Eggless Carrot Cake

Carrot cake is very healthy recipe for kids, that you can make any special occasion of your  kids or for Tiffin or snacks.

Eggless Carrot Cake

Ingredients

½ cup maida

½ cup wheat flour

¾ cup curd

½ cup carrot (grated)

¼ cup oil

3 tbsp milk

½ cup sugar

½ tsp vanilla essence

¼  tsp Cinnamon powder

½ tsp Baking powder

½ tsp Baking Soda

A pinch of salt

2 tbsp Walnuts, chopped

1 tsp for greasing

Method  (How to make eggless carrot cake at home)

Mix maida, wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder and sieve it two times

In a mixing bowl add curd, sugar, milk and oil. Mix well until sugar completely dissolves.

Add cinnamon powder, vanilla essence and give a quick stir. Add carrots then add flour mixture.

Whisk it well to form a smooth and creamy flowing batter add half of the chopped walnuts into the batter.

Preheat oven at 180 deg C.

Grease the cake tin with oil and sprinkle some maida. Bake the cake at the same temperature for 20-25mins or until the toothpick inserted at the center comes out clean.

Allow it to cool for 30 mins, Then using a knife loose the sides of the pan. And invert it into cooling rack from the pan and allow it to cool for atleast an hour before slicing.

Slice it into desire shape and serve or store in an airtight container.

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Bread Gulab Jamun

Bread Gulab Jamun

Ingredients

12-13 white bread slices

2 tbsp milk powder

1 cup full cream milk

1 tbsp ghee

¼ tsp cardamom powder

2 tbsp cashew and almonds (chopped)

400 gm sugar (For syrup)

Ghee or oil for frying

Method (How to make bread gulab jamun at home)

Mix sugar and 1 cup water and boil till sugar syrup of one thread consistency.

Now cut the edges of the bread, make small small. Take them in a bowl add 1 tbsp ghee, 1 cup full cream milk and 2 tbsp milk powder and keep aside for 10 minutes. After 10 min mix with hand, Knead like dough to make soft dough. Cover the dough and keep aside for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes grease your hand with oil and knead the dough again, make 24 -25 balls with the dough. Mix chopped cashew and almond with cardamom powder to make filling for gulab jamun.

Now take one piece of the dough and place some filling and make ball with the dough very carefully. If cracks are there, put some milk into the dough and knead again.

Likewise make all gulab jamun.

Heat ghee or oil in a wok and put some gulab jamun into the oil fry on low medium flame till golden brown from all sides. Take out from the oil and put them in to the sugar syrup for 3-4 hrs. after 3-4 hour gulab jamun is ready for serve.

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Namkeen Murmure

Namkeen Murmure

Ingredients

200 gm. Murmure, Laai, Laiya

100 gm. Plain cornflakes

50 gm dry coconut (Thinly sliced)

100 gm. Ground nut

100 gm. Roasted gram.

½  tsp Turmeric powder

1 tsp Mustard seeds

6-7 garlic (peeled and sliced)

4-5 whole red chilli

Salt to taste

2 tsp Red chili powder

2 tsp  dry mango powder

10-15 curry leaves

2 tbsp oil

Method (How to make namkeen murmure at home)

Cut the coconuts to small thin slices and keep aside.

Heat 1 tbsp oil in a heavy bottom wok, and add ground nuts and fry on medium flame till crispy and light brown, remove from the wok and keep aside. Add whole gram and fry for few minutes remove from the wok and keep aside.

Add coconut flacks and fry till light pink in colour, remove from the heat and keep aside, lastly add corn flakes  and roast till light brown, remove from the heat.

Add remaining oil in the wok add sliced garlic and fry till light brown, add mustard seeds, curry leaves, and whole red chilli and fry for few seconds, add turmeric powder, murmure and fry till light brown and crispy. Switch off the flame.

Add salt, red chilli powder, dry mango powder and fried corn flacks, coconut, fried gram and ground nuts, mix well. When cool down completely. Store in a air tight container.

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