Pasta with homemade white sauce

Kids love pasta and Tejas is no exception. After Maggi disaster, we have moved from noodles to Pasta every sun.(I miss Maggi badly). Usually i used to buy Maggi pasta but this time decided to make the sauce by myself. This was a big hit and my 5 year old son loved this so much and went gaga about this whole day. What more does a mom want:)
Try madi and let me know if you like this.

Prep Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time : 20 mins
Cooking complexity :Medium

Ingredients:

Butter : 2 tsp
Maida: 2 tsp
Milk - 1 glass

Chillies - 4
Onion - 2
Capsicum - 1
Pasta : 100 gms
Cloves - 3
Oil - 1tbsp

Method:

White Sauce:
Heat butter in a kadai. When butter is melted add maida and fry well. In meanwhile boil milk, add cloves , half onion. Switch off the stove once the milk boils.

Remove onion and cloves from milk. To the maida mixture, mix milk and stir well.Keep stirring until there are no lumps. Let the stove be on sim and keep stirring until the sauce is medium thick in consistency.

To cook Pasta
Boil water and add pasta. Let it cook for 5 mins.. Strain the water and keep it aside.

In a kadai fry onion, capsicum, chillies. Add pasta ,white sauce, salt. Allow it to cook for 5 mins and serve

Gowri Habba (Festival) SPl

Gowri Habba (Festival) special
In Karnataka, gowri habba is celebrated just before ganesha festival.Daughters are gifted saree, bangles, kumkum etc and yummy food is prepared. The main dish is puran poli(obbattu), payasa(seviyan) etc.
Mom was busy and hence decided to surprise her by cooking all her fav food .Came back from office and cooked this in 1.5 hrs.

Menu:
Ridgegourd Chutney, Beetroot Stir fry, Aloo in dry coconut, Bittergourd chilli fry, Channa Usli, Bajji, Kisambari, Vangibath, Mosaru huli.

Khova Jamun

Tejas craves for Jamun esp. Khova jamun. I dont buy the jamun packets which we get in market. I dont like the taste:). We buy this fresh khova from Rajajinagar(Bangalore). Was unable to prepare this from long time. Goutam friends were visiting and one of his friend is a die hard desert fan.Served them with ice cream and carrot halwa.

Prep Time: 30 mins
Cooking Time : 20 mins
Cooking complexity :Medium

Ingredients:

Khova: 500 gms
Maida: 150 gms
Sugar : 2 cup
Water 4 cups
Elaichi: 2
Oil : Deep fry

Method:

Sugar Syrup: Boil Sugar ,water and elaichi for 30 mins. It should be thick in consistency.Let it cool down.

Khova jamun: Mix khova( room temp), maida and knead well. Now make small balls.
Deep fry in oil. Oil should be on medium flame while frying.

Drop the fried jamuns in sugar syrup.

Let this soak for a while.

Serve with carrot halwa or ice cream.

Enjoy !!!!

Eggless Tutti Frutti Cake

Weekends are reserved for baking . Today tried this delicious super moist tutti frutti cake. I used to love Modern Fruit bread during my childhood days. Dad used to always ensure that its stocked up at home for me & sissy to have. Miss modern bread.:(
I had my cousin visit me today and reminded me of this bread. So tried to bake this cake instead of bread:). All the kiddos loved this so much and it was finished in few secs.

Ingredients:

Butter : 5 Tbspn
Flour/Maida: 1 1/4 Cup
Condensed Milk : 1 Cup + 2Tbsp
Milk: 1/2 Cup
Baking Soda: 1/2 Tsp
Baking Powder : 1 1/2 Tsp
Tutti Frutti : 1/2 Cup
Cherries : 5
Salt : 1 Pinch(if unsalted butter used)

Method:

Whisk Butter, Condensed milk, Milk together.

Sieve all the dry ingredients except Tutti frutti & Cherries.

Fold the dry ingredients with wet ingredients.

Grease baking tray and line with butter paper.

Pour the mixture in the baking tray.

Pre Heat the oven at 180 degrees for 20 minutes.

Bake for 35 minutes at 180 degrees. Use tooth pick to check if  its cooked properly.

Let it cool for 20 minutes.

Decorate with Icing sugar  & Cherries on top of this super moist cake.

Happy Baking:)

Coconut Rice

I used to love coconut rice during my school days. Granny used to prepare this for me quite often. Never shared my dabba with my friends when i used to carry this rice. I know its very mean.
Even Tejas loves this and requests me to prepare this weekly once. He likes to have this with dal. Fried coconut tastes soo good in the rice, Try and let me know how it turned out.

Ingredients:
Grated Coconut: 1 Cup
Cooked rice: 2 Cups
Cashews: 10
Green Chillies: 4
Onion : 1
Coriander Leaves finely chopped
Oil : 1Tbsp
Salt as per taste

Method:

Heat oil in a kadai. Fry finely chopped onions and add slit green chillies. Fry well.
Add cashews ,grated coconut, salt. Now fry for a min.
Add rice and mix well.

Switch of the stove and add finely chopped coriander leaves.
Enjoy this with plain dal.

Happy Cooking:)

Chicken Lollypop

Ingredients

Chicken Lollypop: 500 gms
Chilli powder: 2 tsp
Orange red food colour : 1 pinch
Ginger garlic paste: 1 tsp
Corn flour: 3 tsp
Gram flour: 1 tsp
Whole Egg: 1
Salt: as per taste

Method:

Mix all  the ingredients and let it rest in fridge for an hour.
Before frying. Let the chicken rest for 30 mins in room temp.

Deep fry in low flame.

Happy Cooking:)

Kadale Usli in Kannada (Chana fry)

Mom used to prepare usli during Ganesha festival. Until puja was complete, we were not allowed to eat anything. Dad is a perfectionist, he used to usually do all decorations for Ganesha and finally the puja used to happen by 2PM. Me n sissy used to always have a eye on kitchen for the varieties that was getting prepared. As soon as dad used to complete puja, we used to run to the kitchen and grab usli on to our plates I used to make paper potlis and share it with my all my friends near our house.

There are few wonderful memories filled in all authentic dishes. Don't you agree?

Ingredients:

Kadale or Chana: 1 Cup
Finely chopped onions : 1
Green chillies : 3
Lime Juice: 1tsp
Mustard seeds: 1tsp
Oil : 2 Tsp
Curry leaves: 4

Method:

Soak Chana for 7 hours. Boil chana in the cooker by adding 1 tsp salt for 3 whistles(again depends on the cooker). Intention is to cook well and not make it mushy.

Heat oil in a kadai, add mustard seeds and let it spurt out. Add onion, green chillies, curry leaves and fry well.

Add cooked chana and toss it.
Switch of the gas stove.Add coriander leaves and lime juice.

Happy Cooking:)