Carrot Cake

Ingredients

1. Carrot
2. All purpose flour
3. Baking powder
4. Baking soda
5. Butter Milk
6. Sugar
7. Cranberry
8. Almonds
9. Salt

Method:

• Mix the dry ingredients together in a bowl.
• Fine grate the carrots and keep it separately
• To the dry ingredients add butter milk and blend it well.
• Finally add almonds, cranberries and carrot to the cake batter and fold it together.
• Bake the cake batter in 450 degrees for 20 minutes.

Quinoa Paniyaram

Ingredients

• Rice - 1/2 cup
• Urad dhal - 1/2 cup
• Quinoa - 1 cup
• Onion - 1
• Cumin seeds - 2 tspn
• Red chilly - 2
• salt

 Method:

1. Soak rice - urad dhal and quinoa separately for 4 hrs.
2. Grind the soaked rice, urad dhal and quinoa with red chillies.
3. Allow the ground mixture to ferment overnight
4. Fry chopped onions along with cumin seeds.
5. Add the fried onion to the batter.
6. Mix the batter with salt and pour into the skillet.
7. Paniyaram ready to taste with chutney.

Fresh Okra @ backyard

First okra from small plant in our backyard