Plum Cake by Anubha’skitchen
Ingredients
Rum soaked dry fruits dusted with maida
Recipe inspired by Maria’s
1 Litre milk curdled using whey from hung curd . Yes i am getting better at improvising. Left the chhena for draining iwrapped n a cheese cloth and put in a seive with one ltr bottle filled with water on top of it as weight . After 3-4 hrs that what i get ….Above pic shows the chhenna texture i got .I mashed it on the kitchen counter for 5-7 min and got the desired smoothness. ( I used Nandini blue packet milk and after a boil added whey till the milk curdled. Strained it in the cheese cloth and ran some water over it to cool it down ). Made balls with the mashed chhena . Small and smooth.
In a large vessel I put 6 cups of water and i cup of sugar. When the sypup started boiling i put my chhena balls in the hot syrup one by one. My vessel was large enough to hold all 15 balls i had made.
The Chhena balls puffed up as you can see in the pic. I added some crushed cardamom in it too. Its a better idea to add fine cardamom powder but mine was spoilt when i opened it . 😦 Had not used it since long . Bad idea to keep it out. should have stored it in the freezer :((
Timed it to 15 min of cooking in light sugar syrup. Then did fresh water test . Yes the balls were done as they sat in the water and not float when put in fresh room temp water. Took them all out in a big vessel filled with water. Not on a plate as they may loose shape.
Added 1/2 cup sugar in the light sugar syrup and boiled for sometime . around 10-12 min. On high flame. I had used a lot of water so wanted to reduce some and also add sugar to the syrup. Cooled the syrup for 1 hr and added the balls to the syrup after squeezing water out of them.
The result was awesome and tasty. Do try it. Rasmalai trial next 🙂
Thanx to…..Recipe from Spusht and Cafegarima
| Around 400 gms breast boneless chicken | ||
| 1 Large Capcicum | ||
| Honey 3 tsps | ||
| Soya Sauce 2 tbps | ||
| Red chilli sauce 2 Tbsp | ||
| Red chilli paste ( I made by putting 8 red chillis and 2 tbsp water in the microwave for 4 min and grinding together when cool ) | ||
| Fresh ground pepper 1/4 tsp | ||
| Baking Powder 2 pinches | ||
| Fresh not store bought ginger -garlic paste 2 tsp ( GG paste as I call it ) | ||
| Corn flour 4 tsps | ||
| Maida 4 tsps | ||
| Salt | ||
| Olive Oil for cooking | ||
| Marinating Chicken | ||
| honey 2 tsp, Red chilli paste 1 tsp, Pepper powder 1/4 tsp, Soya Sauce 1 tbsp, Red Chilli Sauce 1 tbsp, salt little as we will add in batter too. | ||
| Cut chicken in small pcs ,it will cook faster and taste better. I had cut bit bigger and learnt my lesson. | ||
| Mix chicken and marinate and keep aside for at least an hour , I kept overnight. I do things in stages….:P | ||
| Now prepare batter with…. | ||
| corn flour, maida, 1 tsp GG paste, baking powder 2 pinches, and bit of salt. | ||
| Put a nonstick pan on gas and pour around 2 tbsp olive oil. Mix marinated chicken and batter adding a bit water to coat all chicken. | ||
| Once you fry all chicken like that,keep it aside. | ||
| In the same pan in whatever little oil is left add GG paste, soya sauce, red chilli paste 1 tbsp or more if you like very spicy … | ||
| once GG is done ….Add some honey. Put cut green capsicum and a bit salt and cook for some time depending on your liking of crunchiness of capsicum . | ||
| Add prepared chicken , mix well , close lid for 2 min for flavours to say hello to each other and become friends …..: ) | ||
| Serve hot….and after you get feedback on taste like praises, kisses and whatever post your comments here too ….. |
The recipe was found by 9 yr old son on Youtoocancook . I followed most of it but had more chicken than required 300 gms. Did not alter rest of ingredients much though. My kids loved the taste . I will be making this often .
Have started posting through my phone… Learning new things is my hobby you see !!
Posting my first recipe with pics in my phone library… So easy this way 🙂 feeling happy ….
Had lots of self raising flour … Result of my shopping without checking my pantry…. And also 1 big ripe banana tempted me to bake a cake today.
This was Nigellas recipe so simple had to make it …but it required 3 med bananas ….. I had 1 big …. So ….. So what I used my big one and added one more egg…
Good results i must say 😃👍
Mix butter, sugar and vanilla.
Add eggs and banana
Add milk.
Add SRF.
I added 1 cup ground walnuts.
Sprinkle some on top too . Gives very nice nutty flavor.
Bake at 180 C for 40 minutes. Cool and cut slices. I used Bundt Pan. Have posted both pics . Inverted and baked side up.
Excellent results 🙂
Actually this is the recipe which I wanted to try.
As I had never tried my hand on zesting (if there is a word like that ) Orange or lemon. I know it was not a rocket science but I had never done it and baked a cake with Orange juice and zest of Orange.So….just washed one good Orange and used my cheese grater and here I go ….it was easy ! The thing to take care is not to apply a lot of pressure.
To the above Tupperware recipe I suggest you add 1/4 th spoon of soda-bi-carb in the Maida mixture. Instead of melted butter I used Canola Oil. Had to bake it for 30 min in a preheated oven at 180 degrees C.
I would also like to share that as soon as my batter was ready the power went off ! for half an hour I had to put my cake batter in the fridge….but thank god it came out fluffy and nice.
I have used 1/2 the above recipe here !
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