Biscoff Cupcakes

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 3/4 cup
Unsalted butter - 27 g
Biscoff spread - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Egg - 1
Almond esc - 1/2 tsp or Vanilla esc - 1 tsp
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp + 1/8 tsp
Milk - 2 1/2 tbsp

Method:

• In bowl add biscoff spread, butter and sugar and mix well.
• Add in egg and esc and mix well.
• Add in flour, baking powder and mix well.
• Add in milk and make a batter.
• Line the muffin tray and fill in the batter.
• Bake this in a preheated oven at 180°C for 12-15 mins.

Chole Masala

Ingredients:

Channa - 1/2 cup

Onion - 1 

Tomato - 2

Green Chilly - 2

Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tbsp

Chole Masala - 2 tbsp

Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp

Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp

Amchur powder - 1 tsp

Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp

Coriander Leaves - Little

Method:

• Soak channa overnight or for min 7 hours.
• Add water, salt and pressure cook for 5 whistles.
• Heat oil in pan and add ginger garlic paste.
• Blend onion and tomato coarsely and add it pan.
• Add in slit green chilly.
• Add in chole masala, chilly pwoder, turmeric powder and mix well.
• Add in boiled channa with stock.
• Add in water(if needed) and check for salt and add accordingly.
• Cover and cook for few minutes.
• Now add in amchur powder and garam masala.
• Let this boil for 2 mins.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with roti/poori.

Instant Wheat Chole Bhature

Ingredients:
Wheat flour - 1 cup
Maida - 1/2 cup
Rava - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Oil - 1 tbsp + For Frying
Soda - 3/4 cup


Method:

• In a bowl add wheat flour, maida and rava.
• Add in sugar,salt and oil and mix well.
• First add 1/2 cup of soda and mix well.
• Add remaining soda and make a soft dough.
• Cover it and set aside for 30 mins.
• Knead it again.
• Make ball sized dough out of it.
• Sprinkle some flour on top and roll to a bit thick circle.
• Dust off the flour and deep fry in oil.
• Serve Chole bhature with "Chole Masala".

Pachai Payir Kuzhambu

Ingredients:

Pachai payir - 1 cup
Small onion - 10-15 (fine chop 5 and set aside)
Tomato - 1
Dry red chilly - 5-6
Green Chilly - 1
Coconut - 1/4 cup
Cumin seeds - 2 tsp
Hing - Little
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
Coriander Leaves - Little
Curry Leaves - Little
Salt, Oil, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Wash the dal and rain water.
• Fry this in pan for few mins and transfer to a bowl.
• Add water, hing and turmeric powder.
• Pressure cook for 4 whistles and set aside.
• Heat oil in the pan and add chilly and saute.
• Add in onion and tomatoes and coconut and mix well.
• Add in a sprig of curry leaves and saute.
• Let this cool, add cumin seeds and blend it to a fine paste.
• Heat a pan and add mustard seeds and urad dal.
• Add in green chilly and fine chopped onion and saute.
• Add boiled dal and grinded paste and mix well.
• Add little water and salt and let it boil for 5-8 mins.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with roti or rice.

Paneer Pops

Ingredients:

Paneer - 250 g
Maida - 1/4 cup
Corn flour - 1 tbsp
Bread Crumbs - 2 tbsp
Corn flakes - 1/2 cup (crush and keep)
Red Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Lemon juice - 1tsp
Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Garlic powder - 1 tsp (optional)
Salt, Milk, Water - As reqd

Method:

• In a plate mix crushed corn flakes and bread crumbs.
• Cut paneer into cubes and soak in hot water.
• Drain the water and add chilly powder, salt, lime juice and mix well.
• Dust each paneer with maida and set aside.
• Now to the remaining maida add pepper powder, garlic powder, salt.
• Add in baking powder and add milk to make a not too thick/thin batter.
• Dip each paneer in this batter and roll in cornflakes and arrange in a tray.
• Refrigerate for 30 mins.
• Heat oil in pan and fry these (place outside fridge for 10 mins).
• Serve paneer pops with sauce.

Note:

Add salt accordingly as we add in initial coating as well as in batter.

Wheat Bread - Autolyze Method

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 3 cups
Warm Milk - 1 cup
Warm Water - 1/2 cup
Honey - 3 tbsp
Dry yeast - 1/2 tbsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Oil - 2 tbsp

Method:

• In a bowl add in flour and water and mix well.
• Add little milk and mix and set aside for 30 mins(This is autolyze).
• In other bowl add honey, remaining milk and yeast and set aside.
• After 30 mins and in the activated yeast and mix.
• Add in salt and oil and make a non-sticky dough.
• Place this in a greased bowl for proofing(2 hours).
• Once it has double in size, punch the dough.
• Fold and knead the dough.
• Roll out thin rectangle.
• Tightly roll like a log and seam the edges.
• Place this in a greased loaf pan(seam side bottom)
• Cling wrap and set aside for 30 mins for 2nd proofing.
• Brush the top with milk.
• Bake this in a preheated oven at 180°C for 30-35 mins.
• Once baked remove it from tray and place on wire rack to cool.
• Slice only after it is completely cooled.

Note:

Autolyze method - In this method they mix flour and water and set aside. As the recipe had both 

water and milk, I used both.

AC Cupcakes

Ingredients:

Almond flour - 1/3 cup
Wheat flour - 1 cup
Milk powder - 1/2 cup
Cinnamon powder - 1 tsp
Powdered Brown sugar - 1/2 cup
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
Milk - 3/4 cup
Vinegar - 2 tsp
Oil - 1/4 cup
Almond and Pista - 1/4 cup (chopped)

Method:

• Powder the almonds(fine powder) in a blender and take 1/3 cups in a bowl.
• To this add wheat flour, milk powder, cinnamon powder.
• Add in baking soda and baking powder and mix well.
• In other bowl add vinegar to milk and set aside.
• In other bowl add sugar and oil and mix well.
• Now add the milk vinegar mix and mix well.
• Add this to dry ingredients and mix well.
• Line the muffin tray and fill 3/4 th with batter.
• Top them with chopped nuts.
• Bake this in a preheated oven at 180°C for 20-22 mins.

Note:

You can pour the batter in loaf pan and make AC Loaf too.

Cranberry Irish Scones #1

Scones 

B4 baking

Dough

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 3/4 cup
Powdered brown sugar - 1/4 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Unsalted Butter - 3 1/2 tbsp(Chill cubes)
Milk - 40 ml
Orange juice - 1 1/2 tbsp
Orange Zest - From 1 orange
Dried Cranberries - 1/4 cup(chop)
Sugar - 2 tbsp

Method:

• In a bowl add flour, brown sugar, salt, baking powder and mix well.
• Add in chill butter cubes and mix well.
• It will be like crumbs.
• Add in zest, juice and dried cranberries and mix well.
• Now add in milk and bring all together.
• Flatten it gently in a floured surface.
• Use a cookie cutter and cut round shapes out of it.
• Arrange this in a lined baking tray.
• Brush the top with milk and sprinkle sugar in each scones.
• Bake this in a preheated oven at 220°C for 18-20 mins.

Marie Cream Biscuits

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 1/4 cup

Unsalted butter - 30 g

Milk - 1/8 cup

Sugar - 1/4 cup

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Biscoff Spread - 1/4 cup

Salt - a pinch

Method: 

• In a bowl add milk, sugar and baking soda.
• Mix this, it will be frothy.
• Now boil this and once it starts to boil(bubbles) turn the heat off.
• Set aside to cool.
• In other bowl add flour ,salt and butter and mix well.
• Now add the cooled milk stuff and make a dough.
• Roll it thin rectangle shape and make thin rectangle pairs.
• Place this in a lined baking tray.
• Use fork and prick holes as in picture.
• Drizzle sugar on top of one biscuit from each pair.
• Bake this in a preheated oven at 160 °C for 10-12 mins.
• Like it should have golden brown color.
• Let it cool.
• Now apply biscoff spread on the biscuit that is not topped with sugar.
• Close it with biscuit topped with sugar.
• Do the same way with rest of the biscuits.
• Refrigerate for the cream to set.

Note:

I divided the dough into two and made "Marie Biscuits" too.

Marie Biscuit

Marie Biscuits 

Baked

B4 baking

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 1/4 cup

Unsalted butter - 30 g

Milk - 1/8 cup

Sugar - 1/4 cup

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Salt - a pinch

Method: 

• In a bowl add milk, sugar and baking soda.
• Mix this, it will be frothy.
• Now boil this and once it starts to boil(bubbles) turn the heat off.
• Set aside to cool.
• In other bowl add flour ,salt and butter and mix well.
• Now add the cooled milk stuff and make a dough.
• Roll it thin and use a round cutter and cut circles out of it.
• Place this in a lined baking tray.
• Use fork and prick holes as in picture.
• Bake this in a preheated oven at 160 °C for 10-12 mins.
• Like it should have golden brown color.
• Let it cool and store in container.

Note:

I divided the dough into two and made "Marie Cream Biscuits" too.

Bharwa Bhindi - Stuffed Vaendakaai/Bhindi

Ingredients:

Bhindhi - 20 pieces
Oil - 4 tbsp

Stuffing:
Grated Coconut/ Desicccated coconut - 3 tbsp
Groundnuts - 1 tbsp (powder)
White Sesame seeds - 1/2 tbsp
Coriander Leaves - Little (fine chop)
Ginger Garlic paste - 1/4 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 3/4 tsp
Cumin powder - 1/4 tsp
Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam masala  - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 1 1/2 tsp
Lime juice - 1 tbsp
Salt - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add items under "Stuffing" and mix well.
• Wash the bhindi and set aside.
• Cut both ends and make a slit.
• Fill in the stuffing and set aside.
• Have the remaining stuffing mix.
• Heat oil in pan and place the bhindi.
• Cover and cook in low flame till bhindhi is cooked.
• Sprinkle the remaining stuffing and mix carefully.
• Serve the bharwa bhindhi with rice of your choice.

Kalyana Gosthu

Ingredients:

Carrot - 1 (small, chop)
Radish - 1/4
Brinjal - 2 (chop and add in water)
Tomato - 1/2
Green Chilly - 1(slit)
Moong dal - 1/2 cup
Channa dal - 4 tbsp
Sambar thool - 1 tbsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig
Jaggery - Little
Hing - a pinch
Tamrind Pulp - 1 cup(soak lime size tamrind in water)
Oil, Salt, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Heat oil in pan and add mustard seeds and curry leaves.
• Add in green chilly and tomato and saute for a while.
• Add in veggies, tamrind pulp and salt.
• Add in sambar thool, hing and turmeric powder and mix well.
• Add in saoked dal and pressure cook this for 4-5 whistles.
• Once done add little jaggery to this and mix.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

Muskmelon Juice

Ingredients:

Muskmelon - 1
Sugar - 2 tbsp

Method:

• Peel skin and remove seeds.
• Chop the muskmelon.
• Add sugar and blend this.
• Serve yummy muskmelon juice.

Kadai Veg

Ingredients:

Carrot - 1 (Julienne)
Potato - 1 (Julienne)
Green peas - 1/4 cup
Onion - 1 1/2 (Slice 1/2 onion and rest fine chop)
Green Capsicum - 1 (thin slice)
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Tomato - 3 (Puree)
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Red chilly powder - 1/4 tsp
Water - 1 1/2 cups
Fresh Cream - 3 tbsp
Coriander Leaves - for garnish
Salt, Oil -  As reqd

Kadai Masala:
Coriander seeds - 1 tbsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Cloves - 2
Cinnamon stick - small piece
Green Elaichi - 2
Dry red Chilly - 2
Cashews - 7 (whole)
Pepper corns - 4-5

Method:

• Dry roast the ingredients under "Kadai masala".
• Once cool, grind it to a powder.
• Heat oil in pan and add few sliced onions and capsicum and saute.
• Transfer this to plate.
• Heat oil in pan and add ginger garlic paste and saute.
• Add in chopped onions and saute till it turns slight brown.
• Add in tomato puree and cook till oil oozes out.
• Add in spice powders, salt and mix well.
• Add in the veggies, salt and water and mix well.
• Cover and cook in medium flame till veggies are cooked.
• Then add masala(reserve 1 tsp) and sauted and diced capsicum and onion.
• Simmer for 4-5 mins.
• Add in fresh cream and mix well.
• Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.
• Sprinkle a tsp of reserved masala and mix.
• Server with roti or pulav.

Jeera Rice

Ingredients:

Basmati Rice - 2 cups
Cashew nuts - 6-8
Shahi Jeera - 2 tsp
Coconut milk - 2 cups
Bay Leaf - 1
Cloves - 2
Cinnamon stick - a small piece
Green Cardamon - 2
Star Anise - a petal
Salt, Ghee - As reqd

Method:

• Heat ghee in pan and add soaked and drained basmati rice.
• Saute for few seconds and transfer to a bowl.
• Heat oil in pan and add garam spices and saute.
• Add in shahi jeera and cashew nuts and saute.
• Add in coconut milk and salt and boil for a mins.
• Add this to rice and cook.
• Serve Jeera rice with Kadai Veg gravy.

Note:

I made this in electric rice cooker.

Instant Sambar #2

Ingredients:

Small onion - 6-8
Tomato - 2 (fine chop)
Carrot - 1/2 (small dices)
Tamrind pulp - 3 tbsp
Coriander seeds - 1 tbsp
Dry Red Chilly - 2
Pottukadalai - 2 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Curry Leaves - 1 sprig
Coriander Leaves - Little
Oil, Salt, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Heat a tsp of oil in pan and add coriander seeds, chilly, 3 onions.
• Saute this for a while and then add half chopped tomatoes.
• Cook till it turns mushy.
• Trasfer this to a plate and add pottukadalai.
• Blend this to a paste.
• Heat oil in pan and add mustard seeds and curry leaves.
• Add in onions and saute for a while.
• Add in tomatoes, carrot and saute for while.
• Add grinded paste, turmeric powder, salt and little water and mix well.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with dosa/idly.

OPM Healthy Drink

Ingredients:

Oats - 1/4 cup
Pomegranate - 1/2
Milk - 1 1/4 cup(chill)
Sugar - 1/2 tsp
Honey - 1 1/2 tsp

Method:

• Dry roast oats and add it to blender.
• Add in pomegranate and milk.
• Blend this and add sugar and honey and blend.
• Transfer this to serving glass and top with some pomegrantes and serve.

FreshCream Icecream

Ingredients:

Fresh Cream -  250 ml
Milkmaid condensed milk - 1/4 cup
Chopped nuts - 2 tbsp
Rose milk esc - 2 drops

Method:

• In a bowl add fresh cream and milkmaid and whisk well.
• Divide this in two bowls and add rose milk esc to one bowl.
• Mix well.
• Transfer the rose milk layer to a flat freezer safe bowl.
• Freeze it for an hour.
• While freezing this refrigerate the other one.
• Once the rose milk layer is set, pour the other layer on top.
• Freeze it.
• Once it is half set sprinkle chopped nuts.
• Freeze until set.
• Top the icecream with grated badam and sprinkle some sprinklers.

Watermelon Granita

Ingredients:

Watermelon - 1/2
Sugar - 1/3 cup
Lime juice - 2 tbsp

Method:

• Deseed and remove skin and dice watermelon.
• Add sugar and lime juice and blend it.
• Pour this to a flat freezer safe bowl.
• Freeze it for and hour or atleast half set.
• Take the bowl and use a fork and scrape the top.
• Freeze it again for 2 hrs.
• Remove the bowl and scrape all over using the fork.
• Serve chill.

Appy Fizz

Ingredients:

Apple Sauce - 1 tbsp
Sugar - 2 tbsp
Chill Soda - 1/4 cup
Ice cubes - 2

Method:

• Take the serving glass and add ice cubes.
• Mix sugar with apple sauce and add it to the glass.
• Add in soda and serve the chill appy fizz.

Apple Sauce

Ingredients:

Apple - 1
Water - 1/2 cup

Method:

• Wash and peel apple skin.
• Chop it off.
• Add little water to this and pressure cook for 2 whistles.
• Transfer this to a blender and make a fine paste.
• Yummy sauce is ready.

Note:

While giving for babies, you can add little honey or sugar and feed them.

Kadai Paneer #1

Ingredients:

Paneer - 250 g
Onion - 1 1/2 (dice 1/2 onion and keep)
Tomato - 2
Capsicum - 1/2 (dice and keep)
Fresh cream - 1/4 cup
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tbsp
Red chilly powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp
Sugar - a pinch
Salt, Oil, Water - As reqd

Kadai Masala:

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Coriander seeds - 1 1/2 tsp
Pepper corns - 6-7
Dry Red Chilly - 2
Mace - small piece
Green Elaichi - 2
Cloves - 2
Cinnamon stick - small piece
Bay Leaf - 1

Method:

•  Dry roast ingredients under "Kadai Masala" and set aside.
• Remove the bay leaf and blend it to a fine powder.
• Heat oil in pan and add diced onion and capsicum and saute.
• Transfer this to a plate.
• Now heat oil in pan and add the bay leaf.
• Add in onion and saute for a while.
• Add in tomatoes and cook till turns soft.
• Add a pinch of sugar and mix well.
• Remove the bay leaf and let it cool.
• Blend this to a fine paste and set aside.
• Heat oil in pan and add ginger garlic paste.
• Saute this in a low flame.
• Add in chilly powder, turmeric powder and then grinded paste.
• Mix them up and add salt.
• Now add kadai masala and little water and mix well.
• Let this boil for few mins.
• Add in sauted and diced capsicum and onion.
• Add in fresh cream and mix well.
• Cover and cook for few mins.
• Add in paneer cubes and mix well.
• Serve the yummy kadai paneer.

Plantain Masala

Ingredients:

Platain - 1
Onion - 1
Tomato - 1 (fine chop)
Green chilly - 2 (slit)
Red Chilly powder -
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Corainder powder - 1 tsp
Garam Masala - 1 tsp
Grated Coconut / Dessicated Coconut - 1/4 cup
Poppy Seeds - 1/4 cup
Groundnut - 1/4 cup
Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Cloves - 2
Cinnamon stick - small piece
Green Elaichi - 2
Sahi jeera - 1/4 tsp
Oil - 3 tbsp
Salt, Water - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add coconut, groundnut and poppy seeds.
• Add little water and make a paste.
• Heat oil in pan and add cloves, elaichi, cinnamon and sahi jeera.
• Saute for a while.
• Add in fine chopped onions and saute for a while.
• Add in slit green chilly and ginger garlic paste and saute for a while.
• Add in grinded paste, turmeric powder and chilly powder.
• Add in salt and mix well. 
• Cook in low flame till oil oozes out.
• Add in tomatoes and and mix well.
• Add in boiled plantain, coriander powder and garam masala powder.
• Mix well and add little water for consistency.
• Garnish with coriader leaves and server with pulav or roti.

Tomato Mint Chutney

Ingredients:

Onion - 1
Tomato - 2
Mint leaves - 1/2 cup
Dry red chilly - 4
Coconut - 1 tbsp
Urad dal - 1 tsp
Tamrind - small piece
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig
Salt, Oil, water - As reqd

Method:

• Heat oil in pan and add urad dal and dry red chilly and saute.
• Transfer this to a plate.
• Heat oil in pan and add onion and saute for a while.
• Add in tomatoes, coconut and saute till tomato turns mushy.
• Add in mint leaves and mix well and transfer to the plate.
• Add salt, tamrind and blend it to a paste.
• Add water accordingly.
• Heat oil in pan and add mustard seeds.
• Once it splutters add in curry leaves.
• Add this to chutney and serve with dosa/idly.

Rose Milk

Ingredients:

Milk - 1 1/2 cup (chill)
Rose Milk esc - 3 drops
Sugar - 4 tbsp

Method:

• In a bowl take chilled milk.
• Add in esc and sugar and mix well.
• Mix till sugar dissolves.
• Serve chill.

CheesySandwich

Ingredients:

MiniBaquette Bread - 1
Onion - 1 (thin slices)
Tomato - 1 (deseed and slice)
Cheese - 1/4 cup (grated)
Pizza saute - 1/2 tbsp
Oregano - 1/2 tsp
Red chilly flakes - 1 tsp

Method:

• Take the bread and divide into two.
• Heat oil in pan and add onion and saute.
• Add in tomato and oregano and chilly flakes and mix up.
• Transfer this to a bowl.
• In a grill pan, add butter and toast the bread slices.
• In one half slice of bread, spread the pizza sauce.
• Top with onion tomato mix.
• Top with grated cheese.
• Cover it with other slice and cook in low flame.

MiniBaquette Bread

Baked Bread 

After 2nd Proofing

Shaped to logs

After 1st proofing

Dough

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/2 tbsp
Olive oil - 1 tbsp
Dry yeast - 1/4 tbsp
Warm water - 1/2 cup + as needed
Sesame Seeds - 1 tbsp
Salt - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add sugar, yeast and warm water and set aside.
• In other bowl add in flour and salt and mix well.
• Add in the activated yeast mix and form a dough.
• Place this in a greased bowl for proofing.
• Once done, punch the dough and then divide it.
• Make two logs and place this in a greased and lined baking tray.
• Set aside for 30 mins for second proofing.
• Once it is done, make indentations using knife.
• Brush the top with and sprinkle sesame seeds.
• Bake this in a preheated oven at 200°C for 20-28 mins.
• I used this and made cheesy sandwich.