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Microwave Eggless Carrot Cup Cake

For the 3rd day of Sangeetha's blog immediately bookmarked it.Since it is an egg less I tried it the next week and it came out very delicious and perfect.This cake has become favorite for my son. One day when he asked for this cake I had only 2tbs of all purpose flour only so instead of making it in a mug I made it in a small ramekin bowl.The output was a cute and small sized cake which is perfect for single serving,since then I started making it in the ramekin bowl.Here is the recipe....... Ingredients Ingredient Quantity All purpose flour/maida 6tbs Sugar 3tbs Carrot(grated) 3tbs Olive oil 2tbs Buttermilk 6tbs(chilled) Baking soda 1/4tsp Salt a pinch Vanilla 1/8tsp Cinnamon powder a pinch Cashews or walnuts 1tsp(finely chopped) Method  Mix the flour,salt,baking powder,cinnamon powder and set it aside. In a bowl take chilled buttermilk,sugar,vanilla and grated carrot,mix it with a spoon. Add the dry ingredients to this and mix it well,pour it in grease...

Carrot Chutney

Whenever I feel bored with coconut chutney, garlic chutney or kara chutney with idly or my next option would be either carrot chutney or coriander chutney. Carrot chutney goes very well with idly,dosai even with Adai .This chutney can be made in two versions,one with the coconut and the other with shallots and tomato. Today I am sharing the recipe with the coconut,here goes the recipe.............   Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Carrot(grated) 1cup Coconut 1/4cup Shallots 4nos. Green chilly 7-8nos. Urad dhal 1tbs Tamarind 1 inch piece Salt to taste Oil 2tsp For tempering Ingredient Quantity Mustard seeds 1/2tsp Urad dhal 1tsp Asafoetida/perungayam a pinch Curry leaves 1 sprig Oil 1tsp Method  Heat the pan with 1/2 tsp of oil,fry the urad dhal and remove it.In the same pan add the remaining oil and fry the green chillies,then goes in shallots and grated carrot.Saute it till the raw smell goes away and finally add the coconut and ...

Carrot Halwa/Gajar Ka Halwa

Today's recipe is an exotic and colorful halwa made with carrots for the blogging marathon #23 and the theme I chose is carrot in different ways. When  I selected theme wanted to make carrot cake but due to so many personal works couldn't do the baking.So ended up in making carrot halwa.Now on to the recipe........... Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Carrot(grated) 31/2-4cups Milk 21/2cups Sugar 3/4-1cup Ghee 3tbs Cashews/mudiriparuppu 10nos. Almonds/badam 6nos. Cardamom powder/ellakai podi 1/2tsp Method                        Grate the carrot in a grater,in a pan heat 1/2tsp of ghee and roast the cashews and almond and keep it aside.In the same pan add 1tbs of ghee and saute the carrot till tender. Now add the milk. Now add the milk,cook it in a medium flame and stir it continuously till the milk gets evaporated. Once the mixture becomes thic...

Kodubale/Kodbale/Savory Crunchy Rice Rings - Indian Cooking Challenge-November

For this month of ICC Srivalli chose,popular Karanataka special crunchy snack Kodubale.She has given  two recipes to make this snack,one is from Veggie Platter of Suma and another one from The Yum Blog of Lata.I followed the Lata's recipe with the rice flour and all purpose flour,wheat flour.Since the recipe has dry coconut,the kodubale is so flavorful and tastes it is made with coconut oil.Now off to the recipe..................   Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Rice flour 1cup Wheat flour 1/4cup Maida/All purpose flour 1/4cup Roasted gram dhal/pottukadalai 1/4cup Dry coconut/koparai 1/4cup Ghee/nei 1tbs Red chilly powder 1tsp Asafoetida 1/8tsp Salt to taste Oil for frying Method Grind the roasted gram dhal and dry coconut to a fine powder and keep it aside. Dry roast the all purpose flour and wheat flour in a medium flame till a nice aroma comes out.In a bowl put all the flour,powdered dhal,red chilly powder,asafoetida,salt and ghee,mix it well. ...

Fish(Thilapia) Fry/Meen Varuval

When I was going through my labels,noticed that I haven't posted any fish recipes so far.As I am allergic to sea foods are rare in my house.But  both hubby dear and my son likes fish kulambhu and fry a lot.To satisfy their taste buds an easy to make preparation is the fish fry with fillets which doesn't need much of cleaning and no bones in it.Fish fry with the fillets is not only easy for cleaning,kids can also enjoy it without the bones.This recipe can be followed for the fish fry with other varieties of fish also.Now on to the recipe......... Ingredients Ingredient Quantity Fish fillets(thilapia or salmon) 3 pieces Red chilly powder/milagai podi 2tsp Turmeric powder/manjal podi 1/2tsp Coriander powder/dhania podi 1tsp Thick tamarind/puli paste 1tsp Fennel seeds/sombhu 11/2tsp Garlic/poondu 3 cloves Curry leaves/karivepillai 1sprig(optional) Corn flour or rice flour 2tbs Oil 3-4tbs Salt 1tsp Method        ...