Favourite blog

one of my favourite web site that try recipes if from - "http://www.sashirecipes.com" ,, all her recipes taste good ,, I have tried following of them and they turned out to be yummy and the rest are yet to be tried

http://www.sashirecipes.com/chilli-prawns-chili-shrimp.html
http://www.sashirecipes.com/tomato-prawn-fry.html
http://www.sashirecipes.com/eggplant-masala-ricekatharikkai-masala-sadham.html
http://www.sashirecipes.com/banana-walnut-bread.html

found a new fav blog have already three recipes from www.spiceindiaonline
http://www.spiceindiaonline.com/white_bean_chicken_chili_0/
http://www.spiceindiaonline.com/oats_soup/
http://www.spiceindiaonline.com/basic-pizza-dough/

mint and coriander rice

Ingredients:
Basmathi Rice-1 cup uncooked
Ghee-1tbsp
Oil-1 tbsp

To tamper:
Cloves-3
Cinnamon-an inch stick
Bay leaf-1
Star anise-1
Shajeera / Jeera-1 tsp

To grind:
Mint leaves-1/2 bunch
Coriander leaves-1/2 cup
Onion chopped-1 cup
Ripe Tomato - 1 (opyional)
Ginger - 1 inch
Garlic - 4-5 cloves
Dry coriander seeds - 2 table spoons
Green chilli- 4
Salt - to taste


Method:
Rinse and soak basmathi rice in water for 15 minutes and cook with 2 cups of water. (for every cup of  rice add 1 spoon of salt , always add less salt because you can add later if u require) Set aside.
Grind the ingredients without adding water to a nice paste.
Heat oil and ghee in a pan and tamper with the above mentioned ingredients and add the ground paste. Simmer and cover. When the paste becomes thick and raw smell goes off(15 minutes approx, oil  should be seen as separated ), switch off the gas and mix the paste with rice. Serve with raitha and chips , for non - veg you can relish it with chicken gravy

eggless vanilla cake

i tried this following receipe and found it yumm and very light ,, but for those who love sugar you will need extra sugar than suggested . copy paste the following link for eggless yummy cake . I changed it a bit after the cake is done and cooled down i put chocolate syrup or nutella as a topping on the , as if calories werent enough ,, but still it tasted good

http://www.sharmispassions.com/2011/02/eggless-vanilla-sponge-cake-eggless.html

TEA MASALA

Ingredients and Method to make Chai Masala

25 whole green cardamoms (elaichi/ ellakkai)
2 (2 inch pieces) of cinnamon (Dalchini/ pattai)
1 tsp whole black pepper (Kala miri/ Milagu)
2 star anise (Anas phal)
5 whole cloves (laung)
1 tsp ginger powder

Break down cinnamon sticks with a mortar and pestle into smaller pieces.

Grind together all the ingredients mentioned above in a spice grinder until fine

Keep in an air tight container and use as required

I use this tea masala in  in my tea .

Yields about 7 heaped teaspoons of masala

Notes

You can easily double the quantity of spices to make more masala and store up for a little while.

p.s this i got from following blog - 

http://www.veginspirations.com/2009/01/tea-spice-powder-and-spiced-tea.html

Tried and tested mixes

Over the years, personally I tried variety of mixes and masalas, from super markets and found the following to be good :-
I will keep adding to the list as and when i remember

Mix
1) Parampara mix
Briyani masala
Tandoori chicken masala

2) Betty crocker  -
Chocolate mix
Brownie mix

Masalas -
Mount everst chicken masala
Anapurna chilli powder

CHINESE - I found ching's sceret to be really good
Schezwan stir fry sauce
Red chilli sauce










  

Home made brownies

An easy recipe for homemade chocolate fudge brownies. Rich, creamy and decadent, just the way homemade brownies should be.well its not healthy but if you use substitutes its much lighter.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/4 cups margarine/ butter (280g)
• 6 eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 2 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 cup cocoa powder
• 1 cups nuts (optional)
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2-3 tbl spn chocolate syrup

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Melt butter completely without any lump and add cocoa; mix. Stir in sugar and blend in the eggs 9beat the eggs until lightly fulfy) , one at a time. Add vanilla. Stir in flour and nuts; mix well.

Bake in greased 9 x 13-inch pan for 30 minutes in preheated oven. Let cool on rack, 20 to 30 minutes. Cut into 20 square pieces.

mint and coriander chuntey

This the easiest recipe and good for lots of other receipes, its like the base receipe. This can be made and stored in ur freezer  for a very long time and can defrosted and use it as when required

Ingredients -
Mint - 1 bunch
coriander - 1 bunch
ginger - 1 inch
Jeera - 1 table spoon
Chatmasala - 1 table spoon
Dry Mango powder - 1 Table spoon
Green chillies - 4-5 (as per your taste)
lemon - 1 whole (squeeze )
salt - to taste

Method -
Mix all the ingredients that are mentioned above and grind them to a smooth paste.
Be careful while adding salt because chat masala contains salt.
After its grounded to a smooth paste, store in a air tight container and freeze it immediately.
Take it out as when required and use it variuos receipes that i will be posting shortly