Sunday, January 18, 2009

Prawn Curry

Ingredients:
Prawn - 500 gm
Potatoes- 2 cut lengthwise
Green peas- 1/2 cup
Onions -2
Ginger paste-1 tsp
Chilli powder-1 tsp
Turmeric powder-1 tsp
Tomato-1
Oil- to cover the pan
Bay leaves-1,
Garam masala powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt according to taste

-Peel, clean and wash the prawns
-Apply salt and turmeric and fry
-Remove from pan, fry potatoes and keep aside.
-Fry the bay leaf with onion, ginger and garlic paste and fry. Mix turmeric and chili powder in little water and add in the pan.
-Add tomato pieces and fry
-Add potatoes, peas, prawns, salt and water and cover the pan. Let it simmer until the gravy thickens.
-Add garam masala powder and remove from heat.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Chocolate Cake



This recipe is dedicated to all the chocoholics around. Well, baked this yesterday for a lunch party at Meenu's. Meenu added her own special touch and we (Prati, Gowri, Meenu and I) had chocolate cake topped with vanilla ice cream topped with Hershey's chocolate sauce topped with choco chips. Yummilicious. Here goes:

Ingredients:

Maida - 2 cups
Cocoa Powder - 3 tbsp
Sugar - 1 cup
Eggs - 3
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Melted chocolate - 1 bar
Butter - 100 gm
Oil - 50 ml
Water - 150 ml
Chopped Walnuts if you like the nutty crunch
Orange essence since I did not have vanilla essence

-Mix all ingredient in a mixer till it forms a ribbon like consistency
-Grease a baking bowl with oil/butter and sprinkle some flour
-Pour the cake mix to the baking bowl
-Set the oven temperature to around 180 degree Celsius and bake for around 35 minutes

Friday, January 2, 2009

Eggless Coffee Cake

Today, I decided to bake an eggless cake for dessert for some vegan friends of mine who are visiting. I haven’t tasted it yet but thought I will share it with you folks as it is pretty simple.



Ingredients:

Sugar – 1 and half cup
Flour - 2 cups
Vegetable Oil – ½ cup
Cinnamon powder– 2 tsp
Coffee powder – 2 tbsp
Baking soda – 1 tsp
Baking powder – ½ tsp
Milk – 1 cup
Vanilla Essence – 1 tsp
Chopped walnuts - 1/2 cup

-Mix all ingredients in a mixer
-Grease a baking bowl with butter or oil and sprinkle some flour on it
-Pour the cake mix to the baking bowl and place in the oven
-Set the oven temperature to around 180 degree Celsius and bake for around 30-35 minutes
-Wait till it cools and then cut into slices