salad/ koshimbir

Koshimbir in maharashtra is a must have side with lunch. Its a salad where in all ingredients are grated or finely chopped so as to consume more quantity and more ingredients instead of just picking up one single at one time.

There is no set rule for what to add.
this is a simple example to add the basic salad ingredients...

onions -2 finely chopped
cucumber - 2 finely chopped
tomatoes - 2 finely chopped
carrots - 2 finely chopped
reddish -1 finely chopped
cabbage - 1/4th or say 1/2 cup finely chopped

green chilies 2-3 finely chopped
coriander - 2 tbsp finely chopped
salt, pepper sugar to taste

all this can be just mixed and eaten or we can temper it with 1 sp oil n rai or
to enhance taste add curd to it.

Chilly coriander chutney

Chilly coriander chutney

Ingredients

coriander - clean n cut approx 2 cups
green chillies - 5-6 as per spicy taste
cumin seeds/ zeera - 2 tsp
salt to taste
lemon juice of one lemon

Grind all in  a mixer pot to fine paste and squeeze lemon juice

chocolate cake

The Basic simple yum chocolate cake....everyone's favourite...

So what we need...

Ingredients

Flour/ Maida        - 1.5 cup
Baking Powder    - 1 tsp
Cocoa powder      - 2 tpsp
Coffee pdr            - 1 tsp
Eggs                     - 4 numbers
powdered sugar   - 1 cup
vanilla essence    - 1 tsp

How to bake chocolate cake...

Add sugar, then oil and then eggs one by one in a bowl or mixing pot.

side by side seive flour + cocoa powder + baking powder and coffee.

No pre heat oven for 15 mins at 180° C in convection mode.

Now add flour mixture to oil egg mixture and beat a little more

Now bake cake for 45 minutes in oven.

Chocolate cake

The Basic simple yum chocolate cake....everyone's favourite...

So what we need...

Ingredients

Flour/ Maida        - 1.5 cup
Baking Powder    - 1 tsp
Cocoa powder      - 2 tpsp
Coffee pdr            - 1 tsp
Eggs                     - 4 numbers
powdered sugar   - 1 cup
vanilla essence    - 1 tsp

How to bake chocolate cake...

Add sugar, then oil and then eggs one by one in a bowl or mixing pot.

side by side seive flour + cocoa powder + baking powder and coffee.

No pre heat oven for 15 mins at 180° C in convection mode.

Now add flour mixture to oil egg mixture and beat a little more

Now bake cake for 45 minutes in oven.

Suggested serving - Coffee liquour poured on cake adds taste to this cake
Coffee liquor - 1/2 spoon coffee + 4sp grounded sugar + 1 cap rum.

How to keep coriander fresh for long......

Ready to go in dryer

Coriander is my weakness and keeping it fresh for longer is a challenge....so here i share a secret tip shared by my mom to keep the garnishing green for longer...

 

After bringing coriander home clean it, if its too much soiled with mud then give it a clean wash now its wet....so what to do?
    

Yes now cover it up in a clean muslin cloth you can use an old saree or dupatta piece and then put it in dryer of your washing machine....

YES you heard it right...put the cloth with coriander in dryer and move it for say a minute and voilla the coriander is dry and clean so its basically dry-cleaned...

now clean it further as per your requirement and again take separate similar piece of cloth and fold coriander in it and put it in an air tight box/ tumbler and there its ready to stay in fridge/ refrigerator with longer freshness intact inside...for the lovely green to garnish your dishes....

Eggless cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups whole wheat flour/ flour
• 2 cups sugar/ shakkar
• 3/4 cup - 1 cup refined oil
• 1 cup curd
• 1/2 Tbsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 Tbsp soda bicarbonate (meetha soda)
• 1-2 Tbsp cinnamon powder
• Water / milk to be added according to the consistency of the batter
• A handful of walnuts, raisins, almonds as per choice

Method 

1. Pre-heat the oven to 200 degrees Celcius.

2. Mix curd and oil together in a bowl ( you can use blender, whisker or even a mixie pot) and.... Then mix the dry ingredients(flour, BP and BS) into this bowl and fold well. 

3. Mix it till dripping consistency, adding water/milk  if needed. 

4. Grease the bottom of a baking dish and sprinkle lil flour on it and pour the batter in pot. 

5. Now bake at 170 degrees C for 1 hour and keep checking at intervals with a knife.

6. Cut and serve when cool.

snack cones

how to make snack cones...well this is how...

They are easy to eat and as one picks cone so no spoon is required.

We need-

• Green Gram Sprouts - 1 cup 
• [for sprouts soak green dal overnight and then spread on seive and cover with damp cloth for 2 days and keep on soaking cloth in between, if the climate is normal sprouts will pop in 24 hrs
• If you don't want raw sprouts, steam it for three minutes and it will become soft; or microwave all the vegetables for a minute or two.  

• Chopped onion - 1
• Chopped Ginger - 2 tsp
• Chopped Capsicum - Green, Yellow, Red - 1/2 cup as per availability
• Chopped Tomato - 1 cup
• Chopped Cucumber - 1 cup
• Grated or finely chopped Carrot - 1 cup
• Salt as required
• Lemon Juice - 1 tsp
• Pepper Powder - 1 tsp
• Chaat Masala - 1 tsp
• we can add nuts to add crunch to it.  

  
Method

• Mix all the ingredients and fill in canapes. 
• i made canapes at home in cone style.
• At the time of serving, add puffed rice or sev, tomato sauce, sweet chutney, boiled potato and so on.