New Year Cake @ Home

Ingredients :-

2 cups of all purpose flour
1 cup of corn flour
1 tb sp of baking powder
1 tb sp of  vanilla essence
3 cups of powdered sugar
1/4 cup of melted butter
3 Eggs

Method :-

• Seperate the egg white and yolk in to two different bowls
• Beat egg yolk by adding sugar and vanilla essence using a mixer or whisk until it turns to a consistent dough. set aside
• Beat egg white by adding a little sugar until it forms a snow texture.
• Add beaten yolk, mixture of all purpose flour and baking powder, corn flour and melted butter to the egg white.
• Mix gently. Do not over mix.
• Pour the batter to the cake mould and bake.

Icing :-

2 egg white
1 cup of powdered sugar
1 cup of butter
1/2 cup of cocoa powder

• Beat egg white by adding sugar until it makes a snow texture.
• Mix butter.
• For chocolate icing, mix cocoa powder with sugar and melted butter.

Happy New Year

Bell pepper Curry

Ingredients :-

1 Red Bell pepper chopped
2 Tbsp of tamarind juice
1 chopped onion
3 Dry red chillies
1/2 cup of chopped tomato
1 Tbsp of turmeric powder
Cumin seeds

Method :-

• Heat oil in a pan. Splutter mustard seeds, then add cumin seeds, dry red chillies, curry leaves and onion. Fry it.
• Add chopped tomatoes, turmeric powder, bell pepper, salt and tamarind juice. Allow it to cook by adding a little water.
• Once it is done, allow it to cool. Blend the mixture.

Masala Bread Snack

Ingredients :-

4 loaves of bread
1 Sliced Onion
1 Chopped  Tomato
I Tbsp of Grated Ginger
Chopped Garlic
Chilli powder
Turmeric powder
Coriander powder
Meat masala
Oil
Salt


 Method :-

•  Heat oil in a pan. Add ginger, garlic, onion and tomato. Saute well.
• Add all the powders and salt. Mix it.
• Spread this masala on one loaf of bread and cover with another loaf.
• Cut the bread diagonally and serve.

Snow White Pudding

Ingredients :-
1 cup of Whip cream
1 cup of Sugar syrup
1/2 cup of sugar
1 table spoon of vanilla essence
1 table spoon of strawberry essence
4 loaves of bread without crest
cashew nut

Method :-

• Seperate equal amount of whip cream in to two bowls. Add sugar if required.
• Add vanilla essence in the first bowl and strawberry essence in the second bowl.
• Dip the bread loaves in sugar syrup and place it in the pudding tray.
• Spread both the creams on the top of bread and decorate using cashew nuts.
• Keep the tray in the freezer for half an hour.

Coconut Chicken Dry

This recipe would be a good side dish for veg fried rice.

Ingredients :-
500 gms of chicken
1 cup of grated Coconut
1 Onion chopped 
1 table spoon of oil
3 dry red chillies
Curry leaves
Salt

One table spoon 
Turmeric powder
Chilli powder
Coriander powder
Garam masala powder
Ginger garlic paste

Method :-

• Add all the powders to the chicken including salt and set aside.
• Heat oil in a pan. Add curry leaves, ginger garlic paste and onion. Saute well.
• Put the chicken pieces and mix well. Do not add water. Allow to cook in low flame.
• Grind coconut and dry red chillies in to a paste and add to the cooked chicken.
• Heat for 5 minutes. Garnish with curry leaves.

Veg Fried Rice

Ingredients :-

1 cup of Basmati rice
100 gms of Beans finely chopped
1 Carrot finely chopped
1 Onion finely chopped
3 Green chillies chopped
1/2 of cabbage finely chopped
3 tea spoon of ghee
Cloves and Cardamom
Salt

Method :-

• Cook the basmati rice in water by adding salt. Allow the cooked rice to cool.
• Heat ghee in a pan and add cloves and cardamom. Fry for a minute and then put the vegetables one by one. Allow it to cook.
• Once it is done mix the rice with vegetables thoroughly.Serve hot with raita and Coconut Chicken dry.