After trying many things with my limited resources here, I have been trying my luck with cakes these days. Before coming here, I knew only two types of cakes, one is the simple egg cake and the delicious date cake. I will post the recipes of these two soon.I had thought that preparing cake is very difficult and long procedure. But now I think it is as simple as any other dish. But still I can not make the fabulous looking cakes that we get in bakery. I hope one or the other day I will succeed in making them too.
Recently I had lot of ripe bananas at home. So I cooked all possible dishes with them. This cake was one of them.
Ingredients: Banana 1 Egg 1 All purpose flour 1 cup Baking soda 1 tea spn Sugar 3/4th cup Butter 1/2 cup Cashew nuts 1 tbl spn Salt 1/4th tea spn
PS: If you use ‘baking powder’ instead of ‘baking soda’, cake becomes a bit harder.
Method: Sieve together flour and soda. Keep it aside. Beat sugar in butter till it becomes a smooth paste. Then add egg and beat again. Now add mashed banana and mix well. Add this mixture to flour and mix slowly. Add some cashew nuts if desired. Bake in a greased vessel for 40min at 350F.
Makes : 8 pieces Preparation time : 1 hr(Including baking time)
A lazy evening, I did not want to cook anything. I thought of preparing something easy-to-do, healthy and tasty dinner. I had a lot of different vegetables in the refrigerator. So this was the final result.
I cannot say that, this is authentic fried rice, because I used whatever came to my mind at that time.
Ingredients: Basmati rice 1 cup Vegetables (corn, yellow pepper, green beans, carrot, onion) 1 cup Green chillis 3 Cloves 3 Cinnamon 1″ piece Soya Sauce 1 tea spn Vinegar 1 tea spn Eggs 2 Pepper powder 1/2 tea spn Sugar 1/2 tea spn Ghee/Butter 1 tbl spn Salt
Method: Cook rice with a drop of oil and salt in a vessel. Drain excess water and keep aside. Heat butter and add cloves, cinnamon, green chillis. Fry for a minute. Add vegetables, salt(since salt is added to rice already, add little salt to vegetables) and fry till they become little soft(should not cook completely). In another pan, scramble eggs till they are done. Add eggs, cooked rice, pepper, sugar, soya sauce and vinegar to the fried vegetables and mix well. Cook for 2-3min. Serve hot with tomato ketchup.
Serves : 2 Preparation time : 20min
