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Millet Choco chip cookie:

July 18, 2017

Millets are a very good alternative to normal All-purpose flour or whole wheat flour in gluten free baking. You can’t even recognize the core ingredient. It is gluten free as well as high in nutrition too.

When I was trying out some recipes for 2017 Millet calendar, I dished out a couple of recipes, which has turned out super tasty, and at the same time, healthy too.

At first, I tried Chocolate based cookie and it tasted good and here is the recipe-.

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Ingredients:

 Mixed millet flour -1 cup

Ragi flour – ¾ cup

Cocoa powder – 2 tbl sp.

Salt – ¼ tsp

Baking powder – ¾ tsp

Baking soda – ¾ tsp

Egg -1

Sugar – ¾ cup

Butter – 100 gms

Curd – 2 tbl sp

Vanilla essence – 1 tsp

Choco-chip – 2 tbl sp

Powdered sugar – to roll the dough.

Method:

-Put all the dry ingredients- flours, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and soda, Choco chip in one bowl, mix nicely and keep aside.

– Take another bowl and put butter and sugar, beat until sugar dissolves and butter becomes smooth.

-Add in egg and beat, add vanilla essence, curd and beat until batter is smooth.

– Now add dry ingredient flour mixture and make cookie dough by mixing like Chapati dough.

– Take one round spoon and make uniformly sized ball, dip in a sugar powder and arrange in a lined baking tray.

– Bake this in a pre- heated oven at 170º C for 12 to 14 minutes or until base becomes light brown.

-When it is done, remove and cool. Store this in an air tight container.

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Note: This measurement yields around 28 cookies of this size.

Orange – Nutella Swirl cupcakes:

March 19, 2017

These millet cupcakes are healthy and delicious at the same time,  a very good snack for all the kids who are studying hard for exams.

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Ingredients:

Mixed millet flour- ½ cup

Whole wheat flour- ¼ cup

All-purpose flour – ¾ cup

Ghee – ¼ cup

Egg – 1

Sugar – ¾ cup

Salt – ¼ tsp

Baking powder – ¾ tsp

Baking soda – ¾ tsp

Curd – ¾ cup

Orange zest – 1 tsp

Nutella – as required

Method:

  • Pre-heat oven in 170 C. Line cupcake baking tray with paper liners.

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  • Mix all the dry ingredients like millet flour, whole wheat flour and all-purpose flour, baking powder and soda, sieve 2 to 3 times or mix with dry whisk.
  • Now take one more bowl or food processer, put egg, curd, sugar, ghee, salt and beat nicely.
  • Grate orange zest from outer surface of the orange (Don’t add any white part) and add this to liquid and beat one more time.
  • Now pour this wet mixture into dry ingredient mixture and fold in and mix everything lightly.
  • Don’t over mix.
  • Pour this mixture into cupcake tray by using the spoon.

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  • Drop Nutella on the top of each batter filled cupcake mould, swirl a little.
  • Bake this in a pre-heated oven for 15 minutes or until done.

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  • Enjoy with evening tea. It is a good option as a snack as well.

Roasted Red pepper Pasta with Pine nut Sauce:

February 15, 2017

It is colourful, simple, yet bursting with flavour, very satisfying one pot nutritious meal.

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How I proceeded with the recipe-

Ingredients:

Whole wheat pasta – 1 pack

Pine nuts – ½ cup

Milk – 1 to 1 ½ cup

Onion -1 (sliced)

Red bell pepper-3

Yellow bell pepper – 2

Green bell pepper -1

Red chilli flakes

Oregano

Olive oil – 1 table spoon

Garlic salt – as required

Grated cheese – 3 table spoon

Garlic greens or spring onion greens – little

Method:

  • Wash Red peppers and apply some oil to the outer surface.

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  • Soak pine nuts in milk.
  • Slice onion, green pepper and yellow pepper.
  • Cook pasta in sufficient water by adding little salt and oil. When it is cooked, drain the water and reserve this water to further use.
  • Pre heat oven to 200 C and keep the setting to Grill Option.
  • Make 4 quarters of red bell pepper and remove seeds, arrange this in a butter paper lined cookie tray.

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  • When oven is pre heated and ready, keep this tray in an oven and grill this for 10 minutes and then bake this further for 10 minutes.
  • (if you grill at first, you can avoid oozing of the water content from the bell pepper and it will be firm and juicy)

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  • When bell pepper is ready, make a paste by adding the pine nut and milk which has been soaked, with the bell pepper, and grind it in a mixer jar.

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  • Keep one wide mouth tawa, add olive oil or butter, when it is hot add sliced onion and fry for 2 minutes.

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  • Add sliced green and yellow bell pepper, little garlic salt, red chilli flakes and oregano. Fry for a while and add ground bell pepper paste.
  • Adjust the consistency by adding drained water which you reserved.
  • Check the taste and adjust salt, seasoning, red chilli flakes.

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  • When it is cooked, add grated cheese and mix in drained pasta and mix nicely. Serve by garnishing with garlic or spring onion greens.

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Note:

-If you don’t have garlic salt, add chopped garlic to the hot oil while adding onion.

-You can use any nuts of your choice.