Moist Chocolate cupcakes

•  1 cup flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 6 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 tsp salt
• Powder the sugar for one minute.
• Sieve the flour, coca powder and salt.
• Add them to a large mixing bowl.
• Mix them well and keep it aside.

• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• In a bowl mix the egg , oil, milk and vanilla essence.
• Whisk together until well combined.
• Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients.
• Mix well.

• Add the water into it.  And mix well.

• Preheat the oven for 175C for 10 minutes.

• Prepare the cupcake pan with cupcake liners.

• Fill the cupcake liners using ice cream scoop about half the liners.

• Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

• Remove the cupcake from the oven.

Enjoy Baking 

S

Recipe Source: https://www.lifeloveandsugar.com/homemade-moist-chocolate-cupcakes/

Quick Prawn Biryan

•  1 onion
• 1 tomato
• 2 tbsp oil +2 tbsp ghee
• 1 small piece cinnamon
• 1 bay leaves
• 3 cloves.
• Heat oil and ghee in a pot.
• Add cinnamon, bay leaves and clove.
• Add sliced onion into it. 
• Once the onions turn transparent and soft , add tomato.
• Cook in slow flame until it becomes very soft.

• 1 small ginger
• 6 garlic clove
• 5 green chillies
• 2 small onion
• 2 tbsp curd
• Grind the ginger, garlic, green chillies and small onions together.
• Add into pot and fry for few minutes.
• Add the curd.
• Cook for few minutes.

• Strings of curry leaves
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 1 tsp jeera powder
• 1 tsp garam masala
• Add coriander, jeera and garam masala powder.
• Saute it for few minutes
• Add the curry leaves.

• 9 to 10 leftover fried prawns (over marinate prawns with chilly paste with a tbsp oil, air fry it )
• Cut the prawns into small pieces.
• Add 1/2 cup water.
• Let it cook in small flame for few minutes.

• 2 glass of jeerkasala rice
• 4 glass of boiled water
• 2 tbsp ghee
• Add boiled water into it.
• Add the washed rice into it 
•  Add salt to taste.
• Add the ghee.
• Cook in slow flame.
• Once the water is absorbed, turn the flame off.
• Cover a banana leaf or foil on top  and leave it for sometime before serving.
• Serve with raita and papad.

Enjoy Cooking

S

Aloo Palak Gravy

•  2 potatoes 
• Clean and cut the potatoes.
• Cook and drain the water out.
• Keep it aside.

• 1 bunch of spinach
• Soak the spinach in vinegar water before washing.
• Boil water and then add the spinach. 
• Boil of 2 minutes.
• Transfer the the leaves into cold water and keep in it for few minutes(This process is called blanching)
• Strain the spinach and keep it aside.

• 5 garlic cloves
• 1 small piece ginger
• 5 cashew nuts
• 3 green chillies
• Grind the spinach with garlic, ginger, green chillies and cashew into a smooth puree.

• 1 tbsp oil
• 1 small cinnamon stick
• 1 bay leaves
• 1 medium onion chopped
• Heat oil.
• Add cinnamon, bay leave.
• Add onion and cook until it turns soft golden brown.
• Add the boiled potatoes cut into small pieces.
• Now add the spinach puree with 1/2 cup of water.

• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 2 tsp coriander powder
• 1 tsp jeera powder
• Add turmeric ,coriander and jeera powder into it.
• Cover and cook for few minutes.

• 1 tbsp kastori methi
• 1 tsp garam masala
• Add the crushed katori methi and garam masala.
• Salt to taste
• Cover and cook for few minutes.

Serve hot with roti.

Enjoy Cooking

S

Kadla Masala Curry

•  1 cup brown chana
• Soak chana overnight.

• 1 small onion
• 1 small tomato
• 1 tsp coconut oil
• salt.
• Wash the chana.
• In a insta pot or cooker add the chana, onion, tomato, oil and salt.
• Cook for 5 whistles of a cooker.
• keep it aside.

• 1 small ginger
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 1/2 tsp pepper
• Crush the above ingredients.

• 2 tbsp oil or coconut oil
• Heat oil in a pot.
• Add the crushed ingredients.
• Saute for a minute.

• 1 big onion
• Chop the onion.
• Add into pot.
• Saute until brown in color.

• 2 green chillies
• 2 string of curry leaves.
• Add green chillies and curry leaves into it .
• Saute for few minutes.

• 1 tbsp chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp coriander powder 
• 1/2 tsp gram masala
• Add chilly, turmeric, coriander and gram masala powder.
• Fry for few minutes.
• Add 1/4 cup water and simmer for sometime.

• 1 medium tomato
• Pulse it in a chopper
• Add into the pot.
• Cover the pot and cook until tomato are mixed into the masala well.

• From the cooked chana in the cooker take 3 tbsp of chana and grind it into a paste.

• Add it into the masala along with chana gravy.

• Allow it boil or until it thickness the gravy.

• Add a tsp of pepper if needed.

• For seasoning
• 5 small onions
• oil
• curry leaves.
• Heat oil.
• Add the sliced small onion.
• Add curry leaves.
• Fry until onions turns brown.

• Pour it into the chana masala.

• Close the lid for 5 minutes.

Enjoy Cooking 

S