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Kalakand Cake – a Post Diwali treat

06 Wednesday Nov 2013

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Cakes, Cakes n Bakes, Chocolate Dessert, Diwali, kalakand, Kids Special, milk sweets, Recipes for Kids

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After Diwali I am almost always left with some sweets chilling in my fridge. Post the sugar over-dose that happens during festivities almost no one touches sweets in my house. I dont feel like throwing them away either so this time I decided to convert my kalakand mithai (milk fudge) into cake. This recipe has been concocted on the run. You might want to increase the number of kalakand pieces as per your taste. I like a little less sweet in anything so I used only 3-4 pieces. Also, I did not add any sugar to the cake batter as we are anyway adding sweets to it. The cake turned out mildly sweet, quite spongy and held itself well together. I guess you could use other milk sweets too, just that you will eventually get the same flavor in the cake as in the sweet. Continue reading →

Cheese Straws

17 Sunday Jan 2010

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biscuits, Cakes n Bakes, Kids Special, Recipes for Kids

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Mom learnt these at a baking course she took decades ago. On completing her training she started taking Bakery classes at home. She used to stack these cheese straws as they were easy to make, we loved it as kids . Interestingly, they have a shelf life of an entire month! Hmm…thats not a bad thing but will anyone leave them for a month? They are gone in a matter of days and sometimes hours. Continue reading →

Chocolate Almond Fudge

29 Friday Aug 2008

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Almond sweets, Chocolate Dessert, Kids Special, Recipes for Kids, Sweets

Being a chocoholic by nature I’m always looking for ways to make chocolate desserts and goodies. Bet this wont make my doctor very happy. Anyway, here is the recipe of an almond chocolate fudge that I tried a few days ago. It was so delicious that I started eating it without even allowing it to set completely. Its too long to wait overnight to eat a yummy fudge. I shared this chocolate with a few neighbors and they liked it too. I’m sure this fudge is going to be a regular at our place given that its liked equally by kids and grown ups.

This is my entry to the Color in Food event hosted by EC of Simple Indian Food. Brown is the color of chocolate, which I simply love!

Ingredients :

  • Nestle Everyday Milk powder – 1 cup
  • Brown Sugar – 3/4 cup
  • Unsalted Butter – 1/3 cup
  • Cocoa powder – 2 heaped teaspoons
  • Water – 3/4 cup
  • Milk – 1/2 cup
  • Almonds (roasted and powdered) – 2 tablespoons
  • Few drops of Chocolate milk essence
  • 5-6 Black Raisins (de-seeded)

Procedure :

  1. Take Sugar in a heavy bottom pan and add an equal quantity of water.
  2. Cook the sugar syrup till a drop of it in plain water does not dissolve. That indicates its tight enough to bind.
  3. Reduce the flame. Now Add butter and stir quickly till it melts.
  4. Mix in milk powder and milk alternately. Ensure no lumps are formed.
  5. In case you find the consistency unmanageable then add some more milk. Ensure the mixture is pasty, not watery.
  6. Now turn off the heat. Mix in the cocoa powder, almond powder and raisins. Add a few drops of chocolate milk essence and beat well.
  7. Pour out chocolate fudge into a greased plate. Allow it to cool off and then give the fudge any desired shape.
  8. Dust it on powdered chocolate biscuits (alternately you can use roasted almond powder)
  9. Refrigerate overnight and enjoy chocolate fudge the next day.

Vegetable Nutri Pie

24 Monday Mar 2008

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baked dishes, Healthy Breakfast recipes, Recipes for Kids, Tea-time Snacks

Vegetable Nutri Pie

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When I saw the event for making a Balanced Breakfast I immediately remembered my mother’s innovative vegetable pie that she used to make so we would not crave for junk food. Attractive as it looked, we never really imagined that it was meant to be healthy.

In this recipe we use wheat flour, vegetables and bake the dish making it a lot better than other spicy, deep-fried snacks we eat. If you add some sprouts to the vegetable stuffing it becomes even more nutritious. You can try this out on a lazy Sunday morning when you are in no mood to head off anywhere.

Thanks Mansi for giving me a reason to try out my mom’s treasured recipe.

Ingredients :

  • 1 cup Wheat flour
  • 1 teaspoon Maida
  • Pinch of Carom seeds
  • 1/4 teaspoon Pepper
  • 1 tablespoon Butter
  • 1 teaspoon Oil
  • 1 cup mixed vegetables :
    • Shredded Red cabbage
    • Green peas
    • Finely chopped Capsicum
    • Finely chopped Carrot
  • 1 tablespoon Grated cheese

Procedure :

For the Dough

  1. Take wheat flour in a mixing bowl. Add salt, pepper and carom seeds.
  2. Fold the butter in. Now add luke warm water little by little, mixing well continuously.
  3. Knead into a soft dough and set aside for sometime.

For the Filling

  1. Heat oil. Add the vegetables and cook till they turn tender. Add salt, pepper and mix well.
  2. Turn off heat and grate cheese into the vegetables.

For the pie

  1. Grease a flat clean surface and roll out the dough with the help of a rolling pin.
  2. Place the rolled out dough over a greased pie mold. Trim away extra dough with the help of your fingers.
  3. Now fill the vegetable stuffing into the pie. Garnish with a tomato slice.
  4. Make thin, long rolls of the dough and criss-cross over the pie.

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Baking :

Preheat oven at 200 ° C . Now place pies in and bake for 12-15 mins.

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Variation

You can use beans, mashed potatoes or any other vegetable of your choice for the filling. Sprouts will be the best way to go as they are not only nutritious but also filling.

Dressed Crackers

20 Thursday Mar 2008

Posted by Roma Sharma in Salads

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Recipes for Kids, Salads, Tea-time Snacks

Dressed Crackers

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Wheat crackers are among the most nutritious biscuits available in market today. Non-fried and high in fibre they make a perfect snack to be had with tea or to kill that hunger in-between meals.

Dress them up and they become an attractive option to be had as a side-dish. Replace your salad with these and watch them disappear from the dinner table. Even kids who usually dont eat salad will have at least one!

Ingredients :

  • 2 Wheat crackers
  • 1 teaspoon Cheese Spread
  • Grated cheese (optional)
  • 1/2 a Tomato, finely chopped
  • 2 baby potatoes
  • Moth Dal sprouts
  • Whole green moong dal sprouts
  • Freshly roasted and ground pepper powder
  • Mint leaves (Garnish)

Procedure :

  1. Microwave (or boil) potatoes and sprouts for about 5 mins.
  2. Mix salt and pepper into tomatoes, sprouts and potatoes.
  3. Spread cheese on the cracker. Place mashed boiled potatoes on it.
  4. On it add tomatoes and sprouts.
  5. Sprinkle grated cheese on top or dot crackers with cheese spread.
  6. Decorate with a mint leaf and serve.

Please NOTE :

Spinach is extremely nutritious and should be a part of ones regular salad. Whenever you make salad you can place it on lettuce, spinach, etc; to ensure we get our greens in the most nutritious form – raw!

However, please place the crackers over a tissue paper as green leaves can make the crackers soggy.

Pinwheel Sandwiches

24 Sunday Feb 2008

Posted by Roma Sharma in Kids Special

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Recipes for Kids, Sandwiches, Tea-time Snacks

Once your kid is above the age of two, you can choose recipes from a wide spectrum of dishes that are nutritive, filling and delicious. Some of the recipes that kids usually like are already available in different sections of the blog.
Here are links to the same :

Fruit Punch
Diet Pakodas
Spring Onion Toasts
Chinese Salad

Please read posts in this section for some more attractive looking food designed specially for kids.

Pinwheel Sandwiches

To consume dinner leftovers the French designed the Pinwheel sandwiches, which they made for breakfast. Although the recipe mentioned below describes the procedure to make the filling you can always fill it up with any sabzi you are left with after your meal.

Ingredients :

  1. 2 slices of sandwich bread (large size)
  2. 1 tablespoon of cheese spread
  3. 5 thin slices of tomatoes
  4. 5 thin slices of cucumber
  5. Pinch of pepper

Procedure :

  1. Cut off the edges of a large slice of bread.
  2. Place it on the clingfree side of a clig wrap.
  3. Roll the bread flat using a rolling pin.
  4. Mix cheese spread with pepper and spread it out on the bread slice.
  5. Now arrange the thin slices of tomato and cucumber over the cheese.
  6. Wrap up the sheet so as to roll the bread in and finally close the roll like a toffee.
  7. Refrigerate for an hour and cut out the pinwheel slices.

Variation

You can even apply a layer of pudina chutney inside the sandwich to make it more chatpata.

Please NOTE :
Sometimes the roll wont stay together on its own in which case you can prick it with toothpicks. This also prevents the roll from bulging and breaking when you are cutting out the pinwheel slices.

Choco Logs

24 Sunday Feb 2008

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Chocolate Dessert, Recipes for Kids

Choco Logs

Ingredients :

  • Chocolate sponge cake 100 grams
  • Plain sponge cake 100 grams
  • 1.5 tablespoons Chocolate sauce
  • 1.5 tablespoons orange juice
  • 1/2 tablespoon mixed fruit jam
  • 1 tablespoon roasted Almond/ Cashew nut powder
  • Fresh Cream (optional)

Procedure :

  1. Crumble chocolate sponge in a mixing bowl. Mix chocolate sauce and jam into it.
  2. On clingfree side of a cling wrap spread out the choco mixture.
  3. Mix plain sponge cake with orange juice and spread over the chocolate layer.
  4. Finally make a layer of dry fruits.
  5. Pull up one side of the cling wrap so as to roll the mixture into a log. Set in a fridge for a few hrs.
  6. Now you can make lines on the log using cream in a piping bag or you can dip your fork into Choco sauce and make lines on the log to resemble the bark of a tree. Cut the edges diagonally and serve yummy choco logs.

Please NOTE :

  1. You can prick the log with toothpicks before cutting to prevent them from bulging and breaking from the sides.
  2. If you use cream to make the lines on the log please add sugar and some cocoa powder to it so that the taste of cream blends well with the rest of the log.

Tricolor Sandwiches

24 Sunday Feb 2008

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Tricolor Sandwiches

These sandwiches are easy to make and yet unique in their appearance. Try it in the next birthday party you throw for your kid.

Ingredients :

  • 1 loaf of freshly baked bread
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1/2 cucumber cut into thin slices
  • 1 tablespoon Pudina chutney

Procedure :

  1. Buy a freshly baked loaf of bread from the bakery and ask the baker to give it to you by making 2 horizontal cuts along the width.
  2. Now you have 3 long, horizontal slices of bread.
  3. Puree tomatoes and strain away the water.
  4. Mix salt and butter with the strained tomato pulp. Apply this mixture on the first cut.
  5. Apply pudina chutney on the second layer and arrange finely sliced cucumbers on it.
  6. Place back the top slice of the bread and wrap this loaf of bread in a cling wrap.
  7. After an hour remove the clingwrap and cut out thick slices of the bread (just as you usually have in breads, only thicker).

Variation

  1. If possible, please try to use a loaf of brown bread to top up the nutrition value.
  2. You can try using spring onion chutney instead of pudina chutney for a twist in taste

 

Chocolate Pudding

24 Sunday Feb 2008

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Chocolate Pudding

Involve your kids in making a dessert this weekend. They will feel doubly joyed to eat a pudding they made. You will have to help them blend and steam the pudding and they wont be able to wait for it to set.

Ingredients :

  • 2 cups of milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 slice of bread
  • 3 glucous biscuits
  • 1/2 tablespoon cocoa powder
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 1 cup, your Choice of fruits

Procedure :

  1. Heat sugar in a pudding bowl till it caramelizes.
  2. Spread it to ensure the bottom surface is covered.
  3. Blend milk, eggs, bread, biscuits, cocoa powder and sugar in a mixie jar.
  4. Pour into the pudding bowl and steam for about 20 mins.
  5. Chill in fridge and serve with your choice of fruits.

Please NOTE :

  1. For steaming, use a cooker that best fits the size of the pudding bowl. If the cooker is too big then the pudding wont be steamed evenly.
  2. To know if your pudding is done, stick a fork and check if it comes out clean.

Fruit Punch

11 Monday Feb 2008

Posted by Roma Sharma in Beverages

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drinks, juices, Recipes for Kids

 

Fruit Punch

Please don’t use aerated water if this Punch is being made for children. Substitute it with milk or plain orange juice and you will be happen to discover a creamy, yummy drink for those kids who don’t like milk!

Ingredients :

  • 3 tablespoons of orange squash
  • 1 tablespoon of fresh cream
  • 1 tablespoon of lime squash
  • 1/4 cup aerated water (optional)
  • 3/4 cup milk

Procedure :

  1. Blend milk, cream, orange and lime squash in a mixie jar. Taste the mixture and see if you get the flavor of orange. If no, please add some more orange squash and blend again.
  2. Pour into a tall glass, add plain soda (milk/orange juice) and serve chilled.

Please NOTE :

  1. You can add vanilla ice cream to the drink if you don’t have fresh cream.
  2. You might need to check the taste towards the end and add some sugar. It depends on whether you used cream or ice cream and how sweet your squash concentrates are.

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