Homemade Pizza Recipe

We all love Pizza especially kids love that. Even my son like pizza very much. I was really afraid whether it is good for health?How they are doing in shops, we dont know? I asked myself why cannot i prepare Pizza at home and give him? Reflection of that, the recipe came here... It would be better if i prepare even the Pizza base, but right now i'm doing only with readymade one. After i do definitely i'll post it.

Ingredients:

Readymade Pizza base - 1
Butter - 1 tbsp
Onion ( chopped ) - 1
Carrot ( chopped ) - 1 
Capsicum ( chopped ) - 1 ( small )
Carom seeds ( Omum ) - 1/4 tsp
Tomato - 2
Tomato sauce - 2 tbsp
Salt - as per taste
Red chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
Pepper Powder - 1/4 tsp
Grated cheese - 1/4 cup
Cooking Oil - 2 tsp
Ginger Garlic Paste - 1/4 tsp

Method: 

1. Spread butter to the top of the Pizza base fully and keep aside.

2. Heat oil in a pan, add onion and fry it for a few min till it looks transparent. Add Gingergarlic paste and fry for another two min on low flame.

3. Add Capsicum and Carrot and cook for 5 min. Add salt as per taste. Do not cook the vegetables fully, it should be partially cooked.

4. Now grind tomatoes and add this tomato paste to the mixture.

5. Add Omum and mix well till tomato paste mixes well with vegetables.

6. Add chilli powder, pepper powder and tomato sauce and cook for 4 - 5 min. 

7. Spread this vegetable mixture to the top of the pizza base which we have prepared earlier.

8. Sprinkle grated cheese to it. 

9. Preheat the Oven and cook it for 4-5 min until the cheese melts and spread all over the pizza base.

10. Serve with Tomato sauce.

Homemade Pizza

Notes:

* In shops they will add some color to to pizza to enhance the richness but i avoided it.

Oatmeal Cookies

Eggless Oatmeal Cookies:

It is very easy to prepare eggless oatmeal cookies and it is healthy too. You can eat this not only for the evening snacks but for the breakfast too. It will take only 15 to 20 min to prepare this. I used quick oats  to make this recipe. 


Instead of doing cookies using butter, the taste will be delicious only when you add ghee. So, i preferred to use ghee for this recipe. 


Not only kids, everybody like this healthy cookies alot and definitely you will get the appreciation.(Not only appreciation, you will get the satisfaction that you're giving them a healthy food).


Ingredients:

1 cup - maida ( all purpose flour )
1 cup - Oats ( quick oats )
1/2 cup - Sugar ( Powdered)
1 pinch - salt
1/2 tsp - baking powder
1/4 tsp - baking soda
3/4 cup - ghee
1 tsp - vanilla essence
1/2 tsp - cardomom powder


Directions:


Sift maida, powdered sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda twice or thrice. Add oats and mix well. Heat ghee in a heavy bottomed pan. Add ghee to the maida mixture and combine gently. The dough will be slightly sticky but not watery. At the time when you can roll the dough with your palms, stop mixing the dough. Pinch equal portions of the dough and roll it between your palms without any cracks. Line the balls on the parchment paper with atleast 2″ space between them and bake it for ten minutes at 180 degrees. Take out the tray and do the tooth pick test. If it comes without any dough clinging its ready. Cool it on the sheet itself for 5 min then transfer it to the cooling rack to cool completely. Store in an air tight container.




Notes:
If  the dough is so dry you can add extra ghee to make the dough soft and when it is so runny you can add extra oats. 

Eggless Vanilla Cake recipe

Eggless Vanilla Cake

This Eggless vanilla cake is very simple and yummy too. I got this recipe from my neighbour aunty. Only by then i have decided to bake the cake only in home and not to buy from shop. When i do the first time i have beated the cake mix so vigorously but later she told me not to do that and need to mix the flour soft. Next time, I did that as she told and it came perfect.

Ingredients:

All purpose flour (maida) - 1 1/4 cups
Sugar (powdered) - 3/4 cup
Milk Powder - 1 cup
Salt - 1 pinch
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp
Milk at room temperature ( without adding water ) - 1 cup
Butter - 3/4 cup

Method:

Sift Maida and salt thrice and keep aside. Keep the butter in room temperature for 1 hour and add sugar, baking powder, baking soda to it. Mix it thoroughly till it becomes smooth and creamy. Add maida mixture gradually and mix well using a whisk. Add Milk powder, Vanilla essence and Milk and make the batter in thick pouring consistency ( like idly batter ). Some lumps are okay. Pour the batter in the greased pan and tap it to even it out. Bake it for 35 to 40 min at 180C or till the bottom had started to brown. Or you can insert a sharp knife in to the cake, if it comes without any dough clinging, it is ready. Transfer the pan to the cooling rack and cool it completely and then slice it. Your eggless vanilla cake is now ready to eat. Yummy...


Notes:

You can also use condensed milk instead of ordinary milk. But don't forget to decrease the amount of sugar because the condensed milk already contains sugar in it. I took 1/4 cup sugar with 1/2 cup of condensed milk, it was really good. If the batter is so thick then you can add  water or milk extra.

You can also do this cake in Aluminium Pressure cooker on gas stove, if you don't have oven at home. Take an aluminium vessel and grease it using ghee. Then pour the batter that we have prepared. Keep it inside the pressure cooker and close it ( No need to pour water in the pressure cooker as you prepare rice, just keep the vessel inside and close it). Don't put whistle but make the fire to sim ( very low ). After 40 min open the lid to check whether it is done. You can do the tooth pick test. The corner of the cake will separate from the vessel and will start to brown. Switch off the cooker and close it. Let it be there for 5 min. Then take out and cool it completely before slicing.

Vegetable Sandwich

This Vegetable Sandwich is a perfect breakfast or evening tiff-in for the kids as well as the person who are in diet to reduce weight. Kids love this sandwich and it is healthy too. 

Ingredients:

Sandwich Bread Slices - 8 nos
Butter - 100 gms
Mint chutney - 2 tbsp
Cucumber - 1, sliced in to thin rounds
Carrot - 1, sliced in to thin rounds
Onion - 1, sliced in to thin rounds
Tomato - 1, sliced in to thin rounds
Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp, finely chopped
Salt - as per taste
Black Pepper Powder - as per taste
Cheese - 4 slices


Method:


1. Butter all the slices of bread.


2. Spread 1 or 2 tsp of mint chutney to all slices.


3. Arrange 2 - 3 slices of carrot, cucumber, onion and tomato on the base bread slice.


4. Add Salt and Black pepper powder according to taste.


5. Sprinkle coriander leaves and keep one cheese slice over this.


6. Cover it with another slice of bread spreaded with mint chutney inside. 


7. Spread butter on the top of the bread and roast it. Do like this for the remaining bread slices.


8. Serve with tomato ketchup.

Milk Cake

Milk cake is a very simple recipe that you can make in a very less time and you can do this with the ingredients all that you have in home. No need to buy anything extra from the shop. We all do khoa from milk but this is different. I got this from my neighbour aunty. When i first do this , i kept the mixture few min extra. It was tasty but hard to bite but later i did that correct.


Ingredients:


Milk - 5 cups
Sugar - 3 cups
Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
Salt - 1 pinch
Rava ( sooji ) - 1 tsp
Ghee - 2 tbsp


Method:


1. Heat a heavy bottomed Pan or you can use aluminium cooker because while boiling, the milk will come up. So, you need the lengthy vessel to prepare this.


2. Pour milk and make it to boil for a few min in low flame.


3. Add sugar, salt, Rava to it. Stir it till the sugar dissolves.


4. Stir it occasionally and do not forget to keep in low flame. It will take 40 - 45 min for the milk to thicken up. The colour will change to light brown.


5. After it thickens, stir it continuously. you must not let it stick at the bottom.


6. Add ghee if needed. The mixture will seperate from the vessel. While stirring the mixture will come along with the spatula. It means it is the good time to take it off from the flame. Add cardamom powder and mix well.


7. Put this mixture in a greased tray and let it cool for 5 - 10 min, then you can slice as you wish. 


You can take this as a snack or as sweet dish for meals.

Coconut Laddu

Ingredients:

Shredded Coconut - 4 cups
Condensed milk - 1 tin ( 400 gm )
Cardamom Powder - 1/2 tsp
Sweetened Milk Powder - 1/2 cup
Rava ( sooji ) - 1 tsp
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Dessicated Coconut or coconut powder - few tsp

Method:

1. Heat a heavy bottomed vessel on flame. Add 1/2 tbsp ghee and then add grated coconut and rava saute for 3 to 4 min. 

2. Add Milk powder and Condensed milk and stir constantly till it leaves the side of the pan on low fire. It will take 8 to 10 min. Add the remaining ghee to it.

3. Add 1/2 tsp cardamom powder and mix well.

4. Take it off from the flame. Now grease your hand and make it as a small coconut laddu balls and roll it in dessicated coconut. You can add roasted nuts to it if you desire.

5. Store it in an air tight container.

Carrot Halwa

It is one of the most famous Indian Recipe and the most i like it. It can be a dessert, snack for the evening or the sweet dish with the meals. It is a simple recipe that whoever with or without cooking experience can make. 


It can be served both hot or cold to the taste of individual. 


Ingredients:


Carrot ( grated ) - 1 cup
Sugar - 1/2 cup ( according to taste )
Milk - 1 1/2 cup
Ghee - 1/4 cup
Chopped Cashews , Pista, almonds or any other nuts- 5 each 
Cardomom powder - 1/2 tsp




Method:


1. Heat a heavy bottomed pan. Add a little ghee to it. Then add grated carrot. Fry and cook carrots for five min in low flame or till the colour of the carrot  had changed to pale orange. 


2. Now add milk and cook in low fire till carrot absorbs all the milk. It may take about 15 to 20 min. Do not cover the pan.


3. Add sugar and cook till sugar dissolves. When the sugar dissolves, the mixture will release water on the side. 


4. Now the mixture will thicken's.


5. Add ghee occasionally and stir it till the mixture separates from the pan. When you stir, the mixture will come along with the spoon. This is the correct time to take it off from the flame. Add cardamom powder and mix well.


6. Now fry the chopped nuts in a separate pan till golden brown and add it to the carrot mixture.


7. It can be served hot, cold or at room temperature. Enjoy...