Showing posts with label Snacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Snacks. Show all posts

Friday, February 17, 2012

Marie Biscuit Coffee Chips – BM#13 - Day 2

Marie Biscuit Coffee Chips – BM#13:

Shock by the name, does it look strange like me? Ha, ha Readers, I told the actual name of the chips what I named it. I am not sure if you have come across it or not but I am sure you would have come across Choco logs. While I was searching for what can be made out of cocoa and icing sugar on the other day I came across a post called Marie biscuit - Chocolate logs. I was surprised and clicked here. Recipe was quite interesting and innovative; sometimes to make children eat you should try different things with the same old ingredients else they will say “aiyoo, my mom cooks the same dish everyday”, my first son Aditya, passes this comment without even a second thought.

In the morning I thought of getting carrot to office and then do carrot chips here. But as the time passed by due to my little son I had to rush to catch my office cab at the last moment. So I was just thinking what to prepare, if I go and ask one carrot the shopkeeper will look as if I have gone mad. If I take more I don’t know what to make from the remaining except cook mix with rice and eat. Time passed as the training is on in office and I felt in the afternoon to eat something let me cook in the oven a beautiful chips. I took rusk and went into my pantry but as they itself were crispy I thought it wasn’t a good idea. Then this chocolate logs appeared like a bright screen in front of my eyes. So thought let me put my hands on to it.

Ingredients:
Marie Biscuits – 8 Nos
Coffee Powder – 1 tsp
Milk – ¼ cup
Sugar – 1 (it was less in sweet so advisable to add 2)





Method:
Break the marie biscuits into small pieces (as small as possible)
Put it in a microwavable cooking box
Pressed “tea with milk” in my office coffee machine I got ¼ cup of milk
Added coffee powder to the milk and mixed well
Pour the mixture on to the biscuits and mix it well

Take a small heap and make it into desired shape
Keep it in oven for 6 minutes
Remove it and add the crispy rusk along with it and munch it





Monday, January 16, 2012

Aamvada-channadhal


Aamvada-channadhal:

I feel great to take participate in Blogging Marathon event hosted by Srivalli on Spicing up your life.

Blogging Marathon is an event which is celebrated last two weeks in a month which comes up with some group events. Instead of just blogging it’s an important rule to pass comments in the group on other posts. So Srivalli had made a group in google called as blogging marathon. In this way the communication develops not only between food bloggers but also in the house to find the different recipes related to the group selected. To prepare a dish there might be more than one variety of making it for example check out my versions (1st - gojju mix with rice, 2nd - without gojju) of tomato rice.

I have selected the concept of Seven Days of Delicious Dals. Today is my 1st day, I am posting “aamvada” a vada made from Channa Dal. In my family all of us love to eat vadas, and this is one of them.

Ingredients:
Channa Dal – 100 gms
Baking soda – 1 tsp
Coriander leaves – few
Green Chillies (small sized which will be more spicy) – 3 to 4
Salt – to taste
Oil for deep frying

Method:
Soak channa dal atleast for 3 hours
Remove the water and grind it along with baking soda, green chillies with little water as the consistency should be thick
Add salt and coriander leaves and mix well
Leave the oil to become hot
Make small dough from the hand and make it like a plate drop it in hot oil
Leave it to fry until the color becomes reddish brown
Turn to the other side and leave it to fry
Remove it from the Stove and put it on to vessel which has pores (a vessel which removes extra oil)
Serve it hot with chutney


Submitting to:



MLLA - 43
MLLA series is a monthly blog hop started by Susan @ The Well Seasoned Cook. Claire is hosting this month - Jan 2012 MLLA, the legume is "Dal" hence submitting this to her post which is a 43rd blog hop.












Walk through the memory lane
Walk through the memory lane by Gayathri @ Gayathri's Cook Spot is an event which says to learn and prepare from our elders. I learnt this from my mother-in-law and for festivals this is a must in my house.





 




Sweet Heat Chilli Challenge is started by Lyndsey on Vanilla Clouds and Lemon Drops. This month is a 4th edition hosted by Michelle on Food, Football and a baby.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Fafda-SSF

Dear All,

Welcome to the blogging world. Its a great pleasure to say that I am participating in "Blog Hop Wednesday" started by Radhika on Tickling Palatea.

This is the second version of Blog Hop Wednesday which happens monthly once on every 2nd week of Wednesday. Earlier version used to happen once in 15 days in last year. 

Concept: In this version, every month one would be partnered with other fellow blogger and she/he can cook any number from her partner blog. On 2nd Wednesday you have to link it with partner's blog as source/courtesy and link it with Tickling Palatea

Rules: 
a. If one blog hop is missed also, you are not entitled to get into the other blog hop. Reason: Your partner for that month will definitely feel bad as her dish from her site did not get displayed.
b. You cannot enter in between as partners are already made for that month. But if registered then you are allowed from the following month. Click here to register.

I was partnered with Nayna Kanbar, a citizen of London who writes her posts in her own blog - simply.food. She submits her post to  City.Connect, she says "simply.food is a featured recipe author @ City Connect an online magazine which promotes everything from businesses to events, connecting people to each other in the local area and beyond."

Fafda - Chora Fari
I thank Radhika and Nayna to gave me a wonderful chance to provide an option and to partner with me respectively on this Blog Hop.

It was really tough to select one dish from her blog as it had many varieties of dishes. I had selected Fafda - a crispy snack as my partner dish and linked it here. It is also called as "chora fari", Indian tea time snack.

Ingredients: 
Fafda - B & W
  • Maida - All purpose flour - 200g
  • Besan - 50g
  • 1 tablespoon chilli powder
  • 2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1/2 tablespoon sesame seeds
  • 1 tablespoon groundnut oil (Dhara)
  • 3 green chillies finely chopped
  • 1/2 tablespoon freshly chopped coriander
  • Water for making dough
  • Groundnut oil for deep frying
Never do this: As in my house Maida and Besan is stored in refrigerator they were cold and to get to normal temperature I made a mistake of adding little rice flour which made my fafdas to become hard. 

Method:
  • Put Maida, besan, chilli powder, turmeric powder, sesame seeds, chopped green chillies, salt, chopped coriander, oil and by adding water as required kindly make a dough.
  • Leave the dough for sometime to get settled down.
  • Make small doughs and roll them using rolling pin and cut them into desired shapes.
  • Fry them in hot oil and put them into vessel which drains oil. Vessel would have small pores.
  • Serve it hot with tomato ketchup or chilli sauce.
I had made into my desired shapes same like bajjis just because my son would love to eat thinking it is same. Great this idea worked out, he had 10 with tomato ketchup.


Aditya's activity: He came and prepared fafdas as rolls and round.
Do: Store these into air tight container to use them upto a month.  I made these yesterday(10thJan2012) and unfortunately I did not do that and lost the crispy-ness the today (11thJan2012).

Submitting this to:
Blog Hop Wednesday @ Tickling Palatea






 Black & White by Susan @ The Well-Seasoned Cook.
 Susan started this event as a weekly event and the important concept is your picture which is shared with this event should be in B & W. For more info please read her blog.




 

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

EgglessVanillaCake


Eggless Vanilla Cake:

Eggless Vanilla Cake
Adi, Photographer
New Bike
Thanks to Lord who once again bestowed good time on us. This December we brought 5 new things viz., Black colored Sony Cybershot for me, Blue colored Bicycle for my first son – Aditya, Red colored walker for second son – Aadya, Black colored Sony Home Theatre for home, Blue colored Avenger for my hubby. To remember this sweet moment, I made Pillsbury Eggless Vanilla Cake using Cooker. This is the first time I am making cake, hence opted for a cake mix.

Aditya, who will be hooked to TV most of the times, was the photographer and chef who helped me to make it out a success. Sh… you know what, I wanted him to come out of TV world and involve in some activity. -:)

Ingredients
Only 3 things are required to make Pillsbury Eggless Vanilla Cake – Mix, Steam and Serve. It is a cake powder mixed with wheat, vanilla, sugar and other ingredients.







Method:
Mix+Oil
  • Mix the powder with 2 spoons of oil, and 100 ml of milk and prepare a batter. Batter should not be thick or thin, it should be medium.

Mix + Oil + Milk
Spongy Cake
Cake + Gems
  • Take 5 inch vessel grease it with ghee/oil in the bottom and sides.
  • Pour the batter spread it across the greased vessel.
  • Take the cooker pour water till 1 inch and immerse a stand which is about 1 inch.
  • Keep the greased vessel with batter on the stand and allow it to steam for 30 minutes.
  • Keep cooker open for another 5 minutes and allow the smoke to escape.
  • Pick a spoon and keep it in the cake and check if it comes out without sticking then the cake is done.
  • Garnish with gems 
My Event - Christmas New Year 2011 Eve.


I am pleased to send this to my own event – Christmas_NewYear2011 Eggless Cake with a slogan: I love eggless cake because I could steam it using my cooker without taste variation. It was too spongy than baked one.








Other Events:

















This also goes to other events:
Jingle All the Way @ Edible Entertainment by Kavitha.
100 day - Global Food Festival @ Sizzling Tastebuds by Kalyani.
Yummy Dessert @ Pranati’s Kitchen by Pranathi.
Back to Basic Desserts @ Served with Love started by Jaya.
Snacks Mela @ Cooking 4 all seasons by Srivalli.
Sinful Delights @ Zesty Pallete by Vardhini.
Christmas Delicacy @ Erivum Puliyum by Julie.
New Year New Dish @ UK Rasoi by Nupur
Deceptively Delicious – Kid’s Delight Event @ Cook’s Hideout by Pavani started by Valli.
‘Only’ –Cookies & Cakes @ FoodDelicious in Cooking Good Food by Pari.
Mid-week Fiesta - #7 @ Food Corner by Amy.




 

Submitting this to:

It gives me a surprise and also made me happy to see Celebrations 2011 event on Tastebuds. Happy because I am revisiting my post, surprise because it such a great event which made me to revisit my post. Yep, posting new things is only not important, revisiting them is a great thing. Thanks to Smitha.



 Unique Award:  

Last but always on the top of my list, I would like to thank Events-n-Roundups which is maintained by Siri author of Cooking with Siri, Valli of Cooking 4 all seasons & Spice Your Life. Events-n-Roundups is a one place to find many ongoing and completed events. Food bloggers can make use of this blog to find rich number of events and to bring traffic to their place. I am passing an unique award to this blog smile from my little one, Aadya. Reason is because of him I am learning so many recipes in kitchen.



Monday, November 28, 2011

PistaCerelacVada

Vada is South Indian Snack or breakfast. It can be had with idli or dosa.

Vada is mainly made up of dhal but I tried a different version.

I had brought cerelac to my second son, Aadya who is seven months old, did not like the flavor plain wheat. I had pista at home, which my first son Aditya did not like to eat. Hence these two were the main ingredient for me to make this vada.

Ingredients:



  • Cerelac – 200 gms
  • Coriander Leaves – ¼ bunch
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil for deep frying
  • Green Chillies  - 4
  • Pista – few
  • Chilli Powder – 1 tbsp
  • Baking Soda – 1 tsp
Method:
  1. Grind pista and green chillies into a paste
  2. Take cerelac, put chopped coriander leaves, salt, pista and green chillies paste, baking soda, chilli powder, mix well.
  3. Heat little oil and pour into this mixture.
  4. Pour water make the mixture as a dough.
  5. Heat the oil in a kadai.
  6. Make small vadas from the dough and leave them till they become crispy.
  7. Serve them with tomato ketchup or with chutney.
I gave this to my mom-in-law, Aditya and my maid-servant. They all told it was good in taste before they knew what all went inside the vada. Pat on my back.

This post is being sent to
Kids Delight


Thanks to Events-n-Roundup which gives information about many events like this.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Crispy Idli

Crispy idlis:

Yesterday morning, mom-in-law had made idlis at home and kept few for me for the evening to prepare these crispy idlis.


My hubby and my son both passed away a good to me after eating this. I am happy for this recipe. I had to pat my back because of these goods showered to me.
Ingredients:
  • Idlis – 6 nos
  • Oil – 3 tbsp
  • Onion – 2
  • Salt to taste
  • Chilli Powder – 2 tbsp
  • Curry leaves
  • Mustard Seeds – 1 tsp
  • Urad Dhal – 1 tsp
  • Channa dhal – 1 tsp
  • Turmeric – 1 tsp
 
Method:
  1. After heating the oil in kadai, add mustard seeds and leave it to splutter
  2. Add curry leaves, urad dhal, channa dhal
  3. Add onion and fry them till golden brown
  4. Add salt and mix the ingredients well
  5. Make the idlis into quarter and then put them into the oil (if you have a non-stick frying pan, its good to make these. I am missing them.)
  6. Fry them and leave them till they turn brown
  7. Add turmeric and mix them well and allow them to get fried
  8. Add chilli powder and again fry them
  9. Once you feel it’s completely crispy, turn off the stove and serve it.
 
This is going as a snack recipe to Winter Carnival started by Radhika on Tickling Palatea.

Monday, November 21, 2011

MosaruKodabale_MosaruNipathu

Mosaru Kodabale and Mosaru Nipathu:
Dough out of curds

Snacks from curds, this was an eye catcher for me, when I checked this recipe out on Prathibha's blog - The Chef and her Kitchen.

In my house, we make curds and once in a week we will have sambar/curry made out of curds. This was a real new thing in my house, which added smile to all of us in this winter.


Ingredients:
Mosaru Kodabale
  • Sour Curds - 1 cup
  • Rice Flour - 1 cup
  • Moong Dhal - 3/4 cup
  • Salt to taste
  • Fresh Coconut (grated) - 1/4 cup
  • Cilantro / Coriander leaves - 1/2 bunch
  • Green Chilli Paste - 2 tbsp
Method:
Mosaru Kodabale & Mosaru Nipatu
Ready to Serve
  1. Put moong dhal, grated coconut, salt to sour curds and heat in a medium flame. 
  2. Wait till it boils and switch off the stove
  3. Add chopped coriander leaves, green chilli paste and rice flour to the mixture
  4. As the mixture is too hot, use kitchen gloves to the hand or wet your hand with cold water and mix them well. Make small doughs out of the mixture.
  5. Knead the dough well and take little dough make a thin line and revolve them like rings. These are called as mosaru kodabale.
  6. Take little dough and make them a thin plate. These would be called as mosaru nipatu.
  7. Deep fry mosaru kodable and mosaru nipatu in hot oil.
  8. Serve them with tomato ketchup.
NOTE: Eat them when it is hot only, if it becomes cold, then it would go softer and will lose its crispy-ness. We had few when it was hot and after sometime when we checked it had become soft.

This post is sent for Radhika's Winter Carnival on tickling palatea.