One bowl Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 cup + 1/8 tbsp
Brown Sugar - 3/4 cup
Cocoa Powder - 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp or 30 g
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt - a pinch
Milk - 1/2 cup / 120 ml
Water - 1/2 cup / 120 ml
Oil - 1/4 cup
Vanilla esc - 1/2 tsp
Vinegar - 1 tbsp

Method:

• Grease the cake pan and dust with flour.
• Invert and dap it to remove excess flour.
• In a bowl add the ingredients one by one, other than vinegar.
• Mix them.
• Add vinegar finally and mix it.
• Pour the batter to the cake pan.
• Dab it to remove air bubbles.
• Bake this in preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 25-28 mins.
• Gives 9 medium size cake slices.

Note:
Once you add vinegar you should bake it immediately.

Upside down Banana Brownie #4

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1/2 cup
Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp
Brown sugar -  1/3 cup
Baking powder - 1/4 tsp
Coconut Oil - 1/2 tbsp
Unsalted butter - 50 ml (melted)
Vanilla Esc - 1 tsp
Milk - 2/3 cup

For Caramel:

Banana - 2
Unsalted butter - 2 tbsp
Brown sugar - 2 tbsp
Water - 1 tbsp

Method:

• Peel banana and slice it into half and set aside.
• In a pan add items under "for caramel" other than banana.
• Cook in low flame till all blends together.
• Now pour this to the loaf pan/baking pan which you use.
• Place the banana slits with cut side facing bottom.
• In a bowl add oil, melted butter, sugar, milk and vanilla esc and mix well.
• In other bowl add flour, cocoa powder and baking powder and mix well.
• Add this to wet ingredients and fold well.
• Pour this batter over the bananas and smooth out the top.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 18-20 mins.

Mini Jelly Cupcakes / Jelly Lamington

Ingredients:

Vanilla Mini Bites - 12-15
Jelly pack - 100 g
Desiccated coconut - 1 1/2 cup

Method:

• Bake the mini bites and set aside to cool.
• Prepare jelly as per package instructions.
• Transfer this jelly to a bowl and place a spatula in it.
• Now refrigerate, it should not set, jelly should be of flowing consistency.
• Spread the desiccated coconut in a plate.
• Now take mini bites (one by one) dip in jelly.
• Then roll in desiccated coconut.
• Repeat the same for the remaining mini bites too.

Vanilla Mini Bites

Ingredients:

Wheat 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
Vanilla Esc - 1 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, vanilla esc and mix nicely till sugar dissolves.
• Add sugar and mix well.
• Now add the dry ingredients and mix well.
• Fill each muffin case(just add a tbsp in each case).
• Bake this in a preheated oven(OTG) at 180°C for 12-13 mins.
• Yields 18-20 mini cups.

Banana Oats Bite Size Cups

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1/3 cup
Oats - 1/3 cup
Milk - 1/3 cup
Banana - 1 1/2 (medium size)
Ghee - 2 tbsp (melted)
Brown Sugar - 2 tbsp
Baking powder - 1/4 + 1/8 tsp
Baking soda - 1/8 tsp
ChocoChips - 2 tbsp
Vanilla esc - a drop (optional)

Method:

• In a bowl, measure and take oats.
• You can use as such, but I blended it.
• Take this in a bowl, add wheat flour to this,
• Add in baking powder and salt and mix well.
• Set this aside.
• In other bowl, add in bananas and mash well using fork.
• Now add ghee and sugar and whisk well using hand mixer.
• Now add in milk and mix well.
• Add in dry ingredients and fold.
• Pour this batter in the lined mini muffin cases.
• Sprinkle chocochips in each case.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180℃ for 28-32 mins.
• Yields 12-15 mini cupcakes.

Egg/Muttai Kurma

Ingredients:

Eggs - 4
Onion - 1 (fine chop)
Tomato - 1/2
Garlic - 3-4
Green Chilly - 3
Ginger Garlic paste - 1/2 tbsp
Fennel seeds - 1/4 tsp
Coconut - 1/4 cup
Cloves - 2
Cinnamon stick - small piece
Poppy seeds - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 2 tbsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig
Coriander Leaves - Little
Salt, Water, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add water and eggs.
• Boil eggs and then peel shell and set aside.
• Soak poppy seeds in hot water.
• Heat oil in pan and add clove, cinnamon and fennel seeds.
• Now add green chilly and ginger garlic paste and saute for a while.
• Add in tomatoes and cook till it is mushy.
• Add in coconut and saute for a while.
• Cook in low flame.
• Add in coriander powder and mix well.
• Let this cool.
• Add soaked poppy seeds to this and grind to a fine paste.
• Add little water while grinding.
• Now heat oil pan and add curry leaves.
• Once it splutters add in onion and saute for a while.
• Add the grinded paste and water and cook in low flame.
• Cook for about 4-5 mins.
• In a bowl add the boiled eggs.
• Prick holes in egg using fork.
• Now pour the gravy over the eggs.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.
• Serve hot with rice/chapathi/poori.

Paneer Kofta Gravy

Ingredients:

Paneer Kofta - 6-8
Onion - 1 (Roughly chop)
Tomato - 2 (Roughly chop)
Garlic - 3
Ginger Garlic paste - 1/2 tbsp
Clove - 1
Cinnamon stick - small piece
Green Elaichi - 1
Coriander Leaves - 1/4 cup
Mint Leaves - 1/4 cup
Dried Kasoori Methi Leaves - 1 tsp
Kashmiri Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/4 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/8 tsp
Salt, Oil, Water - As Reqd

Method:

• Heat oil in pan and add clove, elachi and cinnamon stick.
• Add in onions and saute.
• Add in garlic, ginger garlic paste and saute for a while.
• Now add in tomatoes and cook till it turns mushy.
• Add in chilly powder, turmeric powder, salt and mix well.
• Add in mint and coriander leaves and mix well.
• Let this cool and grind to a fine paste.
• Now heat oil in pan and add grinded paste and required water.
• Let it boil till you get the desired consistency, app 4-5 mins.
• Now add garam masala powder and mix well.
• Add in fried koftas and cover and cook for 2 mins.
• Finally crush and add the methi leaves.
• Serve hot with chapathi or poori.

Note:
When you add salt to gravy, add carefully as kofta balls also has salt.

Paneer Balls

Ingredients:

Paneer - 150 g
Corn flour - 2 tbsp
Bread crumbs - 2 tbsp
Red Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Fennel powder - 1/4 tsp
Garama Masala - 1/4 tsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl, crumble paneer.
• Add in salt, spice powder and mix well.
• Add in corn flour and bread crumbs and make a dough.
• Make small smooth balls out of it.
• Heat oil in a pan and fry these balls.
• Serve with ketchup or green chutney.
• I used these and made paneer kofta gravy.

Pheni Paratha

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 2 1/2 cups
Ghee - 2 tbsp + 1/4 cup
Salt, Water - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add flour, salt and mix well.
• Now add 2 tbsp ghee and water little by little.
• Knead and form a soft dough.
• Make small balls out of it.
• Roll out the dough thin.
• Now brush ghee as in picture.
• Use a pizza cutter and make thin slits as in picture.
• Just gather and roll it and tuck the edges.
• Repeat the same with other dough.
• Heat a tawa, drizzle oil in pan.
• Now take the rolled dough and press with hands and spread.
• Transfer this to tawa and flip sides and cook.
• Once done, just crush with hands and serve hot.

Banana Oats Cake

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1/3 cup
Oats - 1/3 cup
Milk - 1/3 cup
Banana - 1 1/2 (medium size)
Ghee - 2 tbsp (melted)
Brown Sugar - 2 tbsp
Baking powder - 1/4 + 1/8 tsp
Baking soda - 1/8 tsp
ChocoChips - 2 tbsp
Vanilla esc - a drop (optional)

Method:

• In a bowl, measure and take oats.
• You can use as such, but I blended it.
• Take this in a bowl, add wheat flour to this,
• Add in baking powder and salt and mix well.
• Set this aside.
• In other bowl, add in bananas and mash well using fork.
• Now add ghee and sugar and whisk well using hand mixer.
• Now add in milk and mix well.
• Add in dry ingredients and fold.
• Pour this batter in the moulds and dab it.
• Sprinkle chocochips.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180℃ for 28-32 mins.
• I made two mini loaves, got some 14-15 pieces.

Note:

• You can bake in a loaf tin too, in that case grease the pan.
• Then dust with flour and invert and dab it to remove excess flour.
• Then pour the batter and bake.

Plain Salna / Empty Salna #1

Ingredients:

Onion - 1 1/2 (thin slices)
Tomato - 2
Green chilly - 1
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tbsp
Turmeric power - 1/4 tsp
Chilly powder - 3/4 tsp
Coriander powder - 2 tbsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
Cumin powder - 1/4 tsp
Fennel powder - 1/4 tsp
Coconut - 1/2 cup
Cashews - 5 - 6
Coriander Leaves - for garnish
Water, Oil, Salt - As reqd

Method:

• Blend coconut and cashews by adding little water.
• Set this aside.
• Now heat oil in pan and add curry leaves.
• Add in onion and saute for a while.
• Now add ginger garlic paste and saute for a while.
• Add in fine chopped tomatoes and cook till it turns mushy.
• Now add the spice powders, salt and blended paste.
• Mix well and add water (app 1 1/2 cups).
• Pressure cook this for 3 whisltes.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.
• Server hot with dosa/idly/parotta.

Omlette Uthapam #2

Ingredients:

Egg - 3
Dosa Batter - 1/2 cup
Leftover Gravy - 1 cup
Pepper powder - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig (fine chop)
Oil - 1 tbsp

Method:

• I used leftover dhariwala gravy.
• In a bowl crack eggs and add pepper powder and salt.
• Whisk well and set aside.
• To this add gray, curry leaves and whisk well.
• Now add dosa batter and mix well.
• Heat a tawa and drizzle oil.
• Pour a laddle of batter and spread.
• Drizzle oil on top and then flip and cook.
• Serve hot.
• Adjust spice according to the gravy you use.
• Also with the same batter you can make paniyaaram too.

Dhariwala

Ingredients:

Potato - 3
Green peas - 1/2 cup
Tomato - 2
Ghee - 2 tbsp

To Grind:

Onion - 1
Coriander Leaves - 3/4 cup
Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp
Chilly powder - 3/4 tsp
Kashmiri Chilly powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 tsp
Salt - As reqd

Method:

• Boil potatoes and peas and set aside.
• In a bowl add water and make slits in tomatoes and add to this.
• Let it boil for 5-8 mins.
• After which peel the tomato skin and blend this to a puree.
• Set this aside.
• Now blend items under "To grind" and set aside.
• Do add water while blending.
• Now heat ghee in a pan and add blended puree and cook in low flame.
• Add in tomato puree and cook till ghee oozes out.
• Now add the boiled peas and boiled and mashed potatoes.
• Cool in low flame for 8-9 mins.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.
• Goes good with poori/chapathi.

Orange Tutti Frutti Muffins

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1 cup / 100 g
Brown sugar -1/2 cup
Water - 1/4 cup
Orange juice - 3/4 cup
Vanilla Esc - 1 tsp
Oil - 1/4 cup
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Milk - 1/2 tbsp
Tutti Frutti - 1/2 cup

Method:

• In a bowl add water and brown sugar and whisk well.
• Add in orange juice,oil and esc and mix well.
• Now add flour, baking soda and mix well.
• Add in tutti frutti, milk and fold.
• Line the muffin case and fill it up with batter.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180℃ for 25-28 mins.
• Yields 9 muffins.

Note:
You can replace water too with orange juice.

Dates Pudding Cake

Ingredients:

Dates - 65 g (deseed)
Boiling water - 80 ml
Baking soda - 1/4 tsp

For Caramel:

Jaggery powder - 1 tbsp
Butter - 10 g
Ginger powder - 1/8 tsp
Water - 1/8 tsp

Pudding:
Wheat flour - 50 g / 1/2 cup
Jaggery powder - 25 g
Unsalted butter - 32.5 g
Curd - 25 ml
Baking soda - 1/4 tsp

Method:

• First deseed the dates and chop it and transfer it to a bowl.
• To this add baking soda and hot boiling water and mix well.
• Set this aside for 18-20 mins.
• Now in a pan add items under "For caramel" and mix it.
• Now put this on low flame and whisk till it bubbles and becomes frothy.
• Now take the pudding pan and grease it with oil.
• Now dust the same with flour and dab to remove excess flour.
• Pour the caramel syrup to the base and add some soaked dates.
• Now place few cashews too.
• In other bowl add melted butter and jaggery and whisk till creamy
• Now add the soaked dates with water and whisk well.
• Add in curd and mix well.
• Add the flour, baking soda and whisk well.
• Pour this batter to the pudding pan.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180℃ for 30-33 mins.
• Let it cool and then invert it.
• Scrape the caramel and top it over pudding.
• Yields 5-6 pieces.

Note:

The syrup will stick to the pan you can scrape and top it over pudding.

Cauliflower Chops Gravy

Ingredients:

Onion - 1 (fine chop)
Tomato - 1 1/2 (fine chop)
Cauliflower - 1 (small)
Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Coriander powder - 1/2 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam Masala powder - 1/2 tsp
Cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander Leaves - Little
Salt, Oil, Water - As reqd

To Grind:
Coconut - 1/4 cup
Roasted Gram - 1 tbsp
Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp
Cashew - 4

Method:

• Grind items under "to grind" to a fine paste and set aside.
• Cut the florets and wash and set aside.
• Now boil water and add turmeric powder.
• Once it bubbles, turn off fire and add florets and cover it.
• Let it sit for 5-6 mins.
• Now strain the florets and chop it.
• Heat oil in pressure pan and add onion and saute.
• Add in tomatoes and mix well.
• Add in cauliflower  chops and mix well.
• Add in spice powders and salt and mix well.
• Add the grounded paste and mix well.
• Add required water and mix well.
• Pressure cook for2-3 whistles.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.
• Goes good with Chapathi/Poori.

Omlette Uthapam # 1

Ingredients:

Egg - 3
Dosa Battter - 1/2 cup
Onion - 1 (fine chop)
Curry Leaves - fine chop
Salt - a pinch
Pepper powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Garam Masala - 3/4 tsp
Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl break eggs and whisk well.
• Add in salt, pepper powder, turmeric powder and whisk it.
• Now add garam spice and whisk well.
• Now add the dosa batter and mix up.
• Finally add the fine chopped onions and curry leaves and whisk well.
• Heat a non-stick pan and drizzle oil.
• Now pour a laddle of batter and spread.
• Drizzle oil all over and cook in low flame.
• Flip and cook.
• Serve hot.

Note:

• You can add grated carrots too.
• Also you can make mini uthapam also.

Apple Cherry Pie

Sliced Apple Cherry Pie

Baked pie

Covered with heart shaped dough

Added Filling

Filled Dough in pan

Ingredients:

Apple - 2 (peeled and chopped)
Glazed Cherry - 8-10 (chopped)
Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup
Unsalted butter - 2 tbsp
Cinnamon powder - 1 tsp
Nutmeg powder - 1/8 tsp
Pie Crust Dough
Milk - 1/2 tbsp
Brown sugar - 1 tbsp (to sprinkle)

Method:

• Add apple to pan and saute for few minutes.
• Now add the butter, sugar and cherries.
• Keep mixing till all in binded together.
• Now add the spice powders and mix well.
• Cook in low flame for 8-10 mins.
• Set this aside.
• Now take the pie dough and divide it into 2 parts. 
• Take one portion and roll it.
• Fix it in greased pan and trim the edges.
• Add the filling to this.
• Spread it.
• Now take the other portion.
• I felt I had less dough to cover the pie.
• So I cut heart shapes of the rolled dough.
• Arranged them over the filling.
• Apply milk wash and sprinkle brown sugar on top.
• Bake this in a preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 35-38 mins.
• Once done, place the pan on top of a inverted glass.
• Doing this way we can remove the outer ring of pan.
• Now transfer the pie to serving plate and slice and enjoy.
• Can serve this with a scoop of ice-cream.

Note:
Sprinkling sugar on top of pie is optional.

Pie Crust / Pate Sable #1

Shaped Pie for baking

Rolled out dough

Greased Pan

Before Refrigeration 

Dough

Added sugar to crumbs

Crumbs Texture

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 1 cup / 100 g

Wheat flour - 1 cup / 100 g

Unsalted butter - 115 g

Sugar - 50 g / 1/2 cup + 1 tbsp

Method:

• In a bowl add flour and cubed chill butter.
• Rub them with hands, till you get crumbs texture.
• Now add the sugar and keep mixing the dough.
• Now you will get a dough.
• Wrap in a butter paper and refrigerate for an hour.
• After desired time dust the butter paper with flour.
• Place the dough and cover with one other butter paper.
• Roll it out and peel the top butter paper.
• Grease the pie pan with butter.
• Now flip the dough from butter paper to pan.
• Press gently and then trim the edges.
• Prick with fork all over the base.
• Bake this in preheated oven (OTG) at 180°C for 20-22 mins.
• Or after fixing the dough to pan, you can add filling and bake together.
• This is enough to fill a 9 inch pie pan.

Note:

• To have excess dough for top covering, you can add 50 g of extra flour.
• After pricking holes you can place a foil filled with rice and do baking.
• This is called blind baking.
• I used this and made apple cherry pie.