Eggless Brownie in Microwave

A quick and easy eggless brownie. You can involve your bored and cranky kids this vacation for preparing this utterly heavenly brownie. I did with mine and it was liked and licked by the little baker!!

Ingredients :

All Purpose Flour - 4 tbsp
Sugar - 6 tbsp
Unsalted Butter -Melted- 3 tbsp
Milk / Water - 4 tbsp
Vanilla Extract - 1/2 tsp
Unsweetened Cocoa Powder - 4 tbsp
Bittersweet Choco Chips - 4 tbsp
a pinch of salt
Hersheys Chocolate syrup

Method :

1. Mix all the liquid ingredients in a microwave proof dish. (cooled and melted butter, milk/water, vanilla extract).
2. Add flour, salt, sugar, cocoa, choco chips to the wet ingredients and fold in till combined.
3. Microwave on HIGH for 3 minutes.
4. Cool for 2 minutes and serve with chocolate sauce drizzled on top !

It's as quick as this...so try it out and let me know how it turned out.

Note:
I used water instead of milk.
This recipe serves 4. Original recipe is half of this.

Linking the original recipe here with Cheryl Rajkumar of Kitchen Kemistry

Cheers,
Divya

Vattayappam / Sweet Rice bread

Hey folks ! meeting you all after a long time with a sweet recipe !


I had first tasted this dish at one of my keralite friends home way back in school days!! Her mother used to have this hot and ready when we visited her home during sports day, carnivals or just in the evening for a chit chat. I was having a chat with one of my very close mallu friend who helped me with the recipe by sharing Jisha's link. I first tried this at my mom's place and it was warmly welcomed.I was informed that my granny used to prepare a similar dish like this when I was a toddler!! But I don't remember eating them at all as a toddler.... Then again, I tried this out within a week at my home and my folks (in-laws) knew this recipe!  They hail from Tirunelveli and call it as Viveka. But again they have some more ingredients to be added to the one i have listed out here. 

Ingredients :

Pachaarusi / Raw rice - 2 cups
Sugar                      - 1/2 cup
Grated Coconut         - 1 cup
Cooked rice              - 1 cup
Yeast                      - 1/2 tsp or 10 granules
Salt                         - a pinch
Cardamom powder    - a pinch 

Method:

Wash the raw rice well and soak in water for 5-6 hrs.
Add the grated coconut, cooked rice and sugar to the grinder first and let it grind well.
Add the rice after draining the water.
Add the cardamom powder next.
Sprinkle water little by little. Take caution not to pour water as we have added sugar already. 
The batter should not be watery. The consistency of the batter should be between Idli batter and Dosa batter.
Before grinding the above, soak the yeast in lukewarm water.

Chick-peas-soya chunks-veggie tikkis/ patties

I had the soya chunks staring back at me whenever I entered the kitchen. None in my house are fond of soya chunks including my son but except me. By chance, I came across this lip smacking snack in a magazine and gave it a try by adding few more ingredients to the original recipe. Try this protein rich evening snack for your hungry kids and they will surely love it.


Ingredients:

Chick-peas / Kabuli channa/ Vellai kadala : 1/2 cup 
Soya chunks : 1/2 cup
Carrot grated : 1/2 cup
Potato : 1 big 
Green chillies - 2
Mint leaves/pudhina - 1 tbsp finely chopped
Coriander leaves - 1 tsp finely chopped
Ginger - 1 and 1/2 inch - finley grated
Salt - as desired
Cooking oil - 1 cup


Soak the soya chunks in hot water for 10 - 15 minutes. Drain and squeeze out all the water. Wash the soya chunks thrice or more with clean water to get rid off the smell. Boil the chick peas and potato well with water. Blend together the boiled chick peas, soya chunks and mint leaves in a blender to get a smooth paste. Add grated carrot, green chillies, salt, ginger to the paste and mix well. The mixture is ready. Make round shapes and flatten to get tikkis. They can be cooked on non-stick pan using little oil on both sides. Remove when they turn golden brown. 


Serve with tomato ketchup or green chutney.

Bread Bajji

This one is my son's and hubby's favorite tea time snack. Your kids will crave for more because it is not a spicy bajji but a sweet one! Easy and quick to prepare, this is sure to be a hit among the kids.


Ingredients:


Bread Slices - 6
Gram flour - 6 tbsp
Rice flour - 2 tbsp
Asafoetida - a pinch
Regular Chilli corriander powder - 2 tsp     
Sugar - 5-4 tsp
Salt to taste
Water as required
Cooking oil - as required


Preparation :

Warm up a tawa and just toast the bread slices up a little bit. Cut the bread slices diagonally to make halves. Mix together flours, asafoetida, chilli corriander powder, salt and sugar. Since we have added sugar pour water little by little and stir continuously. The batter should not be watery, it must be a little thick. Heat oil in a thick bottom kadai. Dip the bread slices in the bajji batter and immerse in the hot oil. Take care to keep the flame in medium. Since we have added sugar the bajji will turn dark red/burn very soon if the flame is in high. This can be served with or without coconut chutney.

Enjoy with your kids!!!

Idly Upma

Every south indian house will have this as a definite breakfast atleast twice in a week, but not in my house!! I am not very fond of this King of South Indian breakfast as it involves some kind of art or magic to prepare them soft & like 'mallipoo' (jasmine flower) which I have not mastered till now. Hope atleast within the next 5 years (5 year plan!) I will be ready to prepare them right like how my sister-in-law Femila prepares... Her Idly's are so very soft, I have not had anything like that before anywhere!!! I kept her Idly's for my next day's breakfast too and had it without re-heating them and they felt the same way how it was the day before!! Here in my post you will not find the method to prepare idly’s but a makeover to the leftover Idly’s that is, Idly upma. This one was my favorite snack as a kid and I never used to make any fuss or faces at my mom when she used to prepare this. So, if you have any left over idly's that doesn't find a place in someone's tummy, this recipe surely does... 

Ingredients:
Leftover Idly's - 3
Onion - 1 medium - finely chopped
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Green Chillies - 2 - chopped finely
Lime - 1  - juice squeezed out
Mustard - 1 tsp
Urad Dhal - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves - 5
Corriander leaves / Cilantro
Cooking oil - 1 tbsp
Preparation:
Re-heat the leftover idly's in microwave. Scramble them up like an egg with your hands. Heat a thick bottomed wok or kadai with cooking oil. Add mustard seeds and let it splutter, add urad dhal and wait for it to turn light brown in color, add green chillies, add finely chopped onions and curry leaves. Add salt and stir fry nicely till onions turns color. Add turmeric powder and fry for 2  more miuntes. Now add the crumbled idly to the kadai, pour the lime juice over the scrambled idly. Just stir it once well and switch off the stove. Now mix well till the idly becomes yellow in color. Take care to switch off the stove immediately after a stir as leaving it on will make the lime juice cook. Garnish with corriander leaves / cilantro.


I hope this recipe is liked by all at your home especially the kids !!