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.

Banana Nutty Cake

Ingredients

1. Wheat flour - 2 cups
2. All purpose flour(Maida) - 1 cup
3. Sugar -  1 cup
4. Banana - 3
5. Raisins - 1/2 cup
6. Almonds - 1/4 cup
7. Vanilla extract - 1 tspn
8. Baking Soda - 1 tspn
9. Baking powder - 1 tspn
10. Oil - 5 tspns
11. Salt - a pinch
12. Water - 1 cup

Method:

1. 
   
   Mix all the dry ingredients except raisins and almonds and keep it aside
2. 
   
   Mash the bananas after peeling the skin.
3. 
   
   Add the vanilla extract and oil
4. 
   
   Mix the dry ingredients to the banana paste and mix them well them a hand blender.
5. 
   
   Finally add the raisins and almonds and mix them gently
6. 
   
   Rub the cake pan with butter and pour in the mixed cake mix.
7. 
   
   Bake them for 30-40 minutes. Cool it for 10 minutes.
8. 
   
   Healthy banana nutty cake ready to taste

Mixed nuts biscotti

Ingredients

1. 
   
   All-purpose flour - 1 cup
2. 
   
   Sugar - 1/4 cup
3. 
   
   Baking powder - 1/2 teaspoon
4. 
   
   Egg - 1
5. 
   
   Mixed nuts - 1/2 cup (I used almonds and raisins)
6. 
   
   salt - 1/4 teaspoon

Method:

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  Beat sugar and egg in a hand blender
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  Mix all the other ingredients except nuts.
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  Now add the dry ingredients to the egg batter in parts and blend to rounded mix
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  Finally add the nuts and just blend it softly along with the batter.
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  Take a baking plate and place the batter by forming a log and bake it for 20 minutes
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  Take the baked log out and allow it to cool
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  Cut the log sidewards and then bake it for 5 min for one side and the same for the other side.
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  Cool it and enjoy the biscotti with good coffee/tea

Sundal

Kesari

Poha(Aval) mixture

Ingredients

Pori Urundai

Ingredients

• Puffed Rice - Pori
• Fried Peanuts
• Brown Sugar
• Cardamom
• Butter

Method:

1. 
   
   Fry puffed rice lightly in a pan and keep it aside.
2. 
   
   Make brown sugar syrup (paagu) with little water and brown sugar. Take this from heat.
3. 
   
   Add crushed cardamom powder to the sugar syrup
4. 
   
   Add puffed rice and peanuts to the syrup and mix gently without breaking the puffed rice
5. 
   
   Make small balls before the heat gets reduced from the mixture
6. 
   
   This is special made for Karthiigai Deepam Neivedhiyam.

Murukku

Ingredients

1. Rice flour
2. Urad dhal
3. Sesame seeds
4. Cumin seeds
5. Salt
6. Butter

Method:

• Fry urad dhal in a kadai.. just heat it and allow it to cool. Grind into smooth powder
• Add rice flour and urad dhal powder(in 4:1 ratio) with little water.
• Also add sesame seeds, cumin seeds and butter.
• Mix the ingredients and make into a smooth dough.
• Keep the dough inside the murukku-maker and press into different desired shapes.
• Deep fry them in oil until it is cripsy and light golden color.
• Enjoy diwali with tasty murukku.

I am sending this recipe to Priya's diwali contest

Boondi Laddoo

Ingredients

1. Besan flour
2. Sugar
3. Cardamom
4. Cashew nut
5. Raisins

Method:

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  Mix the besan flour with equal amount of water and make a smooth batter
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  Heat oil in a pan and pour the batter into the hot oil pan through a seive with small round holes.
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  Fry the boondi's and keep it ready
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  Make a sugar syrup and add cardamom powder to it.
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  Mix in the fried boondi's and roasted cashew nuts and raisins when the sugar syrup is hot.
• 
  
  Make small balls out of this mixture when it is warm
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  Boondi laddoo is ready to be served.

Soya chunks cutlet

Ingredients

1. Soya chunks
2. Potato
3. Cumin seeds
4. Chilly powder
5. Coriander powder
6. Breadcrumbs
7. Salt

Method:

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  Soak the soya chunks in hot water for 10minutes
• 
  
  Boil the potato. Remove the skin and mash the boiled potato.
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  Drain the water from soya.
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  Grind the soaked soya chunks with cumin seeds.
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  Mix the mashed potato, ground soya chunks along with salt, chilly powder and coriander powder
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  Make small balls and flatten a little bit.  Season it with breadcrumbs.
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  Add oil in a pan and fry the cutlets.
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  Pan fry the cutlets until it turn little brown and crispier.
• 
  
  Delicious and protein-rich cutlet ready to serve with tomato sauce.

Masala Poori

Ingredients

1. Wheat chips
2. Puffed rice (pori)
3. Roasted peanuts
4. Cooked Garbanzo beans(white kondakadalai)
5. Onion
6. Chilly powder
7. salt

Method

• 
  
  Chop the onion to fine peices
• Mix pori with roasted peanuts, garbanzo beans and onions along with salt and chilly powder
• Finally toss it with the crushed crunchy wheat chips
• Yummy masala poori is ready for evening snack

Wheat chips

Ingredients

1. Wheat flour
2. Salt
3. Oil

Method

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  Make a dough with wheat flour by adding warm water and salt
• 
  
  Make small balls with the dough
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  Roll each ball like we do for chapathi
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  Cut the rolled dough into peices in a desired shape.
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  Deep fry the dough peices in oil.
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  Yummy wheat chips ready for evening snack

Rasagulla

Ingredients

1. Milk
2. Lemon juice
3. Sugar
4. Cardamom

Method:

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  Boil the milk.
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  When the milk is well boiled, add a teaspoon of lemon juice.
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  Milk will start curdling to a semi-solid form
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  Allow it to cool.
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  Take a strainer and place a tissue cloth over it.
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  Pour the curdled milk and strain the water out of it.
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  Make little balls out of the strained curdled milk.
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  Make sugar syrup and add powdered cardamom to it. Now add the milk balls to the syrup.
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  Let it cool down with the syrup inside refrigerator for 1 hour.

BlueBerry Oatmeal Muffins

Ingredients

• Oatmeal - 3 cup
• All-Purpose flour(Maida) - 1 cup
• Blueberries - 1/2 cup
• Baking soda - 1/2 tspn
• Baking powder - 1/2 tspn
• Honey - 1/2 cup
• Eggs - 1
• Vegetable oil - 1/4 cup
• Unsalted butter - 1/4 stick
• Salt - a pinch

Method:

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  In a bowl mix oatmeal, all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt.
• 
  
  In a separate bowl, beat the eggs and then add honey, melted butter and oil and beat them well with a whisk.
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  Add this to the dry ingredient mixture and whisk until the dry ingredients are well mixed with the fluid
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  Finally add the blueberries and just mix it roughly.
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  Take a muffin pan and pour the muffin batter.
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  Preheat the oven to 350 degrees .
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  Place the muffin tray and let it cook for 15 minutes
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  After 15 minutes, bluerberry muffin is ready to taste.

Chikki

Ingredients

1. Peanuts
2. Brown sugar

Method:

• 
  
  Split the peanuts and remove the husk from it.
• 
  
  After cleaning, dry roast the split peanuts.
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  Meanwhile prepare the jaggery with water.
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  When the jaggery comes along to form lightly thicker, add the roaster peanuts.
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  Mix peanut well with the jaggery.
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  Now take a plate and cover it with foil paper.
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  Pour the jaggery, peanut semi-liquid batter to the foiled plate.
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  Before it cools down, just cut into peices in a desired shape.
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  Let it cool and it will be set to solid form.
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  Yummy chikki is ready to taste.

Banana Cake

Ingredients

All-purpose flour - 3 cups
Bananas(ripen) - 2
Baking soda - 1/2 tspn
Baking powder - 1/2 tspn
dry fruits - 1/2 cup
Butter - 1 stick
Egg - 2
salt - a pinch
Butter Milk - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup

Mix all the dry ingredients together except dry fruits
Mash bananas and keep it aside.
Beat the eggs and add the butter milk to it.
Now add the mashed bananas and the egg mixed with butter milk to the dry mixture
Stir it lightly 5-6 times along with the butter
Now add the dry fruits and pour the cake mix to the cookware greased with butter
Preheat the oven to 350degrees
Place the cake mix and bake it for 30minutes
Once the cake is baked allow it to cool and the yummy cake is ready to cut and serve

Oatmeal cookie

Ingredients

1. Oats - 2 cups
2. All-purpose flour(maida) - 1 cup
3. Butter - 1 stick
4. chocolate chips
5. honey
6. salt - a pinch
7. baking soda - 1/2 tspn
8. baking powder - 1/2 tspn
9. Almonds - sliced
10. Milk - 1 cup
11. Egg - 2
12. Vanilla essence - 2 tspn

• 
  
  Take a bowl and mix all the dry ingredients except choclate chips and almonds
• 
  
  In another bowl beat eggs along with milk, honey, vanilla essence
• 
  
  Now add the liquid slowly into the dry ingredients and mix them
• 
  
  Finally add the melted butter, chocolate chips, sliced almonds and just give a quick whisk
• 
  
  Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
• 
  
  Place the foil paper in a tray
• 
  
  Split the cookie mix, lightly flatten and place it on the greased foil paper
• 
  
  Place this tray and bake the cookie for about 20min
• 
  
  After 20 min, take out the tray and allow it to cool
• 
  
  Oatmeal cookie is ready to eat and healthier too

Veg Pizza

Ingredients                            

1. All-purpose flour
2. wheat flour
3. Baking soda
4. Baking powder
5. Salt
6. Pepper
7. Marinara Sauce
8. Red Onion
9. Capsicum
10. Cheese
11. Mushroom

• Make a dough with all-purpose flour, wheat flour, salt, baking soda & powder.
• Keep this dough with the wet tissue on it for 3-4 hours.
• The dough will rise and it will be very fluffy
• Cut capsicum, onion and mushroom into long and thin peices
• Roll this dough and spread marinara sauce throughout
• Place mushrooms, onion and capsicum peices across the flat dough

• Sprinkle crushed pepper and cheese throughout the flatenned dough
• Preheat the oven to 350 degree
• Place the raw dough into the oven for 20-30 min
• Home-made pizza ready to taste with any soda

Pal Payasam

Ingredients

1. Milk
2. Vermicelli
3. Sugar
4. Cardamom
5. Dry fruits - almonds, cashew, raisins
6. Saffron
7. Water
8. Butter

• Dry roast vermicelli with little butter and keep it aside
• Boil milk in a pan.
• When the milk is boiled, add vermicelli.
• When the vermicelli is half-cooked, add the rest of milk and water and bring it to boil
• In a separate pan, add little ghee and roast the dry fruits
• Crush the cardamom and add to the boiling milk along with the roasted nuts
• In a glass with little milk add saffron and mix the milk until the milk turns yellow
• Add this saffron mixed milk to the boiling payasam.
• Allow it to boil and the payasam is ready to taste.

Vazhaipoo Vadai

Ingredients

1. Channa dhal - 2 cups
2. Vazhaipoo - handful
3. Curry leaves
4. Fennel seeds - 1 tspn
5. Green Chilli - 2
6. Red Chilli - 2
7. Ginger
8. Salt
9. Oil

Soak channa dhal for 1-2 hr
Clean and cut vazhaipoo into peices and soak in butter milk
Coarse grind the soaked channa dhal along with fennel seeds, red chilli, green chilli, ginger and salt
Add and Mix curry leaves  and vazhaipoo to the ground paste
Deep fry in oil
Yummy vadai - ready to taste
Goes well with Tea for an evening snack.
Also taken in traditional form with payasam for lunch