French Pancakes (Crêpes) With Banana & Chocolate Ganache

Weekend, i prepared some french pancakes called crêpes after a long for our snacks..This time i simply served this pancakes with sliced bananas and some leftover chocolate ganache, my teddies enjoyed thoroughly this yummy chocolatey pancakes for their snacks..In France,every february 2nd of the year,french peoples celebrates 'Fête la Chandeleur', a festival where they do prepare many sorts of french pancakes..French pancakes can be served either with savoury fillings or with sweet fillings..My teddies favourite is nutella stuffed french pancakes, they never says no to them..You can store this pancakes for two or three days in fridge, while having just heat them in microwave and enjoy with your favourite fillings..Sending to Akheela's Teatime Snacks..

10nos Crêpes (French Pancakes)
2nos Bananas (sliced)
Chocolate ganache

Take the already prepared crêpes, gently spread the chocolate ganache over the warm crêpes, fold them as u desire, serve topped with sliced bananas,drizzle the chocolate ganache and sprinkle chocolate powder as per need..Enjoy immediately.

Kaya Mezhukkupuratti

An easy and quick stir fry prepared with simple spices and chopped veggies is usually called as mezhukkupuratti by Keralites, this kaya mezhukkupuratti a wonderful side dish for rice is prepared with raw banana aka plaintain pieces spiced up with chilly powder and salt along with a simple tempering...Usually these stir fries goes for quick preparation and coconut is not used in this recipe..A delicious side dish to enjoy with rice served along with any kind of gravies...Sending to Kerala Kitchen hosted by Kaveri..

2cups Raw banana/plantains (sliced lengthwise)
1no Onion (large & chopped)
1tsp Mustard seeds+urad dal
1/4tsp Turmeric powder
1tsp Red chilly powder
Few curry leaves
Salt
Oil

Cook the plaintain pieces with turmeric powder and water,until they turns soft, put off the stove,strain the water and keep aside..

Heat enough oil, let splutters the mustard seeds,urad dal and curry leaves, add the chopped onions,fry until they turns transculent, add now the cooked plaintain pieces,red chilly powder,salt and cook everything together in simmer with lid closed until the veggies get well coated with the spices..Put off the stove..

Serve with rice..

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,Akheela's Teatime Snacks..& 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!!