Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake

Chocolate Cake

I like cakes and have made many cakes out of cake mixes. But this is my first cake I made from the scratch till the end including icing. Its a very simple cake made without eggs. It turned out well and cant express the exitement I got. The yummy chocolaty texture!!!. Everyone in my family liked it. It made me so content and happy.You can see more of my bakes in the future :)

Ingredients:

1. Maida - 11/2 cup

2. Cocoa Powder - 4 tbsp

3. Sugar - 3/4 cup

4. Buttermilk - 3 tbsp

5. Baking soda - 1tsp

6. Oil - 1 tsp

For Icing:

1. Chocolate - 2 Bars

2. Butter - 2 tbsp

How to Prepare:

In a bowl, pour the buttermilk and baking soda and keep it aside. Take a bowl add maida and cocoa powder and mix well. Boil water in a pan add sugar mix well. After the sugar get dissolved add water and add to the maida-cocoa mixture. Add the buttermilk and mix well until there are no lumps and comes to a smooth consistency. Pour the batter in a bowl and microwave for 5-6 minutes. Take a fork and prick in the cake and if the fork comes out clean, then the cake is cooked and ready. Allow it to cool. For the icing, take a bowl and add the chocolate and butter and microwave for a minutes. Mix well. Icing is ready. Apply on the cake and set it for 5-10 minutes. You can decorate with chocolate balls. I used used wafers in the middle. Yummy chocolate cake is ready!!!!!

Pictorial:

Add baking soda to the buttermilk.                            Take maida and cocoa powder

Mix well                                                                      Add sugar to the hot water

Add oil and pour to the maida mix                             Add the buttermilk and baking soda mix

Mix well. Microwave it for 5-6 minutes                   Prick with the fork to see cake is cooked

   Allow the cake to cool. Take it out and keep it on the plate.

For Icing:

Take chocolate and butter in a bowl                           Microwave for a minute and mix well

Apply the chocolate icing on the cake                        Spread evenly 

Decorate it with wafers                                              

           Chocolate cake is ready !!!!!

Rajma Masala

Rajma Masala

Rajma Masala

Rajma is a very nutritious kidney bean. About  100 grams of boiled Rajma beans contain140 calories. 5.7 grams of protein, 9 grams of fat and nearly 17.8 grams of carbohydrate. This gravy goes very well with rotis and rice. Rajma chawal is very famous in north India.

Ingredients:

1. Rajma - 1 cup

2. Onion - 1 (Big)

3. Tomato - 2

4. Ginger-Garlic Paste - 1tbsp

5. Green Chilly - 1

6. Chilly Powder - 1 tbsp

7. Coriander Powder - 3/4 tbsp

8. Garam Masala Powder - 1 tsp

9. Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp

10. Pepper - 1 tbsp

11. Jeera - 1 tbsp

12. Coriander leaves - few

How to Prepare:

Soak the rajma overnight and cook well. Keep it aside. Heat oil in a kadai. Add jeera and pepper and fry. Add the chopped onion and green chilly and saute well. Add the ginger galic paste. Saute well. Add the chopped tomatoes and saute well till it becomes mushy. Add the chilly powder, turmeric powder and coriander powder and salt. Saute well till everything is blended together. Switch off the stove and let it cool down. Grind it to a smooth paste. Heat oil in a kadai, add the ground paste followed by the cooked rajma. Cook well till the gravy becomes thick. Add coriander leaves.

Pictorial:

Heat oil. Add Pepper                                                     Add jeera

Add the chopped onion and green chilly                         Add ginger garlic paste

Add the chopped tomatoes                                            Saute till it becomes mushy

 Add all the spice powders and grind it to a smooth paste. Heat oil in a kadai, add the cooked rajma and the grinded paste and cook well till the gravy becomes thick.

  Garnish with coriander leaves!!!!!!

Chole Masala

Chole Masala

Chole Masala

 Chole Masala is a famous dish in North India specially in Punjab. It goes very well with Chapathi, Puri and Batura. In South India, it is cooked in a different form called Kadala curry (with or without coconut) and commonly served with puttu and appams.

 Ingredients:

1. Chickpeas - 1 cup
2. Onion - 3
3. Tomato - 3
4. Garlic - 3 pods
5. Green chilly - 1
6. Chilly Powder - 1 tbsp
7. Coriander Powder - 3/4 tbsp
8. Garam Masala - 1tsp
9. Pepper - 1 tbsp
8. Jeera - 1 tbsp
9. Turmeric powder - 1tsp

How to Prepare:

Soak the chickpeas overnight and boil it and keep it aside.Heat oil in kadai. Add pepper and jeera and fry. Then  add chopped onion (2 onions) and garlic along with salt and saute well. Add the chopped onions and saute. Once cooked well and becomes mushy, keep it aside and let it cool. Then grind it to a smooth paste. Heat oil in pan add the remaining chopped onion, green chilly and saute well. Add the chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and the garam masala powder and saute it. Then add the cooked chickpeas and little water and cook it until the gravy becomes thick. Garnish it wih coriander leaves. Add lime juice for an enhanced flavour. Serve with rotis with sliced round onions.

Pictorial:

Heat oil. Add Pepper                                                     Add Jeera

 Add the chopped onions                                                Add Garlic

Add the chopped tomatoes. Grind it to a smooth paste. Keep it aside. Heat oil and add the chopped onion and green chilly

Add all the spice powders                                             Saute it well

 Add the cooked Chickpeas                                           Add little water and cook

Cook till the gravy becomes thick

  Garnish it with coriander leaves and sliced onions!!!!!!

 

Carrot-Cabbage Thoran

Ingredients:

1. Cabbage - 1 cup

2. Carrot - 1 cup

3. Onion - 1

4. Garlic- 2 pods

5. Green chilly - 1

6. Curry leaves - few

7. Coconut - 3 tbsps (Grated)

8. Turmeric powder - 1 tsp

How to Prepare:

Chop the onion, carrot and onion nicely to small pieces. I used my food processor to do the chopping work.

Chop the green chilly and garlic and keep it side. Take a bowl and mix the chopped carrot, cabbage, onion, garlic, green chilly. Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds, when it splutters add the chopped garlic and green chilly. Add the mixture and saute it for a minute. Add salt, curry leaves, turmeric powder and grated cocunut and mix well. Cover it with a lid and cook for 7-8 minutes in a low flame. Serve hot with rice.

Pictorial:

Chop Onion,carrot and onion                                        Chop Garlic & Green Chilly

Add Mustard                                                                 Add garlic & green chilly

Add the chopped vegetables                                             Add the grated coconut

Add curry leaves                                                          Cover with a lid and cook