Jam Biscuit / Jam Cookies - Cookies Recipes

This is an aromatic, yummy and crispy cookies recipe. It is also kids special cookies because the  biscuits are filled with jam.  

Ingredients:

Maida	1 cup
Butter	½ cup
Powdered Sugar	½ cup
Baking Soda	1 tesp
Vanilla Essence	1 tesp
Jam	as required

Procedure:

1. Preheat the oven at 200^o C for 10 mins.

2. Sieve the maida and baking soda together, and keep it aside.

2. Beat the butter well and add the powdered sugar with it.

3. Mix them well till the sugar dissolves completely.

4.  Now add the maida and mix them well. Knead a soft dough like a chapathi dough.

5.  Now roll the dough into ½ inch thickness and cut with a cookie cutter into round shape or any shape.

6. Now make an impression at its center using your thumb and fill it with jam.

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Eggless Sponge Cake - Cake Recipes

There are many Recipes for Eggless Sponge Cake which I have seen on the blog community. 

I have started to try cake recipes only recently.  I have tried this recipe many times and has come out well. I am posting this now as part of exploration of the cake recipes.

Ingredients:

Maida	1 ¼  cup
Curd	1 cup
Sugar	¾ cup
Corn Flour	¼ Cup
Oil	¼ cup
Baking Powder	1 ½ tesp
Baking Soda	½ tesp
Vanilla Essence	1 tesp
Tutti Fruity	2 tbsp(optional)

Procedure:

1. Preheat the oven at 200⁰C for 10 mins. Grease the baking tray with oil and flour, tap to remove the excess flour. Keep it aside.

2. Mix the tutti fruity with 1 tbsp of maida and keep it aside. This will avoid the fruits getting deposited at the bottom of the cake.

3. Sieve the maida and corn flour with baking powder and baking soda for 2-3 times.

3. In a bowl add curd and sugar, mix them well with beater. ( I powdered the sugar).

4. Then add oil, vanilla essence and sieved mixture. Mix them gently until you get creamy batter without lumps.

5. Now add the tutti fruity and mix them well.

6. Then pour the batter in the greased tray and bake it at 180^oC for 35-45 mins or until a  toothpick comes out clean when inserted

7. Remove the tray from the oven and cool it completely. Remove the cake from the try and slice it as per your wish.

    Yummy eggless vanilla sponge cake is ready.

The same cake with butter cream frosting.

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Gooseberry Rice / Nellikkai Satham

This is healthy and yummy rice. 

Ingredients:

Goosebery / Nellikkai (grated)	¼ cup
Cooked Rice	1 cup
Salt	As required
To Temper
Oil	1 tbsp
Mustard Seeds	1/4 tesp
Urad Dal	½ tesp
Curry Leaves	1 spring
Red Chilly	2-3
Chana Dal	1 tbsp
Roaseted Groundnut	1 tbsp
Turmeric	½ tesp
Hing / Asafoetida	½ tesp

Procedure:

1. Wash and grate the gooseberry using the grater. Discard the seeds and eep it aside.

2. Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, urad dal and wait for popping.

3. Then add the curry leaves, red chilly (split it into two halves), chana dal and ground nuts, fry for a min.

4. Now add the turmeric and hing, fry for few seconds. Then add grated gooseberry and fry till raw smell goes off. It will take 2-3 mins.

5. Add cooked rice and mix it gently. Gooseberry rice is ready to serve.

       Serve it with potato fry or papad.

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Melting Moments - Coconut Cookies

This is an aromatic and crispy cookies recipe. Just as the name suggests, these cookies melt immediately in your mouth.

Ingredients:

Maida	1 cup
Vanaspathi or Butter	½ cup
Powdered Sugar	½ cup
Rose Essence	½ tesp
Baking Powder	½ tesp
Desiccated Coconut	As Required

Procedure:

1. Preheat the oven at 200^o C for 10 mins.

2. Sieve the maida and baking powder together. Keep it aside.

3. Cream the butter or dalda with your palm on a flat surface or plate.

4.Then add powdered sugar and essence, mix them well.

5. Now add the maida mixture and knead a soft dough without adding anything like milk.

6. Make the dough into small gooseberry size balls.

7. Now roll all the balls over the desiccated coconut powder.

8. Now arrange the balls on the baking tray. Bake them at 180^oC for 10-13 mins.

9. Take it out from oven and allow it to cool down. Serve it with tea.

         This is yummy evening time snack.

  

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Homemade Desiccated Coconut

Desiccated coconut is a dried grated coconut or powdered coconut. We can use this in cookies, curries etc…This is easy to make at home, especially in India where you can get coconuts easily in the markets.

Ingredients:

Shredded Coconut or Fresh Coconut

1 Cup or 1

Procedure:

1. First is to get Shredded Coconut.  Take fresh coconut and open into half at its center. Use the coconut grater to grate the coconut or shred into small pieces.

2. Arrange the thin layer of the grated coconut on the baking tray. Ensure that it is widely spread and does not form clumps.

3. Preheat the oven at 200^o C. Now keep the tray in the oven and bake for 12 minutes at minimum temperature (110 celsius).

4. Take it out from the oven and allow it to cool down. You can use at this stage itself or  powder it and use. If the powder is moist, then bake it again for 2 more minutes.

Now the Desiccated Coconut is ready to use. Store it in airtight container or zip-locked cover.

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Cardamom Cookies

Ingredients:

Maida	1 ½ cup
Dalda (Vanaspathi) or Butter	100 gm
Granulated Sugar	¼ cup
Icing Sugar	½ cup
Cardamom Essence	½ tesp
Baking Powder	1 tesp

Procedure:

1. Preheat the oven for 200^o C for 10 mins.

2. Sieve the flour with baking powder and keep it aside.

3.Cream the dalda with your palm till it gets soft and fluffy.

4. Add cardamom essence, icing sugar and granulated sugar to the creamed fat and mix them well.

5. Add the flour and knead to a soft pliable dough.

6. Make a gooseberry side balls and press them between your palms.

7. Then arrange them on a baking tray and bake it for 10 – 15 mins at 180⁰ Celsius. No need the grease the baking tray.

8. Allow it to cool down and store it in air tight container for later use.

            

     Aromatic and yummy cardamom cookies are ready.

Note:

1. I used dalda, but you can use butter also.

2. Add any vanilla essence instead of cardamom essence.

3. Creaming the dalda is very important.

4. Granulated sugar gives the color and texture.

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Mixed Millets Idli

Ingredients:

Kodo Millet / Varagu	1½ cup
Barnyard Millet / Kuthiraivali	11/2 cup
Little Millet / Saamai	1 cup
Urad Dal / Ulunthu	3/4 cup
Fenugreek seeds / Venthayam	1 tbs
Salt	As required

 Procedure:

1. Wash and soak urad dal and fenugreek seeds together for 2-3 hrs.

2. Wash and soak all millets together for 5 hrs.

3. Grind the urad dal into a smooth batter with sprinkle cold water.

4. Grind the millets into a paste.[not fine paste, 90% is enough]

5. Mix both the batter with salt and keep it for fermentation. This will take 6-8 hours.

6. After fermentation, the batter would have become fluffy. Mix well the batter with    ladle and use. Add water if necessary.

7. Now the millets idli batter is ready to use.  Use immediately or store it in a          refrigerator to avoid over-fermentation.

8. Grease the idli plates with oil and pour a ladle full of idly batter and steam cook for 10 mins.

9. Remove from the flame and allow it to cool down or apply water to the rear side of the plates.

10. Use spoon to scoop out the idli from the plate.           

11. If you are using the idli pot, drape the vessel with damp cloth and pour batter into the cups and steam cook for 10 min. Sprinkle water on the back side of the  cloth and then remove the idli.

Note:

You can mix the millets in any ratio. The mixture should come to 4 cups.

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