Beetroot Curry

Beetroot Curry, is a wonderful south indian dry dish. This is really eye pleasing with the beautiful color from beetroot and full of health.This recipe is very simple and quite flavorful dish that fills the pallet with amazing flavors. Goes great with Rice and Sambhar. I hope you all will try this out.

Ingredients:

2 Cup Sliced Beetroot

½ tsp Chana Dal
½ tsp Mustard Seeds
½ tsp Turmeric Powder
1 tsp Oil

3-4 Curry Leaves

2 Sliced Green Chili

1 tsp Red Chili Powder

1 tsp Salt

1 tsp Coriander Powder

1 Small Onion Sliced

Process:

1)  In a pan, heat the oil on medium flame and once hot add in Mustard seeds and Chana dal. Once Chana dal turns lite brown. Then add in curry leaves and green chilies.

2) Then add in beetroot, salt, red chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and mix well.

3) Stir till beetroot turns a bit soft. turn off the gas stove and cover it for 10 minutes.

Enjoy!!

Potato Tots

Potato Tots, is one of my favorite tea time snack. These are blast of flavors with crispy and flaky crust. When i made them myself couldn't resist eating them and we wanted more and more. They are crunchy with the burst of flavors. I hope you will try them and let me know how you really liked them.

Ingredients:

1 Cup Boiled Mashed Potatoes/Cottage Cheese
1 Cup Raw Potatoes Grated 

1 tsp Red Chili Powder
2 tbsp Rice Flour/ All Purpose Flour
1/4 Cup Water
1 tsp chopped Green Chili
1 tsp Chaat Masala 

Oil for Deep Frying
1 tbsp Chopped Cilantro

Salt to taste

Process:

1)  In a Big Bowl add in mashed potatoes, green chili, salt, red chili powder, chaat masala, cilantro and mix well till combined. Partially boil grated Potatoes till they slightly soften and mix with above mixture.

2) Make rolls of tots shape and keep them aside. Take a bowl add in flour, water, salt and mix well.

3) Heat the Oil in large skillet on medium high heat to fry tots. 

4) Dip tots into flour batter and fry till they turns golden brown.

5) Enjoy cutlets with Chili Tomato Chutney.

Enjoy...

Chilli Garlic Chutney

Chilli Garlic Chutney, Here's the hot and sour Chutney with the spicy red chilli. Goes well with Spring Roll, Samosa or any type of Snacks/Starters.

Ingredients:

6-7 Whole Red Chilli
1/2 tsp Cumin Powder

1 tbsp Lime Juice
2-3 Garlic Cloves

1 tsp Salt

Process:

1) Soak Red Chilli's in half cup lukewarm water for about an hour. 

2) Put Garlic, Lime Juice, Cumin Powder, Salt, Red Chilli's in a Mixer and Grind the same with water from chilli's till the mixture become like a paste/Coarse as per required to acquire the consistency as desired.

3) Transfer that in a serving bowl...Enjoy!

Eggless Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Eggless Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache, was a surprise for my friend's birthday. He is very very special for me and this was the best occasion to treat him with this wonderful cake. This Cake is a basic eggless chocolate cake recipe. We can convert this into any kind of flavored cake as per the choice like Fruit or lime cake.

Ingredients:

Chocolate Ganache:

½ Cup Cream

½ Cup Chocolate

¼ tsp Salt

½ tsp Butter

Cake Batter:

1 cup of All Purpose Flour/ Maida

¼ Cocoa Powder

½ Cup Milk

½ Cup Sweetened Condensed Milk

2 tbsp Sugar

1 tsp of Baking Powder

½ tsp of Baking Soda

¼ tsp of Salt

½ Cup Butter

1 tsp of Vanilla Extract

                                                                                Process:

**Tools Used: Hand Mixer, Spatula, Whisk, Bowl, CakePan.

1) Preheat your oven to 350F. Grease your pan with butter and line the bottom with butter paper.

2) In a bowl sieve the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt and set aside.

3) In another bowl cream together the sweetened condensed milk and butter until become smooth and well combined ,then add sugar, milk, vanilla and mix well.

4) Add dry ingredients into wet ingredients till every thing gets incorporated.

5) Bake for 30-35 mins.. After cake baked, let that cool for 10-15 mins.

6) For Chocolate Ganache heat up the cream just before it starts boiling, add chocolate into the cream and let that rest for 5 mins. After 5 mins mix that well till all the chocolate well combined with the cream then add butter and salt into that and mix well. Now we are ready to glaze that on the top of our cake...and Enjoy!

                                                                             Tips:

1) Don't over mix the batter.

2) All ingredients should be at room temperature.

3) Salted butter can be used, then in that case avoid salt.