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Besan Laddoo

Its Diwali time and mithai tho banta hai time .. I wanted to make something for Diwali and thought why not start with some Besan Laddoos as they are easy to make and tastes yum too . So here is a simple recipe trust me this is super easy and delicious too. When we make  them at home we have the control of everything , I mean environment, sugar , ghee quantity/quality etc ;). So without more blah blah let me get straight to the recipe .

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Ingredients :

Besan/Chickpea Flour : 2 cups

Powdered Sugar : 3/4 to 1 cup (basis your liking for sweetness)

Ghee : 1/2 cup (check notes below)

Elaichi /Cardamom – 4

Method :

Take a wok and dry roast the besan for about roughly 14 mins . You need to keep stirring as it might burn and trust me this is a good exercise too 🙂 . Then add the ghee and again keep mixing for about 7 mins stirring continuously  . By this time you will know how heaven smells 😛 . Now put the stove off and add the sugar and mix well. Finally add the elaichi powder and let the mixture cool for about 30 mins and then you can roll the laddoos . If you are unable to roll them keep them in the fridge for a while for the ghee to solidify and then roll them . Voila! Yummy Besan Laddoo ready!

 

Notes : More ghee can be added as mine is with less ghee say a little over 1/2 cup for more laddoo consistency and of course flavour

Dry fruits like raisins and cashew can be added , I simply didn’t feel like

Happy Diwali 🙂

 

 

Grilled Potato slices

I have started loving simple recipes and healthy cooking has always been my first love . One of the days I wanted to eat some crispy wafers but gagged at the thought of oil in them . So went into my kitchen and decided to make something at home . This recipe is simple and guilt free 🙂

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Ingredients :

Potatoes – washed , peeled and sliced (I use a slicer and decide on thickness basis my liking )

Chilli powder

Turmeric powder

Amchur /Dry mango Powder

Salt

A teaspoon of oil

Mix all the ingredients and simply grill them. I also tried to do this in my micro wave and it cooked well too . Since my tray is smaller , I stacked them up separately on 2 racks of grill and let it remain inside the convection for over 6 to 8 mins and voila ! yummy crispy potato crisps, chips is ready . If you happen to try this do lemme know how it turned out .

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Notes : You can replace amchur with lemon juice , add coriander powder , I sometime get lazy and all I use is sambhar powder . Alternatively I grill sweet potatoes, Okhra , Brinjal , etc . Use your creativity here .

Happy Cooking

Radish /Mooli Sambhar

Oh yes! I know its the easiest dish , yet I know many who ask me how I make it so here I am writing the method . This is one of the ways I make Sambhar . I love to enjoy this with phulka/Roti or some brown rice . Radish I know is not a fav veggie of many , I love this sambhar and is my fav after drumstick . I will blog a sambhar powder recipe shortly 🙂

 

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Ingredients 

Serves : 2. Please double the ingredients basis the number of people 

Tomato – 1

Onion – 1 

Mooli/Raddish – 1

Mustard – a tsp

Sambhar Powder – 1.5 tbs

Hing/Asafoetida – a pinch 

Oil- 1 to 2 tbs 

Toor Dal – one small cup

Turmeric – 1 tsp

Salt – to taste 

Curry Leaves – one sprig

Method :

1.) Wash the dal well and boil in the cooker with sufficient water and turmeric powder 

2.) In a wok/Kadai add 2 tb oil and add the reddish and saute . The raw smell of the radish has to go away . 

3.) Add onions and sauce until the onions are cooked well

4.) Add Tomato to the mixture and continue to saute until the rawness of tomato goes away 

5.) Add Sambhar powder to the mix . I added about 1.5 tb s and salt as per taste and saute well .

6.) Add the dal to the masala with salt and allow it to simmer for about 10 mins 

7.) Tadka/Seasoning time : take little oil, add mustard allow it to splutter , add hing, curry leaves 

8.) Transfer the tadka to the sambhar and close the lid 

Step 9 : Eat 🙂 . Enjoy . Oh! refer the notes below 

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Notes : I added mustard to the oil in which i sauted the mooli itself

Tamarind can be added in the end . I didn’t feel like this time

 

 

 

 

Wheat Cake

After I started baking I literally have stopped going towards the bakery which I think is a good sign and I always look for recipes that is healthy as maida/plainflour is not my cup of tea. So here I am with a recipe I tried from the web and it is one of the yummy cakes I came across which is guilt free 🙂 . Lets begin no? 🙂

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Ingredients :

Atta/Whole Wheat – 2 cups

1 to 2 cups of jaggery , cane sugar (intent is to refrain using refined sugar)

1/2 tb baking powder

1 1/2 tb baking soda

2 tb cinammon powder

3/4 cup refined oil (I used rice bran oil)

1 cup curd

water as required

walnuts, raisins , figs – a fistful

Method (I use a connection micro wave, so if you are using a oven please adjust accordingly)

1.)Pre Heat the microwave to 180 deg C | for oven 200 deg c is good

2.)Mix all the dry ingredients together in a bowl

3.)Blend the curd and oil together in another bowl.

4.) Mix the dry and wet ingredients and mix well. Add water as required to get the dripping consistency .

5.) add the dry fruits the way you want . I chose to garnish them , sometimes I mix them with the cake mixture itself

6.) Oil bottom of the baking dish and bake at 180 deg C for about an hour , of course checking in regular intervals . The tooth pick has to come clear when inserted and thats the sign of a baked cake .

7.) cut and serve when cool

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Dry ingredients mix

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Wet Ingredients mix

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Blend blend both

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The dry fruit time

Notes : Mixing the ingredients well is key to a good cake is my learning .

You can replace all the ingredients with maida, sugar etc and that will be the regular cake. This is an attempt to eat healthy and yet tasty .

Sugar I added one cup and it was just sweet the way I like and if you are sweet tooth soul then make it 2 cups of sugar (cane) .

 

Oats Dosa

What to make for breakfast is a question I ask myself every morning and sometimes the previous night. Its the most important meal of the day and has to be like a King’s meal I am told . For some unknown reasons I decided to make Oats Dosa . I had not soaked any ingredients required for a regular Dosa and wanted an easy way out too hence the idea 😉 .

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I made this in like 30 mins and wanted to share the recipe .

Ingredients :

Oats : 1 cup (put it in the mixer and powder it)

Rice flour : half cup

Roasted Rava /Semolina : Half Cup (make sure it is not roasted to brown)

Curd : half cup

Onion : 1 finely chopped

Green Chillies : 2 finely chopped

salt to taste

Water as required

Method:

Take a bowl, add oats, rice flour, rava , curd and mix. Add  water and bring it to almost watery consistency. Now add onion and chillies followed by salt and mix well. These are porous crispy dosa like the rava dosa so the consistency has to be watery. Keep it closed for about 30 mins and make Dosa’s hot . They will be crispy , delicious and healthy too :D.I like it this way , you can temper / tadka the batter with oil, peppercorns , jeera too.

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Oats Dosa batter

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Crispy Oats Dosa

 Simplest Onion Chutney 

One onion and 2 green chillies (this can be added basis your liking)  grind  them with salt. It is ready .It was simple and yummy.

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If you cant handle the punch raw onions and chillies bestow upon you ,add some oil to it and it immediately neutralises that flavour  .

Enjoy the dosa and let me know how you liked it 🙂

#Happy eating

 

#nankhatai #indiancookies

Its a cloudy Sunday and all I wanted to do today was laze . All set to do exactly nothing I started whiling away time and something struck me and decided to bake. I didn’t want to bake a cake as I didn’t have all the necessary ingredients and nay! I ain’t going out to shop so decided to make something with all the the ingredients at home  . Nankhatai told my brain , a recipe I have been wanting to try from the time the baking bug bit me . By the way this is my first attempt at blogging a baking recipe , so am nervous …

FullSizeRender-5Nankhatai is nothing but Indian cookies that are mostly served as tea time snacks and available in most shops. Kids love them too.. Well! I wanted to make them on my own and then the experiment started .

Recipe:

Ingredients :

  • 1 cup maida or all purpose flour
  • ¼ cup besan/gram flour
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 2 tbsp sooji/fine rava
  • ½ tsp cardamom/Elaichi powder
  • ½ cup icing sugar / powdered sugar, this can be increased/decreased as per taste
  • ½ tbsp dahi or yogurt
  • ½ cup ghee
  • 1 to 2 tbsp milk
  • few cashews

Method:

Sift the dry ingredients : Maida, Besan, baking powder ,baking soda and keep them aside. I mixed them well using a spoon however only sifting is good too.

Whisk sugar and ghee using a blender(I use a hand blender) until it is creamy . Add dahi to the mixture and blend again. Once that is done add the dry ingredients that is ready along with rava, cardamom powder , milk and mix well and make it a dough . I used the blender and kneading is not needed for this mixture. Once it is ready ,  we can roll them into the shapes we want (I chose the circular ones) and put a cashew each on the cookies (See below)

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For baking preheat the oven at 180 c and bake the cookies for over 20 minutes. Remove them once they are turning golden in colour. I let the first round bake to golden however wanted it more brown so the second round kept it for longer 🙂 . Choice is entirely yours. Now all you have to do is store them in an air tight container and savour with chai especially when it is raining ..Enjoy I say 🙂

Please note : 20 to 25 mins is good for an oven , if you are using a convection microwave , the time will vary which will be over 30 minutes, it is advisable to keep an eye post 20 minutes .