Onion rings - a good Indian munching snack

Onion rings

Onion rings - a good Indian munching snack

Ingredients:

1. Onion : 1 big size
2. Maida : 1 tea cup
3. Bread crumbs         : 1 1/4 tea cup
4. Corn floor : 3 table spoons
5. Baking soda : a pinch
6. Oil : to fry (2 tea cups)
7. Salt                        : to taste
8. Chilli powder          : to taste
9. Water : to mix the floor

Procedure:

1. Slice the onion, preferred size is 3/4 centimetre.
2. Make dough by adding little water to maida, 1 cup bread crumbs, Corn floor, salt, chilli powder and baking soda. The dough consistency should be akin to Mirchi bajji dough.
3. Heat oil on a pan and turn it simmer when oil is heated.
4. Spread rest of break crumbs in a plate and coat each onion ring with that powder.
5. Now dip each onion ring in dough and give a hard tap to remove extra dough sticked to onion ring.
6. Fry onion ring in oil till it turn to golden brown colour.

Dry Fruit Cake - in pressure cooker

Serves: 7 people
Preparation time: 1 hour 30 minutes

Dry-fruit cake / plum cake without wine in pressure cooker

Ingredients:

1. All purpose flour (Maida): 1 tea glass
2. Butter:                                 1 tea glass
3. Eggs                                    1 tea glass (probably 3 in quantity)
4. Sugar                                  1 tea glass
5. Dry fruits(dates, raisins etc)1 tea glass
6. Vanilla essence                   1 tea spoon
7. Baking-Powder                   1 1/2 tea spoon
8. Baking-Soda                        a pinch
9. Cardamon(Optional)           3 no.
10. Cinnamon stick(Optional)  1/2 inch 

Procedure:

1. Sieve Maida; grind Sugar,Cinnamon stick, and Cardamon; liquidate Butter by keeping it in room temperature or by exposing it to heat; de-seed and slice the dates into small pieces.
2. Mix and beat Miada,butter, sugar, eggs, Baking-powder, Baking-soda and vanilla essence with a whisk or in a mixer-grinder. Finally add dry-fruits to it and mix them thoroughly.
3. Grease the bowl with butter, which you are planning to keep in pressure cooker, and pour the content to the bowl.
4. Place the bowl in a pressure cooker and place the cooker on stove in simmer for 45 minutes. After 30 minutes, check readiness of cake by poking the sharp object such as knife to the cake. If the knife comes out clean, then you can suppose it to be ready and turn off the stove.
5. Do not try to remove the cake from the bowl for at least an hour. Once cake turned cool, pop it out of the bowl, slice, and eat them.

Note:

• The bowl that you are planning to use in pressure cooker should be wider.
• If you planning to cook in oven: place the pan in the preheated oven at 180 C for 20 minutes.

cake - in oven

Ingredients:

1. Maida (All purpose flour) : 4 cups
2. Butter : 2 cups
3. Sugar : 2 cups
4. Baking powder : 1/4 tbsp
5. Eggs : 2
6. Milk : 1/4 cup

Procedure:

1. Mix the baking powder to Maida.
2. Make sugar powder using mixer grinder.
3. Mix sugar with butter. Now add maida mix thoroughly.
4. Mix 2 egg content thoroughly with the dough. Add litter amount of milk and mix well.
5. Apply butter to the inner surface of the baking pan and pour the dough into the baking pan.
6.  In the convection mode at 190, bake it for 25 minutes.

Milk biscuits - bakery style

                                                               Milk biscuits - bakery style

Milk biscuits - bakery style

 Ingredients:

1. Maida (All purpose flour) : 2 cups
2. Sugar : 1 cup
3. Dalda(vanspathi) / Butter / Ghee : 1 cup

Procedure:

1. Take the sugar and fine grind it with mixer grinder.
2. Take the Vanaspathi or Butter finely make it as paste on a bowl.
3. Add the Maida to the Vanaspathi/butter and mix it well.
4. Add the sugar to the mix and make it as ball as like chapathi dough.
5. Make the dough into small balls and press it to the biscuit shape with hand.
6. Pre heat the oven on convection mode at 180 C for 10 minutes.
7. Place the biscuits on a pre heated oven. Keep it on Oven for 12 to 15 minutes(based on the roast you want for biscuits) at 180 C on convection mode.
8. Now biscuits are ready.

You can add the below specified flavors when you are making the dough for biscuits if you want. Don't try it for the first time when you are trying.

Flavors:

honey :   2 table spoons.
Oats : 1/4 to 1/2 cup
etc...