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.