Ente Pachakasala

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Ghee roast dosa

Ingredients:
Rice: 2 cup
Urad Dal(Uzhunnu parippu): 1 1/4cup
Cooked rice: 3/4 cup
Fenugreek seeds: 1/4 tbsp
Ghee
Salt: to taste
Water for grinding

Method:
Wash and soak the rice , fenugreek seeds and Urad dal overnight. Grind the soaked ingredients along with enough water and cooked rice. Keep aside the batter in a warm place for fermentation atleast 8-10 hours. Add salt and stir the batter well. Heat a non-stick tawa, Pour a big spoon of batter in the centre, spread batter with the spoon to a thin circle. Pour a tsp. of ghee around the edges of the dosa and cook till it turns to golden color. Flip the dosa and cook other side also. Serve hot with chutney/sambar.

Tomato Chutney

Ingredients:
Tomato: 2 medium
Small onion: 1/4 cup
Garlic: 1 pc
Sambar powder: 1/4 tbsp
Salt: to taste
Oil:

Method:
Heat oil in a pan, saute tomato, onion and garlic till the raw smell goes. Allow it to cool. Grind all the ingredients to a fine paste. Serve with idli, dosa

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Mixed Chicken-Veg Stew

Ingredients:
Chicken: 1/2 kg
Coconut milk: 3/4 cup
Onion: 2 medium
Potato: 1 big
Carrot: 2 medium
Ginger: 1 tbsp
Garlic: 1 tbsp
Green chilli: 2-3 nos
Corn flour: 1 tbsp
Cashew nut: 4-5 pcs
Coriander powder: 3/4 tbsp
Fennel seed powder: 1/2 tbsp
Garam masala: 1 tsp
Turmeric powder: 1/4 tsp
Cloves: 4-5 nos
Cinnamon stick: 2 medium
Cardamom: 2-3 pcs
Salt: to taste
Oil:
Coriander leaves: few

Method:
Clean and cut chicken into small pieces. Cut carrot and potato into small cubes. Mix corn flour in 1/2 cup water and keep aside. Combine chicken with potato, carrot, ginger, green chilli, coriander powder, fennel seed powder, garam masala and turmeric powder, add little water and transfer this mix to a pressure cooker. Pressure cook for 2-3 whistle and keep aside. Heat oil in a pan, add cloves, cinnamon and cardamom, saute for 1 minute. Add onion fry until it turns golden color. Pour the cooked chicken along with gravy. Allow it to boil. Add cashew nut. Pour coconut milk into this, lower the flame. Then add cornflour mix. stir well. Cook for 4-5 minutes. Remove from fire. Add coriander leaves. Serve hot with roti, palappam, idiyappam

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Vanilla Cake

Ingredients:
All purpose flour: 3 cups
Baking powder: 3 tsp
Salt: 1/2 tsp
Unsalted butter: 1 cup
Granulated sugar: 2 cups
Eggs: 4
Vanilla extract: 1 tsp
Milk: 1 cup

Method:
Preheat the oven to 375 F. sift the flour, baking powder and salt together 2-3 times into a bowl and set aside. In a deep bowl, beat the butter. Add the granulated sugar and whip until it's blended. Add the eggs, mix until well combined. Add vanilla extract. Add the flour to the butter mixture, Pour milk little by little. Mix well until the batter turns to a pouring consistancy.
Grease a aluminium cake tin with butter and then sprinkle some flour. Pour the batter into the prepared cake tin and bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and allow it to cool.

Whipped Cream Frosting:
Heavy whipping cream: 1 1/2 cup
Vanila extract: 1/2 tsp
Granulated Sugar: 2 tbsp
Coca powder: 1 1/2 tbsp

Method:
In a large mixing bowl, add the whipping cream, vanilla extract, sugar and coca powder stir well. Beat the mixture until stiff peaks form . apply this on the cake