Pancake

 Ingredients

All purpose flour        - 1 1/2 cups

Baking powder           - 3 teaspoons

White or Brown sugar - 1 tablespoon

Salt                           - 1/4 teaspoon

Egg                            - 1

Milk                            - 1 1/4 cups

Butter melted               - 3 tablespoons

Method

Preheat the Pancake griddle.

Melt the butter in microwave. Mix egg, milk and butter together. Add the dry ingredients all purpose flour, baking soda, salt and sugar. Mix together and pour 1 scoop of the batter on the griddle or frying pan. Flip the pancake after a minute.

Yummy pancake is ready to serve and eat. Serve with maple syrup and your desired toppings like whipped cream, strawberry, blueberry or banana.

Waffle

 Ingredients

Eggs                     - 2

All purpose flour     - 2 cups

Milk                        - 1 3/4 cups

Vegetable oil            - 1/2 cup

opt(peanut oil)    

White or Brown sugar - 1 tablespoon

Baking soda                - 4 teaspoon

Salt                            - 1/4 teaspoon

Vanilla extract (opt)      - 1/2 teaspoon

Method

Preheat the waffle maker.

In a bowl mix all the wet ingredients eggs, milk, oil and then mix all the dry ingredients all purpose flour, sugar, baking soda, salt.

Mix together. 

Optional spread the butter on the waffle maker. Take one big scoop of the batter in a waffle maker. Cook for 3-4 minutes.

Yummy waffle is ready to ready, top as you desired like maple syrup with whipped cream, strawberry, chocolates or anything you like. 

Millet Idly/Dosai

 Ingredients

Foxtail Millet - 1/4 cup

Barnyard Millet - 1/4 cup

Pearled kodo Millet - 1/4 cup

Brown top Millet - 1/4 cup

Quinoa - 1/4 cup

Urad dal - 3/4 cup

Fenugreek seed - 5-10 seeds

Salt - for taste

Method

• Wash all the millets well and soak it with fenugreek seeds for 6-8 hours.
• Soak the urad dal seperately.

• After 6 - 8 hours grind the urad dal first and take it out then grind the millets.
• And mix it with salt and leave the batter for fermentation.
• After 10 - 12 hours of fermentation the batter is ready for idly or dosai.
• Now we can make the idly or dosai in a regular basis.
• Yummy Millet Idly or Dosai is ready to eat. Any side dish is good with this millet idly or dosai.

Chocolate chips cookies (Almond Flour)

Chocolate Chip Cookies 

Ingredients

Almond Flour  - 2 cups

Brown sugar    - 1 1/4 cup

Salt                   -  pinch

Baking soda      - 1/2 tsp

Unsalted butter  - 1/4 cup ( room temperature softened)

Egg                    - 1

Chocolate chips  - 1 cup

Method

Preheat oven 375 degree F

In a small bowl mix flour, sugar, salt, baking soda, egg and unsalted butter and blend together. Once it form into dough add the chocolate chips and mix. 

On the cookie sheet you can use the parchment paper and keep the dough in a round shape in 2 inches apart. 

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until light brown. Cool down 2 minutes and remove from the cookie sheet to cooling rack. Cool completely and store in the airtight container. And enjoy having the cookies. 

Banana Bread

Banana Bread

Almond Flour Banana Bread (Gluten free)

Ingredients

Almond Flour  - 1 cup
Sugar            - 1/2 cup
Baking Soda   - 1/2 tsp
Ground Cinnamon - 1/2 tsp

Salt               - a pinch

Ripe Banana   - 2   

Eggs              - 2

Coconut oil     - 2 tbsp

Walnut           - 1/2 cup

Chocolate chips - 1 Handful(optional)

Method

Preheat oven 350 degree F

Combine almond flour, sugar, baking soda, ground cinnamon and salt in a large bowl, mix well and set aside. In a medium bowl mash the banana, and combine with eggs, coconut oil and mix well. Add the wet ingredients into dry or dry ingredients into wet ingredients anything works. Now mix until just blended. Place the batter into the loaf pan that has been lightly coated with oil spray. Bake for 25 - 30 minute. Cool completely before slicing. Yummy banana bread ready to eat now.

Second Option

Same batter you can make banana muffin too.

 

 

Chapathi

Ingredients

Aashirvaad Wheat flour - 5 cups
Salt - as per taste
Oil - 2 tsp
Water - almost 2 cups depends when we kneed

Method

Put all the ingredients and kneed with hand, when you start kneed don't pour all the water, once in a while pour the water and kneed the dough. The chapathi dough has to be soft not hard.

Second method to make chapathi dough is put all the ingredients into the food processor and press the dough button. Within 2 minutes soft dough will be ready to make chapathi. Here too don't pour all the water. Once in a while check the dough and pour the water.

Keep the dough in the bowl and put slight oil all over the dough and keep a side for half an hour - 1 hour. This is optional.

Now the dough is ready to make the chapathi.

Take the dough and make small ball size. Then take the ball and dust with the wheat flour and keep it in the chapathi rolling board and make the ball into a big circle. (The other method is make the ball into small circle and put small amount of oil and spread all over and fold it into traingle and now make that triangle into a big circle. This way the chapathi has layers when you make.)

Heat the chapathi pan and put the big circle chapathi and wait for a minute to see the bubble kinda all over now it's the time to turn the chapathi. Now press all over the corner of the chapathi and pour little bit oil and spread turn again. Now it's ready to take the chapathi. Like this do all the small ball into a good round chapathi.

Yummy chapathi is ready to eat.

Rava Upuma

Ingredients

Rava(Semolina) - 3 cups
Big Onion - 1/4
Green Chilli - 2 or 3
Ginger - very tiny piece(optional)
Yellow Channa dal - 2 tsp
Mustard seed & urad dal - 1/2 tsp
Oil - 2 tsp
Curry leaf - 1 stem
Water - 6 cups
Salt - as per taste

Method

Dry roast the rava and keep a side. Cut the onion into small pieces and slice the green chilli. Cut tiny pieces of the Ginger.

Heat the pan and pour the oil. Add the mustard seed & urad dal, once it sputtered add the yellow channa dal, ginger, onion, green chilli and curry leaf. Once the channa dal roasted and other items changed color add the water and salt and close the lid. When the water started boiling add the roasted rava and stir well. and close the lid for 2 minutes. After 2-3 minutes stir again once the rava cooked well turn off the stove and close the lid. After 5 minutes, fluffy yummy rava upuma ready to eat.