Vaniensamayalarai: March 2015

Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Rava kesari

Rava kesari is a popular south indian sweet made from semolina during the festival season as well as the celebratary days. It is common serve in south indian marriages as take part in morning breakfast. my mom prepared this kesari for my family... and we the best fan of this dish... still it is a popular delicious sweet.

It is considered to be the easy to make sweet, all experienced cooks like mom, for me too luckily i have not struggled much to learn making it...But i have seen many who run into trouble or don't get it right. The major trouble you get when making is getting lumps. There are two stages in the process where there are chances to get lumps.. Once is while adding rava to boiling water and the second one is while adding sugar to cooked rava. But thekey is add slowly rava or sugar and stir properly & constantly....

For me i love making sweets, I love each and every process we do and I enjoy the out come. Its every time like how a person feels the success... Now i making wounderful kesari you just follow my steps and make a delicious rava kesari at your home....

Recipe cuisine : indian

Recipe category : sweets

Preparation time : 5 mins

Cooking time : 25 mins

Serve : 4

INGREDIENTS :

Rava / sooji / semolina - 1 cup

Sugar - 1 1/2 cup

Water - 2 cup

Yellow food colour / kesari colour - 1 pinch

Cardamom powder - 1 pinch

Ghee - 1 cup

Cashew - 5 nos

Kish mish / sultanas - 8 to 10 nos

METHOD :

First add rava to the thick bottom pan or non stick pan and then add a spoon ghee and roasted for 5 mins.
Then add in water and keep stirring simutaneously.
Take care no lumps are fromed keep in medium flame....and then add in sugar mix gently...
Add in kesari colour powder to that and mix well.
Keep in low flame and cooked for 3 - 5 mins or untill the rava is cooked well.
In another pan add ghee, cashew, kishmish and fry it lightly and keep aside.
Stir in medium flame and cardomom powder and mix well, still the kesari forms as a whole mass ( doesn't stick to the pan at all).
When it is finished add roasted cashew and kishmish on the kesari and mix gently.
Now the yummy rava kesari is done.....

PICTORIAL :

Take rava in a pan

Add in a spoon of ghee

Toss it well

When the colour is lightly change

Add in water

Keep stir simultaneously and no lumps should be formed

Add in sugar

A pinch of colour powder

Mix well and keep it on low flame for 5 mins

When it done add in cardomom powder

When it doesn't stick on the pan at all sides

In another pan add ghee, cashew, kishmish

Toss well

Add in a spoon of ghee and mix gentle

Add in roasted nuts

Now its done

Enjoy it happy....

Cashew pound cake

Eggless pound cake / cashew pound cake is a simple and easy recipe is what a hubby love a lot the cake recipe is with no cream on it.. Even though it is a pound cake i did in it round cake mould for my hubby's birthday. And i have shared many cakes on my blog before, This is one of my favourite among that.. I gave him a surprise on this birthday and he really enjoyed it...

I was planning for my hubby's birthday for atleast past one week. so i wanted to give really special cake for his birthday and i wanted to make a cake without egg and cream so i decided this pound cake.

I searched all over the net and found this recipe simple and easy....So i took the recipe from my friend's blog and made this.. It was delicious... I baked the cake on his birthday and i hope you also like it.. When my hubby cut this cake on this birthday (march 21) he was very happy and suprise. I love to see these kind of suprises.. so you have to bake this cake for your loved ones birthday and enjoy the happiness they get when they sliced into it...

I used milk powder in this cake so i thought of giving it a shot because i have never used milkpowder in my baking recipes... The result is just perfect. I got the most soft, fluffy, moist cake ever take in my life.. I am sure that this recipe is going to be a keeper.

When my hubby sliced and tasted it, It was so yummy, he couldn't stop with just one slice and my happy to family members too.. This is the first my cake to my hubby on his birthday after marriage. I am sure you all will love it, so give it a shot and let me know how it turned out for you...

Preparation time : 10mins
Baking time : 40 to 45 mins
Slices : 10 pieces
Recipe source : Aarthi

INGREDIENTS :

All porpose flour / maida - 1 3/4 cup / 200 grams
Sugar - 3/4 cup / 150 grams
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Unsalted butter - 100 grams (milkymist butter)
Mlik powder - 3/4 cup / 100 grams
Thick yogurt - 1/2 cup / 120 ml
Baking soda - 1 tsp
Baking powder - 1 1/2 tsp
Water - 1/2 cup / 120 ml
Milk - 1/2 cup / 120 ml
Roasted cashew - 1/2 cup (chopped)
Pista - very few chopped

(My cup measure ment 200 ml)

METHOD :

Preheat oven to 160 degree c. Take a round cake pan and butter it well, sprinkle with flour and coat an all sides. Tap over excess flour and set aside.
Then chopped cashew and pista and keep aside.
Take milk, water, curd in a jug and mix well.
Take flour, milk powder, baking soda, baking powder in a sifter and sieve well. set aside.
Now take butter, sugar and vanilla in a bowl and use a electric beater and beat till creamy.
Add in half of the flour mix, and all the milk mix and fold gently.
Now add remaining flour and fold gently. Pour this entair batter in a cake pan and sprinkled some cashew and pista on the tops.
Bake this in preheated oven for 40 mins.
Remove from the oven insert a tooth pic to check wheather the cake is done or not and let it cool for 15 mins.
And open the cake tin and cool.
Now slice and serve.....