Beetroot Chocolate Bundt Cake

Beetroot Chocolate Bundt Cake
Made this specially for my daughter who loves beetroot cake...
Ingredients
2 1/2 cup All purpose flour
1/2 cup Chocolate chopped
1 cup Butter 
1 cup Brown Sugar
2 Eggs
2 cups Beetroot puree
1tsp Vanilla essence
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Soda bicarbonate
Powder Sugar for Dusting

Method
Melt the chocolate and 1/4 cup butter in a microwave, stir it. Let it cool a bit. In a large bowl, add the remaining butter and brown sugar, beat it until light and fluffy, add the eggs one at a time and beat it. Now combine the chocolate mixture, beetroot puree and vanilla essence in to the beaten batter. Gradually combine the flour, soda bicarbonate  and  baking powder in to the batter and beat it. Pour the batter into the greased  baking bundt tin.  Bake at 180 degrees celcius for 50 to 55 minutes in a pre heated oven or until a toothpick is inserted in the cake comes out clean. Cool it.  Before serving, dust with powder sugar.

Bedmi Puri Aur Aloo ki Sabji

Bedmi Puri Aur Aloo ki Sabji
Bedmi puri is a popular breakfast from the North. Bedmi poori is made from grounded urad dal or moong dal combined with spices and mixed with wheat flour. There are two ways to make this puri, one method is to mix the spices with dal and flour together and knead it. The other method it to make a dry mixture of dal and spices and stuff it in the dough just like making a kachori.

For Bedmi Puri
Ingredients
3 cups Wheat Flour
1/2 cup Samolina
1 cup Moong dal or Urid dal
1 tsp Ginger paste
1/2 tsp Chilli paste
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Red Chilli powder
1/2 tsp Fennel powder
1/2 tsp Coriander powder
1/4 tsp Asafoetida
1/2 tsp Dry Mango Powder
2 tbsp Oil
Oil to fry

Method
Soak the moong or urad dal in the water for 2 hours. Drain the water out and put the dal into the mixer to make a coarse paste. Add salt, coriander powder, red chilli powder, ginger, chilli paste, dry mango powder, asafoetida, fennel powder into the paste. In a bowl take flour, semolina and 2 tbsp oil. Mix the flour, add the dal paste. Knead it, add lukewarm water little at a time. Knead it and make a semi soft dough. Cover the dough and leave it for half an hour. Knead the dough again. Heat oil in a wok. Make small balls of the dough and roll it into flat disc. Put the puris into the oil and fry until it turns brown. Serve it with Aloo ki Sabzi recipe.

For Aloo ki Sabzi
Ingredients
5 Potatoes Boiled
2 medium sized Tomatoes puree
1 tbsp Ginger grated
1 tsp Cumin seeds
1 tsp Coriander powder
1 tsp Cumin powder
2 tsp Chilli powder
2 Dry Red Chillies
1 tsp Turmeric powder
Salt to taste
2 tbsp mustard oil

Method
Roughly mash the potatoes into big pieces. In a pan, heat mustard oil,  add  dried red chillies, asafoetida and cumin seeds. Add tomato puree and ginger paste and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Add cumin powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and salt. Cook for another 5 minutes or until oil leaves the sides of the pan. Add potatoes and mix well with the spices. Add 3 to 4 cups of water, stir it. Boil the sabzi till it is thick in consistency. Serve hot with the bedmi puris.

Noodles with Spinach, Eggplant and Sprouts....

Noodles with Spinach, Eggplant and Sprouts....
Ingredients
3 Packets of Hakka Noodles
1 cup of Eggplant cut into thick medium strips
1/4 cup of Spinach chopped
1/2 cup of Red Capsicum cut into long strips
1 Onion sliced
1 tbsp Garlic chopped
1 tbsp sliced Red Pickled Chilli
1/4 cup of Moong sprouts
2 tbsp of Rice Wine Vinegar
2 tbsp of Worcestershire sauce
3 tbsp of Hot Basil Sauce  
1/2 tbsp Grated Jaggary
Salt to taste
3 tbsp Sesame Oil

Method
Boil the noodles according to the instruction on the packet. While draining the water from the noodles, retain 1/2 cup water from it. Take the water in a bowl, add salt, Jaggary, rice wine vinegar, worcestershire sauce 1 tbsp oil and hot basil sauce. Mix it and keep it aside. Take a wok, add 1 tbsp oil, heat it and fry the eggplant till brown, take it out and keep it aside. In the same wok add 1 tbsp oil again. Let the oil heat, add garlic and onion, fry on high flame till translucent. Add the capsicum, spinach, pickled chillies, sprouts and eggplant. Stir fry till 2 minutes, add the noodles and pour the sauce on the noodles. Stir fry on high flame till the sauce and noodles have incoperated well. Serve hot.

Fluffy Cheesy Potato Casserole

Fluffy Cheesy Potato Casserole

Ingredients

6 Eggs

2 Big Potatoes peeled and grated

1/2 Red Capsicum thinly sliced

4 Garlic cloves minced

2 Green Chillies minced

2 tbsp Parsley chopped

1/2 tbsp Chives chopped 

1/4 cup Cheddar + Mozzarella grated

1/4 cup Milk

1/4 cup Whole Wheat Flour

 Salt to taste

1/2 tsp Pepper  powder

1/2 tsp All Spice powder

2 tsp Butter

Method

Put the grated potato in salt water and par boil it. Drain the water from the potato and keep it aside. Take the eggs and separate the yolks from the White. Beat the yolk, add salt, pepper powder, all spice powder and milk, whisk it. Add the flour, cheese, butter, potatoes, capsicum, parsley, chillies and garlic. Mix the batter well. Take a glass baking bowl. Pour the batter and bake at 200 degrees celcius for 10 minutes in a pre heated oven. Take the bowl out of the oven and stir the egg batter once, put it bake in the oven and bake it for 20 minutes more. Mean while the eggs are baking, take the egg whites, add salt and 1/4 tsp pepper powder. Beat the egg whites till stiff.

After the baking time is over, take the bowl  out and with the help of a tbsp, drop the egg whites on the baked egg, put the bowl back in the oven and bake for 10 minutes more till the eggs whites are cooked and brown from top. Sprinkle chopped chives from top. Serve it with toast or sautéed mix vegetables...

Chingri Mach diye Kalmi Saag / Water Spinach Fried with Prawns

Chingri Mach diye Kalmi Saag / Water Spinach Fried with Prawns

Ingredients
1 small bowl medium size Prawns
1 bunch Kalmi Saag chopped
6 Garlic Cloves minced
2 Green Chillies slit
1 Onion chopped
1 Tomato chopped
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
2 tbsp Oil

Method
Take a wok, add oil. Heat it. Add garlic, chillies and onion. Sauté it for few minutes. Add the Kalmi saag, tomato, salt, turmeric and prawns. Stir fry and cook till the water from the Kalmi saag dries up. Serve it with hot rice.