Malpua

Ingredients :

• Milk - 1 litre
• Maida - 1 / 2 cup
• Sugar - 3 / 4 cup
• Water - 2 / 3 cup
• Ghee - for deep frying
• Cashewnuts & almonds - 2 tblsp

[ finely chopped ]

Method :

Boil milk in heavy vessel till it is reduced to half of it's volume. Remove from fire and allow to cool down to room temperature. Mix maida with this without forming lumps and prepare thick batter of pouring consistency. Then heat ghee in a small kadai up to 1 inch depth. Take a small ladle full of dough and pour in the hot ghee to form a small pan cake. Turn over and cook for a while and remove from the fire. Then heat water and sugar together to form a thick and sticky syrup. [ like jamun syrup ]. When malpuas  are  deep fried, dip it in warm sugar syrup and arrange on a flat plate side by side. Prepare all the malpuas like this till the batter is over. Finely sprinkle fried  nuts on top.

Small potato pulav

Ingredients :

• Basmathi rice - 1 cup
• Small potatoes - 1 / 2 cup
• Fresh thick curds - 1 / 4 cup
• Tomatoes - 1 / 4 cup [ chopped ]
• Water - 2 cup
• Fresh green peas - 1 handfull
• Garam masala powder - 1 / 2 tsp
• Salt - as required
• Red chilli powder - 1 1 / 2 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1 / 2 tsp
• Fresh coriander leaves -1 / 4 bunch [ grind to a smooth paste ]
• Big onions - 2 to 3 [ cut into lengthwise ]
• Oil - 2 table spoon
• Ghee - 2 table spoon

Grind together :

• Coriander seeds - 1 tsp
• Red chillies - 2

Grated dry coconut
[ fry above spices in a little oil and grind together with few green chillies and a small piece of ginger ]

Method :
Wash and soak the rice for 15 minutes. Grind coriander leaves to smooth paste and mix with fresh curds. Pressure cook rice with water, peas, tomato pieces. Remove from the fire and cool thoroughly. Separate the grains.Mix a spoon of ghee to that. Pressure cook potatoes and peel the skin, prick with fork and fry in oil till light brown.Keep aside. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry onions till crisp. Add ground masala and fry till good smell comes. Gently mix potatoes and curds. Stir in medium flame with cooked rice and salt. Sprinkle garam masala powder. Keep in low flame for few minutes. Ur small potato pulav is ready . Serve hot with mix vegetable raitha.

Vanilla cake

Ingredients :

Sift together twice :

• Maida - 1 cup heaped 120gms. ]
• Baking powder - 1 tsp [ level ]
• Cooking soda - 1 / 4 tsp
• Salt - a pinch

Cream together :

• Buttrer - 60 gms.
• Powder sugar - 90 gms.

Other ingredients :

• Luke warm milk - 150 ml.
• Vanilla essence - 1 / 2 tsp

Method :

Cream butter with sugar until light and fluffy using a spatula in a dry vessel. Then add sifted ingredients, essence, and warm milk. Blend well using electric egg beater. Pour on a greased baking tray and bake in a pre - heated oven until it becomes golden in colour. [180˚C] or approximately for 40 minutes.

Note :

Always pre- heat oven at 220˚C for 10 minutes before baking. Adjust the time and temperature to the recipe after that.

Eggless easy sponge cake

Ingredients :

Sift together :

• Maida - 1 cup
• Baking powder - 1 tsp. [ level ]
• Cooking soda - 1 / 2 tsp

Mix together :

• Butter - 60 gms.
• Powdered sugar - 1 tbl. sp.

Other ingredients :

• Condensed milk - 1 / 2 tin
• Luke warm water - 120 ml.
• Vanilla essence - 10 drops
• Almond essence - 10 drops

Method :

Cream butter and sugar in a dry bowl till it become fluffy. Add condensed milk, vanilla essence, and beat well. Mix sifted ingredients, warm water to that and beat well. Brush the baking tray with little butter. Transfer the batter to that and bake in a pre heated oven until golden. [180 degrees Celsius]

Cream together :
While mixing butter with sugar before baking. Take butter in a dry vessel. [no moisture should be in it] Using a flat spoon or beater whip the butter till it turns light and fluffy. Add sugar and then whip again in the same direction to incorporate air in it.

Muli [ radish ] paratha

Ingredients :

• Muli [ radish ] - 1 big [ grated ]
• Onion - 2 [ peel and grated ]
• Green chilli - 2 [finely chopped ]
• Ginger - small piece [ finely chopped ]
• Finely cut coriander leaves - little
• Salt - as required
• Turmeric powder - 1 / 2 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
• Garam masala powder - 1 / 4 tsp
• Dhania jeera powder - 1 / 2 tsp
• Sugar - 1 tsp
• Butter - 2 tbl. sps
• Oil - as required

[ mix muli, onion, greenchilli, ginger, salt, turmeric, red chilli powder, dhania jeera powder and keep in a oven for 10 minutes till water is absorbed mix coriander leaves to that and keep aside ]

Method :

Sieve and mix the wheat flour in a mixing bowl. Add salt, sugar and butter. Mix well with the flour till butter blends. Gradually add water and knead to a smooth dough. Make medium sized  balls from the dough. Flatten each ball and keep a tablespoon of radish filling inside. Close and seal well all around. Press and dredge in wheat flour and roll out into thick parathas. Heat tawa and fry these parathas using oil both sides while frying. Serve hot along  with curd and pickle.

Tendli gajar subji [ gujarati type ]

Ingredients :

• Tendli - 1 / 2 kg. [ cut into small round pieces ]
• Gajar [ carrot ] - 1 / 4 kg. [ cut into small pieces ]

Masala :

• Salt - as required
• Turmeric powder - 1 / 2 tsp
• Coriander cummin seed powder - 1 / 2 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
• Fresh grated coconut - 2 to 3 tablespoon
• Fresh chopped coriander leaves - little

To temper :

• Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
• Asafoetida - 1 / 4 tsp
• Oil - 4 to 6 tbsp.

Method :

Cut the tendli into round pieces. Peel and cut carrot into small pieces. Heat oil in kadai, add mustard seeds, when splutters add asafoetida. Put tendli, carrot pieces. Cover and cook till subji become tender. Add both the chilli powder and coriander cummin seed powder. Mix well and saute for a while. While serving garnish with grated coconut and chopped coriander leaves.

Aval Dosai

Ingredients :

• Raw rice - 4 cups
• Rice flakes [ aval ] - 1 1 / 2 cups
• Curds - 2 cups
• Salt - as required
• Cooking soda -1 / 2 tsp
• Oil - for frying

Method :

Wash and soak rice in water and aval in whipped curds. Grind both separately to a fine paste. Add more whipped curds for grinding if necessary. Add salt at the end, and mix both the batters together. Allow the dosa batter to ferment until next day morning. Then add cooking soda just before pouring dosas and mix well. Heat non-stick tawa. Pour a ladle full of batter in the centre and spread the dosa to medium thickness. Pour out little oil around the dosai. Close with a lid and cook on one side only. Serve hot with chutney or mixed vegetable kurma.