Eggless 6min Apple Cinammon Carrot Cake

Apple Cinammon Carrot Cake

Another super quick n yummy cake ready in 6 minutes only!!

Ingredients:

½ medium sized  Apple (chopped into very small pieces)

1 small carrot (grated)

1 Cup nestle dahi
1/2 cup oil + 2 tbsp more

1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 cup  brown sugar or normal sugar
1 cup maida
1/2 tsp baking powder
1tsp soda bi carb
¼ tsp cinnamon powder
1 tbsp Cadbury cocoa powder

Recipe:

Place the grated apple and carrot in a small micro proof bowl,sprinkle some brown sugar over it and heat it in the microwave for 1 minute (This is done so that the carrot and apple become a bit mushy).

Remove and keep this aside.

Sieve the dry powders together and keep aside too. Now in a separate bowl Mix together sugar, dahi , vanilla essence,cinnamon powder n oil ,till sugar dissolves.Add in the apple and carrot mix. Now to this mixture add in the Sieved Dry mix(maida,baking powder,baking soda,cocoa) slowly with spatula or a slow beater. 

Grease a Borosil bowl with butter/oil , Pour the mixute and Cook in the microwave for exactly 6minutes.Once 6minutes are over take the cake  out and let it  cool for 10 minutes.Yummy cake is ready, Enjoy!!

Jeera Chicken !

Jeera Chicken

This Chicken Starter recipe is simple and finger licking.The taste of only jeera in this

 recipe takes it to a new level.

Ingredients:

1 kg Chicken

1tbsp Butter +1 tbsp oil

1 tbsp Jeera (cumin seeds)

1 ½ tbsp Jeera powder

1tbsp coriander powder

2 tsp Freshly ground black pepper

Salt

1 cup water

1 green chilly

Method:

 Heat the butter+oil in a pan, when hot add the  jeera and stir for 1 minute.

Then add the chicken and cook on high flame for 5 minutes.Now add the jeera

 powder, coriander powder, salt ,green chilly and pepper, and mix well. Cover it

with a lid and cook for 5minutes.Add 1 cup of water, cover and cook over medium heat 

stirring occasionally till the chicken is done. Garnish with lemon juice and your

Yummy Finger licking Chicken is ready.

Microwave Bhindi Masala

Microwave Bhindi Masala

Making Bhindi masala has never been so easy!!Yummy Bhindi  

Masala ready in minutes…

Ingredients:

250 gms  chopped Bhindi (okra)

2 tsp coriander powder

1 tsp red chilly powder

½ tsp amchoor (raw mango powder)

½ tsp turmeric powder

Salt

3-4 tbsp oil

1 onion sliced

Method:

Take a Micro proof bowl (I used a borosil bowl).Add all 

the above mentioned ingredients and mix well. Place 

the bowl in the microwaveand cook on simple heating 

mode ,cook it for 9 minutes. In betweenstir it well after

 every 3 minutes and put it back in.After 9 minutes are 

over,taste and check the bhindi if cooked well.Do not 

over heat. Enjoy it hot with rice or chapattis.

Important note: Since each Microwave is different, 

the time can slightly vary. So it is best to taste the bhindi

 after 6 minutes are over so that one as an idea of how 

much more to cook. Over heating shall make it rubbery….

Spicy Hara Bhara Chicken

Spicy Hara Bhara Chicken 

Ingredients:

1 kg Chicken

4 -5 onions

4 tomatoes pureed

Grinded paste of 1 ½ cup each of coriander leaves + mint leaves

Grinded paste of 8 green chillies+10 cloves garlic+2 inch piece of 

ginger

½ cup curd

7-8 cashewnuts soaked in water n grinded to a paste

1 bay leaf

3 green cardamoms

1 cinnamon stick

½ tsp garam masala powder

Salt

Juice of half lemon

Method:

Heat oil in a pan,sauté the grinded paste of ginger,garlic n chillies.

Add the sliced onions n cook for 15 min on slow flame till the onions 

turn soft n turn golden brown.Add the chicken n cook on high flame

 for 5 minutes.Lower flame n add the salt and garam masala .Cover n

 allow the chicken to cook well,add a lil water if required,once 80% 

done add the tomatoes. Let the pureed tomatoes cook well n leave

 oil , post that add the green paste of coriander n mint leaves.Mix n 

cook well for 5-7 minutes.Now the final stage, mix the paste of

 cashewnuts to the curd n pour over the chicken.Cook on slow flame

 for 2 minutes ,take off heat n garnish with mint leaves,chilles n

 lemon juice. Your yummy green chicken is ready, goes very well 

with tandoori roti n rice .Enjoy!!

Note: No requirement for turmeric or red chilly powder.

Soupy Steamed Peppery Chicken!

Soupy Steamed Peppery Chicken!

A very very light dish which can be enjoyed almost everyday. 

This can be had as a soup in itself.

Recipe courtesy: Pooja khanna

Ingredients:

1/2 kg Chicken
3 tomatoes chopped in big chunks
1/4 tsp pepper powder
1/2 tsp coarsely ground pepper
2tsp butter + 2tsp olive oil
2 flakes of chopped garlic
1slit green chilly
Juice of 1/2 lemon
Pinch of red chilly powder (just for color)
Salt

Method:

Heat the butter n olive oil together in a pressure cooker, put in the chicken.

 Cover slightly n cook on medium flame for 7-10mins till chicken leaves its 

juices n is 70% done.Add the salt, pepper powder, garlic, chilly powder,

 green chilly n chunks of tomato.Stir in n cook for another 2-3 minutes.

Pour in some water n close lid n pressurize it, turn of the gas just before

 the 2nd whistle.Once the steam is out open n garnish with coarsely

 ground pepper n lemon juice.
Enjoy wit steamed rice or just by itself!