Friday, January 27, 2012

Sweet Poli


Ingredients:

  • Channa Dhal - 2 cups
  • Cardamom - 3
  • All purpose flour - 1 cup
  • Sooji (Rava) - 1 tsp
  • Salt - pinch
  • Jaggery or Brown Sugar - 1/2 cup
  • warm water - 1 cup
  • Ghee or Butter - 1 tsp
  • Oil
Procedure:



  1. Cook Channa Dhal to tender. And let it cool.
  2. In the mean time, take All purpose flour in a bowl. Add rava, ghee and pinch of salt. Mix well.
  3. Add warm water little by little and make a soft dough.
  4. To avoid dough sticking to hands, add few drops of oil.
  5. Knead it well, so that it is very soft and stretchy. Cover the dough and keep it aside for 30 mins.
  6. Take the cooled channa dhal and powder it in mixy. Make sure it is not too moist.
  7. Add Jaggery or brown sugar little by little and mix well. If you want it more sweet, add more jaggery. Taste the mixture in between, so that it is not way too sweet. This is the Sweet Stuffing.
  8. Make small balls out of the dough. 
  9. Make balls (double the size of dough balls) out of sweet stuffing.
  10. Take a dough ball, press its center and place the stuffing dough into it.
  11. Stretch the dough from its side and cover the sweet stuffing.
  12. Place it on a plastic sheet with oil applied to its surface.
  13. Press it with hands and then roll it like chappathi.
  14. Make it as thin as possible.
  15. Cook it in a pan. Turn sides and make sure its well cooked both side.

Carrot Cake



Ingredients:
  • All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cups
  • Eggs - 3
  • Dates - 15 (cut into pieces)
  • Sugar - 1 cup
  • Carrot - 1 cup (shredded)
  • Coconut - 1 cup (shredded)
  • Vegetable oil - 1 cup
  • Vanilla essence - few drops
Procedure:
  1. Beat the eggs nicely for 5 mins in maximum speed
  2. Add few drops of vanilla essence
  3. Add Sugar and oil and again beat well for 3 mins
  4. Mix grated coconut, shredded carrots and chopped dates with a spoon in same direction until it is well mixed.
  5. Keep it aside for 30 mins
  6. Apply butter to the cake mould
  7. Pre-heat oven to 250 degrees
  8. Pour cake mix into the mould and bake it for 30 mins
  9. To make sure it is well baked, insert a toothpick at the center part of the cake.
  10. If the cake mix doesn't stick to the tooth pick, then it is well cooked.
  11. Let the cake cool for 15 mins.