Beetroot Cupcakes 

       

Followed recipe from my friend's blog http://umaskitchen.blogspot.com/2014/12/eggless-red-velvet-cup-cakes.html.In my recipe brown sugar used instead of white sugar.

    

Cheese Toast

Ingredients:

Bread slices           -6 cut into half

Onion                    -1/4 onion chopped

Green Chilli           -3 green chillies

Corainder leaves   -1 tbsp

Tomato Chopped -1 tsp

Chedder Cheese  -11/2 cup grated

Salt to taste

Method:

Mix all the ingredients with cheese and add salt to taste.Spread it over the bread slice.Heat a pan.Grease it with some butter.Toast the bread slices in low flame till the cheese melts.

Apple Pie

Ingredients:

For the filling
Apple                        - 2big ones
Sugar                        - 12 gm
Cinnamon powder     - 1/4 tsp(optional)
Water as required
For the crust

Maida                      - 110 gm

Butter                      -  55  gm

Sugar                      -  25  gm

Milk                        -  2    tbp

Egg (optional)         - 1

Salt                        - a pinch

Method:
For  the filling
 In a preheated thick bottom pan,cook apple pieces,sugar and cinnamon powder in medium  heat till it   forms a pulp consistency.
For the crust
Mix together maida,sugar,butter and a pinch of salt.Pour milk as requried to make the dough.Roll it into a ball and brush some oil over it.Keep it in the refrigerator for an hour.

Take a round baking pan.Roll the dough out into a round inorder to fit the bottom of the pan.The rolled out dough should be large enough so that it extends a bit over the edges of the pan.If you dont have a pan you can use a foil paper.Smear water or egg whites over the edges .Fill the rolled out dough with apple filling.Cover it with the rest of the dough rolled out into a round.The covering dough edges  should merge with the bottom dough edges.We can trim the edges with fingers.Brush the pie top with egg whites and sprinkle with sugar(optional).Make 3-4 cuttings on the top of the pie..Preheat the oven to 450F or 220C.Bake for 10 min.Continue to bake at 375 F (190c)for 15-20 minutes.Serve with vanilla ice cream.

Vegetable macaroni

Ingredients:
Macroni                     - 1 1/2 cup uncooked
Carrot                        -1 cup ( cut lengthwise )
Capsicum                   - 1 cup (cut lengthwise )
Celery                        - 1 stalk (remove the leaves and root)and cut lengh wise
Spring Onion              - 1( cut lengthwise)

Garlic                         -4 (finely chopped)

Pepper powder          -1 tsp

Soya sauce                -11/2 tsp

Chilli sauce                - 1tsp

Tomato sauce            -1 1/2 tsp

Vegetable stock         -1cube (optional)

Oil                             -2 tbsp

Procedure: 

Cook and drain macaroni as per thepackage instructions.Cut all the vegetables.Add 2 tbsp of oil to the wok( frying pan) which is kept in high flame.When the oil is hot,add chopped garlic, spring onion chopped and stir fry for few sec.Now add the cut vegetables.Add vegetable stock(optional).Stir fry it for 2 min.Add pepper powder,soya sauce,chilli sauce and tomato sauce and saute for a few sec.Now add boiled macroni.Sprinkle with celery salt for better taste.

Pyramid fry (Idly Fry)

Actually am not sure what to call this snack.Its shape is very much similar to a pyramid and orginated in my mother's kitchen during my childhood.It is really delicious.Even though I hated idlis those days,still fought with my siblings to get more share of this snack without knowing that it was from the  left over idlis and thick chutney of the mornings..
Ingredients:
 Idlis
Oil for frying
Ghee              -1 tbsp
Thick chutney

Procedure:
 
    Divide the idlis into 6 equal parts.Heat  oil and ghee in a frying pan.Deep fry the idli pieces .Serve hot
with topped chutney

Idli

Idli is one of the popular South Indian breakfast recipe.It is a  nutritious item with no oil.Idlis are usually served with sambar and chutney.

Ingredients:

 Idli rice                     -21/2 cups

(If you dont get Idli rice,we can use any other parboiled rice)

Urad dal                    -1 cup

Cooked rice              -1/2 cup

Salt                           -1 tsp

Fennu greek seeds    -1tsp

Procedure:

Soak rice and dal separately in water for 4-5 hours.Grind it with enough water to get a thick batter in a blender or a grinder.Pour it in a big vessel and keep it for fermentation for 9-10 hours depending upon the weather.Before making idlis,stir the batter with enough salt.Grease the idli mould with little oil and pour the batter.Steam it for10 minutes.Remove the idlis from the mould with a wet spatula.Serve with sambar or chutney.

For making Coriander Chutney:

    Coriander leaves  -1 cup

    Grated coconut    -1 cup

    Red chillies          -5

    Ginger                 - a small piece

    Tamarind             -a small piece

    Salt  as required

    Musturd seeds    -1/4 tsp

    Broken Urad dal -1/2 tsp

    Oil                      -1tsp

    Procedure:  

       Grind together all the ingredients from corainder leaves to salt in a blender.Heat oil in a small frying pan.Splutter musturd seeds,then broken urad dal.When urad dal becomes light brown in colour,pour the mix from the blender to this and switch off the stove.

     

  For feeding kids with idli ,we can try this trick which i learned from my aunt.What she do is:

Cut one idli into 2 or 3 pieces.Then decorate it with some chutney .See!!!  It looks like our eyes !!!Now we can see the kids excitment to have this IDLI FACE.

Avocado Milk shake (Butter fruit shake)

Avocado is a complete food filled with Vitamin A,Vitamin B,Folic acid,Vitamin C,Vitamin E,calcium,iron ,pottassium etc.It's an ideal fruit for diabetics and hypoglycemics.Like banana,the density of avocado flesh is filling and acts as a digestive slow burning fuel,providing energy for growing children.

 With  avocado we can make a milkshake.

Ingredients:

Avocado                                         -1
Cold milk                                        -2 glasses 
Vanilla ice cream(optional)            -1 scoopful
Sugar                                              -3 tbsp

Procedure:

 Cut the avocado half lengthwise and remove the pit.

Extract the inner pulp with a spoon.Put this pulp along with sugar and half glass milk in the blender.Blend it well.Add the remaining milk and ice cream.Again blend it.Serve chilled