COCONUT LADDOOS !!!!

INGREDIENTS:-

milk maid - 1 tin
dessicated coconut - 3-4 cups

METHOD:-

1. Keep aside 50gm coconut flakes.
2. Add remaining coconut flakes to milkmaid & cook on the low fire till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan(approx 5 mins).
3. Cool and roll into small laddoos with buttered/oiled hands.
4. Roll in coconut flakes and serve.

HAPPY COOKING :)))))

and here's an tip :-

You can add dry fruits to this laddoos to make it more healthier.

JHATPAT EGG TAWA FRY !!!!

I adapted this recipe from SEEMA'S DINE DEVINE who is an ace cook and very good FB friend of mine.

 Ingredients:-

boiled eggs - 5-6
onion cubes - 2
capsicum cubes - 1/4 cup
ginger-garlic paste - 2tsp
maggie 1 2 3 noodles masala pow - 2tsp
tomato sauce - 2tsp
chilly pow - 2 tsp
garam masala pow - 1 tsp
turmeric pow - 1/2 tsp
oil - 1 tbl sp
salt to taste

METHOD:-

1. In a tawa heat oil, saute onion cubes+capsicum cubes.
2. Add ginger-garlic paste and all powders fry for a while.
3. Add tomato sauce and boiled eggs and stir fry for 2-3 mins.
4. Garnish with coriander leaves.

HAPPY COOKING :)))))

and here's an tip :-

Vegetarians can try this recipe with baby potatoes.

BUTTER CHICKEN !!!!!

BUTTER CHICKEN....I think there s no other better way to eat chicken than this :D (just joking). Actually i never cooked chicken before. But my son is very much fond of chicken dishes especially Chicken Lolly pop. So, i was thinking to prepare some easy chicken dishes for him. So, i googled for the recipes and i found this recipe. Believe me, this is the easiest recipe and my son and his frenzz liked it very much. And here it is...

INGREDIENTS:-

chicken pieces - 1 and 1/2 cups
onion - 2 medium
tomato, ripe - 1 big
almonds - 10
cashews - 3
ginger-garlic paste - 2 tsp
garam masala - 1/2 tsp
pepper pow - 1/2 tsp
chilly pow - 2 tsp
turmeric pow - 1/4 tsp
coriander pow - 2 tsp
curd - 2tsp
water - 1 and 1/4 cup
oil coriander leaves, chopped - 1 tbl sp ( for garnishing )

METHOD :-

1. Clean chicken pieces. (Small boneless pieces of chicken will be good)
2. Peel almonds, chop onions.
3. Grind together tomato+almonds+cashew nuts together in 1/2 cup of water.
4. Heat lil oil in a pan, saute onions till transparent.
5. Add ginger-garlic paste.
6. Stir well and add all powders.
7. Stir for few seconds and soon add chicken pieces with salt.
8. Mix well until the chicken pieces are coated with the masala and continue doing this until the colour of chicken start changing.
9. Pour the tomato-almond-cashew solution into this with curd and remaining water.
10. Check salt and allow to cook until the chicken is done.
11. When it cooked well and oil separates, remove from the fire.
12. Put 1 tbl sp butter and corr leaves on the top.
13. Serve hot.

HAPPY COOKING :)))))

and here's a tip:-

You don't  eat chicken and you want to know whether the chicken is properly cooked or not then what will you do???...Take a fork and prick it in the middle of chicken piece. If it is white in the middle and we can cut it easily into 2 parts using that fork means chicken is properly cooked.

CHOCO LAVA CAKE.....ONLY 2 MINS IN M/W !!!!!!

Who doesn't likes cakes now a days...that too newly introduced CHOCO LAVA CAKE (at Dominoes) is my son's most fav one. So, i tried to prepare it soooo many times. But not succeeded as i don't hav convention mode in my m/w :( One day i got this recipe from google  that is from a blog DOODLES) and i really  didn't believe it for the 1st time. Then i thought "let me give it a try". Finally when cake was bakes i was really worrying about the result. But when i tasted it i just wanted to shout like Archimedes (eurekaaaaaaaa :D). Yesss, this cake s very very easy to prepare and sooo yummyyyyy and it takes less time too. So, thought of sharing it with you all as this is my 1st post on cake/baking :). Here it is....

INGREDIENTS:-

butter - 3 tbl sp
sugar, powdered - 3 tbl sp
egg, whisked - 1
plain milk - 3 tbl sp
vanilla extract - a bit
all purpose flour(maida) - 4 tbl sp
baking pow - a pinch
cocoa pow - 2 tbl sp
nutella - for filling

METHOD:-

1. First, add sugar to melted butter and whisk.
2. Add the whisked egg+milk+vanilla extract.
3. Add flour+baking pow+cocoa pow and mix well.
4. Now butter the m/w safe ramekins and pour a spoon full of batter into a ramekin.
5. Now, add 1 or 2 tsp of nutella( acc to your taste) carefully. Cover it with another spoon full of batter.
6. You just need to fill the ramekin in 3/4 because the cake will expand while you put it in the m/w.
7. Repeat the same procedure for other ramekins too. (i made 5 small chocolava cakes from this batter).
8. Put it in oven and m/w it for 2 mins.
9. Remove it immediately from m/w.
10. Let it cool for some time.
11. Now unmould it carefully on a plate and dust it with sugar pow.
12. While serving put a spoon full of nutella on top of it and serve it with a spoon.(optional)

HAPPY COOKING :)))))))

and here's a tip:-

If cake batter is too thick adjust it to dosa batter consistency by adding lil milk.

PANEER BUTTER MASALA !!!!!!!!

INGREDIENTS:-

tomatoes - 2
onions - 2
cashew nuts - 8-10
butter - 2 -3 tbl sp
red chilly pow - 2 tsp
kasoori methi - 2 tbl sp
honey - 1tsp
cardamom pow - 1/4 tsp
garam masala pow - 2tsp
paneer - 200 gms
ginger-garlic paste - 1tsp
whipped cream - 1 or 2 tbl sp
salt to taste
corr leaves for garnishing

METHOD:-

1. Cut 4 tomatoes and 2 onions into cubes
2. Fry this in lil oil with 8-10 cashew nuts. Then make a smooth puree out of this in a blender and keep aside.
3. take 2-3 table sp of butter and oil and heat it up in a kadai.
4. Add ginger-garlic paste to this and fry nicely.
5, Then add 2 tsp of kashmiri chilly pow and fry.
6. Then add the tomato puree and mix nicely and cook for about 10 mins on low flame.

7. Fry paneer in little oil/ghee till golden brown in colour.

8. In the meanwhile dry roast 2 tbl sp of kasuri methi and when it is cool make a pow of it with your fingers.
9. Then add salt_honey+cardamom pow+garam masala pow to the puree and mix nicely.

10. Then add kasuri methi pow and paneer and mix well and cook for another 3-4 mins.

10. You can add a little water if it becomes too thick.
11. Then finally add some whipped cream.
12. Garnish with corr leaves and serve hot.

(this step by step pictorial may make your job easy)

HAPPY COOKING :)))))

and here's a tip:-

When i don't have fresh cream at home, i use milk instead of water in gravy. Taste will be the same, Try it.

VEG LASAGNA...A YUMMY ITALIAN DISH !!!!!!!!

Hi frenzz, LASAGNA is a Italian dish and my most fav one. But i never thought that i will prepare lasagna one day. But one day my sister( who is talented in all field and everybody in FB know her as Reshma Bhagwath) told me that lasagna is very very easy to prepare and i will teach u. So, she brought all the ingredients and taught me to prepare lasagna. Believe me frenzz, it is very very easy to prepare and yummilicious one. So one day, i too tried it and it came out very well and it tasted much more better than any restura.

INGREDIENTS:-

6 spaghetti sheets

2 small potatoes

a handful of beans

4 small carrots

1/2 cup fresh/frozen green peas

2tsp mixed Italian herb

2 pkts oregano ( i used the packets which we get along with Domino's Pizaa)

salt- 1 tsp

200gm cheddar cheese

200gm mozzarella cheese

Raghu pasta sauce- 680gms 1 bottle

METHOD:-

1. Chop potato+beans+carrot into small cubes. 

2.Grate both mozzarella+ cheddar cheese separately.
3. Soak lasagna sheets in hot water minimum for 20 mins

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4.In a kadai put all veggies & stir it for sometime.
5. Now add Italian herbs+ oregano+salt & mix it well.
6. In a rectangle baking dish, first spread pasta sauce, 2nd veggies, 3rd cheeses & 4th 
spaghetti sheets(2).
7.Continue the same with 2nd & 3rd layer also. For 4th layer, spread only pasta sauce veggies 
& cheeses.

8. Bake it for 10 mins (m/w mode).

9. Let it set for 4-5 hrs.

10. Cut it into pieces & serve it hot( before  serving heat pieces in m/w)

HAPPY COOKING :)))))))

and here's a tip

you can also add chicken or any other meat to the dish and either reduce the veggies or add more cheese to get the right proportion of the contents.

CHOCOLATE LADDOOS !!!!!!!!

HI ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL.I am a BIGGGGGGGG fan of chocolates & posted this desert in soooo many food groups & everyone liked it very much. Some even tried & posted in their blog also.So, i am posting it as my 1st post in my blog. Hope u all like it!!! :)))))))))

INGREDIENTS:-

milk maid - 1 tin
cocoa pow - 1/2 cup
butter - 50 gm
sugar. powdered - 3/4 cup

METHOD:-

1. Pour milk maid into a thck bottomed pan.
2. Add butter+sugar pow+cocoa pow into the pan.
3. Stir constantly on gentle heat till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan (approx 5 mins)
4. Now switch off the stove and make laddoos.

HAPPY COOKING :)))))  

and here;s an tip :-

1. You can mold the batter into any shape using your hand / cookie cutter.
2. You can also add roastef nuts into the batter for a healthy and an exotic touch.