Healthy cake

WHEAT SHAKKAR (JAGGERY POWDER ) CAKE

Majority of us love cake . But having refined flour gives a feeling of guilt  So I thought of trying to make a wheat cake with shakkar and it was successful. Here is the recipe

Ingredients:

Wheat flour-1cup
Shakkar(jaggery powder)-3/4cup
Butter-1/2cup
Oil/ghee-1tbsp
Baking powder-3/4tsp
Baking soda-1/4tsp
Salt-a tip of spoon
Eggs-2
Milk-as much required
Vanilla essence-1tsp

Method:

Sieve the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt  three times  and put aside.take a eight inch cake pan, butter it and dust with flour . Beat butter, ghee, shakkar, eggs and vanilla essence in a bowl.Mix the dry ingredients .Put milk if the batter is too thick. Pour the batter in thecake pan. Bake in the pre-heated oven for thirty minutes at 180 degree.Check with a knife or a needle and let it cool for ten minutes and take out from the pan and put on a wire rack to cool before cutting.

From the kitchen

Chat masala

Ingredients
1cup slightly roasted coriander seeds
1cup roasted red chillies
1cup roasted cumin seeds
1/2cup amchoor
3tbsp Kali mirch
3tbsp black salt
1cup salt
1/2 cup ajwain
2tsp garam masala
1/2cup dried mint leaves
1tbsp saunf
1tsp Hing
2tsp ginger powder

Method
Grind all the things . Sieve and fill In a zar

Murg Pickle

Murg pickle

Boneless chicken breast-2
Oil-3tbsp
Mustard powder-1tbsp
Ginger -2tbsp
Garlic-2tbsp
Saunf and fenugreek powder roasted- 1tbsp each
Haldi-1tsp
Red chillies-1tsp
Garammasala-1tsp
Kalaunji- 1/2tsp

Method-
Heat oil. Put ginger garlic and saute for 2 minutes. Put chicken chunks and stir fry for five minutes.put spices and cook for 2 minutes.put vinegar and give a boil.cool and fill in a zar

From the kitchen

Hara Bhara kabaab

Ingredients------

Palak --2cups

Besan--2 and 1/2tbsp

Potato--2medium

Peas--1cup

Salt--as per taste

Ginger green chillie paste--1tsp

Green chillies

Oil,

Method--Blanch palak,put in cold water, squeeze and chop and put in a bowl.Roast besan in a non -stick pan and put all the ingredients except oil in the bowl of palak and mix well.Make balls,flatten them a bit and put in the fridge for half an hour.Heat the pan ,sprinkle some oil and fry roast the flattened balls.serve hot with sauce or imli chatni

Kitchen Tips----1

1---If you want to preserve lemon juice ,put half a teaspoon sugar  in a bowl,sqeeze lemon juice in it , put in an ice tray and  freeze. When frozen , take out from the tray, put  in a bottle or zipper bag and keep in freezer. Use these lemon pearls as per requirement.
2---To preserve  tomatoes, cut each tomato into two,put in a tray , put tray in a freezer.Take out the tray after 6 hours,put the tomatoes in a zipper bag and put the bag in the freezer. Before using, take out the required quantity,leave it for 10 minutes, peel and use.
3---you need to preserve strawberrys--wash them, put in a tray at a distance of 1/2 an inch each and put in the freezer. take them out after 5 hours . Put in a zipper bag and put it back in the freezer.
4---Make a paste of ginger and garlic, put in the icetray and place in the freezer.When frozen, take them out , put in a zipper bag and place the bag back in the freezer.