Wheat CheesyGarlic Loaf

Baked

Lined pull aparts for 2nd proofing

After proofing

Dough

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 2 cups

Dry yeast - 1 1/8 tsp

Butter -  1 tbsp

Milk - 3/4 cup

Sugar -  1 1/2 tbsp

Salt - 1 tsp 

For Filling: 

Garlic - 6-8 (grated)

Cheese - 1/2 cup (grated)

Red Chilly flakes -1 tsp

Italian seasoning - 1/2 tsp

Method:

• Mix the filling in a bowl and keep aside.
• Add butter to like warm milk and mix.
• In a bowl add sugar,yeast,little warm milk and set aside to activate...
• In other bowl add flour,salt and once yeast is activated add it to flour and add remaining milk.
• Mix well and make a dough.
• Place this in a greased pan for proofing.
• Once done punch the dough and knead and roll thin.
• Use cookie cutter and cut round shapes.
• Place the filling in each circle and fold it(like semicircle).
• Place them in greased loaf pan and allow to proof.
• Brush the top with oil and sprinkle the left over filling.
• Bake them in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 25-30 mins.

Butterscotch Cookies

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 3/4 cup
Unsalted butter - 2 tbsp
Sugar (regular) - 1/4 cup
Buttermilk - 1/4 cup
Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
Butterscotch chips - 1/4 cup
Vanilla esc - 1/2 tsp
Salt - a pinch

Method:

• In a bowl add sugar and butter and mix well.
• Add in esc and buttermilk and mix well.
• Add in dry ingredients to this and mix well.
• Add in butterscotch chips and mix well.
• Cling wrap and refrigerate the dough for 30 mins.
• Use a tbsp and take the dough and place them in a lined baking tray.
• Press each ball gently.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 10-12 mins.

White Chocolates

Ingredients:

Milk powder - 2 tsp
Powdered sugar - 1/3 cup (minus 1 tsp)
Corn flour - 1 tsp
Butter - 1/4 cup
Vanilla esc - 1/4 tsp
Dried Cherries - 1/2 tsp(fine chop)
Salt - a pinch

Method:

• Boil water in a pan and place a bowl on top.
• Bowl should not touch boiling water.
• Add in butter and keep stirring.
• Add in sugar and corn flour and keep mixing.
• Add milk powder and mix well.
• Keep mixing and add esc and salt and mix well.
• Once it attains flowing consistency, set aside.
• Spoon the mixture into chocolate moulds.
• Fill in few moulds with chopped cherries.
• Refrigerate for an hour and then store in air tight container.

Walnut Chutney

Ingredients:

Walnuts - 1/2 cup
Coconut - 3 tbsp(grated)
Pottukadalai - 1 tbsp
Green Chilly - 2
Garlic pods - 5
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Urad dal - 1 tsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig
Tamrind- small pinch
Salt, Oil, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Add walnuts, coconut, chilly, garlic and pottukdalai to the blender.
• Add salt and tamrind.
• Blend this to a fine paste, by adding required water.
• Heat oil in pan and add mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves.
• Add this walnut chutney and enjoy with dosa or idly.

Note:

If you don't want garlic, you can add ginger.

Veg Quesadillas

Ingredients:

Chapathi - 1
Grated Cheese - 1/4 cup
Onion - 1 (thin slice)
Tomato - 1 (deseed and slice)
Green Capsicum - 1 (thin slice)
Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• Heat a pan and add oil.
• Add in onion and saute.
• Add in capsicum, tomato and saute for a while.
• Add in salt, spice powders and mix well and set aside.
• Now heat chapathi in a tawa and set aside.
• To that sprinkle theese grated cheese.
• Add in the sauted veg mix.
• Roll it and cook in medium heat.

Note:

• Quesadillas are made with tortilla sheets.
• I have used left over chapathis for the same.
• You can add any veggie of your choice.

Methi Malai Paneer #1

Ingredients:

Paneer - 1 pack
Unsweetened Khoya  or instant khoya - 3/4 cups
Onion - 1 (fine chop)
Tomato - 3 (puree)
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Kashmiri chilly powder - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 3/4 tsp
Garam masala - 1/4 tsp
Bay Leaf - 1
Elaichi - 3
Cloves - 3
Cinnamon - smal piece
Dry Methi Leaves - 1 tsp
Butter - 1 tbsp
Salt,Oil, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Heat oil and butter in pan and add paneer pieces.
• Roast them and set aside.
• In the same pan add in garam spices and then onion and saute well.
• Add in ginger garlic paste and saute.
• Add in tomato puree and cover and cook for 8 mins.
• Add in spice powders and salt and mix well.
• Add in khoya and add a cup of water and mix well.
• Once the consistency is thick add in paneer pieces and mix well.
• Let this boil for 2 mins.
• Add in crushed dry methi leaves and serve hot.

Prawn Pickle

Ingredients:

Prawn - 250 g (devein and wash)
Oil - 1/4 cup
Water - 1/4 cup
For Marination:
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Red chilly powder - 3/4 tbsp
Kashmiri chilly powder - 1/4 tbsp
Salt - 2 tsp

For Pickle:
Ginger - 60 g
Garlic - 60 g
Green Chilly - 5(if big, small means 10-12; fine chop)
Vinegar - 1/4 cup
Salt - 1 1/2 tbsp (iodized)
Garam masala - 1 tsp
Red chilly powder - 1/2 tbsp
Pepper powder - 2 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 2 tsp

Method:

• In bowl add the de-veined and washed prawns.
• Add in items a tsp of turmeric powder, salt 2 tsp and mix well.
• Set this aside for 30 mins.
• It will leave water, strain this and set aside.
• Grind ginger and garlic and set aside.
• Heat 1/4 cup oil in pan.
• Add in prawns and chilly powder (as mentioned under "for marination")
• Fry in low flame for 5 mins and set aside.
• To the same pan add in grinded ginger garlic.
• Saute for 2 mins and then add green chillies.
• Now cook this for atleast 5-6 mins.
• Add in the spice powders (as mentioned in "For Pickle") along with salt.
• Mix them well.
• Add in fried prawns.
• Add in vinegar, 1/4 cup of water and cook in low flame for 5-6 mins.
• Spicy kerala style prawn pickle ready.

MalliMilagu Chicken Gravy

Ingredients:

Chicken - 500 g (Boneless)
Onion - 1 (meidum size, thin slices)
Ginger garlic paster - 2 tbsp
Tomato - 1 (fine chop)
Chilly powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 2 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Cumin powder - 1 tsp
Garama masala - 2 tsp
Pepper powder - 1 tbsp
Salt, Oil, Water - As reqd

For Grinding:
Fennel seeds - 2 tsp
Cinamon stick - small piece
Green elaichi - 4
Cloves - 5
Small onion - 15
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Coconut - 1 1/2 cup(grated)


Method:

• Heat oil in pan and add onion and ginger garlic paste.
• Saute for a while and then add spice powders, salt. and mix up.
• Cook in low flame.
• Add tomato and mix well.
• Then add washed chicken pieces and mix well.
• Transfer this to a bowl and add 1 - 1 1/2 cups of water.
• Pressure cook this for 2 whistles.
• Heat oil in pan and add garam spices.
• Then add peeled small onions and ginger garlic paste.
• Add grated coconut and roast till brown.
• Cool and blend this to a paste.
• In a pan transfer the cooked chicken and add grinded masala.
• Cook in low flame for while.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

Prawn Masala

Ingredients:

Prawn - 250 g (devein and wash)
Onion - 2 (fine chop)
Tomato - 2 (fine chop)
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp
Pepper powder - 2 tsp
Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Fennel powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam masala - 1/4 tsp
Curry Leaves - Little
Coriander Leaves - Little
Green elaichi - 2
Salt - 1 tsp
Oil, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Heat oil in pan and add elaichi and curry leaves.
• Once it splutters add onion and saute.
• Add ginger garlic paste and saute for a while.
• Add in tomatoes and cook till it turns mushy.
• Cook in low flame.
• Add in spice powder and salt and mix well.
• Cook till oil oozes out.
• Now add the de-veined and washed prawns.
• Mix them well and cook for 4-5 mins or till prawn is cooked.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

Blueberry Cupcakes

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 cup - 1 tbsp

Corn flour - 1 tbsp. 

Baking Powder - 1 tsp

Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup  

Cavins Vanilla Milkshake - 1 cup 

Oil - 1/4 cup

Vanilla esc - 1 tsp

Almond esc -  3 drops

Dried bluberry - 1 tbsp

Method:

• In a bowl add wheat flour, corn flour,baking powder and mix well.
• In other bowl beat sugar,oil, milk shake.
• Add the esc and just mix .
• To this add the dry ingredients and mix well.
• Add the dried blueberries and mix well.
• Fill the cupcake moulds 3/4 th.
• Bake this in a preheated oven(OTG) at 180°C for 18-20 mins.

Egg Pepper Masala

Ingredients:

Egg - 2
Salt - 1 tsp
Pepper powder - 1 tbsp
Oil - 1 tsp
Curry leaves - Little

Method:

• Boil eggs and cut into half and set aside.
• Heat oil in a pan and add curry leaves.
• In medium flame, add salt and pepper powder and mix.
• Add in eggs and toss and serve.

VanillaMilkshake Cupcakes

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 cup - 1 tbsp

Corn flour - 1 tbsp. 

Baking Powder - 1 tsp

Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup  

Cavins Vanilla Milkshake - 1 cup 

Oil - 1/4 cup

Vanilla esc - 1 tsp

Almond esc -  3 drops

Method:

• In a bowl add wheat flour, corn flour,baking powder and mix well.
• In other bowl beat sugar,oil, milk shake.
• Add the esc and just mix .
• To this add the dry ingredients and mix well.
• Fill the cupcake moulds 3/4 th.
• Bake this in a preheated oven(OTG) at 180°C for 18-20 mins.

Valentines Spl #2

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 1/3 cup

Salt - 1 tsp

Baking powder - 1/4 tsp

Vanilla esc - 1 tsp

Milk - 2 tbsp

Powdered brown sugar - 1 cup

Oil - 6 tbsp

Frosting:

Powdered sugar - 2 cup

Unsalted white butter - 100 g

Corn starch - 1 tbsp

Decoration:

Dried cranberry - 1 tsp

Dried cherry - 1 tsp

Sprinklers - 1 tsp

Method:

• Mix oil and sugar in a bowl.
• Add in milk, esc and whisk well.
• Add in flour, salt, baking powder and mix well.
• Make a soft dough.
• Make heart shape template in a cardboard paper.
• Roll the dough and place the template over it and cut the shape.
• Make two such shapes or as many layers you want.
• Place this in freezer for 10 mins.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 10-12 mins.
• Set this aside.
• In a bowl add butter, sugar and corn flour and beat it.
• Once it reaches stiff consistency, transfer this to a piping bag.
• Put this inside another piping bag with nozzles.
• Now take a heart and pipe it all over as in pic.
• Place the other one on top and pipe the cream.
• Decorate with berries and sprinklers.

Oorpu Podi

Ingredients:

Pulungal arisi / Idly rice - 2 tsp

Urad dal - 2 tsp

Pepper corn - 3/4 tsp

Method:

• Dry roast each separately and blend together.
• Store it in a container and use when needed.

Palakottai (Jackfruit seed) Gravy / Oorpu

Ingredients:

Drumstick - 6 pieces
Jackfruit seeds - 4-5 (peel white skin and cut into two)
Onion - 1 (thin slice)
Tomato - 1/2 (fine chop)
Garlic - 4 (Thin slices)
Sambar thool - 3 tbsp
Oorpu podi - 1 tbsp
Milk - 2 tbsp
Warm water - 3 cup
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig
Oil, Salt - As reqd

Method:

• Pressure cook jackfruit seed for 3 whistles and set aside.
• Heat oil in pan and add mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
• Add in curry leaves, onion and saute.
• Add in garlic and tomato and saute for a while.
• Add in drumstick, jackfruit seeds and saute.
• Add in sambar thool and salt and mix well.
• Add 3 cups of water and cook in medium flame.
• Once it reduces in consistency(like 1 cup) add in milk.
• Finally add oorpu thool and boil for few mins.

Note:

• This gravy should be of thick consistency.
• You can do with drumstick alone or drumstick and brinjal too.

VadaCurry #2 - HotelStyle

Ingredients:
Onion - 2
Tomato - 3
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Green Chilly - 2
Garam Masala - 1 tsp
Fennel powder - 1/2 tsp
Red Chilly powder - 2 tsp
Coconut milk - 2 cup
Cloves - 2
Cinnamon stick - small piece
Oil, Water, Salt - As reqd

For Vadai:
Channa dal - 2 cup
Dry red chilly - 5
Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
Curry Leaves - Little(fine chop)
Small Onion - 10-12 (fine chop)
Salt - Little

Method:

• Soak items under "for vadai"(except salt,onion and curry leaves) for 2 hrs.
• Drain water and add salt and blend coarsely.
• Add onions and curry leaves and mix well.
• Heat oil and make vadais and crush them and set aside.
• Heat oil in pan and add garam spices.
• Add in onion and ginger garlic paste and green chilly and saute well.
• Add in tomatoes and cook till it turns mushy.
• Add in fennel powder, garam masala and red chilly powder.
• Add reqd salt and mix well.
• Finally add in coconut milk and crushed vadai and mix well.
• Let this boil for few mins.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

Meen Thokku

Ingredients:

Fish - 300 g (Nei Meen)
Gingely Oil - 1//4 cup
Mustard Seeds - 1 tsp
Fenugreek Seeds - 1/8 tsp

Small Onion - 12(fine chop)
Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
Kashmiri Chilly Powder - 1 tbsp

Coriander powder - 1 tspPepper Powder - 1 1/2 tbsp

Tamarind - Lemon size
Curry leaves -  1/4 cup

Salt, Water - As reqd

Method:

• In a pan add water and fish pieces and boil for a min.
• Then strain water and peel skin and remove bone as much as possible.
• Soak tamrind in water and strain and set aside.
• Heat oil in pan and add mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds.
• Add in curry leaves and small onion and saute for a while.
• Now add turmeric powder, salt and mix well.
• Cook in medium flame.
• Add in spice powders and mix well.
• Now add tamrind water and let it boil.
• Once it reduces add in fish pieces and mix gently.
• Cook till it attains thokku consistency.
• Garnish with fresh curry leaves and serve.

Thakaali Rasam

Ingredients:

Tomato - 3
Water - 1 cup
Garlic - 4 (crushed with skin)
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 3/4 tsp
Coriander leaves - Little
Curry Leaves - a sprig
Dry red chilly - 2
Pepper corns - 1/4 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Coriander seeds - 1 tsp
Salt, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a pan add water, turmeric powder and let it boil.
• Add in tomatoes and boil it.
• Once done peek the tomato skin and blend it and set aside.
• In a mixie jar add cumin seeds, coriander seeds, pepper corns and dry red chilly.
• Blend this to a fine powder.
• Heat oil in pan and add mustard seeds and curry leaves.
• Add in turmeric water, blended tomato, crushed garlic and mix well.
• Add in salt and the grinded powder and give a boil.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

Note:

You can add one dry red chilly while grinding and add a green chilly to temper.

CheesyGarlic Rolls

Baked 

After 2nd Proofing

For second proofing

First proofing

Dough

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 2 cups

Milk powder - 4 tbsp
Butter - 1/4 cup (melted)

Sugar - 1 tbsp

Dry yeast - 1 tbsp

Salt - 1 tsp

Luke warm water - 1 1/2 cups
Garlic - 5-6 (grated)
Cheese - 2 cubes (grated)
Italian seasoning - 2 tsp

Method:

• In a bowl add sugar, yeast and luke warm milk and set aside to activate.
• In other bowl add flour, salt, butter, milk powder and mix well.
• Add in activated yeast and knead the dough till soft.
• Place this in a greased bowl for proofing for an hour.
• Once done, punch the air and divide the dough into two.
• In a bowl mix garlic, cheese and italian seasoning and set aside.
• Take a portion and roll it thin.
• Brush with melted butter and sprinkle garlic cheese mix.
• Roll it tight and cut it.
• Place it in a greased muffin tray for proofing.
• Once done brush the top with butter.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 20-22 mins.

Note:

I used the same dough and made WheatCinnamon rolls.

Wheat Cinnamon Rolls

Baked

After 2nd Proofing

Second Proofing

First Proofing

Dough

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 2 cups

Milk powder - 4 tbsp
Butter - 1/4 cup (melted)

Sugar - 1 tbsp

Dry yeast - 1 tbsp

Salt - 1 tsp

Luke warm water - 1 1/2 cups
Cinnamon powder - 1 tbsp
Brown sugar - 1 1/2 tbsp (powdered)
Icing sugar - 1 1/2 tbsp

Method:

• In a bowl add sugar, yeast and luke warm milk and set aside to activate.
• In other bowl add flour, salt, butter, milk powder and mix well.
• Add in activated yeast and knead the dough till soft.
• Place this in a greased bowl for proofing for an hour.
• Once done, punch the air and divide the dough into two.
• In a bowl mix brown sugar and cinnamon and set aside.
• Take a portion and roll it thin.
• Brush with melted butter and sprinkle cinnamon sugar mix all over.
• Roll it tight and cut it.
• Place it in a greased bowl for proofing.
• Once done brush the top with butter.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 20-22 mins.
• Let this cool.
• In a bowl mix 1/4 cups of icing sugar with 1 tbsp of milk.
• Pour this over the baked cinnamon roll.

Note:

I used the same dough and made CheesyGarlic rolls.

Egg Curry

Ingredients:

Egg - 3
Onion - 1 (fine chop)
Tomato - 1 (fine chop)
Kashmiri Chilly powder - 2 tsp
Corainder powder - 1 tsp
Coriander Leaves - Little
Salt,Oil, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Boil egg and remove shell and cut into halves and set aside.
• In a pan, heat oil.
• Add in onion and saute for a while.
• Add in tomatoes and saute till it turns mushy.
• Add in spice powders and salt and mix well.
• Add little water and mix well.
• In a bowl place the egg and top it with gravy.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

GarlicTomato Chutney

Ingredients:

Tomato - 2
Garlic - 15
Dry red chilly - 4-5
Gingely oil - 1 tbsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Urad dal - 1/4 tsp
Curry Leaves - Little
Salt, Oil, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Heat little oil in pan and add garlic and chilly.
• Saute for a while.
• Add tomatoes and saute till it turns mushy.
• Blend them to a paste and set aside.
• Heat oil in pan and mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves.
• Add this grinded paste.

Egg Bajji

Ingredients:

Egg - 1 (boiled)
Baji mix - 1/4 cup
Or
Besan flour - 3 tbsp
Rice flour - 1 tbsp
Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
Salt, Oil, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Boil egg and cut into roundels and keep.
• Mix the baji batter.
• Dip the eggs and fry in hot oil.
• Yummy baji's ready.

GingerGarlic Paste

Ingredients:

Ginger - 200 g
Garlic - 200 g
Oil - 1 tsp

Method:

• Wash ginger and peel skin and chop.
• Heat a tsp oil and add chopped ginger.
• Saute for a second and add garlic and saute for a min.
• Transfer this to a blender.
• Once done store in a airtight container.

Orange Cranberry Cookies

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 1/4 cup
Unsalted butter - 100 g
Powdered Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup
Orange juice - 1 1/2 tbsp
Orange Zest - 1/4 tsp
Vanilla esc - 1/4 tsp
Dried Cranberry - 1 1/2 tbsp(fine chop)

Method:

• In a bowl add butter and sugar and mix well.
• Add in orange juice, flour and mix well.
• Add vanilla esc and zest and mix the dough.
• Finally add in chopped cranberries and bring the dough together.
• Make a log shape and cling wrap and refrigerate for an hour.
• After an hour slice them and arrange them in lined baking tray.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 12-15 mins.

Potato Chips

Ingredients:

Potato - 2
Pepper powder - 1 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Oil, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Take water in a bowl and add little salt to it.
• Peel and slice potato.
• Add it to salt water and wash nicely.
• Repeat this process twice.
• Heat oil in pan and reduce the flame.
• Now drain little potato onto a plate.
• Carefully add them to oil(without water) and fry.
• Once the sizziling sound reduces transfer that to plate.
• Sprinkle pepper and salt and mix it.
• Check for spice and salt and increase accordingly.

Instant Khoya

Ingredients:

Milk powder - 3/4 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Ghee - 1 tsp

Method:

• Heat ghee in pan and add milk.
• Cook in low flame.
• Add in milk powder and keep stirring.
• Continue till it thickens and leaves sides.
• You can use this unsweetned khoya in recipes of your choice.

Dates Halwa

Ingredients:

Dates - 2 cups
Water - 3/4 cups
Sugar - 2 tbsp
Cashews - 6-7 (cut to small pieces)
Milk - 2 tsp
Ghee - 1/4 cup

Method:

• Boil water in a bowl.
• Deseed and chop dates to small pieces.
• Soak these dates in hot water for 20 mins.
• It will be soft, drain water and blend this to a paste.
• Heat little ghee and add cahsews and roast and set aside.
• In same pan add in little ghee and add the dates puree.
• Cook in low flame.
• Add sugar and milk and keep stirring till color changes.
• Add ghee little by little, once it whoozes out add in elaichi powder.
• Add in cashews and mix well.