Ragi Chocolate Cake

 Super delicious cake with all all the goodness of Ragi. I have also used wheat flour instead of Maida...so that makes it more nutritious.

Ingredients:

Wheat flour - 1/2 cup

Ragi flour - 3/4 cup

Sugar (powdered) - 3/4 cup

Choco powder - 1/2 cup

Curd - 1/2 cup

Oil - 1/4 cup

Milk - 1/4 cup

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Chocolate Ganache for garnishing (optional)

Sugar crystals for garnishing (optional)

Method:

Mix curd and oil and whisk well. Now add ragi and wheat flour, sugar, choco powder, baking powder, baking soda and milk and mix well.

Grease a cake tin with butter and add the batter to it. Bake it in a pre heated oven at 180°c for 20- 25 mins approx. Check whether it's done using a toothpick.

Allow the cake to cool down. Once it's completely cooled, pour some chocolate Ganache over it and decorate with sugar pieces..

Enjoy Cooking!!!

Ganesh Chaturthi Special - Kesar Modak

    This is a simple recipe which can be made in less time but tastes heavenly...On the special occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, try this simple yet special recipe...

Ingredients:

Milk - 1/2 cup

Milk powder - 2 cups

Sugar - 1/2 cup

Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Saffron - 1/2 tsp (few strands for decorating too)

Ghee - 2 tsp

Method:

Heat milk in a pan. Add cardamom powder and few saffron strands and mix. 

Now add milk powder and mix well. See that there are no lumps formed. 

Add sugar and a tsp of ghee to it. Keep mixing till the sugar dissolves and and again starts forming solid again. This might take around 10 mins.

Once it form a single lump and comes together, remove from the flame. Allow it to rest and cool down for 5 mins.

Now take a little of the dough and give the shape of the Modak. You can use fork and make stripes on it. Use few strands of Kesar to decorate the Modak.

Modak is ready to be served on Ganesh Chaturthi.

Enjoy Cooking!!!

Salt and Pepper Sweetcorn

 This can be an easy, tasty and nutritious evening snack. Just 5 mins and you are done..

Ingredients:

Sweetcorn - 1 cup

Salt to taste

Pepper - 1/2 tsp

Butter - 1 tsp

Method:

Boil corn in water for around 10 mins. Strain them and keep aside

Heat butter in a pan. Add corn to it and mix well 

Add salt and pepper and mix.

Serve hot in this rainy weather.. you don't have to go out to enjoy this delicious snack.

Adjust butter quantity according to your taste.

Enjoy Cooking!!!

Shankarpoli (Khara/Spicy)

      So here is the recipe for the spicy version of Shankarpoli. Yet again an easy recipe..

Ingredients:

Maida (all purpose flour) - 1 cup

Jeera - 1 tsp

Ajwain - 1/2 tsp

Chilli powder - 1 tsp

Ghee - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil for frying

Method:

Take maida in a bowl. Add jeera, ajwain, chilli powder and salt and mix well.

Add ghee and mix properly till ghee is coated well and forms a lump when pressed with hands.

Now heat oil in a pan. Once the oil is hot add 2 tsp of hot oil to the flour and mix. Now add enough water and form a thick dough.

Take dough and roll it. The rolled dough needs to be little thick. Now take a fork and make some pricks in the dough.

Cut the dough into diamond shape and fry in hot oil on low to medium flame..

Once they are golden brown and crisp remove them from flame..

Serve them during tea time.

Enjoy Cooking!!