Healthy Cookies

This is a recipe from a friend of mine. Thank you Deepali for sharing the recipe. This is easy to make cookies and healthy too. So you try it and let me know how it is. :). Just make sure that the time you put the cookies in oven is not too much otherwise they turn out too crispy.

Ingredients

1 cup soft butter
1 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup powdered milk
1teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs ( you can use 1 cup buttermilk or egg replacer also, I used egg replacer )
1 1/3 cup rolled oats
2 1/3 cup wheat flour ( I use chappati flour)
1/2 cup chocolate chips / raisins


Method of preparation
Mix all the ingredients till vanilla extract. Mix them together till they blend in and then add the rest of the ingredients and mix to make the dough. Bake at 350 degree f until slightly brown. It often takes 10-15 mins but depends a lot on size of cookie. Turn them over after 10 mins and let them cook for another 5 mins.

Try it and enjoy the cookies !!!!

Tomato Thokku/Pachadi (long term)

To all my dear readers, this tomato thokku or pachadi can stay for long period like more than a one month or so. So we can make it once and keep enjoying it for close to one month or more. I learned this recipe from my mother in law when she was visiting us last month. try it and do leave your comments as usual :) Thank you all.

Ingredients
Tomato (Get good red ones) - 8
Red chilli powder - 1 cup (or 1 big sambar spoon ish)
Tamarind - little more than lemon size
Salt - 1 cup and little more
Mustard seeds powder - 1 table spoon
Methi powder - 1 and 1/2 table spoon
Oil - 8 table spoons
Mustard seeds - 1/2 table spoon
Asafoetida (Hing) - 1/2 table spoon

Method of preparation
1) Take a kadai or pan (take wider one) and add couple of spoons of oil. Cut the tomato's into medium sized pieces. Once the oil is heated, add the tomato's to it.
2) Remove the seeds from the tamarind. Now spread the tamarind on the chopped tomatos. Add salt to it.
3) Do not mix it. Once the tomato's are cooked, turn off the heat. Now add the red chilli powder and other powders to it.Mix everything and leave it for couple of minutes.
4) Blend the above mixture. not too pasty but just for couple of seconds.
5) Do the tadka/popu/poNi by taking oil in a small pan, heat it and then add mustard seeds. Once mustard seeds starts spluttering, add the hing to it and turn off heat. Add the tadka and mix well. (Oil should be oozing out a little. )

Note: If you feel that oil is more, then do not worry. Oil, salt and red chilli will be more in the items which needs to last for long time.
This Thokku/pachadi is eaten with white rice or with any other thing.
It can be eaten the instant it is made too. So enjoy it the way you like it.

(Will post some pictures soon).

Cake pops (with maker)

Before the holidays I wanted to badly try this cake pops with the maker at home. So I finally managed to get one cake pop maker to home and try it out at a holiday party. First time of try, they tasted good and came out very nice, however I was very naive in doing the decorating part. After a little bit of experimenting and getting ideas from other places, we were able to successfully decorate the cake pops.  I used my eggless vanilla cake recipe from the following link to make the batter and used the same for making pops. Sharing some pics from the making. I am planning to make more for my kids birthday's, so more photos will be added later.

Pesaru pappu pachadi/Moong dal ki Chutney

This is one of the quick and easiest pachadi's to make. Probably more authentic one too. I learned this from my attagaru when they were visiting us last month. here goes the recipe:

Ingredients:

Moong dal - Soaked in water for atleast for two hours

Hing (Asafoetida)

Red chilli powder

Turmeric

Salt 

For tadka:

Oil

Mustard seeds

Jeera

Hing (Asafoetida)

Curry leaves (optional)

Method of preparation:

Add the salt, red chilli powder, turmeric to the soaked and drained moong dal. Grind it coarsely in a blender.  Do the tadka with heated oil in a small bowl. Add mustard seeds and let it splutter. Add jeera, hing and curry leaves. Add tadka to the chutney. Your chutney is ready to serve. This is generally goes good with white rice and ghee (or oil).

Peanut sesame powder

I tried it at one of the community friends home and loved it. I got some from my relative the same and my kids loved to eat it with sambar rice or yogurt rice. So I tried it at home and still enjoying it. Hope you like it too. This can be accompanied with several options like with plain white rice or a side dish for yogurt rice, idli or upma etc. So try it with whatever you like ..... explore your options and here goes the recipe..

Ingredients
Peanut powder - 1 cup (roasted and grinded coarsely without the skin)
Sesame powder - 1 cup (roasted and grinded coarsely)
Coconut powder (preferably dry but I used the frozen grated one)
Amchur powder  - 2-3 spoons
Red chilli powder - (according to your taste and spicyness of powder)
Salt - according to your taste
Dhania powder - 1/4 cup ( Roasted and grinded)
Jeera powder - 1/4 cup (Roasted and grinded)
Cilantro - wash, dry and cut into small pieces

Method of preparation
Mix all the ingredients nicely with hand. Make sure the powders and mixed properly and the taste is spread out even. Taste it to adjust salt and red chilli powder. Your powder is ready to go...Enjoy.

Beans Cauliflower Curry

One of the simple curries which can be made regularly can home without any hiccups is this. I love both the veggies and here is the simple recipe for it. Go ahead and try it for simple dinner.

Ingredients
Beans - chopped
Cauliflower florest
Tomatos
Oil
Mustard seeds
Jeera
Red chilli powder
Turmeric
Salt
Coriander to garnish

Method of preparation
Add oil in a pan(kadai), and let it heat. Add mustard seeds after oil is heated. Let them splutter. Add jeera and then add the veggies (beans and cauliflower). Add red chilli powder, turmeric to it. Mix it and cover and cook for some time until veggies are almost cooked. Once they are cooked, add salt and tomatos. Cook until tomatos are done and serve after garnishing with the coriander leaves. Enjoy !!!