Chocolate Salami / Lazy Cake

 Ingredients:
Marie Biscuits - 100 g
Unsalted butter - 15 g
Milk - 60 ml
Sugar - 1 tbsp
Unsweetened Cocoa powder - 1 tbsp
Dark Chocolate - 15 g
Icing sugar - 1 tbsp

Method:

• Crush the biscuits roughly and add it to a bowl.
• Now in a pan add in boiled and cooled milk.
• Add in sugar, cocoa powder, chocolate and butter.
• Cook this in low flame for a min or till it slightly thickens.
• Now pour this to crushed biscuits and mix well with spatula.
• Transfer this to cling wrap and  wrap it either a log and seal edges tightly.
• Refrigerate till it sets like 2-3 hours. (firms up).
• Now in a plate add in icing sugar.
• Roll the frim log in it and slice and enjoy.

Note:

• If you don't have dark chocolate, you can add in extra cocoa powder, butter and sugar.
• You can also add nuts to crushed biscuits.
• Can use any non-cream biscuits.

Sweet Corn Sundal

Ingredients:

Sweet Corn - 250 g
Onion - 1 (fine chop)
Sundal Masala - 3/4 tbsp
Pav Bhaji masala - a pinch
Kashmiri Chilly powder - a pinch
Coriander Leaves - Little (fine chop)
Salt, Butter - As reqd

Method:

• Boil corn and strain water and set aside.
• Heat a pan and add a tbsp of butter.
• Add in onions and saute in low flame.
• Add in corns and toss.
• Add in salt, spice powders and sundal podi.
• Toss this well.
• Add in coriander leaves and little butter.
• Toss well and serve hot.

BesanSooji / KadalamaavRava Halwa

Ingredients:

Besan flour - 1 1/4 cup
Rava - 2 tbsp
Milk - 2 tbsp
Sugar - 1/2 Cup + As reqd
Hot Water - 1 1/4 cup
Ghee - 1/2 cup
Cashewnuts - 5-6
Raisins - 5 -6
Elaichi powder - a pinch

Method:

• I just halved the ingredients and made the halwa.
• Add ghee to the pan and once it melts, reduce the flame to low.
• Add in besan flour and mix it.
• Add in rava and mix well.
• Keep mixing in low flame for 3 mins.
• When you see bubbles add in a tbsp of milk and mix well.
• Then add in one more tbsp of milk and mix well.
• Keep mixing for 2 mins.
• When you see a change in color, add in sugar and mix it.
• Cook for 2 more mins.
• Now add in piping hot water in parts(little by little).
• Keep stirring and once it leaves the edges add in elaichi powder.
• In other pan add in ghee and toast nuts and raisins and add this to halwa.
• Mix well and serve hot.

Puffed Rice / Pori Halwa

Ingredients:

Puffed rice - 1 1/2 cup
Water - 1/2 cup
Jaggery - 1/2 cup
Elaichi powder - a pinch
Cashews nuts - As reqd
Ghee - 2 tbsp

Method:

• In a pan add in jaggery and water and cook in medium flame.
• Cook till jaggery dissolves.
• Turn off range and set aside to cool.
• Now in a bowl add in cleaned puffed rice.
• Add little water to soak them.
• Set this aside for 10 mins.
• Strain it and add to blender.
• To the blender add in cooled jaggery syrup too.
• Blend them to fine puree.
• Heat little ghee in pan.
• Add in nuts and saute them and transfer to plate.
• To the same pan add in little ghee and blended puree.
• Cook in low flame till it thickens.
• Add in remaining ghee, elaichi powder and roasted nuts.
• Mix well and serve hot.

Semiya/ Vermicilli Mixture

Ingredients:

Semiya - 1 cup
Rice flour - 1/4 cup
Corn flour - 1/4 cup
Water - 3 cups
Red Chilly powder - 1/4 tsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig
Salt, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• To a pan add in water and salt.
• To this add 2 tbsp of oil and let it boil.
• Now add in semiya and let it cool.
• If you press the semiy between fingers it should be soft.
• Now strain this and pour normal water to this.
• Strain and set aside.
• In a bowl add in rice flour and corn flour.
• If you don't have corn flour, you can add maida too.
• Mix well.
• Add little semiya to this and mix well.
• Add the mixed semiya to a seive and seive it.
• This removes excess flour.
• Heat oil in pan and fry the coated semiya.
• Cook in medium flame.
• Repeat the same with remaining semiya too.
• Now fry the peanuts and curry leaves too.
• Drain the excess oil and then transfer to bowl.
• Add in little salt and spice powder and toss well.
• You can also fry and add crushed garlic too.
• Add spice acc to your taste.

Coconut / Desiccated Coconut Modak

Ingredients:

Desiccated Coconut - 100 g
Condensed Milk - 90 ml
Milk - 40 ml
Elaichi powder - a pinch
Saffron strands - Little (optional)
Ghee - 1/2 tsp

Method:

• Add in saffron strands to boiled room temperature milk.
• Set this aside.
• In a pan add in ghee and spread it fully in the pan.
• Now add in desiccated coconut and saute in medium flame.
• Saute for 3-4 mins.
• Now turn off the range and add in condensed milk.
• Mix well and then place it in stove top.
• Now cook this medium flame for a min.
• Add in saffron milk and mix well.
• Keep mixing till it leaves the edges and turns thick.
• Add in elaichi powder and give a quick mix.
• Cook for a min and transfer to greased plate.
• Let it cool for 3-4 mins.
• Now you can grease the modak mould and make modaks.
• Or can make ladoos too.
• Yields 10-12 modaks.

Coconut Halwa

Ingredients:

Coconut - 90 g (Grated)
Sugar - 50 g
Milk powder - 30 g
Milk - 200 ml
Rice flour - 2 tbsp
Elaichi powder  - a pinch
Nuts, Ghee - As reqd
Food Color - Little or Saffron strands - Little

Method:

• Boil Milk and add saffron strands and set aside.
• Heat ghee in pan and add in nuts.
• Roast them and transfer to plate.
• Now to the same pan add in grated coconut and saute in medium flame for 2 mins.
• To this add in rice flour and saute for 2 more mins.
• Now add in milk slowly and mix well.
• Cook in low flame for 2-3 mins.
• It will thicken fast.
• Now add in sugar and milk powder and mix well.
• Add little ghee and cook till the mixture leaves the edges of pan.
• Add in elaichi powder and roasted nuts and ,mix well.
• Serve hot.

Note:

• You can skip milk powder and add extra sugar.
• For natural color, you can used brown sugar too.
• If using food color add in while adding milk.

Pori Upma

Ingredients:

Puffed Rice - 1 cup
Onion - 1 (fine chop)
Groundnuts - 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder - 1/8 tsp
Red Chilly powder - 1/8 tsp
Lime juice- Little 
Coriander Leaves - Little (fine chop)
Urad dal - 1/4 tsp
Channa dal - 1/4 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
Salt, Wate, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add in puffed rice.
• And add in water, mix it and let it sit for couple of mins.
• Then squeeze and add puffed rice to a bowl.
• Heat oil in pan and add in dal and roast in low flame.
• Add in mustard seeds, cumin seeds and curry leaves.
• Add in chilly(deseed) and onion and saute in low flame,
• Add in groundnuts and then puffed rice.
• Add in salt, spice powders and mix well.
• Let it cook for couple of mins.
• Then turn off range and squeeze in a drop of lime juice.
• Toss it and garnish with coriander leaves.
• Serve hot.

Garlic Thokku

Ingredients:

Garlic - 20
Thick Curd - 1/4 cup
Water - 1/2 cup
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Red Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Kashmiri Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
Urad dal - 3/4 tsp
Channa dal - 3/4 tsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig
Gingely Oil - 1 1/2 tbsp
Salt - As reqd

Method:

• Peel garlic and crush them and set aside.
• Heat oil in pan and add urad dal and channa dal.
• Cook in medium flame.
• Once there is mild change in color, add in mustard seeds.
• Add in cumin seeds and curry leaves.
• Add in garlic and saute till it changes to mild brown color.
• Now reduce the flame to low.
• Add in spice powders and water and mix well.
• Add in salt and cook for 3 mins.
• Whisk curd and add.
• Mix it, it will curdle.
• Cook in low flame for 4 mins.
• It will become thick like thokku.
• Goes good with idly/dosa.

Anado Mal - Srilankan Snack

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 75 g
Salt - a pinch
Sugar - 1 1/2 tbsp
Oil - 1 tbsp
Egg - 1/2 or 27 g
Milk -  1 1/2 tbsp
Oil -to fry

Method:

• In a bowl add flour, salt and sugar.
• Mix it.
• Add in oil and egg and mix it.
• Add milk little by little and make a dough.
• Dust the surface with flour and roll out dough.
• Cut squares as in pic and shape each square as in video.
• Heat oil in pan and fry these in medium flame.
• Serve as such or you can dust powdered sugar and serve.

Note:

• In actual recipe, they don't add sugar to dough.
• They fry the shaped dough and add to sugar syrup instead.
• Ratio for sugar syrup, water 1/2 cup and sugar 1/4 cup.
• Soak it for 4-5 mins and serve.

Bread Egg Kothu

Ingredients:

Onion - 1 (fine chop)
Green Capsicum (deseed, fine chop)
Tomato - 1 (deseed, fine chop)
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Coriander leaves - Little
Egg - 3
Bread slices - 6
Pav Bhaji Masala  - 1 tbsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt, Water, Oil - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl, whisk the eggs and set aside.
• Heat oil in pan and add onions and saute for a while.
• Add in ginger garlic paste and saute.
• Add in tomatoes and cook till it turns mushy.
• Now add the spice powders and salt and mix well.
• Add in capsicum and mix well.
• Cook in low flame.
• Pour the beaten eggs and keep stirring till it looks like crumble.
• Now add the crushed bread pieces and mix well.
• Keep mixing till everything is blended well.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

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.

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.

Banana Paratha

Banana Paratha

Rolled out

Fold and roll out 

Rolled and applied ghee

Dough

Ingredients:

Banana - 2 (ripen)
Wheat flour - 1 cup
Brown sugar - 1 1/2 tbsp
Salt - a pinch
Ghee - As reqd
Milk - 1 tsp

Method:

• In a bowl add the bananas and mash them using fork.
• Now add in flour, sugar and salt and mix well.
• Make a dough, if it is dry add milk.
• Now take a small ball and dust in flour.
• Roll this out and apply ghee over it.
• Fold it and roll again.
• Repeat the same with remaining dough.
• Heat tawa and drizzle ghee.
• Make parathas one by one.
• Drizzle ghee/honey while you serve.
• Yields 6 parathas.

Choco Strawberry

Ingredients:

Dark chocolate - 75 g
Oil - 2 tsp + 1 tsp
White Chocolate - 25 g
Strawberry - 9-10

Method:

• Wash the strawberries and clean with a towel.
• Arrange them in a kitchen tissue paper.
• Don't cut the leaves from it.
• Now melt the dark choclate and add 2 tsp of oil and mix it.
• Set aside for a while.
• Now dip easy strawberry in this(hold the leaf).
• Place them in a tray lined with butter paper.
• Refrigerate this for a while.
• Now you can melt white chocolate and add tsp of oil and mix it.
• Pour this in a cover and cut one edge(it should be very small hole).
• Make patterns on the strawberries.
• Refrigerate till you serve.

Note:
I used the chocolate dip I made for chocobeetCakesicle.

Chilly Parotta

Ingredients:

Parotta - 5 (Cut into small pieces)
Onion - 1 (thin slices)
Tomato - 1 (Deseed and thin slices)
Green Capsicum - 1 (thin slices)
Carrot - 1 (thin slice)
Green Peas - 2 tbsp (boiled)
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Red chilly paste - 1 tbsp
Kashmiri Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Salna - 1/4 cup
Coriander Leaves - Little
Salt - 1/4 tsp
Oil - 1 tbsp

Method:

• Heat oil in pan and add onion and saute.
• Add in ginger garlic paste and saute for a while.
• Add in tomato and then capsicum and saute for a while.
• Add in green peas, carrot and salt and mix well.
• Now add in red chilly paste and mix well.
• Add in parotta pieces and mix them up.
• Now add salna (veg or non-veg) to this and mix well.
• Cook this in low flame.
• Add in kashmiri chilly powder and mix well.
• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

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.

Rice (Leftover Rice) Halwa

Halwa with brown sugar

Halwa with regular sugar

Ingredients:

Leftover Rice - 1 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Milk - 3 tbsp
Elaichi powder - a pinch
Kesari color - a pinch
Cashews - 5-6
Ghee - 4 tbsp

Method:

• Heat ghee in pan and roast cashews and set aside.
• Add milk to rice and blend this to a fine paste.
• Heat ghee in pan and add blended rice.
• Cook in low flame.
• Mix well and then add sugar little by little.
• Keep stirring till it leaves the edges(halwa consistency).
• Add  roasted cashews and mix well.
• Add in elaichi powder and mix well.
• Add ghee as and when required.
• Serve the yummy rice halwa.

Besan Halwa (Kadalamaav halwa)

Ingredients:

Besan flour - 1 cup
Milk - 1 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/3 cup
Ghee - 1/4 cup
Cashews - 6-8
Elaichi powder - a pinch

Method:

• Heat ghee in pan and roast cashews and set aside.
• To the same pan add flour and cook in low flame.
• Once the color changes(it will take 5-6 mins), add in milk little by little.
• Keep mixing to avoid lumps.
• It will be semithick consistency.
• Add sugar and keep mixing.
• Add ghee and keep mixing till you get halwa consistency.
• Once it leaves the edges add elaichi powder and roasted cashew.
• Serve the yummy halwa.

Pancakes

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1/4 cup
All purpose flour - 3/4 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Salt - 1/8 tsp
Sugar - 2 tbsp
Baking powder - 1/2 tbsp
Vanilla Esc - 1/2 tsp
Oil - 1 tbsp
Butter - 1 tbsp
Honey - As reqd

Method:

• In a bowl add flour, salt, sugar and baking powder and mix well.
• Add in oil, milk and vanilla esc and mix well.
• Mix and set aside for 5 mins.
• Now mix well.
• Heat pan and add butter, pour a laddle of batter and cook in low flame.
• Flip and cook the other side too.
• Arrange them in a plate, place little butter and then drizzle honey.

Note:
You can also use caramel sauce/ butterscotch sauce too instead of honey.