Fried and steamed fish/Meen polichathu.

Fried and steamed fish/Meen polichathu. a photo by {deepapraveen very busy with work..back soon on Flickr.

Fish fillet= Big one (around 100gm)

Simple Banana cake : Fathers day special

Serves:4

Preparation time : 15 minutes

Cooking time  : 50-60 minutes.

Who doesn’t love a super moist banana cake with a strong coffee? I do. so I go for this easy to prepare less complicated banana cake if I fancy a quick home made cake.

Ingredients:

1. Over ripe banana- 2
2. Butter (in room temperature)- 140 gram
3. Self rising flour- 175 gram
4. Sugar- 100gram
5. Baking powder – 1 teaspoon
6. Egg – 2
7. Vanilla extract – ½ teaspoon

Easy home made cake

Easy home made cake.
Plain flour - 2 cup or 240 grams.
Brown sugar - 2 cup or 200gram.
Egg - 3
Butter - 200gram (room temperature )
Spice powders : Nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon (1/2 teaspoon each).
Baking powder - 1 1/4 teaspoon
Baking soda- 1/2 teaspoon
Vanila essence-1 tablespoon

Apple and Cinnamon muffin a complete vegan recipe

Preheat oven to Gas-mark 4/180c

Grated apple - 1 

A. All purpose flour - 1 cup

Salt - A pinch

Baking powder - 1tbs

Cinnamon powder - 1 tbs

Coconut powder - 2 tbs

 B.

Sugar - 3/4 cup

Cleared butter - 1/4 cup

Water - 1/4 cup

Vanilla essence - 2 drops

Grease the muffin trays with butter. 

A. Stir together flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon powder. Keep this to one side

B. Beat sugar, butter and Vanilla essence, beat with water add the flour mixture one spoon at a time and mix well.

C. Add grated apple and fold well.

D. Transfer this to the muffin trays and bake for 20 to 25 mnts

B. Beat veg oil vanilla sugar and

Orange pudding steamed version

Orange pudding steamed version a photo by {deepapraveen very busy with work..back soon on Flickr.

1.Orange juice- 1 ½ cup
Sugar – 1 tbsp (depending on the sweetness of orange juice)
2.Orange one small
Sugar – 1 ½ tbsp.

3.Milk – 1 ½ cup
Cornflower – 1 ½ tbsp.
Custard powder – 1 ½ tbsp.
Vanilla essence – 1 ½ tbsp.
Sugar – ½ tbsp
Egg – 2

Preparation.

1.Allow orange juice to boil with sugar and keep this aside.

2.Caramelise orange with sugar and arrange this in the serving dish.

3.Combine cornflower and custard powder with ¼ cup of cold milk

4.Boil and cool this milk. Beat egg with sugar. Then add vanilla essence and pour milk slowly and beat well combine the prepared cold milk with this.

5.Mix this with the prepared orange juice mixture.

6.Take a deep pan with enough space to cover a metal rack and the dish. Place the metal rack or small kitchen motor (motor and pestle) inside the pan. Cover the dish with aluminium foil (really tight I use extra aluminium foils and place this dish on top of the motor and fill the pan with hot water till the edge of that motor). And cook this in low heat for 60 minutes to 90 minutes.


Serve hot or cold..:)

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Egg biriyani

Egg biriyani a photo by {deepapraveen very busy with work..back soon on Flickr.

Serves: 4

1.Hard boiled Egg halved– 6
2.Rice – 3 cup
Boiled water – 4 ½ cup
Ghee – 1 tbsp
Salt – ¼ tbsp
Cardamom – 2 crushed
Clove – 2 crushed
Bay leaf – 1
Jeera – ¼ tbsp


3.Onion sliced – 2
Oil – 4tsp
Jeera – ½ tbsp
Curd – 2 tsp
Cashew nuts and Raisins – 3tbsp.
Chilli powder – ½ tbsp.
Coriander powder – ½ tbsp.
Salt – ½ tbsp.
Green chilli – 3 sliced.
Mixed veg – 1 cup.
Crushed ginger and garlic – 1 tbsp.
Boiled water – ¼ cup ( or coconut milk optional I don’t use coconut milk often).

Lemon juice – half a lemon

Preparation :

Rice:

•Heat ghee in a heavy bottom pan then fry cardamom, clove, bay leaf and jeera for one minute.
•Then add basmati rice and fry in low flame for 3- 4 mints.
•The add boiled water and cook in high flame for 3 mints and reduce the flame and put lid and cook in low flame for further 10-12 mints.


Veg and Egg preparation.

•Heat oil in a pan and add cashew and fry for a minute then add raisins and remove this from heat.
•To this same oil add jeera and fry for one minute.
•Then add onion sliced with pinch of salt and fry for 6 mints then add green chillies and crushed ginger and garlic and fry for another 2-3 mints
•Remove this from heat and add powders (we do not want to burn the powders) and stir well and place this back on flame, then add vegetables. Place the eggs carefully with this gravy don’t over stir this
•Cook this in medium flame till the gravy is thick.
•Mix this with curd



Layering:

•In a serving dish make first layer with rice then gravy with 2 egg halves then sprinkle cashew and nuts, the cover this with another layer of rice. Repeat this process.
•Sprinkle lemon juice on top on this dish
•In a preheated oven bake this for 10 mints or microwave for 5 mints.
•Serve warm..:)

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Bread and Butter Pudding

Bread and Butter Pudding a photo by {deepapraveen very busy with work..back soon on Flickr.

Bread and Butter pudding.

1.White Bread( crust removed)- 6 slices.
Butter - 3 tsp.

2. Sugar - 1 tsp.
Almond and/or cashew - 3 tsp.

3. Egg- 1
Milk - 1 cup.
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp ( or according to your taste).
Cardamon powder and cinnamon powder- 1/4 tsp.
Custard powder- 1/2 tsp (optional)

4. Raisins or dry fruits- 3 tsp.

5.Sugar- 1tsp (optional).

Jam - 2 tsp (optional).

Method.

1.Fry almond and cashew in sugar in a non stick and once cashew is coated with sugar. Take this out of pan ( It will be a bit sticky) and powder this.

2. Apply butter to both sides of bread.

3. In the serving dish (if you are using oven, then oven proof dish) apply a little bit butter and spread half of the powdered mixture and give the dish few shakes.

3.Place 2 bread slices in this dish and spread one tsp fruit mixture. Repeat this process with remaining bread and fruit mixture.

4. Warm milk, please do not boil.( If you are using micro wave less than a minute).

5. Beat egg and Vanilla essence together with the powders. Then slowly add the milk and beat well.

6. Pour this over the bread pieces.

Baking method.

Steam.


1. You can cover this in aluminium foil. Then steam this. Pour 1/4 water in to a steamer and steam in high flame for 10 mnts then lower the flame and for another 10 mnts.Remove from heat and tet this remain in in the foil for another 10 mnts. You can serve this hot or cold.


Over Bake:

Spread that 1 tsp sugar on top of the pudding.

1.Pre-heat oven. Fill boiling water in a baking try(half) and place the pudding dish. Bake in 180 degree for 45 mnts.

2.Warm the jam in a non stick pan and spread this on top of the pudding and bake in gas mark 6 for further 10mnts( optional).

Serve warm.

Enjoy..

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Spicy Mushroom Loaf recipe

Spicy Mushroom Loaf recipe a photo by {deepapraveen very busy with work..back soon on Flickr.

Spicy mushroom stir fry= 1 cup
All purpose flour=1 1/2 cup
Egg=2
Baking powder=1 tsp
Unsalted butter=90g
Granulated white sugar=1/2 cup
Milk=little less than 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract-1/2tsp
Salt= 1/4 tsp

Method:
1.Preheat over in Gas mark 4 or 350 degreeF.
2.Mix together Flour,salt and baking powder.
3.In a bowl mix sugar and butter to get a soft fluffy mix.
4.Add egg one by one to this mixture and beat well
5.Add vanila extract beat again
6.Now in a low setting add flour 2,three spoons at a time with bit
milk, repeat the process until it is done.
7.Grease the botton of your loaf pan with butter and add bit flour on
this sides(this will prevent the bread from sticking to sides)
8.Pour half portion of the batter to the loaf pan.
9.spread the stir fried mushrooms in the middle and pour remaining
batter on top.
10.Bake for 40 minutes in Gas mark for and 30 minute in Gas mark 2 or
till the loaf is golden.

11. Remove from oven and let it cool. Enjoy the spicy loaf..

P.S I love a crispy outerside so I baked it like this- 40 mnt in Gas
mark 4 and 40 mnt in gas mark 2

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Easy banana cake...Home made- Method 1

Easy banana cake...Home made a photo by {deepapraveen very busy with work..back soon on Flickr.

Bananacake

Recipe:

Butter= 125gm
Caster sugar=150gm
vanilla extract= 1 tsp
Egg = 2 (or one egg and 50ml milk)
very ripe bananas= 2 (mashed)
Self raising flour= 190gm
Mixed spice powder(cardamom and cinnamon) 1/4 tsp

Optional= Roasted nuts

Method :
1.Preheat oven

2.Blend all the ingredients together other than roasted nuts.

3.Prefered method of blending, butter plus sugar then vanila and egg, then flour spoon by spoon then spice powder then roasted nuts.

4.Grease and line a 2lb loaf tin with butter first then bit flour and sugar this will give you than crunchy golden outer layer.

5.Bake at 150 C fan oven (or 170 C regular, Gas mark 3) for 30 mins, now in Gass mark 2 for further 20mnts or until a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool and enjoy!
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