Simple Homemade Cake

Hi,

Are you craving for some delicious and awesome sweet? Well is yes then making the cake is the best option for you. Very easy to make but awesome in taste! At the same time does not require much time for preparation. So I often make it twice a month.

Ingredients
2 cup             All purpose flour (Maida)
1 cup             Granulated Sugar
1 cup             Melted Unsalted Butter (or Ghee)
1 cup             Milk
1 tsp              Baking Powder
1 tsp              Lemonade
1/3 tsp           Soda

Procedure

1. In a separate bowl mix dry flour and baking powder.
2. In a big mixing bowl add melted butter and sugar. Stir well to mix properly.
3. To this mixture gradually add some flour and then some milk with continuous stirring. Mix all the flour and milk gradually to make the batter.
4. To this batter add lemonade, soda and mix well.
5. The batter is ready to be cooked.
6. Preheat the oven to 350.
7. Grease the cake pot with some oil or melted butter. Sprinkle flour over it so as to make its edges stick free when the cake is baked.
8. Pour the batter to the pot without giving it much jerks.
9. You can garnish your cake by dropping some nuts over it at the top. It is optional.
10. Place the pot in oven for 55 minutes.
11. Check the cake by inserting a knife at various places. If knife comes out as clean then it is properly baked, otherwise bake it further for 5-10 minutes.

Your simple yet awesome cake is ready in 1 and half hour.
Enjoy it and let me know your valuable feedback.

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Paav Bhaaj!!! WoW

Paav Bhaaji is an Indian cuisine and tastes awesome. The good part about this cuisine is that it contains almost all the healthy vegetables. It is a rich and healthy cuisine and can be made at good occasions.

Let's have a look at its ingredients

Ingredients
5pc         Potatos
2pc         Big Onion
1pc         Green Bell Pepper
1lb          Cabbage
8-9pc     Baby Carrot/Carrot
8pc         Garlic Clove
5pc         Tomatos
1"pc       Ginger
4pc         Bay Leaf (Tez Patta)
4pc         Black Cardamom (Badi Elaichi)
1tsp        Cumin (Jeera)
1tsp        Turmeric (Haldi)
1tsp        Red Chilli Powder (Lal Mirch)
3tsp        Cilantro Powder (Baarik Dhaniya Powder) 
2tsp        Curry Powder (Garam Masala)
2tsp        Paav Bhaaji Masala
1tsp        Lemonade
2tbsp      Cooking Oil

Salt to taste
Cilantro Leaves (Dhaniya Ke Patte) for Garnishing

Procedure

1. Boil potatoes in a pressure cooker such that they can be easily crushed by  hand. Drain water and peel of the skin of potatoes. After cooling crush the potatoes with hand.
2. Finely chop Bell Pepper, Carrot and Cabbage. Place them in a separate bowl.
3. Finely chop onion and keep it aside.
4. Mince ginger and garlic to make a paste.
5. Grind tomatoes or cut them into fine pieces.
6. In a big heating pot add oil and place it to flame.
7. On heating sequentially add Bay Leaf, Black Cardamom, Cumin, Ginger Garlic Paste. Heat till it turns little brown.Stir on regular basis.
8. On this add chopped onion and heat it till the onion turns into light pink color. Keep stirring.
9. Now place tomatoes and stir it till tomatoes start leaving oil at the corner of the pot.
10. To this add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, cilantro powder and salt.
11. Add chopped bell pepper, cabbage, carrot and some water to bake. Mix well everything and cover the lid of the pot. Bake till the vegetables become softer.
12. Add crushed potatoes and mix well. 
13. To this add little water as per the requirements of cuisine.
14. At last add curry powder and paav bhaaji masala in it and heat the pot again by covering the lid for few more minutes.
15. Garnish it with cilantro leaves.
16. Serve Hot with either baked bread or ban with butter.

The cuisine can be used for 3 servings.

Enjoy the cuisine and please give me your valuable feedback!

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Delicious Ratatouille!!!!!

Hey friends,

Today I was not in a mood to make as usual regular meal of Dal, Sabzi, and Roti. So I thought let's find some shortcut. And presto!!! I discovered something very new and fantastic.

I wanted to make Potato Wadges (Baked Potatos) but ended up with Ratatouille :)

Okay before going into the detail of it let's first have a look at the ingredients

Ingredients
4pc      Potato
1/2pc   Cabbage
6pc      Baby Carrots
1pc      Onion
1pc      Green Onion
1pc      Green Bell Pepper (Capscum)
2pc      American Cheese Slice
2pc      Tomato
3tbs     Oil (Olive/General Cooking Oil)
1/2tbs  Black Pepper
1/2tbs  Dried Cumin Powder
1/2tbs Curry Powder/Garam Masala
Cilantro Leaves/Dhaniya ki patti (for Garnishing)
Salt According to taste

Procedure

1. Wash and peel potatos and cut 3 potatos in equal 8 halves such that each make a shape of half moon.
2. Cut 1 left potato to make thin slices that will be used for covering the dish.
3. Cut the cabbage into fine equal size.
4. Peel the carrots and make either thin slices or small wadges.
5. Make thin slices of tomatoes by using a slicer.
6. Make thin rings of onion by using slicer.
7. Cut green bell pepper into equal moderate pieces as we make for noodles.
8. In a bowl put potato pieces and slices.
9. Add oil, salt, black pepper powder, dried cumin powder and curry powder and mix well.
10. In an electric pot spread the aluminum foil evenly and grease it with some oil.
11. Now gradually add Potato Wadges coated with oil at the base of it connected to each other.
12. Over the layer of Potatos make the layer of cabbage evenly.
13. Likewise make the layers of carrots and bell pepper.
14. On this spread the cheese slices evenly.
15. Over the layer of cheese add the layer of onion, green onion and tomato slices.
16. At the top evenly spread the thin slices of potatos to cover the complete pot.
17. Preheat the Oven at 430 F and place the pot for 25 minutes. 
18. After taking out you can decorate it with cilantro leaves, sauce or cream.
19. *** You can make different combination of layers and can make various designs as shown in the pictures.***

The delicious Ratatouille is ready... :)
Serve Hot and Enjoy!
Last but not the least - please give your valuable feedback.

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