hat Cake



• Butterfly Cake



• Giraffe Cake
  



• Chocolate Fudge Cake
  



• Christmas Cake
  



• Chocolate Fudge Cake
  
  

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Meat Loaf Recipe

Meat Loaf

Ingredients:
Minced Meat -500 gms

Fresh Bread crumbs -1 cup

Egg -1

Chopped Onion -1/2 cup

Chopped Carrot -1/2 cup

Garlic, chopped -1 clove

Ginger chopped -1tsp

Tomato sauce -1/2 cup

Steak sauce -2 tbsp

Dried Oregano -1 tsp

Dried Basil -1/2 tsp

Pepper powder - to taste

Salt -to taste

Cooking cheese -1/2 cup

*White sauce

Method:

• Combine all the ingredients except cheese and white sauce in a large bowl, mix well and pack in to a greased loaf pan.
• Spread white sauce over meat evenly and cover with grated cheese.
• Bake in a preheated oven (350 degree F or 180 degree C) for 1 hour.
• Serve loaf with bread rolls or Garlic Bread.

 

*For White Sauce  

Ingredients:
Butter -2 tbsp

All purpose flour/ Maida -2 tbsp
Milk -1 cup
Pepper powder -1/2 tsp
Salt - to taste
Method:

• Melt butter in a saucepan, stir in flour and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds.
• Whisk in milk and cook, stirring, over a medium heat for 4-5 minutes or until mixture thickens.
• Turn off flame and add salt and pepper to taste.

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