Butter cream frosting

Butter Cream Frosting :
     Frost your cake with this yummy frosting.

Ingredients :
Butter -  1 cup ( in room temperature)
Confectionery sugar - 3 cup
Vanilla extract -  1 tsp
Milk or light cream - 2 to 4 Tbsp

 Method :
 1. Beat the butter until it is creamy. Add vanilla extract.
2. Add sugar little by little and beat it.
3. Add color if you want. It is too thick now.
4. So add 2 to 4 Tbsp of milk or light cream and beat it again.
5. Beat it for 3 to five minutes. Add little milk if you need.
6. It should be nice and fluffy and in spreading consistency.
7. You can also add any other flavour.

Enjoy cooking and eating.

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Eggless sponge cake

Eggless sponge cake :
   New year is here and so a cake recipe is here. Enjoy the new year with this spongy cake.

Ingredients :
Butter - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Condensed milk - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 2 Tbsp ( optional )
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Vinegar - 1 tsp ( optional)
Maida - 1 and 1/4 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp


Method :

1. Make sure the butter, milk are in room temperature.
2. Take a bowl and add half cup of condensed milk to butter and beat with a hand mixer.
3. Add sugar to it. Add also vanilla  extract to it. Mix well.
4. Add little milk at a time and mix it.
5. Sieve maida, baking soda,  baking powder.
6. Add dry ingredients little by little and mix it with the mixer.
7. Make sure it forms a smooth batter.
8. Preheat the oven in 350 degree C.
9. Pour the batter in a greased cake pan.
10. Bake it in the oven for 25 to 35 minutes or until tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
11. Take the pan out and let it cool for 5 minutes.
12. Gently rotate the pan on a plate. Turnover the cake and let to cool further.

Spongy Egglesss cake is ready.
I couldn't cut the cake and show as I want to frost it. I will post the picture of the piece later.

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Egg kurma

Egg kurma : This kurma is made with nuts. It's different from usual kurma but very healthy.
Nuts are very good for heart. It lowers cholesterol too. This might look like a rich recipe, but it is healthy too. So go ahead and try it.

Ingredients :
Cashews. - 20 splits
Almonds - 20 whole
Poppy seeds - 1 Tbsp
Onion - 1 medium small
Tomato - 1.5 medium
Garlic - 3 pods
Ginger - 1 inch
Curd - 3 tbsp
Chilli powder - 1/2 Tbsp
Coriander powder - 1 Tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt to taste

Method :

1. Boil and cook cashew, almonds, poppy seeds in water for 15 minutes.
2. In a pan add oil, add ginger, garlic, onion,  and fry nicely until raw smell goes.
    Make sure you fry it nicely. You can also add ginger garlic paste ( 2 tsp )if you  have it ready.
3. Add tomatoes and fry for few minutes.
4. Grind first the nuts and poppy seeds.
5. When it is fine paste, add ginger, garlic, onion, tomatoes, curd and grind them nicely to a fine paste.
6. In a pan add oil and add cloves, cinnamon and bay leaf.
7. Then add the ground paste. Also add chilli, coriander, turmeric and salt.
8. Let them cook for 25 minutes or until it is thick.
9. Fry the eggs in little salt, chilli powder and in oil.
10. Drop the fried eggs in the kurma.


Note :
For measurementas,
http://ucancooktoo.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_31.html

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Bisebelabath / sambar rice

Bisebelabath is a dish from Karnataka, South part of India.
It means hot lentil rice. Here rice, dhal and all the spices are cooked together.
It tastes best when its hot.

Ingredients :
Onion - 1/4 mediun size
Tomato - 1/4 medium size
Rice - 1 cup (I use rice cooker cup or 2/3 traditional cup)
Toor dhal - 1/2 cup
Mixed Vegetable - 3 cup ( brinjal , drum stick, carrot, radish, ladies finger and indian bean( avarrakai))
Curry leaves and Coriander leaves for garnishing
Tamarind - Small lemon size.
Oil - 2 Tbsp
Ghee - 1/2 tsp

Dry fry and Grind Coarsely:
Red chilli - 2
Corainder seed - 2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Mustard seed - 2 tsp
Urad dhal - 2 tsp
Channa dhal - 2 tsp
Fenugreek seeds - a pinch
Grated cocunut - 1 tbsp
Curry leaves - 4

Method :

1. Add oil in a pan and when it is hot add mustard seeds curry leaves.
2. Add Onion and saute well. When it is transparent add tomatoes.
3. Dont fry anything too much. Add Vegetables and Saute slightly.
4. Add rice, toor dhal, salt and turmeric powder and add 6 cup of water .
5. Close the lid and let it cook.
6. Once it is 3/4th cooked add the ground powder and again let it cook.
7. When it is almost cooked, add tamarind juice.
8. If you think its get too thick you can add some more water.
9. It should be watery because it will become thinck once you switch of the flame.
10. Let it cook for 5 more minutes and its done.
11. Add ghee on top and garnish it with corainder leaves.
12. This goes well with pappad.
The picture below was taken after 5 hours and still looks good.

Enjoy cooking and eating.

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Chicken biriyani

One of my friend make great chicken biriyani. Every one here loves it.
I am sure you will like it too.

Ingredients:
Basmati rice - 2 cup
Chicken - 1 lb ( 1/2 kg)( with bone is preferred)
Onions - 2 medium size
Tomato - 2 medium size
Ginger garlic paste - 4 tsp heap full
1/2 bunch mint leaves
1/2 bunch coriander leaves
2 green chill or to taste
1/2 cup coconut    milk
4 tsp coriander powder
2 tsp chilli powder
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Cloves -2
Cinnamon -1 inch
cardamom - 1
Bay leaf - 2
 Oil - 3 Tbsp
Ghee - 3 Tbsp
Lemon - 1/2

Method :
1. Marinate chicken, ginger garlic paste, chilli powder, salt and turmeric and let it sit for an hour.
2. In a pan add oil. When it's hot add cloves,cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaf. Add onions sliced length wise and sauté nicely. Onions should be brown.
3. Add green chilli and ginger garlic paste and sauté well.
4. Now wash rice and drain all the water and add lemon juice and ghee and mix well and let it sit.
5. Add mint and coriander leaves and sauté.
6. Add marinated chicken and mix it and saute for fee minutes
7. Add soaked rice and fry for few minutes.
8. Add coriander powder and mix well.
9. Add 2 and 1/2 cup water, cocunut milk, salt and let it cook.
10. Once all the water is evaporated, put the flame to sim and let it cook slowly.
11. If you want colored biriyani, mix color powder in a Tbsp of water and pour it in few places on top and don't mix. Let it cook in sim.
12. After 30 minutes switch off the flame.
13. Mix slightly without breaking the rice. Don't mix it too much after the rice is cooked.

Enjoy cooking and eating.

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Sepan kazhangu fry / Arbi fry( colocasia fry )

Ingredients :
Sepan kazhangu  - 10 big pieces ( 1 lb)
Onion - 1/4 medium size chopped finely
Garlic - 5 pods chopped finely
Curry leaves - 5
Chilli powder - 3 tsp
Coriander powder - 4 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil - 3 Tbsp to 6 Tbsp ( If you want to roast it nicely add more oil at the end while roasting )

Method :

1. Cut Sepan kazhangu into medium pieces and cook. Check with knife. It should go easily into it.
     Don't over cook it. I don't pressure cook it for this reason.
2. Take the skin off and cut it into small cubes.
3. In a pan add 2 Tbsp of oils and when it is hot add garlic, curry leaves and onion.
4. Fry it until it is golden brown.
5. Add cooked Sepan kazhangu. Mix all the spices in little water and add that to it.
6. Mix everything well.
7. Let it cook in medium flame.
8. Once it little dry, add some more oil and sim.
9. Keep mixing it in between.
10.  Turn it off when it is nice brown color.

This is such a tasty side dish.
Try it and let me know.

Enjoy cooking and eating.

 

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Masala Egg omelette

Egg can be had in many ways. Omelette is one of tasty way of having it.

Even people who don't like eggs prefer omelette.

There are lots of ways you can make omelette. This is a simple masala egg omelette.

Ingredients :

Egg - 1

Chilli - 1 small size chopped finely

Onion - 2 tsp of chopped onion finely

Curry leaves - 1

Coriander leaves - 3 leaves chopped finely( optional )

Tomato - 1 tsp ( optional)

Turmeric  - 1/4 tsp

Pepper - 1/4 tsp

Salt to taste

Method : 

Step by step picture is shown below.

1. In pan add oil and when it is hot, add green chilli, onion, curry leaves and sauté them nicely.

2. Mix turmeric, salt and pepper in little water. This is to avoid the powder forming lumps in the omelette.

3. In a bowl, mix egg, onions green chilli and curry leaves and the water with turmeric,salt and pepper.

4. Mix tomato and coriander leaves and mix everything very well.

5. In a pan add little oil and when the pan is hot, add the mixed egg.

6. When it is cooked turn over and let the other side cook too.

Yummy egg omelette is ready.

You can make lot of variation on this.

If you are veggie lover, you can also add green pepper.

Enjoy cooking and eating.

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