Monday, September 23, 2013

Chocolate sponge cake



Ingredients:

3/4 cup maida/ all purpose flour

2 tblsp cocoa powder
120 gms unsalted butter
3/4 cup powdered sugar
2 eggs
1 tblsp baking powder
1 tblsp vanilla essence
2 tblsp tutti frooti or chopped walnuts (optional)

Method:
1)Mix Maida, cocoa powder and baking powder in a container.
2) Melt the butter. Add powdered sugar and beaten eggs. Beat this mixture well till you get a nice creamy mixture.(You can use electric beater to do the same or use a mixer/blender)
3) Add vanilla essence to the egg mixture.
4) Mix this to the dry mixture of maida, cocoa and baking powder. You can add tooti frooti or chopped walnuts during this stage.
5) Rub some butter over the baking container and sprinkle some maida over it. Tap the container to remove the excess flour.
6) Pour the mixture in the container and bake it in electric oven or gas oven.
7) I used gas oven here. Keep the gas on slow flame and let it bake for 20 mins.
8) To check whether the cake is baked properly insert a tooth pick in the middle of the cake. It should come out clean.
9) The cake is ready.

Sabudana Vada

Ingredients:

1/2  cup sabudana(sago seeds)
1 tblspn chopped green chilies
2 tblsp roasted peanuts
2 potatoes
1 tblsp jeera
2 tblsp chopped coriander leaves
Salt to taste
Oil for frying

Method:
1)Wash the sabudana. Soak it in water for atleast 2 hours(Water should be enough to just soak the sabudana. Excess water will make the sabudana sticky)
2) Boil the potatoes(Dont boil it too much). Grate the boiled potatoes.
3) Crush the peanuts. You can use a rolling pin to do the same. Run it twice over the peanuts.
4)Sabudana and potatoes both will be of equal quantity.
5)Take the soaked sabudana in a bowl, Add the grated potatoes. Add jeera, green chillies, crushed peanuts, coriander leaves and salt.
6)The mixture will be like a sticky dough.
7) Apply some oil on your palm. Take some mixture and shape it like a flat cutlet. Do the same for the entire mixture.
8) Heat the oil on medium flame. Once the oil is hot add the cutlets to the oil. It will take around 5 mins to fry the cutlets properly.
9) Serve hot with Green chutney or Tomato Ketchup.