Eggless Strawberry Cake

Ingredients:

AllPurpose Flour:-2 cups

Strawberries:-3

Baking Powder:-1 tsp

Sugar:-1 cup

Milk:-1/4 cup

Softened Butter:-3 tbsp

Nuts:-to garnishMETHOD:

• Blend the strawberries and get the puree.
• Add flour,sugar,baking powder,strawberry puree,milk to softened butter and mix well to smooth batter.
• Grease a cake pan with butter and spread the batter.
• Add chopped nuts on top of batter.
• Preheat the oven at 375 and bake the cake mix for 20 min or until done.
• Dip in tooth pick and see if it comes out clean.If clean, then the cake is baked.
• Cut and serve.

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Spicy Capsicum Rice

Ingredients:
Cooked rice:-3

Ghee/oil:-2 tbsp
Mustard Seeds:-1/2 tsp
Capsicums/Bell:-Red,green yellow,orange thinly sliced.

Salt:-as per taste

Grated Coconut:-1 tbsp

Roasted peanuts:-2 tbsp
Dry red chillis:-3

Coriander seeds:-1 tbsp
Cumin Seeds:-1/2 tsp
Urad dal :-2 tsp

Curry leaves:-1 sprig

1” Cinnamon stick

METHOD:

• Heat little ghee and add urad dal and fry till brown.Add corinader seeds,red chillies,cumin,curry leaves,peanuts,cinnamon stick and roast a while and grind to a fine powder once cooled.
• Heat ghee and add mustard seeds and let them splutter.
• Add the sliced capsicums and fry them for few min. Don’t over cook them.They should be crunchy.Add salt to taste and combine well.
• Add grated coconut and spice powder and mix well.
• Add the cooked rice and combine well.
• Serve hot with any gravy or raitha.

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Chocolate Walnut Muffins

The word cake brings me back my childhood days where my mom used to bake it with help of cooker and sand.Though its preparation is a vague memory,i remembered it gulping it down eagerly to eat as much as possible.Such was the wonderful taste of it.
Gone are those conventional methods to bake a cake once oven came into picture.Back in india,though baking a cake in oven is a bit rare in household as many dont possess an oven, But here in US,baking cake is a very common sight.Here mom's make cakes for all occasions.
I had few leftover chocolate cubes and some maida.So i jus tried this simple cake recipe which turned out to be very yummy.
Ingredients:
All-purpose flour/Maida:-1 cup
Powdered sugar:-1 cup
Hersheys milk choclates:-5 cubes.
Walnuts:-1/2 cup
Baking powder:-1/2 tsp
Eggs:-2
Milk:-1/2 cup
Ghee:-1 tbsp
METHOD:

• Pre heat oven at 250.
• Beat egg and whisk it well.
• Add chocolate to milk and microwave it for 3 min.
• Disslove sugar in egg mixture and mix the flour,baking powder,chocolate milk.
• Grease a baking tray with ghee and pour in the cake mixture and spread evenly or use a muffin pan.
• Break walnuts into small pieces and sprinkle on top or mix in the cake mixture.
• Bake it for 20-25 min or until done using the toothpick test.
• Cut into pieces and serve.

TIP:Toothpick test is the test to know if the cake is completely baked or not.Take a toothpick or knife and dip it in cake.If it comes out clean without sticking,then the cake is baked well.

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