Lemon Tea Cake

Ingredients :-

1. Unsalted Butter - 8 ounce (Room Temperature)

2. Sugar - 1 1/2 cups

3. Lemon Zest - 1/3 cup

4. Lager Eggs - 4

5. All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cups

6. Baking Pwd - 1/2 tsp

7. Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

8. Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp

9. Lemon Extract - 1 tsp

10. fresh Lemon Juice - 1/4 cup

Preparation Method :-

1. Preheat your oven to 350 F Degrees .

2. Add 1 1/2 cup of sugar and lemon zest in a bowl and rub it between your fingers to release all the lemon oil into the sugar.Then add the butter into the sugar and beat it for 5 minutes.add the egg one by one and beat it for 10 minutes.

3. Now add baking soda, baking powder, vanilla extract, lemon extract and lemon juice to the mixture mentioned in the above step.then add the cake flour little by little into the mixture. then beat it for 10 minutes.

4. Evenly divide batter between the prepared pan.bake for 30-45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when checking .Do not over bake.

5. Now serve the cake with tea or coffee......

Egg Paniyaram

Ingredients:-

1. 4 Large Egg

2. 1 Onion (Finely Chopped)

3. 4 Green Chilies (Finely Chopped)

4. 1/2 cup curry leaves

5. 1 cup coriander leaves

6. 1 tbsp of pepper powder.

7. Salt to taste.

Preparation Method:-

1. Take a bowl, add the egg, onion, chilies, curry leaves, coriander leaves, pepper powder and salt to it. Then beat it very well until you get egg foam.

2. Heat paniyarm pan, add a few drops of oil in each on those cups on the paniyaram pan.

3. Pour the beaten mixture into each cup.

4. Turn to the other side once it cooked on one side.

5. Serve it hot as a evening snack, would be good with a cup of hot Tea or Coffee.

Dan Dan Noodles

Ingredients : -

1. Egg Noodles - 1 pound

2. canola oil - 2 tsp

3. Chili paste - 2 tsp

4. Ground chicken - 1 cup

5. Green onion - 1/4 cup

6. Peanuts (dry roasted) - 3 tbsp

7. Salt to taste.

Sauce Ingredients : -

1. Soy Sauce - 4 tbsp

2. Vinegar - 2 tbsp

3. sugar - 1tsp.

Garnish :-

1. Cucumber

2. Bean sprouts.

Preparation Method : -

1. Combine all sauce ingredients and set aside.

2. Cook noodles in boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain the water and keep aside.

3. Cook the ground chicken and salt for 10 minutes or until done.

4. Heat the pan add 1tsp of oil . sear chili paste and green onion for 5 seconds to release flavors.add the cooked chicken tossing and stirring for 10 seconds . add the sauce cook for 1 minute. then add the cooked noodles into the mixer and mix well. Then garnish with peanuts.

5. Now serve the noodles with cucumber and beans sprouts.

Steamed Mango Dumplings

Ingredients :-

1. Mango Bulbs(chopped) - 1 cup

2. Jaggery (scraped) - 1/2(adjust according to taste)

3. Freshly grated coconut - 1/2 cup

4. Rice flour - 1 cup

5. Cardamom pwd - 1/2 tsp

6. Banana leaves - as required.

Preparation Method :-

1. Melt jaggery in 1/4 cup of water .Remove the impurities.

2. Make a smooth paste of mango pieces without adding any water.

3. In a big bowl add mango paste, jaggery syrup and coconut Mix well with your hand.

4. Add rice flour little by little and make a smooth dough.It should not too thick or too loose.

5. Now take the leaf (banana leaf) and make cones with it and fill the dough inside.

6. Bend the top of the leaves and press inside to cover the top . Use toothpicks to keep the leaves closed.

7. steam it around 30-45 minutes or till its done.

Chicken Dum Biryani

Ingredients :-

1. Chicken - 1 pound

2. Basmati Rice - 2 cup

3. Yogurt - 1/2 cup

4. Onion - 1(chopped)

5. Lime Juice - 1/2 of the Lemon

6. Ginger Garlic paste - 1tbsp

7. Green Chilies - 3

8. Red chili Pwd - 1 tsp or to taste

9. Coriander Pwd - 1 tsp

10. Turmeric Pwd - 1/4 tsp

11. Bay Leaf - 2

12. Cinnamon - 1 inch stick

13. Cardamoms - 3

14. Cloves - 4

15. Saffron - 1/4 tsp

16. Coriander Leaves - 1/4 cup (chopped)

17. Mint Leaves - 1/4 cup(chopped)

18. Salt to taste.

Preparation Method : -

1. Marinate the Chicken with yogurt, red chili pwd, coriander pwd, turmeric pwd, ginger garlic paste, bay leaf, cinnamon stick, cloves, cardamom,coriander leaves,mint leaves and salt for 1 hour.

2. Cook the basmati rice with enough salt, till half done and drain the water and keep it aside.

3. Soak the saffron strands in 1 tsp warm milk and keep it aside.

4. Fry 1/2 of the onion slices to golden brown and add the marinated chicken to it.

5. Fry remaining onion to golden brown and keep aside.

6. Now its time to arrange chicken and rice in layers, one layer of chicken and two layer of rice. In a heavy flat bottom pan pour 1tbsp of oil and make to spread all over the pan's surface, arrange the marinated chicken and sprinkle some oil on top of the chicken .

Arrange 1/2 the boiled rice on the marinated chicken , sprinkle fried onions and 1/2 saffron milk.

Repeat the above step for the last layer ,I.e arrange the last layer of rice and fried onions and saffron milk.

7. Now we need to seal the container and make it air tight so that the steam doesn't escape when we cook.

8. Cook biryani for 15-25 minutes on medium flame.

9. Mix the rice and chicken and serve it hot with raita or chicken gravy........

Rava Idli

Ingredients :-

1. Semolina (Rava) - 1 cup

2. Yogurt - 1 cup

3. Warm Water - 1/2 cup

4. Chana Dal - 1 tsp

5. Urad Dal - 1 tsp

6. Green Chilies- 3 Chopped

7. Eno Fruit salt - 3/4 tsp

8. Mustard Seed - 1/2 tsp

9. oil - 2 tsp

10. Tomato - 4 Slices

11. Salt to taste.

Preparation Method :-

1. Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan. Roast rava in it stirring continuously till nice aroma comes out and you can see some golden grains. Turn off heat and take rava out of pan to pervent it from overcooking.

2. Heat 1 tsp oil in a pan add mustard seeds, Let them splutter.Add chana dal and Urad dal roast it for a minute.

3. Add green chilies and saute for a minute. Turn it off the heat.

4. Add this mixture to rava along with salt.Then add rava mixture to yogurt and warm water and mix it well. Let soaked for about 20 minutes.

5. Just before steaming add Eno fruit salt to the batter.

6. Grease each mould of the idli stand and put 1 tomato slice the bottom of each mould. Put the batter in each mould taking care not to overfill it as space is need for idli to swell in size.

7. Put 1 inch water in a pressure cooker and place idli stand in a pressure cooker and cook covered without the whistle for 10 - 15 minutes.

8.Now serve with coconut chutney & tomato chutney....

Appam

Ingredients:-

1. Raw Rice - 2 cup

2. Urad Dal - 1/2 cup

3. Coconut(grated) - 1 cup

4.Baking Soda - 1 pinch

5.Salt to taste .

Preparation Method : -

1. Soak Rice and Dal for 4-6 hours. pour limited water and grind the all ingredients together.

2.Allow it to ferment for 8-10 hours.

3.head the kadai and pour better on it and rotate the kadai in all directions so that batter remains thick at the center and thinner in the edges.

4. Now apply a tsp of oil all around the appam.

5. Now serve the appam with coconut milk or chicken curry.....