Bun Pizza

Ingredients:

Wheat bun - 2
Pizza sauce- 1 tbsp
Onion - 1 (small dices)
Tomato - 1 (deseed and dice)
Red Chilly flakes - 1 tsp
Oregano -  1 tsp
Salt - 1/8 tsp
Cheese - 1/2 cup (grated)

Method:

• Cut the buns into halves and set aside.
• In a bowl add onion, tomato.
• Add in chilly flakes, oregano, salt and mix well.
• Apply pizza sauce in each bun and top with little grated cheese.
• Now add onion topping and cover it with grated cheese.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 200°C for 8-9 mins.

Chocolate Cake / ChocoBiscuit Cake #2

Ingredients:

Bourbon biscuits - 120 g
Milk - 1/2 cup + 1 tbsp
Eno (regular) - 1/2 tsp
Cashew - 6 (fine chop)
Almonds - 6 (fine chop)

Method:

• Add biscuits to the blender and make a fine powder.
• Transfer this to a bowl.
• Add in milk and mix well.
• Add eno and mix well.
• Transfer this batter to a greased pan.
• Top it with nuts of your choice.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 20-22 mins.
• Let it cool and then slice and enjoy.

MacOmlette

Ingredients:

Egg - 3
Onion - 1 (dice)
Tomato - 1 (deseed & dice)
Capsicum - 1 (dice)
Red chilly flakes - 2 tsp
Oregano - 1 tsp
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Pasta - 2 tbsp (boiled)
Salt, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl crack eggs and whisk well.
• Now add the diced onion, tomato and capsicum.
• Add in chilly flakes and crushed oregano.
• Now add salt, pepper powder and mix well.
• Add the boiled pasta and mix well.
• Grease the tawa and pour the mixture.
• Cook in low flame and flip it carefully.
• Slice and serve with ketchup.

Note:
I used fusilli pasta so chopped and added.

Corn Kebab

Ingredients:

Potato - 1 (boiled)
Corn Kernels - 1/2 cup (boiled)
Onion - 1 (medium size, fine chop)
Kashmiri chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
Chat Masala - 1/4 tsp
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Rice flour - 2 tbsp
Bread crumbs - 1/2 cup
Salt, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• Boil potato and corn.
• Blend the corn corasely and transfer to bowl.
• To the same bowl add mashed potato.
• Add in onion and spice powders.
• Add in salt and mix well.
• Add in rice flour and bread crumbs and mix well.
• Shape it as you wish and fry and serve.
• Enjoy the kebab with sauce/green chutney.

Moong Dal Halwa

Ingredients:

Moong dal (split) - 1/2 cup
Brown sugar - 1/2 cup (+ 1 tbsp)
Ghee - 1/4 cup
Milk- 3/4 cup
Saffron strands - Little
Cashews - 6-7(chopped)

Method:

• Soak dal in water for 2-3 hours.
• Strain water and blend this to a paste (not too coarse, not too fine).
• In a pan add sugar and milk and bring it to a boil.
• Just boil till sugar dissolves.
• Now add saffron strands and set aside to cool.
• Heat little ghee in pan and roast cashews and set aside.
• To the same pan add the remaining ghee.
• Add the grinded dal paste and cook in low flame.
• Keep stirring, till the raw smell goes and you get roasted aroma.
• It will be like crumbs. It will take app 22-25 mins.
• Now add the milk sugar mixture and mix well.
• Keep Stirring till you get the right consistency.
• Add roasted cashews and mix well and serve hot.

Kozhi Malli Kurma

Ingredients:

Chicken - 400 g
Small Onion - 15-20
Big Onion - 1 (fine chop)
Tomato - 1(small)
Green Chilly - 5
Garlic - 10
Coriander powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Garam masala - 1 tbsp
Pepper powder - 1 tsp
Coconut - 1/4 cup
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Curry Leaves - A sprig
Coriander Leaves - 1/2 (from a)bunch
Salt, Oil, Water - As reqd

Method:

• Heat oil in pan and add small onions and saute.
• Then add garlic, green chilly and 1/2 of garam masala and saute.
• Add in coconut, curry leaves, coriander leaves and saute for a while.
• Let this cool and blend to a fine paste.
• Heat oil in pan and add fine chopped big onion and saute.
• Now add the tomato and saute.
• Add in chicken pieces and mix well.
• Add the spice powders other than pepper powder.
• Add in salt and then grinded paste.
• Add little water to this and mix well.
• Pressure cook this for 3 whistles.
• Once done add in pepper powder and mix well.
• Let this boil for few mins.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice/idly/dosa.

Red Velvette(Beetroot) Cookie Cake

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 cup
Beetroot Puree - 1/2 cup
Brown sugar - 2 tbsp
Ghee- 1 1/2 tbsp
White Chocolate chips - 2 tbsp

Method:

• Grate and make beetroot puree and set aside.
• Take 1/2 cup of puree in a bowl.
• Add ghee, sugar and mix well.
• Add in flour and chocolate chips.
• Gather the dough, don't knead.
• Cling wrap and refrigerate for 20 mins.
• Then make cookies and arrange them in a lined baking tray.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180 for 16-18 mins.
• This will look like cookie and texture like cake.

Note:

Sugar level varies based on sweetness of beetroot.

Vanilla Cake #1

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1 cup
Powdered Sugar - 1/4 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Unsalted Butter - 70 g
Caster sugar - 1 cup
Egg - 1
Vanilla esc - 1 tsp
Milk - 1/2 cup

Method:

• In a bowl mix flour and baking powder,baking soda,salt and keep aside.
• In other bowl cream softened butter and sugar.
• Then add egg and esc and mix well.
• Now add a portion of flour mix to this and some milk and fold well.
• Add the remaining flour and milk and fold well
• Grease a pan with butter and dust with flour.
• Invert and dap to remove excess flour.
• Pour in the batter.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180 °C and for 20-25 mins.
• Slice and enjoy.

Karachi Biscuit #2

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1/2 cup
All purpose flour - 1/2 cup
Powdered sugar - 1/2 cup
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
Custard powder - 2 tbsp (vanilla flavour)
Milk - 2 tbsp
Unsalted butter - 50 g
Rose esc - 1/2 tsp
Tutti Frutti - 1/2 cup

Method:

• In a bowl add custard powder, flour and baking powder and mix well.
• In other bowl cream butter and sugar.
• Add in esc and mix well.
• Add the dry ingredients and tutti frutti.
• Gently bring the dough together.
• If it is too dry add milk, if not skip adding milk.
• Shape this dough to a log and cling wrap.
• Refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.(I refrigerated overnight).
• Now unwrap and cut the cookies.
• Arrange them in a lined baking tray.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 13-15 mins.
• Let it cool and then store in airtight container.
• This yields 20 cookies.

Cherry Pound Cake

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 2 cups
Baking powder - 2 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Unsalted butter - 170 g
Brown sugar - 1 cup
Egg - 3
Vanilla esc - 1/2 tsp
Cherry - 3/4 cup(glazed and chopped cherries)

Method:

• In a bowl add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
• In other bowl cream butter and sugar.
• Add in eggs one at a time and mix well.
• Add in esc and mix well.
• Add the dry ingredients and fold.
• Finally add the chopped cherries and mix well.
• If batter is too thick, can add 1-2 tbsp of milk and fold again.
• Pour this batter in lined loaf tin.
• Bake this is a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 30-35 mins.

Note:

I had only 2 eggs at home so added 1/4 cup of curd as substitute.

Venpongal

Ingredients:

Raw Rice - 1 cup
Moong dal - 1/4 cup
Water - 3 cups
Cashews - 6-7(broken)
Pepper corns - 2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 2 tsp
Salt - 1 tbsp

Milk - 1 tbsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig
Ghee - 3 tbsp

Method:

• Dry roast moong dal (yellow paasi payir) and set aside.
• Now in bowl add washed rice and dal.
• Add in water and salt and mix.
• Pressure cook this for 5 whistles.
• Heat tbsp of ghee and roast cashews and set aside.
• Add little ghee again and add pepper corns and curry leaves.
• Finally add cumin seeds and add in boiled rice and dal.
• Add a tbsp of milk and mix well.
• This helps to retain the consistency.
• Add the roasted cashews and mix well.
• Serve with chutney and sambar.

Kaara Dosa

Kaara Dosa

Kaara Chutney

Ingredients:

Kaara chutney - 3 tbsp
Dosa Batter - 1 cup
Oil - As reqd

Method:

• I made Kaara chutney, but here for this recipe I blended it coarsely.
• Also tempered it with mustard seeds.
• Heat dosa tawa, pour a laddle of batter.
• Spread it and drizzle oil.
• Now add a tbsp of kaara chutney and spread all over dosa.
• Serve hot.

Cherry Cupcakes

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 2 cups
Baking powder - 2 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Unsalted butter - 170 g
Brown sugar - 1 cup
Egg - 3
Vanilla esc - 1/2 tsp
Cherry - 3/4 cup(glazed and chopped cherries)

Method:

• In a bowl add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
• In other bowl cream butter and sugar.
• Add in eggs one at a time and mix well.
• Add in esc and mix well.
• Add the dry ingredients and fold.
• Finally add the chopped cherries and mix well.
• If batter is too thick, can add 1-2 tbsp of milk and fold again.
• Fill 3/4 of muffin cases.
• Bake this is a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 15-18 mins.
• Yields around 14-15 cupcakes

Wheat Fruit N Nut Muffin

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 3/4 cup
Milk powder - 2 tbsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Tutti Frutti - 2 tbsp
Cashew - 6-7 (chop)
Almonds - 6-7 (chop)
Powdered Brown sugar - 1/2 cup
Oil - 1/4 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Vinegar - 1 tsp
Vanilla Esc - 1 tsp

Method:

• In a cup add fruit and nuts and add 1 tbsp of flour and toss well.
• Set this aside.
• In a bowl add flour, milk powder, baking soda and salt and mix well.
• Add sugar and mix well.
• In other bowl add milk and vinegar.
• Now add oil, esc and whisk well.
• Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and fold well.
• Add the fruit and nuts and fold well.
• Fill the batter in muffin cases.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180℃ for 15-17 mins.

Note:

• Toss the fruit and nuts in flour before adding to batter.
• This will prevent them from sinking to bottom.

Wheat ChocoChip Cupcakes

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 cup
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Chocochips - 2 tbsp
Warm water - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Vinegar - 1/2 tbsp
Vanilla esc - 1tsp
Oil - 3 tbsp
Salt - a pinch

Method:

• In a bowl add warm water and sugar and mix well.
• Add in esc and oil and mix well.
• Add vinegar to this and whisk well.
• Now add the dry ingredients and fold well.
• Add the chocochips and fold.
• Pour this in a lined muffin cases.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 20-22 mins.

Fusion Cupcakes

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1 1/4 cup
Condensed milk - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Unsalted butter - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Vinegar - 1 tsp
Rasamalai Esc - 3/4 tsp
Gulab Jamun - 6 pieces

Method:

• In a bowl add flour, baking soda, baking powder and mix well.
• In other bowl add butter and condensed milk and mix well.
• Now add sugar, vinegar, esc and mix nicely till sugar dissolves.
• Now add the dry ingredients and fold well.
• Pour a tbsp of batter in each muffin case.
• Place a jamun in each case and cover with remaining batter.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 25-30 mins.
• Yields 9 cupcakes.
• These cupcake will have rasmalai flavour with gulab jamun in it.

Note:

You can freeze the jamun and then cut and fill or can put one full jamun in each cupcase.

Egg Kothu/ Egg Puttu

Ingredients:

Onion - 1 (fine chop)
Tomato - 1 (fine chop)
Egg - 4
Sambar thool  - 2 tbsp
Pepper powder - 1 tbsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Tandoori masala - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - a pinch
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tbsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig
Salt, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl break open eggs and whisk it.
• Add little salt and pepper powder and whisk it.
• Set this aside.
• Heat oil in pan and add curry leaves.
• Add in onion and ginger garlic paste and saute well.
• Add in tomato and saute till it turns mushy.
• Cook in low flame.
• Add in spice powders and salt and mix well.
• Now add the egg mix and keep stirring.
• Enjoy the hot egg kothu/puttu.

Rasmalai Cupcakes #1

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1 1/4 cup
Condensed milk - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Unsalted butter - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Vinegar - 1 tsp
Rasamalai Esc - 3/4 tsp

Method:

• In a bowl add flour, baking soda, baking powder and mix well.
• In other bowl add butter and condensed milk and mix well.
• Now add sugar, vinegar, esc and mix nicely till sugar dissolves.
• Now add the dry ingredients and fold well.
• Fill 3/4th of batter in each case of lined muffin tray.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 25-30 mins.
• Yields 12 cupcakes.

Wheat Vanilla Cupcakes

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 cup
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Warm water - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Vinegar - 1/2 tbsp
Vanilla esc - 1tsp
Oil - 3 tbsp
Salt - a pinch

Method:

• In a bowl add warm water and sugar and mix well.
• Add in esc and oil and mix well.
• Add vinegar to this and whisk well.
• Now add the dry ingredients and fold well.
• Pour this in a lined muffin cases.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 20-22 mins.

Pizza Papad

Ingredients:

Papad - 3
Onion - 1
Tomato - 1
Capsicum - 1
Pizza sauce - 1 tbsp
Maida - 2 tbsp
Water - 1/4 cup
Salt, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add maida, little salt and littler water and make a paste(not too thick nor too thin)
• Deseed and make thin slices of tomato and capsicum.
• Add this to a bowl.
• Add sliced onion to this.
• Add pizza sauce and salt and mix well and set aside.
• Now take a plate and add water.
• Dip a papad in water for 2 seconds.
• Place it in a cloth to remove excess water.
• Spoon filling to this and roll.
• First fold the corners and then use maida paste.
• Seal the edges.
• Heat oil in pan and fry these.
• Serve the pizza papad with sauce.

Note:
You can bake the same.

Bread Canapes

Ingredients:

Bread - 6 slices
Butter - 2 tbsp
Grated cheese - 1/4 cup

For Filling:
Onion - 1 (fine chop)
Tomato - 1 (small, fine chop)
Capsicum - 1 (small, fine chop)
Pizza sauce - 1 tbsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp or As reqd
Oil - 1 tsp

Method:

• Heat oil in pan and add onion and saute.
• Add in tomato and saute, cook till it is mushy.
• Add in capsicum and pizza sauce and toss well.
• Add in required salt and cook in low flame for 2-3 mins.
• Transfer this to a bowl and set aside.
• Now take a round cookie cutter and cut the breads using it.
• Place 3 roundels as it is.
• Take the other 3 roundel, use a small cookie cutter than the previous one.
• Cut it and place the outer part.
• Place the full roundel and apply butter on it.
• Top it with outer layer roundel(cut using small cutter).
• Add the filling in and top it with grated cheese.
• Repeat the same with other breads.
• Line them in a greased baking tray.
• Bake this in a preheated oven at 250°C for 4-6 mins.