Robusta Banana Halwa | Robusta Halwa in 15 Min | Kerala Pazham Halwa

How to prepare Robusta Banana Halwa | Robusta Halwa in 15 Min

Robusta Banana Halwa | Robusta Halwa in 15 Min | Kerala Pazham Halwa

Ingredients:-

• Robusta banana – 4
• Sugar – ¾ Cup
• Wheat Flour – 1 Tablespoon
• Ghee- 3 Tablespoon
• Cardamom – 4
• Cashew nuts as needed
• Salt – A pinch

Preparation:-

• Take a mixer jar and add banana, cardamom and grind it well
• Heat ghee in a pan, transfer ground banana mixture into the pan
• Add wheat flour and stir well
• After 2 min add sugar and salt into it and mix it well
• Add 1 Table spoon ghee and mix again
• After 4 to 5 min add cashew nuts and remaining ghee into it and mix well
• Stir continuously until it reaches the required consistency 
• Transfer halwa into a plate to cool down 
• Tasty Robusta halwa is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

#RobustaHalwa #Ruchikaram #OverRipeBananaHalwa

Chocolate and Vanilla Mug Cake | Eggless Mug Cake | 2 Minutes Mug Cake

How to prepare Chocolate and Vanilla Mug Cake | Eggless Mug Cake | 2 Minutes Mug Cake

Mug Cake is one of the easiest cake anyone can prepare in 2 min. It is prepared using a mug and cooked using Microwave. This is prepared without egg and no oven is used here. Try to prepare this easy mug cake and let me know your feedback.

Chocolate and Vanilla Mug Cake | Eggless Mug Cake | 2 Minutes Mug Cake

Ingredients:-

Vanilla Cake

• All-purpose Flour/Maida –4 Tablespoon
• Sugar – 3 Tablespoon
• Baking Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Vanilla essence – ¼ Teaspoon 
• Milk – 3 Tablespoon
• Melted butter – 3 Tablespoon
• Sugar Balls as needed (Optional)

Chocolate Cake

• All-purpose Flour/Maida –3 Tablespoon
• Cocoa Powder – 1 Tablespoon
• Sugar – 3 Tablespoon
• Baking Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Vanilla essence – ¼ Teaspoon 
• Milk – 3 Tablespoon
• Melted butter – 3 Tablespoon

Preparation:- 

• Take a mug and add all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder, vanilla essence, milk, melted butter and sugar balls and mix it well
• Take another mug and add all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, vanilla essence, milk, melted butter and mix it well
• Microwave for 2 min.
• Tasty vanilla and chocolate cake is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

#MugCake #Ruchikaram #EgglessCake

Qatayef - Arabic Dessert | Eid Special Sweets | Iftar Nombuthura Special Arabic Sweet

 How to prepare Qatayef - Arabic Dessert | Eid Special Sweets | Iftar Nombuthura Special Arabic Sweet

Qatayef is an Arabic sweet. Qatayef is one of the must sweet we have to prepare during Iftar/Nombuthura. Arabs like sweet very much and their sweets are very different from other sweets which we normally prepare.  Qatayef is very easy to prepare and kids will love this sweet. This special Qatayef can be prepared during Diwali as well. Please follow the way I have prepared this special Arabic Sweet named Qatayef  and let me know your feedback.

How to prepare Qatayef - Arabic Dessert | Eid Special Sweets | Iftar Nombuthura Special Arabic Sweet

Ingredients:-

• All-purpose flour – 1 Cup
• Sugar -1 Tablespoon
• Baking Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Salt a pinch
• Milk – ¾ Cup
• Warm Water as required
• Oil as needed to fry

For Fillings

• Cashew nuts as needed
• Raisins as needed
• Pistachio as needed

For Sugar Syrup

• Sugar – ½ Cup
• Water – ¼ Cup

 

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl and mix all-purpose flour, sugar, baking powder and salt
• Pour milk and then water little by little and mix it well until it reaches the required consistency
• Close the vessel and keep it aside for 30 to 60 min
• After 30 min open the vessel and mix it well
• Heat a non-Stick Tawa and pour ¼ cup batter and make pan cake
• Take a small bowl and add cashew nuts, raisins, pistachio, sugar, butter and mix it well
• Take a pancake and add small portion of fillings and then close it by pressing it on the corner
• Heat a pan and pour ¼ cup water and then ½ cup sugar and make thick syrup
• Heat oil in a pan and deep fry each pan cake
• Dip the fried pan cake into the sugar syrup
• Tasty Qatayef, Arabic Sweet/Dessert is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Chocolate Donut | Perfect doughnut | Sugar Coated Donut

How to prepare Chocolate Donut | Perfect doughnut | Sugar Coated Donut

Chocolate Donut | Perfect doughnut | Sugar Coated Donut

Ingredients:-

• Dried Yeast – 1 Teaspoon
• Sugar - 2 Teaspoon
• Warm Milk – ½ Cup
• All-purpose Flour/Maida – 2 Cup
• Butter – 2 Teaspoon
• Egg – 1
• Vanilla essence – ½ Teaspoon
• Salt a pinch

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl and add yeast, sugar and milk. Mix it well and keep it aside for 10 min
• Take a big bowl and add all-purpose flour, a pinch of salt, butter and mix it well
• Add one egg and pour yeast mixture, vanilla essence and make dough
• If dough looks more watery spread Maida little by little and make a soft dough
• Keep it aside for 1 hour by applying oil or cover it with wet cloth
• After an hour mix it again. If it’s watery apply Maida on your hand
• Spread Maida on a floor and flatten the dough
• Cut it in round shape using a cutter or round vessel. Make a hole at the middle using a small cutter or bottle cap
• Spread Maida on a flat vessel and place the donut shaped dough on to it
• Keep it aside for 30 min after applying oil on top of it and cover it with a wet cloth
• Heat oil in a pan and deep fry both sides.
• To make sugar coated Donut, grind sugar with cinnamon and dip the donut on top of the sugar powder
• Take a bowl add ½ Cup sugar powder, ½ Tablespoon cocoa powder and then add milk little by little to make a thick paste.
• Dip donut into this chocolate mixture.
• Tasty sugar coated and chocolate coated donut is ready to serve

 

Cheers!!!

Minu

#HomemadeDonut #Ruchikaram #PerfectDoughnut

Malabar Special Kalathappam | Perfect Kalathappam

How to prepare Malabar Special Kalathappam | Perfect Kalathappam

Malabar Special Kalathappam | Perfect Kalathappam

Ingredients:-

• Raw rice soaked – 1 Cup
• Cardamom – 2 Pods
• Water – 1 ¼ Cup
• Jaggery – 200 gram melted in ¼ Cup
• Coconut cut pieces – 2 Tablespoon
• Shallot – 2 ½ Tablespoon
• Ghee – 2 ½ Tablespoon
• Baking Soda a pinch
• Salt a pinch

 

Preparation:-

• Take a mixer jar and add soaked rice, cardamom and pour 1 cup water and grind it well
• Melt jaggery by adding ¼ cup water
• Pour melted jaggery into the ground rice mixture and mix it well
• Add a pinch of salt, and baking soda and mix it again
• Heat ghee in a cooker and sauté cut coconut pieces and shallot
• Pour rice jaggery mix into the cooker
• Close the cooker and keep the flame high for 1 ½ Minutes and then keep the flame low for 10 min
• Once steam goes away open the lid
• Transfer Kalathappam into a plate once it is cool down
• Tasty Kalathappam is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Banana Cake | Pazham Cake | Naalumani Palaharam | Easy Banana Cake

How to prepare Banana Cake | Naalumani Palaharam

Banana Cake | Naalumani Palaharam

Ingredients:-

• All-purpose Flour/Maida – ½ Cup
• Baking Soda – ¼ Teaspoon
• Baking Powder – ½ Teaspoon
• Sugar Powder – 40 Gram
• Unsalted butter – 40 Gram
• Salt a pinch
• Egg – 1 in room temperature
• Vanilla essence – ¼ teaspoon
• Milk – 1 Tablespoon
• Banana – 2 Small

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl and sieve ½ Cup all-purpose flour, ½ Teaspoon baking powder, ¼ Teaspoon baking soda
• Take another big bowl and add 40 gram powdered sugar, 40 gram melted butter, a pinch of salt and beat it well
• Add 1 egg kept in room temperature, ¼ teaspoon Vanilla essence and beat it again for a minute
• Add 1 Tablespoon Milk into the bowl and beat again for a minute
• Add 2 small banana into the bowl and smash it well
• Transfer All-purpose flour mixture little by little and mix it well
• Take a baking tin and apply butter on top of it. Transfer the cake mixture and tap it couple of times
• Preheat the oven for 10 minute by keeping the temperature at 175 degree.
• Keep the cake tin inside the oven and bake for 30 min.
• Tasty banana cake is ready to serve

 

Cheers!!!

Minu

Rice flour laddu | Rice flour laddu | Naalumani Palaharam

How to prepare Rice flour laddu | Rice flour laddu | Naalumani Palaharam

Rice flour laddu | Rice flour laddu | Naalumani Palaharam

Ingredients:-

• Rice flour – 1 Cup
• Sugar – ¾ Cup
• Cardamom – 5 pods
• Raisins as needed
• Ghee as required
• Salt a pinch

Preparation:-

• Grind the sugar with cardamom
• Heat 1 ½ Table spoon ghee in a pan add rice flour and sauté well
• Add powdered sugar and mix well
• Add a pinch salt and turn off the stove
• After cooling pulse the mixture using a grinder
• Pour ghee little by little to make the mixture ready to shape
• Take handful of mixture and make round shape by adding a raisins

Cheers!!!

Minu

Banana Steam Cake | Nenthrapazham Rice Snack | Naalumani Palaharam

Banana Steam Cake |  Nenthrapazham Rice Snack | Naalumani Palaharam

Banana Steam Cake |  Nenthrapazham Rice Snack | Naalumani Palaharam

Ingredients:-

• Banana -2
• Rice Flour – 1 Cup
• Jaggery (Grated) – ½ Cup
• Cardamom Powder – ¼ Teaspoon
• Dry Ginger Powder – a Pinch
• Coconut Pieces as needed
• Salt – A pinch

Preparation:-

• Cut banana into small pieces
• Heat water in a pan and make jaggery syrup
• Add banana pieces into the syrup and cook well
• Smash cooked banana
• Add rice flour over smashed banana and mix it well
• Pour jaggery syrup into it and mix it well
• Add cardamom powder, dry ginger powder, coconut pieces and salt into the mixture
• Take a vessel and apply ghee on top of it. Pour banana mixture into it and steam it for minimum 10 min using an idly vessel.
• Transfer it into a vessel and tasty Banana snack is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Dates Stuffed Chapathi | Special Dates Paratha

How to prepare Dates Stuffed Chapathi | Special Dates Paratha

Dates Stuffed Chapathi | Special Dates Paratha

Ingredients:-

• Dates – 15 (Crushed)
• Wheat flour (Atta) – 1 Cup
• Ghee as required
• Salt as required

Preparation:-

• Add wheat flour in a mixing bowl
• Add water gradually and knead into a soft dough
• Makes medium balls of the dough
• Roll them into a circle
• Add a portion of the dates paste in the centre
• Seal it and round it
• Roll them again
• Heat a pan and cook the chapathi. Apply ghee on both sides
• Dates chapathi is ready to serve

 

Cheers!!!

Minu

Cool Bar style Fresh Lime Juice | Fresh Lime Juice

How to prepare Cool Bar style Fresh Lime Juice | Fresh Lime Juice

Cool Bar style Fresh Lime Juice | Fresh Lime Juice

Ingredients:-

• Lemon – 1 ½
• Sugar as needed
• Cashew nuts – 2 Soaked
• Grated coconut – 1 ½ Tablespoon
• Ginger – ½ Inch
• Condensed Milk – 1 Tablespoon
• Salt a pinch
• Cardamom – 4 pods
• Ice Cubes as required

Preparation:-

• Take a mixer jar and add lemon juice by squeezing lemon, sugar, ginger, cardamom, soaked cashew nuts, grated coconut and grind it well
• Add condensed milk, ice cubes and 2 cup water and grind it well
• Filter (optional) lemon juice
• Tasty lemon juice is ready to serve.

Cheers!!!

Minu

Grape Squash with no preservatives | Quick and Easy Grapes Squash

How to prepare Grape Squash with no preservatives | Quick and Easy Grapes Squash

Grape Squash with no preservatives | Quick and Easy Grapes Squash

Ingredients:-

• Red grapes – 500 gram
• Sugar – 1 cup
• Cardamom – 10 pods
• Lemon Juice – 1 Tablespoon

Preparation:-

• Add grapes, cardamom and sugar in a pan and boil by adding 1 cup water
• Switch off the stove and then add lemon juice and mix it well. Keep it aside for cooling.
• Grind grapes and filter it using a filter
• Keep the squash in an air tight container
• To prepare the squash for drinking, add 3 to 4 tablespoon squash and mix it with water.

Cheers!!!

Minu

Uzhunnu Unniyappam | Uzhunnappam

How to prepare Uzhunnu Unniyappam | Uzhunnappam

Uzhunnu Unniyappam | Uzhunnappam

Ingredients:-

• Urad Dal – 1 Cup
• Egg - 2
• Sugar – ½ Cup
• Cardamom – 5
• Baking Powder – ½ Teaspoon

 

Preparation:-

• Grind urad dal, egg, sugar, cardamom powder, baking powder using a grinder by adding ½ Cup water
• Transfer the mixture into bowl. Add required water and mix it well. Keep it aside for 10 min.
• After 10 min mix it well
• Heat 9 or 12 cavity appam making vessel, pour oil and then pour urad dal mix into each cavity
• Flip it over to cook the other side
• Tasty Uzhunnappam is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Kochikoya | Malabar Special Kochikoya

How to prepare Kochikoya | Malabar Special Kochikoya

Kochikoya | Malabar Special Kochikoya

 

Ingredients:-

• Banana (Njali Poovan) – 5
• Coconut Milk – ¾ Cup
• Shallot – ¼ Cup
• Sugar – 5 Tablespoon
• Ginger extract - 1 Teaspoon
• Lemon Juice - 1 Teaspoon
• Dry Fruits as required
• Beaten Rice to serve

 

Preparation:-

• Take a bowl and mix shallot and sugar well
• Smash Banana
• Add shallot sugar mixture into banana and mix it well
•  Pour ginger extract and lemon juice and mix it again
• Pour coconut milk into the mixture and mix it well
• Tasty Kochikoya is ready to serve
• You may serve by adding kochikoya over the beaten rice or pour kochikoya in a glass and then add beaten rice on top of it.

Cheers!!!

Minu

Cherupayar Parippu Halwa | Moong Dal Halwa

How to prepare Cherupayar Parippu Halwa | Moong Dal Halwa

Cherupayar Parippu Halwa | Moong Dal Halwa

Ingredients:-

• Green Gram - 1 cup (Soaked)
• Sugar – 1 ½ Cup
• Milk – 1 Cup
• Ghee – ½ Cup
• Cardamom Powder – 2 Teaspoon
• Saffron – 3 to 4 strands
• Dry Fruits as required

 

Preparation:-

• Grind soaked green gram using a mixer grinder and make a fine paste
• Heat ghee in a pan, transfer ground green gram paste into the pan and sauté well
• Add sugar into the pan and continue sautéing
• Pour milk into the pan and then saffron strand and mix it well
• Add cardamom powder and dry fruits into the halwa and mix it well
• Switch off the stove once it reaches the required consistency
• Tasty Cherupayar Parippu Halwa / Moong Dal Halwa is ready to serve

 

Cheers!!!

Minu

Coconut Phirni | Diwali Special Phirni Sweet

How to prepare Coconut Phirni | Diwali Special Phirni Sweet

Coconut Phirni | Diwali Special Phirni Sweet

Ingredients:-

• Milk - 2 cup
• Grated Coconut – 1 Cup
• Sugar – 1/3 Cup
• Rice Flour – 2 Teaspoon
• Cardamom Powder – 4 Pinches
• Ghee - 2 Teaspoon
• Cashew and Pista for garnishing

Preparation:-

• Blend grated coconut if require add milk
• Heat ghee in a pan and sauté blended coconut
• Pour milk into the pan, once it starts boiling add sugar
• Add rice flour and cardamom powder and mix it well
• Once it reaches the required consistency switch off the stove
• Transfer the phirni in a vessel and decorate it with Cashew and Pista. Keep Phirni in a refrigerator
• Tasty Coconut Phirni is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Aval Laddu | Beaten Rice Laddu | Poha Laddu | Evening Snacks

How to prepare Aval Laddu | Beaten Rice Laddu | Poha Laddu | Evening Snacks

Aval Laddu | Beaten Rice Laddu | Poha Laddu | Evening Snacks

Ingredients:-

• Beaten Rice / Aval – 1 Cup
• Grated Coconut – ½ Cup
• Grated Jaggery – ½ Cup
• Cardamom – 5
• Cashew nuts and Raisins as required
• Ghee – 8 Tablespoon

Preparation:-

• Heat 5 table spoon ghee in a pan and sauté cashew nuts and raisins and keep it aside
• Same pan and ghee add beaten rice and sauté
• Heat 3 table spoon ghee in a pan and sauté grated coconut
• Grind fried beaten rice along with cardamom and keep it aside
• Grind fried grated coconut and jaggery
• Add fried cashew nuts and raisins into the bowl and mix everything well
• Take a portion of beaten rice mixture and shape into laddu
• Tasty beaten rice/Poha/Aval laddu is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu

Navarathri Special Rava Kesari | Semolina Kesari

How to prepare Navarathri Special Rava Kesari | Semolina Kesari

Navarathri Special Rava Kesari | Semolina Kesari

Ingredients:-

• Rava / Semolina – 1 Cup
• Sugar – 1 Cup
• Milk - 1 Cup
• Water – 1 Cup
• Cardamom Powder – 3 Crushed
• Cashew nuts and Raisins as required
• Ghee as required

Preparation:-

• Heat ghee in a pan and sauté cashew nuts and raisins and keep it aside
• Heat required ghee in a pan and sauté rava/semolina until its colour changes
• Heat water and milk in a pan and allow it to boil
• Transfer fried rava/semolina into the pan and stir continuously
• Add a little food colour of your choice (Optional) and then sugar into the pan and mix it well
• Add powdered cardamom powder, cashew, raisins and a little ghee into the pan and mix it again
• Tasty Rava / Semolina Kesari is ready to serve

Cheers!!!

Minu