CHIFFON CAKE WITH WHITE CHOCOLATE TOPPING
Hi Lidia..this is for you.Sorry for not posting the recipe with the photos.I found this recipe while blogging .Thnx shabs for the chiffon cake recipe.They had mentioned it with the black chocolate mould..as the day i tried the recipe I was short of usual chocolates,I tried it up with milk chocolates.Here goes the recipe..
1 3/4 cup plain flour
3/4 cup chilled Butter
2 large eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup cocoa powder
4 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 1/2 cup milk
a pinch of salt
For the cake moistening syrup:
6 tbsp sugar
10 tbsp water
- Heat oven to 180 degree celsius/Gas mark 4/350 degree Farenheit
- Cut butter to small cubes.In a large bowl, put chilled butter,sugar with a blender.
- Add vanilla essence and eggs(one by one) beating well
- Sift the flour 2-3 times.Add cocoa powder,baking powder,salt and baking soda to flour and mix well.
- Add dry mix to the egg mix ,mixing well.Add the milk and beat well.
- Grease a baking pan of 9 inches and bake it for 40-45 minutes.Cool cake on wire rack
- Heat sugar and water until sugar melts and syrup boils.Keep it aside.
- On cooling place the cake on a large dish and cut it into two layers.
- Sprinkle the sugar syrup on the cut cakes.Cover the cake in a plastic wrap and refrigerate
- To make whipped cream filling,add 1/4 tsp vanilla essence,2 tbsp sugar & 1/2 cup whipping cream and whip well.
- Spread the filling paste on to the cut layers and join them together.
- For the white chocolate topping:8 ounce of milk chocolate cut into small pieces,3/4 cup of whipping cream,2 tbsp butter
- Boil the whipping cream and pour it on to the chocolate pieces whipping it along with the butter until it becomes smooth.
- Spread the cream on to the cake evenly .For appearance you can decorate it with cherries..
WHEAT & SEMOLINA UNNIYAPPAMS
This mouth watering snack very much worth trying..
- Heat the jaggery pieces in a pan with a little water and melt it.Strain the impurities and keep the syrup aside
- Mix the wheat flour,semolina,mashed bananas,seaseme seeds,coconut pieces,baking soda,dry ginger powder,salt along with the jaggery syrup adding water to get a batter of dropping consistency
- Pour and heat oil in an unniyappam pan .
- Pour the batter into each of the depressions in the pan
- Turn over the uniyappams with a fork so that all the parts are evenly golden brown in colour .
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CHEERA THORAN/SPINACH STIR FRY
Spinach the multi nutrient has always been my fav.Unlike me,my elder son hates spinach .This recipe that I’m putting up is a variation from the usual cheera thoran.Last day I tried it up for lunch ..and I must my kids loved it.
- In a kadai/wok on flame pour oil pop the mustard ,urad dal and curry leaves.
- add the green chillies with the shallots and saute them till transparent.
- To this add the spinach ,salt,and sprinkle about 1/4 cup of water.Cover and let it cook on medium flame for 10 -15 minutes.
- Stir the spinach well,letting the water content to evaporate.Making a space at the centre of the wok,pour in the eggs and scramble them.
- When the eggs are scrambled mix it with the spinach
- Pour ghee ,stir well and add the scraped coconut mixing well.
- The cheera thoran is now ready to be served!
TOMATO FRY
This curry goes well of with chappathis.At times when my pranksters are quite tightened up with their schedules, I pop up this curry
- In a heavy bottomed pan on flame,pour the oil.
- When the oil is hot add the aniseed, the green chillies , a few curry leaves and stir
- Add the sliced onions and saute them till they are translucent.
- Slice the tomatoes and add it to the onions.Saute them well.
- Add the chilly powder and mix well.Add 1/2 cup of water along with salt and let it simmer.
- When the gravy thickens you can turn off the flame
CHAKKA VARATTIYATHU / JACK FRUIT JAM
- Deseed the flesh pieces of the jackfruit and cut them into small pieces.
- Melt the jaggery pieces to get a syrup
- Pressure cook them with 1/2 cup of water so that they are well cooked.
- In a heavy bottomed pan on flame pour ghee
- Add the cooked jackfruit to the pan and mash them
- When the water gets evaporated, add the jaggery syrup and continue stirring
- Stir well till the jaggery jack fruit mix starts getting sticky
- Take care to stir the mix well avoiding from sticking to the vessel
- Add the crushed cardamoms and dry ginger powder, stirring well
- When it thickens well remove from flame
- Let it cool and then store them in airtight containers
Ulli Sambar /Onion Sambar
My love for cooking came from my mothers relishing dishes.She pops up a curry within minutes…and I must say it turns out to be a mouth watering one. Ulli Sambar is one of her masterpieces. After marriage I too popped up her recipie….now its one of my husband’s favourite dishes.Be it with dosa/idli or a serving of steaming cooked rice,onion sambar is a good combination.Here is the recipie…
ULLI SAMBAR/ONION SAMBAR
1 Cup Red Gram(thuvara parippu)
2 Green chillies
2 tsp of mustard seeds
1 tsp of Urad dal(uzhunnu parippu)
1 cup of small onions
1 tomato sliced
4 dry red chillies
1 tsp turmeric powder
1tsp kashmiri chilli powder
4 tsp of sambar powder
1/2 tsp Asafoetida
curry leaves
4 cloves of garlic sliced
salt to taste
- Wash the redgram in water and put it into a pressure cooker.Now add 2 cups of plain water along with turmeric powder and salt.Close the cooker and place it on flame.After a whistle put out the flame & wait for the steam to release.
- In the meantime,in a pan pour 1 1/2 tbsp of coconut oil .When the oil becomes hot,put the mustard seeds,urad dal,dry red chillies,garlic and curry leaves.Then add the small onions in to the oil and saute them till the colour of the onion changes to golden brown colour.
- Now add chilli powder , sambar powder and a sliced tomato to the onions and stir .Soak tamarind in a cup of water and pour the seived tamarind water into the sauted onions and bring it to boil.
- Now add this onion tamarind gravy into the cooker in which red gram was cooked.Now close the cooker and wait for a whistle putting it on a medium flame.
- When the steam is let out after a whistle,keeping the cooker without its lid on flame,add asafoetida powder and if you feel the gravy is quite thick add some more water and after that add a small piece of jaggery (u can also add jaggery in liquid form).
- The main idea behind adding jaggery is to balance the tamarind’s sourness.
- Now the ulli sambar is all ready to serve.
Paneer tomato Curry
Large Onion(cut in small pieces) – 2
Green chillies -2
Garlic paste -1tsp
Ginger paste -1tsp
Black pepper powder -1 tsp
Turmeric powder -1/4 tsp
Tomato ketchup -5 tbsp
sugar -1 tbsp
salt to taste
coriander leaves 1/4 tsp
water 1 cup
Oil 1 1/2 tbsp
Milk 1 cup
Cashew nuts 6
Tomato(made paste) 1
Pour oil into a kadai and put the cut large onions and saute them until brown.When the colour of the sauted onion changes,add the ginger & garlic paste and saute them .Now add the tomato paste and saute in the oil.When the water is dried and the oil comes on the top,add the turmeric powder.Add 1 cup water & add pepper powder,sugar ,salt and tomato ketchup.When it starts boiling,add the paneer pieces & let it boil for 10 minutes.When the gravy starts getting thick, grind the cahew nuts with the milk.Add this to the gravy along with the boiled greenpeas.When the curry starts simmering,add the cut coriander leaves.
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