Neimeen (king fish ) in cashew gravy

Ingredients:

Neimeen/King fish: 1 kg

Onion chopped: 3 cup

Ginger crushed: 2 tbsp

Garlic crushed: 2 tbsp

Green chily slitted: 7-8 nos

Tomato sauce: 3 tbsp

Soy sauce: 1 tbsp

Curry Leaves: 1 spring

Salt: to taste

Cashew nut paste: 1 cup

Red chilly powder: 3 tbsp

Coriander Powder: 2 tbsp

Turmeric powder: 1 tsp

Tomato sliced: 2 cup
Water: 2 cups + 1/4 cup

Method:

Soak cashew in water for 1/2 n hr and grind to a smooth paste. Heat oil in a pan or manchatti fry ginger, garlic and green chilly, add onion fry till the raw smell goes. Add red chilly powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder saute for 2-3 minutes, pour 2 cups water also add enough salt, allow the gravy to boil, add the fish pieces. Cover and cook for 5-10 minutes. Add tomato sauce, soy sauce and chopped tomato to the curry, rotate pan with your hands. Pour the grinded cashew paste and cook for another 2-3 minutes. add the curry leaves. Serve with bread or appam.

Chocolate Carrot Cake

Ingredients:

Plain flour: 3 cup

Grated Carrot: 2 1/2 cup 

Powdered Sugar: 2 1/4 cup

Egg: 3 nos

Salt: 1/4 tsp

Veg Oil: 1 cup

Baking powder: 3 tsp

Baking soda: 1/2 tsp 

Orange juice: 1/4 cup

Vanilla essence: 1/2 tsp

Coca powder: 1/4 cup

Water: 3-4 tbsp

Method:
Preheat the oven to 170 degree c. Boil water in a pan, remove from fire and add the coca powder and blend well. Sieve together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt together.

Beat the egg with a electric mixer until smooth and fluffy. Add vanilla essence, pour the oil. Add the sifted flour to the egg mixture. Add coca mix to this, beat well. Pour the orange juice. Add grated carrot, Mix well with a wooden spatula.


Grease a cake tin with little butter and then sprinkle some flour. Pour the batter in the greased cake tin.  Bake for about 35-40 minutes, Put a skewer inside the cake. If the skewer come out clean, means that cake is done.

Aloo Palak

Ingredients:

Potato boiled: 2 medium

Palak Leaves/Spinach: 1 bunch

Green chilly: 2 nos

Onion chopped: 1 big

Garlic crushed: 1/2 tbsp

Ginger crushed: 1/2 tbsp

Tomato chopped: 1 nos big

Chilly powder: 1 tbsp

Coriander powder: 1 tbsp

Cumin powder: 1 tsp

cumin seed: 2 tsp

Turmeric powder: 1/2 tsp

Methi leaves:1 tbsp

Method:

Cut potato into cubes. Boil spinach in a pan for 2 minutes and drain the water, grind to a paste in a blender. Heat oil in a pan, splutter cumin seeds add ginger and garlic, when it turns golden color add onion and saute untill soft. add tomato and saute until it turns translucent. Add chilli powder, cumin powder, coriander powder and turmeric powder, stir for 2-3 minutes. Add the grinded palak to this, mix well. Add potatoes, cover and cook for 5-10 minutes or till the gravy turns thick. add fenugreek leaves. Serve hot.

Almond Pudding

Ingredients
Milk: 500 ml + 3 tbsp

Condensed milk: 250 gm
China grass powder: 15 gm
Sugar: 1-2 tbsp
Almond essence: 1drop
Water: 3-4 tbsp
Almond  powder: 50 gm
Almond Flakes: 3 tbsp

Method:
Soak china grass in water. Pour 3 tbsp milk to the almond powder and mix well, keep aside. In a heavy bottom pan, Mix the milk, condensed milk,  and sugar, boil and remove from fire. Add soaked china grass to the milk also add the almond mixture to the boiled milk. Transfer the milk to the stove, stir continously till the china grass dissolves completely. Remove from fire, add almond essence to the milk. Pour the boiled milk mixture to a glass bowl and garnish with almond flakes. Keep it in the refrigerator for 1 hour or till set.

 

Apple Upside Down Cake

Ingredients:

Plain flour: 1 1/2 cup

Powdered Sugar: 1 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp to sprinkle

Vanilla Extract: 11/2 tsp

Eggs: 3 nos

Butter: 125 gm

Ground Cinnamon: 1 tsp

Milk: 1/2 cup

Baking powder: 2 tsp

Apple sliced: 2 nos

Method:

Preheat the oven to 170 degree c. In a bowl whisk together egg and vanilla extract for five minutes. Beat sugar and butter in another bowl and add to the egg.  Sift together flour, cinnamon and baking powder. Add the flour to the egg mixture. Pour milk, beat well with a wooden spoon or electric mixer till soft and no lumps of flour left.

Arrange the sliced apple on the bottom then sprinkle 1 tbsp sugar on the top of the apple. Pour the cake mix carefully into the baking tin.

Transfer to the oven and bake for 35 minutes until golden color. Cool the cake in the cake tin for 15 minutes and carefully invert to the wire rack. enjoyyyyy

Eggless Chocolate Cashew cookies

Ingredients:

Al-Purpose flour: 1 1/4 cup

Butter: 100 gm

Coca powder: 1/4 cup

Cornflour: 3 tbsp

Salt: 1/2 tsp

Orange juice: 3-4 tbsp

Baking powder: 1/2 tsp

powdered Sugar: 1 cup

Cashew nut chopped: 4 tbsp

Vanila essence: 1/4 tsp

Method:

Sift together flour, baking powder, coca powder, corn flour and salt, cut butter into cubes and add to the flour. Rub the butter into the flour with your fingers until it is like fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar. Pour ornage juice and vanila essence. Mix well till it turns a smooth dough. Roll the dough into log shape and roll it in chopped cashews. Keep in fridge for half n hour. Cut into round pieces. Preheat the oven to 170 degree c and bake for 10 minutes..