SMILEY CAKE, EGGLESS CAKE l Cakes/Bakes

Smiley cake or rava cake or eggless cake you can name it is a lovely, easy to make cake and will be loved by everyone.  You need not bother about oven and it can be prepared on stove top.  The basic ingredients are wheat flour,  semolina, ghee, milk and yoghurt,  hence it is healthy too.  This can be prepared by children above 10 with little supervision by elders.

This recipe is shared with me by Ms. Apoorva Shinde which was made by her for our sweet neighbour Anjali's wedding anniversary which was on 28th November.

DUDHI, LAUKI, BOTTLEGOURD KOFTA CURRY

I have already posted Dudi paratha.  Now I am presenting the  kofta curry made out of dudhi.  As you are aware, lauki, dudhi, bottlegourd, it is called  helps in various ways to control our body and organs.  Intake of dudhi is good for the health as it is a very easily digesting vegetable.

Kofta is made with grated dudhi, chickpea flour and masalas.  You can eat the koftas as it is or can put in gravy and serve along with roti, phulkas, rice etc.

DUDHI PARTHA, LAUKI PARATHA

Lauki, dudhi or bottlegourd it is called is very easily digestable vegetable. lauki juice with lime helps in curing urinary tract infections.  It also helps in control the diabetic, body temperature, weight, inflammation in the liver and kindney.  In short it has got medicinal values.

Parathas made out of this vegetable is very tasty.  You can grate the lauki and make the parathas.  Here I have used the  fibrous residue of the lauki after extracting the juice.  It is a BEST OUT OF WASTE RECIPE at the same time healthy too.

COCONUT BURFI, THENAGAI BURFI, NARALACHI VADI

Coconut burfi is made with sugar and easy to prepare.  Whenever any guests unexpectedly visit us, for sweets, i used to prepare this within no time as I love this sweet.  Very simple and easy to make and relished by everyone.  For any occasion or whenever you feel like eating sweets, you can make this.

BANANA STEM KOFTA KADHI, BANANA STEM PAKODA KADHI

Banana stem is quite healthy.  Those who are having kidney stone problems, fresh glass of juice in the empty stomach consumed helps in reducing the problems.  Though the taste is very bland, it has got medicinal values hence once in 15 days atleast, we must have this.  You can make subji, thoran (stir fry), sambar,  raita, pachadi out of this.

I have made sambar and kadhi out of this.

here I am presenting the recipe of Kadhi

Ingredients:

FOR THE PAKODA (KOFTA)

1/4 cup moong dal (you can use tur dal or chana dal also)
1/4 cup banana stem finely chopped
1 green chilli
1 red chilli
a pinch of asafoetida
1 tsp rice powder
1/4 tsp ginger paste
1/4 tsp garlic paste
1/4 tsp green chilli paste

GRAVY:

1 cup beaten curd
2-3 garlic cloves crushed
1/4 tsp ginger paste
a pinch of  turmeric powder
1 tsp besan (chickpea flour)
salt as per taste

tempering:

1 tsp oil
1 red chilli
1 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
few curry leaves
a pinch of asafoetida
salt


chopped coriander leaves for garnishing


METHOD:

Soak the dal for one hour.  drain and grind  the dal with green/red chilli to a smooth paste. ensure that no water in it while grinding. mix the ground paste, banana stem ginger garlic chilli paste, rice powder, salt, asafotida.  make small balls out of it and steam cook the same for 20 minutes or deep fry them.

Mix the beaten curd, besan, salt, turmeric powder, ginger paste, crushed garlic.  In a kadai, heat oil, add the mustard seeds, cumin seeds.,  when it crackles, add the red chilli, curry leaves asafoetida.  Add 1/4 cup water.  Add the curd mix in it and simmer.  add salt.  Put the koftas/pakodas in the kadhi and bring to a boil.  garnish with coriander leaves, serve hot with plain rice, pulao etc.

link for sambar:  banana-stem-kofta-pakora-sambar.html  watch on you tube


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BANANA STEM KOFTA (PAKORA) SAMBAR, PLAINTAIN STEM KOFTA (PAKORA) SAMBAR

I have already posted the banana stem  kofta/pakora kadhi.  Here I am presenting the banana stem kofta sambar.  It is similar to making the normal sambar but instead of vegetables, used the kofta/pakora.  You can make the same with sambar powder or fry the sambar ingredients and grind it along with coconut and  add.

GOLD COINS, CRISPY BREAD WITH VEGGIES

Making snacks for the children is always a task as they do not want this, they do not want that.  What will you eat, something nice mumma.  I am always in search of making  something new for my children.  finally they end up with bread items.

Today I have made Gold coins.  It is nothing but bread cut into a circle filled with some veggies and prepared in microwave.  You can fill with any veggies of your choice.    what else is required.  a little bit of sauce.  so enjoy you too with a cup of tea.

DATES, CARROT, WALNUT CAKE l Cakes/bakes

22nd November is a memorable day in our life. Yes, we were married on that day.  A lovely journey for the past 24 years together with lots of ups and downs, two bundles of joy, graduation of my son, daughter in 10th.  What a lovely life God has given to us.

On this special day, thought of making something different.  Bored of making payasam, sweets.  so far I have not entered in the world of baking, thought will make a move from today onwards.  Thus, the recipe was tried by me and the result was wonderful.

Dates, carrot, walnut cake is made with  main ingredient as maida, brown sugar  and egg, easy to make relished by one and all.  The nuts, carrots  and dates adds a lovely flavour to the cake.

KATHAL KOFTA CURRY, TENDER JACKFRUIT KOFTA CURRY

Jackfruit is loved by everyone.  We can make subzi out of tender jackfruit  puzhuku (with karamani or known as cow pea), chips can be made with raw fruit, ripe one can be eaten as it is or varieties of dishes are made viz jam, elai adai etc.  The seeds are also used for making subzi.jackfruit-seed-subzi

Here I have prepared kofta out of the tender jackfruit with masalas and it is really yummy.  It was liked by my family as well as neighbours.

KATHAL KOFTA CURRY WITH DAL, JACKFRUIT KOFTA CURRY WITH DAL

I have already posted  Jackfruit kofta curry.  Now I am posting the recipe of Jackfruit kofta curry with dal.  It is somewhat similar to the parippu urundai kuzhambu (dal balls made with dal and sambar powder) and goes well with chapati and white rice too.  Let us have a look at the recipe now