Monday, May 3, 2010

Vegetable fried rice

Ingredients:
Capsicum-1big
Carrot-2
Spring onions
Garlic
Green chillies-4
Shredded cabbage
Soy sauce
White veniger
Egg-1(optional)
Biryani rice
water

Procedure:
  1. Heat oil in a kadai and add cut garlic and green chillies.
  2. Now add carrot pieces and fry for a minute.
  3. Add capsicum and shredded cabbage and fry for 5 mins.
  4. Now add egg and scramble it.
  5. Add soy sauce and veniger.
  6. Add rice and stir for 2 mins.
  7. Now pour water and let the rice cook completely.
  8. Finally garnish it with spring onions and serve hot.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Basic sponge cake

Ingredients:
All purpose flour(Maida):1cup
Powdered sugar:1cup
Baking powder:1tbsp
Butter:1/2 cup
Vanilla eseense:1tsp
Eggs:2

Procedure:
  1. First beat eggs in a seperate bowl for 2mins.
  2. Sieve maida and baking powder in a bowl.
  3. In a bowl beat butter, sugar,vanilla essense.
  4. Now add the eggs mixture into this and keep beating.
  5. Add maida and baking powder mixture to the above content and continue beating for 15-20mins.
  6. Apply Butter to a 8*8 cake pan and pour the mixture into this.
  7. Preheat oven to 350 and bake cake at same temperature for 25-30mins or till completely baked.

Sorakaya kura(Bottleguard curry)

Ingredients:
Sorakaya:1 big
onoins
Ginger-garlic paste
Chilli powder
Curry powder
Mustard seeds
Jeera
Chana dal
Coriander leaves
Milk

Procedure:
  1. Cut vegetables and onoins into small pieces and put them aside.
  2. Heat oil in a kadai ,add mustard seeds,jeera.chana dal.
  3. Add onoins and fry them.
  4. Add ginger-garlic paste and fry on a lowflame till raw smell goesoff completely.
  5. Now add curry powder and cut vegetable pieces and fry for 5mins with lid on.
  6. Now pour some water and let it cook for sometime.
  7. Once all the water evaporates completely add little milk and coriander leaves and stir for 2mins.
  8. Serve hot with rice or roti.

Monday, April 19, 2010

Tomato rasam

Ingredients:
Tomatoes:4-5
onion:small
Green chillies
Ginger-garlic paste
Mustard seeds
Coriander powder
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves
Asfoedita
Jeera
Salt

Procedure:
  1. Heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds,jeera,curryleaves.
  2. Now add onoins and green chillies.
  3. Add tomaotes and fry till raw smell goes off completely.
  4. Add ginger-garlic paste,corinader powder,asfoedita.
  5. Add 2 cups of water and salt and let it boil for 15mins on high flame.
  6. Finally add chopped coriander leaves and serve it hot with rice.

Tofu Tomato curry

Ingredients:
Tofu(Extra firm)
Diced Tomatoes(canned Italian style)
Onions
Green chillies
coriander leaves
salt

Procedure:
  1. Heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds,jeera,chanadal,greenchillies.
  2. Add onoins and fry till goldenbrown.
  3. Now add diced tomatoes and fry for 5mins with lid on.
  4. Now addsalt and water for gravy and mix it well.
  5. Add tofu just 10mins before as it is very soft.
  6. Finally add coriander leaves and serve with roti's.

Brinjal masala curry(Vankaya masala kura)

Ingredients:
Brinjal(vankayalu):5-6
Onion:1big
Mirchi:3
salt

For masala:
Jeera
Grated Coconut
Turmeric
Poppy seeds
Coriander seeds
Dry red chillies

Procedure:
  1. First grind all the masala into fine paste.
  2. Heat oil in a kadai and add mustard seeds,jeera,chanadal and fry for a minute.
  3. Add green chillies,onioins and fry till golden brown.
  4. Now add masala paste and salt.
  5. Add cut vegetable pieces and fry for 2mins with lid on.
  6. Pour little water and let it boil till vegetables are well cooked.
  7. Finally add coriander leaves and serve hot with rice.

Mirchi Bajji

Ingredients:
Mirchi
Besan flour
Rice flour
Baking powder
Ajwain(Vaamu)
Chilli powder
Crushed Ginger juice
salt
water

For Stuffing:
sesame powder
coriander powder
tamarind(cherry size)
Jeera powder
Fenugreek seeds
Chaat masala

Procedure:
  1. For 1 cup besan flour mix 2tbsp of rice flour and 2tsp of baking powder.
  2. Add ajwain,salt ,chillipowder,Crushed ginger juice .
  3. Mix all the ingredients in water without any lumps and keep this mixture aside.
  4. Reduce the spice kick of chillies by removing the white vein with seeds.
  5. Grind all the stuffing ingredients.
  6. Take a little bit stiffing with tip of a knife and insert it into slit mirchi.
  7. Now dip this mirchi in the mixture and fry in oil till golden brown.
  8. Serve it hot with onions ans hot&sweet chilli sauce.