Made this slightly sweet sour and spicy Tomato Chutney from some Raw-Ripe Tomatoes, Mint leaves and Chillies.
Extremely tasty and easy to make. Goes well with Rice and Dosa
Its an another Spring Season. Really happy for the colors around 🌷🌷🌷
Made a simple Broccoli Soup today with less ingredients. hmm..Broccoli, half onion,, some pepper, muscat powder & Cream. Thats it !!
Add one whisked egg when you make Dosa. It goes well with spicy Sambar ..Happy Weekend :)
Another Onam season!! Its Kid's Birthday!! This time he wished for Strawberry cream cake.
So I found a Recipe with simple Ingredients and decorated with Strawberries, Blueberries, Grapes
and it somehow ended up looking like the Flower arrangement we put on Onam ;)
Base Layer:
My Son is a football freak and so does his Friends. So this time I made a Fotoball themed Cake for his Birthday party which was the same day of the German Portugal match. Luckily enough Germans won the game with 4 Goals😊 and just one week after they lost to England 😕
I didnt get much time so actually used the Recipe for Eintracht Frankfurt Cake from the last Year. Just made a few adjustments and it changed the decorations and it worked out 😊
Follow the link for the Recipe
http://aromatickitchen.blogspot.com/2020/06/eintracht-frankfurt-cake.html
Crispy Spicy Egg puffs with hot Tea 😋
College time nostalgia.
Boiled Eggs - 6
Red Onions sliced - 2 cup
Ginger garlic finely chopped - 1 tbsp
Turmeric powder 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
Fennel seeds, slightly crushed - 1/2 tsp
Tomato ketchup - 2 tbsp
Oil
Salt
one extra Egg
Puff pastry sheets
Wheat flour
Heat oil in a nonstick pan. Saute chopped ginger-garlic in it. As the rawness goes add sliced onions to it.
Saut till transparent. Add turmeric powder, chilly powder, garam masala, fennel seeds. Saute for 3 min.
Add tomato ketchup. Cook for further 5 min.
Onion masala mix is ready.
Cut the boiled eggs into halves.
Roll out the puff pastry sheets using a rolling pin . Dust with wheat flour when necessary .
Cut the puff pastry sheets into squares.
Place one spoon of onion mix in the middle and one egg half . Fold it from 4 sides into middle.
Beat one egg and brush over the folded puffs . This will add a glaze and crispiness to the egg puffs.
When all pieces are done. Bake it in over for 180 degrees till done.
Split mung bean (Green Gram Dal) - 250 gm
Coconut milk - that from a coconut , 1 can ( 2 cup)
Jaggery/ Sarkkara - 1 & 1/2 cup grated
Cardamom - 1 tsp powdered
Sliced coconut - 3 sp
Cashew nuts - 3 sp
Dried grapes - 3sp
Dried ginger powder - 1/4 tsp
Ghee - 4 sp
Utensils Needed: Deep Nonstick Pan to cook payasam,
relative small vessel to cook payasam, Sieve.
Heat Ghee in a bottom deep nonstick pan, roast sliced coconut pieces in it
by sauting continously and till they turn light brown.
Set aside.
Roast Cashews in it till they turn light brown. Set aside.
Fry dry grapes in it. Till they are balloon like, set aside.
Add mung dal to the pan.
Roast them in the rest Ghee by sauting continiously.
Pour some water to cover it and cook by closing the lid.
Cook it in medium heat for 15 min. Then turn of the heat, mix it well, close with the lid and let it cook.
Take a bottom deep Vessel. Pour some water to Jaggery and let it boil. When Jaggery is completely dissolved sieve it to remove impurities and set aside.
Pour melt Jaggery and half of the coconut milk to the broken wheat.
Add 1/2 tsp ground Cardamom & 1/4 tsp dried ginger powder.
Mix well. Close lid and cook in medium heat till done.
Add rest of the coconut milk. Check for sweetness.
In case if you need more sweetness melt more Jaggery and add into it.
Add rest 1/2 tsp ground Cardamom.
Toss in roasted Cashews, dry grapes, coconut pieces .
Mix well.
Payasam is ready to be served.
Serve with Banana, Boli and Pappadam.
Happy Easter to everyone. 😊
This time we made fruit cheese cake.
Its really easy to bake. Hope u all like it 😀
for the base layer: 😊
Eggs - 2
Sugar- 130gm
Oil - 100 ml
Orange juice - 100 ml
Cacao powder - 2 tbsp
All purpose flour - 150 gm
Backing powder - 1 tsp
cheese layer in the middle : ;)
Eggs -3
Sugar -100 gm
Vanilla sugar - 1 pack
Quark -500 gm
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
Whipping cream -100ml
Grieß - 1 1/2 tbsp
3rd layer : (fruit layer)
Fruits (Strawberry, Green & Red Grapes, Mandarines)
Lemon juice - 1 tbsp
Glaze (Tortenguss klar )- 1 packet
Sugar - 2 tbsp
some butter to grease the baking pan
Spring baking form - 28 cm
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Apply butter to the sides of the spring form. Cover the base with backing paper.
Beat the eggs & sugar in a vessel till thick cream .
Add oil & orange juice. Mix.
Mix together flour, backing powder & cacao powder seperately. Add this flour mix into the beaten egg-juice mix using a sieve in 2 batches.
Pour this into the form.
Bake for 15 min.
For the 2nd layer, beat well 3 eggs with sugar & vanilla sugar.
Add Quark & mix. Add lemon juice, cream & Grieß . Mix all together.
Pour this mix over the baked cake. Bake again for another 25 min. until its done.
After its cool down place the cut fruits on the cake.
Make the glaze with lemonjuice, 2 tbsp sugar, water using the instructions written behind the glaze packet. Pour this over the strawberries .
Refrigerate it min. 2 hrs.
Broken Wheat - 250 gm
Sago / Chowary - 1/2 cup
Coconut milk - that from a coconut , 1 can ( 2 cup)
Jaggery/ Sarkkara - 1 & 1/2 cup grated
Cardamom - 1 tsp powdered
Sliced coconut - 3 sp
Cashew nuts - 3 sp
Dried grapes - 3sp
Dried ginger powder - 1/4 tsp
Ghee - 4 sp
Utensils Needed: Deep Nonstick Pan to cook payasam,
relative small vessel to cook payasam, Sieve.
Soak sago in water set aside.
Heat Ghee in a bottom deep nonstick pan, roast sliced coconut pieces in it
by sauting continously and till they turn light brown.
Set aside.
Roast Cashews in it till they turn light brown. Set aside.
Fry dry grapes in it. Till they are balloon like, set aside.
Add broken wheat to the pan.
Roast them in the rest Ghee by sauting continiously.
Pour some water to cover it and cook by closing the lid. Let it cook for 15 minutes.
Meantime cook Sago by adding lot of water and closing with a lid.
Cook it in medium heat for 15 min. Then turn of the heat, mix it well, close with the lid and let it cook.
Sago will be transparent when its done. Sieve and rinse the cooked sago pearls. Set aside.
Take a bottom deep Vessel. Pour some water to Jaggery and let it boil. When Jaggery is completely dissolved sieve it to remove impurities and set aside.
Pour melt Jaggery to the broken wheat.
Add half of the coconut milk.
Add 1/2 tsp ground Cardamom & 1/4 tsp dried ginger powder.
Mix well. Close lid and cook in medium heat till done.
Add rest of the coconut milk. Add cooked sago. Check for sweetness.
In case if you need more sweetness melt more Jaggery and add into it.
Add rest 1/2 tsp ground Cardamom.
Toss in roasted Cashews, dry grapes, coconut pieces .
Mix well.
Payasam is ready to be served.
Serve with Banana.
