Kadala Curry

Ingredients

1 cup Chick peas
1 cup Onion, chopped
1 cup Tomato, chopped
1 tsp Mustard seeds
1 tsp Cumin seeds
4-5 curry leaves
Salt
Oil


Coconut paste

1 cup grated coconut
1 tsp Cumin seeds 

10 Dry Red Chillies
1 small onion

Instructions

 Add enough water and Soak the chick peas for 8 hours.

Cook the chick peas in a pressure cooker.

Heat a pan and add little oil.Then add cumin seeds,dry chillies,onion and saute for few minutes.then add the scraped coconut and roast it til it turns gold in color.Then Let it cool.

Then add enough water and grind the coconut in to a fine paste.

Then heat a pan and add some oil.Add mustard seeds,cumin seeds,curry leaves and chopped onions.Saute for few minutes.Add tomato and salt and cook for few minutes.

Then add the coconut paste,chick peas and add 1 cup of water.Cover it and cook it for 10 minutes in a low flame.

Serve it with chappathi.

Mixed Vegetable Noodles

My favorite dish at the moment!! It is easy to prepare and tastes is superb.The colors and the texture in the dish make it very appealing and inviting.

 

Ingredients

1 packet  Chinese noodles [boiled and cooled]
2 tbsp chopped garlic
1 Onion chopped
1/2 cup thinly sliced Cabbage
2 medium size Carrot (julienned)
4 medium size chopped Capsicum
10 chopped beans
2 tbls oyster sauce
2 tbls Soya sauce
3 tbls Chilli sauce
Salt and pepper powder to taste
3 tsp Oil

Method

Chopped the vegetables

Heat the oil in a pan and add ginger garlic paste.Then add onions and stir for few minutes.

Then add all the vegetables and saute for few minutes. Add salt and pepper according to your taste.Do not over cook the vegetables.Add soya sauce,oyster sauce and mix well.

Then add the noodles and mix everything together.add the chili sauce and toss together until well coated.

Remove from the heat and garnish with fried cashews and fried eggs.

Semolina Idli

A super fast delicious breakfast is rava/semolina idli.Without pre-planing you can make this at any time I have tried this recipe several times and it came charm.Give this a try and I am sure you will like it

Egg Rolls

This is an easy snack made usually during Ramadan........very easy to make and tasty too……these are thin pancakes filled with a spicy filling.......

Ingredients

250 g flour
3 eggs
salt
water

Method

Add all these ingredients and make a creamy batter. Then make a filling with beef or chicken.

Then heat a nonstick pan and pour a spoonful of batter into the pan and fry both sides until it become golden and firm.

Then remove to a plate and place 2tbls of filling and roll it.Dip the roll in plain flour and deep fry.

SERVE HOT!!!!!!!!!

Milk Toffee

Milk Toffee is a Sri Lankan treat. It's delicious with raisins and cashews. Great with a cup of tea or coffee.

Ingredients

1 can of 300 ml Condensed Milk
300 g sugar
Vanilla essence
Rose essence and
25g cashew (finely chopped)
2 table spoons of butter
2 table spoons of water

Method

Butter a flat tray and keep it on a side.
Add the sugar to a large saucepan on stove top. Add 2 table spoons of water and stir well for 3-4 minutes then add the condensed milk. Keep stirring for 15 minutes.

While adding the cashew, half a tea spoon of Vanilla essence and 2-4 drops of rose essence. When the mixture starts to get thick, add 1 tbsp butter and stir up to about 5 minutes.

Take off stove top and pour the thick mixture on to the tray we set aside earlier. Spread and flatten using a spatula or the back of a spoon.

Leave until hardened and cut in to small pieces of your choice.

Caramel Iced Coffee

Ingredients

1/4 cup boiling water
2 tbls instant coffee (u can reduce the coffee amount if u think it's too much - I like it a bit strong)
2 tbls sugar (according to ur taste)
10 ice cubes
1/3 cup milk

Method

Mix first 3 ingredients together to make a syrup, put into blender. Add ice cubes and blend until slushy. Add cream and blend until frothy.

Serve with Whip Cream and Drizzle with Caramel syrup

Jaggery Pudding

Ingredients

3 cup Coconut milk [first extract]
3 cup Coconut milk [second extract]
350 g Jaggery
3 tbls gelatin
1/2 tsp cardamom

Method

Mix the coconut milk and jaggery together and bring to a boil.Stir continuously until jaggery is dissolved. Dissolve the gelatin in hot water and add it to the milk mixture and mix well.

Sweet Puffs

Ingredients

2 cups flour

2 table spoon sugar 

2 table spoon milk powder

1 tea spoon yeast

1 egg

Icing sugar

Salt

Method

In a bowl add all the dry ingredients and mix well. Then add enough water and make a soft dough.

Banana Muffins

Ingredients

150g flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda

125g sugar

1 egg

50g melted butter

2 medium size ripe bananas

Falafel Sandwich

Ingredients


2 cups dry chick peas

1 small onion chopped
2-3 garlic clove
1½ tsp flour
1 tsp coriander powder
2 green chillies
1 tsp chili flakes
¼ bunch of coriander leaves
Salt

Pineapple Supreme

Ingredients

1 plain cake [cut into small pieces]
1 pkt caramel pudding mix
150ml whipping cream
¾ cup stewed pineapple

Macaroni Meat Pie

Ingredients

250g minced beef
2 tsp ginger and garlic paste
1 onion chopped
3 tbls tomato puree
Salt and Chile powder to taste

Arabic Shorba

Ingredients

250g mutton or beef with bones [cut in to medium sized pieces]
1tsp ginger and garlic paste
1 medium sized onion chopped
1 medium sized tomato chopped
1 tsp red Chile powder
1/2 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp cumin powder
Salt to taste
2 cloves
2 cardamom
1/2 cup cooking oats

Pineapple Layer Pudding

Ingredients

1 tin condense milk

1 1/4 tin water

2 1/2 table spoon gelatin

3 egg white

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

2 jelly packets in different colors

Stewed pineapple

Fried Crackers

Ingredients

Cream cracker biscuits

For the batter

1 cup flour
1 egg
salt
water

Meat Pie Pastry

Ingredients

3 cups flour
1 cup luke warm yoghurt
1/2 cup melted butter
1 1/2 tsp yeast dissolved in 1/4 cup warm water
Salt

Fluffy Pancakes

Ingredients

180g flour
½ tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
30g melted butter
2 tbls sugar
1 ¼ milk

Bakewell Tart

Ingredients


100g flour
50g butter
pinch of salt
Ice water

Chocolate Moose

Ingredients


300g cooking chocolate
3 eggs
300ml whipped cream
50g butter
1 tbls gelatin [Dissolve the gelatin in 2tbls hot water]

Strawberry Jelly Triffle

Ingredients


Sponge cake [cut into small pieces]
1 pkt strawberry jelly
1/2 tin condensed milk
250 ml whip cream
2 tsp gelatin 
1/2 tin water [use the condensed milk tin]

Sausage Pizza

Ingredients

500g Flour

2 tsp Instant yeast

2tsp Sugar

1tsp salt

50g Butter

Warm milk 

Take a large bowl and add all the ingredients and make a soft dough.Then cover it with a damp cloth and set aside for 2-3hrs.

Onion Fritters

Ingredients

1cup gram flour
1/2cup rice flour
1/2cup plain flour
1 big onion chopped
2-3 green chillies chopped
20g curry leaves chopped
1tsp Chili powder
1/2 tsp asafoetida powder [optional]
salt to taste

Pizza Pinwheels

Ingredients


250g flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
2 tbsp butter
1 tsp instant yeast
warm milk


Method

Make a soft dough using all the ingredients and keep it covered for 1/2 hour in a warm place.
Then roll the dough to rectangle shape with a 1/4 inch thickness.
Then leave 1 inch border and spread the filling.
Then roll it like a swiss roll and cut the roll into slices.
Then keep it for 1/2 hour on a baking tray to rest.
Sprinkle some cheese over the roll
Then bake it for 10 min at 180C.

Eclairs

Ingredients

200g flour
1tsp sugar
4 eggs
250ml water
1/2 tsp salt
75g butter

Method

Sieve the flour and salt together and set aside.

Now in a pan add butter,sugar and water and heat it gently until the butter has melted.Remove from the heat and add the flour little by little and combine it well using a wooden spoon.

Return it to the heat and stir until the dough leaves the sides of the pan and form a smooth ball.
Now make it cool slightly.

Now gradually add the beaten eggs one at a time.Beat well until a thick paste form.Then add the paste in to a piping bag and pipe it on a baking tray with plain nozzle.

Bake it for 20-25min in 200 C°

Pastry Cream

250ml Milk

1 tsp vanilla
2 egg yolks
60g sugar
2 tbls corn flour

Place the milk and vanilla in a pan and bring to a boil.

Separately beat the egg yolk with sugar until the sugar has been dissolved and the mixture is light in colour.Then add corn flour and beat well.

Now pour half of the boiling milk into the yolk mixture and beat well.Then return it to the pan with the remaining milk.heat it until it begins to steam.Remove from the heat and let it cool.

Now cut the cooled eclairs from middle and fill it with pastry cream.and dip the eclairs in hot chocolate and chill it.

Chocolate Yoghurt Cake

Ingredients

200g grinded sugar
110g butter
180g plain flour
60g cocoa powder
200 ml heavy thick yoghurt
100ml cup milk
2 large eggs [at room temperature]
3/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla essence
1 ½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt

Black Forest Gateau

Ingredients

170 g sugar
6 eggs at room temperature 
60 g coco powder
120 g flour
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 tbsp. baking powder

Method

Make a syrup with 5 tbsp. sugar and 5 tbsp water in a pan, Then bring to a boil.Let this syrup cool,set aside.Sift the flour with coco powder and baking powder 3 times just to aerate it.

Now beat the eggs.Beat it on low speed till frothy.Then increase to medium speed and add sugar 1 tbls at a time.Beat until all the sugar has been dissolved and fluffy.Now add the vanilla and beat it.

Now take a wooden spoon and add in the flour ingredients in 2 installment,Folding it in after each addition.Fold gently to combine,do not over mix.

Pour into your greased pan and bake it for 40 minutes at 170 C.


For icing

350 ml whipping cream
Grated chocolate
Cherries

Chop some cherries and add some sugar over them Leave them to be soft.When the cake is done.
Slice the cake in half.Sprinkle some sugar syrup and spread some cherries on the bottom part.

Beat the whipping cream with 4-5 tbls icing sugar.Beat until the mixture form firm peaks.Spread it on top of cherries.

Next keep the top layer,and brush some syrup and spread whipped cream and cover the entire cake.
Decorate with grated chocolates and cherries.

Chill and serve.

Shawarma

Ingredients

500g flour
Salt to taste
2 table spoon butter
2 tea spoon sugar
Warm milk

Swiss Roll

Ingredients

3 eggs[eggs should be in room temperature]

75g grinned sugar 
90g plain flour
Pinch of salt grinded ½  tsp vanilla 
1 tsp warm water

TIP: Eggs should be completely at room temperature.Cold egg will not give a good results.Sift the flour 3 times.Do not skip this point.Sifting many times results will be a more soft sponge cake.

Method

Arrange a baking tray (13" x 9") by lining it with greaseproof paper.Sift the flour with the salt 3 times.

Add the eggs and sugar in a bowl. Beat the eggs until it get pale and fluffy.Add the flour into egg in 3 installments.Then fold it with a spatula,very gently.When u adding last of the flour, add warm water and vanilla and fold it 

Now spread it on prepared baking tray.It won't take long time to bake, because This cake is so thin.
It will take 7-8 minutes for baking at 200 C.

Do not over bake the cake,[ it will become hard and will crack when rolling it. So don't wait for the cake to be brown.

When the cake is baking, dust some caster sugar all over a baking paper. It will be used to roll the cake once it's remove from the oven.

Now cut the edges of the cake with a knife.Now you can apply warm jam or hot chocolate.
You need to do this fast when the cake is warm.Then roll the cake gently but make a tight roll.

Then let the cake cool down completely.Decorate the cake as your wish.Whip cream or frosting.

ENJOY!

Doughnut

Ingredients

2 cups Flour
100g sugar
5 tbls butter
1 egg
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla
Pinch of salt.
milk

Spice Rice

Ingredients

500g Basmati rice

120g Onion

6tbls Oil

2tsp Ginger;garlic paste

2tsp Crushed pepper

6 Cardamom pods

2tbls Curry powder

1/2tsp Turmeric powder

2tbls Soya sauce

Salt to taste

Uppma

Ingredients

250g semolina

2 chopped onions

2-3 green chillies

1 large carrot[diced]

1 large potato[diced]

4-6 beans chopped

1tbls chopped ginger

500ml water

salt to taste

Seasoning

1tbls ghee

1tsp mustard 

curry leaves

2tbls chopped coriander leaves

2 red chillies

Roast the semolina.Place a fry pan and add little oil.Then add onions,ginger, green chillies and the vegetables and cook it for 5min.

Then add water and salt.let it boil.Now add semolina and stir well.Remove from heat and serve it.

Gulab Jamuns

Ingredients

Syrup

1kg Sugar
4 cups water
1/4 tsp cardamon

Heat the sugar with water until the sugar dissolves.Then bring to a boilHeat it for about 5 minutes to thickens.Set aside.

For jamuns

400g Milk powder

8tbl spn flour

1/2 tbl spn baking powder

11 ounce fresh milk (5 1/2 + 5 1/2)

120 g butter

Method

Combine the milk powder, baking powder, butter and flour together.Then add 1/2 of the milk.Then mix it gently to make a dough.Keep it for half hour.

Now add the remaining  and kneed well.If the dough is very sticky and balls are hard to form, add little flour.

Then make balls and deep fry it and when it turn to the desired shade of brown, remove balls  and put in sugar syrup.

Baked Alaska

Ingredients

1 sponge cake
100g stewed fruits
1 cup strawberry ice cream
1 cup vanilla ice cream

Roast chicken

Ingredient

Small broiler chicken

1 tsp ginger garlic paste

1tsp chili powder

1 dessert spn chili sauce

1 tbls soya sauce

1/4 tsp salt 

2 tsp butter

1 lime

Method

Marinate the chicken in salt and lime for 1/2 hour.Then rinse the chicken and dry well.

Separately mix all the other ingredients and apply on the chicken.Roast in an oven 200°C for 20-30 min.To make the chicken crispy put it under the grill for 5 min. 

Semolina Ladoo

Ingredients

2cups semolina

2cups sugar

1/2 cup coconut

1 cup ghee

1tsp cardamom

100g roasted cashew nuts

5tbls milk powder

Italian Pastry Twists

Ingredients

250g flour

1 egg

salt

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

50g melted butter 

25g sugar

45-60ml water

Icing sugar for dusting

Stir Fried Beef Gravy

Ingredients

1kg boneless meat
3tbls oil
2 medium sized onion chopped
100g capsicum cut into cubes.
2 medium sized tomatoes chopped
1 1/2 cup water
2tsp chili powder
salt

method

Trim meat and cut into 2cm cubes.Heat the oil and add all ingreadiants except capsicum.Cover the pan and simmer gently for 1 hour until meat is tender and sauce thickened.

Then add the capsicum and serve it.

Diced Chicken with Cashew nuts

Ingredients  

500g Boneless Chicken
50g  Ginger
50g  Garlic
50g  Spring Onion

Butter Scotch Ginger Buns

Ingredients

Yeast mixture 

 1tea spn sugar

 125ml milk warm milk
 2tbl spn  dried yeast

Turkish Delight

Ingredients

4 cups sugar
1 1/2cups corn flour
1 tea spn cream of tata
4 1/4 cup water
1 tsp lime juice
1 1/2 tbl spn rose water
1 cup icing sugar
 red food coloring