Home made hair oil :)

Hi All,

This one is a special home made hair oil which is patented :) My mom gets the credit for it..
I am using it from past couple of months and must say I can see the difference:)

Ingredients :

Coconut oil
Curry leaves
Tea Powder
Methi Seeds
Hibiscus Flower and Leaf
Tulsi leaves/Basil
Jeera/cumin seeds
Ekpan- this is a special kind of leaf which is available in coastal belt

Add all the above mentioned ingredients and boil them.
The color of the oil should turn into black, there is a soothing aroma which fills the air.
Strain the oil and let it cool.

When applying, just heat the oil a bit and apply:)
Believe me its miraculous :)

Chocolate cake

Got this recipe from a dear friend of mine :) I call it Anne's Dark Chocolate cake :)

Anne's Dark chocolate Cake :

• 150 gms baking sugar (if u r not icing the cake, add 75 gm sugar or alternate with sweetened chocolate instead)
• 125 cooking butter softened or sunflower oil (I don't like butter so I use oil-125 ml)
• 2-3 eggs
• 1/4 cup milk or curds
• 250 ml water
• 90 gms unsweetened chocolate melted or 50 gms coco powder
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla essence
• dried & finely chopped orange peel - 2 tsp
• 225 gms baking-maida
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder & cooking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 spoon Nescafe coffee powder (instant)

Sieve the flour, sugar, baking powder & soda together atleast twice so that there r no knots in the flour mix. Beat the white of the eggs 1st till frothy, then add the butter. Next add the egg yolk & mix well. Add the other ingredients in any order. Mix in the orange peel last.

In conventional oven, set microwave mode & bake in a 5 min pre-heated oven, for 7 minutes.

Cream:

In a double wall vessel, heat the following on low flame.

Tip - all ingredients should be at room temperature.

125 ml water
30 gms dark sugar
175 cooking butter
300 gms dark sweetened chocolate (melt)

Chicken Chilly

Ingredients:Chicken – ½ kg, boneless, cut into 1-inch pieces

Onion – 2, medium size, finely sliced

Ginger garlic paste

Tomato – 1, big size, fully ripe, pureed; or alternatively use 1 tablespoon of tomato sauce

Green chillies – 3, medium size, medium hot, finely chopped

Capsicum - 1, sliced length-wise

Red chilly powder – 1 teaspoon

Black pepper powder – ½ teaspoon

Corn flour – 2 tablespoons

Soya sauce – 3 teaspoons
Coriander leaves for garnishing

Salt – ½ teaspoon

Oil – 1 tablespoon

Method:

Boil the chicken in a pressure cooker for one whistle with a pinch of salt.

Take a pan, add oil. Once hot, add ginger garlic paste.

Add sliced onion,curry leaves (for Indian flavour) and fry till its done ( partly golden brown).

To this add, tomatoes, green chilly, capsicum and fry together. Add soya sauce to this mix and saute for a while.Add chicken and mix all of it together.  Dilute corn flour in water, medium consistency and add it to the chicken mix.

Add salt, black pepper/red chilly powder, coriander leaves (garnish) and let it cook in low flame for a while till chicken absorbs the paste and become succulent.

Coconut Chutney

Ingredients

1 cup grated coconut
4 Green Chilly
1 inch grated ginger
1 clove of garlic
2 spoon roasted peanuts/split gram
Tamarind
salt to taste
Coriander leaves-handful
jaggery -one pinch
Oil
For seasoning
Ghee
Mustard seeds
Curry leaves
Asafoetida-pinch


Curd optional-2 spoons

Procedure
Heat one spoon of oil in a pan and fry green chilly till the color changes to white.

Take grated coconut, fried chilly,ginger,garlic,jaggery,tamarind,peanuts and make a fine paste.
Add salt to the chutney.

 For seasoning:Take one spoon of ghee, once hot, add mustard, wait till it sputters.
Add curry leaves and asafoetida to this and mix this to the chutney.

You can also add curd to the chutney for different taste.

Maintain a medium consistency.

Goes well with dosa/idli.

Kheema Balls :)

Courtesy: Habib Aunty from Hubli :)

Ingredients

Finely minced mutton kheema-1/2 kg
onion chopped-1
Mint leaves, Coriander leaves-little
Split Chickpea powder-1/4 cup for binding
Salt to taste
Turmeric powder-1/2tsp
Egg beaten-1-Binding
Ginger & Garlic paste-2tsp
Fennel seeds-2tsp
Greenchilles-4
Khus Khus/Poppy seeds-1tbsp
Cloves-3,Cinnamon-1stick,Cardamom-1
Oil
Tomatoes finely chopped
Red Chilly powder

Procedure:

In a blender, make a paste of all the above mentioned ingredients.
Make sure not to add lots of water to the mix.

Roll the paste into balls of desired size,if you see the paste is not binding, add chickpea powder.

Take oil in a pan, once hot, add tomatoes,curry leaves and fry.
Once done, add red chilly powder and the kheema balls.
Saute till finely done, make sure that the mutton is cooked.


PS:You can also add these balls to  curry in place of mutton.

Walnut-Banana Cake

Ingredients

4 Riped Bananas
Chopped Walnuts- the more walnuts, the crunchier the cake is

5 eggs- Whisked, fluffy

2 cups all purpose flour

1 cup-Butter

2 Cups-Granulated Sugar

2 spoons- Cinnamon powder

1/2 cup-Milk

 1/2 spoon- Baking Powder

Essence- Rose/Vanilla

Rum-Optional-2 spoon

Process:

Sieve baking powder and all purpose flour, so that the powder gets evenly mixed.

Now in a blender, add egg,sugar, flour, bananas and make a paste with milk.
Take the mix out and to this add chopped walnuts and vanilla essence. Add a dash of cinnamon powder and rum to this mix.
Take a mold of choice and grease with butter.

Preheat over to 180 degrees and bake the cake for 45 minutes.

The cake is done when you pierce a knife and it comes out clean.

Chocolate cake

Ingredients:
Eggs-4
All purpose flour-1 Cup
Cocoa powder-1/2 cup
Sugar powdered-1 cup
Vanilla Essence-1 spoon
Baking powder-1/2 Spoon
Soda-1 pinch
Butter/Refined oil-3/4 cup
Chocolates for Icing-6

Process:

Beat eggs  and sugar in a blender.
Sieve cocoa powder, flour,baking powder,soda so that there are no lumps.
Add this to the above mix in the blender, add oil and vanilla essence.
Beat the above all ingredients well so they are evenly mixed.

Take a mould of your choice, grease the mould with oil.
Add the above mix to the mould.

Preheat convection to 180 Degrees celsius and place the mould for half a hour.
Take a knife and pierce it, if it comes out clean,the cake is baked.

Melt the choclates with 3 to 4 spoon of milk.

Cut the cake in two halves, pour half mixture and cover it with other half.
Pour the rest on top and decorate it as u need it.