Cranberry And Chocolate Cake Loaf!!

Cranberry And Chocolate Cake Loaf!! This is one my best cake, which I can make even closing my eyes and eat even in the mid night without think about the calories. This taste awesome with vanilla ice cream topped with some chopped salted peanuts..

Ingredient's.

1+1/2 cup all purpose flour

1+1/2 cup sugar

3/4 cup cocoa powder

1/2 tbsp baking soda

3/4 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

2 large eggs

3/4 cup butter milk

3/4 cup warm water

1/4 cup cooking oil

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 cup dried or fresh cranberry. (Buy Here -> Cranberry Whole 250g)

Baking Method.

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

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

Beat the oil and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl for few minutes. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add the egg and blend for another minute or 2, add the vanilla essence and warm water and give a quick mix.

Now add the dry ingredients and with the speed on low mix together and slowly add the butter milk and just mix everything to combine, making sure not to over mix. Then add the cranberry and mix everything well.

Pour the batter into buttered pan and bake for 30 to 35minutes. Allow it cool before taking out from the pan. Then sprinkle the icing sugar on top and Then cut them into slices and serve with whipped cream or ice cream. 

Serve with Tea or Coffee.

Choco Walnut Cake!!

Choco Walnut Cake and Happy New Year 2017. Let's welcome the new year with a sweet note and put the past behind and look forward for the new beginning.. New year always brings the new thoughts and new things into our life, which gives a chance for everyone to make a new mistakes and wait for the next year to make a new resolution and break it again. hehehe😂. Anyways these things happens in life and I think everyday is a new year if you live your life to the fullest..

Ingredient's.

1+1/2 cup all purpose flour

1+1/2 cup sugar

3/4 cup cocoa powder

1/2 tbsp baking soda

3/4 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

2 large eggs

3/4 cup butter milk

3/4 cup warm water

1/4 cup cooking oil

1 tsp vanilla essence

1 cup chopped walnuts.

Baking Method.

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

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

Beat the oil and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl for few minutes. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color. Add the egg and blend for another minute or 2, add the vanilla essence and warm water and give a quick mix.

Now add the dry ingredients and with the speed on low mix together and slowly add the butter milk and just mix everything to combine, making sure not to over mix. Then add the 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts and mix everything well.

Pour the batter into buttered pan and sprinkle the left over chopped walnuts and bake for 30 to 35minutes. Allow it cool before taking out from the pan. You can ice the cake with whipped cream or chocolate ganache. or as you like. 

Serve with Tea or Coffee.

Carrot Cake With Walnuts. (Butterless Sugarless)

Carrot Cake With Walnuts is an a awesome cake with little hint of nutmeg and cinnamon and it taste very good and lite. Using vegetable oil makes this cake very light and fluffy. Usually its icing with cream cheese, since I was out of cream cheese so I did with icing sugar glaze and it was not a bad decision.. It looked as beautiful and tasted as it suppose to be.. Since it's less calories and you don't have to worry after eating a piece and there is no compromise on the taste.. Try this recipe you'll love it..

Ingredient's.

3/4 cup honey (if no honey use 1 cup sugar)

1/2+1/4 cup vegetable oil

1+1/4 cup plain flour

1 egg

1/4 cup curd

1+1/2 cup shredded carrot

1/2tsp cinnamon powder

1/4tsp nutmeg powder

1/2+1/8 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp baking soda

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup chopped walnuts.

Ingredients For Glaze.

1/2 cup icing sugar

2 tbsp milk.

Baking Method.

Pre-heat the oven at 180c for 10 minutes.

In a mixing bowl. beat the oil, honey, curd and egg together for 2 to 3 minutes or till fluffy

In another bowl mix the all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon

Then add the shredded carrot and dry ingredients to the wet mixture and beat for another 1 to 2 minutes. Now add the walnuts and give a quick mix. Then transfer the batter to the non-stick round baking tray and bake for 35 to 40 minutes.

Then cool completely on a wire wrack.

Mix the icing sugar and milk together to a pouring consistency. Then pour the glaze on the cooled cake and Serve.

Instant Rava Idli.

Instant Rava Idli is the best and healthy breakfast. Idli use to be only breakfast dish before in my house but nowadays it has taken the place in lunch, dinner and even evening snacks too. I'm a very big fan of idlis because there is no oil or any masala and they taste great without chutney too. Here in England I'm not able to make over night idli or dosa batter because of the horrible climate, since last 4days it is continuously raining. Keeping this climate in my mind I came up with instant idea using little bit of active yeast.. I know it wont give the same taste but it's better then nothing and I'm happy with it. For this rava idli instead of yeast I have used baking soda and they were very soft and spongy. If your idli is soft and spongy then what else you want.

Ingredient's.

1 cup rava (sooji)

3/4 cup curd

1/2tsp finely chopped giner

1 small onion, 2 small green chillis (finely chopped)

2tbsp chopped coriander leaves

Pinch of baking soda

1/4cup of water

Salt to taste.

Ingredient's For Tempering

1/4tsp channa dal

1/4tsp urad dal

1/4tsp mustard

Few chopped curry leaves

1tbsp oil.

Cooking Method.

In a big mixing bowl, add rava(sooji), curd, onion, green chilli, ginger, baking soda, salt and water, mix them all together well and set it aside for 10 minutes.

In the mean time heat water in a idli steamer and make tempering using all the tempering ingredients. Then mix the tempering into the rava mixture and give quick stir, add more water if you needed to bring it to the right consistency of idli batter. Now pour the ladle full of idli batter into the idli maker trays and steam them for about 15 to 20 minutes.. Take idlis out.

Serve hot with Coconut Chutney and Sambar.

Idli Sambar and Chutney!!!

Idli Sambar and Chutney. Very often i cook idli for our breakfast, because i feel it is the best food to start our day. I have been thinking to take pic for a very long time, but i use to always feel very lazy and hungry after seeing hot idli and always use to postponed it to next time. On last Saturday i was very much prepared to take a pictures. So as soon as i cooked idli i took the pictures and later i served to everybody. The idli was very soft and it was going very well with spicy chutney and vegetable sambar..

Ingredients

1cup raw rice

1/2cup urad dal

1/2tsp fenugreek seeds

Salt to taste

1tbsp Oil for greasing

Water to mix

A pinch of Baking Soda (optional)

How to make Idli

Soak urad dal, fenugreek seeds and rice separately in water, for over night or about 5 hours.

After due time, grind the soaked ingredients in a mixer to make a smooth paste.

Now leave the paste aside, for about 8 hours.

Afterward add salt and baking soda to the paste. Mix well.

Pour the mixture gradually into the greased cavities of an Idli Stand.

Keep the Idli Stand in a idli cooker to steam for a 5 to 8 minutes.

Then, carefully take out the stand and remove the the idlis, using a spoon.

Repeat the procedure for the remaining mixture.

Serve them hot with chutney and sambhar.

Wheat Dosa

Easy, breezy and lacy - that’s how I’d describe wheat flour dosa. I prepare this traditional, instant dosa when I am low in appetite. Because this dont take much time to cook..

Ingredient's

250g wheat flour 

2 tbs Rawa 

1/2tbs musturd seeds 

1/2tbs red chilly powder, 1/2tbs turmeric 

1 Green chilly, coriander leafs (Optional) 

1/8 tbs salt, baking soda 

Oil for preparing dosa.

Cooking Method

Mix the flour and rawa with salt, soda & water to prepare dosa batter 

Heat a tbs of oil, add musturd, green chilly, coriander leafs. saute for 30sec, & add this to batter, mix thoroughly 

Heat dosa pan, pour a laddleful of batter on the pan 

Spread the batter quickly in circular motion to prepare a round thin dosa 

Drizzle some oil over & around the edges 

Turn & allow it to get brown on the other side & remove. 

Serve with Chutney or Tomato salad 

Even without chutney it can be enjoyed as it is tempered.