Carrot Halwa in microwave

Ingredients:

11/2 cup grated and slightly squeezed carrots.

1 tbs Ghee

1/3 cup milk

2 tbs milk powder

5-6 tbs sugar

3 tbs cream

nuts to garnish(optional)

Method:

Mix Melted ghee and carrots in a microwave safe and heat proof bowl and microwave on high for 2-3 minutes.

Mix rest of the ingredients to the carrot and ghee mixture and stir well.

Microwave for 8 mins mixing after each 11/2 minute.

Your carrot halwa is ready. Garnish with nuts of your choice. Serve hot or cold. 

Choclate Ganache

This ganache is my favourite ganache with coffee flavour and bit on sweeter side.

Ingredients:

1 cup cream

1 cup dark choclate chips or grated choclate

1 tsp instant coffee powder

1 tbs sugar.

Method:

Take choclate chips, sugar and coffee powder in a heat proof bowl. Boil cream and pour on choclate chips. Leave undisturbed for 3-5 mins. Stir until you get a smooth mixture. Let it cool completely before use. Whip for a minute to make it airy.

Your yummiest mocha flavored ganache is ready.

Banana white chocolate muffin

Best way to use over ripe bananas, healthy, yummy, perfect option for tea time snacks or school lunchbox

Ingredients:

2 cups self raising flour 

1/2 cup caster sugar

1/8 tsp salt

60 gm butter melted 

1/2 cup milk at room temperature 

2 eggs/ replace eggs with 1/4 cup of thick yogurt nicely beaten 

2 bananas pureed

1 tsp vanilla essence(optional)

3/4 cup choclate chips or chopped choclate white or brown whatever you prefer. I used chopped white choclate.

Procedure:

Preheat oven at 180C and prepare your Muffin trays. you can make 48 mini muffins or 12 large muffins with this quantity.

Sift flour in a bowl, add salt, caster sugar and mix well

Melt butter, Add milk, eggs, banana puree and Vanilla essence. Whisk to mix well.

Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon gently.

Mix choclate chips or chopped Choclate and stir gently, do not over mix. leave some chocolate to sprinkle on top of muffins.

Fill muffin cases 2/3, sprinkle some choclate.

bake on 180C until light brown on top. 

Approximately 20 mins for large size or 15 mins for mini muffins.

cool on wire wrack and your muffins are ready to serve.

Cinnamon Raisin Bread

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• Ingredients:
• 2 tsp grams active dry yeast 
•  1/2 cup lukewarm milk
• 1/2 cup lukewarm water
• 3 tbs granulated sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 3 tbs butter, melted, more for greasing bowl and pans
• 1 egg lightly beaten
• 1/3 cup Raisins.
• 2 1/2 cups plain flour, I mixed maida and whole wheat flour 50-50
• • 1/4 cup sugar mixed with 1 tsp cinnamon powder
  
  
  Method:
  
  
  Mix yeast and 1tsp sugar to the lukewarm water and leave for 10 minutes until frothy
  Add lukewarm milk, raisins, 3 tbs sugar, melted butter and egg to the yeast mixture.
  Slowly add flour and salt to the mixture and knead well for about 7 minutes to make a smooth dough, If you feel dough is sticky add little bit flour.
  Now leave the dough in a well greased bowl for about 1.5-2 hours until double in size.
  Knead the dough again for 1-2 minutes and roll into a reactagle, Now sprinkle 1 tbs of milk on dough to make it little bit wet.
  Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon mixture and fold tight in the form of a loaf. Keep the prepared loaf in a gresed loaf pan. 
  
  
  

  
  
  Leave uncovered for about an hour in a warm place.
  
  
  

  
  
  preheat oven on 180 C for 20 minutes. Bake your loaf for about 45 minuted until top is brown and you can hear a hollow sound.
  

  
  
  Take out and immediately apply butter. Leave in pan for 2 minutes then keep on wire wrack to cool.
  

  
  
  Let it cool completely before slicing.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

3 Ingredient Icecream

This is best recepi of Ice cream I tried. Thanks to my sister, it's her recepi she use to make kulfi with this method. I experimented with fruits and yeah it's great. Recepi is full proof and there is no chance of going wrong. Now you can get rich and creamy icecream with no fuss and hardwork at home with fresh ingredients and without preservatives.

Ingredients:

1 cup cream( heavy or thickened cream)

1 can of 395 gm condensed milk (milkmaid)

1/2 cup to 1 cup fruit puree of desired flavor.

(You can use fruit chunks as well. If you dont want fruit flavor you can make with 2 ingredients only or can use cocoa powder, choco chips, vanilla flavor or cardmom, pistacheo as per you taste :))

Method:

Take cream in a bowl and beat for some time until smooth..there is no need to creat soft peak but should be smooth and little bit thick.

Add condensed milk and mix well for 3-4 minutes until well combined.

now gently mix the fruit puree.

freeze in a plastic, glass container or kulfi moulds overnight.

you yummy creamy icecream is ready to dig in :)

serve with roasted cashew or pistacheo(optional)

Gulab Jamun

Ingredients

• 1 cup milk powder
• 2 tbs plain flour
• 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 cup cream
•  2 cup sugar
• 2 cup water
• oil for frying

Method

In a pan add water and sugar, bring it to boil, keep stirring until all sugar dissolve. Turn off the heat. your sugar syrup is ready. You can add cadimom or rose water in your sugar syrup. I did not add so did not mention in ingredients.  Keep aside

Now In a bowl, mix milk powder, plain flour and baking soda, add cream and mix it well. Dough should be very soft and sticky. If you feel dough is bit dry add little bit milk. Cover and set aside for about 15 minutes. Dough will be easy to handle now. Knead the dough with greased hands. Now pinch the dough equal the amount of a cherry and roll in round ball. Ball should be really smooth with no cracks.

You'll get almost 20 Gulab jamun. Now heat the oil in a frying pan on medium heat and fry all balls golden brown. 

Oil should not be too hot, balls should rise to surface slowly. Gulab jamuns will be bit softer after taking out from oil. Let them cool down for about 5-7 minutes.

Now immerse fried balls in hot sugar syrup. 

Serve after half an hour.

Basic Vanilla Cupcakes

Contents:

200g unsalted butter, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

 1 cup caster sugar

3 eggs

21/2 cup plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp baking soda

Procedure

Preheat oven to 180°C. Line muffin or mini-muffin pans with paper cases.

Sift flour baking powder and baking soda together.

Using an electric mixer, beat butter, vanilla and sugar in a small bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat. Mixture will seprate at this stage. Stir in milk followed by flour, baking powder and baking soda mixture.

Mix well until well combined. 

use 2 level tablespoons of mixture for larger cupcakes and 1 for mini cupcakes.

Bake for 15 to 17 minutes or until toothpick comes out clear