Italian Recipe: Spaghetti puttanesca

Spaghetti puttanesca  is a spicy, tangy, somewhat salty Italian pasta dish.  The ingredients are typical of Southern Italian cuisine: tomatoes, olive oil, olives, chili pepper, capers, garlic.

Ingredients:

400 gr spaghetti

400 gr peeled tomatoes or tomato puree

2 tablespoon parsley

8 filler anchovy

100 gr pitted olives or gaeta olives

4-5 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon of capers in salt 

2 cloves of garlic

1 fresh chili or powdered chili pepper

Method

1. Cook the spaghetti in salted boiling water and drain the cooked spaghetti.
2.  Heat extra virgin olive oil and fry chili and garlic. Stir well on a low flame.
3. Add capers and olives and stir for few minutes.
4. Add tomato puree and continue cooking for 4-5 minutes, until you have lovely tomato sauce consistency.
5. Add parsley leaves.
6. Add drain spaghetti into it and stir well.

Your Spaghetti puttanesca is ready to serve. Serve hot with more olives and parsely leaves.

Coconut Cake

The cake is tender, creamy and moist. Perfect for tea time.

It's a spongy cake and delicious one. Has a good taste of milk,cream and coconut..Yummy... :-)

Really a quick dessert and can serve with fruits and whipped cream.

So just try it..

Ingredients:

1 Cup Cream

1 Cup superfine sugar

1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda

2 Cup all purpose flour

1/4 tea spoon baking powder

1 cup dessicated Coconut

1 cup milk powder or 1/2 cup milk powder

Milk – as required, to adjust batter to dropping consistency max 75 ml

1/2 cup Custard Powder

Vanilla essence

 Method:

 Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius.

1. Mix all purpose flour,Custard powder, milk powder, baking powder and baking soda together.
2. Add cream,sugar,vanilla essence and milk.
3. Beat cream mixture well till  blended smoothly.
4. Then add flour and coconut into the cream mixture.
5. Again beat well till blended smoothly.
6. Add adequate milk to achieve a batter of dropping consistency.
7. Pour the batter into a greased baking pan.
8. Add some Choco Chips into it.
9. Bake it for about 45-50 minutes or till done.  

Your delicious Coconut Cake is ready to serve.

Besan Ladoo

Ladoos are one of the most liked Indian sweets."Besan(Gram Flour) Ladoo" is the most popular and delicious recipe.

This Besan Ladoo is popular all over Maharashtra.Mostly prepare at Diwali.

So learn how to prepare "Besan Ladoo".

Ingredients:

Besan (gram flour) 4 cups

Ghee(Clarified Butter) 2 cups

Powdered Sugar 2 cups

Cardamom powder 1/2 tea spoon

Almonds 20-15 (crushed)

Method:

1. Heat ghee(clarified butter in a pan and add cardamom powder.
2. Add besan(gram flour) and roast on low heat till it is golden brown in color and nice aroma is given out.
3. Transfer roasted gram flour to a bowl , add crushed almonds and  mix well.
4. Allow the mixture to cool.
5. Add powdered sugar and mix well.
6. Roll into even sized ladoos.
7. Allow it to cool and serve.

Your Besan ladoos are ready to serve.

Enjoy. :-)

Chirote Recipe

Surprise everyone with a special sweet after food. Its crispy dipped in a sugary syrup dripping giving a wonderful experience to your taste buds to savor. It's  a Maharashtrian specialty and its called "CHIROTE". 

So, learn how to prepare Chirote.

Ingredients:

1 cup Maida (Refined flour)

1 tablespoon Rava (Semolina)

1 tablespoon hot oil

Clarified butter

1 tablespoon rice flour

pinch of salt

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup water

Saffron strands

1 teaspoon lemon juice

oil for frying

Method for Sugar Syrup:

Mix water, sugar and saffron in sauce pan and boil over medium heat for 6 to 7 mts.

Add some lemon juice once syrup is ready.

 Method for Chirote:

1. Combine maida (Refined flour), rava (Semolina), hot oil and pinch of salt and mix well.
2. Add water, milk and start to knead to make smooth and soft dough, like chapati dough.
3. Cover and keep it to rest for 2 hours.
4. Divide the dough into 3 equal portions.
5. Take ball and roll in very smooth roti (chapati), make 3 thin rotis (chapati)
6. In a separate bowl mix rice flour and butter together and keep it aside.
7. Take one roti, spread butter and rice flour mixture and place another layer of roti on the top of it.
8. Again spread some butter and rice flour mixture and place third layer of roti and repeat the same process.
9. Now roll three rotis.
10. Divide roti roll in equal size ball am-king slight cross cut.
11. Now Roll each piece of dough to make rectangular shape.
12. Deep fry until golden brown.
13. Deep this fried chirote into Sugar Syrup for 2-3 minutes.
14. After 2-3 minutes keep it on a plate to drip some extra sugar syrup.
15. Your Chirote is now ready to serve.
Enjoy.. :-)

Sweet Raw Mango Chutney (Methamba) (Jam)

This is the season of Mangoes.. The King of fruits.

Mangoes are widely used in Indian Cuisine.

In Maharashtra, a spicy, sweet and sour semi-solid side-dish called meth-amba is made from unripe mango slices, jaggery and fenugreek seeds. They can be served with poories and polies, like jam.

This is one of my favorite recipe using 'Raw Mango'.  This recipe has tangy and sweet taste. That's the reason this dish is kids favorite. 

So learn how to prepare Raw Mango Chutney (Jam).. 

Ingredients:

2 raw mangoes peeled and sliced

1-1/2 cup jaggery

1 tea spoon fenugreek seeds

1 tea spoon mustard seeds 

pinch of salt

pinch of asafoetida (Hing)

1 tea spoon turmeric powder

1 tea spoon chili powder

1 tablespoon oil

Method

1. In a pan, heat oil,add mustard seeds and fenugreek seeds.
2. When  mustard  seeds and fenugreek seed splutter add asafoetida and  raw mango.
3. Cook for a while till the mangoes become soft and tender.
4. Add turmeric,chili powder and pinch of salt.
5. Mix well and cook it for a minute.
6. Add jaggery and mix well.
7. Cook it for a 1/2 minute
8. Allow to cool, then chill and serve.

Serve this with poories,chapati or with bread like jam. Enjoy.. :-)

Date & Walnut Cake

A simple date and walnut cake that testes great and easy to prepare.

It is deliciously rich and wonderful with morning tea or coffee. It has healthy benefits too.

Dates and Walnut both are excellent for health. 

This Cake is easy to make and has a lovely moist texture. 

So,let's start to prepare healthy cake!!

Ingredients:

140 gr. all purpose flour

1/2 cup Walnut

1/2 cup Dates(seedless)

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 baking soda

200 gr. Milkmaid

75 ml. soda water

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method:

1. First preheat oven to 180 deg C
2. Soak the dates in a bowl of 100ml boiling water while you get the cake ready.
3. Sift together dry ingredients All purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda in a bowl.
4. Add soda water and milkmaid into the dry mixture.
5. Mix well and add dates and walnut.
6. Add vanilla extract.
7. Spoon the mixture into a 20cm square -cake mold lined with non stick baking  paper or lightly greased mold . Bake it for 35- 40 minutes or until center is just set.
8. Cool in mold, then turn out and cut into square pieces to serve.
   
   
   
   

Kande Pohe

Kande Pohe (Maharashtrian  breakfast)

The name Kande(in Marathi) means Onions in English.

Pohe means Flattened rice.

Kande Pohe is very popular Maharashtrian recipe. It is very tasty,easy to make and delicious. It is popular breakfast in Maharashtra, and can be prepared at any time and you can serve this as a snack too. Actually 'kande pohe' has also some traditional symbol. In Maharashtra, this dish is generally served during marriage talks.When a boy goes with his family to girl's house for marriage talks,this recipe is generally served.  The reason behind this is that, this recipe is easy to make and tasty. In a very less time you can prepare a very delicious recipe.

So enjoy 'Kande Pohe' with cup of tea.

Ingredients

2 cups thick Pohe (flattened rice)

2 onions

1 Potato(Chopped)

1 tablespoon oil

1 tea spoon mustard seeds

1 tea spoon turmeric powder

4-5 green chillies

4-5 curry leaves

1-2 tea spoon lemon juice

2 table spoon fresh coriander leaves (Chopped) 

Grated  coconut

Salt to taste

Pinch of sugar

Method:

1. Wash pohe(flattened rice) and drain water completely and leave aside for 5 minutes.
2. Add salt and sugar and mix pohe lightly.
3. In a pan, heat oil,add mustard seeds and when they slutter add curry leaves.
4. Add chopped onions and potato. Saute for a minute.
5. Add green chillies, turmeric powder and mix well.
6. Saute for 2 minutes and add Pohe.
7. Mix and cook till pohe is heated through.
8. Add lemon juice and mix well.
9. Garnish with coriander leaves and grated coconut and serve hot.

Your Kande Pohe is ready to eat. Enjoy this recipe with cup of tea.

You can serve this recipe with Chana Masala