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Plum Cake || Eggless

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 A very rich, nutty, egg less plum cake for the holiday season.   Nutritional value This cake has different kind of dry fruits and 300gms flour. The cake gives almost 15 small pieces and each contains around 150 k cal each. Ingredients For filling (soaking of dry nuts in juice) 1 cup- Orange Juice 1 tsp- lemon jucie 100 gms- Tutti fruity 100 gms- Raisins 100 gms - Mix dried nuts For cake Dry Ingredients 1 and 1/2 cup (300gms) - All purpose flour/Maida 1/2 tsp- salt 1 tsp- Baking Powder 1/4 tsp- Baking Soda 1/4 tsp - Cinnamon Powder 1/4 tsp- Nutmeg Powder Wet Ingredients 1/2 cup- Hung curd 1/2 cup- Refine Sugar 1/2 cup- Jaggery Powder 1/2 cup- Butter/Ghee For Folding Keep half cup chopped Almonds and Cashews.  Method First soak all the dry nuts in orange juice and lemon mix and let it sit in fridge for overnight. In morning let the mixture come to room temperature and now add the wet ingredients in it along with jaggery, butter and sugar and mix it thoroughly. Now add the dry ingredient

Buns

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Simple basic buns recipe for burgers or for delicious Pav Bhaji or just toast it and enjoy as breakfast with jelly or peanut butter. Nutritional Value This is half whole wheat and half all purpose flour and the recipe makes 7 big buns, each having 150 calories. Ingredients All Purpose Flour- 1 and 1/2 cup Whole Wheat Flour- 1 and 1/2 cup Ghee or Butter- 2 tablespoons Sugar : 1 teaspoon Instant Yeast - 1 and 1/2 tea spoons  Egg -1 Milk : 3/4 cup (warm around 110 to 115 F) Salt : 1/4 tsp Method Mix all the ingredients in a food processor and make a dough. Mix well for 3 minutes in low speed until the dough is soft and spongy to touch. Keep it in a warm place for around 1 hour or until the size is double in size. Make the dough ball according to the size you need. Here the recipe makes 7 full size burger and approx 12 dinner rolls can be also made with the same amount of dough. Now place the balls in a warm place covered for again 45 minutes till they are double in size. Brush the surf

Tandoori Chicken

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A very simple OTG cooked tandoori chicken. Marinated in Indian spices and its our kind of special dish for the thanksgiving always.   Nutrition Value Around 200 calories is in per 100gms of tandoori chicken, it basically the size of chicken which varies calories each time. Ingredients Whole Chicken For marination Garlic- 2 whole (chopped) Ginger- 1 inch (chopped) Curd- 1/4 cup hung curd for per 1 kg of chicken Spices 1 tbsp each- turmeric, garam masala, coriander masala, tandoori masala, salt Oil Mustard- 1tbsp Method Mix the marination ingredient and massage on inside and outside of chicken thoroughly and let it marinate for minimum 2 hours and maximum overnight. Pull out of the fridge half hour before cooking. Fix the chicken by tying it with thread so that it doesn't fall over.   Set the OTG or oven for 200 C (380 F) and fix it in the rotisserie section and let it cook for 60 to 80 minutes. In between brush the chicken with butter or ghee in every 15 minutes.  If you are cooking

Coconut Khova Barfi

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A very simple and three step coconut Barfi for Diwali. This three ingredient barfi is delicious and easy to make.   Nutritional Value This is a a pure coconut and khova dish , the calories in coconut are less but khova is full fat. So this is a festivity recipe. I am not mentioning calorie per piece wise but this whole recipe has approx 2192 kcal in it. So eat wisely. Ingredients Khova- 400 gms Coconut- 2 and 1/2 cups Sugar- 1/12 cup Cardamon Powder- 1/2 tsp Method First Shred the coconut and  dry roast it in a wok, don't turn it brown. Melt the khova in a heavy bottom pan until it starts to ooze some ghee from sides, add sugar and cardamon powder and mix it well. Add the roasted coconut and mix it thoroughly Grease a bowl or dish of your choice and fill it with the barfi mixture and press it down from all sides. Mark the design as per your choice and refrigerate for at least two hours before serving, so that it can retain its shape. Enjoy! Happy Deepawali!

Scones

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A very light snack for you evening tea, or an easy go to breakfast, scones plays all roles of the food horizons.     Nutritional Value Scones are basically flour and butter combination so, it has carbohydrates, fat and fiber in it. A homemade scones is roughly 280 K cal per piece and it can fluctuate according to the ingredients we add. Ingredients ( Wet) Butter- 1/2 cup cold Milk- 1/2 cup cold (Dry) Flour (half whole wheat and half all purpose)- 1 cup each Chocolate chips - 1/2 cup Sugar- 1/2 cup Salt- 1/4 tsp Cinnamon Powder- 1/2 tsp Baking Powder -1 tsp Baking Soda - 1/2 tsp Instant Coffee - 1/2 tsp Method First mix the dry ingredients together and then mix butter cubes in it. Mix it thoroughly either in a mixer or with pastry cutter until butter is seen as equally distributed chunks in it. Now knead it by combining all flour together and adding milk slowly, the texture should be like a rough dough. Try to give it a disc shape of  one cm in thickness. Cut it in triangle shape or any

Pomfret Fish | Coconut Curry

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Promfret Fish are small in size and serves one per person, it can be deep fried, baked or cooked in curry. Here I have cooked Promfret and dipped it in coconut milk curry.   Nutritional Value Pomfret fishes are good source of calcium, vitamins A and D, and vitamins like  B12. It contains fat too. A whole Fish contains around 270 Kcal and with the curry the calories goes around 350 Kcal per serving. Ingredients To marinate Turmeric and Salt 1 tsp for each fish. For gravy 2 - medium size onion 1- tsp mustard seeds 5 - garlic cloves 1/2 inch - ginger  2- medium size tomato Spices- coriander,  turmeric, chilli (1.2 tsp each) Salt- 2 tsp 1/2 cup- coconut milk 1/2 cup oil to fry and gravy. (mustard oil is preference) Chopped corainder leaves a bunc Method  First, we will marinate our clean fish in salt and turmeric and let them sit for half hour. In a heavy pan we will heat the oil and shallow fry them or 5 minutes from both the sides. In the same oil we will first put some mustard seeds and