Cherupayar Thoran

Sometimes we dont need a heavy food to satisfy our tastebuds for your lunch, even a simple stir fry with protein packed green grams can suits prefect with a simple dal and hot piping rasam for your lunch..This thoran goes for a quick,simple and easy preparation..Cherupayar thoran goes for cooked whole green moongs sauteed along with chopped onions,grated ginger and crushed garlic, finally cooked with a grounded coconut,cumin seeds and green chillies paste..Keralites love to have this healthy thoran with rice porridge well known as kanji..Sending to Kerala Kitchen hosted by Kaveri..

1cup Whole greengrams
1no Onion (chopped)
3nos Garlic cloves (crushed)
1tsp Ginger (grated)
1/2tsp Turmeric powder
2nos Green chillies
1/2cup Grated coconut
1/2tsp Cumin seeds
1/2tsp Mustard seeds
Salt
Oil
Few curry leaves

Soak the whole greengrams overnite, next day cook them in a heavy bottomed pan with salt and turmeric powder..drain the excess of water and keep aside..

Heat enough oil in a pan, let splutters the mustard seeds, curry leaves..add the chopped onions,crushed garlic and grated ginger until the onions turns transculent, meanwhile grind the grated coconut,cumin seeds and green chillies as coarse paste..

Now add the cooked greengrams to the cooking veggies and finally add the grounded coarse paste to them..cook for few minutes and put off the stove..Serve hot with rice..

Vegan Dates & Chocolate Cake

Yesterday my better half celebrated his birthday, we (myself & my teddies) together prepared a small surprise birthday party for him, this time i wanted to make something without eggless as well as completely vegan, thats y i prepared this vegan dates chocolate cake and decorated simply with a chocolate ganache..Professional bakers just forgive me for the way i decorated the cake, am still a novice when its comes decorating a cake, am trying my best since a long but still am having hard time  and just trying to learn everytime regarding the prefect decoration skills..Fortunately everyone at home just loved and enjoyed having this vegan cake, even my hubby was surprised and he enjoyed thoroughly his birthday party..


You can just skip the decoration part and have this super spongy yummy vegan cake for your snacks, since i prepared this cake for my hubby's birthday i went for some chocolate ganache and butter cream so obviously both ganache and butter cream have low fat cream and butter in their preparation,if you want to make some vegan ganache,just go for chocolate and water instead of low fat cream while for butter cream you can go very well  for shortening or vegan butter...This cake is a prefect tea time snack to enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee, a wonderful way to sneak the most healthy dry fruits called 'the dates' especially to feed our kids...Do check out the other marathoners running blogging marathon with me here..Sending this cake pops to Kid's Delight -Something Sweet guest hosted by Kavi,event by Srivalli& Srivalli's Chocolate Mela.

1+1/2cups All purpose flour
1/2cup Oil
1/2cup Chocolate chunks
1/4cup Sugar
1/2cup Dates puree
1tsp Baking powder
1/2tsp Baking soda
1/2cup Silken tofu

Dates Puree:
Soak a cup of pitted dates in hot water for half an hour, grind them as fine puree and use them as per ur need..

Preheat the oven to 350F, sieve the all purpose flour with baking powder, baking soda and keep aside..Meanwhile, heat the chocolate chunks with enough water in microwave oven until they turns as thick chocolate sauce..Beat the oil,silken tofu,sugar for few minutes, finally add the dates puree and chocolate sauce, beat everything well..

Gradually add the sieved flour  to the wet ingredients, mix gently with a spatula,dont overmix the batter, pour the batter to the already greased mould and bake for 20-25minutes until a skewer inserted comes out clean..Let the cake get cool completely..

Chocolate Ganache:
1cup Chocolate chips
1/2cup Low fat cream 


Warm the cream, add the chocolate chips and mix everything well...let them cool and arrange in fridge atleast for an hour..

Buttercream:
1cup Confectioner's sugar
1/4cup Butter
1tsp Vanilla extract
Green food colour


Beat the butter, the confectioner's sugar,vanilla extract ,food colour and turn everything as a smooth buttercream, arrange this buttercream in fridge for atleast two hours..
While decorating, spread generously the chocolate ganache over the baked cake..take the buttercream in a piping bag with a star nozzle and pipe out as u desire..

Enjoy!!

Eggless White Chocolate & Peanut Butter Blondies

Dunno how to describe the taste of this wonderful looking eggless blondies, these blondies are simply addictive,super moist,chewy and wonderfully flavourful..I skipped completely the eggs and useful flax seed meal as egg subsitute for making this yummy blondies..Also as i love nutty touch in my blondies i simply prepared this super duper delicious blondies with my most favourite peanut butter...Both white chocolate and peanut butter both works out wonder together and this blondies turned out absolutely divine..We couldnt stop having them for our snacks even my teddies had these blondies for their breakfast,they just love it a lot...Do check out the other marathoners running blogging marathon with me here..Sending this cake pops toKid's Delight -Something Sweet guest hosted by Kavi,event by Srivalli,Bake Fest#3 guest hosted by Pradnya,event by Vardhini & Srivalli's Chocolate Mela.

1cup All purpose flour
1tbsp Cornflour
1/2cup Sugar
4tbsp Creamy Peanut Butter
1/2cup Hot water
1/4cup Olive oil
1tsp Baking powder
2tbsp Flax seeds meal (grind the flax seeds as fine powder)
6tbsp Hot water 
150grms White chocolate bar (chopped)

Sift together the baking powder and flours..Beat together the olive oil,sugar and whisk until the sugar gets dissolved, meanwhile heat together the chopped white chocolate pieces and peanut butter in a microwave safe bowl for a minute in high power, stir them together..Add this to the already whisked oil-sugar mixture..

Meanwhile mix together the 6tablespoons of hot water and flax seed meal,make a paste and add this to the wet ingredients..Gradually add the flour  to the wet ingredients by adding the hot water a little bit at a time till the flour  and hot water is used up..

Grease a mould and pour the batter and bake for 20-25minutes in middle rack until a skewer inserted comes out clean..

Bottlegourd & Moongdal Sambhar

Bottlegourd and moongdal sambar is quite an easy, quick and delicious gravy which goes awesome with hot steaming rice or with rotis or idlies,pongal and to any other dishes, even i like to  have with some toasted breads along with these sort of gravies...To enhance the flavour of this delicious gravy, i prepared a spice powder using fenugreek seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds,asafoetida powder and dry red chillies, cooked everything with already cooked yellow split moongdal, yes this gravy sounds quite similar like a gravy between sambar and kootu, no need of sambar powder or chilly powder coz the spice powder we are preparing for this gravy itself  gives enough spiciness..Definitely a delicious gravy to enjoy with any sort of breakfast or dinner dishes..Sending to  A Veggie for a month - Bottlegourd guest hosted by Raji,event by Priya& Sudha's Love for Lentils....

1nos Bottlegourd (medium size & chopped)

1cup Yellow split moong dal (cooked)

1no Onion (chopped)

1no Tomato (chopped)

1/4tsp Turmeric powder

1/2tsp Mustard seeds

1/2tsp Urad dal

2nos Dry red chillies

Salt

Oil

2tbsp Coriander leaves

1tsp Lemon juice

Spice powder:

1tbsp Fenugreek seeds

2tbsp Coriander seeds

5nos Red chillies

1tsp Cumin seeds

1/2tsp Asafeotida powder

Fry the seeds given in the list for spice powder one by one in simmer until they turns golden brown...Grind everything as fine powder and keep aside..

Heat enough oil and let splutter the mustard seeds,dry red chillies and urad dal...add the chopped onions and chopped tomatoes and cook everything until the onions turns transculent, add immediately the chopped bottle gourd ,turmeric powder with enough salt and saute for few minutes...Add the cooked dal to the cooking veggies..bring everything to boil, now add the spice powder as per need and cook the gravy until the veggies get well cooked, finally add the lemon juice,chopped coriander leaves and put off the stove..

Serve hot with rice or rotis...

Chocolate Cake Pops

When i saw few cute cake pops at many of my few blogger's space, i could stop myself to make some at home,my buddies just pulled me to try them..Its was a big hit among my teddies, they couldnt stopped themselves having these yummy pops for their yesterday snacks..I used some leftover chocolate cake,i prepared two days back for our snacks for making this damn cute cake pops,my lil one helped me while making this cake pops,he just loved to sprinkle the sugar balls to the chocolate coated cake pops,we had loads of fun while making this cake pops..Few days back, i watched a french tv show, a french mom prepared this quick and easy breezy cake pops using some sponge cake and warm milk, later she used milk chocolate to coat the cake pops and decorated simply with some chocolate vermicellis..Seriously i loved the way she prepared,finally yesterday i prepared them at home..An excellent cake pops to enjoy without any hesitation,obviously a kid's friendly snacks...Sending this cake pops toKid's Delight -Something Sweet guest hosted by Kavi,event by Srivalli,Cooking With Leftovers guest hosted by Veena,event by Kalyani, Ramya's ABC-Desserts & Srivalli's Chocolate Mela..Do check out the other marathoners running blogging marathon with me here..

2cups Chocolate cake (crumbled)
Warm milk (as per need)
100grms Milk chocolate
1tbsp Butter
Chocolate vermicellis or sugar balls (for decroating the cake pops)

Grind the crumbled chocolate cake in a food processor,add the warm milk as per need to the grounded cake mixture and turn as stiff dough, take enough mixture and roll them as tiny balls, arrange over a plate and keep in fridge for an hour..

Take the milk chocolate,butter in a microwave safe bowl,heat for a minute in high power, mix the melted chocolate and butter to make a silky chocolate sauce..Dip the edge of the lollipop stick to the already chocolate sauce,insert immediately to the prepared cake balls, dip them now gently to the chocolate sauce,let the excess of chocolate drain back to the bowl..dip immediately the cake pops to the sugar balls..

Arrange the cake pops in a piece of foam and let them get cooled or arrange them in fridge for few minutes..Enjoy!!