Banana sandwich

The junior comes with a simple breakfast for kids. The kids can make themselves. Cooking without fire. Hope you all enjoy..

Pav buns for pav bhaji

Wiki says, Pav bhaji is a fast food dish from India, consisting of a thick vegetable curry served with a soft bread roll. The dish originated in the 1850s as a fast lunchtime dish for textile mill workers in Mumbai. Pav bhaji was later served at restaurants throughout the city. Pav bhaji is now offered at outlets from simple hand carts to formal restaurants in India and abroad.

Recently I have been trying baking of various types of breads. O our family is a huge n of pav bhaji. When immae pull apart bread, I know pav will be a hit as well. Super soft pavs hot and fresh at home. I will not buy pavs here after.
My daughter loved it and she wants me to bake and give to take for her shool party sometime.

Ingredients:

• All purpose flour - 300-350 gems
• Instant Yeast - one sachet or 7 gms
• Warm water and milk - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 1 tsp
• Salt

• Butter - 1 tbsp
• Milk - 1 tbsp
• Butter - 1 tsp

Method:

• In a bowl, add the instant yeast , sugar and add warm water and milk. Wait for few mins to become frothy.
• Then add the all purpose flour, salt  and mix water and knead it into a Soft dough. Add butter to this and knee the dough for 5 mins.
• Keep it side for it to rise for 45 mins- 1 hour.
• After 45 mins, punch it out And knead the dough for 5 mins.
• Roll the dough into the size u want to make. 
• Take equal balls of SAme size each ball approximately 70 grams.
• Take the baking tray, grease it with some butter.
• Take the balls and place it inside the tray.

• Keep it aside again to raise.
• After 45 mins.
• Preheat the oven for 200 degrees Celsius and for 5-10 mins.
• Apply milk on top of the buns. 
• Place the tray for baking for 20 mins.
• After taking the tray out, apply butter on top od it. 

• Soft buns ready to be served with Bhaji.

Kaima idly - restaurant style

Welcome back to jiyas delicacy blogging, today I am going to share a recipe with the boring idly. Once upon a time, I used to have this kaima idly in chennai frequently, one of my favourite dishes. Whenever I go to restaurant I buy kaima idly or chilly parotta. This recipe is healthy as well as tasty. Usually the idly is deep fried, but I have just toasted it.

Ingredients:

• Idly - 10
• Onions-2 finely chopped
• Tomato- 4 finely chopped
• Capsicum - 1 finely chopped
• Green peas - 1 cup
• Chilly powder -1 tsp
• Kashmiri chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Biryani masala - 1 tsp
• Salt
• Oil
• Water
• Coriander leaves
• Green chilly - 2 slitted
• Fennel seeds - 1 tsp
• Curry leaves
• Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

Method:

• Take the idlies and refrigerate for sometime, then take it and cut them into small cubes.
• In a dosa tava, place the cubes and toast them by adding few spoons of oil.
• Take them in a bowl and keep it aside.
• Heat oil in a pan, add fennel seeds, curry leaves, green chilly and fry them.
• Add the onions and fry them nicely.
• Add ginger garlic paste and sauté until the raw smell vanishes.
• Add the tomatoes and salt.
• Close and cook until the tomatoes become mushy.
• Now add the capsicum and peas. Add the spice powders and allow it to cook.
• Close and cook until the masala is cooked well .
• Open and stir the masala, add little bit water to it. Let it boil a bit.
• Now add the toasted idlies and give a good stir. 

• Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

Mutton Kheema samosa

This is my 9th year of blogging. I have been trying to do a lot of dishes and innovations. One of such dishes is Khee a samosa. I love the samosa whenever my dad buys for me. We used to eat a lot during Ramzan season. I want to make this dish for the past 10 years. Only now I did it. I loved it so much. Great and easy recipe to follow. Do check it out.

Ingredients:

• Mutton kheema - 250 gms
• Onion - 1 chopped
•  Potato -1 boiled
• Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
• Coriander powder -1 tsp
• Garam masala - 1 tsp
• Salt
• Oil
• Spring roll sheets
• Coriander leaves
• Maida - 2 tsp
• Water - few spoons

Method:

• Boil the potato and keep it aside.  
• In a pan, add oil. Add the onions ad fry them.
• Add the mutton kheema and sauté for two minutes.
• Smash the potato and add to it. Potato is optional.
• Add all the spice powders and salt.
• Sauté well. Close and cook for 10 minutes until the mutton is cooked well.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.
• In a cup, add maida and water and make it into a thick paste to stick the comes.
• Now take the spring roll sheets and fold it into the shape of cone.
• Add a spoon of the kheema filling and apply the maida paste and seal.
• Repeat for all the samosas.

• Heat oil in a pan, fry all the samosas to golden brown.

Crispy crunchy samosas ready

Banana custard - episode 5

hi guys, 

This is another episode by Aradhana. This was made by her for mother’s day. Thanks for your likes and comments.

Today’s recipe is banana custard. Hope you all like it.

Chinese fried rice - episode 4

Hi all,  there is yet another episode of my Daughter Aradhana, which is a vegetable fried rice.
She shows a great interest to cook and she is excited to see your comments. Kindly encourage and send in your feedbacks to her.

https://youtu.be/sXdwwzB_PZ4

4 star salad

Salad in the making. This is my daughters 3rd episode in jiyas delicacy. She is also quite interested in cooking. She makes a healthy salad. She not only makes the dish, she also makes the video by herself. Editing, adding music to it. Encourage her by watching it and share your comments.

Here is the link for the video:

https://youtu.be/rGJVAoeePUc

Mango braided strudel

Welcome all to the most exciting recipe mango strudel. In my family all of us re big fans of Apple strudel, strawberry strudel, mango strudel thats available here in Singapore. So I wanted to try my hands on mango strudel. I was happy with my first attempt, except for filling was not enough. I was afraid to load a lot since it was my first try. Do try it and see, you will love it

Ingredients:

• All purpose flour - 1 cup
• Instant Yeast - 2 tsp
• Warm water - 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 1 tsp
• Salt

• Butter - 1 tbsp
• Egg - 1 for egg wash
• Marshmallows - few
• Mangoes chopped - 1 cup
• Water

Method:

• In a bowl, add the instant yeast , sugar and add warm water. Wait for few mins to become frothy.
• Then add the lol purpose flour, salt  and mix water and knead it into a Soft dough.
• Keep it side for it to rise for 45 mins.
• After 45 mins, punch it out Nd knee the dough for 5 mins.
• Roll the dough into the size u want to make. 
• I have braided into a fish shaped strudel.
• After rolling the sheet thin, place the mango pieces and marsh mallows , cut both sides of the sheet to braid.
• Braid it crisscross and seal the ends. I have just given cuts at the end for fish tail.
• Preheat the oven at 200 degrees celsius for 10 mins.
• Place the baking sheet or aluminium foil on a baking tray.
• Place the braided strudel on it.

• Give it a nice egg was, for egg wash, Take an egg in a bowl and beat it nicely. Apply with a brush on TOP of the strudel before it goes inside the oven.

• Place it in the oven for 25 mins on 200 degrees Celsius.

Mouthwatering strudel is ready.

Whole chicken roast

Hello all,

Here is a fantastic recipe with chicken. Can serve as a starter, main course. It’s the whole chicken roast . My hubby and my kid did this for me for mother’s day. So its really special to me. It tasted fantastic. Try this yummiest chicken and send in your feedbacks. 

Ingredients:

Whole chicken - I have take country chicken one without skin.
For first marination :

Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp
Salt - required
Lemon juice - 1 lemon

Second marination :

Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Kashmiri chilli powder - 1 tsp
Cumin powder - 1 tsp
Garam masala -1 tsp
Curd - 1/4 cup
Oil- 3 tsp
Mint leaves - one handful chopped
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
Salt if needed

Method :

• Clean the chicken and skin out the whole chicken. Was and slit with the knife before marination.
• Take the chicken and nicely marinate with the first marination ingredients and keep aside for 1 hour.
• After an hour, marinate the chicken again with second marination.
• Leave it aside for 1 hour. If possible marinate the previous day and leave for 24 hours.

• Preheat the oven at 200 degrees celsius for 5-0 mins. Place the chicken in oven for 1 hour in baking mode.
• After half an hour flip over the chicken onto the other side and bake for half an hour.
• After one hour, for roasting the chicken, increase the temperature to 250 degrees celsius and grill for 10 mins on each side.

Lovely grilled chicken is ready.

Episode 2 cauliflower stirfry

Cauliflower stirfry is the next item on video by my Daughter. It is a tasty recipe learnt from my paati. She loves this cauliflower recipe. She can have this all time as a whole meal. Do try out this recipe and leave your comments.

https://youtu.be/https://youtu.be/W5dmWTEdmr8

Beetroot poriyal

Hi friends , 

My daughter Aradhana on whose name I started blogging. Jiya is her another name. She wants to try her hands on cooking. So I will try to post the videos as and when I shoot with her. Its been a really longtime since I posted.  Do post your comments which will encourage and motivate her.

Here is the video . Enjoy!

Eggless Chocochip cookies

A cookie is a baked or cooked food that is small, flat and sweet. It usually contains flour, sugar and some type of oil or fat. It may include other ingredients such as raisins, oats, chocolate chips, nuts, etc. Cookies or biscuits may be mass-produced in factories, made in small bakeries or homemade. Biscuit or cookie variants include sandwich biscuits, such as custard creams, Jammie Dodgers, Bourbons and Oreos, with marshmallow or jam filling and sometimes dipped in chocolate or another sweet coating. Cookies are often served with beverages such as milk, coffee or tea. Factory-made cookies are sold in grocery stores, convenience stores and vending machines. Fresh-baked cookies are sold at bakeriesand coffeehouses, with the latter ranging from small business-sized establishments to multinational corporations such as Starbucks. Nowadays cookies are of great demand in my home. So often i make cookies with various options and changes. Today is the recipe which just melts in mouth butter cookies.

  Ingredients:

• Self raising flour - 120gms
• Butter - 120 gms
• Sugar powdered - 60-75 gms
• Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
• Chocochips - desired

Method:

• In a bowl, add the butter and sugar beat using a hand mixer until it becomes fluffy and the colour changes to white.
• Add vanilla essence and give a nice stir.
• Add the flour little by little and mix the cookie dough. 
• Finally add the choco chips and mix well.

• Take the dough and wrap it in a baking paper and regrigerate for 15 mins or until it becomes firm.
• Remove from fridge and cut the cookie roundels using a knife.
• Preheat oven at 170 degrees celsius for 5 min.
• Place the cookies on the baking tray and bake for 10-12 mins. While removing the cookies will be soft.

• Remove from the tray and allow it to cool. When cooling the cookies will become firm.

  Enjoy with evening tea and school snacks for kids.

Sooji dhokla

Dhokla is a vegetarian food item that originates from the Indian state of Gujarat. It is made with a fermented batterderived from rice and split chickpeas.^[1] Dhokla can be eaten for breakfast, as a main course, as a side dish, or as a snack. Dhokla is very similar to Khaman, and the terms are frequently used interchangeably. Khaman is a similar gram flour-based food. Whereas dhokla is made with rice and chickpeas, khaman is made from chickpeas only. It is generally lighter in color and softer than dhokla, to make dhokla small proportion of baking soda is added while in khaman more baking soda is added to make it more fluffy spongy and porous.
  We love dhokla, we have this when we got to pune. I have tried this kaman dhokla for quite a fe times, it was a big failure. One of my friends here in singapore who is from Mumbai, treated me with dhokla in her house. But this dhokla was made in sooji. It was so soft and yummy. I couldnt resist myself in trying my hubby and some of my relatives. She told me the recipe and the nuances. thanks my dear friend Sweta.
 Here is the recipe for Sooji Dhokla :

Ingredients :

• sooji - 1 1/2 cups
• Sour curd - 1 cup
• Lemon juice -1

• Salt
• Water
• Eno fruit salt - 11/2 tsp
• Oil
• Mustard seeds -1tsp
• Green chilly -2
• Coriander leaves
• Hing

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Method :

• In a bowl, mix sooji, sour curd, salt and lemon juice.
• Mix the batter well. Add water to alter the consistency.
• The batter must be thick and not very runny.
• Finally add fruit salt, and give it a nice stir. The batter becomes frothy and fluffy.
• Grease the vessel in which you are steaming.
• Add the batter and steam it like idly for 7-10 mins.
• Remove from steam and add the tempering.
• Heat oil in a pan, splutter mustard seeds, green chillies and hing.
• Garnish with finely chopped coriander leaves.

Tasty soft dhoklas served with mint chutney.

Thengaipaal sadham / Coconut milk rice

Happy mothers day to all my friends/ readers. Hope you all had a fantastic weekend. I had a good weekend. I made this coconut milk rice and mutton ribs curry was an ultimate combination. My husband loves this mutton green curry, so it was a surprise for him. He thouroughly enjoyed. I wanted to make some different rice for the gravy, so thought of trying this thengaipaal sadham. OMG , how flavorful it was. I usually make saffron rice for kurmas. The added flavor of coconut milk, ghee and saffron made it so rich and aromatic. For vegetarians,the combo that suits well is paneer butter masala or mixed vegetables or kadai paneer. Try this mouthwatering recipe and give your feedback.  

Ingredients :  

• Basmathi rice - 2 cups
• Coconut milk - 3 cups 
• Water - 1 cup
• Ghee - 2 tsp
• Cloves -2
• Cardamom pods - 4
• Bay leaf - 2

• Cinnamon stick - 2”
• Coriander leaves - little
• Mint leaves - little
• Salt
• Saffron 1 pinch
• Warm milk - 2 tsp
• Cashews - few

  Method :  

• Soak saffron in milk and keep aside.
• In a pan, add 2 tsps of ghee, add the bay leaf, cardamom, cinnamon and cloves. Saute it.
• Add the cashews and fry them. Add little mint leaves and coriander leaves and saute for a minute.
• Add the washed basmathi rice and fry for a min.
• Add the coconut milk and water. Stir well
• Add salt and mix.
• Cover the pan with lid and cook until the rice is done.
• Open the lid, add chopped mint leaves, coriander leaves and the saffron milk.
• Close the lid for 5 mins on stay on dhum.
• Open the lid and give it a good stir.

  Yummy coconut milk rice is ready to serve with mutton ribs curry.      

Paneer pizza / Veggie pizza

Hi all, good morning. Today i am super excited to share the recipe of paneer pizza. I am a terrific cheese lover. My daughter loves it as well. Whenever she asks for pizza, i always wanted to give it healthy. At home when we make we do have the options of indianising the recipe, even though its an italian cuisine. The crust can be made thinner according to our preference. We can choose the flour as well as per our wish, can be made in multigrain, plain wheat flour, all purpose flour, self raising flour, etc. Since i made it for the first time, i made it using all purpose flour, although i prefer multigrain wheat flour. Pizza sauce is also made at home, i will update the sauce recipe a little later. When it comes to toppings, its again our choice. Today I am sharing a pure veggie version.  

Ingredients:
For the dough:

• All purpose flour - 2-3 cups
• Instant yeast - 7 gms or 2 tsp
• Salt
• Sugar - a pinch
• Warm water - 1/2 cup
• Mixed herbs - individuals choice
• Olive oil

  For toppings:

• Onion - diced
• Capsicum - diced
• Paneer - cubes
• Mushrooms - diced
• Olives and Jalapenos - little
• Paprika - 1/2 tsp
• Mixed herbs - 1 tsp
• Pizza or pasta sauce for the base ( will update the recipe soon) - store bought half cup
• Mozarella cheese - 400 gms

  Method :

• In a small bowl, add the yeast , sugar and warm water. Let it activate.leave it for 10-15 mins.
• Add the flour, herbs , salt and mix the dough well, until it forms a nice sticky dough.
• Add 2-3 tsp of olive oil and coat it well around the dough so that its not dried up.
• Let it rest to raise say for one hour, until it doubles its quantity.
• Chop all the veggies needed. You can saute the veggies with olive oil . Grate the cheese for topping.
• After an hour, take dough and punch it, the air bubbles will be visible making the base to be softer.
• Gently pat the dough , give it a few punches.
• On the baking tray, take the dough and spread across, flatten it.
• Apply the pizza sauce on top of it. Add a small layer of cheese And finally add the toppings lavishly.
• Sprinkle paprika, mixed herbs and salt.
• Add the remaining cheese to cover the pizza.

• Preheat the oven  at 180degrees celsius for 5 mins.
• Place the baking tray inide the oven and on baking mode, bake for 20 mins at 180 degrees.
• The base and toppings will be nicely baked and cooked. The cheese will melt on top.

  Wonderful healthy pizza , ready for the kids.  
I served it with garlic bread and juice

Chocochip cookies

Good morning all. Yet another day with baked goodies. Nowadays i have started to explore a little in baking. I thought we rely too much on branded biscuits and cookies for our kids snack box. Since i have been exploring for a while. Then struck me why shouldnt i bake healthy cookies for my kid at home. One thing is satisfaction of a mom to make , and the other is guilt free that it is healthy. I have made quite a few batches that my kid and hubby loved. So here is a super crunchy chocochip cookie using egg. I have alo made eggless which i will update tomorrow.  

Here it goes:  

 Ingredients:

• Unsalted Butter - 100 gms
• Icing sugar - 1/2 cup
• Self raising flour - 1 cup
• Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
• Chocochips- according to your preference
• Egg -1

  Method :

• In a bowl, mix butter and icing sugar and beat with the mixer until nice creamy texture.
• Add egg and vannilla essence and mix well.
• Now add the flour and mix into a nice smooth dough.
• Add the chocochips to the cookie dough and mix well so that its scattered everywhere.

• Make equal size balls and place on the baking sheet.

• Preheat the oven at 180 degrees celcius for 5 mins.
• Place the baking tray inside and on baking mode, bake for 12 mins at 180 degrees.

  Super crispy and crunchy chocochip cookies ready for the snack box.