Chicken Keema Masala!!

Ingredients:-

Chicken keema - ½ kg

Big onions - 4nos

Garlic paste- 3tbspn

Ginger paste- 1tbsp

Tomato puree- ½ cup

Kashmiri chilly powder- 2 tspn

Coriander powder- 1tspn

Garam masala powder- ½ tspn

Salt and Sugar as per taste.

Oil - ½ cup

Steps:-

1- Heat oil in a pan, add finely chopped onions and fry till it becomes light brown.

2- Now add ginger and garlic paste and cook for 5 mins.

3- Add tomato puree and cook for some more time.

4- Now add chilly powder, coriander powder, salt and sugar and cook until oil separates.

5- Now add chicken keema and cook until oil separates or its done.( no need to add water)

6- Finally add garam masala powder and chopped green chilly.

Chicken keema masala is ready...it's best served with roti/paratha/naan…….

Banana Pound Cake

Ingredients:-

Butter- 100gms

Maida – 1 ½ cup

Castor sugar- 1cup

Baking powder- 1tspn

Eggs- 3nos

Banana- 2nos

Vanilla essence- 1tspn

Steps:-

1- Sieve maida and baking powder.

2- Beat eggs separately till it doubles in volume.

3- Beat butter and sugar till creamy.

4- Add vanilla essence.

5- Add half portion of beaten eggs in above butter sugar mix and whisk at low speed for 2mins.

6- Add maida in small portion at a time and mix it.

7- Add remaining eggs and mix well.

8- Add mashed banana - mix well.

9- Pour the mixture in a dusted baking pan and put some cashews on top of it.

10- Now bake it for 30 to 35 mins at 160 degrees.

That's it! Enjoy your Banana Pound Cake:-)

Fruit Cake

Ingredients:

Butter – 100gms

Castor Sugar – 1cup

Maida – 1cup

Baking powder- 1 tspn

Eggs – 3

Cashew- 1tspn

Raisin – 1tspn

Tutti fruity- 1tbspn

Black current- ½ tsp

Fruit essence- ½ tspn

Steps:

1- Sieve maida and baking powder.

2- Beat eggs separately till the volume doubles.

3- Beat butter and sugar till creamy.

4- Add fruit essence.

5- Add half portion of beaten eggs in the butter-sugar mix we prepared above; and whisk at low speed for 2mins.

6- Add maida in small portions at a time and mix it well.

7- Add remaining eggs and continue to mix for a few minutes.

8- Coat all mixed fruit with a little flour and mix it in batter prepared in the above step.

9- Now bake it in preheated oven for 35 to 40mins; at 180 degerees in microwave and at 150degrees in OTG.

Now enjoy your fruit cake with tea or coffee…….

Black Forest Cake

Ingredients:

Chocolate sponge cake – 1 no

Whipping cream - 150gms

Sugar syrup - 2 cups

Canned cherry - ½ cup ( chopped)

Rum - 1tspn

Cooking chocolate - 150 gms

Steps:

1- Whisk the whipping cream till it becomes fluffy, stiff and forms peak.

2- Now slit the chocolate sponge cake into 3 layers.

3- Add rum to the sugar syrup and sprinkle on lower layer; then apply whipped cream icing on that layer and put some chopped cherries over it.

4- Place second layer of sponge cake on it and repeat step 3.

5- Place third layer and sprinkle sugar syrup on it.

6- Level the cake from all sides.

7- Apply cream icing on the top layer and to the sides.

8- Apply grated chocolate on the top and sides of the cake. Decorate the cake by cream icing and cherries.

Now treat yourself for the hard work...enjoy your black forest…

Chocochip Cookies

Ingredients:

All purpose flour- 1 ½ cup

Butter- ½ cup

Castor sugar- ½ cup

Brown sugar- ½ cup

Egg- 1 no

Soda- 1/4th tspn

Vanilla essence- 1 tspn

Chocochip- 1 cup

Steps:

1- Preheat the oven.

2- Cream butter and sugar together.

3- Beat the egg in butter-sugar mixture.

4- Dissolve soda in 1tspn hot water and add to the batter.

5- Now add flour and chocochip.

6- Drop the mixture on tray using a large spoon

7- Bake for 20 mins at 160 degrees .

That's it; you're done!!

Pineapple and Orange Cake

Ingredients:

Maida - 1 ½ cup

Sugar - 1 cup

Eggs - 3 nos

Baking powder - 2 tspn

Butter - ½ cup

Small pieces of pineapple and orange - 1 cup

Orange zest - 1 tbspn

Steps:

1- Cream butter and sugar together.

2- Sieve maida and baking powder and keep aside.

3- Beat eggs with a beater.

4- Now take the butter and sugar mixture and add egg mixture to it.

5- Now take a small portion of maida and add to the mixture. Repeat.

6- Now add pineapple and orange pieces.

7- Grease and dust the cake pan and pour the above cake mix.

8- Now bake the cake for about 40mins……

You are done :-)

Sweet Bread (Tuti Fruity Bread :-))

Ingredients:

Maida- 250gms

Dry yeast- 3/4th tspn

Sugar- 60gms / 1/4th cup

Water – 100ml

Milk – 25 to 30ml

Butter- 2tbspn

Milk powder- 2 tbspn

Salt – ½ tspn

Tutti fruity – ½ cup

Mix fruit essence- 1 tspn

Steps:

1- Grease medium size loaf pan and keep aside.

2- Put yeast in a bowl, add 2 tspn sugar and warm water - mix them thoroughly.

3- Now put maida, sugar and milk powder in a bowl and mix together.

4- Add yeast mixture to it and make a smooth dough.

5- Now cream fat and salt and add them to the dough; knead the dough with ur palm and make a soft and silky dough. Cover it with wet cloth.

6- Keep the dough aside for 45 mins or till it doubles in volume.

7- Punch the dough to remove excess air.

8- Add tutti fruity.

9- Pan the dough in bread tin and let it rise.

10- Bake it in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 20mins.

Now enjoy ur sweet bread with a cup of tea………….