KUGAN'S KITCHEN PART 3

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EGGLESS MANGO CAKE

Ingredients:
2 cups of self raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda.

½ cup yogurt
½ cup milk powder
½ cup warm water
½ cup corn oil, or sun flower oil
1 cup fine sugar
1 cup diced fresh sweet mango
1 tsp mango essence
A tinge of yellow colour

Method:
Preheat oven to 175 degrees C.
Grease a loaf pan and line the bottom with a greased paper.

Sieve the flour baking soda and the baking powder 3 times.

Place all the other ingredients in a blender .
Blend until smooth and pour it into a bowl.
Fold the flour mixture into the mango puree.
See that there are no lumps.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan.

Bake in the preheated oven for about 45 minutes,
or until a toothpick inserted into the centre of the loaf
comes out clean. Cool and serve.

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Kashmiri Pulav
½ kg biryani rice ----- soak for ½ an hour
50 grms ghee
6 cardmons
6 one inch cinnamon sticks
6 cloves
3 bay leaves
½ tsp jeera
½ tsp salt
Method;
Heat the rice cooker,add the ghee and all the spices. When they splutter,add the drained
Rice and fry till the water evaporates from the rice.
The rice should not change colour.
Add water to the proporation of 1—2, add salt and cook the rice.
Note: You can cook in ordinary pot also,by the absorbtion method.
Vegetable Masala
200 grms beans---- slit the beans into 4, and cut into 1.5 “ strips.
200 grms carrot------ cut into 1.5” strips
200 grms cauliflower----- cut into small florets.
200 grms bell pepper------ cut into small squares.
1 big onion------chop into small pieces.
3 red chillies----- slit and cut into 1.5” strips.
1 inch long ginger------ slice into 1.5” strips.
50 grms ghee.
2 tsp coriander powder.
2 tsp garam masala powder.
¼ tsp jeera.
Salt to taste
Method:
Heat the wok, add the ghee, when it’s hot add the chopped onion, ginger, and bell pepper.
Stir till the onions are limp and the bell pepper is a little brown here and there.
Add in the vegetables, the red chillies, coriander powder, garam masala powder,
And salt to taste. The vegetables should not be over cooked. Dish out
Garnishing.:
10 split almonds fried in ghee
10 cashew nuts fried in ghee
10 rasins fried in ghee
5 seedless red grapes sliced into halves
½ cup pineapple cubes.
Final Mix:
Take a large pot, and lay rice and vegetable masala on alternate layers. Then take 2 long spoons and carefully and slowly mix the rice and vegetables.Then garnish with fresh fruits, and nuts.

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K, manga cake looks so sofy & yum... should chk out if I can get fresh mangoes... kidaichaal NYku seyalaamnu irukken... self raising flourku badhila if I use maida, should I add more baking pwd/soda?

Dev, just use extra 1 tsp of baking powder.
Choose sweet mango.
The mango plup will make your cake soft.
Happy trying.
Kugan98.

Ok Kugan... mango kidaichaal seiyuren...illana mango seasonla senjiduren... ippodhaiku I'll try the same recipe with banana if I don't get mango...

Just like banana cake, the fruit pulp makes the cake softa...ok ok... Condensed milk use panni senja cake epdi irundichu?...

Kashmiri pulavum senju paarkanum... hmmm... so many recipes to try...thalaiyay suththudhu... :wink:

A sweet for New Year.
Simple kesari, it will be soft.
Ops! I added a little bit more of the colour.


VERMICELLI KESARI

Ingredients:
1 cup vermicelli roasted in 1 tsp of ghee
1 cup sugar
2 tbs ghee
1 cups of water
tsp cardamom powder
5 cashew nuts roasted in ghee
5 raisins roasted in ghee
A pinch of kesari colour

Method:
In a thick bottomed vessel put the water to boil.
When it starts boiling add the fried vermicelli and
Cook till soft and the water absorbed
Add sugar and mix well.
Add the kesari powder and stir well.
Keep the flame low and when it is fully cooked, (soft )
Add the remaining ghee, nuts, raisins and cardamom powder.
Stir thoroughly and transfer it to a greased tray.

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DRIED CHINA GRASS

This is a disappering sweet

Ingredients:
30 grms china grass or agar2
600 grms sugar
150 grms rock sugar
Little rose essence
Colours
Water about 800 ml

Method:
Soak the china grass for half an hour.
Boil the agar2 with water, till it is dissolved.
Add both the sugars and boil again.
Add in the essence.
The consistency would be a little thick.
You can use one colour, or divide the mixture
Into two parts and use 2 colours
Let it set, and you can cut into any shape you like.
You cover the tray with a thin muslin cloth
And dry it in the sun for about 4 days.
Daily you must turn the pieces, so that it dries in all the places.
You can see white sugar,coming like snow on the pieces.
When they are fully dried you can store them in a container.
This is a Malay item,made for weddings and festivals.


BEFORE DRYING:

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K, unga kitta bread gulab jamun recipe irundhaal post pannunga pls...

kugan,
nice vermicelli kesari and dried china grass. both the receipes sounds too good. tell me kugan what is rock sugar. i have to hunt for it.

let me try it for new year party.

selvi

Selviem, do try them when you have the time.
Rock sugar is nothing, but our kalkandu.
The jelly will be very nice to eat.
Thanks. Kugan98