Homemade Chocolate

Ingredients:

Milk Powder - 1 cup
Cocoa Powder - 1 tsp
Maida - 1 / 2 tsp
Salt - 1 pinch
Butter - 1 / 2 cup
Powdered Sugar - 1 / 2 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Nuts - as per required


Method :

• Sift Milk powder, Cocoa powder, Maida, Salt, Powdered sugar twice or thrice and keep it aside.
• Heat butter in a pan till it melts completely.
• Now add this melted butter to the Milk powder mixture that we got in step 1.
• Mix well till it combines well. If needed you can add extra butter.
• Add Vanilla essence and nuts.
• Make it to boil in the double boiler ( Keep a pan with water and make it to boil. On the above of this boiling water keep the chocolate mixture for 3 - 4 min and stir it ).
• Pour this mixture in a greased plate and refrigerate for 2 hours

Note :

You can add icing sugar instead of ordinary sugar to enhance the taste. 

Kottu Rasam

Ingredients:

Tamarind - Medium Lemon sized
Salt - as per taste
Red Chillies - 3 or 4
Pepper Powder - 1/2 tsp
Asafoetida Powder - 1 pinch
Ghee - 1 tsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
Tomato - 1 medium sized ( Sliced in to pieces )
Water - 1 cup

Coriander Leaves - few

Method:

• Soak tamarind in water and extract the juice.
• To the tamarind extract add salt, sliced tomato pieces, Asafoetida, Broken red chilies, water and bring to boil in medium flame.
• Once it starts boiling turn off the stove.
• Add ghee in a pan. Sputter mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Add this to rasam that we have prepared.
• Add Coriander leaves for taste.
• Kottu rasam is now ready to serve with plain rice.