Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Eggless Cake

Ingredients :
Maida - 1 cup
Hersheys Chocolate Powder - 3 tbspoons
Sweetened Condensed Milk - 200 gms(half tin)
Water - 1 cup
Margarine Butter (unsalted butter sticks) - 1/4 cup (1 full stick)
Baking Powder - 3/4 tsp
Baking Soda - 3/4 tsp
Vanilla Essence/Chocolate Essence - 1 tsp

Procedure :
1.Mix all the powdery stuff and seive for about 3 - 4 times.
2.Mix all the watery stuff and keep aside.After seiving, mix the powdery stuff and the watery stuff.
3.Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees.Grease the baking pan with butter and just sprinkle maida over it.
4.Pour the mix onto the pan and bake for 30 min without opening.
5.After 30 min, open and check for the condition using a knife.
6.If required, bake for another 5 - 10 min and keep checking intermittently.
7.Remove from the oven and after 10 min, remove from the baking panand place over the seive. 8.Allow it to cool down completely.Once it has cooled down completely, you can cover it with an aluminium foil.
9.Icing can be done the next day.

Gongura Thogayal

1.Wash the gongura and dry it in shade.
2.After drying, fry in oil.Keep aside.
3.In oil fry mustard,methi seeds, red chilly.
4.First grind chilly and salt.Then add gongura and grind.
5.Add the ground mixture and fry in oil.
6.Add onions cut into small pieces and fry in oil and mix wt the above mixture.

Vadai(Aama Vadai/Paruppu Vadai)

1.Soak 1 tumbler channa dal, 1/4 tumbler toor dal,2-3 tsp urad dal in water for around an hour.
2.Grind the above with asafoetida and red chillies.
3.Cut green chillies into small pieces and add them to the above.
4.Make them into medium sized patties of uniform thickness - make them thinner.
5.Deep fry in oil.

Adai

1.Soak 1.5 tumblers rice,1/2 tumbler channa dal,1/2 tumbler toor dal, 3 tsp each of urad dal and moong dal in water for around 1-2 hours.
2.Grind the above with red chillies, green chillies and salt.
3.Add asafoetida.
4.Make dosas out of this batter.
5.Serve hot with dosa molaga podi.

Pasarat

1.Soak 1 cup moong dal/ green split moong dal. 1 handful of rice in water for 30 min.
2.Grind with red chillies,salt,green chillies and asafoetida.
3.Add jeera after grinding.
4.Then use this batter to make dosas.
5.Serve hot by placing chopped onions(small pieces) with the dosas.6.Side dish could be any chutney or molagai podi(dosa molaga podi).

race kozhambu(brinjal/chow chow/ lady's finger)

1.Fry 1 tsp rice,1/2 tsp methis seeds without oil and keep aside.
2.Fry 1/2 tsp each of toor dal, urad dal,moong dal,channa dal, 1 tsp dhaniya, red chillies, pepper and jeera with oil.
3.Grind all the above.
4.Cut either brinjal/chow chow/ lady's finger with green chillies.
5.Add mustard and asafoetida to oil in tawa.Add the vegetables too and fry them for a while.
6.Soak tamarind in water as that for sambar and make an extract.
7.Add the tamarind water to the fried vegetables and add the powdered mixture.
8.Add turmeric and salt and allow to boil.

Kathrikkai - Payatham paruppu(Brinjal + Moong Dal) kootu

1.Fry 1-2 handfuls of moong dal in tawa.No oil in required.
2.Boil it with water.
3.After 3/4 th boil, add brinjals cut into medium-sized pieces, slit green chillies, tomato cut into medium-sized pieces.
4.Add salt and turmeric powder.
5.Allow to boil for some more time.
6.Fry 1/4 tsp urad dal,1/4 tsp jeera, little asafoetida and 2 red chillies and add to the above.
7.Serve hot with rice or rotis.