100 Yummy Diwali Sweets Recipes - Ebook By Indus Ladies

For the upcoming Diwali on October 26th, 2011, Indusladies is compiling an E-Book called “100 Yummy Diwali SweetRecipes”. We are collecting sweet/dessert recipes from various bloggers to be featured in this E-Book.

This E-book will be made available as a free download to our community's 1.3 Lakh+ members. In addition, they are also be making this E-Book available to our 9000+ Facebook fans and Twitter followers. It's LOTS and LOTS of exposure to those food blogs entering the E-Book!!

We believe this would be a nice way to get the word out about a wonderful blog to the entire membership of IndusLadies!!

Are you a Food Blogger? Or do you have friends who are Food Bloggers? Here's a great news for the Food Bloggers out there who have been blogging  for alteast 1 year now...

Those bloggers interested in submitting a recipe for this E-Book...all you need to do is as follows:

1. Send a link from your blog for a sweet /dessert recipe. It should also include the picture of the sweet/dessert. Your recipe, food picture, recipe URL as well as the entire blog URL will get featured in the E-Book.

2. In return, we need you to do two things:

Now make a blog post in your blog announcing the E-Book compilation by IndusLadies and the recipe you are sending for this E-Book. That way inviting your co-bloggers interested to send in their contribution by Oct 10th,2011.

Any blogger interested can send their entry to partners@indusladies.com by October 8th.

I m sending my Orissa famous delicious Rasabali, Orissa famous Chena Poda

Layer Paratha

Ingredients

2 cups wheat flour

1/2 tsp  baking powder

1tblsp sugar

luke warm Milk-1/2 cup

Salt ½ tsp

Refined Oil/ ghee

Method

Mix the flour, salt and sugar well. Now, add 2tblsp ghee to it. Mix well. Then slowly add the luke warm milk and make a dough. Knead well until smooth & make a stiff dough.

Keep it covered under a wet muslin cloth. (This is to avoid the top of the dough drying up)

Divide into 8 equal portions and form into smooth balls.

Dip your dough ball in flour and roll out to a 6″ disc.

Roll out as thinly as you can .Coat one side with oil and then form pleats (Start forming pleats from one side). 

Now twist the roll in to a tight circle.

Flatten bread only on one side to preserve the layers. Now gently press it by a rolling pin to a thick round layer paratha.

 Cook on a very hot tava, brushing both sides with ghee. All the skins to become crunchy and keep it on the tava till both sides have turned golden brown.

Stack, and crush the sideways every few hot paratha so that it will separate the layers.
Goes well with black channa curry & egg curry.






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Yummy Pumpkin muffins

If the first taste of your day is one of these pumpkin muffins, how can you have a bad day at all?
This recipe is super easy. Recipe follows after the jump…

Ingredients:

• 1  ½cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• ½  teaspoon ground ginger
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp of nutmeg, cloves powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp of salt
• 2 eggs beaten egg
• 1 cup cooked mashed pumpkin yellow
• 1/2 cup skim milk
• 2 tablespoons refined oil/ melted butter
• ¼  cup orange juice
• 1/2 tsp grated orange skin

Method:

Whisk together flour and baking powder in a bowl.

Whisk together pumpkin, oil, eggs, nutmeg powder, cloves powder, salt, sugar, baking soda, milk ,cinnamon, grated orange skin & orange juice. Add the above whisked flour, stir with wooden spoon until smooth.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F for baking.

Fill well-greased or paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full .

Bake 400 degrees F for 15-20 minutes or until muffins test done (toothpick inserted near center comes out clean). Cool for 10 minutes before removing muffins from pan.

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Blue berry Muffins

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/3 cup vegetable oil
• 1 large egg
• 1/2 cup melted butter or margarine
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 cup blueberries (fresh or frozen)

Instructions:

1. Pre heat the oven at 400 degrees F (200 C).
2. Mix flour, sugar, salt, cinnamon and baking powder. In another bowl, mix vegetable oil, egg , melted butter & milk. Mix together with flour mixture. Add in blueberries.
3. Grease muffin tins.
4. SPOON batter into prepared muffin cups.

5. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until golden & until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean .

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Musroom potato Masala

Musroom-  250gm (cut into pieces)

potatoes 2 nos- peeled, boiled & cut in cubes

Ginger garlic paste- 2tblsp

Cashew nuts paste- 2tblsp

Tomato puree- 2 tblsp

1 large tomato chopped

Haldi- ½ tsp

Cumin seeds- 1tsp

Dalchini stick- 2” long

Illaichi- 2-3 crushed

2 green chilli chopped

3 large onion chopped

Green onion chopped- ½ cup

Coriander- cumin powder- 1tsp each

Red chilly powder- 1tsp (as per your taste)

Dried kasturi methi powder- 1tsp

Garam masala powder- 1tsp

Oil- 3 tblsp

Coriander leaves chopped a handful

Method:

Heat 1-2 tblsp oil in a wok. Add the mushroom pieces & fry for 3-5 min till light brown. keep the mushrooms aside. Again add 1tblsp oil in the same wok & add the boiled potato cubes. stir fry for some time till light brown. Keep them aside.

 Heat oil in a wok again. Add dalchini stick, whole iilaichi to it. Add cumin seeds. Let it splutter.

Add  Chopped onions, green onion, chopped green chilly & sauté till they turns to golden brown colour.

Then add  ginger garlic paste, haldi, cumin- coriander powder, red chilly powder & mix well. Sauté till oil appears in masala.

Then add the musrooms & boiled potatoes. Adjust salt & mix well.

Add cashew nuts paste & mix well. stir for 1-2 min. Then add  ½ cup of water. Let the curry boils for 5 mins till the mushroom becomes soft.

When then gravy becomes thick add crushed dried kasturi methi powder, garam masala powder. Remove from the flame. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves & serve hot with rice/ pullav/ puri/roti.

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wwoww.....I  hav received these 3 beautiful awards from  wonderful and lovely blogger friend  Mugdha http://mugdha-cookingfundas.blogspot.com .. These awards really meant so much to me,as I genuinely felt blessed and honored. Thanks again dear for selecting my blog...

Feeling excited, I am wearing all these awards very proudly on this humble site of mine,so that i can treat my eyes every time i visit my own site

Thanks again to all of you who stop by my kitchen!

My 1st Award

Hi friends I have a good news with you all...That is about my 1st award...

I am honored to say that I have been awarded by Deepthi’s kitchen http://www.deepthidigvijay.blogspot.com/ . Thank you so much for selecting my recipe. And I accept these with the greatest honor and appreciation........

Thanks again to all of you who stop by my kitchen!!!!