Achappam

Achappam

Ingredients:

1. Maida - 1 cup

2. Rice Powder - 1 cup

3. Egg - 2

4. Black Sesame seeds - 2 tsp

5. Coconut Milk - 1 cup

6. Sugar - 3/4 cup

How to Prepare:

Take Maida and rice powder in a bowl and mix well. Add the eggs and mix again followed by black sesame seeds. Add sugar and coconut milk and little water and mix well. It should be in dosa batter form. Heat oil in a kadai and dip the achappam mould in it. When  the oil is hot,dip the mould in the batter and immediately dip in the oil and shake a little.. The achappam will come out from the mould easily if the mould is very hot. Fry the achappams. When you are frying the achappams, leave the mould in the oil itself. In this way the mould will be always hot.

Pictorial:

Add egg to the rice powder & maida mix                  Add black sesame seeds

 Add coconut milk and sugar and mix well.Add the mould is dipped in hot oil for some time. Dip the mould in the batter

 From the batter immediately drop it the oil.             Shake the mould a little and it slides away

Achappams are ready to eat!!!!

Moru Curry (Buttermilk Curry)

Moru Curry

Ingredients:

1. Ashgourd - 1

2. Green chillies - 2

3. Turmeric powder - 1 tsp

4. Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp

5. Jeera - 1 tsp

6. Grated Coconut - 5 tbsps

7. Mustard - 1 tsp

8. Dry chillies - 2

9. Curry leaves - few

10. Oil and salt

How to Prepare:

Chop the ashgourd to small pieces. Boil the chopped ashgourd along with green chillies and turmeric powder. You can slit the green chillies into two halves. Let it cook for 10 minutes. In the mean time, in a mixer take the grated coconut, jeera, turmeric powder and chilly powder and add little water and grind it to a smooth paste. Add this paste to the ashgourd and cook well for another 5 minutes. For seasoning, heat oil add mustard seeds and drychillies and curry leaves (I didnt have stock this time so didnt use). Add this to the curry. Allow it to cool. Once cooled down add the curd and mix well. The curry is ready to serve with hot rice.

 Pictorial:

Boil the ashgourd, chillies with turmeric powder.           Add the ingreidients to grind to a smooth paste.

Add the coconut paste                                                 Cook for 10 minutes

Add oil and add mustard seeds                                    Add dry chillies and fry

Add the seasoning to the curry                                      When it cools, add the curd and mix well

Serve it with rice and papad!!!

Cheese Cake

Cheese Cake

Ingredients:

1. Digestive Biscuits - 1 small packet
2. Butter melted - 1/2 cup
3. Cream cheese bar - 1
4. Whipped Cream or powder - 1 tin
5. Icing sugar - 1/2 cup
6. Springform pan

How to Prepare:

Take the biscuits in the mixer after breaking into pieces. Grind it. Take a bowl add the grinded biscuit powder and add the melted butter and mix well. Grease the springform pan with little butter and put the biscuit mix in it and spread evenly. Refrigerate it. Now take the bowl and add the cream cheese (I used philadelphia cream cheese) and beat it with the hand mixer. Add icing sugar and whipped cream and beat it nicely until it comes to smooth paste. Pour it in the pan above the biscuit mixture and refrigerate it 5 to 6 hours. Keep it in room temperature for half an hour before you serve. Enjoy the cake!!!

 Pictorial:

Put the biscuits in a mixie                                             Grind it to a powder

Melt butter and add it                                                   Mix well

 Spread evenly in the cake tin  and refrigerate                This is the cream cheese I used

 

 Keep ready cream cheese and whipping cream.           Take cream cheese in a bowl

 Add whipping cream and icing sugar                            Beat it with a hand mixer

                                                                                     

It will look like this                                                        Pour them in the the cake tin

Spread evenly. Refrigerate for 5-6 hours. 

 

Cheese Cake is ready !!!!!!

Strawberry Lassi

Strawberry Lassi

Ingredients:

1. Strawberry - 1 cup

2. Sugar - 1/2 cup

3. Yoghurt - 3/4 cup

4. Milk - 1/4 cup

How to prepare:

In a mixer grinder, add strawberries, sugar, yoghurt, milk. Blend it well. Serve chilled. This is very easy to make and can be prepared in 5 minutes and kids will love it.

Pictorial:

Wash and clean the strawberries                               In a mixie, add the strawberries

Add sugar                                                                    Add yoghurt and milk

Blend it                                                                                Lassi ready

  

Lassi ready. Serve chilled!!

     

Thepla (Methi Paratha)

Thepla

Thepla is a famous gujarati dish. Its also called as methi paratha. My neighbour is a gujarati and she often makes it. Whenever she makes it, she never forgets to give me the dough. This paratha is very healthy and nutritious. Normally this paratha is apt for packing when you are travelling long distances as it will last for 4-5 days.

Ingredients:

1. Wheat Flour -  1 cup

2. Besan Flour - 1/2 cup

3. Methi leaves - 1 cup

4. Turmeric powder - 1 tsp

5. Chilly powder - 1.5 tsp

6. Coriander powder - 1.5 tsp

7. Jeera - 1.5 tsp

9. Ajwain (Omam) - 1.5 tsp

10. Salt, Water & Oil

How to Prepare:

Take a bowl and add wheat flour, besan flour, methi leaves, turmeric powder, chilly powder, coriander powder, jeera, ajwain and salt. Add Water and mix well and make a dough. Keep it for half an hour. Divide it to small balls and roll it with the roller pin. Heat a tawa and put the thepla and add oil. Cook on both sides till the brown black spots appear. Ajwain gives a nice aroma while the paratha is getting cooked. Serve it with pickle or yoghurt.

 Pictorial:

Take all the ingredients in a bowl                                Mix well

 Add water and make a dough                                     Make a small round balls

 Roll the balls with the roller pin                          Roast the paratha on both sides in a tawa adding oil

Thepla is ready to eat. Serve it with pickle or yoghurt!!