14 avril 2009
Happy Vishu
06 avril 2009
Chocolate - Beet Cake
Chocolate - Beet Cake
Ingredients
200g butter
170g sugar
200g flour
200g dark chocolate
200g beetroot (cooked & mashed)
3 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
a pinch of salt
1 tsp cinnamon powder
Almonds/walnuts (optional)
Method
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Break the chocolate bar & add 2 tbsp water.
Melt in microwave oven 2 mn.
Add butter & mix well.
In another bowl beat eggs & sugar.
Sieve the flour and baking powder together and fold into the cake mixture.
Add chocolate butter mixture & mix well.
Add mashed beet, & cinnamon powder
Pour the batter into the greased cake pan.
Bake until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean, about 35-40 mn.
Serve with tea.
03 avril 2009
Steamed Rice Rotti / Spicy Orotti - Kerala Special
Spicy Orotti
Ingredients
2 cups roasted rice powder
21/2 cups of luke warm water
1 tsp fennel seeds
1 green chilli
1 tsp salt
A piece of ginger
2 tbsp dessicated coconut / 2 tbsp grated coconut
2 shallots
Curry leaves
Method
Coarsely grind coconut, chilli, shallots, ginger, curry leaves & fennel seeds in a blender.
Add salt & blended mixture to the rice powder.
Mix with water to get a stiff dough.
Keep aside for one hour.
Take a lemon sized dough ball on ur left palm.
Dip ur right hand in water & flatten the dough into disc of abt 8 c.m.
Repeat th process with other dough balls.
Steam cook for 10-15mn.
Serve these Spicy Rotti's with Veg / Non Veg curry.
01 avril 2009
Strawberry Fool on All Fool's Day
Strawberry Fool
Ingredients
250 g strawberries
50g icing sugar
20g sugar
125g cream
125g greek yogurt
Few mint leaves
Method
Wash, drain & hull strawberries .
Reserve a few berries for decoration & chop others.
Sprinkle icing sugar over them & macerate for half an hour.
Mash it using potato masher & keep aside.(not a blender)
Whip the cream with sugar, until it's stiff.
Fold in yogurt & strawberry puree.
Spoon the mixture into glasses & chill for an hour.
Decorate with sliced strawberries & mint leaves.
Strawberry Fool is an English desert. The term "fool" is derived from the French word "se fouler" meaning to mash.
April Fools Day is "Poisson d'Avril" for the French.
On this day, French kids stick a paper fish on the back of their mates.When the prank is discovered, all of them shout " Poisson d'Avril "
All Fools Day Rhyme
April Fool
Go to school.
Tell your teacher
Bloody fool.
