Baked Nipattu Recipe

Steps: In a pan, dry roast the peanuts, I have used skinned peanuts, this saves a lot of time. You need to warm the peanuts and grind them using a pestle and mortar Dry roast the roasted chana dal or puttani. Keep aside Grate the dry coconut or copra. Keep aside In a high hipped […]

Hazelnut shortbread biscuit

Steps: Coat your pan with butter and keep aside Pre heat your oven to 150 ℃for 20 minutes Cream your butter with the soft brown sugar and Hazelnut Essence to form the creamed butter mixture Grind the hazelnut coarse using a Pestle and Mortar Add flour and ground hazelnut into creamed butter mixture Knead the […]

Baked Veggie Samosa

Steps to make Imli Chutney and baked Samosa  Step 1: Dry roast about 3 tablespoons of Jeera you need to get a good strong aroma. Let it cool down and then grind it in a mixer. You will need about 2 nimbu sized balls of tamarind. Clean the Tamarind thoroughly and soak it for about 15 […]

Choco Chocochip Cupcake

Steps Assemble your tray well in advance, add your cupcake moulds into your muffin tray.  Pre heat your oven to 180C for 20 minutes The Dry Ingredients- Maida, Hershey’s Cocoa Powder, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Salt, Dark Chocolate Chips Sieve all your dry ingredients together.  These are the wet ingredients: Nestle Milkmaid, Lemon Juice, Melted […]

Bakery Style Khara Bun

Steps:  In a mixing bowl add warm water, milk and melted butter. The mixture needs to be warm to touch. Add the sugar and mix. Add the yeast afterwards and let it sit in a warm place in the kitchen for a maximum of 10 minutes.  While the yeast is blooming, cut the herbs and […]

Very Soft Bakery Style Bun

Steps:  In a mixing bowl add warm water, milk and melted butter. The mixture needs to be warm to touch. Add the sugar and mix. Add the yeast afterwards and let it sit in a warm place in the kitchen for a maximum of 10 minutes.  While the yeast is blooming, add 3 tablespoon sugar […]

Drool worthy Stuffed and Baked Capsicum

Steps for making the stuffing: Clean half a kg of potatoes and pressure cook them. Add adequate water in the vessel and the pressure cooker as well. Pressure cook for about 12 whistles, that is the level I did in my pressure cooker. Also, keep cooking butter out so that it comes to room temperature.  […]

Bangalore’s Khara Biscuit

Steps for making Khara biscuit: Keep the butter out of the fridge for an hour or two to soften Cream the butter, sugar and salt together Finely chop green chillies and curry leaves Mix the cut chillies and cut curry leaves thoroughly with the butter, sugar and salt mixture Mix all purpose flour or maida, […]

Combo Chocolate Ice Cream

Steps for making the dark chocolate ice cream- Keep the cream and condensed milk in the fridge till the second you use it. Overnight ideally, it is summer! Mix the essence or flavouring (See below for choices) with the condensed milk in a different bowl, sift cocoa powder into this and mix well. Whip the […]