Achu's Recipes

I prepared this special strawberry cake without using egg and butter. To make it more healthy instead of maida I used wheat flour. The cake was as soft and moist as we prepare with egg, butter and maida. Try and enjoy :) Ingredients For the cake Wheat Flour - 1.5 cup  Fresh Strawberry - 15-20 nos: Milk - 3/4 cup Sugar - 3/4 cup (powdered) Oil - 1/2 cup  Baking Soda - 1 tsp For the Icing (optional) Whipping cream - 100 gms: Fresh Strawberry - 8-10 nos: Preparation Method Baking the cake Preheat the oven to 180 degree C. Grease the baking pan with oil and dust with little flour.  Crush the strawberry using a spoon or fork and keep aside. Sieve together wheat flour and baking soda and keep aside. In a bowl add milk, oil and sugar and mix well with a wooden spoon. Add crushed strawberry and mix well Add the flour little by little and gently mix. Pour the prepared batter to the baking pan and bake for 35-40 mins: (check the cake by inserting a toot

Ingredients Idli Batter – 2 cups Onion - 1 (finely chopped) Green Chilies 4-5 nos:(finely chopped) Mustard Seeds - 1tsp Curry Leaves - as required (finely chopped) Coriander Leaves - as required (finely chopped) Asafoetida (Hing) - a pinch Oil - as required Salt - as required Preparation Method Heat 3tbsp oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds and curry leaves. Add chopped onion, green chilies and fry for few minutes until all onions turn light brown. Add asafoetida, saute for 1 min: and remove from flame. Add sauteed onion mix, coriander leaves and salt to the batter and mix well. Heat the paniyaram pan, add few drops of oil in each hole (its better to brush the sides of each hole with oil), and then pour 1 tbsp of batter in each hole carefully and c ook in low flame.  Once one side of the paniyaram is cooked, using a fork turn it to the other side carefully.Cook till its done (paniyaram will start leave from the sides once it is cooked). Remove and repeat with