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1. In a bowl, add 1/4th cup curd, 2 Tbsp oil, Sugar - 1/2 cup and few drops of vanilla Essence. Mix everything well together. 2. Now add 1 and 1/2 cup Maida, 1/4th tsp salt, 1 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp baking soda. Now add 3/4th cup milk and Mix all ingredients well together.  3. Break few oreo biscuits into pieces. 4. In a grease baking mould, add half of the cake batter and put few oreos over it. Pour over rest of the cake batter and tap the mould to release air bubbles. 5. Bake the cake in cooker on low flame for 35 mins or until knife comes out clean.  Do not put cooker lid or whistles.  6. After the cake is baked, let it cool down and cut it into layers. 7. Now place a bowl and add 1 cup whipping cream. Place an ice bowl below the whipping cream bowl to keep the cream chilled. 8. Whip for 5 to 6 mins until peaks form. 9. Now sprinkle sugar and water mixture over each cake layer and pipe with whipped cream, 10. Take some part of the whipped cream and a...

Youtube video -  click here Full recipe of Mango Achar - Mango Pickle 1. Take 500 grams of raw mango and chop them into small pieces.  2. In a bowl, add the chopped pieces and add 1 tbsp Salt and toss or mix well to coat well. 3. In a glass jar, add salt coated mango and around 5 tbsp salt, layer each. Make sure the jar is fully dry. 4. Now cover the glass jar and leave it aside for 2 or 3 days. 5. After few days, water will release from raw mango, drain the excess water in another bowl. Add 3 cups of water in the excess water and boil the salt water until half in quantity.  6. For Masala,        Roast 1 tsp meeting for 1 min on low flame,  Add 3 tbsp rai, 3 tbsp kashmiri red hilli and 2 tbsp chilli powder and roast well for 1 min on low flame. Set it aside to cool down. 7. Now grind the masala mixture into fine powder. 8. In another pan,     heat 2 tbsp oil,      Add 1 tsp rai,     Add 12 to 15 chopped garl...

To make thick Mango Smoothie you only need 3 ingredients: Mango - 1 Curd - 4Tbsp (remove excess water from curd) and Cream - 2 tbsp Youtube video -  Click here We will not add sugar, since Mango is already sweet. You can add sugar, if u need. Mix all the ingredients in a mixer or juicrr and your thick Mango Milkshake is ready to drink.

Youtube video -  click here To make delicious and easy Mushroom recipe: 1. In a pan, add 1 tbsp oil, 2. Add 1 big onion sliced and fry until translucent in colour, 3. Add sliced garlic and fry for 1 min, 4. Add chopped garlic (4 to 5) and chopped curry leaves (6-7), 5. Add Mushroom and fry until water releases,  6. Add salt as per taste and add pepper powder,  7. Cover and cook for 2 to 3 mins and delicious Mushroom fry is ready to eat.

To make soft and delicious Managlore Buns at home follow the below steps: Youtube video recipe -  Click here 1. In a bowl, mash 1 ripe banana, 2. Add 3 to 4 tbsp sugar, as more if you like it to be more sweet. Remember, ripe banana is already sweet, 3. Add 2 tbsp curd, this helps to keep the buns soft, 4. In another bowl, add 1 cup maida, 5. Add 1 tbsp jeera, 1/2 tsp soda and 1/4th Tsp salt and mix into the flour, 6. Now add the mashed banana mixture to the flour and knead into soft dough, 7. Add more maida, if needed, 8. Keep the dough aside for minimum 8 hours, 9. After 8 hours, take small portion of the dough ball and roll into small thick puri, 10. Fry the puri In oil on medium flame, 11. Fry on both sides until brown in colour. 12. Our delicious banana bread is ready to serve.

Youtube video link -  Youtube recipe link 1. In a pan heat 2 tbsp ghee, 2. Fry dry fruits in ghee until light brown in colour, 3. In other pan, heat 4 cups of water, 4. After the water boils, add 1 cup of soaked sabudana and cook for 5 to 6 mins on low to medium flame, 5. Add the leftover puran mixture and mix well until well combined, 6. Add 3/4th cup of jaggery syrup, 7. Note that puran mixture already has sweet, 8. Add a pinch of salt and cook for another 5 mins on medium flame,  9. Add 1 cup of thick coconut milk and cardamom powder and turn off the gas, 10. Cover with a lid for 10 mins and top it up with dry fruits to serve.

PURAN POLI RECIPE 1. Soak 1 cup Channa dal for 5 to 6 hours, 2. In a cooker, add soaked channa dal, ghee (1tsp) and Turmeric powder (1/2 tsp), cook for 4 whistles until dal is soft and mushy,  3. In a pan, add cooked dal, Jaggery (1 cup), Cardamom and sugar powder (1ssp) and Nutmeg powder (1/2 tsp),  4. Cook and keep mashing the puran mixture until dry and well combined. Takes around 7 to 8 mins. 5. Put in mixer and grind to make fine paste, 6. FOR DOUGH - take Maida (1 and 1/2 cup) and wheat flour (1/2 cup), salt (pinch), Turmeric (1/4th TSP) and Oil (2 tbsp), 7. Knead into soft dough and apply oil over the ready dough and set it aside for min 30 mins, 8. After 30 mins, knead the dough again and make small dough balls, 9. Stuff the pirqn mixture in the dough and make small thin chapati, 10. Cook on both sides for 30-40 seconds on medium flame,  11. Serve with Ghee and enjoy.

Click here to see Video Steps to make modak: take a small portion from the dough, flatten the dough ball in your palms, start pinching the sides of the flattened ball from all the sides, keep pinching and pressing the sides, until it make a cavity or vati, fill the modak stuffing in the cavity or vati that we made, to make the design, pinch the sides and make a straight line till the end, do it from all the sides, once all the layers are done, rotate and gather all the layers together, once all the layers are gathered, pinch the top and close it, apply some ghee at the modak of the modak and steam in the steamer for 10-12 mins on low to medium flame.

INGREDIENTS: 1. Pomfret Fish 2. Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp 3. Red Chilli Powder - 1 tsp 4. Salt - 1 tsp For Crispy Coating: 1. Rava - 1/2 tsp 2. Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp 3. Salt - 1/2 tsp METHOD: 1. Cut pomfret fish into slices, 2. Wash the fish nicely, 3. now add masalas for coating, 4. add turmeric, red chilli and salt on the fish and coat the masalas nicely, 5. set the fish aside for min 30 mins, 6. now in other plate take, rava, red chilli powder and salt and mix well, 7. coat the fish with the rava mixture, 8. heat the tawa nicely and put 1 or 2 tbsp oil on the tawa, 9. after the oil is heated, put the fish on the tawa and fry until golden brown on both the sides, 10. POMFRET FISH IS READY TO SERVE.

PALAK PURI Ingredients: Wheat Flour - 2 cups, Salt - as per taste, Turmeric - 1/4th TSP, Red Chilli - 1/2 TSP, Coriander Powder - 1 TSP, Jeera Powder - 1/2 TSP, Garam Masala - 1/2 TSP, Chat Masala - 1/2 TSP, Palak Puree - 1 cup or as required for kneading dough Oil - 1 TSP for dough and for deep frying. Method: In a bowl, add Wheat Flour and all the masalas, mix flour and masalas well together, now slowly incorporate palak puree in batches or as required for kneading soft dough, once, kneaded set the dough aside for 15 mins, heat Oil in frying pan on medium flame, take small portion of dough and roll into small puris, deep fry the puri on medium flame until light brown colour on both the sides.  delicious PALAK PURI ready to serve!!!

INGREDIENTS: RICE - 2 CUPS POHA/AVALAKKI - 1 CUP UDDINABELLE/URAD DAL - 1 CUP WATER -1/4th cup SALT - 1 TSP METHOD: Soak 2 cups of rice in water for 4/5 hours, after soaking rice, blend it in a mixer into thick paste, soak poha/avalakki for 10/15 mins and soak udinnabelle/urad dal for 2 hours. after soaking poha/avalakki and udinnabelle/urad dal, blend in mixer into a thick paste. mix rice, poha/avalakki and udinnabelle/urad dal paste together, add 1/4th cup water to the paste and combine well, cover the dosa batter with a lid and place it aside to ferment for 8 hours or overnight, after fermentation, add 1 tsp salt and mix it well with the dosa batter, heat the dosa tawa and grease with oil/ghee after the tawa is heated, pour spoonful of batter and spread evenly, cook dosa on medium heat for 2 mins on each side until golden brown, dosa is ready to serve.

INGREDIENTS: 1. Maida - 125 grams 2. Sugar - 80 grams 3. Cocoa Powder - 35 grams 4. Coffee Powder - 1 tsp 5. Salt - 1 pinch 6. Baking Powder - 1 tsp 7. Oil - 1/4th cup 8. Milk - 1/2 cup 9. Chocolate essence - 1/4th TSP Method: 1. Preheat the cooker for 10 mins, do not put cooker whistle or ruuber on the cooker lid, 2.  Combine all the dry ingredients together - maida, sugar, cocoa powder, coffee powder, baking powder and salt, 3. add wet ingredients - oil, milk, essence and combine well to make the cake batter, 4. once the batter is ready, grease the cake mould with oil/maida or parchment paper, 5. pour the cake batter and tap the mould to release air bubbles if any, 6. Place the mould inside the cooker, over the cooker plate or salt, 7. Bake the cake for 25/30 mins on medium flame, 8. after 25 mins, insert a knife in the center to check if the cake is fully baked, 9. if the knife comes out clean, it means the cake is baked, if the cake doesnt comes out...

Ingredients: 1. Maida/All purpose flour - 1 cup 2. Curd - 1/4th cup 3. Sugar - 1/2 cup, 4. Oil - 2 tbsp, 5. Salt - 1 pinch, 6. Baking powder - 1 tsp 7. Baking soda - 1 tsp 8. Vanilla essence - 2-3 drops 9. choco chips - optional 10. Milk - 3/4th cup Method: 1. In a bowl, add curd and sugar, mix until the sugar dissolves, 2. add milk, oil and vanilla essence & combine well together, 3. Sieve Maida and salt into the wet mixture 4. now, add baking powder and banking soda 5. mix the batter well together until the batter is well combined 6. add choco chips (Optional) 7. pour the batter in the cupcake liners until 3/4th portion is covered, 8. do not over fill the cupcake liner 9. bake the cupcake at 180 degree for 20 mins, 10. you can also bake this in cooker on medium flame for 15 to 20 mins. SOFT, PUFFY AND DELICIOUS CUPCAKES ARE READY!! 

AATE KA HALWA INGREDIENTS: Wheat Flour - 1/2 cup Ghee - 1/2 cup Sugar - 1/2 cup Water - 1 cup Cashew - as desired Cardamom powder - 1 pinch. METHOD: In a saucepan or kadai take 1/2 cup sugar and 1 cup water. Stir & boil till the sugar is completely dissolved. There is no need to get thread consistency sugar syrup. Keep this aside. In another kadai heat 1/2 cup ghee.  To it add in 1/2 cup wheat flour and mix well without forming any lumps. Roast on low to medium flame stirring continuously for 15 mins.  After 15, the mixture will starts to turn golden in colour and you will smell the aroma of roasted wheat flour. Continue to stir for 5 more minutes. This will ensure that the mixture does not burn. Now i.e after 20 minutes, the mixture will turn dark golden brown in colour which means that the wheat flour has cooked completely.  Pour the sugar syrup over wheat mixture stirring continuously. Be careful as the mixture splutters. ...

Nariyal Vadi / Naralachi Vadi / Cococnut Barfi • Freshly grated  coconut – 3 cups  • Green cardamom – 5 to 6 • Sugar –1 & 1/2 cups • Pinch of salt • Clarified butter / ghee – 1 tsp Method: In a mixer, add freshly grated coconut and cardamom. Blend them to a fine mixture. 1. Heat a teaspoon full of ghee in a pan. Add fresh grated coconut & cardamom mixture. 2. Add sugar & mix.  3. Slowly cook this mixture in a very slow to medium flame till the sugar dissolves in the mixture.  4. Add a pinch of salt 7 mix. After about 10 to 15 minutes of cooking when the mixture is slightly getting solidified i.e. forming dough like consistency, the mixture is ready. 5. Pour this mixture in a parchment lined tray/  greased plate and spread evenly. 5. Keep aside and allow to cool for 1 to 2 hours. Cut them into desired shapes and Nariyal Vadi is ready to be served.

INGREDIENTS:  rava/रवा दोसा - 1 cup rice flour/चावल का आटा - 2 tbsp salt/नमक - 1/2 tsp green chilli/हरी मिर्च - 1 (as required) black pepper/काली मिर्च - pinch/as required ginger/अद्रक - 1 tsp chopped cumin/जीरा - 1 tsp cashew/काजू - as required water/पानी - 3 cups. METHOD: 1.   in a bowl, add 1 cup of rava & 2 tbsp of rice flour 2. add salt, green chilli, black pepper, ginger, cumin and cashew, 3. add 3 cups of water and mix well to make a batter, 4. for 1 cup of rava the water will be 3 cups, 5. heat the tawa and apply oil/ghee to grease the tawa, 6. once the tawa is heated, take spoonful of batter and pour it on the tawa, 7. remember - mix the batter well before pouring on the tawa so that the rava does not settles down in the bowl, 8. cook for 2/3 mins, 9. when the dosa is half cooked, sprinkle some oil/ghee. 10. when the dosa turns light brown in the centre the dosa is ready to serve.

Ingredients: I) Dry ingredients: - All Purpose flour (Maida) - 1 cup - Cinnamon Powder - 1/4 tsp (optional) - Salt - 2 pinch - Baking Powder – 1 tsp - Baking Soda – 1/4 tsp - Walnuts - 1/4 cup (chopped) II) Wet ingredients: - Brown sugar - 1/4 cup (if you don't have brown sugar, you can use white granulated sugar). - White granulated (powdered) sugar - 2 tbsp (add sugar as per you taste and considering the sweetness of the bananas) - Vegetable Oil - 1/4 cup - Yogurt - 1/4 cup - Vanilla Essence – 1/4 tsp (optional) - Banana (ripe) - 2 Method : -Preheat the oven at 180°C for 10 minutes. -Line the cake mould/ baking tin with parchment /butter paper (or you can also grease & flour the baking tin). -In a bowl mix sugar, oil and yogurt till the sugar dissolves. -Then add the vanilla essence and mashed bananas and mix to combine. - Sieve the all-purpose flour (maida) and mix/ fold in gently with the wet mixture. -Now add the flour coated walnu...

Ingredients we need to make soft and puffy wheat puri are: 1. Wheat flour - 1 cup, 2. Salt - 1/4th tsp 3. Water - 3/4th cup 4. Oil - 1 tbsp. Method to prepare dough: 1. Take 1 cup of wheat flour and 1/4th tsp salt, 2. combine the salt into the flour well, 3. now, add water into the flour as per required and knead the dough well, 4. once the dough is well kneaded, add oil into the dough and knead for another minute until well incorporated, 5. Now let the dough rest for a few mins (5/10 mins) 6, after 5/10 mins, take small portions of the dough and make puris, 7. Heat oil in a pan to deep fry the puri, 8. Keep the flame on medium/high flame, 9. once the oil is hot enough, slowly put the puri into the oil to deep fry, 10. press the top of the puri to make it puffy, 11. Our soft and puffy puris are ready to serve,

INGREDIENTS : MAIDA - 1 & 1/2 cup BAKING POWDER - 1 tsp SALT - a pinch CURD - 1/2 cup OIL - 1/2 cup SUGAR - 1 cup VANILLA ESSENCE - 1/4th tsp METHOD: In a bowl, take desired amount of tutti frutti and coat the tutti frutti with 2 tbsp of maida and keep it aside, in another bowl, add maida, baking powder and salt and combine everything well together, in a separate bowl, add curd, oil and sugar and combine everything well together, now add  the wet ingredient mixture to the dry ingredients and add vanilla essence and combine until it forms into a thick batter, now add the maida coated tutti frutti into the cake batter and combine the tutti frutti with the batter, grease the cake mould well and add the cake batter in the cake mould, tap the cake mould to release air bubbles, preheat the cooker for 10 mins  place the cooker plate inside the cooker, remove the ring from the cooker lid and cooker whistle too, now place the cake mould in the press...

Delicious and moist, flavoured with orange, this cake recipe is decadent and simple to make! INGREDIENTS: MAIDA - 1 cup CORN FLOUR - 3 tbsp BROWN SUGAR - 1/2 cup SALT - a pinch BA;KING SODA - 1 tsp  BAKING POWDER - 1/2 tsp ORANGE JUICE - 1 & 1/2 cup OIL - 1/3rd cup VINEGAR - 1 tbsp VANILLA ESSENCE - 1/4th cup ORANGE ZEST - 1 tbsp FOR ORANGE SYRUP : ORANGE SYRUP - 1 tbsp ORANGE ZEST - 1 tsp SUGAR - 3 tbsp METHOD: In a bowl add all the dry ingresients; maida, corn flour, brown sugar, a pinch of salt, baking soda and baking powder, mix all the dry ingredients well together, now in another bowl, mix all the wet ingredients: orange juice, oil, vinegar, vanilla essence and orange zest, mix wet ingredients well together and then add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, add the cake batter to a greased baking mould bake the cake for 25/30 mins at 180 degree, or you can also bake the cake in pressure cooker for 35/40 mins on medium to...