Spanish Omlette- Makes your Sunday special..

Preparation Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Serves:2

Ingredients:

Potato - 1 medium (diced into thin-medium slices)

Tomato - 1 small (diced into square pieces )

Onion - 1 small (diced into square pieces )

Capcicum -1 small (diced in to square pieces)

Oil - 1 tbspn(for cooking)

Eggs - 2

Salt - to taste

Black pepper - to taste

Green chilli -1 small chopped finely (optional)

Green Corrinder - 10-12 leaves chopped

Note: Dice the vegetables little big.

Method:

1. Pour oil into the non-stick pan.

2. Shallow fry the potatoes on medium flame until they turn golden brown and get cooked or you can slightly cook the potatoes in water and then shallow fry them, to avoid more oil.

3. Sprinkle some salt over them.

4. Now add the onions and green chillies, stir little.

5. Add tomatoes and capsicum and allow them to cook little,keep the pan covered for few minutes,stir in-between. Make sure that the veges do not get over-cooked, they should retain their slight crunch and not be goeey.

6. Beat the eggs and pour them over the above cooked vegetables(keep the flame medium to low to avoid burning the egg). Sprinkle the pepper.

7. Finally add little bit of oil on the sides so that egg gets cooked properly, keep shaking the pan in-between, remember do not flip the omlette over other side. Cover for 2 mins.

8. Transfer the Omlette direcly into serving dish, garnish with chopped coriander.

Serving Suggestion: Serve the Omlette with brown tosted bread.
For cheese lover, you can add the grated cheese over it, certainly it would taste more yummier.

Janmashtmi Special- Dhapdi(made from Dry Coconut)

Janmashtami, the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna the eighth avatar (Incarnation) of Lord Vishnu.Janmashtami, the birth anniversary of Lord Krishna the eighth avatar (Incarnation) of Lord Vishnu.

This festival have always been special for me. Janmashtmi was the day when you get to see jhankiya( the people in my town dress up as various gods and goddess and in the evening whole family would go to see them) , the temples and whole market was decorated especially in colours of krishna.

The most special part was the special sweet which my mother would prepare for bhog to Ladoo Gopal(Baal roop of god Krishna).

Today, I am sharing my mothers recipe with you, which you can also prepare for this special day.

Prepration Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 20 mins
Serves: 15 pieces

Ingredients
Dry Coconut(Khopra)- 100 gms(Grated and then slightly roast in a pan)
Makhana(Fox nut)- 50 gms(Roasted slightly and grinded finely)
Dry fruit(As per choice) - 100 gms(Almonds, Cashews, Chironji roasted and chopped medium)
Sugar- 100 gms or 1 cup
Water- 150 gms or 1.5 cup

Method
1. Put sugar and water in deep pan on medium flame and keep stirring until a syrup
of little thick consistency is formed. The method to check consistency is take drop  of syrup between your thumb and first finger and press both fingers together and seperate them, you should get a single wire formed also called as 'ek taar ki chashni' in hindi language.

2. Now put all the roasted and chopped dry fruits in chashni and stir.

3. Add the grinded makhana and mix properly.

4. Finally add the Khopra or dry coconut into the mixture and mix evenly.All the sugar syrup will be absorbed.

5. Transfer the mixture in to a slightly greased 1/2 inch thick tray and spread it evenly to
    form a thick layer.

Allow it to cool slightly and cut the square pieces and your DHAPDI is ready for prasad.  

"Jai Shree Krishna"

Happy Friendship Day!

This one is dedicated to all my Friends!!

"You are the Best Gift which god has given me.. I Miss you & Love you all.."

-From Swati

This banana cake recipe is easy, using one egg.

Prepration Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 35 mins
Serves: 4

Ingredients:

Large banana- 1(well mashed)
Egg-  1
Vegetable Oil/Olive Oil/Melted Butter- 1/2 cup
All purpose flour(Maida)- 1 cup
Powdered Sugar- 1/2 cup
Baking powder- 1 tspn
Meetha Soda/Cooking soda- 1 pinch
Vanilla Essence - 6-7 drops
Milk - 1 tbsp
Nuts, optional

Method:

1. Sift flour with baking powder, meetha soda and keep aside.
2. Beat egg and powdered sugar bowl till light & fuffy.
3. Add vanilla essence and oil, mix properly.
4. Now add the mashed banana(I have used milk to mash the banana evenly).
5. Fold in flour a little at a time, don’t worry about the lumps, and mix gently in one direction only.     Do this till all the flour is used up, you should get a lumpy batter of a soft dropping consistency. Do not over mix.
6. Add the chopped nuts and pour the batter in a baking dish(I have used a silicon mould, so there   was no need for greasing)otherwise you can do a light greasing.
7. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 30 minutes.
8. After 30 minutes, just insert a knife into the cake carefully (as the baking mould is very hot) , if it comes out clean then it means that the cake is baked properly, otherwise you can put it again for 6-7 more minutes.

Let the cake cool for 5-10 minutes before removing from mould. Remove from mould on wire rack.

Decorate it as per your choice & pamper your Friends with this special treat & a hot cup of coffee.

Wish you a Happy Friendship Day!