Chocolate Vanilla Mix Cake

 

Chocolate Vanilla Cake

 

This is my  little son Kevin’s Favourite flavour….whenever he asks for a cake it would be Chocolate Vanilla Mix Cake!!!!He likes this with lots of icing…but here its a simple cake only.

 

Things you need are that of a basic vanilla cake….

 

Ingredients

Butter (Cooking Butter) -200gms

White Cooking Butter

Castor sugar/powdered sugar – 200gms

Eggs – 4 whole

Plain Flour/Maida – 200gms

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Baking soda – 1/4 tsp

Vanilla essence -1 tsp

Cocoa powder – 2 tbsps

Milk – 3 tbsps

 

Method

In a mixing bowl take butter at room temperature and add the powdered sugar cream together till soft and add eggs one after the other and combine well…do not overbeat it may curdle….

Sieve the dry ingredients..plain flour,baking powder and baking soda and keep.

Mix cocoa powder in the milk and keep.

Now add the vanilla essence to the butter sugar mixture and fold in the dry ingredients and incorporate  the air well into the batter by folding the flour only in one direction.

Divide the batter into two portions and  in the second portion mix in the milk  and cocoa mixture and combine well.

Preheat the oven to 180 degree C .

Grease the cake tin and dust with flour and pour in the vanilla batter first and then the chocolate cake batter over the vanilla and pass a knife over the batter.

Chocolate and vanilla mix batter in the cake tin

Now place the cake tin in the middle rack and bake at 180 degrees C for about 25-30 mins as there is hollow in the middle.

Finished cake

When the cake tin is put upside down you get this wonderful chocolate vanilla mix cake…

Sliced Cake

Cakes And Cupcakes

 

Bake ….Serve ……And Enjoy…

 

 

 

Coffee Cake

 

Coffee Cake

 

You know what….this is the perfect Coffee Cake for Tea Time!!!!!!!This cake tastes better the day after you bake it…Very simple and easy….try out this and enjoy baking.

Things you need are

Cooking Butter(White Butter) -200 gms at room temperature.

Castor sugar or powdered sugar – 200 gms

Eggs whole  - 4large

Plain flour/Maida – 200gms

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Baking soda – 1/8 tsp

Instant coffee powder – 2 tsps  mix into 2tbsps of warm water

Method

All you need to do first is sieve the dry ingredients ..plain flour,baking powder and baking soda and keep.

Take a mixing bowl drop in the butter and powdered sugar and cream well till soft,can use a normal whisk or hand mixer.

Add eggs one by one and whisk gently,pour in the coffee mixture and combine.

Lastly fold in the sieved dry ingredients and combine by folding technic  to get the cake batter

Coffee Cake Batter

 

Now preheat the oven to 180  degrees .

Take a cake pan/tin and grease it with butter and dust flour and shake off the excess flour and pour in the cake batter into the cake tin.

Place the cake tin in the middle rack and bake for about 20-25 mins.

Check the cake after 15-20 mins with a skewer or skarp knife for doneness….the skewer should come out clean..if something is sticking …bake further a couple of mins till done.

Baked cake in the tin

 

When done remove and place to cool and turn upside down on to large platter.

Coffee Cake

Slice and serve as you wish.

 

Coffee Cake

 

Butter Chicken -2

Butter chicken

This is also my signature dish ,experimented and tasted…..I would say confidently that this dish will satisfy any pallette..be it Indian or Asian ..or any other part of the world..I have posted a Butter Chicken recipe before also in my blog so thats why now added 2 to the title….and this recipe is totally my combination of different ingredients than in the other recipe and it was so amazing….try and taste..

Ingredients

Boneless chicken – 300 gms.cut into fine cubes

Sa;t to taste

Chilli powder 1and 1/2 tsp

Orange red food colour – 1 pinch

Onions – 1 large finely chopped

Green chilli – 1-2 mince finely

Ginger garlic paste -1 tsp

Tomatoes – 3 med wash and dice

Fresh coriander/Cilantro – a hand ful chopped

Yoghurt/Curd – 4 tbsps

Biryani masala – 1/2 tsp (See recipe in my homemade spice powders – category)

Dry coconut – 1/2 cup grated

Garlic cloves – 2 small

Butter – 10-15 gms or 1 small cube

Oil – 3 tbsps

Preparation

1-First take a bowl and combine chicken,salt ,1/2 tsp chilli powder and food colour,mix well and keep 10 mins.

2-Blend Tomatoes and fresh coriander into a puree and keep.

3-Powder dry coconut and garlic cloves.

Method 

Heat a large wok and add oil first and drop in the onions and fry 2 mins and add the ginger garlic paste and fry further.

Now add the minced green chillies,and marinated chicken and continue to stir  to avoid sticking to the pan for 2 more mins.

Add the remaining chilli powder and lower the heat and add yoghurt and stir continuosly to avoid curdling now add the tomato puree and fry till raw smell of tomatoes is vanished.

Lastly sprinke biryani masala and coconut powder continue stirring on med heat till chicken is tender…adjust salt and 1/2 cup of water and cook 3-4 mins finish the dish by dropping in the butter and fresh coriander a little chopped and combine well.

Turn off the heat and serve with Tandoori Rotis or any Indian Breads(Chapatis/Rumali Rotis/Nans/Parathas…)

This dish is finished injust 12-15 mins..but you need to stir continuosly to get the best result!!!!

Homestyle Tandoori Roti

Homestyle Tandoori Rotis

Feel like eating Tandoori Roti….Sure you can even without having a TANDOOR OVEN at home…just try this method of cooking…its fun and worth tasting at the end…

All you need is to prepare dough…and to start with you need the below  mentioned Ingredients.

Plain flour/Maida – 2 cups

Whole wheat flour -1 cup

Salt to taste

Baking soda -2 pinches

Baking powder – 1/2 tsp

Yoghurt/Curd -3 tbsps

Oil – 2 tsps

Water to combine the flours to make dough.

Method

First take a large mixing bowl and combine all the above listed ingredients to get the dough…should look like chapati dough…not too loose or too hard !!!…but just soft and firm.

Cover the dough with a damp cloth and keep covered for about half an hour.

Now divide in to equal portions….you can make nearly 8 rotis with the prepared dough.

Prepared Dough Portions

Roll out the dough into discs a bit thicker than how we make chapatis and keep

Now here is the Tricky Thing…Place the griddle/tawa on the burner or cook top and heat well till almost it smokes.

Then sprinkle a handful of water onto the hot griddle and IMMEDIATELY put the roti on to the tawa and gently press down so that it sticks to the tawa and let the roti bubble up as shown…

Roti on the Tawa

Let it bubble well all over and get cooked on that side…You may burn it or undercook it for the first time but do not worry….Try …and try.

Now this is the crucial part of the TANDOORI ROTI…..now you need to remove tawa from the burner and reverse the roti side down…roti does not fall but you need to rotate the tawa so that the flame touches all over and cook the other side  as shown…

Roti being cooked on the reversed tawa

Take care that you not burn …let brown and bubble up…now remove with the spatula and stack till you finish all.

Serve with the wonderful butter chicken -2 recipe I’m going to post here on my blog… or any paneer recipes or your fav gravy….

Tandoori Roti With Butter Chicken

These Tandoori Rotis are so soft on the inside and crisp on the out side…and tastes so different because of the ingredients used to prepare dough….i have tried this by myself and this came out well….serve restaurant style food to your family at home.

Biryani Masala

Ingredients For Biryani Masala

For Biryani Masala
•Bayleaf – 1
•Cinammon – 2 inch piece
•Cloves – 5
•Green cardomom – 5
•Black cardomom – 1 large
•Black pepper corns – 1/2 tsp.
•Shajeera – 1 tsp.
•Fennel – 1/2 tsp.
•Cumin – 1/2 tsp.
•Mace – 1
•Nutmeg – 1 pinch
•Staranise – 3 petals

Dry roast all these ingredients and make into powder.
This will make approx. 1 tbsp of biryani masala.

Biryani masala powder

Use this biryani masala for Chicken Biryani or Mutton Biryani or even for Vegetable Biryani.

See Recipes for Brinjal Biryani….The vegetarian special.

Vegetable Cutlets

 

Vegetable Cutlets

 

All you need for this wonderful recipe is

Potatoes – 2 large( Boil peel and mash)

Carrots – 2 med (Boil peel and Mash)

Green peas – fresh or frozen 1 cup(Boil and crush slightly)

Onion – 1 med finely chopped

Green Chilli – 1-2 deseed and mince

Fresh herbs

Dill – 2tbsps chopped

Fresh coriander – 2tbsps chopped

Fresh mint – 1 tbsp chopped

Salt as per taste

Garam masala – 1 tsp

Oil for deep fry

Cornflour – 1 cup

Egg – 1 whole

Bread crumbs – 1 cup

Method

First you need to take the boiled potatoes,carrot and green peas and mix well.

Mashed Potato,Carrot and Green peas

 

Then add the chopped onion,green chilli and fresh herbs mentioned and add the salt and garam masala,mix well to combine the mixture.

Now shape into your desired shape and keep as shown

Shaped Cutlets

The next step is to coat them in flour,egg and bread crumbs.

Flour,Egg and Bread crumbs

Always remember the Standard Procedure of coating any thing you would fry like meat balls or fish to be coated and fried…follow the F E B…Flour,egg and Bread crumbs…

Coat the cutlets in flour first to look like this

Then dip in the beaten egg and coat with the bread crumbs and deep fry till golden brown.

Serve hot as an evening snack…or an appetizer.

veg cutlets

Bread Pizza

Bread Pizza

Ingredients

Sandwich Bread Slices – 6

Pizza sauce or tomato ketchup – 4-5 tbsps

Mozzarella Cheese shredded – 1 cup

Mozzarella cheese

To prepare the vegetables for topping you need

Oil – 1tbsp

Sliced onion – 1 cup

Sliced carrot 1/2 cup

Green chilli – 1 minced

Spring onion – chopped 1/2 cup

Salt and Pepper for seasoning

Method

First heat a pan and add oil saute the sliced onion,carrot,green chilli and white part of the spring onion fry well and season it with salt and pepper and take off the burner and keep.

Prepared veggies for topping

Take the bread slices and place them on the baking tray and spread sauce well,then spread the prepared veggies and remaining spring onion greens.

Bread Pizza

Now top with the Mozzarella Cheese

Place the baking tray under the grill in the oven as shown

under the grill

Grill till the cheese melts and slightly browned..thats it..Easy Cheesy Vegetable Pizzas are ready to Gobble up.

If you do not have the grill oven can use your Microwave oven…But this takes 1-2 mins only and the cheese do not brown…only melts!!!!

Veg Bread Pizzas

Chilli Chicken

Chilli Chicken

This is the most loved recipe in my home,mostly by the kids..prepared using boneless chicken marinated in flavoured batter,deep fried and then soaked in yoghurt and later fried in oil along with few herbs and chilli..tastes much better than you eat in a restaurant…coz its made at Home!!!!..You Gotta Try This.

Ingredients

First batch of Ingredients

Boneless Chicken -300 gms

Corn flour – 5 tbsps

Plain flour – 2 tbsps

Egg – 1 whole

Salt as per taste

Red chilli Paste – 1/2 tsp

Pepper powder – 1/4 tsp

Water – 2 tsps

Oil for deep fry

Second batch of Ingredients

Yoghurt – 1 cup

Chilli Powder – 1/4tsp

Orange food colour – 1 pinch (optional)

A pinch of salt

Third batch of Ingredients

Oil – 2 tsps

Garlic and Ginger – 1 tsp minced

Green chilli – 2-3 sliced

Onion – 1 med sliced

Curry leaves – 2 sprigs

Fresh Coriander – 3 tbsps chopped

Lemon juice – 1/2 tsp

Corn Starch – 4 tbsps (Mix 1 tbsp of corn flour in 4 tbsps of water and keep)

Method

1.First take a mixing bowl and mix  all the ingredients mentioned in the first batch except the oil and keep for 20-30 mins covered.

2.Heat the oil  in a wok and deep fry the marinated chicken in two batches till golden brown and drain onto paper towels.

3.Now mix the ingredients of second batch and add the fried chicken to it,mix well and keep aside

4.Take another pan and drop in the 2 tbsps of oil and add the ingredients of third batch except lemon juice,corn starch and  fresh coriander one by one and saute on med-high heat for 2-3 mins.

5.Lastly add the fried chicken soaked in yoghurt mix,fry well till the water evaporates and chicken seperates,now sprinkle corn starch and stir well,drop in the fresh coriander and lemon juice stir another 1-2 mins and turn off the heat.

Chilli Chicken

This is the best side dish for chinese fried rice or as a starter or side dish for any meal.Named it as chilli chicken coz..I used chilli powder,red chilli paste and green chillies too..

Crispy Fried Tindly

Crispy Fried Tindly

Tindly or Dondakayalu as said in telugu is one of the humble vegetable available through out the year.This veggy is very tasty when fried or as curry..you can find many recipes in my blog…in chutneys and stuffed curry style….try out this recipe….I would like to call as Tindly – 65 too…!!!

Ingredients

Tindly – 250 gms

Plain flour/maida – 1/2 cup

Cornflour – 1/4 cup

Ginger garlic paste -1 tsp

Salt as per taste

Chilli powder – 1 tsp

Turmeric/Haldi – 1 pinch

Water to mix the above ingredients – 2-3 tbsps

Oil – for deep fry

Method

First wash the tindly pat dry and trim edges,then slice into thin long strips as shown

Sliced Tindly

Take a mixing bowl drop in all the mentioned ingredients except oil and mix well to coat well,keep for about 10-15 mins.

Place a wok and add oil for deep fry,Heat the oil and drop the marinated veggies into the oil ashow you fry dumplings or pakoras.Do not drop in lumps but sprinkle in a single layer.

Fry well till golden brown and done.

Serve hot as a side dish with any meal.You can even serve as a delicious snack…

Crispy Fried Tindly

Crispy Vermicelli Savoury Snack

 

Crispy Vermicelli Savoury Snack

 

Ingredients

Vermicelli – 2 cups

Potato – 1 large boiled and mashed

Onion – 1 med chopped

Green chilli – 1 minced

Curry leaves – 2 sprigs finely chopped

Plain flour/Maida – 2-3 tbsps

Chickpea flour/Besan – 2 tsps

Salt – as per taste

Red chilli powder – 1/4 tsp

Garam Masala (5 spice Powder) – 1/2 tsp

Method

Take a mixing bowl and combine all the ingredients gently,prepare patties as per your required size and keep.

Heat oil for deep frying and fry the patties till golden brown in colour,remove and drain on paper towels

Serve hot on a cold winter day or a rainy day or for your kids Party as a Savoury  Snack.

 

Vermicelli Patties