Coconut Macroons Cookies

Coconut Macroons:

Ingredients :
Maida 1/3 cup
Sweetened condensed milk 200gm
Coconut grated 2.5 cup
Vanilla essence 1/2 tsp
Pinch of salt
Baking soda 1/4 tsp
Method:
1. Mix all ingredients one by one.
2. Preheat the oven at 170 degree
3.  Take a headed spoon of the dough and arrange it in greased moulds.
4. Bake for 20 mts at 170 degree
5. Edges and top layer will be lightly browned.
6. Take it from oven and cool it in wire rack.

Chewy crispy coconut macaroons are ready.

Shortbread Cookie

Shortbread Bread Cookie

Ingredients:
Maida - 1 cup
Powdered sugar - 1/2 cup
Melted Ghee - 1/2 cup
Baking soda 1/4 tsp
Almonds and cashews broken -1/4 cup
Cardamom powder - little
Method:
1. Mix Ghee and Powdered sugar in a bowl.
2. Mix Maida, baking soda, cashews almonds,Cardamom in separate bowl.
3. Slowly add dry mix (2) to wet mix.
4. make a firm dough and roll and cover it with cling film and keep in fridge for an hour.
5. Take the dough out and make small balls and flatten a little and arrange in parchment paper. Sprinkle little Badam mixture on top of cookies.

6. Preheat the oven at 170 degree and bake the cookies for 20 mts.
7. Sides and top will be lightly browned. Take it out and cool it in a wire rack for 10mts.
Yummy cookies are ready.

Ragi laddu

Ragi laddu

Ingredients
Ragi flour -1 cup
Jaggery grated - 1 1/4 cup
Coconut grated - 1/2 cup
Badam, cashews 1/4 cup
Groundnuts little.
Ghee

Method
1. Dry roast coconut, Badam, cashews and ground nuts and grind to fine powder.
2. Add grated jaggery to this and give a pulse
3. Dry roast ragi flour till nice aroma comes.
4. Mix grinded powder along with ragi flour.
5. Heat ghee and pour into mixture and you can add roasted cashews and make laddus.
Healthy ragi laddu is ready.

Ramya's Baked nippatu

Baked nipattu 
Whole wheat flour;1 cup
Maida - 1 cup
Salt -1 tsp

Sugar - 1 tsp
Sesame seeds- 1 tbsp
Baking soda- 1 tsp
Roasted peanuts - 1/4 cup
Curry leaves
Coriander leaves
Green chillies 3-4 chopped finely
Onion - 1 finely chopped
Oil 3 tbsps
Water very little
Method
Mix wheat, maida, salt, sugar, baking soda, sesame together. Grind peanuts coarsely. Add the peanuts, onion, g. Chillies, curry leaves, coriander leaves and the oil. Then knead it using warm water little by little. The dough should be soft but not sticky. Cover it with a damp cloth and leave it for 1/2 an hour.  Then take a small ball out of the dough abd roll it by keeping it in between 2 thick plastic covers. Cut into round shapes using a round bottle cover. Fork it. Preheat the oven to 200 C and arrange these in greased pan and bake for 15-20 mins. In between toss the nipattus.

Foxtail Millet / Korra / Thinai Dosa

Foxtail Millet / Korra / Thinai Dosa Recipe:

Millets: 

Millets are highly nutritious, non-glutinous and not acid forming foods. Please check this page for more information about millets. 
http://millets.wordpress.com/millets/
After knowing the nutritious information about millets, i have decided to include millets in everyday meal. Here is the foxtail millet dosa recipe which i tried today. Please try it yourself.

Ingredients:

Foxtail Millet: 4 cups
Urad dal : 1 cup
Methi seeds : Little

Method:
1. Soak Foxtail Millet and urad dal seperately for 8 hours.
2. Grind Urad dal and Foxtail Millet seperately along with Methi seeds.
3. Mix the batter well with required salt and allow it to ferment.
4. Once its ferments, prepare dosas. 

Yummy Thinai Dosa is ready to serve. Onion,Garlic Redchilli + Tamarind Chutney goes well with it. 

You can try and leave your comments here.

Thanks..

Tutty Fruity Cup Cakes

I have decided to make Tutty Fruity cup cakes for the stall in our society.

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour - 2 cups
Eggs- 4
Baking powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Butter - 200 gm
Sugar - 1 cup
Tutty Fruity - how much ever u need
Milk - little

Method:

1.. Beat Butter and sugar till it becomes creamy.
2. Add eggs one by one and beat the mixture.
3. Sieve flour, baking powder, baking soda in a seperate bowl
4. Fold the flour mixture in to the butter creamy mixture slowly and mix well.
5. Add little milk to loosen the batter.
6. Pour the batter in to the cups and line up in to the cup cake mould.
7. Decorate each cup with tutty fruity.
8. Bake in a preheated oven @ 180 deg for 15 mts.

Yummy Tutty Fruity cup cakes are ready.

Vasanthi's Speciality Dates Cake

                                                                Dates Cake

 Ingredients:

Seedless honey dates – 1.9 cups

Tea bag -1

Water= 300 ml

Butter (Content with salt) – 1.9 cup

Brown sugar –  ½ lb

Sugar – ½ lb  ( You can use whole white sugar (1lb or 1.5 cup if u prefer less sugar) as well

Egg – 8 whole egg

Ravai – 1.5 cup

Wheat flour – 1/4 cup

Baking Soda = 1 tsp

Baking powder – ¾ tsp

Vanilla essence – 2 tsp

Cashews – ½ lb / 1/2 cup ( No limit for this, how much you add this item that gives taste, if you don’t like you can reduce this quantity)

Jathikkai (Nutmeg) crated – 1 tsp

Procedure:

1.Cut the dates into small small pieces.  
2.Boil the water and put the tea bag(2 tsp of tea powder)  in it.  Let the black tea warm and pour the black tea into the dates pieces.  Add the baking soda into it.  This will make the dates to be more soft.   Let it be there for 4-6 hours.  ( You can keep it for whole night too.  But definitely not less than 4 hours, but can be more than 6 hours).    
3. Now, take the butter, brown sugar, sugar and all the eggs in a bowl.  Beat very well till the butter melts nicely.    Keep this mixture separately. 
4.  Take another bowl and mix ravai, wheat flour and baking powder and mix nicely.  Keep this mixture separately.     
5. Now, add all these 3 mixture slowly into a big bowl (after 6 hours of soaking the dates).  Mix mix and mix and do it well till all 3 mixtures mix nicely.  
6. Add Vanilla essence, nutmeg  too with this mix. 
7. Then, pour this mixture into a cake tray and decorate with the cashews.  If you like mix the cashews into the above mix as well.  That’s your choice.   
8. Bake this mix for exactly 1 hour @ 350 F.    or Bake until toothpick comes clean when you pierce in the center of the cake. Now, tasty dates cake is ready for you to serve.  Enjoy the cake!