Crispy Mushroom Pakoda

We make usually pakodas with potatoes or with mixed veggies, for a change i tried making crispy pakodas with buttom mushrooms, and they came out extremely crispy. With simple ingredients, you can make your evening snacks or side dish very quickly. Mushrooms makes a wonderful pakodas aka fingerchips , needless to say that mushrooms are excellent source of potassium, people with hypertension or high risk of stroke can enjoying this tremendous health benefits by having a regular dose of mushroom in their diet.

Mushrooms are also good source of many nutrients like phosphorus,icon,zinc,vitamin B6,selenium and thiamin. Mushroom slow down the production of cancer cells and helps in reducing the risk of cancer.
Mushroom can be eaten raw, they tastes fabulous when they are added in salad. Obviously dont forget to add them in your menu. Coming to this pakodas, am posting this vegan pakodas today as am a member of Vegan Thursdays, an vegan event running twice a month started by me. Do you want to join us, please send me a mail or leave a comment in this post.

1cups Buttom Mushroom (chopped)
1/2tsp Ginger garlic paste
1/4cup Gram flour
1/4cup Rice flour
1tbsp Corn flour
1tsp Fennel seed powder
1/2tsp Red chilly powder
Salt
Oil

Take the chopped  mushrooms,rice flour,gram flour,corn flour,fennel seed powder,ginger-garlic paste,chilly powder and salt in a bowl

Sprinkle some water and mix well until the mushrooms gets well coated with flours and spices.

Heat enough oil for deep frying.

Gently sprinkle a handful of flour-spices coated mushrooms to the hot oil, deep fry them until they turns crispy and golden brown.

Remove the excess of oil with a paper towel.

Enjoy these crispy mushroom fingerchips with a cup of tea.

Chocolate Coconut Burfi

Coconut burfi aka Indian style coconut candies are my all time favourite. This weekend we had a rainy sunday, suddenly my sweet tooth started craving for some sweets, immediately i started making some coconut burfis. My mom makes wonderful burfis, she goes always for some roasted rava along with freshly grated coconut for making her coconut burfis. Adding rava will gives a fabulous texture while having this burfis.But for a change, i skipped both freshly grated coconut and roasted rava in this burfi and tried adding chocolate chunks along with dessicated coconut to make this fusion chocolate coconut burfi.

As i told earlier, since am running this week's blogging marathon as Indian dishes with chocolate as theme am posting this droolworthy chocolate coconut burfi for my today's post.Trust me, these chocolate burfis are just amazing and am sure that you wont stop yourself having them if you make this chocolate coconut burfis at home. They are just addictive and you wont hesitate a second to munch them without any guilt. Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing this 29th edition.

1cup Dessicated coconut
100grms Chocolate chunks
1cup Sugar
1/2tsp Cardamom powder
2tbsp Ghee

Heat the ghee in a heavy bottomed pan, roast the dessicated coconut in low flame.

Transfer the roasted dessicated coconut to a plate and let them cool.

In the same pan, take sugar cover it with enough water and bring it to boil,cook until it reaches one string constitency.

Add immediately the chocolate chunks,roasted coconut,cardamom powder and cook in simmer until the mixture gets off the vessel.

Pour the burfi to a greased plate and let it cool completely.

Slice the burfi as you desire and enjoy.

Chocolate Rice Kheer

Kheers are prepared during most of the Indian festivals and for many more special occasions.Its served typically during a meal as a dessert.Obviously we never fail to make kheers with vermicelli,sago,rice,dals. Since i chosed Indian dishes with chocolate for this week's blogging marathon,honestly i want to give a try to our usual rice kheer with chocolate.Rice kheer, my daughter's favourite,she loves it that much and she can have it even everyday. Thats why i do prepare kheer with rice quite often.

Coming to this chocolate rice kheer, this kheer tastes super delicious when served warm.Rice cooked in low fat milk,chocolate chunks and sweet condensed milk makes a wonderful super rich,creamy,chocolatey and delicious kheer.Rice kheer with chocolate touch tastes absolutely fabulous, for quick cooking i cooked the rice with milk and water separately in pressure cooker, if you dont like this short cut method you can go very well cooking rice grains in heavy bottomed pans.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing this 29th edition.

1/4cup Basmati rice
2cups Milk
1cup Water
1/2cup Sweetened condensed milk
100grms Chocolate chunks (chopped)
1/2tsp Cardamom powder

Cook the basmati rice in pressure cooker along with water and  milk for 3 whistles,mash the rice well.

Once the steam get released, add the sweetened condensed milk,chopped chocolate chunks,cardamom powder and cook everything until the kheer gets bit thickens..

Serve warm topped with nuts.

Chocolate Carrot Halwa

Am starting again a week of blogging marathon with theme as Indian dishes with chocolate, obviously my next two dishes are going to be with chocolate as their main ingredient cooked as our Indian dishes. Here comes my first dish for this week's theme, how about a traditional carrot halwa with chocolate touch. Grated carrot cooked in milk and chocolate gives this droolworthy chocolate carrot halwa, apart from it this halwa goes for usual ingredients. When served slightly warm, this halwa tastes absolutely fantabulous and we could nt stop ourselves having this wonderful chocolate carrot halwa.Make some chocolate carrot halwa if you are planning to make carrot halwa next time and kids will truly enjoy this fusion halwa.Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing this 29th edition.Sending to Viji's SYS-WS - Apple & Carrot.

2cups Carrot (finely grated)

1/2cup Sugar

1/4cup Sweetened Condensed milk
1cup Milk

1/2tsp Cardamom powder

1tbsp Ghee
2tbsp Cocao powder
Few fried cashews

Heat the ghee, fry the finely grated carrots until they gets half cooked.

Add the sugar and condensed milk,milk,cocao powder,cook everything together in medium high flame.

Add the cardamom powder,fried cashew to the cooking halwa and put off the stove once the halwa gets thickens.

Keep aside and let them cool.