Achu's Recipes

       I baked this cake for my Birthday to share with my friends.... My friends loved this super moist egg-less cake.       My hubby surprised me with lovely bunch of flowers & chocolates.... Thank you dear for the same... Ingredients All Purpose Flour (Maida) - 1 and 1/2 cups (150 gms) Coco Powder - 1/2 cup (50 gms) Thick Curd - 1 cup (250 ml) Powdered  Sugar - 1 cup (200 gms) Baking soda - 1/2 tsp Baking powder - 1 tsp Butter - 100 gms (in room temp:) Vanilla essence - 1 tsp Preparation Method Sieve together maida and coco powder twice and keep aside. Cream sugar and curd until sugar completely dissolves.  Add baking powder, baking soda to the curd mixture and mix well. Leave aside for 5 mins and you can see the bubbles appearing. Now add vanilla essence,butter and mix well.  Now slowly add maida-coco powder mix in portions at a time and blend with wet ingredients.  Beat well with a blender / whi...

Ingredients Rice Flour - 3 cups Grated Coconut - 1 cup Grated Jaggery - 1/2 cup Cumin Powder - a pinch Cardamon Powder - a pinch Salt - a pinch Plantain Leaf Preparation Method Add rice flour and salt to a bowl and mix well. Make a thick dough, adding lukewarm water little by little. Mix together jaggery, coconut, cumin powder, cardamon powder and keep aside. Take lemon size of rice dough and spread it to a medium size piece of plantain leaf evenly with wet fingers. Take spoon full of coconut-jaggery mix and spread that on the top of the spread-ed rice dough. Fold the plantain leaf from middle to inside. Cook them in a steamer at medium flame. The Elayada is ready when the dough separates from the plantain leaf. Remove from flame, allow it to cool and taste the mouth-watering Kerala special Elayada.

Ingredients Chana - 100 gms Onion - 1 big (chopped) Tomato - 1 big (chopped) Green Chili - 2 nos: (chopped) Ginger-Garlic Paste - 1 tsp Red Chili Powder - 1 tsp Coriander  Powder - 2 tsp Garam Masala - 1 tsp Chana Masla - 2 tsp Turmeric Powder - a pinch Salt - as required Oil - 3 tbsp Mustard - 1/2 tsp Coriander Leaves - as required Lime Juice - 1 tbsp Preparation Method Wash and soak chana for about 4-5hrs: Pressure cook chana by adding turmeric powder and keep aside. In a wok bring oil to heat, splutter mustard seeds. Add chopped onion and saute well. When the onion color start changing add chopped tomato, green chili and saute well. Bring down the flame to low and add red chili powder, coriander powder, garam masala, chana masala and mix well. Add chana, mix well and cook for about 10 mins: in low flame. Add lime juice, mix well, cook for another 2mins:, add coriander leaves and remove from flame. The spicy Chana Masala is ready to be served with Naa...