CARROT CAKE

Navarathri Sweet-Just wanted to try carrot cake instead of halwa

 

INGREDIENTS:

Carrot Shredded -I cup

Milk powder-1cup

Cardamom powder-1tsp

Cashew (slightlypowdered)-2tbsp

Ghee-3tbsp

Sugar-1cup

Water just to immerse the sugar

METHOD:

Take the carrot in a microsafe vessel and add the ghee,cashews and microwave it for 7-8 minutes

Add the milk powder to carrot mixture and microwave it for two minutes

In a kadai add the sugar and water,make a thin string consistency on a stove.

To this add the carrot mixture and cook till it is thick and leaves the sides of the pan.

Transfer it in to a greased plate and slice it into a desired shape.

Nirmala's Kitchen: COCONUT AND FENUGREEK DOSA

Nirmala's Kitchen: COCONUT AND FENUGREEK DOSA

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COCONUT AND FENUGREEK DOSA

I am very happy to take part in Magic Mingle#10 hosted by Vaishali.The ingredients were cocnut and fenugreek.So i tried a dosa like a apppam.It turned out very tasty..

INGREDIENTS:

Raw rice-2cups

Coconut scrapings fresh -1cup

Fenugreek seeds 1tabsp

Salt -1tsp

Sugar-1tsp

METHOD:

Soak  rice and fenugreek for two hours.Grind them in to a smooth paste by adding coconut,sugar and salt.

Allow it to ferment for four hours.

Take a appam pan and drop one laddle of  dough  and slide it to all the sides of the pan.Now on a medium flame let it cook till it has cooked well.There was no need of oil and no need to turn it .

Lovely appam like dosas were ready  to eat!!!!!!Serve it some sambhar...
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OLIVE OIL BREAD

This entry goes to Blog Hop wednesdays week21 hosted by Radhika and I am a regular member .This time I am paired with http://www.eq-myblog.blogspot.in/2012/07/olive-oil-bread.html hose Blog is just wonderful with many mouth watering recipes.I wanted to try making bread Some how I did not succeed even today as the yeast did not rise well.First I tried with Yeast fro Nilgris and now I tried dried yeast fro Amma nana..Some how it did not rise well at all.

INGREDIENTS:

Wheat flour-2cups

Honey-1Tabsp

Salt-1tsp

Olive oil-4tbsp

Dried yeast 1tabsp

Water-3/4cup

Sugar-1tsp

METHOD:

Mix,flour,salt,oil and honey together.

Take some warm water dissolve the yeast with sugar.

Add this to the flour mixture and make a soft dough.

Allow it to rise.(Mine did not rise for nearly 2hrs)

Then bake it on a Convection mode microwave for30 minutes....

Not very fluffy but soft bread was my result.Please tell me what is the mistake in my preparation?