Eggless Lemon Cake

Ingredients:

Maida - 1 and 1/2 cups
Thick Curd - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Baking powder - 1 1/4 tsp
Cooking oil - 1/2 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Lemon Juice of 1 medium sized lemon or lime.

Preparation Method:

• Sieve maida keep aside.
• Put sugar and curd in a mixing bowl and mix until sugar dissolves completely. Add baking powder, baking soda to the creamed mixture and mix well.
• Leave aside for 15 mins and you can see the bubbles appearing. Now add vanilla essence,cooking oil,lemon juice and mix well.
• Next slowly add maida in portions at a time and blend with wet ingredients. Beat well with a whipper until creamy and thick.
• Preheat oven to 200 deg C for 10mins.Meanwhile greese the baking tray and pour the mixture into it.
• Bake in preheated oven at 200 degree C for 10 mins, then reduce temperature to 180 deg C and bake it for 25-30 mins.
• Then enjoy the perfect eggless cake.

Icing and decoration:
Icing can be done in two ways
1. Icing sugar + water
2. Icing sugar + butter.

1. Icing sugar + water:
Take 4 tbspn of Icing sugar and add some water(about 3 tspn). Mix well till you get the right consistency. then spread on the cake. Mix 1-2 drops of food colour in the remaining icing and make decorations.

2. Icing sugar + Butter:

Take 4 tbspn of Icing sugar and add some butter(about 3 tspn at room temp. you can add some water as well). Mix well till you get the right consistency. then spread on the cake. Mix 1-2 drops of food colour in the remaining icing and make decorations.

Non-Onion-Garlic Mixed Vegetable Curry

Ingredients:

Vegetables of your choice(Fresh Peas, Beans, Potato, Panner, Capsicum, Cauliflower )– all together 2 cup Cleaned and boiled 

Tomatoes- 4
Garam masala- 1 tspn
Red chilli powder- ½ to 1 tspn
Turmeric- ¼ tspn
Salt to taste
Oil – 3 tbspn
Cumin seeds- 1 tspn
Freash Cream or Milk -1/4 cup

Cooking Method:

• Grind tomatoes in a blender to make paste. Keep it aside now.
• Heat oil in a pan. Add Cumin seeds, let them splutter.
• Add tomato paste. Mix it well and cover the pan and cook for about 10 min or till all the tomato smell is gone.
• Then add all the powders. That is Garam masala, Red chilli powder, Turmeric and mix well. 
• Add all boiled vegetables and cream/milk, mix well and cook till for about 10 min or oil comes out of the gravy.If the gravy is sour just add 1/2 tspn sugar.
• Garnish with coriender and serve hot.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with chapatti or puri.

Non-Onion-Garlic Peas Panner / Matar Panner

Ingredients:

Fresh Peas – 1 cup

Paneer- 200 grms(cut into small cubes)

Tomatoes- 4
Garam masala- 1 tspn
Red chilli powder- ½ to 1 tspn
Turmeric- ¼ tspn
Salt to taste
Oil – 3 tbspn
Cumin seeds- 1 tspn
Freash Cream Or Milk -1/4 cup(I usually use milk but occasionally cream )

Cooking Method:

• Grind tomatoes in a blender to make paste. Keep it aside now.
• Heat oil in a pan. Add Cumin seeds, let them splutter.
• Add tomato paste. Mix it well and cover the pan and cook for 10 min or till all the tomato smell is gone.
• Then add all the powders. That is Garam masala, Red chilli powder, Turmeric and mix well. 
• Add fresh peas and cream or milk, cook for 5 mins.
• Add paneer cubes, mix well and cook till they are soft and oil comes out of the gravy.
• Garnish with coriender and serve hot.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with chapatti or puri.

Broccoli Curry

Broccoli is one of the vegetable which is very good for health, and is always refused by children to eat. Here is the simple but yummy recipe which i tried to make it myself. I have never come across this recipe before anywhere. so i can say its my recipe. My daughter loves it.

Ingredients:

Broccoli - 1 cup

Cauliflower – 1cup

Onion – 1 chopped (optional)

Tomato – 1 chopped

Geera or cumin seeds – 1 tspn

Oil – 3 tspn

Curry leaves

Garam masala – 1 tspn

Chilli powder – ½ tspn(as much as you like)

Turmeric powder -1/4 tspn

Salt to taste

Cooking Method:

• Wash the Broccoli and Cauliflower, boil them.
• meanwhile, heat 1 tspn oil in a kadai or frying pan. Add cumin seeds and let them splutter. Add curry leaves.
• Then add onion and fry till golden brown. Then add tomato and salt. Mix well, cover it and cook for 3 or 4 min. By doing this the tomato will cook nicely and with the back of the spoon press them to make paste.
• Now add all the powders. That is chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala and mix well.
• Now add Broccoli and Cauliflower, mix well, cover and cook till the vegi's absorb some masala(say about 5 min)
• Garnish with coriander and take off the heat. You can garnish with grated coconut as well.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve with chapatti. Its great. And also Can make as wrap by applying butter to chapati.

Jokes

These are some of the jokes which i have collected. Read and enjoy.

2 people get 2 bombs,
1st person: Come lets give them to police.
2nd person: What if it bursts on the way?
1st person: We can let a lie that we had got only one..!!

Police: You will be hanged to death tomorrow at 5 am.
Prisoner: Ha Ha Ha Ha!
Police: Why are you laughing?
Prisoner: I wake up only at 9 o’clock.!

1^st Man: What do you do if you are feeling hot and sweating?
2^nd Man: I will go and sit in front of AC.
1^st Man: What if you are still feeling hot?
2^nd Man: Then I 'on' the AC.!

A person Prays daily for 2 hours,

“Hey God let me win a lottery please”

After 11 years angry god appears infront of him and say “Atleast buy a lottery ticket.”

A person was holding an umbrella with the hole.

Another person askes: “Why do you have hole in your umbrella??”

The person answers: “How will I get to know if its stopped raining?? I see through it.”

A person And Hitler

Hitler: “there is no word like IMPOSSIBLE in my dictionary”

Person: “What’s the use if you tell it now? You could have checked it before buying one.”

Customer: “I need a nail and a hammer for my computer”

Salesman: “But what will you do with them??”

Customer: “I want to put windows on my computer”

Passive voice

Teacher: Write the passive voice of  “I made a mistake"
Student: " I was made by a mistake"

Prof.: Chemical symbol of Barium?
Student: BA
Prof.: For Sodium?
Student: NA
Prof.: What will we get if 1 atom of Barium & 2 atoms of Sodium combines?
Student: "BANANA"

Dad to Child: When I beat you how did you control your anger?
Child: I start cleaning the toilet.
Dad: How does that satisfy you?
Child: I clean it with your tooth brush.

In bio practical:
Examiner: Tell me the name of this bird by seeing its legs only?
Student: I don't know.
Examiner: You are failed!
What's your name?
Student: See my legs & tell my name..

Simple Curd Rice

Ingredients:
Cooked rice- 1 cup
Milk- 1/2 cup
Curd or yogurt- 1/2 cup
Salt
Curry leaves and coriander
Geera and mustard seeds- 1/2 tspn each
Oil- 1 tspn

Cooking Method:

• Take hot cooked rice in a mixing bowl.
• Put the milk and mix it nicley and keep it aside to cool down.
• heat oil in a small vessel. Add geera and mustard seeds and allow them to splutter.
• Add Curry leaves and take off the heat.
• Now add this to the milk rice mixture. Add salt and curd or yogurt.
• Mix well and taste it. put more salt and curd if required.

Serving Suggestion:
Normally its so tasty that it does'nt need anything to eat with, but you can eat it with pickle or peanut chutney.

Palak Rice or Spinach Rice

Spinach is very good for health. especially for kids. so you can make this recipe and pack for lunch. they will like it.

Ingredients:

Rice – 1 cup

Spinach or Palak – 1 cup

Onion- 1
Ginger-Garlic paste- 1 tspn
Garam masala- 1 1/2 tspn
Red chilli powder or green chilli- ½ to 1 tspn
Salt to taste
Oil – 3 tbspn
Cumin and mustard seeds- 1 tspn

Cooking Method:

• Wash the rice and soak them for half an hour. And cook the rice with 2-3 cups of water and some salt. Keep it aside so that it is cool.
• Cook the spinach for 5 min with little amount of water then grind it into paste
• Heat oil in a pan. Add Cumin and mustard seeds, let them splutter.
• Add ginger-garlic paste. Then add onion. Fry till golden brown.
• Then add all the powders. That is Garam masala, Red chilli powder or green chilli, and mix well.
• Add the spinach paste, salt and cook for 2-3 min.
• Mix with the cooked rice.
• Add some fried cashewnuts if you like.

Things to be considered:

• Don’t cook spinach too much, because it will loose its nutrients.
• Don’t over cook the rice and make mashy. Let the grains be separate.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with raita or with some curry or also with pickle.

Idli

Ingredients:
Rice – 1 cup
Urad dal – 1/3 cup
Methi seeds – 1 tbspn
Puffed rice – ¼ cup

Cooking Method:

• Wash and soak rice and urad dal separately. Add methi seeds urad dal. Soak them for 6 hours min.
• Grind them separately as well. Before 5 min of grinding add puffed rice to urad dal. Urad dal mixture should be grinded finely and rice should be like semolina structured ( not fine).
• Then mix them and keep overnight.
• The mixture turns bubbly. Then you can put in the idli maker and steam them for 10 mins. Serve hot

Things to be considered:

• Before making idlis make sure the batter has turned bubbly. If not add 1 or 2 pinch of cooking soda (bi-carbonate soda).
• Rice and urad dal should be soaked separately otherwise the idli will not be good.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve with Sambar and coconut chutney.

Okra/Ladiesfinger/Bendi curry

I learnt this recipe from my mom. I have tasted this okra curry many a times, which others had prepared. It was not at all good and i stopped eating this curry. Then my mom came up with new idea and prepared it like the below recipe. Now me and my husband and also my daughter love okra. My daughter eats only okra curry when i prepare, instead of eating it with chapati.

Ingredients:

Okra or ladies fingers - 250grms

Onion – 1 chopped

Tomato – 1 chopped

Geera or cumin seeds – 1 tspn

Oil – 3 tspn

Curry leaves

Garam masala – 1 tspn

Chilli powder – ½ tspn(as much as you like)

Turmeric powder -1/4 tspn

Salt to taste

Cooking Method:

• Wash dry and wipe the okra or ladies finger. The very important thing is that, you should wipe all water before chopping them.
• Heat 1 tspn oil in a kadai or frying pan. Add the chopped okra and fry till all the jelly bit has disappeared. If you don’t want to fry more, add some lemon juice to the frying okra, the jelly thing will soon disappear. Keep them aside for now.
• In another vessel heat the remaining oil and add cumin seeds and let them splutter. Add curry leaves.
• Then add onion and fry till golden brown. Then add tomato and salt. Mix well, cover it and cook for 3 or 4 min. By doing this the tomato will cook nicely and with the back of the spoon press them to make paste.
• Now add all the powders. That is chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala and mix well.
• Now add the fried okra. Mix well and cover and cook for 5 min. put a few drops of water if it sticks to the pan. Not more water.
• Garnish with coriander and take off the heat. You can garnish with grated coconut as well.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve with chapatti. Its great.

Things to be considered:

• Dry the okra completely after washing them. And also wipe them to ensure they are dry. By doing this the jelly thing which it lives will be less. I usually wash the okra before 2 hours of preparation and spread them on the newspaper or kitchen roll(tissue). By doing this, the okra will be quite dry. But still before cutting them wipe with clean cloth. 
• You can also grind the onion and tomato to get a different taste.

Dessert made from Banana- Baale hannu shikarni

Nobody likes to eat over ripened bananas. Especially when their skin turn black. My 2 and 1/2 year daughter says "mum no like it" when i give her that kind of slightly ripened banana. so the best idea to deal with thos kind of banana is make this recipe. My daughter eats this and says "mum Yummy". i love when she says so. Try and have fun, less effort quick and easy.

Ingredients:

Bananas -2

Milk -100 ml

Sugar -6 tspn

Cardamom powder- ¼ tspn

Cooking Method:

• Take milk in a vessel and warm it up.You can use microwave for this or just on stove.
• Dissolve sugar in it and add cardamom powder as well.
• Cut the bananas into small pieces or slice them into thin pieces.Actually smaller pieces are better.
• Add them to the milk.
• You can alwys taste the dish and alter the amount of sugar.

Serving Suggestion:

serve with puri or chapati. Or else can be just eaten as dessert.

Easy Pizzi Instant Bhel

Ingredients:
Puffed rice – 1 cup
Sev (these are vermicelli shaped and are made from gram flour) – 1 cup
Potato chips – 1 small packet
Doritos chips (optional) – ½ small packet
Onion – 1 small finely chopped
Tomato – 1 medium finely chopped
Peanuts or groundnuts – ¼ cup roasted (if u like them you can put more.)
Red chilli powder – as per your taste
Salt – as per you taste
Tomato sauce – ¼ cup

Cooking Method:

• Mix all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl.
• Taste it to know weather salt, chilli powder and tomato sauce is correct. Serve as a snack.

Things to be considered:

You can alter the quantity of  tomato sauce. If you don’t like the tangy flavour of tomato sauce, add sugar ½ tspn sugar to neutralize.
Eat it as soon as possible otherwise the puffed rice will be wet and does not taste good.

Tomato and Cheese Open Tart

Ingredients:
Puff Pastry sheet- 1
Tomato- 1 sliced
Tomato sauce- 1 tbspn
Cheese

Cooking Method:

• Cut the Puff Pastry sheet into the shapes of your choice.
• Keep it on the greased baking tray.
• Spread tomato sauce onto the sheet on the baking tray.
• Now spread the cheese and tomato slices.
• Keep the tray in the pre-heated oven for 10-15 min at 200 deg cel.

Perfect Eggless Cake

I Always wanted to make eggless cake. Found hundreds of recipes and tried them too and i was disappionted many many times. But wanted to make a perfect eggless cake as we dont eat eggs. Here is the perfect one. You cannot go wrong with this recipe. I prepared this cake for my daughter and husband. They loved it and finished it all the same day. My daughter came to me the next day and asked weather i can prepare another cake for her.

Ingredients:

Maida - 1 and 1/2 cups
Thick Curd - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Baking powder - 1 1/4 tsp
Cooking oil - 1/2 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 1/2 tsp

Preparation Method:

• Sieve maida keep aside.
• Put sugar and curd in a mixing bowl and mix until sugar dissolves completely. Add baking powder, baking soda to the creamed mixture and mix well.
• Leave aside for 15 mins and you can see the bubbles appearing. Now add vanilla essence,cooking oil and mix well.
• Next slowly add maida in portions at a time and blend with wet ingredients. Beat well with a whipper until creamy and thick.
• Preheat oven to 200 deg C for 10mins.Meanwhile greese the baking tray and pour the mixture into it.
• Bake in preheated oven at 200 degree C for 10 mins, then reduce temperature to 180 deg C and bake it for 25-30 mins.
• Then enjoy the perfect eggless cake.

Icing and decoration:
Icing can be done in two ways
1. Icing sugar + water
2. Icing sugar + butter.

1. Icing sugar + water:
Take 4 tbspn of Icing sugar and add some water(about 3 tspn). Mix well till you get the right consistency. then spread on the cake. Mix 1-2 drops of food colour in the remaining icing and make decorations.

2. Icing sugar + Butter:
Take 4 tbspn of Icing sugar and add some butter(about 3 tspn at room temp. you can add some water as well). Mix well till you get the right consistency. then spread on the cake. Mix 1-2 drops of food colour in the remaining icing and make decorations.

Sending this to BAKE FEST from Zesty Palette.

Rava Holige

this is the easiest puran poli ever. because it does not require any expertise in this field. My mom told me this recipe on phone and with her instructions i prepared it and the result was awsome. anybody and everybody can prepare it. yuuuuummmmmmmyyy!!!!!!

Ingredients:
For filling:
Rava or semolina(fine or extra-course)- 1 cup
jaggery- ½  cup
cardamom powder- 1/2 tspn
water- 2 cups for fine semolina and 3 cups for extra-course semolina.

For dough:
plain flour- 1/2 cup
wheat flour(wholemeal or chapati flour)-1/2 cup
salt
oil
***Alternatively you can prepare dough with only wheat flour. (That is above ingredients for dough without plain flour.)

Cooking Method:

• In a mixing bowl, add plain flour,wheat flour, salt.
• Heat 3-4 tbspn of oil and add to the mixing bowl.Mix it well with water and make into a smooth dough.dont make it too though.let it be very smooth.
• keep it aside for 1/2 an hour.
• Put the water in a vessel and bring it to boil. Add jaggery and cook until jaggery melts.
• Filter the mixture. Keep it to boil again.
• Add semolina and mix well and cook till it attains the consistency as shown in 1^st image.
• Now grease your hands with oil. Take small amount of dough. Make it flat.
• Take  double size filling and fill it into the dough so that the dough covers the whole filling. As shown in picture 2.
• Apply oil and roll it on a flat surface by applying oil.
• shallow fry on the pan both sides.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve hot with ghee and popadum Or sugar syrup.

Things to consider:

1. Dont let the dough very though. Make it very smooth. this is because if its very though the filling will not spread evenly.
2. Dont  roast the semolina or else it will not cook in the jaggery and water mixture. If the semolina smells then just warm it a little.

Methi-Toordal Curry

This is my Mom's recipe. All in my house love this dish and won't need any side dish when its prepared. I love this soooooo much that, whenever i go to market first thing to buy is methi. Toordal is main and must ingredent for this one. This dish is dedicated to my mom.

Ingredients:

Toor dal – 1 handful(i.e about 4 tablespoon)

Methi – 1 bunch

Onion – 1 large finely chopped(optional)

Tomato – 1 chopped

Turmeric powder – ½ tspn

Cumin and mustard seeds – 1 tspn

Garam Masala- 1 tspn

Red chilli powder – ½ tspn

Salt to taste

Sugar- ½ tspn

Oil 2 tbspn or ghee

Preparation method:

• Clean the methi from the bunch, wash it and chop roughly. Keep aside.
• Pressure cook toordal. Or you can choose your way of boiling them. Keep aside.
• In a sauce pan, heat oil or ghee and add Cumin–Mustard seeds. Let them splutter.
• Add onion and fry till golden brown.
• Add tomato, sugar and salt. Mix well and stir for 1 min and cover it with lid and cook for 1-2 min.(this will help cook tomato and you can mash them up easily by pressing with the back of the spoon).
• Now mash the tomatoes, add garam masala, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and methi.
• Mix well and keep frying for 2-3 mins. That is till the methi is softened.
• Now add toordal and mix well.
• Add lemon juice if required.(to give the tangy flavour)
• Taste it and add salt, sugar or chilli powder if required

Serving Suggestions:

Serve hot with chapatti with some raitha. Click here for different healthy raitha recipes.

Things to be considered:

1. Don’t cook the methi too much as it may loose its nutrients.
2. Don’t under cook the dal as this may cause indigestion. All dals must be cooked well to digest properly. Otherwise may cause gas in the stomach.
3. Always check for right quantity of salt and chilli powder.
4. The lemon juice added at the end will give nice tangy taste to the dish which is awesome. If you feel its too lemony then add more sugar.
5. You may add chopped green chilli if you need hot curry.

Potato curry or aloo bhaaji

Ingredients:

Potatoes- 4 large

Ginger paste-1 tspn

Onion – 1 large chopped

Turmeric powder – ½ tspn

Green chillies – 1 to 2 chopped

Cumin and mustard seeds – 1 tspn

Curry leaves- 5 to 10 leaves

Coriander –to garnish

Salt to taste

Oil 3 tbspn (more oil taste better)

Preparation method:

• Pressure cook the potatoes and remove the skin and cut into small cubes. Or u can boil the potatoes as u like.
• Heat oil in a frying pan. Add cumin and musterd seed and allow them to splutter.
• Now add ginger paste, this will bring nice flavor.
• Now add onion and curry leave and green chillies and fry till onion is golden brown.
• Add turmeric powder and salt. Mix well.
• Add potatoes and mix well.
• Garnish with coriander.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve hot with dosa, chapatti or puri.

Masala Dosa

Ingredients:

For batter:

Rice – 1 cup

Urad dal (white lentils) – 1/3 cup

Poha or flattened rice or avalakki – 1 handful

Mung dal – 1 handful(around ¼ cup)

Chana dal - 1 handful(around ¼ cup)

For dosa:

Salt – ½ tspn

Sugar – ½ tspn

Preparation method:

• Mix all the ingredients in a large container. Wash them and soak for around 6 hours.
• After 6 hours of soaking, grind them into nice fine paste to the consistency as shown in above image.
• Keep this mixture in warm place for overnight. If its not warm place then can take 14-16 hours to ferment.
• Next day the mixture will appear bubbly.
• Now add salt and sugar and keep for 5-10 mins.
• Heat the pan, pour some batter and make round shapes and cook on both sides by applying oil. If you think the dosa will stick to the pan then add 1-2 pinch of bi-carbonate soda to the batter. And also cover the pan while cooking.
• Apply butter and serve.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve hot with potato curry, sambar and coconut chutney.

 Sending this to BREAKFAST MELA by Srivalli.

Rava Payasa,samolina payasa,suji payasa

Ingredients:

Suji or extra course Samolina – 1 cup

Cardamom power - ¼ tspn

Jaggery - 1 cup

Water-  3  cups

Dry Coconut(grated)(optional)- 2 tbspn

Milk - 1 cup

Cooking Method:

• Roast the semolina or suji for around 5 mins(not too much) and keep aside now.
• Put water in a saucepan or a vessel and bring it to boil.
• Add semolina or suji, coverit and cook till the suji is soft.(around 10mins).
• Then add jaggery and ¼ tspn of cardamom power. Cardamom power will bring the best flavour.
• Stir well. and cook till the jaggery melts. then add milk and bring to boil.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with ghee and papad.

Sambar powder

Ingredients:

Coriander seeds - 1cup

Geera –  little less than ½ cup

Chana dal – 1 tspn

Urad dal – 1 tspn

Dry red chillies - 15

Dry coconut (grated) – 1 cup

Cooking Method:

• Roast all the ingredients separately.
• Except coconut, grind all the ingredients to make fine powder. (don’t mix coconut first because the oil in it will not allow other ingredients to grind into fine powder.)
• Now put the dry coconut and grind again.
• Nice tasty sambar powder is ready.

Sambar

Ingredients:

Toor dal- 1 cup

Vegetables – 1 cup ( Ex: beans, potato, peas, carrots. You can use any vegetables of your choice)

Tamarind juice – 4 to 5 tbspns

Jaggery – little less than the size of a small lemon.

Tomato – 1 big

Geera – 1 tspn

Mustard seeds – 1 tspn.

Curry leaves

Coriander for garnishing.

Salt to taste.

Red chilli powder – 1 tspn

Turmeric powder – ½ tspn

Sambar powder – 1½  tbspn.

Water – 3 cups

Oil – 1 tbspn

Cooking Method:

• Take 3 cups of water in a sauce pan. When water starts to boil add washed toor dal. When it startes boiling again add chopped tomatoes. Alternatively you can pressure cook the toordal with 3 cups of water and tomatoes. You can also cook vegetables in it. Or choose your way of cooking the toor dal.
• Boil vegetables and keep aside.
• Take the water left behind after boiling toordal and vegetables and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a sauce pan. Add geera and mustard, let them splutter.
• Add curry leaves, tamarind juice and jaggery. Bring it to boil.
• Then add salt, chilli powder, turmeric powder, sambar powder and all the boiled vegetables. Cook for 2 mins.
• Meanwhile mash toor dal and add it to the boiling mixture.
• Cook for 5-10 mins and garnish with coriander.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with idli, rice, dosa etc. its yummy.