Eggless Apple & Carrot Breakfast Chocolate Muffins

As i told earlier, my kids dont like to have their breakfast and sometime i have to compel them to have atleast a cup of warm milk with cereal bars. I know very well that i can feed them very much easily if i bake muffins with chocolate especially for their breakfast. Obviously i'll try to add maximum fruits or veggies in their chocolate muffins so that they wont even notice the addition of fruits or veggies.For me, these breakfast muffins are quite an easy breezy way to feed them with the fruits or veggies.

For my second day of blogging marathon, with eggless cupcakes or muffins with chocolate as theme, i quickly prepared this wonderful muffins  and tried adding some finely grated apple and grated carrot to this muffins. Both apple and carrot turned out this muffins super moist and simply delicious. None at home noticed the addition of apple and carrot and they simply enjoyed having their muffins with a cup of warm milk for their breakfast. Check out the other bloggers running this 23rd edition of blogging marathon here.Sending these muffins to Kalyani's Magic Mingle with fruits and chocolate as this month's secret ingredient and to my event Healthy Diet-Fast & Quick Healthy Dish guest hosted by Kalpana and to 60days of Christmas hosted by Priya and Divya.

2cups Whole wheat pastry flour
1/2cup Brown sugar
1/4cup Apple sauce (unsweetened)
1/2cup Dark chocolate (chopped roughly)
1/4cup Grated carrot
1/4cup Grated apple
1cup Yogurt
1/2cup Oil
1tsp Baking powder
1/2tsp Baking soda
1tsp Cinnamon powder
1/4tsp Salt

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Meanwhile melt the chocolate with few spoons of water in microwave oven and mix it until you get a ganache.

In  a bowl, mix together the apple sauce,brown sugar, yogurt,oil and whisk until the sugar gets dissolved.

Add now the melted chocolate to the wet ingredients and beat well.

Meanwhile take together the flour,baking powder,baking soda ,cinnamon powder,salt and sieve it.

Add gradually the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients,mix with a spatula. dont over mix.

Finally fold gently the grated carrot and apples.

Pour enough batter to the greased muffin mould and bake for 15-20minutes until a skewer inserted comes ot clean.

Enjoy with a cup of warm milk.

Eggless Chocolate Persimmon Muffins

Once the cold weather starts, we can get this persimmon fruits everywhere here with cheap rates. Love this fruit and i never failed to bake with them if i get them abundant. Today am starting my first week of blogging marathon and this is my 2nd day of Bake-a thon,so obviously am posting an eggless muffins. For this week's blogging marathon, i choose eggless muffins or cupcakes with chocolate in it. If its chocolate based bakes, definitely am in. As everyone at home love chocolates in any form, i can feed them easily with anything.

Coming to this persimmon muffins, i prepared this muffins last week for our breakfast and went for homemade persimmon puree with whole wheat flour and usual baking ingredients. If you are in hurry and dont have enough time to make your breakfast, prepare this muffins a day before and just enjoy to kick start your day. With a bowl of warm milk or a cup of coffee, this muffins will definitely goes for a satisfying breakfast or a snack.Do check Champa, Srivalli, Sumana Deepak,Veena and Preeti Deo wat they baked for the second day of bake-a-thon. Also check out the other bloggers running this 23rd edition of blogging marathon here.Am sending this incredible persimmon muffins to this month's Magic Mingle with fruits and chocolate as this month's secret ingredients.Thanks Kalyani for choosing this combo,i just love it.Sending to 60days of Christmas hosted by Priya and Divya.

1cup Whole wheat flour
1/2cup All purpose flour
1cup Persimmon puree
1/2cup Sugar
1tsp Baking powder
1tsp Baking soda
1/4cup Butter
1/4cup Canola oil
1/2cup Dark chocolate (chopped roughly)
1tbsp Lemon juice
1/2tsp Nutmeg powder
1/4tsp Cinnamon powder

Beat together the butter and sugar for few minutes, add now the persimmon puree,canola oil,lemon juice,nutmeg powder,cinnamon powder and keep aside.

Meanwhile melt the chocolate with few spoons of water in microwave oven and mix it until you get a ganache.Add this melted chocolate to the wet ingredients and beat for few seconds.

Preheat the oven to 350F.

Mix together the whole wheat flour,all purpose flour,baking powder and baking soda in a bowl.

Gradually add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until the flour get mixed,but dont overmix.

Pour the batter in a greased muffin moulds and arrange over a baking tray..

Bake for 20-25minutes until a skewer inserted comes out clean.

Cool it completely and enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea.

Misal Pav with Homemade Wheat Pav Buns ~~SNC Challenge

Misal Pav is one of the famous street food of Mumbai, my list for street foods goes for a huge list and one among those favourite i have misal pav too. I had a chance to taste this delicious street food during my last trip to India. Misal pav is prepared with many variations sometimes they go for a single legume like white peas or with a combination of mixed beans like white peas,moth beans and green moongdal. For this month's Southern vs Northern Challenge, we (Southern team) have to make this famous misal pav, coz Meena of Random Ramblings challenged us with this incredible street food, while Sherin of Kuk's Kitchen challenged Northern team with Medhu Vada. I know very well that both the teams are gonna rock with their challenges, honestly i was very much excited to see this misal pav, thanks to Meena for giving me a chance and pulling me to make my favourite street food at home.

Unfortunately if you live in abroad, if its comes to chaat items we dont get that much easily the store bought ones, obviously we have to make sometime those delicious street foods from the scratch.Since i dont have neither mixture to top this misal pav nor the pav buns, i prepared myself at home. This time i went for wholewheat pav buns and usual mixture i do prepare once a while for our evening snacks. Meena explained the recipe very well and it was quite easy for me to prepare them.Misal pav is still warm and we are enjoying rite now while am typing the recipe. Am very much happy that finally i could make myself at home one of my favourite street food. A big thanks to the brain child of this event Divya of You Too Ccan Cook for making this event very much interesting and we both teams are enjoying thoroughly this healthy competition.

Homemade Whole wheat pav buns:

1+1/2cups Whole wheat flour

1/2cup All purpose flour

1tbsp Active dry yeast

1tsp Sugar

1tsp Salt

1cup Luke Warm water

3tbsp Oil

Few drops of milk

Add the yeast, sugar and salt to the luke warm water, give a stir and let them sit aside for 5minutes until the yeast turns foamy.

Take the flours in a large bowl and add the foaming yeast water and oil together to the flour and knead everything as soft dough.

Arrange the dough in a large greased bowl and keep in a warm place for an hour until the dough doubled their volume..

After an hour, punch down the doubled dough and knead again, make 6 medium sized balls from the dough and arrange one by one in a greased mould and let them side again for an hour in a warm place.

After an hour; preheat the oven to 350F.

Brush the breads with milk and bake in middle rack for 15-20minutes until a golden brown crust forms over the bread...Put off the oven and take off the mould and let them cool.

Misal pav:
2cups White peas (soaked and cooked in pressure cooker)
4nos Onions (chopped)
2nos Tomatoes (chopped)
4nos Garlic (chopped)
1inch Ginger (chopped)
2nos Green chillies (chopped)
1/4cup Grated coconut
1/2tsp Red chilly powder
1tsp Coriander powder
1/2tsp Dry mango powder
1/2tsp Garam masala powder
1/2tsp Cumin seeds
Salt
Oil
Mixture for topping
Pav buns
Few chopped coriander leaves

Keep aside few chopped onions,we need it while serving.

Heat a kadai with a table spoon of oil, now saute the onions,tomatoes,ginger,garlic,green chillies until they turns soft,finally add the coconut and cook for few more minutes.Keep aside and let them cool.

Now grind these sauteed veggies as a paste.

Heat again enough oil in a kadai,fry the cumin seeds until they turns brown.

Now add the red chilly powder,coriander powder,garam masala powder,dry mango powder and fry in low flame for few seconds.

Add immediately the grounded paste and cook everything in simmer, finally add enough water to get a gravy.

Add enough salt and cook for 2-3minutes, add now the cooked peas and bring to boil,put off the stove immediately.

While serving, top it with mixture,chopped onions and chopped coriander leaves.

Serve it immediately with pav buns.

Announcing Cooking With Seed - Channadal

I couldnt able to host an event since few months, finally this month's cooking with seeds is going to hosted by myself.I chosed channadal as this month's seed, i do cook much with channadal and moong dal. Channadal is also known as bengal gram and its quite a popular legume in India, a staple food in Indian diet, this dal is very much related to chickpeas.

Bengal gram have a mild sweet flavour and they can be used in soups,dips or in salads. If i make stir fry with veggies, i usually add either channadal or split moongdal. Obviously you may know why i chosed this dal. Coming to channadal, they tastes delicious,nutritious,low fat, high in protein, prefect for vegetarians. They contains a good amounts of iron, vitamins and calcium.This dal is great for diabetics as they wont cause spike in their blood sugar.

Wat you need to do:

1)Cook or create dishes with channadal as anything(vegetarian, vegan or non-vegetarian are accepted)..

2)Many entries per person are allowed..

3)Link back ur entry to this announcement..

4)I'll accept the old entries, if they are linked with this page..

5)Using logo will be appreciated..


6)Email me to Priyasuresh09@gmail.com with subject as CWS-Channadal with following details:

Your Name:
Blog's Name:
Recipe Name:
Recipe url:
A photo

Please take care to send all ur entries before 31st december 2012 ..

7) If you dont have blog, no problem..pls do send your entries to the above mail address, i'll include them while doing the roundup..

Do prepare your dishes with channadal and send me through mail, really waiting to see all ur delicious entries.