Apple cake

How to prepare Apple cake ?

 

 

 

Ingredients:

  • Apples – 3 sliced
  • Juice of a lemon
  • Self raising flour – 1 1/2 cups
  • Baking powder – 2 tsp
  • Ground cinnamon –

Scones

How to prepare scones ?

Makes about 10 – 12 scones

 

 

 

Ingredients:

  • Plain flour – 1 1/2 cups
  • Baking powder – 2 tsp
  • Caster sugar – 1/4 cup
  • Salt – 1/2 tsp
  • Cold butter(can use plant based butter like peanut or almond butter) –

Naan Katai Biscuits

How to make Naan Katai Biscuits ?

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

  • Ghee – 1 cup
  • Caster Suger – 1 cup
  • Maida – 1/2 cup
  • Whole Wheat Flour – 1/2 cup
  • Semolina –

Strawberry Jam

How to make strawberry jam ?

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

  • Strawberries – 250 gms
  • Lemon juice – 1/2 lemon
  • Caster or any unrefined sugar – 200 gms

Procedure

  • If the strawberries are large,

Pakora Kadi

How to make Pakora Kadi ?

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

For Pakoras:

  • Channa dal –  1/2 cup
  • Dry red chillies – 2 
  • Salt to taste 
  • Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp 
  • Oil for deep fry

For Kadi:

  • Besan / gram flour –

Paatra

How to make Paatra ?

 

 

 

 

Paatra leaves/ colocasia leaves are popularly used in gujarati and konkan cuisine. These leaves are used as main ingredient in number of dishes like dal and curry and others but paatra is one among the famous ways of eating this.

Aubergine / Brinjal Chutney


How to make Aubergine / Brinjal Chutney ?

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

  • 1 Medium sized brinjal / eggplant
  • 2 Chillies
  • Half inch Ginger – half inch (roughly chopped)
  • Handful of coriander (chopped)
  • 1/2 tsp cumin seeds
  • A pinch of asafoetida (optional)
  • Oil / ghee –

Amaranthus stew


How to make Amaranthus Stew (Thotakora pulusu /Arakerai kolambu) ?

 

 

 

Ingredients

  • Amaranthus leaves / Thathakura/ Arakerrai / – 2 cups chopped
  • Moong dal (or toor dal)- 1/4 cup
  • Sambar powder – 1 tbsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Tamarind –

Peanut chutney

How to make peanut chutney ?

 

 

 

 

Ingredients for chutney

  • Peanuts – 1 cup
  • Dry red chillies – 2
  • Cumin seeds – 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Tamarind paste- 1/2 tsp (optional)

Ingredients for seasoning

  • Curry leaves –