Choco Idli Steam Cake

Choco Idli Steam Cake

It is a healthy snacks for children. Since the exam fever is on...  This kind of snacks are boosters for children to study. My daughter from past few day wanted this... so made this for her. Very easy to make and delicious too.

Ingredients

1/2 cup Whole Wheat Flour

1/2 cup Fine Semolina

4 tbsp Coco powder

2 tbsp Chocolate Chips

1/2 tsp Baking powder

1/2 tsp Soda bicarbonate

1/4 tsp Salt

1/4 cup Condensed Milk

¼ cup Curd

1/2 cup Milk

1 tsp Vanilla extract

1/4 cup  Oil

Some sprinkles

Method

Mix semolina, whole wheat flour , coco powder, salt, baking powder, and soda bicarbonate together. Mix curd and milk together. Take a mixing bowl. Add oil and condensed milk. Beat it. Add vanilla essence and beat it once again.  Add half dry ingredients and half wet ingredients into the mixing bowl. Beat it. Add the remaining ingredients dry and wet ingredients and beat it well. Add the chocolate chipes and fold it. The batter should be thick dropping consistency. Take a idli steamer. Add water in the steamer and let the water boil. Meanwhile  grease the idli mould. Add the batter in the mould. Sprinkle some colour sugar sprinklers. Add the moulds in the steamer and let it cook for 20 minutes or till done.  Once cool take it out from the mould. And remove the Choco Idli Steam Cake from the moulds.

For garnishing drizzle some fresh cream. 

Coloured Zebra Cake (Eggless)

Coloured Zebra Cake (Eggless)

My daughter loves to share her lunch box in school. On a regular note she demands that I should make cakes for her. She prefers simple cakes. So this one is for her. It is a delicious cake and very easy to make. 

Ingredients

2 cups All Purpose Flour

1 cup Caster Sugar

1 cup Olive oil

1 cup Milk

3 tbsp Curd

1 tsp Vanilla essence

1 tsp Baking powder

1 tsp Soda bicarbonate

1/4 tsp Salt

Any 3 Colours

Method

Mix baking powder, soda bicarbonate and salt in to the flour. Add curd and milk together and stir it together. Add oil and sugar in a mixing bowl and beat it. Add vanilla essence and beat it till all the ingredients incorporates well. Sieve half the flour and butter milk in to the mixing bowl and beat it. Sieve rest of the flour and add the butter milk and beat it well. Divide the batter into four equal portions. Add any 3 colours of your choice. Mix it well. Take a 6 " baking tin and grease it. Add a tsp of one coloured batter in the centre of the tin. Add another coloured batter on top of the batter in the tin and repeat the process till the tin is half filled. Bake it at 180 degrees celcius for 40 minutes or until done. To check insert a toothpick. Take the tin out of the oven and cool it for 5 minutes before unmoulding it. Cool the cake completely before cutting and eating.

Red Mullets Green Masala Fry

Red Mullets Green Masala Fry 

For the Green Masala

Ingredients 

1/2  cup Coriander leaves chopped 

2 Green chillies

1 small Ginger piece

6 Garlic cloves 

1 tbsp Lime juice Or Vinegar Or 1/2 piece of Lime marinated in salt.

1/2 tsp Cumin seeds 

1/4 tsp Sugar 

Salt to taste

 Method 

Grind all the ingredients together. 

P.S. I did not have fresh lime juice so I substituted lime juice with lime marinated in salt.

To Marinate 

Ingredients 

2 Red Mullets cut into halves 

Green Masala

Salt to taste

 

Method 

Apply salt on the fish and keep it aside for 10 minutes. Then rub the green masala on the fish and marinate the fish for 30 minutes.

To Fry

Ingredients 

Marinated Fish 

1 Onion sliced 

1/2 cup Rice Flour 

1/4 tsp Chilli powder 

Salt to taste 

Oil to Shallow fry

Method 

Take rice flour in a plate and add salt and chilli powder. Mix it. Coat the fish in the rice flour. Heat oil in a pan. Shallow fry the fish till golden brown on both the sides. Serve hot with sliced onions.

Chinese Bird's Nest

Chinese Bird's  Nest

For the Nest

Ingredients 

1 bowl of Rice Vermicelli boiled (1/4 packet of Rice Vermicelli boiled in water with salt and 1 tsp Oil and drained )

Oil for frying 

Method 

Take a round steel strainer. Adjust the rice vermicelli  in the strainer. Press another similar strainer on top. Heat oil and deep fry the vermicelli till brown. Keep it aside till the filling is made.

For the Filling 

Ingredients 

3 Eggs boiled

1 cup Corn boiled

1 Onion cubes

1 tsp Garlic chopped 

1 Carrot roll cut

1 Green Capsicum cubes

1cup Cabbage shredded 

1/4 cup Spring Onions chopped 

2 tbsp Soy sauce 

1 tbsp Chilli sauce 

1 tbsp Vinegar 

1 tsp Honey 

1 tbsp Tomato Ketchup

Salt to taste 

2 tbsp Oil

Method 

Take a wok, add oil and heat it. Add the garlic and onion. Sauté it for 2 minutes. Add the vegetables one by one ( save little cabbage and spring onion for garnishing) and stir fry on full flame for a minute or two. Add the all the sauce, vinegar,  honey, ketchup and salt. Stir it for a minute and the filling is ready.

To make the bird's nest, take the fried vermicelli  bowl. Add the filling and decorate the egg to look like a bird and add the egg bird on top. Garnish with cabbage and spring onions. Serve immediately. 

Kitchen King Chicken Fry

Kitchen King Chicken Fry

This is an experiment in my kitchen.. The taste is awesome. 

To Marinate and Fry the Chicken 

Ingredients 

300 grams Chicken with bones

2/3 cup Rice Flour 

1/2 cup All Purpose Flour 

2 tbsp Curd

Salt to taste 

Oil to deep fry

Method 

Marinate the chicken with salt and curd and keep it aside for 30 minutes. Add the rice and all purpose  flour and toss it. Heat the oil and deep fry the chicken for 5 minutes. Take it out and drain the oil. Add the chicken back in the hot oil and fry till crispy brown in colour.

Seasoning for the Fried Chicken 

Ingredients 

Fried Chicken 

2 Onion sliced 

4 Garlic cloves chopped 

4 Red Dry Chillies broken into pieces 

2 tbsp Tomato Ketchup 

1/4 cup Water

Salt to taste 

1 tsp Cumin powder 

1/2 tsp Chilli powder 

11/4 tsp Kitchen King Masala powder 

2 tbsp Oil 

Few Coriander leaves chopped

Method 

Take  a pan, add oil and heat it. Add the garlic, chillies and onions. Sauté till the onions are translucent. Add salt, chilli powder, cumin powder and the kitchen king masala powder. Stir it. Add the tomato ketchup. Stir it,  add water and simmer  for 2 minutes. Add the chicken, toss it and stir fry it till all the seasoning incooperates well with the chicken. Garnish with coriander leaves.  Serve hot.