Kai Pola

•  Plantains(Kerala banana)  need to be ripe. Slice them twice, so you get four long pieces ( I always remove the veins(the black part) of this ) and then chop them into small 1/2 inch size.
• 3 ripe plantains

• Heat ghee in a pan. Fry the cashew nuts until light golden brown and keep it aside. Then fry the raisins until plump and keep it aside.
• 2 tbsp ghee
• 6 cashew nuts split into 2
• 6 raisins

• Add more ghee , Now add the chopped  plantains and fry until golden brown in color. 
• 2 tbsp ghee

• Beat the eggs and sugar well with a little pinch of cardamom.
• 3 eggs
• 3 tbsp sugar

• Mix the fried plantains with a egg mixture with a pinch of baking powder.

• Preheat a oven at 175C for 10 minutes.

• Brush the pan with ghee.

• Pour the mixture and put the nuts on top. Bake for 15 minutes until a tooth pick comes out clean.
• Flip it over a plate before serving.

Enjoy Baking 

S

Truffles ...Bran flakes

Ingredients:

• 2 cups left over crushed Bran flakes
• 1cup left over  crushed brownie
• 4 digestive biscuit
• 200 ml Puck cream
• 100 gms chocolate chips
• 1 tbsp butter

Method:

Place the chocolate chips in a deep bowl.

Heat the cream. 

Add the butter when it boils.

Pour over the chocolate chips, leave it for a minute and mix well.

Mix all the crushed mix with the above chocolate mix.

Roll in the size of a lime.

Sprinkle icing sugar or cocoa powder.

Dry Fruits Cream.....

• 25 black grapes
• 25 kismis
• 25 Almonds
• 25 Cashew
• 10 Dates
• 10 Fig
• 25 grams Pista without salt
• Cut all the dry fruits into small pieces.

• 2 Fresh Cream

• 1 tin milkmaid
• 1/4 tin of milkmaid and 2 fresh cream  with the dry fruits.
• Keep aside.

•  1 glass Milk
• 1 fresh cream
•  Boil Milk.
• The add 1 fresh cream and milkmaid and mix well.

• 2 tsp gelatin
• 1/4  glass hot water
• Add 2 tsp of gelatin in 1/4 glass of hot water.
• Mix well.

• In a mixer beat the milk mixture and the gelatin well.

• Pour in a tray or short glasses and keep in the fridge to set.

•  Once it is set cover it up with the dry fruits mixture.

If you need you can decorate it with cornflakes or strawberry.

Enjoy Pudding

S

Semolina Laddu........thari unda..!!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup semolina or Rava
• 1/2 cup grated coconut
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tbsp raisins
• 1 tbsp ghee

Method:

Roast the semolina.

Add sugar, coconut, raisins and ghee and mix well.

Remove from the fire and form making lime sized balls. 

Banana Cotton Buds....Unnakkayi

Ingredients:

4 ripe bananas
3 eggs
4 tbsp sugar
1 tsp raisins
1 tbsp chopped cashewnuts
2 tsp oil/ghee
Oil for frying

Method:

Steam the banaas until peel separates slightly.
Remove and grind the banana to a smooth paste without adding water.
Keep aside.

Mix the eggs with sugar.
Heat 2 tsp ghee/oil in a saucepan.
Add the cashew nuts and raisins and fry for a minute.
Add the egg mixture and stir it well till it reaches scrambled egg consistency.

Oil you hands and take small balls( size of a lime ) of the ground banana.
Flatten on your palm into small disc.
Put 2 tsp of scrambled egg in it.
Fold the edges and press lightly.
Now roll it with your hands, and shape it like cotton buds ( both ends pointed).

Heat oil and deep fry to a golden brown on all sides.

Serve.


Enjoy
S

Caramel Pudding....

Recipe source:Mom's recipe

I could say one of the first puddings  I tasted or remembers or the one which I tried is "Condensed milk pudding " this is what I  call it ....:) Each one of us have different ways of making it. The best part is the tin of nestle condensed milk  still remains the same shape , may be even the design ...only that  changes are the photos's  .....as for the taste it still is one of best pudding....!!

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Ingredients

 1 tin Milk

1 tin condensed Milk

4 eggs

2 tbsp sugar + 3 tbsp for  caramelizing

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Method :

Mix condensed milk tin ,milk, eggs and 2 tbsp sugar .

Beat with a hand beater for 5 minutes.

Caramelize the sugar till golden brown ,in a deep round pan.
Pour the mixture into the pan. ( or small moulds )
Steam in a steamer until it is cooked or when a knife come out clean.
Let it cool.
Invert onto a serving platter.




One can serve warm or chilled. I would prefer chilled...!!

Stuffed Banana in Syrup

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Ingredients:

• 1 Ripe Malabar banana
• 2 tbsp sugar + 1 cup sugar for syrup
• 1 egg
• Cashews and Rasins  1 tbsp if u need
• Oil for frying

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Method:

Beat the egg with 2 tbsp sugar. 

Heat 1 tsp ghee.

Add the eggs and stir well to scrambled- egg consistency.

Add cashew and raisins.

Remove from the fire.

Peel the the banana. 

Cut into 2 and slit it into four without cutting the ends.

Heat the oil and slowly put the banana in it and fry until golden brown.

Remove and cool it a bit.

Stuff the banana with the scrambled eggs and keep aside.

In a pan boil sugar with 1cup of water.

When it reaches the syrup consistency.

Remove from the fire.

Pour over the stuffed banana. 

And Serve...

Enjoy Cooking

S

French Toast

• 6 slices of bread
• 2 eggs
• 4 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsp milk
• Beat the eggs, milk with sugar.
• Ghee as required
• Heat ghee or butter on a tawa.
• Dip each slice of bread in the egg mixture. Dredging on both sides.
• Place the slices on hot tawa. 
• Cook for few minutes until golden brown.

Serve hot .

In case you are storing in the fridge. Warm it in the toaster for few minutes.

Enjoy Cooking

S