Thursday, August 20, 2009

TEA CAKE

Ingredients ·

  • 2 cups all purpose flour/ maida ·
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda ·
  • 2 tsp baking powder ·
  • 3 tbsp butter/ ½ cup ·
  • 1cups sugar ·
  • 2 eggs ·
  • 3/4 tsp vanilla essence ·
  • 1 cups milk ·
  • Can add 2 to 3 spoon cocoa powder
Mixing

1. preheat the oven for 400 F
2. mix all dry ingredients and keep aside ( flour, cocoa, baking powder and soda)
3. beat egg and keep aside
4. mix sugar and butter
5.To sugar and butter mix add beated egg and vanilla essence
6.Add dry ingredients ( flour) and milk alternatively.
7. Pour the mixture to the cake tray
8. Baking is on 400 deg. for 30-45 min or a tooth pick go inside and came out with no cake mix stick on it

CHOCLATE CUP CAKE



Ingredients ·
  • 1 1/3 cups all purpose flour/ maida ·
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda ·
  • 2 tsp baking powder ·
  • 3/ 4 cup cocoa ·
  • 1/8 tsp salt ·
  • 3 tbsp butter ·
  • 11/2 cups sugar ·
  • 2 eggs ·
  • 3/4 tsp vanilla essence ·
  • 1 cups milk ·
  • chocolate chips u can add if u want

Mixing
  • preheat the oven for 350 F
  • mix all dry ingredients and keep aside ( flour, cocoa, baking powder and soda, salt)
  • beat egg and keep aside
  • mix sugar and butter
  • mix beated egg and vanilla essence
  • Mix dry ingredients ( flour) and milk alternatively
  • Add chocolate chips((OPTIONAL))
  • Fill the cup cake paper molds only to its half
  • bake the cake mix in 350 deg. for 15-17 min

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

LEMON RICE



Today i made lemon rice ..and i thought to share it with you all... hope you all enjoy cooking...



Ingredients
  • rice -1cup (use 1 cup rice and 2 cup water to cook the rice .. you can add little salt and oil also while cooking rice you can use any rice preferably ponni raw rice or sona massoori )
  • onion-5 spoon
  • greenchilly chopped -2
  • red chilly-2
  • curry leaves
  • bunch of cilantro (corriander leaves)
  • hing (Asofoetida) apinch
  • channa dal
  • urad dal
  • mustard
  • ghee or oil
  • ginger chopped or paste -1 spoon
  •  juice of 1 lemon 
  • cashew nut -1/4 of a cup.
Preparation method


pre-cook the rice.

Heat a pan..add little ghee and fry peanut and cashewnut..keep it aside.

In the same pan add little ghee and mustard and curry leafs. then add channa dal and urad dal.soat for 2 min.

add red chilly and ginger paste.

saute onion and greenchilly...till onion becomes trasperant.

add turmeric powder.

add hing powder and add lemon juice and salt .then add cook rice and mix well .rice will have a nice yellow color.

add fried nuts and mix.

add corriander leaves and mix well.
tasty lemon rice is ready...