Eggless Chocolate Cake (Food Remake)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

I pinched myself for many times!! Is it a dream or real!Is it me who did this! 

Wait, Wait! I am not writing any suspense story. 

I baked an egg less cake and it came out real! It was spongy, it was moist, it was sweet, it was just perfect except the top crust. That was my mistake as I baked it on High temperature than mentioned.

After I brought OTG, I am not getting full time to concentrate on baking. But today I made it a point to bake a cake. But I am restricted to use Egg because of Shravana Month. So my hunting started to browse for egg less cake. As usual I landed into Sailu's world. You search anything related to food. There are few blogs where you will be directed and Sailu's  Sailu’s Kitchen is among one of those.

Ohh, she got many egg less baking recipes with her. As all of you know about my daughter's love for chocolate, I chose THIS one.

And I followed her recipe 99%, my 1% mistake was I baked it on 180degree C whereas she had mentioned to bake it on 150 degree C.

So the top crust was cracked. 

And best thing what I did was, I took little batter and put it in cup cake mold to bake. Check the click to see my wonderful baby cakes!!

My camera has some ego problem it seems! It never gives me proper flash or light when I need it. Its become difficult for me to take good photos. I don't want to buy new one now. I have to carry on with my this old friend only. I could not take nice photos of my big cake. (Please do not compare my click with her's when you visit her blog!)

I cut the top crust and took the photo. The taste was tooooo good and I never thought I can bake a cake like this.

Thanks Sailu for such a wonderful and easy recipe. I have also given the recipe with little extra tips.

Coming to the recipe:

Butter - 1/2 cup(at room temperature)

or 

Vegetable oil - 1/2 cup

Brown sugar - 2 tbsp(if you do not have, use normal sugar and let me know, I think it should not make much difference)

Water - 2/3 cup

Sweetened Condensed milk - 1 tin(400gm), I used Nestle

Maida or APF - 1 3/4 cup

Cocoa Powder - 1/4 cup

Baking Soda - 3/4 tsp(Use new one, the cake will not come out good if Baking soda and powder are old)

Baking Powder - 1 3/4 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Vanilla Essence - 2 tsp

1. Grease and dust an 8" baking pan of desired shape
2. Preheat over to 150degree C.
3. Sieve APF, baking powder, Baking soda, cocoa powder and salt at least 3 times and keep aside.(It helps the flour to get mixed properly and get aerated. 
4. Mix the sugar, butter, condensed milk and water with blender or beater.
5. Add the Vanilla essence and flour slowly in batches to this to get the batter of ribbon consistency.
6. Bake in preheated over for 40-45 minutes of till you get clean toothpick out of the cake when you insert it.
7. PLEASE FOLLOW THE RECIPE TO GET GOOD RESULT.
8. DO NOT OVER BEAT THE BATTER.
9. DO NOT KEEP THE BATTER OUTSIDE FOR LONG TIME ONCE IT IS READY.IT SHOULD GO DIRECTLY INTO THE PAN AND THEN INTO THE OVEN.

Wonderful cake is ready to serve. If you are lucky to get the ingredients to decorate the cake you can do it. I do not get whipped cream here, and I still have to learn to make it at home. Till then enjoy my cake without makeup!

Sending this to,

Priya's  Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday Event.

And  the  Bake Off event by  Champa of Versatile Kitchen
And this is going to
EFM - Cakes and Bakes Series! hosted by  Sri of  Me and My Kitchen .

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Sev Ladoo (ಸೇವಿನ ಉಂಡಿ)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita 

Hi All,

Naga Panchami is over. And I am late in posting my ladoo recipes. Sorry for that. But got little busy with other things also. But I am happy that I have many recipes for Ladoo to post which you are going to enjoy this whole month. Once in a week I will post one recipe for different ladoos.

My first Ladoo recipe is Sev Ladoo. This is usually done in Naga panchami. But I do remember those tiny Sev ladoos(smaller than a small lemon) we used to get in shops. One ladoo's cost was only  5 Paise!!!! 

In the house we make bigger size. These ladoos are my brother's favorite. 

Here is the recipe for Sev Ladoo.

The Sev is readily available in the market in sweet shops. But you should use salt less and plain Sev for that.

The sizes also vary. We usually prefer the thicker one. You can use the thinner one and smaller also.

Plain Sev - 250gm

For Jaggery syrup : 

Jaggery - same as Sev(Measure the sev in a cup, and take the same amount of jaggery)

Salt  - a pinch

Water -1/4 cup or less

Ghee - 1 tbsp

Other ingredients:

Dalia powder - 1/4 cup

Dry coconut - 1/4 cup, grated

Cardamom powder - 1 tsp

Take Sev in a big and wide plate. 

Add  dry coconut, cardamom powder and dalia powder to it. Mix it well and keep it ready.

To make Jaggery syrup is little tricky. You may not succeed the first time! I am making it since childhood and closing my eyes I can tell the correct consistency of syrup(hehe, boasting!!)

Practice makes you not perfect but brings you near perfection. 

So, don't worry as you will also get after trying 2-3 times, but if you know the trick before only, then I am happy.

Grate or powder the jaggery and transfer into a thick bottomed kadai or small cooker(which I used). Add  half of 1/4 cup water and keep it to boil with salt.

Till it boils and reached the above stage as in photo, keep one saucer or steel plate with little water ready.

(Look closely the saucer in the right click, you can see a tiny syrup ball)

Now take few drops of this syrup and put in the water. Wait for few SECONDS. Then touch the syrup in the water and check. If the syrup binds together to become a tiny ball, then the syrup is ready. Add ghee and remove it.

Now you should be quick:

Put this syrup to the Sev plate. Spread it slowly so that the Sev gets the syrup evenly. 

Now take a small quantity and make balls by mildly pressing with both the palms to give proper ball shape and bind the Sev properly.

Repeat with other Sev. This will make around 20 ladoos.

Keep it to cool for sometime. Store it in a jar or box.

Sending this to 

Nithu's event Event Announcement :Celebrate Sweets - Ladoo 

which is started by Me.

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Spicy baby potatoes with sesame seeds(Food remake)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

When I browse My Diverse Kitchen. I get fascinated with her baking ideas and recipes. She got wonderful collections. But I am still a baby when it comes to baking. May be in another one year or two, I will reach the stage where I can bake without thinking. I have bookmarked her blog itself for baking :-)

But, for now, I am trying only simpler recipes but these are the food I never tried. Here is one of those tasty recipes, which we all enjoyed.

Click Spiced Baby Potatoes with Sesame Seeds for the recipe.

Sending this to 

Srivalli's Announcing Tried & Tasted Event!

Linking it  back to Aparna's post and T&T event and Lakshmi's post. 

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Spiced Chilly powder(ಮಸಾಲಿ ಖಾರಾ)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

As everyone knows, North Karnataka people love to have very spicy food. We keep searching for the ways to make our food really spicy and tasty at the same time.

This chilly powder is among those ways to get the proper North Karnataka taste.This is a very basic powder which is kept in every home. You can store it for a year also.

I love to have this with oil and one day old rotti with raw onion!!!

But the fact is it takes lot of time to prepare it. You need patience to fry all the things, grind it and mix it with the chilly powder.

Usually we take more than 1 Kilo Red chilly powder to make as it is easy to prepare for more quantity and we can store also for more time. My mom makes for her sisters also and give them.

But here I made only for 250 gm of chilly powder. Giving the recipe for the same.

                                       

                               

STEP 1 :
Red dry chilly powder - 250 gm
Salt to taste - about 1/2 cup
STEP 2 :
KEEP READY:

Garlic - 30 cloves(the normal Indian one), peeled

Ginger- 50 gm, cleaned and chopped

Fresh Coriander - 2 big bunch, Cleaned, washed and chopped(Not in the photo)
STEP 3 :

For frying :

Oil - 2 tbsp

Onion - 12 to 15 medium, cleaned, chopped

Dry Coriander seeds - 1 cup

Cumin seeds - 1/8 cup

Maratha Moggu - 15 to 20
Black cardamom - 1 big
Star anise(chakra phool)- 1 
Shahi jeera - 2 tsp

Curry leaves - 2 cups
Use thick bottomed vessel or kadai to fry the onions in 2 tbsp oil till golden brown, take care not to burn the onions.
Transfer the onions in a plate or bowl. 
In the same kadai, fry all other dry masala till you get nice aroma.
Fry the curry leaves also.
Keep aside till cool.
STEP 4:
Take onion, garlic, ginger and fresh coriander in a blender or grinder and make a fine paste.
Keep it aside.
STEP 5 :
Take all the dry masalas and make into a fine powder with dry grinder or any other tool in your kitchen.
STEP 6 :
Mix both the dry and wet ingredients in a big plate. Add half of the salt.
STEP 7:
Go on adding the chilli powder slowly to the mix. 
After half powder is added again check the salt taste. Adjust according to the taste. Keep in mind that  still half the chilly powder is there to add.
STEP 8 :
Once the chilly powder is over, mix everything properly so that everything blends well to get even taste.
Keep it out for sometime before storing in a glass or plastic jar. (Avoid steel boxes as there is a chance for chilly powder to get spoiled)

Use it for korma, dal, curry or best for Non Vegetarian food.

Sending this to the event Announcing Back To Basics  

by aqua of Served with love 

 which was started by Jaya.

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What I want from New technology(post for Indiblogger contest)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

When Indi Blogger announced "MY DEMAND" contest, first thing came into my mind was food!!

You might think its a crazy idea but I want a technology

Which allows us to taste a piece of food shown in video on YouTube or any other source. 

But then I really thought for some time, some thing which really can help us.

The second idea came to my mind was:

If we scan the photo of any person and feed it to the server, the technology should find out that person's whereabout. 
It is very helpful to trace the soldiers who are missing for long time and easy to trace the terrorists  place also. 
Please click the link to vote for me(if you like my ideas)


http://www.indiblogger.in/indipost.php?post=31257 

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DETAILS OF THE EVENT "CELEBRATE SWEETS"

Tried and tasted by Nivedita

Hi All,

Its a long time pending job which was very essential to promote the event started by me. I am happy that my friends are ready to host it and continue the series. Thank you every one for the support, all who are ready to host the event and each one who is interested in participating in the event.

And a special thanks to Priya Yallapantula of  "Mharo Rajasthan's Recipes - Rajasthan A State in Western India" who helped me to draft this post.           

Ground rules for the event

• Post the recipe in your blog from ......
• Send it to my email id nivedita.mt@gmail.com with "CELEBRATE SWEETS~         " as a subject.

• You can send as many entries as you wish.
• For archived posts,
• o If the recipe is posted within two months, just update the post and link back to my event.
• o If the recipe is posted earlier, please update, repost and link bank it to my event.

• Placing the logo will be highly appreciated as it will be easy to spread the news about this event.
• Non bloggers can send their entries to my email.

Below is a list of past and future hosts.

I know its not visible here, please click above to read. (I could not make it better to fit in this to be visible)

If you are interested in hosting the event for a future month (which is still not booked and in the future too), please feel free to email me @ nivedita.mt@gmail.com with the month and sweet you will be interested in.

(Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm - Sir Winston Churchill)

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I clicked TOSHA (Sweet Flour Rolls) for COOK and CLICK-3,

Tried and tasted by Nivedita 

Hi All,

Here are the clicks for Tosha(Sweet Flour Rolls) which I prepared today and were not seen in the box after little while!!!

I used half the quantity only and I got 25 Toshas of small bites.  Click TOSHA (Sweet Flour Rolls) for COOK and CLICK-3 for the recipe.

                               

My verdict : I prepared these Toshas after 12 years. The taste was very good. Toshas very soft and sweet and crispy from outside.

Follow the recipe, and give time for syrup to get thick consistency.  Best and quick sweet for everyone for all the occasions.

Try it  to believe it.

This is for my event  

TOSHA (Sweet Flour Rolls) for COOK and CLICK-3

And 

Aparna's 

Announcing Sugar High Friday#69

 (and linking it to   Jennifer’s SHF page)

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Microwave Easy Cooking - FRUITS, Event Announcement

Tried and tasted by Nivedita 

Hi All,

When Valli mailed me to check whether I can host her MEC event for this month, I was happy. Few months back , she had given me the chance to host it. But I was not so much confident to handle any event. Now I am!(Am I? you all should tell me!) 

Thank you Srivalli for giving me a chance to host this event. 

I had few options in my mind for the theme. Finally, I chose FRUITS.

I love the color, the texture, shape and everything about  the fruits. Not to forget at all about the nutrition and the energy!(I am eating Banana while writing this).Nature is so kind for gifting fruits to us.

Are you ready to try new dishes with fruits cooked in Microwave?

As this event is in blog world since 2 years, all our old friends know the rules. But here are the rules again for newbies and for me!

1. Cook any Vegetarian/ Non vegetarian food with FRUIT as a main ingredient  in the MICROWAVE  and post it in this month in your blog.
2. Please note that the cooking process has to be done fully in the MICROWAVE. You can use blenders / food processors but NO use of other measures  to cook.
3. Make a link back to this announcement and Srivalli MEC announcement page. 
4. Use of  logo is mandatory, as it is easier to spread about the event.
5. Multiple entries are allowed.
6. Recipes from archives can be accepted ONLY if updated as current posts.
7. Recipes submitted to other events are also permitted.
8. Non bloggers are always welcome.
9. The deadline is September 30, 2010
10. Once the posting is done, mail the following details to nivedita.mt@gmail.com with the subject  MEC-FRUITS

• Your name :
• Blog name :
• Name of the recipe :
• URL of the recipe :
• Name of the fruit used :
• A picture of your creation. :

Be creative and try new dishes with fruits and bake, cook, steam or anything but ONLY IN MICROWAVE.

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M/W Paneer Matar in Coconut milk (No Onion, No Garlic)

Tried and tasted by Nivedita 

Hi All,

Paneer is my all time favorite and I keep trying different recipes with it.

This one is in microwave and I thought of not using Onion and Garlic and give it a try. I was not sure about the taste. But it came out really tasty.

Recipe :

Paneer - 200 gm (I took ready Paneer from the stores), cut in to desired shape, I like the long strips

Shelled peas - 50 gm (you can use frozen also)

Tomato - 1 big, grated to get the juice or puree

Ginger - 1/2", cleaned and crushed

Oil - 1 tsp

Bay leaf - 1

Cardamom - 1

Clove - 1

Cinnamon - 1 small piece

Salt to taste

Red chilly powder - 1 tsp

Fresh cream - 1 tbsp

Coconut powder - 2 tbsp

Water - 1/2 cup

Mix the coconut powder in water to get thick milk. Adjust according to the liquid. If it becomes thick add some more water and if its watery add some more powder.

• Heat oil in M/W Safe bowl on HIGH for 1 minute
• Add the whole garam masala and again heat HIGH for 30 seconds
• Now add crushed ginger and again heat on HIGH for 30 seconds
• Add tomato puree, mix well and cook on HIGH for 2 minutes. Stirring in between after 1 minute.
• Add Salt, red chilly powder and peas.
• Cook on HIGH for a minute.
• Add coconut milk, Paneer and little water.
• Mix well and COOK on HIGH for  3 to 5 minutes stirring in between. Please check the timing as each M/W has different settings. Mine is 800 as HIGH.
• Add Fresh cream, mix well.
• Allow to stand for few minutes.

Paneer Matar is ready to serve.

Sending this to 

Srivalli's 

Microwave Easy Cooking event and POTLUCK party

Jay's Letz Relishh…!!! Event Announcement & Paneer C...

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