Butter Paneer Masala..

Now I understand why new mom's are so exhausted and tired every time... Before 2 weeks my life was so different and now my life is so exciting and busy. I use to finish my household work in the morning and then jump on blog and facebook for whole day till my hubby comes homes.. Now from the time I woke up and till I sleep I'm so busy with my little girl and I don't even have time to check my mails, Facebook nor write blog.. Actually this is what I wanted all this time and now its here... I got some time today and thought to do quick post about my recipe.

Butter Paneer Masala.. This is one of the most famous paneer dish which is served in almost all the Indian restaurant. I had made this dish when I was pregnant keeping this in my mind that I wount be getting time to do anything thing atleast for a month so I had cooked few dishes and draft them and this is the best time to clear off my all draft posts..

Ingredient's.

250gms paneer cubes

4tbsp butter

1 big onion, 2 green chilli (finely chopped)

1 tbsp ginger garlic paste

1cup tomato puree

1 tbsp chilli powder, 1/2tsp turmeric, 1tsp coriander powder, 1tsp garam masala

1/2cup fresh cream

1tbsp kasuri meethi

Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

Heat 1tbsp butter in a pan, add the paneer and saute till it turns to golden brown in colour.

Remove from the flame and keep aside.

Heat the remaining butter in the same pan, add the onion, green chilli and ginger-garlic paste, mix well and saute for 5 minutes on medium flame.

Add the chilli powder, garam masala, turmeric, coriander, salt and tomato puree, mix and cook for 5 minutes.

Add the paneer and 1/4cup of water and simmer for 4 to 5minutes minutes.

Then add the cream and simmer futher for 2 minutes. Sprinkle the kasuri meethis from top.

Garnished with coriander and Serve hot with Naan, Roti or Jeera Rice..

Basic Sponge Cake/ Vanilla Sponge Cake.

Happy New Year 2014 to all my readers and blogger friends.. I know i'm 1 day late to wish you all, what to do I was very lazy for 2 weeks because of my hubby's holidays and was not feeling like posting or doing anything.. Last 2 weeks it was like a honeymoon period for me, not much to cook or do household work, was just shopping, eating outside and roaming and for him also it was the best time to rest after a very hectic work schedule. This was the best new year I had after very very long time... Actually I had feeling that I would be doing this only once his holidays starts, because of that only I had baked this cake before and took the pictures, so when I bake it again on new year I don't have to take the pictures.. The cake had turnout very tasty and soft. I serve it with some whipped cream and fruits you can serve as you like..

Ingredient's.

1 cup all purpose flour

1tsp baking powder

2/3 cup melted butter

2 eggs

1/2 cup sugar

1tsp vanilla essence

1/2 cup milk

1tsp lemon zest

1tsp lemon juice.

Baking Method.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Butter the round baking pan and keep it aside.

Stir together the flour and baking powder in a large bowl, set it aside.

Beat the eggs and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add the melted butter and blend for another 1minute. Add the milk and vanilla essence in a small bowl and mix it well, then add it to the egg mixture and blend for another 30 to 40sec.

Add the dry ingredients and with the speed on low mix together slowly by making sure not to over mix. Mix everything with a spatula from the bottom to incorporate any bit that wasn't mixed.

Pour the batter into buttered pan and bake for 30 to 31minutes. Allow it cool before taking out from the pan, then cut and sprinkle some icing sugar on top.

Serve as you like..

Plum Cake.. Merry Christmas 2013.

Plum Cake - I had got all the ingredient's well before 1 week and had kept on kitchen slab last night to make sure that I don't forget to bake it today morning. It was a long pending ToDo in my list during X'mas and due to one or the other reason it was always missed... Whole night I was dreaming about the cake only and could not sleep for a very long time.As soon as I woke up, ran to kitchen and started baking the cake so that I can take the picture when the sun is still bright(Sun light always brings best pictures). If I would have got late then I would have not got so good pictures.. Here the sun is so unpredictable and I don't get enough time to relax and do the work. That is the main reason I have to finish my blog work before noon. Any ways all this part of life I am learning to go with flow.. Merry Christmas to everyone enjoy your day to the fullest...

Ingredient's.

3/4 cup all purpose flour

2+1/2tbsp cocoa powder

1tsp baking powder

1/2tbsp instant coffee

1/2 cup butter

2 eggs

1/2 cup sugar

1tsp vanilla essence

1/2 cup milk

1 cup mix berry's, nuts and tutti frutti.

Baking Method.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Butter the square baking pan and keep it aside.

Stir together the flour, baking powder and cocoa powder in a large bowl, set it aside.

Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add the egg and blend for another 1minute. Add the milk, coffee and vanilla essence in a small bowl and mix it well, then add it to the egg mixture and blend for another 30 to 40sec.

Add the dry ingredients and with the speed on low mix together slowly by making sure not to over mix. Then add the berry's, nuts and tutti frutti and mix everything with a spatula from the bottom to incorporate any bit that wasn't mixed.

Pour the batter into buttered pan and bake for 30 to 31minutes. Allow it cool before taking out from the pan, then cut and sprinkle some icing sugar on top.

Serve as you like..

Choco Walnut Tea Cake..

Choco Walnut Tea Cake...I had bought a bottle of drinking chocolate few days back and in the starting we both use to drink every second day. After a while we felt bore and stopped completely and I forgot about it.. While I was cleaning my kitchen, found that bottle and was not having idea what to do with it.. Then suddenly my mind strike, why don't I bake muffins and that's how I ended up making Tea Cake... I have used drinking chocolate instead of cocoa powder in this cake to try out different recipe and I must say this was worth of trying and it came out very well, Though it was bit dry according to me but it was going very well with whipped cream on top and cup of tea...

Then after some days I had baked this cake again by adding more milk and it turn out very soft and moist. This recipe is for the cake which I baked second time, so no need to worry if you run out of cocoa powder at home and you have drinking chocolate which is not being used for some reason this is the best recipe to use that drinking chocolate..

Ingredient's.

1/2cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup drinking chocolate powder 

1tsp baking powder 

1/2 cup milk

1tsp vanilla extract

1/4 cup butter

1/3 cup white sugar

1egg, room temperature

1/4 cup chopped walnuts.

Baking Method.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Butter the flat square baking pan or loaf pan and keep it aside.

Stir together the flour, baking powder, drinking chocolate powder in a large bowl, set it aside.

Beat the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add the egg and blend for another 1minute.

Add the dry ingredients and with the speed on low mix together and slowly add the milk and just mix everything to combine, making sure not to over mix. Then add the chopped walnuts and make sure you give everything a good stir with a spatula from the bottom to incorporate any bit that wasn't mixed.

Pour the batter into buttered pan and bake for 30 to 35minutes. Allow it cool before taking out from the pan, then cut into square shape and sprinkle some icing sugar on top.

Serve with Tea or Coffee.

Breakfast Chocolate Chunks Muffins..

Chocolate Chunks Muffins.. Muffins are very versatile you can keep on changing or adding the ingredients and they taste better every time. I have never baked the muffins by following the same recipe I keep the measurement same and change the ingredients each time I bake. Last week I bought a pack of chocolate chunks cookies from pound land and from there only I got this name idea and I wanted to add the cookies also in the muffins but unfortunately they were no cookies left, then I decided to save that recipe for one more day and just do with chocolate and cinnamon... I have added the dairymilk chocolate but I felt it was better if I would have added some other chocolate. No problem I will leave it to you all to choose from your favourite chocolate and enjoy this muffins for breakfast.

Preparation time: 10 minutes 

Baking time: 20 minutes 

Serving: 9 medium cupcakes.

Ingredient's.

1/2cups all-purpose flour

1/6 cup cocoa powder 

1tsp baking powder

1/4 cup chocolate chunks

1/4tsp cinnamon powder 

1/3 cup milk

1tsp vanilla extract

1/4 cup butter

1/3 cup white sugar

1egg, room temperature.

Baking Method.

Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Line 9 cup muffin pans with paper baking cups.

Stir together the flour, baking powder, coco powder and cinnamon in a large bowl, set it aside.

Beat the butter and sugar in a large bowl until light and fluffy. Add the egg and beat for another 1minute.

Add the dry ingredients and just mix together and slowly add the milk and just mix everything to combine. Add chocolate chunks and make sure you give everything a good stir with a spatula from the bottom to incorporate any bit that wasn't mixed.

Scoop the batter into your lined cupcake tin, make sure it's only filled ¾ of the way up because they will rise. Bake for 18-20 minutes and let cool before serving.

Serve with whipped cream or just like that.

Mushroom Pasta With Mint And Tomato Sauce.

Mushroom Pasta With Mint And Tomato Sauce. This is my new innovation to pasta. Pasta is something like can be cooked with any kind of sauce and with almost any ingredients, that is the most important thing I like while cooking pasta, the more you play with ingredients the tastier the pasta is. It has happened with me many time that I plan to cook some other recipe and I end up cooking something else and I don't know how it turns out to be the best dish, specially in Italian food.

Yesterday I had a plan to cook just plain tomato sauce paste, but I added mint and mushroom to and it was quite a delicious pasta, with fresh mint flavour in it.. I have just added the mint leaves, if you want to grind the mint leaves with tomato go head and try and do let me know the taste... You don't need any side dish for this, it has everything in it. So cook and enjoy.

Ingredient's.

1 cup paste (any shape pasta)

3 button mushroom (roughly chopped)

1 medium onion (roughly chopped)

1 cup tomato puree

2 green chilli

1tsp cruched ginger and garlic

Hand full of fresh mint leaves

Pinch of black pepper

Pinch of red chilli flakes

1/4tsp mixed herbs or Oregano

1tbsp butter

Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

Boil the pasta as per the instruction on the pack and keep it aside.

In a wok, add butter, when butter melts, add crushed ginger and garlic, sautee to light brown, add onion and green chilli, sautee for a minutes. Then add mushroom and mint leaves, fry for another 2 minutes, add tomato puree, black pepper powder, mixed herbs, chilli flakes and salt, cook till the tomato has changed color to red, that will take about 2 to 3 minutes.

Now add boiled paste and mix everything nicely and sautee for another 2 to 3 minutes.. Then sprinkle some more mint leaves on top.

Serve hot hot...

Omelette And Cheese Sandwich..

Omelette & Cheese Sandwich.. From past 2 to 3days I'm only having omelette and cheese sandwich for the breakfast.. Actually this is routine in my house that we eat bread and omelette atleast 3 to 4 times in a week, sometime I feel bore and try new recipe in the same ingredients... This is one of the best recipe of normal bread and omelette to cheese and omelette sandwich. To cook this sandwich you don't need and fancy ingredients or appliances, you can cook just with few ingredients like (eggs, bread, cheese and onion) and it taste great with juice or a cup of hot tea... It can be served as a snacks too..

Ingredient's.

2 eggs

4 slices of bread

2tbsp cheese (you can use how much you want)

1 medium onion, 1 green chili (finely chopped)

Pinch of black pepper powder

1tsp oil

1tsp butter

Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

In a large mixing bowl. add eggs, onion, green chili, black pepper and salt, mix them all together, and make omelette by using 1tsp oil.

In a mean time apply butter on to the bread slices and set it aside.

Once the omelette is cooked, take out on to a plate. Then on the same pan place the bread slices and sprinkle the cheese on top, now place half omelette on top of the bread and sprinkle some more cheese on top and cover it with another bread, and fry both the side until golden brown on a slow flame..

Repeat the same process for rest of the bread..

Serve hot with Juice or Tea.

Instant Wheat Dosa..

Instant Wheat Dosa.. This is a very easy and healthy dosa prepared with just few ingredients (wheat flour, rice flour, curd and salt) and this is one of the healthy way to start your day or even when you have very less time to cook something healthy and delicious, then this is the best option.. There are many ways you can cook this wheat flour dosa, but I like this one because it looks neat like a normal dosa. or else wheat flour dosa usually looks very messy. This dosa batter is bit thick compare to the usual wheat dosa batter and it works very well on pan and keeps the kitchen clean. That is the most important thing I want in my kitchen.. Can change or add more ingredients according to your taste...

Ingredient's.

1 cup whole wheat flour

1/4 cup rice flour

1/2 cup curd or butter milk

1tbsp butter

1 cup water to make a dosa batter (you can even add more water if needed)

Salt to taste

Oil for applying on pan.

Cooking Method.

In a large mixing bowl, add both the flour and butter, mix it nicely.

Then add curd, salt and water, make a batter( batter should be the same consistency like normal dosa batter) and keep it aside for 2 to 3 minutes.

Now heat a tawa, once the tawa is heated, reduce the heat to medium, pour a ladle of batter and make round shape dosa and pour little oil from top and cook till crispy on the edges.. Repeat the same process for rest of the batter.

Serve immediately with Coconut or Peanuts chutney..

Masoor Dal Makhni.. (Whole Red Lentil Curry)

Masoor Dal Makhni... After I started cooking this whole masoor dal makhni I totally forgot about the dal makhni... I really feel this dal is more tastier and easier to cook. You don't need to add cream or milk it taste delicious even without any of the heavy ingredient's and gives the same taste as Dal Makhni.. I have tryded even with cream, but I like with out cream or milk.. You can change or add ingredients according to your taste.. Serve with Jeera Rice and Naan and take my words you'll also forget about the other dals...

Ingredient's

1 cup whole masoor dal

1/4 cup rajma

1 medium onion, 1 large tomato, 2 green chillies

1tsp red chilli powder, 1/2tsp turmeric, 1tsp coriander powder, 1tsp garam masala

1tbsp ginger garlic paste

1/2tsp cumin

Hand full of chopped coriander leaves

1/4 cup cream or milk (optional)

Butter 2tbsp

Oil 1tbsp

Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

Soak the rajma for 3 to 4 hours, then in a pressure cook add whole masoor dal, rajma, salt and 2 cups of water and boil for 4 to 5 whistle on a low flame. After boiled take out from the pressure cooker and set it aside.

In the same pressure cooker, add butter and oil, when hot add cumin, onion and green chillies, fry to golden brown, then add all the masala powder, ginger garlic paste and tomato, fry all the masala till the oil start separating and keep smashing the tomato in between.

Now add the boiled dal and little water if required and give a nice mix, adjust the salt and close the pressure cooker lid and cook for another 2 whistle on a low flame.. Allow the pressure to go completely before opening the pressure cooker. Then mix in the coriander leaves and (cream or milk) give a quick mix and again close the pressure cooker.. Whole Masoor Dal Makhni is ready to serve.

Serve hot with Jeera Rice or Naan..