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ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ.  Finger millet is one of the millets which I prefer to use in our daily diet in one form or the other, due to its health benefits. It can be included in preparing Indian foods like Dosa, idli, rotti, ragimudde, malt, etc.  Biscuits and cookies are typically made with maida or all-purpose flour, but I enjoy experimenting with healthier alternatives in my baking. A good combination of different flours gives the recipe a unique taste and texture.  Here is my version of healthy biscuits using Finger millet flour / Ragi hittu. These tasty biscuits are kids favourite too, a healthy treat to add to your kids lunchbox!  Preparation time: 35 minutes Refrigeration time: 30 minutes Difficulty level: Medium Serves: 20 - 22 biscuits of medium size  Ingredients:  Finger millet flour / Ragi hittu - 1/2 cup Wheat flour - 3/4 cup (see Tips)  Unsalted butter (at room temperature) - 100 gm  Powdered sugar / Icing sugar - 1/3 cup (s...

Being born and brought up in a village environment, we rarely used to eat the bakery food. All we knew was only Bread those days! We didn't had an oven, so there was no chance to eat any baked food at home. When I started going to college, I came to know about more varieties of bakery food and got addicted to them. Veg Puffs are one of my favourite bakery food. Making the pastry sheets at home is bit tedious task. These days, puff pastry sheets are available in super markets, so making the Puffs at home is not that difficult. Here is my version of Veg Puffs! Preparation time: 30 minutes Baking time: 25 minutes Difficulty level: Medium Yield: 6 Veg Puffs Ingredients: Eggplant - 1 (small sized) Potato - 1 (medium sized) Capsicum - 1 halve Beans - 4 to 5 Green peas - 1/2 cup (*see Tips) Onion - 1 large Salt - to taste Amchur powder - 1/2 tsp or to taste Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp or according to taste Garam masala powder - 1/4 tsp Oil - 3 tbsp (plus...

ಕನ್ನಡ ಆವೃತ್ತಿ   Fruit Biscuits from Karachi Bakery situated at Hyderabad are one of our family favorites. These biscuits are unique in taste and flavor. They just melt in your mouth and are truly addictive. Since these goodies are not available for us here in Australia, we always had missed them.  Ever since I started my baking journey, I was trying to replicate the taste of these fruit biscuits. After some experiments and guess works, finally I got it perfect! Here is my version of Fruit Biscuits or Tutti Frutti Biscuits. Try these delicious biscuits and enjoy with your family :) Preparation time: 15 - 20 minutes Refrigeration time: 30 minutes or more Baking time: 20 - 25 minutes Yield: 40 - 45 pieces (depending on the size) Ingredients: All purpose flour / Maida - 5 cups (1 cup = 70 gm approx) Unsalted butter - 185 gm (at room temperature) Sugar - 1 cup (110 gm) Milk powder - 1/2 cup (25 gm) Custard powder - 1/4 cup (13 gm) Vanilla essence - 1 tsp ...

ಕನ್ನಡ ಆವೃತ್ತಿ Biscuits are the snack time favorites of people of all the ages. We are also biscuit lovers and keep browsing for new varieties of them. Apart from store bought ones, I would love to prepare different types of biscuits at home. When it comes to bakery style food like Benne (Butter) Biscuit, Nippattu, etc., hubby prefers and love to eat the home made ones. Many of you must have heard of Karachi Bakery in Hyderabad. They are famous for their food products especially Fruit Biscuit and Cashew Biscuits. When we were in Bangalore, we were sure to get a parcel of these goodies if anybody among the friends or family is visiting Hyderabad! My sister's family who stays in Hyderabad, will bring Karachi Biscuits every time when they are coming for vacation. These days, we can find these biscuits in some of the shops in Bangalore as well.  I was planning to prepare this kind of biscuits at home and was not sure how to prepare. I just went with my recipe of Orange Short...

ಕನ್ನಡ ಆವೃತ್ತಿ Mangoes are my all time favorite. For mango lovers like me, anything with mango tastes good! This year, we had enjoyed the mango season in India to the full extent and now, its the time for mangoes here in Australia! Last week, we had been to the market and saw plenty of delicious mangoes on the store racks. I just picked some and brought them home. Whenever there are plenty of mangoes, I love to prepare Mango Seekarane / Rasayana . This time also, I prepared Mango Seekarane and wanted my daughter to taste it. She is not very much fond of sweets and said 'no' to it, as expected. Instead, she wanted me to bake a cake for her. I just googled for the mango cake recipes and finally, this is the outcome! This was my first baking attempt using mango. While searching the recipes, I just stopped at Julie's space and found her Mango Cake recipe interesting. I have made some small changes in the original recipe according to my preferences and prepared this deli...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ.  I came across this recipe few days back. It was written on the back of All purpose flour packet. They had used orange zest in this recipe to give it a nice flavor. Orange zest means the grated peel of orange. This was the first time I used orange zest in my cooking. Loved this simple recipe and gave it a try! Shortbread was light and crispy with the nice aroma of orange zest. I have tried this recipe several times already and the shortbread got over within 2 days every time. I'm sure, kids love this yummy and crispy shortbread. Also, you can give it as teething biscuits to babies for biting. Wish you happy cooking :) Preparation time: 40 minutes Difficulty level: Medium Yield: 25 pieces (depending on the size) Ingredients: Zest of 2 Naval Oranges Sugar - 1/2 cup (plus 2 tsp if you want to make it sweet) All purpose flour / Maida - 3 cups (approx) Unsalted butter - 125 gm Method: Transfer the sugar to mixie jar and make...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. These days, we were totally busy with trips and attending functions at native. I was thinking of baking something special this time, since it was a long time ago I used my oven. I searched for some cake recipes and finally, decided to prepare my own Black Forest Cake! Also, there was some occasion to celebrate..we were expecting my dear sister for the dinner and the next day was her B'day! So, the celebration went on and all of us enjoyed home made Black Forest Cake :) As I read in Wikipedia, this cake was originated in Germany. For the traditional Black Forest Cake, they use a liquor prepared using Cherry fruits for flavoring. This liquor is famous in Black Forest Hills region of Germany, hence the name Black Forest Cake! This chocolate cake tastes heavenly with the layers of whipped cream and chopped cherries. Butter cream icing was my favorite earlier and after trying this whipped cream icing, I fell in love with this icing deeply :...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. I am one of the great fans of sweet bread from my childhood. Never I will get bored of eating bread slices roasted with ghee :) During our stay in Australia, I was missing sweet bread very much and later, got a bread mould for preparing bread at home. But I couldn't use it much and it was sitting idle.  My bread baking adventure was started very recently. The reason is that we won't have a good bakery nearby. If I need bread anytime, I have to wait till we go for groceries! So, just thought of preparing bread at home :) My first experiment was not good, but I got very good results in my later experiments. These days, we started loving home made bread than what we get from the shop! Preparation time: 35 - 40 minutes Baking time: 30 minutes Yield: 1 loaf  Ingredients: All purpose flour / maida - 3 cups Warm milk - 1 1/2 cup Active dry yeast - 1 1/2 tsp Sugar - 7 1/2 tsp (2 1/2 tsp for each cup of maida) Salt ...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ.   I was planning to prepare cupcakes at home from long time. I bought muffin moulds few months back and couldn't use them any time. Finally, I could use them for baking my muffins last week! I had few ripened bananas, which I couldn't finish off. So, just thought of using the same for the muffins! Ahh, my first experiment with muffins was a big success! <:-P It was so aromatic and delicious, and especially I loved the texture very much. I prepared only 5 (in fact bigger ones!) muffins and it got sold like anything! But this is really a stomach filling dish since its made of bananas and all purpose flour (maida). We had it as evening snacks, but I thought it will be good for breakfast or for kids snacks also!   Time to prepare the batter: 10 minutes Baking time: 23 - 25 minutes Yield: 5 big muffins Ingredients: Fully ripened bananas - 2 (large bananas) All purpose flour / Maida - 1 1/2 cup Sugar - 3/4 cup ...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. During our childhood days, very rarely we used to get bakery food at home. We loved chocolates and bakery food more than anything else which was prepared at home :) Couple of years later, my mother mother learned preparing cake using pressure cooker. Then, she started preparing cake whenever we want! Especially, we loved the cake prepared using different colors :D She tried adding different flavors and dry fruits in her next experiments. Even now, we prepare the same cake with slight variations. This cake can be prepared very easily using pressure cooker. This time, I have prepared it using oven since I didn't had a wide vessel to fit in the pressure cooker. It came out very well in oven also! The only difference you can observe is when you use pressure cooker, base of the cake will become slightly dark in color; whereas base color won't change when oven is used. Preparation time:1 1/4 hours Yield: 1 round cake Ingredients: Maida / All...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. Usually, I will keep preparing different kind of cakes at home. But we used to ate them without any decoration or icing. Last month was my dear hubby's birthday and I gave him a pleasant surprise with home made cake with all the decorations :) Already this cake recipe is there in so many blogs; I really don't know whose recipe is this..but my sincere thanks to the one who found this delicious cake recipe!  Being a vegetarian, I won't use egg at home any time. By seeing the nice texture of this cake, nobody will agree that its prepared without using the egg! For icing, I checked few recipes in the net and prepared it in my own way. My sincere thanks to Usha for helping me around while decorating the cake :) Preparation Time: 2 hours Ingredients: (For 1 Cake) All purpose flour / maida - 1 1/2 cup Sugar - 3/4 cup Baking powder - 1 1/4 tbsp Cooking soda - 1/2 tbsp Pinch of salt Thick curd - 1 cup Cooking oil - 1/...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ. I prefer this sandwich for breakfast or as snack while going for some picnic or tour. The reason is simple.. we can prepare it previous night itself so that there will be no worry about the morning breakfast! This recipe is from a Kannada magazine which I came across couple of years back.  Ingredients: 2 medium size carrots Finely chopped tomato - 2 tbsp 1 medium size onion - finely chopped Finely chopped curry leaves - 1 tbsp Finely chopped coriander leaves - 1 tbsp Green chillies chopped - 1 tbsp (you can add more if you want) Ginger - garlic paste - 1 tbsp Salt to taste Few drops of lime squeeze Bread - 1 loaf Ghee - for roasting the bread (optional) For seasoning: Oil - 1 spoon, Cumin seeds - 1/2 spoon, pinch of turmeric Procedure: Grate the carrots and keep aside. Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds, turmeric and chopped green chillies.  Then, add ginger-garlic paste and saute until the raw smell is gone. Add chopped tomato and saute...

ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಓದಲು ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕ್ಲಿಕ್ ಮಾಡಿ..   Ingredients: Butter (@ room temperature) - 1 cup Powdered sugar - 1 cup (about 3/4th cup of sugar will make 1 cup of powdered sugar) Elachi  4 - 5 Maida flour - 2 1/2 cup to 3 cups Method: Take sugar and elachi in a miksi jar and make a fine powder. Beat the butter until its smooth and fluffy. Then, add the powdered sugar little by little and continue beating. Finally, add the maida flour and make a smooth dough. Make small balls out of the dough prepared, flatten it a bit and keep them on the greased baking tray. Preheat the oven to 200º C and bake the biscuits for 20 - 25 minutes. Once it is done, take them out and allow to cool for sometime. Store them in an airtight jar.