Rava Laddoo~~Indian Cooking Challenge

Life is full of challenges rite na!!!! cooking challenges makes me always happy and i give up rarely cooking challenges..If the cooking challenges goes for Indian dishes who will leave this great opportunity, i immediately want to join along my other fellow bloggers to Srivalli's Indian Cooking Challenge.. And this month challenge was a trail challenge and Srivalli choosed Rava Laddoo..Usually we Tamilians prepare rava laddoo by grinding pan roasted rava and sugar with hot ghee, but Srivalli's rava laddoo was completely different from wat we do, using milk is very new to me and grated coconut too...Rava laddoo always goes for few ingredients also they are really very easy, needless to say this rava laddoo is also very easy and i didnt find much difference from mine...we loved it...Voila from this month onwards we are going to enjoy making out delicious indian dishes for this indian cooking challenge and am eagerly waiting for further challenges to enjoy preparing and having, since some of our indian dishes are yet to try in my to do list and this challenge gonna be a wonderful opportunity for peoples like me to enjoy preparing many different indian dishes...

Rava / Semolina - 1 cup

Sugar - 1 cup

Ghee - 25 gms

Milk - 25 ml

Cardamom powder - a pinch

Cashew nuts - 10 whole nuts

Raisins - 10 nos

Grated fresh coconut - 25 gms

Heat 2 tsp of ghee in a kadai. Once the ghee is hot enough, simmer the flame and roast cashew nuts and raisins. Once the raisins balloon up, remove. Then roast the grated coconut. Remove once done. Keep all these aside.

Add the remaining ghee and roast the Rava till its well roasted and aroma starts coming out.

In a bowl, take all the roasted Rava, Nuts, Coconut and add the Cardamom powder. Then add the sugar. Mix well.

Then slowly add the warm milk into the bowl. Check if you are able to gather as balls. When you find that milk added is enough to get you laddos, transfer it back to the kadai and cook in sim for 2 mins. Mix well and then cover it and let it rest for 2 mins. Then immediately make balls or laddoos.

Enjoy the delicious rava laddoooss!!!!

Baked Chickpeas N Bread Rolls

Searching anything for evening snacks or an appetiziers as low fat version also nourishing and yummy dish with less oil and baked in oven??U have to give a trial to this delicious rolls i have prepared with chickpeas and bread slices, u can very well prepare with canned chickpeas too...Its such a easy and fulfilling snacks suits prefect for everyone, these rolls can be served very well with ketchup or else with hot chilly sauce...Garbanzo beans well known as chickpeas have a delicious nut like taste and buttery texture, they are rich and good source of protein, they are available as dried or canned so that they can be enjoyed year round...Its such a versatile legume and one of the main ingredients in many Middle Eastern and Indian dishes such as hummus, falafels and many indian curries...Chickpeas can be black, green, red and brown in colour and the most known colour is the beige one..This rolls needs few drops of oil for baking and this tastes fabulous...Am gonna try next time as kofta curries with this combination, coz once i prepared this bread rolls they disappeared within few minutes...They tastes divine if they are served hot...Voila, am sending this baked version of rolls to Madhuram's Low Fat Baking Event and to AFAM-Bellpeppers guest hosted by me, event started by Maheswari, also am sending this delicious chickpeas rolls to Sunday Snacks-Spill the beans guest hosted by Priya of Akshayapaatram...

1cup Chickpeas (soaked overnite and cooked)
3nos Bread slices
1no Onion (chopped finely)
1/4cup Bellpeppers (chopped finely)
1/4tsp Garam masala powder
1/2tsp Chilly powder
1/4tsp Fennel seed powder
2tbsp Coriander leaves (chopped)
Salt
1tbsp Oil

Heat a tsp of oil and saute the chopped onions until they turns transparent...Smash the cooked chickpeas and dip the bread slices in water,squeeze out the excess of water and smash it.. Take both the smashed chickpeas, bread slices with sauteed onions, garam masala powder, chilly powder, chopped bell peppers, fennel seed powder , coriander leaves and salt..mix everything well and make out medium size rolls, meanwhile preheat the oven at 250F..

Arrange a baking sheet over a baking tray, brush the baking sheet with oil, place the rolls over the greased baking sheet one by one by leaving spaces between each rolls..Brush the rolls with few drops of oil and bake for 30 minutes by turning the roll on both sides until they turn slightly brown..

Serve hot with any hot n spicy sauce!!

Khobz ( Moroccan Wholewheat Bread)

Moroccan bread is called khobz, and is characterized by a round, somewhat-flat shape and a slightly coarse texture. Although often referred to as flatbread, Moroccan bread is often a full inch thick when baked. The disc shape allows for lots of crust, which is ideal for dipping and scooping up tagines, salads and other Moroccan dishes.Khobz can be prepared with all purpose flour, semolina flour or else with whole wheat flour..This khobz i have prepared at home is one of the delicious, soft and healthy moroccan bread in which i have added a teaspoon of anise seeds and quarter cup of sesame seeds, which enhance the flavour and make out the bread to tasty...We enjoyed having this bread with our vegetable soup also with nutella spread for snacks...I enjoyed making this bread, since its really works out our fingers and palms to make out this bread too soft and smooth...This bread goes straight to IAVW-Moracco guest hosted by Lavi, event started by Vaishali,Madhuram's Low Fat Baking Event, also goes to Think Spice-Think Sesame seeds guest hosted by Pj, event started by Sunita and finally to Susan's Yeast Spotting...

2cups Whole wheat flour
1tsp Anise seeds
1/4cup Sesame seeds
1/2tsp Salt
1/2tsp Sugar
2tbsp Olive oil
1/2tbsp Dry active yeast
1+1/2cups Warm water

Mix together the flour, salt, anise seeds, sesame seeds,sugar, yeast with ur fingers, slowly add the warm water and olive oil, slowly turn the flour as dough, knead slowly for 15minutes until they turns very soft and smooth...Divide the dough as two equal dough...flatten the dough and keep in a warm place covered with a towel for 45 minutes..if you touch the surface the uncooked dough will comes back, now the dough is ready to bake...springle some flour over the baking tray and arrange the raised dough over the flour, poke the dough with fork..

Preheat the oven at 400F, arrange the baking tray in the middle of the oven and bake the bread for 30-40minutes..

Enjoy the freshly baked bread!

Eggless Oats,Cornmeal N Orange Scones

Its quite a long, i prepared scones at home..today i prepared scones with oats, cornmeal and with grated orange zest as eggless also low fat version...Scone is a bread like biscuit, it is made with wheat,oatmeal usually with baking powder as leavening egent...The scone is doughier than American biscuit and frequently includes raisins, currants, date, and also with nuts..This scone can also prepared as savoury varieties with cheese, onion etc..Scones sold commercially are usually round in shape. When prepared at home, they take various shapes including triangles, rounds and squares.Coming to my eggless and low fat scones, i replaced the egg with apple sauce and i just used 3tablespoon of canola oil, this scones turned out prefect also healthy and really tasty with a crunchy texture coz of cornmeal i used in this delicious scones..Am sending this eggless scones to Madhuram's Low Fat Baking Event also sending to EFM June-Breakfast & Variety Rices by Srilekha...

2cups Quick cooking oats
1/2cup Cornmeal
1/2cup All purpose flour
1tsp Baking powder
1/2tsp Baking soda
1/4cup Sugar
3tbsp Grated orange rinds
1/4cup Almondnuts (chopped rougly)
1/2cup Applesauce
3tbsp Canola oil

Mix together quick cooking oats, cornmeal, all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, sugar,grated orange rinds, apple sauce, canola oil and chopped almond nuts and turn everything as dough....Dust the dough with few spoons of all purpose flour..roll the dough with a rolling pin as a thick disc..with a knife cut the disc into 8 wedges..

Transfer the wedges to a cookie sheet,leave atleast few space between the scones, meanwhile preheat the oven to 425F..brush the tops of the scones with canola oil...bake them for 20 minutes r until they get slightly browned...

Let them cool..serve them with coffee r tea..simply with any spreads..