CHOCOLATE BROWNIES - eggless

Cooking Time : 20 minutes

INGREDIENTS

Dark chocolate 100 grams
Refined flour (maida) 1 1/4 cups
Baking powder 2 teaspoons
Walnuts, peeled 1/2 cup
Butter 130 grams
Castor sugar (caster sugar) 1 1/4 cup
Vanilla essence 1 teaspoon
Milk 3/4 cup
Oil for greasing


METHOD
Sift flour and baking powder and keep aside. Chop walnuts. Grease a round microwave dish and line it with butter paper. Combine chocolate and butter in a large microwave bowl and soften, uncovered, on Microwave HIGH (100%) for one minute. Beat in sugar, vanilla essence and blend well. Add the sifted flour and nuts and mix well. Add milk to correct the consistency of the batter. Pour the mixture into a greased bowl. Place the bowl on an upturned saucer and cook, uncovered, on Microwave HIGH (100%) for seven minutes. Allow standing time of five minutes. Insert a skewer, if it comes out clean it is done. If not, cook, uncovered, on Microwave MEDIUM (60%) for two more minutes. Place on wire rack to cool. Cut into squares and serve with tea or coffee.

Marble Cake - Eggless

Ingredients

Flour - 1 1/4 cups
Milk powder - 3 tbsp
Baking powder - 2 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Butter - 1/2 cup
Powdered sugar - 3/4 cup
Milk - 3/4 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp
Hot water - 2 tbsp
Grated Orange Zest - 1 tsp


Method

Preheat oven to 170C.Grease a 6 cup Bundt pan or a regular 7' round/square pan.
Sift together flour,milk powder,baking powder and baking soda,keep aside.
Pour hot water on cocoa powder and mix well to form a paste,let it cool.
Cream the butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
Add the flour mix and milk alternately,starting and ending with flour to get a smooth batter.
Transfer a little less than half the batter to a pan.Add the cocoa paste to it and mix well,add the orange zest.
Add vanilla to the remaining batter.
Pour all of the white batter into the prepared pan.Top with the chocolate batter.Swirl the batter using a table knife-do not over do it.
Bake for 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.Cool in the pan for 10 minutes,then unmould and finish cooling on a rack.
Dust with cocoa powder on top and cut into thick slices.

Aloo cutlet - simplified

Ingrediants:
Boiled Potatoes 500gm (mashed)
Ginger - grated (no paste) - 50 gm
Green Chillies - 10pcs - finely chopped
Lemon juice - 3 tsp
Salt to taste
Black Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Corn flour - for binding
Bread crumbs - for wraping the cutlets

Method:
Mix all the ingrediants (other than bread crumbs). Make flat patties. Wrap in Bread crumbs and fry in Hot oil.

Server with Green chutney and onion rings.

Aloo Dum (Instant)

Ingrediants:

Aloo: 500gm Peeled : small
Onion: 1 Kg: chopped as julians
Garlic: 4tsp: crushed
Ginger: 2 tsp: crushed
Green Chillies: 3 tsp: Paste
Garam Masala 2 tsp
Red chillie powder 2 tsp
Corriander powder 2 tsp
Black Pepper 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Lemon juice if required
Chat masala (as per taste)

Method:
Heat oil in pressure cooker, add Jeera (cumin seeds) 2 tsp, add Garlic, Ginger, and Green chilli. Fry for 2 min.

Add onions and fry for 5 min or till the onions turn light brown.

Add the peeled potatoes and all the remaining ingrediants. Mix properly.

Cook for 2 minutes. Add water, 1 cup.

Wait for 1 whistle at high flame, then reduce the whistel and simmer for 20 min.

Remove and let the pressure cooker open.

Garnish with Corriander leaves and serve with Pulao or chapati as desired.

Nut Kebab

Perfect for a decadent cold evening with hot coffee or an irish !

Ingrediants:
Almonds - 200gms (yes it is almonds, i didnt mistype !! )
Corriander leaves: 1 tbsp (chopped fine)
Green chillies: 2 tsp (chopped fine)
Bread crumbs: 2 tbsp
Maida (Plain flour): 1 tbsp
Butter: 1 tbsp
Salt to taste
Garam masala: 1 tsp

Method:
Heat butter in a pan, add maida, and cook till it form a ball (approx 2 - 3 min).

Mix almonds (crushed), corriander leaves, green chillies, bread crumbs, salt, garam masala and the maida and butter mix. Add a little water. Mix properly to make a dough.

Note: Add more bread crumbs if unable to bind the dough.

In a bowl mix maida with water to form a batter.
Take some bread crumbs (fine) in another bowl.

Make small tikkis out of the dough, dip in maida batter, wrap in bread crumbs and fry in hot oil.

Server with green chutney.!

Paneer stuffed Bread

Ingredients:
Paneer (homemade) , crush it.
Onion : chopped fine
corriander leaves : chopped fine
Green Chillies: chopped fine
Salt, pepper.

Add everything together and mix well.

Spread some of the mixture on a bread slice and cover with another slice. Cook on hot tawa using a little butter. :)
You will love this calorie filled snack

Thai Green Curry

Ingredients for the paste: (Serves 4 people)
Coriander leaves: 5 table spoon (chopped fine)
Onion: 1 large (chopped)
Ginger: 1 tsp Garlic: 1 tsp Lemon Rind: 1 tsp Green Chillies: 10 to 15 (according to taste)Cumin seeds: 1 tsp Whole black pepper: 1/2 tsp Oil : for grinding

Put all the ingredients in the mixer grinder. The paste should be fine.
Note: Do not use water while grinding the mixture.

Ingredients :
Paneer : 250 gm (chopped into small pieces)
Carrot : 50 gm ( chopped) Capsicum: 50 gm (chopped) Onion: 2 medium ( chopped fine)Lemon Leaves: 2 - 4 leaves
Coconut milk : 400 ml

Take a pan. Pour some oil. Add chopped onion and Lemon leaves, and fry for 1 min. Add the curry paste and cook for 2 min. Add the paneer and vegetables(partially boiled) to the paste and cook for 2 min. Add coconut milk and let it come to boil on slow flame.

After that add salt, sugar(1/2 tsp) and lemon juice (4 tsp)

Serve hot with Plain rice.