Murgh Kaju / Cashew Chicken

I know, I am taking long breaks now a days. It has been 2 weeks again since I have blogged. Though I am not posting often, I am trying to visit all your blogs and your yummy recipe. So, now am back with this simple and spicy Kaju Chicken.

Ingredients: Chicken - 2 Lb

Coconut grated – ½ cup

Garlic Cloves - 8

Ginger – 1 ½ Tb spoon

Coriander seeds – 3 Tb spoon

Cumin seeds – 2 tsp

Red chillis – 6

Cloves – 5

Cinnamon stick – 1 inch

Cashew – ¾ cup

Onions – 1 cup (chopped)

Pepper corns – 1 tsp

Butter – 2 Tb spoon Method:

• Soak red chilies in hot water for 10 minutes.
• Roast separately coconut, garlic, ginger, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, peppercorns, cloves and cinnamon over low heat until it leaves a nice aroma.
• Add cashew and onions and roast altogether for 10 min.
• Turn off the heat and let it cool.
• Grind all the above ingredients.
• Heat butter in a pan, add ground spice and fry for 10 min.
• Add chicken pieces, salt and little water and cook until tender.
• Serve with rice, roti / chapathi or poori.

Yummy and spicy Kaju Chicken goes to "Potluck - Chicken" hosted by Vicky.

PS: Adjust the spices according to your spice level. You can add water according to the thickness needed.

Have a nice week ahead.

Eggless Apple - Banana Muffins

Hello Everybody ! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Last week we were feeling like summer has started as it was burning with 95 deg temp already. Weekend was cloudy and cool, today we had thunderstorm warning. The weather is crazy, can't predict or plan anything. We did not send our daughter to school today as it was raining very heavily, she enjoyed her long weekend and by evening, she wanted to go to school :-).

Last weekend, one of our friends planned a picnic to a park so that everybody can meet and kids also can have fun together. We were not sure about the weather, as it was raining in the morning and by afternoon it was hot and very humid. We decided by afternoon to meet around 4:00 pm. So, we all decided to make something light and healthy snacks/dinner. I made this egg less muffins as a dessert. Kids enjoyed playing, all men enjoyed talking about their usual stuff and also looking after the kids, we (ladies) walked a small trail talking when the trail will end :-). Totally, everybody had a great time with nice dinner.

So, coming to the muffin, it is quick and easy to make in short amount of time. I made two batches, one with chocolate chips for the kids and the other without them for adults.

Ingredients:

Apple finely chopped - 1

Big ripe banana - 1

Raisins - 1/2 cup

Pecans - 1/2 cup (toasted and chopped roughly)

Flax seed powder - 1 Tb spoon (optional)

Plain flour - 1 cup

Wheat flour - 1 cup

Sugar - 1 - 1 1/4 cup (I have added 1 cup)

Baking powder - 3/4 tsp

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Cinnamon powder -1/4 tsp

Milk - 1 cup

Butter - 3/4 cup

Lemon juice - 1/2 Tb spoon

Chocolate chips – 1 cup (Optional)

Method:

• Toast pecans at 350 deg for few min, then cool and chop roughly.
• Sieve dry ingredients together 2-3 times.
• Melt butter in large bowl, add milk and gently fold in dry ingredients.
• Smash banana, and sprinkle lemon juice over it to avoid it from turning black.
• Peel the skin of apple and chop to very small pieces and sprinkle lemon juice.
• Add raisins, banana and apples, mix very lightly.
• Mix in chopped pecans and chocolate chips.
• Keep mixture a bit lumpy, and do not mix too much.
• A lumpy batter makes better muffins.
• Pour spoonfuls of mixture greased in muffin trays, or in small cups.
• Bake in preheated oven at 350 deg C for 20 minutes or till done.
• Serve hot or cold. Makes: 18-20 cup sized muffins.

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Have a great week !!

Egg less Chocolate – Praline Buttons

Eggless Chocolate - Praline Buttons, goes to Madhuram's "Egg substitute-Yogurt" event.

It also goes to Srilekha's "EFM-Cookies" event and also to Poornima Nair's "For the love of Chocolate" event. Thank You for hosting the events.

Ingredients: Pecans – ½ cup Unsalted Butter – ½ cup(1 stick) Sugar – ¾ cup Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp Milk – 1 Tb spoon Yogurt - ¼ cup (Egg Substitute) (Or Egg – 1)

Flax Seed powder - 1 Tb spoon (Optional) Flour – 1 ¼ cup Unsweetened cocoa powder – ¼ cup Salt – ¼ tsp Baking powder – ¼ cup Semisweet chocolate chips – 1 cup Pecans for decorating – ½ cup

Method:

• Preheat oven to 350 deg F.
• Spread ½ cup pecans evenly on a baking sheet .
• Bake, stirring once or twice, until lightly browned and fragrant, 5 – 10 min.
• Remove from oven and let cool. Chop coarsely.
• In a large bowl, cream butter until light and fluffy.
• Gradually add sugar, eating until light.
• Add yogurt (Egg substitute), vanilla, and milk; beat thoroughly.
• In a small bowl, blend flour, cocoa, salt and baking powder.
• Add to the butter mixture and stir well to combine.
• Stir in chocolate chips and toasted pecans.
• Drop in teaspoons or table spoons (or a small ice cream scoop) onto a parchment sheet.(Don't worry about the shape, natural is just fine)
• Top with pecans halves.
• Bake for 8 – 10 min or until done. Let cool on a wire rack.
• Enjoy soft and yummy cookies.

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Sprouted Pulses Rotti

I just realized that, it has been long since I have posted anything. So, am back with a simple and healthy rotti. All Kannadigas know about rotti usally made from rice flour. This is done without any flour in it. When I was speaking with my MIL, she told me that she had added pulses for the rotti. So, thought of trying it with my own twist to it. I just soaked all the pulses that I had, sprouted it and made rotti with it without adding any flour. Just added all the ingredients that you add for the plain rotti. You can also make dosa instead of rotti. I could not believe that it would taste that good. It is a must try...

Ingredients:

Hesarukalu / Green Moong dhal – 1 cup Bili Halasandi /Black Eyed peas – ½ cup Kadalekalu /Brown Channa Dal – ½ cup Red Kidney Beans – ¼ cup Onion – 1 big (Chopped finely) Green chili – 2 -3 (adjust according to your spice) Ginger – 1 tsp (grated) Cumin / Jeera – 1 tsp Dill leaves – ½ cup (chopped finely) (optional) Coriander leaves – 1/4 cup (chopped finely) Curry leaves – 2 Tb spoon Salt Method :

• Soak all the pulses overnight with enough water.
• Next day remove all the water and allow it to get sprouted for 1-2 days.
• Grind all sprouted pulses with as little water as possible.
• Add the chili too while grinding.
• Mix onion, dill, coriander leaves, curry leaves, cumin, salt and ginger.
• On a plastic paper apply little oil, then take a ball size of the dough, spread it evenly with hand till it is thin and the size of a chapati.

• Keep dipping your hands in water while spreading to avoid any sticking.
• Fry on a hot tava on both sides until brown.
• Serve hot with any chutney or plain yogurt with pickle or just by itself.

Sprouted Pulses Rotti, goes to Cococooks who is guest hosting "MLLA-10th helping", an event which is started by Susan. PS:

• You can add any pulses you have.
• If it becomes too watery, don't worry. mix little rice flour to it or you can convert it to dosa.
• You can either grind chillis along with piulses or you can just chop it up later.
• You can add any veggies along with it.