Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:
Al purpose flour: 1 1/2 cup
Powdered sugar: 1 1/4 cup
Coca powder: 1 cup
Coffee powder: 1/2 tbsp
Boiled water: 1/4 cup
Baking powder: 11/2 tsp
Baking soda: 1 1/2 tsp
Salt: 1 tsp
Vegetable oil: 3/4 cup
Vanilla essence: 1+ 2 drop
Egg: 3 nos

Method: 
Pre-heat the oven to 175 degree. Grease the baking pan with butter  or place the butter paper on the bottom off the cake tin. Sift together flour, coca powder, salt, baking powder and baking soda. Pour boiling water over coffee powder and keep aside. Beat eggs in a bowl untill smooth, add 1 drop vanilla essence on the mix to avoid the smell of eggs. Add sugar, oil and coffee, beat well. Add the sifted flour to the mix, add two drops vanilla essence, beat well with a wooden spatula. Pour batter into the prepared cake tin and bake for 30-40 minutes or till the skewer come out clean.

Kachiya Moru

Ingredients:

Buttermilk: 1/2 ltr
Shallots chopped: 3-4 nos
Garlic chopped: 2 tsp
Ginger chopped: 2 tsp
Green chilly slitted: 2-3 nos
Dry red chilly: 2-3 nos
Turmeric powder: 1/2 tsp
Chilly powder: 1 tsp
Cumin seed powder: 1 tsp
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp
Fenugreek seeds: 1/4 tsp
Oil: 1 tbsp
Curry leaves: 1 spring
Salt: to taste

Method: 

Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard and fenugreek seeds, fry dry red chilly and curry leaves. Add chopped ginger, garlic and green chilly, saute for 2-3 minutes. Add turmeric powder, chilly powder and cumin powder. Reduce the flame to low, Pour buttermilk, stir continuously till the buttermilk turns warm, do not allow to boil. Add enough salt.Remove from fire. Stir again for 2-3 minutes. serve with rice..

Cauliflower Cherupayar Thoran

Ingredients:

Cauliflower chopped: 1cup

Cherupayar/Green Gram: 1/4 cup

Turmeric powder: 1tsp

Green chili chopped: 2-3 nos

Salt: to taste

Sliced shallots: 4-5 nos

Curry leaves: few

Grated coconut: 1/2 cup

Oil – 1 tbsp

Method:

Cook green gram with enough water,turmeric powder, salt and set aside. Cobine cauliflower turmeric powder, green chilli, shallots and grated coconut. Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds, add curry leaves. Add the preapred mix, saute well. Cover and cook for 5-10 minutes. Add the cooked greengram and cook for another 2-3 minutes. Serve with rice.

macaroni pizza

Pizza Dough:(2 Base)

Alpurpose flour: 2 cups

Yeast: 1/2 tbsp

Sugar: 1/2 tbsp

Salt: to taste

Warm water: 11/4 cup

Olive oil: 1 tbsp

For Topping:

Pasta cooked: 1/2 cup

Cooked chicken: 1/4 cup

Onion chopped: 1 small

Green olive chopped: 2 tbsp

Black olive chopped: 2 tbsp

Capsicum chopped: 3 tbsp

Mushroom sliced: 3 tbsp

Mozrella Cheese: 1/2 cup

Tomato Sauce: 4 tbsp

Pizza Sauce: 3 tbsp

Garlic: 1 tsp

Method: 

Pre-heat oven to 170 degree. Cook pasta as per the direction on the cover. Mix yeast in warm water and rest for 3-4 minutes. Combine al purpose flour and salt. Pour the water to the flour and knead well till the dough turns soft. Add the olive oil and knead again for 2-3 minutes. cover the dough with wet cloth or kling foil, allow to ferment for 2 hrs. Divide the dough into 2 equal balls and spread into circle shape.

Grease the pizza tray with little oil. Fry garlic till golden color, in same oil, saute capsicum for 1-2 minutes. Place the base on pizza tray, pour pizza sauce over the base and spread well with a spoon. Add chicken, onion, fried capsicum, garlic, olives, tomato slices and pasta. Finally add mozrella cheese over the pasta. Bake the pizza for 10 minutes or till done..serve hottt......