As I mentioned earlier, I am trying to use spinach in all its avatars these days. I always have a huge batch of pre-washed baby spinach in my refrigerator. I use a handful of it in whatever dish I can. Today I made this delicious spinach chutney with appe for breakfast.
Ingredients: 2 cups spinach 1/2 cup coriander leaves 1/2 cup onion 5 red chillies 1 tea spn chana dal 1 tea spn coriander seeds 1/4 tea spn tamarind extract 1/2 tea spn mustard seeds 1/2 tea spn urad dal A pinch asafoetida Oil Salt
Method: Heat oil and add chana dal, coriander seeds, onion, 4 red chillies. Fry till onions are translucent. Grind it with spinach leaves, coriander leaves, tamarind extract, salt. If required, add very little water. Heat oil and add mustard seeds, urad dal. When mustard starts popping, add asafoetida, 1 red chilli cut into small pieces. Pour this over chutney. Serve with dosas or idlis or appe .
Serves : 4-5 Preparation time : 20mins
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It has been a long time since I baked any cake. Though V loves cakes, I hardly bake them anymore due to my busy schedule. All I am managing is to prepare some day to day food.
Now, there were two reasons to even attempt this cake. One, we had a big batch of apples at home, which needed my immediate attention. Two, V was not keeping very well and he wanted to eat some cake. I thought of making this to cheer him up.
My last few experiments with apple cake did not go very well. I wanted to make eggless apple cake(because I am sure that will be the first question from readers when I post this). We both don’t like dense cakes and the eggless cakes almost always turned out a bit dense. So this time, I didn’t even attempt to make it eggless.
This cake came out pluffy and delicious. It tasted even better the next day. I am posting this here so that I can make this more frequently. The quantity of raisins can be increased by another 1/4 cup.
Ingredients: 3 apples 2 cups all purpose flour 1 cup vegetable oil 1 tea spn vanilla extract 1/4 cup raisins 1 and 1/2 cups sugar 3 large eggs 1 and 1/2 tea spns baking powder
Method: Preheat the oven to 350F(approx 175C) for about 10mins. Cut the apple into small pieces and grind to a paste (do not peel them). To help in grinding, add the oil. Take apple paste in a big bowl and add sugar. Add vanilla extract, mix. Mix till it forms a uniform mixture. Add eggs mixing all the time. Sieve together baking powder and all purpose flour. Add little flour mixture at a time to apple mixture, mixing it all the time. Add the raisins and mix gently. Grease a oven proof dish and pour in the cake batter. Bake for about 45-50mins or till the cake it done.
Preparation time : 70mins
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