Banana Muffins using microwave

Ingredients:
Wheat flour - 1cup
Egg - 2
Sugar - 1/4cup
Butter(melted) - 1/4cup
Baking powder - 1.5tsp
Vanila essence - 1tsp
Banana(small) - 1
Cream - 1/4cup

Method:

• Beat eggs in a bowl
• Mix butter and sugar well and add to the above mixture
  
• Mix all the rest of the ingredients together and pour the above mixture to it
  
• Grease the cups put the mixture into it
• keep in microwave at 100% power for about 6mins
• About 12muffins can be made
  
  Enjoy it with coffee or tea
  
  
  

Home made naan

Servings:2

Ingredients:
Maida - 2cup
Milk -3/4cup
Baking powder - 1tsp
Yeast - 1/4tsp
Oil - 1tbsp
Butter - as required
Salt to taste

Method:

• Mix all ingredients
• Knead the mixture to make a soft dough and keep it aside for 6hrs
• Make small balls out of it
• Roll them into thin chapathies
• Cook on tava just like chapathi
• Spread butter over it and serve hot
  

Butter Chicken

Ingredients:
Chicken - 300gms(boneless, cut into small pieces)
lemon juice - 1tbsp
Ginger-galic paste - 2tsp
Onion(chopped) - 1
Tomato puree - 3tbsp
turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
chilly powder - 2 tsp
coriander powder - 1 tspn
almond paste - 1/2cup
orange colour - 1 tsp
butter - 3 tspn
Cinnamon stick - 2
Olive oil - 1tbsp
Fresh cream - 1/2 cup
Coriander leaves(chopped) - 2tbsp

Method:

• Marinate the chicken with lemon, chilli powder and salt and keep it aside for 2 hrs
• Heat the pan and add olive oil
• Add onion and saute
  
• Add cinnamon, ginger-garlic paste and fry
• Add chilli powder, coriander powder and salt.Stir continuously.
  
• Add tomato puree, almond paste, water and cook for sometime
• Add chicken pieces
• Add a little colour
• Cover the pan and cook for some time
• When the gravy gets thick sprinkle coriander leaves
• Add butter
  
• Before serving put fresh cream on the top. Serve hot with paratha, naan and chapathi

Chemmeen Muringa masala

Servings:2

Ingredients

Drumstick - 2
Prawns(medium) - 200gms
Onion(medium) - 1(chopped)
Tomato - 1(chopped)
Turmeric powder - 1/4tsp
Coriander powder - 2tsp
Green chillies - 3(chopped)
Ginger-garlic paste - 2tsp
Cummin seeds - 1tsp
Curry leaves - 1 sprig
Coriander leaves(chopped) - 2tbsp
Oil-2tbsp
Salt to taste


Method

• Using a peeler peel the skin of drumsticks, wash them, cut them into pieces and keep it aside
  
• Heat oil in a pan
• Add cummin seeds
  
• When it splutter add onion, ginger-garlic paste and fry until golden brown
• Add green chillies, curry leaves and saute
• Add chopped tomato, turmeric powder, coriander powder, salt and cook for some time
  
• Add drumsticks and water and allow to cook covered
• When it is half cooked add prawns and allow to cook covered
• When the gravy gets thick sprinkle coriander leaves and serve it hot with rice

Chicken Varattiadu

Servings:4

Ingredients
Chicken (boneless) - 1 no
Onions (finely chopped) - 3 nos
Tomatoes (sliced) - 2 nos
Ginger-garlic paste - 2 tbsp
Fennel seeds - 2 tsp
Garam masala - 1 tsp
Red chili powder - 3 tsp
Cumin seeds - 2 tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
pepper powder - 2tsp
green chillies - 2
Capsicum(diced) -1
Coriander powder - 2 tsp
Fresh coriander leaves(finely chopped) - 2 tbsp
soya sauce-1tsp
Salt to taste
Oil - 2tbsp

Method:

• Clean the chicken and cut into small pieces.
• Heat oil in a non-stick pan.
• Add fennel seeds.
• Add ginger-garlic paste, onions, green chillies and allow them to cook until they turn golden brown.
• Add chicken pieces.
• Add garam masala, red chilly powder, turmeric powder and salt and allow it to cook.
• Add cumin seeds, coriander powder and pepper powder.
• When the chicken is half cooked, add tomatoes, capsicum, soya sauce and mix well.
• Cover the pan and let the chicken cook well.
• Sprinkle coriander leaves and serve it hot with appam, chappathi,ari dosa or paratha
  

Ghee Rice using Pressure Cooker

This is my first post. Today onwards, I'll be sharing some of the dishes that i have tried out. As far as possible i use a pressure cooker or microwave oven to cook my food. Today i want to share with u a recipe for ghee rice. Lets go for it.... :-)

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Servings : 4

Ingredients

• Ghee - 8 tbsp
• Basmati Rice(preferably aromatic long grained rice) - 4 cups
• Onions sliced very finely - 4 large sized
• 4 bay leaves
• 6 cloves
• 2 x 1inch cinnamon sticks
• 1 tsp pepper corns
• 8 cups hot water

Method:

• Pour the ghee into the pressure cooker and heat it. Then add bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon and peppercorns and saute it for 1 minute.
• Add the sliced onion to the cooker and saute it till it is cooked and becomes soft, stirring ocassionally.
  
• Add the washed and drained rice and stir for 2-3 minutes. Pour the hot water to the cooker.
• Add lemon juice and salt
  
• Cover the cooker with the lid and bring it to high pressure 2 times. After that simmer it for 3 minutes on low flame.
  
• Release the pressure immediately and serve hot.

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Ghee rice is best had with a spicy chicken curry and yoghurt salad.