Food Food and More Food : Apple cookies

Food Food and More Food : Apple cookies: Sometimes I end up buying things that I don't like...one of such things is apples. I hate raw apple and stewed apples are so b...

Apple cookies

Sometimes I end up buying things that I don't like...one of such things is apples. I hate raw apple and stewed apples are so boring. I had some 6 apples at home. Didn’t want to throw them away or I want to juice them... How to use them was a big question. So my friend suggested Apple cookies. Here is to you Prachi!!

Here is what you need:

• ¾ cup grated Apple 

• 1 cups All-Purpose Flour 

• 1/3 cup light brown Sugar 

• 1/2 cup butter

• 1 tablespoon ground almond

• 1/4 cup corn flour

And here is how you go about what to do with ingredients

• Combine all ingredients into a smooth dough

• Roll out the dough to 1/2" thickness.

• Cut the cookies into desired shape

• preheat the oven at 200 degrees C for 8 mins

• Bake the cookies for about 10-12 mins at 190 degrees till they are just cooked or golden brown

 

Banana cake

So What do you do when you have very ripe bananas and no one is willing to finish them off??? I wondered and wondered. Didn't want to indulge in cake and stuff but then came across a recipe which used less oil and less sugar. hmmmmm.....Interesting :-)

So I set myself up for not more then 8 mins for this job and voila the result is below. Of Course it doesn't include the baking time.

What you need is a cup of All Purpose flour i e maida, 1 tbsp  olive oil,3 very ripe bananas,demerara sugar about 1/4 cup or as sweet as you like, 1 heaped tsp of baking powder and 2 small pinches of baking soda

Sieve APF,Baking powder and soda twice. Setup your blender, put sugar,oil, peeled bananas all in the blender. Blend for 3-4 mins or till the mixture is very fluffy.To this fluffy mixture add the dry ingredients in batches. I did 2 batch and keep whipping.

Mixture has to be smooth and pouring consistency. Add milk if need be and blend.

In the meantime preheat the oven for 10 mins at 200 degrees.

Prepare the cake tin.

Add the mixture to prepared tin and bake for about 20 mins at 190 degrees. Result will be as below:

Not glamorous enough? dust it with icing sugar.

Better now? gorge on gorgeous guitfree :-)

Amul Khandvi

Amul Khandvi:

Ingredients:
1. Amul Masti butter milk - 2.5 cups
2. Gram flour /Besan - 1 cup
3. ginger/green chili paste - 2 tsps
4. Salt to taste
5. Lemon juice to taste
6. Coriander for garnish

For tempering:
1. Oil - 1 tbsp
2. Mustard seeds - 2 tsps
3. Cumin seeds - 2 tsps
4. Asafetida – 2 pinches

Preparation

•    Mix Besan, Buttermilk, ginger&green chili paste, salt, lime juice.
•    Ensure there are no lumps in the batter. This will be a very runny.
•   ]Take a Wok. Add 1 tsp of oil. Add the batter prepared above
•    Turn the heat on.
•    Stir continuously till the mixture thickens and starts leaving side.
•    Turn the heat to lowest.
•    Take 2 medium ladles full of the thickened batter and spread on the prepared tins.
•     Spread as thin as possible and allow to cool
•     Cut long strips of the spread batter on the plate
•     Roll the stripes in Khandvi shape

Tempering:

• Heat oil in the tadka pan
• Add mustard seeds. Allow to splutter completely
• Add cumin seeds. Allow to turn light brown
• Add asafetida

Now spread this seasoning evenly on the khandvis. Top with chopped green coriander

Garlic Sauteed Broccoli and Carrot

Garlic Sauteed Broccoli and  Carrot 

Garlic Sauteed Broccoli and Carrot

 Ingredients:

• Fresh Broccoli florets : 150 grams
• Carrots cut in long bites and parboiled:100 grams
• Garlic Cloves: 5
• Olive oil : 1tsp

Preparation:

• Heat oil in a Wok
• Crush the garlic clove roughly(I used a rolling pin to do this)
• Add this to the medium hot oil. Saute for 20 secs
• Add the veggies and put the flame to high.
• Cover for 3-4 secs and stir.Do this twice
• turn off the heat and the veggies be covered for 2 mins
• Remove into a bowl and cover with regular grated cheese.
• Microwave for 1 min.
• Serve and/or eat immediately

You can see from the pic i couldn't wait to grate or wait for cheese to melt.Believe me  it is equally delicious even without cheese

Chickpea Sprouts,Spinach and Cucumber Salad

Chickpea sprouts, Spinach and Cucumber salad:

Chickpea Sprouts,Spinach and Cucumber Salad

Ingredients:

For Dressing:

• Dijon mustard - 5tsp
• honey -3 tsp
• Lemon juice -1.5tbsp
• Olive Oil - 1.5  tablespoon
• Salt ,pepper - to taste

  For Salad:

•  Chickpea sprouts (pressure cooked for 1 Whistle- 100 grams
•  Spinach  shredded roughly - 1 bunch (or more if you like)
•  European cucumber thinly sliced - 1 cup

Preparation:
1. Mix all the ingredients for dressing and whisk till oil is mixed properly with all ingredients
2. In the salad bowl, mix the chickpeas,spinach and cucumber and cover with cling film
3. Refrigerate for 20 minutes
3. Add the dressing to above ingredients.
4. Add pepper to taste and mix well
5. Add salt to taste and serve

I am not a big fan of spinach and idea of eating it raw was even more appalling somehow this combination works .Try and tell me how you liked it.

Charred Capsicum and feta cheese salad

Charred Capsicum and feta cheese salad

Charred Bell peppers and Feta Salad

Ingredients:

For dressing:

• Lemon juice - 1tbsp
• Olive oil - 1/2tbsp
• Salt - to taste
• black pepper - to taste

For Salad:

• Charred red pepper (peeled and diced) - 1 cup
• Charred yellow peppers( (peeled and diced) - 1 cup
• Chilled ice berg lettuce (torn in bite size pieces) - 2handfuls
• Feta cheese crumbs - to your liking

Preparation:
1. Mix all ingredients of the dressing
2. Put all ingredients of the salad excluding the lettuce
3. Put the salad ingredients under microwave for 15 secs
4. Take the salad out of microwave. Add and dressing and mix.
5. Mix the chilled crisp lettuce and serve immediately.

I specially like the warm and chilled combination of charred capsicum and chilled crunch of lettuce.Make sure you preserve both when you are ready to serve to enjoy most.