Homemade Chocolate

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Many parents from our group pinged me in private for the recipe of the homemade chocolate.
Here it goes.......... This Tasted like Diary milk. Very easy choco sweet which can be made in just  10 mins and satisfy the kids chocolate craving sensation. Big hit at our home

Ingredients:
Milk powder 200 gms
Sugar  3/4th cup to 1 cup
Cocoa powder 3 tblspoon
Butter  3 tblspoon (shoul be in room temperature, should not be hard)
Water 1/2 cup
Chopped nuts like Cashew or walnut or peanut

Method:

Mix dry Cocoa powder and milk powder. without any lumps in a bowl
Greese a plate with ghee and keep it ready to pour the sweet mixture
Heat a heavy bottom pan and add water and sugar.
Boil till you achieve one string consistency (to find this, put a drop of this mixture in a small cup of water, it should not get dissolved, it should settle and for a small ball).
Once it attains this consistency, put the butter and mix well.
Pour the cocoa mixture immediately after the butter melts.
Mix well, do not add excess water, it will look as if the water content is less.
Exactly after 2 min, pour the sweet mixture to the greesed plate and spread
after 5 mins jus draw markings with a knife or a pizza cutter
Allow it to cool completely and then remove it into pieces.
Canbe kept for more than 5 days when refrigirated..

Let me know your feedback after trying the same

Bonda

Bonda is a easy and authentic recipe , it doesnt need lots of ingredients. Sometimes when i want to make vada in auspicious days, it will not comes out well , during that time Ill jus add some pepper and curry leaves and make is it as bonda.

Ull Need :

1. Urud dhall - 2 cups
2. Greenchilly - 1
3. Pepper - 10 - 12
4. Curry leaves
5. Salt
6. Oil for frying

Method :

1. Soak Urud dhall in Hot water for 20 min.
2. Drain all the water and transfer it to a mixie jar.
3. Add salt and green chilly and grind well to a smooth paste.
4. Add water only if necessary. When u take a small portion it must drop like a ball,
5. Put this mixture in a bowl and mix it with pepper and chopped curry leaves.
6. Heat oil in a kadai.
7. Take a small portion from the mixture and drop it in the kadai.
8. You can take the mixture from the bowl with your hand or a spoon.
9. Turn both sides and fry till golden brown.
10. It will taste very good when served with Coconut chutney.

Birds Nest

This is another recipe which my son likes very much mainly due to its appearance and name. When you tell birds nest it will open your ears jus to know what this dish is all about, but its actually a easy and tasty dish .
It will be crunchy out side due to the semiya and soft inside due to the potatoes. The peas which is in the middle will look like eggs in the nest. This is a very attractive starter for a party and you can also have it as a snack.
Let do this interesting recipe.

Ull Need :

1. Potatoes - 3

2. Peas - 1 cup

3. Coriander - 1/2 cup
4. Pudina - 1/2 cup
5. Dhania powder - 1 tsp
6. Garam masala - 1tsp
7. Jeera powder -1 tsp
8. Finely chopped green chilly
9. Roasted Semiya - 1 cup
10. Maida Flour - 1 tbsp
11. Salt
12. Oil for frying

Method :

1. Boil peas seperately and drain the water.

2. Boil Potatoes in cooker and mash well.

3. Add Chopped Pudina and coriander, Dhania Jeera , Garam masala and mix well

4. Then add green chilly and salt mix evenly

5. Pinch out 2 small ball from the potato and make a hole in the center of 1 ball as shown in pic

6. Drop few peas and close it with the other ball.

7. Make three or four and keep it aside

8. Spread semiya in a plate 

9. Mix maida in water. 

10. Drop the ball in maida mixture and roll it over the semiya.

11. See to that the semiya ia covered fully on the ball.

12. Heat oil in a pan and fry these balls

13. Cut these balls in the middle.

14. It will be as if there are green eggs in a nest.

Carrot Chutney

Today I had planned to make dosa for Breakfast, When I was thinking for some  sidesdish for these dosas , I remembered seeing carrot chutney in a cookery show. I had bought lots of carrots the previous day , so I planned to do this carrot chutney for dosas. This chutney became a hit in my house. My husband couldnt believe that the chutney was made with carrot.

Ull Need :

1. Carrot - 2
2. Urud dhall - 1 tblsp
3. Red chilies - 2 or 3
4. Tamarind - 1 small piece
5. Salt to taste
6. Oil - 2 tsp

Method :

1. Grate carrots in a grater and keep it aside
2. Heat oil in a pan and add urud dhall and red chillies
3. Once the dhall changes its colour ,transfer to a plate and allow it to cool.
4. Now in the same pan jus fry the grated carrotfor 2 min in the remaining oil
5. Add the tamarind give a mix and add it to the dhall
6. Once it cools add salt and grind it in a mixie.
7. Your carrot chutney is ready

Beetroot Sandwich

Beetroot is a vegetable which my son will not take just because it is pink in colour. As per his perception pink belongs to girls. Whenever I take beetroot he'll say NO. Even if he says no as a mom I have to make him eat as beetroot is very good for blood circulation and its a grerat source of Fibre and you cannot avoid colour in any beetroot recepes. So I thought Ill stuff it in a bread and give it to him, so that he can get the goodness of this Pink Vegetable. Let me share this nutritious recipe to you all and especially to mothers who have sons.

Serves 2

Ull Need :

1. Bread slices - 8  

2. Onions - 1  Chopped

3. Beetroot - 1 Grated

4. Carrot - 1 Grated

5. Dhania powder - 1/2 tsp

6. Jeera Powder - 1/2 tsp

7. Pepper - 1/4 tsp

8. Greenchilly - 1 Chopped (Can avoid if its for kids)

9. Coriander leaves

10. Salt

11. Butter for toasting

12. Cheese slices - 4 (optional)

Method : 

1. Take a bowl Mix Onion, Beetroot, Carrot, Dhania, Jeera, Pepper powder and green chilly and salt

2. Now add Coriander leaves and mix well

3. Take the bread slices apply butter on both the sides

4. Spread the beetroot filling.

5. Place the cheese slice

6. Close it with another bread and apply butter on the top side

7. Stuff the filling for the other breads also and keep it ready.

8. Preheat the toaster and place the bread slices and toast it

9. If you do not have a toaster Heat a tawa place the bread pour little ghee or oil and press the top side of the bread with the ladle turn the bread and press again.

10. Cut the slices into half and serve with sauce  

Linking this to Lets Cook # 17 - Breads

Corn Tikki and Balls

Corn Tikkis are very easy, innovative and healthy dish. If there is a surprise guest in your house and if you do not have anything to give them, please try this out.  Give them a juice or a coffee and then start doing Corn tikki's. Including preparation time this will take jus 15 min. But the main thing is that you must have sweet corn at home. I generally have a extra packet of sweet corn as it stays for a longer time. Come lets try this quick recope now

Ull Need :

1. Sweet Corn - 2 cups
2. Coriander leaves (chopped) - 1 cup
3. Fried channadhal(Pottu Kadalai) - 1/2 cup
4. Green chilly - 1 or 2
5. Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
6. Jeera - 1 tsp
7. Garam masala -1 tsp
8. Maida (all pupose flour) - 1tblsp
9. Salt
10. Oil

Method : 

1. Thaw or wash sweet corn
2. In a mixie jar add chopped Coriander leaves, jeera, Fried channa dhall, ginger garlic paste, greenchilly and grind them coarsly.
3. Now add the sweet corn to the jar and grind very little coarsly.
4. Shift to a bowl and add salt and garam masala.
5. Add little maida mix well and see if you are able to make balls or tikkis(add more maida if reqd)
6. For making Tikkis
7. Heat Non stick tawa
8. Take a small pinch from the mixture and flatten it in your hand and place it in the tawa
9. Jus pour few drops of oil around the tikkis. Do four or five at a time.
10. Wait for 2 min and turn the tikkis and again grease the tikkis with oil
11. The tikkis are soft turn it carefully so that it doesnt break.

                                            

1. To make balls jus roll mixture into small balls and deep fry them.My son loves it when its deep fried as it will be crispy outside and soft inside.
2. This goes well with chilly sauce as corn have a sweet taste by nature.

Corn flour Halwa

One day our close family friend called me and told that they will come to our house in half an hour, but I did not have any sweet at home. There was not much time for me to make a sweet and I was not able to go out as both my kids were small. Suddenly I remembered that my mother in law used to make a halwa in jus 15 min. So I called her and asked the correct measurement and receptive of that halwa. It really came out well. Easiest and fastest sweet. You jus need corn flour at home. Our friend came and thought that it was pumpkin halwa from a sweet shop. And when I said it was made by me they were really shocked. Let me share the secret recipe with you.

     Ull need : 

Corn flour - 3 cups
Sugar - 3 cups
Water - 4 cups
Cashew - 4(cut into small pieces)
Badam - 4(cut into small pieces)
Kesari powder (or) Orange colour
Ghee - 3 spoons

Method :

In a Kadai add a tsp of ghee and fry cashew and badam till golden brown and keep it aside
Take 3 cups of corn flour and Add kesari powder
Out of the 4cups of water take 3 cups of water and mix it with corn flour without any lumps.
Now in a Kadai add the left out 1cup of water and add the sugar and stir well The sugar should completely get dissolved.
Meanwhile take the tray in which you are going to pour the sweet and grease it with ghee
When there is no sugar granules add the corn flour mixture (Jus mix the corn flour before adding because corn flour tends to settle at the bottom)
Stir continnuously for jus jus 5 min Add cashew and badam to it and mix well for 5 more min.
When it becomes thick and starts becoming like a jelly(do not wait till it becomes like jelly)jus pour I the greased tray.
Do not keep the mixture for long time in the gas as if it is overcooked it will become like rubber.
That's all your Halwa is ready in jus 10 min without any vigorous and continues stirring. I am sure no one will believe if you say that this is a sweet made in 10 min.