Sprouts Dosa / Childa

This one's another occasional breakfast I created in my kitchen.. had some leftover sprouts and hence made this..

You need:
1 cup whole moong sprouts
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup chopped tomatoes
1 chopped green chilli
1/2 tsp ginger garlic paste
some chopped coriander leaves
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/4 tsp red chilli powder

Blend the sprouts in a mixie with little water, to make a smooth paste (not very smooth, but just a little coarse).
Then add to it all the ingredients and enough water to make a batter of the desired consistency, whether you want it thin like a dosa or thick like an omlet.
Heat some oil in a dosa tawa / non stick pan, and pour a laddle of batter. Cover and cook for 2-3 mins. Turn the side and cook for another minute.
Serve hot.

Enjoy
-Naina

Oats Dosa

This one's from Simple Indian Food, I've repasted it here..

You need :

1 cup oats (no need to grind)
1/4 cup rava/sooji
1/4 cup rice flour
2 cups water
2 green chillies cut finely
Finely chopped coriander leaves (I didn't put that.. got lazy to clean it)
Salt to taste
Oil
I added some chaat masala and meat masala to the batter, as I didn't have chutney ready..

Mix all ingredients except oil and let it stay covered for 15 minutes.
Heat tava and add a laddle full of batter to it and spread in circular way. Spread out a little oil in the sides.
When one side is cooked, turn it and cook on other side as well.
It turned out to be a perfect Sunday breakfast.. everything's good for me if hubby likes it :)
-Naina

Sev Sabji

This one's from my other sis in law.. She's also a very good cook, but doesn't get time with her job and little angel :)

You need:
100 gms sev, better are the spiced sev you get from farsan companies
2 tomatoes
1 tsp mustard seeds
some curry leaves
1 chopped green chilli
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
1/4 tsp red chilli powder
Salt to taste (very little, as there's generally

Heat some oil in a kadhai, and add the mustard seeds, curry leaves and chillies. Add chopped tomatoes and cook untill very soft. Then add the powders and salt. Saute for 2 mins, add 1/4 cup water and bring to boil. Then add the sev and cook for just 2-3 mins till soft (but not mashed).. Serve hot with rotis

Very simple and quick

-Naina

Victoria Sponge Cake

This is my personal 50th post, and the blog's 67th Recipe.. (never realised when we reached here..) So lets celebrate with a cake!! Made it on Sunday :)


This is a piece I cut while it was warm!! Thats why the crumbs..





And this is the freshly baked cake straight out of the oven!








Made this simple Victoria Sponge Cake.. Took it from a Tarla Dalal Recipe book. Its very simple, and tastes so nice, no one'll believe its not from the market!

Ingredients:
170 gm maida / all purpose flour
170 gm powdered sugar (I just reduced 1 spoon, cos I prefer less sweet..)
170 gm white butter
3 eggs
1.5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/4 tea cup milk

I used a hand beater for this, since I don't have an electric one.. Not as painful as I thought it might be..

Take the butter and sugar and beat well, till it becomes soft and fluffy. Then add to it one egg at a time and beat well.
In case the mixture curdles, add 1 tbsp of maida and keep mixing. After all the eggs are added, fold in the maida. The mix the milk and vanilla essence, so that you get a batter of dropping consistency.
Bake in a pre heated oven at 400 deg. F / 170 deg C for 20 minutes..

And the most loved sponge cake is ready.. the freshly baked aroma is amazing!!
P.S: Everyone liked it... sp Hubby :)
-Naina

Multi Grain Ladoo

Make this on Saturday.. The Oats ladoos got over, so made another batch, these were around 20-25 ladoos..







You need:
1 cup atta / wheat flour
1 cup besan / gram flour
3 cups oats
1/2 cup rawa
1/2 cup peanuts
5-6 tbsp ghee
Jaggery to taste
8-10 cardamoms

Roast all the flours seperely, one by one, till the raw flavour goes.
Roast the oats till it gives a aroma as if cooked, cool and grind in the mixie to a flour.
Also grind the roasted peanuts.
Heat a kadhai and mix all the flours. Add 1 tbsp of ghee at a time, and mix well. Once its suffiently moist, and cooked, remove from fire.
While warm, add enough jaggery as per the desired sweetness and mix well.
I grate the jaggery and add a little at a time and mix well, then again grate some and add, to ensure even mixing.. And for the quantity, well, I keep tasting in between :)
Finally, when cool, add the crushed cardamom, and make into ladoos when cooled!
Nice and healthy
-Naina

Kothimbir Vadi

Made this for breakfast last week.. Its quick and easy.. and tasty





Read this recipe on Personal Tadka, but forgot to take a print a missed a few of the details, but still, turned out well..

Took 1.5 cups besan, lots of chopped coriander, some turmeric powder, some red chilli powder and some 'Thecha'.. thats a freshly ground paste of ginger garlic and green chilli (not in the mixie, but in the 'khut khut' way..)
Mixed all of this with enough water to make a dosa type batter, and steamed it for 20 mins..
Then cut it into pieces and refridgerated it, and shallow fried it in mustard seeds and hing the next morning!
-Naina

Virgin Pina Colada

Ingredients:
Tender Coconut Water
Coconut cream
Fresh Pineapple sliced into small pieces
7 up/Sprite






Mix the tender coconut water+ half cream+ fruit into a blender.Blend till smooth.

Now take this mixture in a shaking glass ,Add some ice cubes and sprite/7up.Now put the lid and shake well.
Serve in a glass and top with remaining coconut cream.Decorate the glass with a pineapple rim and cherry

Cheers

Ash