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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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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Cinnamon Rolls

This recipe I tried from http://www.recipezaar.com. You can get the recipe from here and this one come out very well. Here is the recipe reproduced.



Ingredients:


1 cup milk, scalded
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 cup margarine, melted
2 1/2 teaspoons dry yeast
3 cups all-purpose flour


Filling
2 tablespoons butter, melted
7 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons butter, melted

Topping
1 cup icing sugar
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1-2 tablespoon evaporated milk


Method:



Let scalded milk cool until it is between 106 and 114 degrees fahrenheit. Combine 1 cup cooled milk, 1 teaspoons of the sugar, and 2 1/2 teaspoons yeast. Let stand 3 minutes. Stir and let stand 10 minutes more. Add remainder of sugar, margarine, and 1 1/2 cups of the flour. Beat to mix well. Beat in another 1/2 cup of flour. Add as much of the remaining cup of flour that you need, a little at a time. This must be kneaded in, as the dough is too heavy to stir. You might not require all of it. Add the flour and continue kneading until dough is smooth and elastic and doesn't stick to your hands. Put the ball of dough in a bowl that you have greased with a little margarine. Roll the dough ball around the bowl to grease it. Cover loosely with a tea towel and let rise in a warm, draft-free place. This takes about 2 hours.


When it has risen, put on a lightly floured board. Do not beat it down. With a floured rolling pin, roll into a rectangle approximately 1/4" thick and about 12 1/2 inches long. It can be a little longer but don't go below 12 inches-you don't want piddly little buns. With a pastry brush, brush entire surface of dough with 2 tablespoons melted butter. Combine sugar and cinnamon for the filling. Sprinkle over the melted butter. Roll up at long end. Cut roll into 12 slices. Put in a greased 9" X 13" pan with a space between each one-they will expand. Brush with 2 tablespoons melted butter. Cover with a tea towel and let rise for approximately one hour. Remove tea towel. Bake in a preheated 375F oven for 15 minutes. Remove from oven.


Combine topping ingredients, using only 1 tablespoons evaporated milk. Add remaining tablespoons of milk to make a glaze that can be drizzled. Drizzle the topping over the cinnamon rolls with a spoon. Remove from pan

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Waffles

Recently I tried the Waffles recipe from Asha's of Aroma and it come out very good. You can view her original post here. Thank you Asha for posting this recipe. Here is her recipe reproduced

Ingredients:

1 Cup Waffle mix (or 1 cup plain flour, 1 tsp Baking Powder, 1/4 tsp salt)
2 tbsp Hershey's Cocoa powder
1 tsp Vanilla essence
1 Egg (optional)
1 tbsp Brown sugar
2-3 tbsp Chocolate chips

Milk

Method:

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well with enough milk to make a thick pourable batter. Must not be thin. Heat a Belgian Waffle Iron until hot, spray lightly with no-stick oil. Pour a ladleful of batter into each until they are filled. Close the waffle iron and cook until you don't see the steam coming out from the sides of the iron. Open the Waffle iron's lid and lift all of them onto a cooling rack. Repeat the same until all batter is done.

SERVE: with Butter Pecan Maple Syrup and a cold glass of Orange juice.

The variation I did in this recipe is that I did not add eggs to the mix and I served the waffles with whipped cream topped with strawberry and banana slices and pancake syrup and a glass of Fresh Juice Melody .

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Nice Matters Award- My First Award

“Nice Matters Award is for those bloggers who are nice people; good blog friends and those who inspire good feelings and inspiration. Also for those who are a positive influence on our blogging world.”

I am very delighted to receive the Nice Matters Award from Bharathy of Spicy Chilly. She is the one who got me addicted to blogging and inspired me to create my own blog. I started out less than a month ago and since then a lot of people have visited my blog and encouraged me with their sweet comments and advice. I am passing this award to all my friends and fellow bloggers out here and thank you Bharathy for giving me this shot in the arm!!!!

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