Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Vanilla Blueberry Cake

Ingredients:

Maida (All time flour)-  1 cup
Powdered Sugar      -  1 cup
Milk                         -  1 cup
(Cooking oil+           -  1 cup
Ghee)
Baking Powder         -  1/2 tea spoon
Soda-Bi-Carb.         -  1/2 tea spoon
Blueberries               -  8 - 10 nos
Vanilla essence          -  4 drops

1.  Mix maida, powdered sugar, soda-bi-carb., and baking powder.
2.  Take them in a mixer and add the cooking oil, ghee and run the mixture for 2 - 3 mins.
3.  Now add milk and vanilla essence and run the mixer till the whole mixture becomes to a smooth paste.
4.  Cut the blueberries into small pieces, add it to the mixture for just 1 second.
5.  Grease the microwave proof bowl, pour the mixture and microwave for 6 - 7 mins.
6.  Vanilla blueberry cake ready.  Allow it to cool.  Turn it to a plate and serve.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Pineapple Juice

Ingredients:

Sugar                    -  750 gms
Lemon Salt           -  1 1/2 table spoons
Pineapple essence -  1 tea spoon
Yellow food colour-  1 tea spoon

1.  Take 1/2 litre of water in a thick bottomed vessel and add 750 gms of sugar.
2.  Allow it to boil, add the lemon salt to it.
3.  Just allow it to boil for 2 mins, remove from stove and allow it to cool to room temperature.
4.  Take 2 table spoons of the syrup in a small bowl, add the pineapple essence and yellow colour to it and mix thoroughly.
5.  Add the mixture to the syrup and mix well and store in air tight bottle.
6.  While making the juice take 4 table spoons of the syrup and add a glass full of chilled water and mix well.
7.  Serve yummy pineapple juice.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Mango Lassi

Ingredients:


Ripe Mango            -  1 cup
Fresh Curd             -  1 cup
Sugar                      -  2 table spoons
Salt                         -  1 pinch












1.  Take the mangoes in a mixer and make it into a paste.
2.  Add sugar, salt and curd to the mango paste and further blend the mixer.
3.  Add chilled water if necessary and pour it to the glass and serve.
4.  Its healthy and tasty.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Orange Cake

Ingredients:

Maida (All time flour)-  1 cup
Sugar                        -  1 cup
Milk                          -  1 cup
Honey                       -  1 table spoon
Cooking oil                -  1/2 cup
Ghee                         -  1/2 cup
Orange essence         -  1 tea spoon
Orange colour           -  1/4 tea spoon
Tutty fruity                 -  2 table spoons
Raisins                       -  2 table spoons
Baking salt                 -  1/2 tea spoon
Soda-bi-carb.            -  1/4 tea spoon

1.  Take the sugar in a mixer and make it into soft powder.
2.  Add maida, baking salt and soda-bi-carb.  and mix it for 1/2 min.
3.  Now add the cooking oil and ghee to the mixture and run the mixer again for another 1 min.
4.  Add milk, orange colour and orange flavour to the mixture and run the mixture for another 2 mins till the whole mixture become thick batter.
5.  Grease a microwave dish with oil and pour the cake mixture to it and add the tutty fruity and raisins to it and microwave the mixture for 6 - 7 mins.
6.  Poke the cake with a thin knife and if the batter does not stick to the knife then the cake it done.
7.  Allow it to cool and turn it upside down on a plate and gently pat the bottom of the cake dish and it will slide to the plate.
8.  Serve with tea or coffee.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Fanta


Ingredients:

Sugar                      -  750 gms
Lemon Salt             -  2 Tea Spoon
Orange Essence      -  2 Tea spoons (20 ml)
Orange colour         -  1/4 Tea spoon

1.  Take 500 ml of water in a thick bottomed vessel and add sugar to it.
2.  Also add the lemon salt to it and allow it to boil till the sugar melts and mixes well.
3.  Remove from stove and allow it to cool to room temperature.
4.  Add the orange essence and orange colour and store in air tight bottle.
5.  While making the juice take 1/4 glass of syrup and fill the glass with chilled water and mix well.
6.  Serve chilled with snacks.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Rose Milk

Concentrate
Ingredients:

Sugar                         -  500 gms
Water                        -  250 ml
Rose essence             -  1 tea spoon
Raspberry colour       -  1/4 tea spoon
Citric powder            -  1/4 tea spoon


1.  Take sugar and water in a thick bottomed vessel and bring it to boil.
2.  Add the citric powder to it and boil for a few mins.
3.  Remove from stove and allow it to cool and bring it to room temperature.
4.  Now take the rose essence and raspberry colour in a bowl and add 4 table spoons of the sugar syrup to it.
5.  Mix thoroughly and then add the same to the whole sugar syrup.
6.  Store it in a dry air tight bottle.
7.  While preparing the rose milk take 1/3rd glass of this rose syrup and 3/4 glass of chilled milk.
8.  Shake well and serve.
9.  It can also be served with water instead of milk.

Monday, November 22, 2010

Nut Cake

Ingredients:

Maida (all time flour)  -  1 cup
Sugar                         -  1 cup
Ghee                          -  1 cup
Milk                           -  1 cup
Almond & Pista          -  1 cup(ground into coarse powder)
Baking salt                  -  1/4 tea spoon
Soda - Bi - Carb.        -  1/4 tea spoon

1.  Take the sugar in the mixie jar and grind it to powder.
2.  Add ghee and run the mixer till it becomes frothy.
3.  Now add maida, baking salt and soda-bi-carb.  and run the mixer.
4.  Add milk little by little and run the mixer till it comes to thick pouring consistency.
5.  Now add the ground nuts and run the mixer.
6.  Grease the cake bowl and pour the cake mixer into the bowl.
7.  Keep it in micro wave high for 6 mins.
8.  To check whether the cake is done just poke it with a knife.  If the batter does not stick to the knife then the cake is done.  If not micro wave for another 2 mins.
9. Once the cake is done wait for it to cool down before taking it from the bowl.