Jhangri recipe

Ingredients:

Urad dal - 1 cup

Orange food colour - 2 or 3 pinch

Sugar - 2 cups

Rice flour - 1 tbsp

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Oil - for frying

Method:

• Soak Urad dal for 2 hours. 
• Drain excess water and grind dal to a fine thick batter. ( Do not add excess water while grinding. The batter should be thick ).
• Dissolve food colour in 1 tsp water.
• Transfer the grinded dal to a bowl along with rice flour and food colour. Make it to a fine smooth paste.
• Add sugar and 1/2 cup water in a heavy bottomed vessel and make sugar syrup. When it comes to one string consistency switch off the flame, add cardamom powder and stir.
• In a heavy bottomed pan heat oil. 
• To make Jhangris you can use ordinary zip lock bag with a small hole in the middle or the pastry bag.
• I used only zip lock bag to make this. Pipe Jhangris by starting off with two close circles and pipe small rings around those circles.
• If the oil pan is wide, you can make 4 or 5 jhangris at a time. Turn both sides and cook jhangris well.

• Remove the excess oil from fried jhangris and add to the hot sugar syrup immedietely.
• Let the Jhangris soak in sugar syrup for 4 or 5 min. Then tranfer it to a plate.
• Continue the same procedure with rest of the batter.
• Do not make the batter to rest for a long time since it will become sour. 
• Enjoy hot and delicious jhangris.

Iyengar Akkaravadisal - sakkarai pongal recipe

Akkaravadisal

Ingredients:

Raw rice - 3/4 cup

Moong dal - 1/4 cup

Powdered Jaggery - 1 cup

Ghee - 1/4 - 1/2 cup

Broken Cashews and raisins - as per required

Saffron strands - 3 or 4

Milk - 1 litre + 1tbsp

Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

Edible camphor - 1 pinch

Method:

• Fry Cashews and raisins with 2 tbsp ghee in a heavy bottomed pan. Remove and keep aside.

• On that pan itself roast Raw rice and Moong dal till nice aroma comes. Rinse once and keep aside.

• Soak Saffron strands in 1 tbsp warm milk and set aside.

• Soak Jaggery in ( 1/2 cup or enough to cover ) hot water. Set aside.

• Add 1 liter milk with roasted rice and moong dal in a deep vessel and pressure cook for 5 whistles in medium flame.

• Once pressure cooker eases, take the container out and mash it completely.

• Now, mix jaggery well, breaking down any pieces left with the help of spoon. Filter it for any impurities.

• Boil this syrup till nice aroma comes ( around 5 minutes ). Remove from heat. Add Cardamom powder and edible camphor and mix well.

• Add this jaggery syrup to the mashed rice and dal mixture. 

• Add soaked saffron, roasted cashews and raisins and mix well.

• This mixture tends to thicken after some times, so add some warm milk while serving.

Carrot cake or Muffins

Ingredients:

Carrot (grated) - 2 cups

All purpose flour - 2 cups

Sugar - 1 1/4 cup

Baking soda - 1 tsp

Ripe Banana ( Medium ) - 2

Strawberry ( Wash and chop in to pieces ) - 8

Cooking Oil - 2/3 rd cup

Raisins - 1/2 cup

Nuts ( finely chopped ) - 1 cup

Coconut flakes - 1/2 cup

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Seedless Dates ( chopped in to small pieces ) - 1/2 cup

Milk - 1/4 cup

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 180 deg C. Grease the Muffin tray.

• Sieve All purpose flour with baking soda twice or thrice.

• Peel, mash and beat Bananas until fluffy. Add oil, cardamom and sugar and mix well.

• In a large bowl mix together dates, coconut flakes, nuts, raisins, strawberry and carrot with All purpose flour and baking soda mixture.

• Fold wet ingredients to dry ingredients mixing thoroughly but not hard.

• Add some milk in-order to combine the flour if it is tight. The batter should be in thick pouring consistency.

• Pour this batter to the greased Muffin tray or cake pan. Bake till toothpick inserted on the center comes out clean. 

• Cool the tray completely before turning upside down.

Soya Chunks Kofta

Ingredients: 

Soya chunks - 1 cup

Potato - 2 ( Boiled, Peeled and crushed )

Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp

Garam Masala Powder - 1 tsp

Fennel seeds  - 1/4 tsp

Salt - as per required

Onion -1 

Tomato - 2 

Tomato sauce - 1 tbsp

Chilli powder - as per required

Oil - 1 1/2 tsp

Fresh cream - 1/2 cup

Kasturi methi - 1 tsp

Water - 1/2 cup

Coriander leaves - few

Method: 

• Cut Onion and Tomato finely. Puree the tomatoes.
• Soak Soya chunks in salt water for 10 min and drain excess water and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a pan, add fennel seeds, ginger garlic paste, onion, potato and tomato puree. Cook for a few min.
• Add Garam masala powder, salt, chilli powder, turmeric powder, tomato sauce and kasturi methi.
• Add soya chunks and water. Cover and cook for 5 min in medium flame.
• Add Fresh cream and stir in low flame for a few min.
• Adjust salt and garnish with coriander leaves.

 

Vegetable Avial

Ingredients:

Carrot ( Cut in to 2 inch pieces ) - 1 Medium

Beans ( Cut in to 2 inch pieces ) - 6

Potato ( Cut in to 2 inch pieces ) - 1

Drumstick ( Cut in to 2 inch pieces ) - 1 Medium

Broad beans ( Cut in to 2 inch pieces ) - 4

Raw banana ( Cut in to 2 inch pieces ) - 1

White pumpkin ( Cut in to 2 inch pieces ) - 200 grams

Yam - Boiled and Peeled ( Cut in to 2 inch pieces ) - 100 grams

Green Peas - 1/4 cup

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - few

Coconut scrapped - 1/2 cup

Cumin seeds - 1 tsp

Green chillies - 4 or as per taste

Rice flour - 1 1/2 tsp

Salt -  as per taste

Coconut oil - 1 1/2 tbsp

Curd - 1 1/2 cup

Method:

• Boil 2 cups of water in a deep pan. Add turmeric powder and curry leaves and let it boil for a few minutes.
• Add Carrot, Beans, Broad Beans, Drumstick, Potato and Raw banana pieces. Add Salt. Stir, cover and cook till the vegetables are soft.
• Add White Pumpkin, Yam and Green Peas. Cover and cook again for 5 min.
• Grind Coconut, Green Chillies, Cumin seeds and Rice flour and make a paste with little water.
• Add this ground paste to 1 1/2 cup curd and mix well.
• Add this curd mixture to the vegetables. Stir and make the flame low for a few minutes.
• Adjust salt as per taste. Drizzle Coconut oil and serve hot.

Seven Cup cake

Ingredients:

Gram Flour ( Besan ) - 1 1/4 cup

Ghee - 1 cup + 2 tsp 

Sugar - 2 1/2 cups

Milk - 1 cup

Coconut ( scrapped ) - 1 1/4 cup

Cashews - 10

Method:

• Take 2 tsp ghee in a heavy bottomed pan and fry cashews till golden brown. Keep it aside.

• Add Gram flour, Ghee, Sugar, Milk and Coconut on the same pan. Cook on medium flame stirring continuously.

• As it begins to leave the side of the pan or when it comes along with your spatula while stirring, turn off the flame and pour it to the greased plate.

• Decorate with cashews. Make slices when it is hot and cool it completely.

Eggless Marble Cake

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour ( Maida ) - 1 1/4 cup

Milk Powder - 4 tbsp

Sugar ( Powdered ) - 1 cup

Salt - 1 pinch

Baking Powder - 1 1/2 tsp

Baking soda - 1 tsp

Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Milk - 1 cup

Cocoa powder - 1 1/2 tbsp

Butter ( at room temperature ) - 1/2 cup

Hot Water - 2 tbsp

Method: 

• Sieve All purpose flour along with salt twice or thrice and keep it aside.
• In a bowl, take butter, baking powder, baking soda and vanilla essence. Mix till it becomes smooth.
• Add milk , sugar and All Purpose flour. Make the batter to a thick pouring consistency.
• Take cocoa powder in a separate bowl. Add hot water and mix it without any lumps. Add quarter of the cake batter to this cocoa mixture and mix well.
• Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius. 
• Pour half of the cake batter in a greased pan. Then pour half of the cocoa batter above the cake batter. Slightly make marble like patterns using a fork. Don't over do.
• Again pour the remaining cake batter and cocoa batter as earlier and make marble patterns again.
• Bake the cake in 170 deg C for 40 - 45 min or until the tooth pick comes out clean when inserted at the center.
• Cool the cake completely and invert it. Cut slices and enjoy the marble cake.

My slices were little big, so i cut it down further in to half. 

Notes: 

• You can also add orange zest for further taste. 
• You can also pour vanilla batter 3 times and cocoa batter 3 times to make a 3 layered swirls. Its purely your creativity. 
• The taste will be like vanilla cake. So, kids love this cake alot. 
• I did this in the bread loaf, but if you want you can do this in cake pan itself.