152.Beetroot Halva.

 

Beetroot Halva

Ingredients:

1.     Beetroot                        - 1 kg

2.     Milk                                  - 1 litr/ (Instead of milk mix 100 gm cornflour with water to make a loose paste and add.)

3.      Sugar                              - 300gm

4.     Ghee/Vanaspati            - 100 gm

5.     Cardamom Powder       - 1 small spoon

6.     Dry fruits                         - 2 spoons

Method.

Grate beetroot. Add milk. Heat a vessel, put the mixture in it and stir continuously in low flame. After some time mix sugar and stir well. Add ghee bit by bit. Let the mixture dry well, add cardamom powder and dry fruits. Apply one spoon ghee in a plate and put the mixture in it. Allow natural cooling, cut into pieces, garnish and serve.

151.Potato Vermicelli Fry.

 

Potato Vermicelli Fry

Ingredients:

1. Potato                            - ½ kg.

   Salt and pepper            -1/2 small spoon

Filling:

2. Crushed garlic                - 4 pieces

3. Sliced onion                    - ¼ cup

4. Oil                                     - 2 spoons

5. Sliced beans, carrot &

     cabbage                            -3/4 cup

6. Sliced capsicum, spring onion

        & celery                                - ¼ cup

7. Salt & pepper powder             - ¼ spoon

8. Soya sauce                                - 2 small spoons

9. Egg                                            - 1

10. Broken vermicelli                   - 1 cup

Method:

Boil and mash potatoes. Mix pepper powder and salt and make lemon sized balls.

Heat oil, roast garlic and onion.

Add beans, carrot, cabbage and roast.

Add capsicum, spring onion, celery and roast.

Add salt and pepper powder.

Mix soya sauce and remove from heat.

Make a hole in each potato ball and fill the filing and again make them to ball shape.

Change them slowly to two-three cm. cylindrical shape, dip in whipped egg, cover with vermicelli and fry.

150.Red Velvet Cake.

 

Ingredients.

All purpose flour.            150gm.

Sugar.                                150 gm 

Egg.                                     4

Sunflower oil.                      50 ml.

Curd.                                      50 ml.

Vanilla essence.                    1 teaspoon.

Baking powder.                       1 teaspoon.

Baking soda.                            1/2 teaspoon.

Red colour.                                 5 drops.

Frosting:

Whipping cream.                      200 ml.

Sugar syrup.                               50 ml.

Crushed cake( red).                  50 gm.

Beat eggs,add powdered sugar,beat well.

Add vanilla essence & beat well.

Add curd, beat.

Add sunflower oil,beat well.

Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda. Sieve.

Add this to the batter and stir well.

Add colour.Apply butter in a cake bowl.Place a butter paper.Pour the batter.Bake  180°/45 minutes.

Beat whipping cream to thick peaks.Layer the cake into three.

Crush some of the bits of this cake.(Top,sides,got while levelling.)

Arrange the layer.Spread sugar syrup, spread whipping cream.Repeat the process.place powdered cake on the top and sides.

Refrigerate for two hours.

149.Potato Jamun.

 

       1.Sugar.                    300 gm.

2.     Cooked & mashed

Potato                       - 150 gm

Maida                         - 100 gm

Baking powder           -1 pinch

Cardamom

Powder                        - 1 pinch

3.      Oil                                - needed to fry.

Method.

Add enough water to sugar to make it syrup. Mix potato, maida, baking powder and cardamom powder.Knead well. Make small balls. Heat oil and fry the balls till it becomes golden brown. Keep the fried balls in the sugar syrup, garnish and serve.

148.Jackfruit Appam.

 

Ingredients:

(Ripe) Jackfruit (cook & make to pulp)        - 1 cup

Rice flour                                                             -1 cup

Jaggery                                                                 -3/4  cup

Grated coconut                                                   -1 cup

Cumin seed powder                                           -1 pinch

Cardamom powder                                            - 1 pinch

Mix all the ingredients well. Take some leaves of the knotty tree (‘Laurus Cassia’).Fold the leaves, pin it with the mid-rib of coconut leaf and fill the mixture. Steam for 30 minutes to cook. Allow to cool. Garnish with nuts and serve.