Egg 65

Ingredients:

Egg - 4 (boiled)
Egg white - 1/2 cup
Red Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Kashmiri Chilly powder - 2 tsp
Garam Masala powder - 2 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Green Chilly - 2 (slit)
Red Chilly sauce - 1 tbsp
All purpose flour - 3 tbsp
Bread Crumbs - 3 tbsp
Curd - 2 tbsp
Curry Leaves - Little
Salt, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• Boil egg and remove the yellow part.
• Cut the whites into small pieces.
• Add ginger garlic paste, red chilly powder and a tsp of garam masala.
• Add flour and bread crumbs and egg white and little salt.
• Mix this well.
• When you make a ball out of it, it should be firm.
• If not add flour and bring it to correct consistency.
• Heat oil in pan and deep fry these and set aside.
• Now heat a tbsp of oil and add curry leaves.
• Cook in medium flame.
• Once it splutters add green chilly, kashmiri chilly powder.
• Add a tsp of garam masala powder, little salt and mix well.
• Add red chilly sauce and mix up.
• Add curd and mix well.
• Add the fried eggs and toss well.
• Your spicu egg 65 is ready.

Cheesy Crust Pizza - Dominos Style

Ingredients:
Pizza Dough
Onion - 1
Capsicum - 1
Red Chilly flakes - 1 tsp
Oregano - 1 tsp
Cheese - 1 cup(grated)
Olive Oil - 2 tbsp
Pizza sauce

Method:

• Take the pizza dough and divide it.
• One big ball and one small size ball dough.
• Knead the bigger one and prick with fork.
• Leave the borders and sprinkle cheese.
• Knead the small size dough and prick it with fork.
• Place it over the bigger one and press it.
• Fold the corners throughout.it 
• Now spread pizza sauce and top it with veggies.
• Sprinkle chilly flakes and oregano.
• Cover it with grated cheese.
• Drizzle oil over it and brush corners with oil.
• Preheat the oven(OTG) at 250°C and bake for 20 mins.

Note:

Make pizza dough as in link, but don't roll out.

KaaraPaneer Dosa

Ingredients:

Paneer - 1/2 cup
Mixed Veg Thokku - 3 tbsp
Dosa Batter

Method:

• Blend paneer in a mixer and transfer to a bowl.
• Add the veg thokku and mix well and set aside.
• Make dosa as you do regularly.
• Place a scoop of paneer mix and spread.
• Cook in low range.
• Don't flip it.
• Serve with sambar or coconut chutney.

Kesar Badam Milk

Ingredients:

Badam - 6-8
Milk - 1 cup
Sugar - 1-2 tbsp
Saffron Strands - 5-6

Method:

• In a bowl take badam and add hot water to this.
• Set this aside for 10 mins.
• After 10 mins peel the skin.
• Take this in mixer and add sugar and saffron strands.
• Add milk and blend this.
• In medium range boil the balance milk.
• Once it reduces add the grinded stuff.
• Mix well and once it starts to boil turn off.
• Garnish with grated badam and serve hot or chill as you wish.

Note:
You can add a pinch of elaichi powder while boiling milk.

Mixed Veg Thokku

Ingredients:

Carrot - 1/2 piece
Beetroot - 1/2 piece
Peerkangaai - 1/2 piece
Raw Mango - 1/2 piece
Beans - 2
Tamrind - small piece
Dry red chilly -3-5
Oil, Salt - As reqd
Temper - Mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dal, curry leaves

Method:

• Cut all veggies into small pieces. 
• Heat oil in pan and add all veggies.
• Saute for a while and transfer to plate.
• In same oil saute chillies and transfer to it.
• Add tamrind and salt and grind it to a paste.
• Heat oil in pan and add items under temper.
• Add this to thokku.

Note:

• The raw mango is the key ingredient.
• If it is pulipu then add tamrind acc.
• You can any veggies you have.

Churros - Spanish Snack

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1/2 cup
Unsalted butter - 40 g
Egg - 1
Vanilla Esc - 1/2 tsp
Water - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1 tbsp
Salt - a pinch

For Dusting:
Sugar - 1- 2 tbsp
Cinnamom powder - 1 tsp

Method:

• In a pan add butter, water, sugar and salt.
• Once it starts to boil, turn off the range.
• Add flour to this and mix well.
• Then add vanilla esc and then egg.
• Mix well and form a dough.
• Tranfer this to a icing bag with flower/star nozzle.
• Heat oil in pan and keep in medium flame.
• Pipe them and fry it.
• In a plate mix items under "for dusting".
• Roll the fried churros in and serve hot.

Note:

• You can also bake the same.
• Pipe them in a butter paper placed in a bakig tray.
• Bake in a preheated oven(OTG) at 220°C for 15-18 mins.

Fried AlooGobi Briyani

Ingredients:

Basmati Rice - 2 1/2 cups
Onion - 2 (thin slices)
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Tomato - 2 (puree)
Garam Masala powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt, Oil, Ghee - As reqd
Bay Leaf - 1
Cinnamon Stick - small piece
Cloves - 2
Green Elaichi - 1
Water  -1/2 cup
Cocnut  Milk - 2 Cup

Marinate:
Baby potato - 6-7 (cut into halves)
Cauliflower - 5 - 6 pieces
Curd - 3 tbsp
Rice flour - 1 1/2 tbsp
Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - As Reqd

Grind:
Corainder Seeds - 1 tsp
Dry Red Chilly - 2
Green Chilly - 2
Coriander Leaves - Little

Method:

• Soak basmati rice for 10 mins.
• Heat ghee in pan and sauter the rice for a while.
• Transfer this to electric cooker.
• Now grind items under "grind" and set aside.
• Before grinding just dry roast coriander seeds and dry red chilly.
• Boil a cup of water and add cauliflower for a while and close it.
• Then strain and transfer to a bowl.
• Peel baby potatoes skin and cut into halves and to same bowl.
• Add items under "marinate" to this and set aside for 10 mins.
• Heat oil in pan and fry these and set aside.
• In same oil fry half of onion and set aside.
• Now heat ghee and oil in a pan and add garam spices.
• Add onion and sauter for a while.
• Add ginger garlic paste and saute for a while.
• Add toamto puree and cook till raw smell goes.
• Then add grinded paste, garam masala and cook for a while.
• Add fried aloo and gobi  and reqd salt and mix well.
• Add this to electric cooker.
• Now add coconut milk and water.
• Cook this for 10-15 mins.
• Once done garnish with fried onions and serve with onion raita.

Note:
You can use water alone instead of coconut milk.

Fried Mini Buns

Ingredients:

Bread Crumbs - 1 cup
Oil - As reqd (for frying)
Milk - 1/4 cup

For Bun:
All Purpose flour - 1 1/4 cup
Dry yeast - 1/2 + 1/4 tsp
Sugar - 1 tbsp
Salt - 1/2 + tsp
Oil - 1 1/2 tbsp
Milk(warm) - 1/2 cup

Stuffing:
Onion - 1 (fine chopped)
Carrot - 1
Beans - 3
Peas - Little
Capsicum - 1
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tbsp
Soya sauce - 1 tsp
Tomato sauce - 2-3 tbsp
Red Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Garam Masala powder - 1/4 tsp
Sugar - Little(less than 1/2 tsp)
Salt - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add yeast and sugar.
• Add warm milk to this and set aside for yeast to be activated.
• In other bowl take flour and salt, add oil to this.
• Once yeast is activated add to flour and mix well.
• Set this dough aside for proofing.
• Heat oil in pan and add onion and saute.
• Add ginger garlic paste and all veggies(fine chop).
• Add salt, sugar, soya sauce, tomato sauce and mix well.
• Then add chilly powder and garam masala powder.
• Cook in low flame till all veggies are cooked.
• Now check the dough, it would have doubled in size.
• Punch it and make small balls out of it.
• Take a ball and press with finger.
• Fill in with stuffing and seal it.
• Dip these balls in milk and then in bread crumbs.
• Do the above step twice.
• Heat oil and fry these.
• Fried Mini buns are ready.

Note:

• Add salt acc as soya sauce ha salt.
• Do not refrigerate these balls as it will grow in size.
• You can bake the same.
• Just place these balls in tray and bake in a preheated oven(OTG) at 180°C for 10-13 mins
• After that increase the temperature to 220°C and bake for 4 mins.

Badam Halwa

Ingredients:
Badam - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Water - 1/2 cup
Ghee - 4 tbsp
Condensed milk - 3 tbsp
Milk - 4 tbsp
Elaichi powder - a pinch(optional)
Safrron Strands - few

Method:

• In a bowl take almonds and add hot water to this and set aside for 10-15mins.
• After that strain and peel off the skin.
• Now grind badam with 2 tbsp of milk.
• In other bowl take 2 tbsp of milk and soak saffron strands in it,
• Heat a pan and add sugar and water and let it boil.
• Once sugar dissolves add the grinded paste.
• Stir continuously and once it is all mixed up, add saffron milk.
• Then add condensed milk, elaichi powder and mix well.
• Keep stirring for 5 mins.
• Then add ghee and mix it up.
• Once it starts to bubble up, turn off the fire.
• Badam halwa ready.

Tutti Frutti Cake

Ingredients:
All purpose flour - 2 cup
Sugar - 1 1/4 cups
Tutti frutti - 1/2 cup
Unsalted butter - 2 tbsp
Milk - 3/4 cup
Egg - 2
Baking powder - 2 tsp
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Vanilla Esc - 3 tsp

Method:

• In a bowl take tutti frutti and add 2 tbsp of flour and mix well.
• Set this aside.
• In other bowl take butter and sugar and mix well.
• It will be like crumbs.
• Now add one egg at a time and blend nicely.
• Add in esc and milk and blend nicely.
• Now add flour, baking soda and baking powder and mix well.
• Finally add in the tutti fruttis and mix well.
• Transfer this to a greased pan.
• Preheat oven(OTG) at 180°C and bake for 35-40 mins.

Illusion Cake

Ingredients:
Any Cake
Choco Stick - 1
Gems Pack - 1

Method:

• I used Blondie cake.
• Did chocolate frosting for the same.
• Dip the choco stick in chocolate frosting.
• Stick gems one by one.
• Insert the gems cover at the tip.

Note:

• When dipping the chocostick let the frosting be bit semisolid.
•  I used MeijiYan Yan sticks. 

Eggless Peanut Butter Cookies

Ingredients:
Wheat flour - 1/2 cup
All Purpose flour - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Unsalted butter - 3 tbsp
Peanut butter - 1/3 cup
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
Milk - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl take flour and baking soda and mix well.
• In other bowl take melted butter and add sugar to it.
• Then add peanut butter and mix well.
• Add the flour mixture to this and mix it up.
• Add milk to form a soft dough.
• Place butter paper in a baking tray.
• Make small balls from dough and roll it in sugar.
• Now place this tray and make impressions with fork.
• Preheat oven(OTG) at 180°C and bake for 15-20 mins.

Tawa Paneer - Dhaba Style

Tawa Paneer

Ingredients: 

Masala Paste:

Onion - 2 

Green Capsicum - 1/2 

Tomato - 3

Green Chilly - 1

Garlic - 6-8

Ginger - small piece

Coriander Stem - Little

Cloves - 2

Cinnamon Stick - small piece

Elaichi - 1

Black pepper corns - 2

Bay Leaf - 1

Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp

Cashews - 3-4

Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp

Red Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp

Kashmiri Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp

Cumin powder - 1/4 tsp

Coriander powder - 1/2 tbsp

Black salt - 1/4 tsp

Hot water - 200 ml

Salt - As reqd

Gravy:

Paneer - 200 g

Onion - 1 

Green Capsicum - 1/2 

Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder - a pinch

Kashmiri Chilly powder - a pinch

Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp

Kasoori Methi - Little

Coriander leaves - Little

Ghee - 1 tsp

Method:

• First prepare masala paste.
• Heat oil in pan and add in cumin seeds.
• Add in garam spices.
• Add in onion(roughly chopped) and saute in medium flame.
• Add in garlic and ginger and saute.
• Once onion color changes, add in spice powders, black salt and salt.
• Mix well and add little hot water.
• Add in tomatoes, cashews and capsicum and mix well.
• Add in coriander stems and remaining water.
• Cover with lid and cook in medium flame for 6-7 mins.
• Let this cool.
• Remove the bay leaf and blend to a fine paste and set aside.
• Now take 1 onion and dice little and fine chop rest and set aside.
• Now dice the capsicum and set aside.
• Heat 2 tbsp of ghee and add in fine chopped onions and saute.
• Add in ginger garlic paste and cook in medium flame.
• Add in tumeric and chilly powder.
• Add in blended masala paste and mix well.
• Cook in medium flame for 8-10 mins.
• If gravy is too dry add in hot water to adjust consistency.
• Heat oil in other pan and add in diced onions.
• Add in diced capsicum and saute.
• Add this to gravy.
• Take a small piece of paneer and grate this and set aside.
• Add in paneer cubes and mix gently.
• Add in garam masala and crushed methi leaves.
• Garnish with fine chopped coriander leaves and add in grated paneer.
• Mix this well and serve hot.

B4 KickStart

Hi this is mainly for know abouts ...

General:

Hi this is about the general information while making any sweet or spice dishes.
You can adjust the spice and sweet level as to your taste.
Also the salt and oil.

I use the following brands,
        Masalas - ITC/Sakthi/Everest in general or Homemade stuff(check "Homemade" Link)
        Salt - Tata iodised/Reg crystal ones
        Oil - Groundnut Oil
        Paneer - MilkyMist
        Veggies/Fruits - Fresh from market/Native.
        Wheat Flour - Aashirvad/True, 24 Mantra(organic)
        Maida, Rava - Naga
I make my briyani in Panasonic electric cooker.

Junior Chef's:

 This segment holds recipes by my son who is now 9 yr old. He loves cooking and I help him out in cooking.

Baby Food:

This segment holds food for babies above 6 months. I have given the same stuff to my son and
giving the same to my daughter now, who is 10 months old.
Mothers feed is always the best food for babies, start solids as per your doctor's advice.
You can increase the quantity as they grow.

Baking:
My baking segment has 

• Cookies
• Cake bakes
• Breads
• Frosting
• Chocolate making
• Cup cakes/muffins
• Quick bakes
• Eggless bakes

Let's Know:

       This segment holds healthy benefit of an ingredient and some good info of the same.
The info is by my friend sumathy through her known sources and from net etc.

Good  Stuff: 

      This segment holds good pdfs, docs shared in net and watsapp.

Things to note:

General:

• I have tired baking in both convention microwave(samsung) and OTG (morphy richards).
• If I have tired out a recipe in OTG, I would have mentioned the same in post, otherwise it means I have done in my convention microwave.
• The timing varies for each OTG and microwave.
• Microwave - preheating time is automatic(app 10 mins) and gives a beep sound once done,
• OTG - Preheat for 10 mins for any recipe.

My Tools:

Ingredients:

• You can always adjust sugar and salt level as to your taste.
•  I use regular sugar for baking, also I powder the same and store.
•  I use the following brands for each,

                  Cocoa powder - Bakers / Dutch
                  Dry yeast,Custard Powder, Gelatin - Bakers
                  Whipped Cream - Bakers/BlueBird
                  Fresh Cream - Amul
                  White Butter - Oothukuli / MilkyMist
                  Unsalted Butter - MilkyMist/Nilgiris/Aavin
                  Cheese Cubes - Amul
                  Chocolate Sauce - Hershey's
                  Baking powder - Wikifield/Bakers
                  Vanilla Esc and other Esc(almond,butterscotch,Rose, pista etc) - Tiger
                  Honey - Organic
                  Pizza Sauce - Homemade/Delmonte
                  Condensed milk - Milkmaid

        I have mentioned the brand names so that it would be easy for anyone to try without confusion.
And this is no way related to product promotion.

Butterscotch MilkShake

Ingredients:

Milk - 1/4 cup
Butterscotsch icecream - 2 scoops
Chopped Nuts - 1/2 tbsp
Butterscotch chips - 1/2 tsp

Method:

• In a mixie add milk and ice cream and blend it.
• Garnish with nuts and butterscotch chips.
• Yummy drink ready.

Biscuit Condensed Milk Pudding

Ingredients:
Powdered Biscuits - 5 (digestive marie biscuit)
Condensed Milk - 1/4 cup
Cocoa Powder - 1 tbsp
Chopped Nuts - 1/2 cup
Unsalted butter - 1 tbsp

Method:

• Melt butter and add it to the mould or cup you are goin to use for baking.
• Crush the biscuits and add it to the bowl and press it firm.
• Pour the condensed milk on top of it.
• Next layer it with cocoa powder.
• Top with chopped nuts.
• Preheat oven at 180°C and bake for 10-12 mins.
• You can serve this chill or hot.

Note:
I used my homemade Nuts Powder.

Easy Kesar Paneer Ladoo

Kalakandh N Kesar Paneer Ladoo

Ingredients:
Paneer - 200 g
Condensed milk - 1/2 cup
Pistachios - few (for topping)
Rose Esc - 3 drops
Elaichi powder - 1/8 tsp
Ghee - 1 tsp
Saffron strands - 5-6

Method:

• Cut the paneer and add it to blender.
• Add condensed milk and saffron strands to this.
• Grind this to a fine paste.
• Add ghee in a nonstick pan and heat it.
• Add the grinded paste and cook in low flame.
• Keep stirring, till it thickens.
• Once it starts to thicken add in esc and elaichi powder.
• Mix well and transfer to a bowl.
• When it is warm, make small balls.
• Top it with grated pistachios.

Easy Kalakand

Kalakand N Kesar Paneer Ladoo

Ingredients:
Paneer - 200 g
Condensed Milk - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1.5 tbsp
Milk powder - 1.5 tbsp
Elaichi powder - 1/2 tsp
Ghee - 1 tsp
Pistachios - few (chopped)

Method: 

• Cut the paneer, blend it and transfer to the bowl.
• Add condensed milk to this and mix well.
• Add sugar, milk powder and elaichi powder and mix  well.
• Now heat a nonstick pan and add this mixture.
• Keep stirring till it thickens.
• Once it starts to thicken add ghee.
• Transfer this to a plate or bowl and smooth it.
• Top it with pistachios.
• Once it is set,slice it off.

Note:
It is easy as I used the store bought paneer.

Eazy Crossiants

Ingredients:
For Dough:
All purpose flour - 1/2 cup
Wheat flour - 1/2 cup
Warm water - 1/3 cup
Dry yeast - 1.5 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 tbsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Oil - 1 tbsp

Stuffing:
Chopped nuts (cashews, badam, pistachios) - 5tbsp
Powdered sugar - 2 tbsp


Method:

• In a bowl mix nuts and sugar and set aside.
• In a bowl add yeast,sugar,oil and warm water.
• Set aside till yeast is activated.
• Add it to flour, add salt and leave the dough to double up in size.
• Take your pizza dough and knead it to a thin rectangle.
• Now cut triangles out of it.
• At the lengthy base make a small cut in the middle.
• Sprinkle the nuts mixture and roll it up and press the end.
• Place a butter paper in baking tray .
• Place the crossiants and brush with oil.
• Preheat oven(OTG) at 250°C and bake for 15 mins.
• Now reduce the temperature to 180°C and bake for 5 mins.

Note:

I used nuts powder for this recipe.

Vazhakaai Podimaas

Ingredients:
Onion - 1 (finely chopped)
Vazhakaai - 2
Mustard seeds - 12/ tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Urad dal - 1/4 tsp
Sambar thool - 1 1/2 tbsp
Curry Leaves - Little
Hing - Little
Oil,Salt, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Boil water in pan and add vazhakaai (just cut edges and add).
• Cover and cook for 5 mins.
• Strain the water and peel the skin.
• Grate this and keep aside.
• Heat oil in pan and add mustard,cumin and urad dal.
• Once it splutters add curry leaves and onion.
• Saute for a while and add grated stuff.
• Add salt and sambar thool and mix well.
• Cook in low range for few mins.
• Vazhakaai podimaas ready.

Note:
Should not boil vazhakaai for long time.

Quick Halwa #2 Microwave Corn flour halwa

Ingredients:

Corn flour - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Water - 1 cup
Food Color - a pinch
Elachi powder - a pinch
Cashews - 5 (chopped)
Ghee - 2 tbsp

Method:

• In a microwave safe bowl add flour, sugar and water.
• Mix it nicely without lumps.
• Add elaichi powder and color and mix well.
• Now in microwave high for 3 mins.
• Roast the cashews in ghee and add to halwa.
• Also add a tbsp of ghee.

Note:

• If you want to slice it,then pop it for 1 more min.
• I topped it with nuts powder.

Biscuit Custard Pudding

Ingredients:
Custard powder - 5 tbsp
Milk - 3 cups
Sugar - 4 tsp
Biscuits - 1 pack(Milk bikis or marie small pack)
Decoction - 2 tbsp
Sprinklers - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add custard powder and little milk and mix it up.
• In other bowl add milk and boil it.
• Reduce the range and add sugar and keep stirring.
• Add the custard powder mix and keep stirring.
• Once it starts to thicken, turn off the range.
• Let this aside to cool down.
• Dip each biscuit in decoction and layer it.
• Top it with custard mix.
• Again layer it with biscuit and then with custard mix.
• Form some 3-4 layers.
• Top it with sprinklers and refrigerate for 3-4 hrs.
• Should take it out of fridge 10-15 mins before serving.
• You can cut this and serve.

Palak Cheese Balls

Ingredients:

Palak - 1/2 cup (fine chop)
Cheese - 50 g
Paneer - 30 g
Maida - 1 tbsp
Corn flour - 2 tbsp
Red chilly powder - 1/4 tsp
Cumin powder - Little
Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add the chopped greens.
• Add grated cheese, paneer to this.
• Then add maida, corn flour, chilly and cumin powder.
• Mix this well and make small balls out of it.
• Dust this in corn flour and deep fry it.

Note:
As cheese has salt in it no need to add salt separatel.y

VallaraiKeerai Thokku

Ingredients:
Vallarai Keerai - 1 cup
Tamrind water  -  little (soak lemon size tamrind in water)
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
Fenugreek powder - 1/2 tsp
Sugar(naatu sakkarai) - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Hing - a pinch
Salt,Oil - As reqd

Method:

• Remove the bottom part of the stem from greens.
• Wash it nicely and grind it to a paste.
• Heat oil in pan and add mustard seeds and hing.
• Add the greens paste and saute till raw smell goes.
• Now add tamrind water and masala powders.
• Add salt and mix well.
• Cook till it attains thokku consistency.

ManathakaaliKeerai Thuvayal

Ingredients:
Manathakaali Keerai - 1 cup
Capsicum - 1
Urad dal - 2 tsp
Tamrind - small piece
Grated coconut - 2 tbsp
Dry red chilly - 2
Salt, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• Wash the greens and keep aside.
• Heat oil in pan and add urad dal.
• Once it changes in color, add chopped capsicum.
• Then add greens, tamrind, salt, chilly and saute well.
• Finally add grated coconut.
• Let this cool and then grind.

Modakathan Keerai Dosai

Ingredients:
Idly rice - 1 cup
Urad dal - 1/2 cup
Fenugreek Seeds - 1 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Small Onion - 10(optional)
Mudakathan Keerai - 2 cups
Salt,Oil,Water -As reqd

Method:

• Soak rice, dal and fenugreek seeds for 2hrs.
• Grind this to dosa batter consistency.
• Wash the keerai and grind it to paste.
• Add this paste and salt to the batter.
• Mix this nicely.
• Heat oil in pan and add cumin seeds and onion.
• Saute for a while and add to batter.
• Now in dosa tawa pour a scoop of batter and make dosas.
• This goes good with coconut/tomato chutney.

Note:
I did'nt add cumin seeds and onion.

Pizza Pinwheel

Ingredients:
For Dough:
All purpose flour - 1/2 cup
Wheat flour - 1/2 cup
Warm water - 1/3 cup
Dry yeast - 1.5 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 tbsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Oil - 1 tbsp

Topping:
Pizza sauce - As reqd
Capsicum - 1 (fine chopped)
Onion - 1 (fine chopped)
Oregano- 1 tbsp
Red Chilly flakes - 1 tbsp
Grated cheese - 5 - 6 tbsp
Olive Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add yeast,sugar,oil and warm water.
• Set aside till yeast is activated.
• Add it to flour, add salt and leave the dough to double up in size.
• Take your pizza dough and knead it to a thin rectangle.
• Spread the pizza sauce leaving corners.
• Top it with onion, capsicum.
• Sprinkle oregano and chilly flakes.
• Cover it with grated cheese.
• Now carefully roll it and cling wrap.
• Refrigerate for 15 mins(optional).
• Remove the wrap,brush with oil and slice it.
• Place a butter paper in baking tray .
• Place the slices and brush with oil.
• Preheat oven(OTG) at 180°C and bake for 20-25 mins.

ChocoVanilla Popsicle

Ingredients:

Milk - 1/2 cup (boiled and chilled)
Vanilla Esc - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 5 - 6 tbsp
Chocolate Syrup - 2-3 tsp
Moulds

Method:

• Take 1/4 cup of milk and add 2 tbsp of sugar and vanilla esc.
• Mix this well.
• In other bowl take 1/4 cup of milk, 2 tbsp of sugar.
• Add chocolate syrup to this and mix well.
• Now in your icecream mould pour chocolate mix.
• Refrigerate for 2 hours.
• Once it is set pour the second layer and insert icecream sticks.
• Refrigerate for 8 hrs or overnight.

Note:
If you don't have syrup you can use chocolate chips or cocoa powder.

Poha Cerelac

Ingredients:
Red Rice Poha - 1 cup
Panakarkandu powder- 1/3 cup

Method:

• Dry roast the poha till it changes in color.
• Transfer this to mixer and add panakarkandu powder.
• Blend this nicely.
• Let it cool and store in air tight container.

Note:

• Take 2 tbsp of this and add hot water.
• Mix well and feed your baby.

Double Booster Cerelac

Ingredients:
Multigrain Atta- 3/4 cup
Wheat Flour - 1/4 cup
Butter - 1/4 cup
Nuts Powder - 1/4 cup
Raisins - 6
Panakarkandu powder - 1/4 cup

Method:

• In a bowl take multigrain atta, palm sugar, wheat flour.
• Add nuts powder, raisins and mix well.
• Take the chilled butter and melt it.
• Add this to flour mixture and mix till you get crumb texture.
• Now add water slowly till you attain a soft dough.
• Knead the dough thin and prick with fork.
• Cut it into small squares.
• Place butter paper in a baking tray and places these squares on it.
• Preheat the oven(OTG) at 180°C and bake for 15-20 mins.
• Do check in between and corner squares turn brown take that off.
• Bake the rest till done.
• Cool this completely.
• The baked biscuits should be crisp.
• Add this to mixer jar and grind coarsely.
• Let it cool and then store in an air tight container.
• It will be good for a month.

Note:
Take 2tbsp of this powder and add hot water to this.
Mix it up and set aside for 2 mins and feed your baby.

Mutligrain Wheat Cerelac

Ingredients:
Multigrain Atta- 3/4 cup
Wheat Flour - 1/4 cup
Butter - 1/4 cup
Panakarkandu powder - 1/4 cup

Method:

• In a bowl take multigrain atta, palm sugar, wheat flour.
• Mix well.
• Take the chilled butter and melt it.
• Add this to flour mixture and mix till you get crumb texture.
• Now add water slowly till you attain a soft dough.
• Knead the dough thin and prick with fork.
• Cut it into small squares.
• Place butter paper in a baking tray and places these squares on it.
• Preheat the oven(OTG) at 180°C and bake for 15-20 mins.
• Do check in between and corner squares turn brown take that off.
• Bake the rest till done.
• Cool this completely.
• The baked biscuits should be crisp.
• Add this to mixer jar and grind coarsely.
• Let it cool and then store in an air tight container.
• It will be good for a month.

Note:
Take 2tbsp of this powder and add hot water to this.
Mix it up and set aside for 2 mins and feed your baby.

Nuts Powder

Ingredients:
Whole Cashews - 1/2 cup
Badam - 1/2 cup
Pistachios -  2 tbsp
Green Elaichi - 3

Method:

• Dry roast the ingredients and set aside.
• Peel the elaichi skin and keep.
• Now grind this coarsely.
• Let it cool and store in a air tight container.
• Refrigerate it, stays good for 3 months.

Note:

• Don't grind for long time as badam leaves oil.
• And this will not give a coarse powder.

Uses:

• This can be mixed in cerelac and can be fed to babies above 10 month.
• Can be used in deserts, milkshakes etc.

Eggless Honey Walnut Cookies

Ingredients:
All purpose flour - 1 cup
Powdered Sugar - 1/4 cup
Honey - 1/4 cup
Vanilla Esc - 1 tsp
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Walnuts - 1/2 cup(chopped)
Oil - 1/4 cup

Method:

• Take the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
• In other bowl take oil,honey and esc and mix well.
• Add this to dry ingredients.
• Add the walnuts and mix up.
• Make a soft dough.
• Place butter paper in a baking tray.
• Take small balls from the dough and press it.
• Preheat the oven(OTG) at 180°C and bake for 10-12 mins.

MelonCherry Popsicle

Ingredients:

MuskMelon - 1
Glaze Cherries - 2
Sugar or Honey - As reqd

Method:

• Cut the muskmelon into slices.
• Add this to blender.
• Now add sugar or honey.
• Blend this nicely.
• Pour this in popsicle mould.
• Cut cherries into tiny pieces and add it to mould.
• Freeze it.
• While demoulding place it in luke warm water and demould.
• Enjoy the meloncherry popsicle.

Condensedmilk Cookies

Ingredients:
All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cup
Sugar- 1/4 cup
Unsalted butter - 1/2 cup
Condensed milk - 200 g
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Salt - a pinch

Method:

• In a bowl take butter and sugar to this and cream it using electric mixer.
• Add condensed milk and vanilla esc and mix well.
• Add flour, salt and beat until smooth.
• Line the baking tray with butter paper.
• Scoop a protion of dough and place in it and press it.
• Preheat oven(OTG) at 180°C and bake for 12-15 mins.

Eggless Coffee Cupcakes

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 1/2 cup
Powdered Brown Sugar - 3/4 cup
Palm sugar - 1/4 cup
Unsalted butter - 1/4 cup
Baking powder - 1 1/4 tsp
Coffee Decoction - 1/4 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Vanilla Esc - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Chocochips - 3 tbsp

Method:

• In bowl take the dry ingredients and mix well.
• In other bowl take decoction and add milk and esc to it and mix well.
• Take butter in a bowl and blend it using electric hand mixer.
• Add in the dry ingredients and blend it.
• Now add the wet ingredients and blend nicely.
• Line your cupcake pan with liners.
• Pour this batter to 3/4th in each liner.
• Top it with chocochips.
• Preheat oven(OTG) at 180°C and bake for 18-20 mins.
• Let it cool.
• Yields 12 cupcakes.
• Frost with Coffee Buttercream Frosting

Paneer Tikka Gravy #1

Ingredients:
Tomato - 3(puree)
Fresh cream - 1/4 cup
Onion - 2(cut one onion length wise)
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1 tsp
Corainder powder - 1 tsp
Dried kasthuri methis leaves - 1 tsp
Corainder leaves - Little
Paneer Tikka
Salt, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• Marinate paneer for an hour, Refer the link and marinate.
• After an hour, tawa toast paneer and set aside.
• Heat oil in pan, add cumin seeds and ginger garlic paste and saute.
• Then add onion and saute till it turns in light brown color.
• Now add tomato puree, masala powders and required salt.
• Mix well, add water and let it boil till gravy thickens.
• Now add fresh cream and mix up.
• Finally add the toasted paneer and cook for 2 mins.
• Add the crushed dried kasoori methi leaves and stir it.
• Paneer tikka gravy is ready.

Note:
Add salt accordingly as we add salt in marination too.

Flour Buttercream Frosting

Ingredients:
All purpose flour - 4 1/2 tbsp
Milk - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Unsalted butter - 200 g
Vanilla Esc - 1 tsp

Method:

• In a pan add flour and sugar and mix well.
• Add milk and mix such that there are no lumps.
• Now heat this pan and keep stirring till it becomes thick.
• Once it starts to thicken add vanilla esc and mix well.
• Now transfer this to another bowl and beat it using electric hand mixer.
• Beat till it becomes cold.
• Once it becomes cold add in butter little by little.
• Blend this nicely, till you get the peak consistency.
• You can use this on any cake you wish.

Kadapa - Kumbakonam Spl Gravy

Ingredients:
Moong Dal - 1/4 cup
Potato - 2
Big Onion - 1
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Cinnamon stick - small piece
Cloves - 2
Bay Leaf - 1/2
Coriander Leaves,Curry Leaves - Little
Salt, water, oil - As reqd

To Grind:
Coconut - 1/3 cup(grated)
Garlic pods - 4
Grenn Chilly - 1
Fennel seeds - 1/4 tsp

Method:

• Boil potatoes and mash it and set aside.
• Grind the items under "to grind" and set aside.
• Pressure cook moong dal and keep it aside.
• Now in a pan add oil.
• Add bay leaf, cloves, cinnamon, green chilly and saute.
• Then add onion, garlic and saute well.
• Now add the grinded paste,mashed potatoes and dal.
• Add water and salt and mix well.
• Let it boil for 5-7 mins.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with idly or dosa.

Eggless Molten Lava Cake

Ingredients:
All purpose flour - 1 tbsp
Cocoa powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 1 tbsp
Baking powder - 1/8 tsp
Baking soda - 1/8 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Milk - 4 tbsp
Oil - 2 tsp
DairyMilk Silk Chocolate bar - 2-3

Method:

• In a bowl take all the ingredients except chocolate bar.
• Mix well.
• Now grease a microwave safe bowl or mug.
• Pour the batter and place the chocolate bar in between.
• Pop this in microwave for a min.
• Let it sit for 3-4 mins.
• Now invert it to the plate.
• Dust on icing sugar on top and cut it.
• You can see the lava flowing out.
• Enjoy the molten lava cake.

Microwave MysorePak

Ingredients:
Besan flour - 1/2 cup
Powdered Sugar - 1 cup
Corn Starch - 1 tsp
Ghee - 1/2 cup
Milk - 2 tsp

Method:

• In a microwave safe bowl take a tbspn of ghee and add besan flour.
• Microwave for a min and mix well and set aside,
• In other micorwave safe bowl add remaining ghee and opo for 30 sec.
• Now to this add sugar,corn starch and milk and besan flour stuff.
• Mix it well and microwave for a min.
• Remove it and again microwave for a min.
• If it is foamy, then transfer to a greased ghee plate.
• Allow it to cool for few mins and then cut it.

Note:
If it is not foamy, then pop for other 30 sec.

Butterscotch Cup Cakes

Ingredients:
All purpose flour -3/4 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Eggs -2
Unsalted butter - 1/2 cup
Butterscotch Esc- 1 tsp

Method:

• In a bowl take flour and baking powder.
• In other bowl take eggs and blend till fluffy.
• Add sugar little by little and blend it.
• Now add butter to this and whip it.
• Add the flour mixture and mix it up.
• Finally add the esc and mix it up.
• Place liners in muffing tray.
• Pour this batter 3/4th in each cup.
• Preheat oven(OTG) at 180°C and bake for 20-25 mins

Shahi Paneer

Ingredients:

Paneer - 200 g
Onion - 2 (thin slices)
Medium size tomatoes - 2
Badam - 10
Cashew - 5(full)
Garlic pods - 6-8
Ginger - small piece
Melon seeds - 1/2 tsps
Bay Leaf -1/2
Cloves - 2
Green Elaichi - 1
Cinnamon Stick - small piece
Dry Methi Leaves - 1 tbsp
Fresh Cream - 3/4 cup
Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Kashmiri chilly powder - 1 tsp
Salt, Water, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• Boil water in a pan and when it starts to bubble up, reduce the range.
• Add onion,cashews,badam,melon seeds, ginger and garlic.
• Blanch this for 2 mins and strain and keep aside.
• Once cool, grind this to a paste and set aside.
• Grind the tomatoes and make the puree.
• Heat oil in a pan and add bay leaf,cloves, cinnamon and elaichi.
• Add the tomato puree and cook till raw smell goes.
• Add chilly powders, garam masala and salt and saute.
• Once raw smell goes, add the other set of grinded paste(onion, cashew etc)
• Now cook in medium flame/range.
• The gravy will be thick, now add fresh cream and water.
• Mix up and let it boil for few mins.
• Now add the paneer and crushed methis leaves.
• Mix it up and let it boil for 2 mins.
• Shahi paneer gravy is ready and goes good with pulav or rotis.

Note:
I did'nt have melon seeds at home so did'nt use it up.

Mocha Smoothie

Ingredients:

Banana -1
Milk - 1/2 cup
Malted Chocolate Drink Powder(Ovaltine) - 1 1/2 tbsp
Instant Coffee Powder - 1/2 tsp
Honey Or Sugar - As reqd
Ice Cubes - 3

Method:

• Cut the bananas  and freeze it.
• Now in a blender add the frozen banana.
• Then add rest of the ingredients and give a blend.
• Filling mocha smoothie is ready.

Note:

• I had boost in home so used it instead of ovaltine.
• You can also use bournvita or any chocolate drink powder.
• Frozen bananas is must.

MiniCheckers N Marble Cookies

Ingredients:

All Purpose flour - 1 3/4 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Unsalted Butter - 150 g
Cocoa Powder - 2 tbsp
Vanilla Esc - 1 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Milk - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add butter, sugar and vanilla esc and blend well.
• Add salt, flour and mix well.
• Add milk accordingly to attain dough consistency. 
• Divide dough into two parts and in one portion add cocoa powder.
• Knead both balls nicely.
• Now wrap them in separate butter paper and refrigerate till it is firm.

Step 1:

• Now take the dough out and divide each one into half.
• Knead each half to rectangle, such that all four of same size.
• Now take vanilla rectangle and brush it with water.
• Now place cocoa rectangle on top and brush it.
• Place all 4 alternatively and wrap it and refrigerate.

Step 2:

• Take the dough out and trim the sides
• Cut it vertically into four parts.
• Take one strip and brush with water and place the other strips accordingly.
• Place them in such a way that corners don't have same color.
• When you look the corner it will be like checkerboard.

Step 3:

• Now cut into equal sizes.
• Collect the left over pieces and roll it.
• It will be like marbles.
• Line butter paper in baking tray and place cookies.
• Preheat oven(OTG) at 180°C and bake for 15-18 mins.

Note:
In step 2 I cut the dough into horizontal strips and that is why it became minicheckers:))

White Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 5 tbsp
Unsalted Butter - 30 g
Egg - 1
Sugar - 2 tbsp
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
White Chocolate - 6 squares or 25 g

Method: 

• Melt the butter and chocolate by double boiler method or microwave it for 30 secs.
• Let it cool for a while and add ingredients one by one and whisk well.
• Transfer this to greased pan or microwave safe mug.
• Bake in microwave for 2 mins.
• Or Preheat oven(OTG) at 200°C and bake for 5-8 mins.