Bake - Biscuits - Ginger Biscuits

Ginger Biscuits

Ingredients Quantity Butter 4 Tbsp Egg 1 Brown Sugar 2 Tbsp Icing Sugar 1 Tbsp Maida 1/2 Cup Baking Soda 1/2 Tsp Cloves Powder 1/2 Tsp Cinnomon Powder 1/2 Tsp Ginger Paste 2 Tbsp

Serving 3 Preparation Time 15 mins Cooking Time 10 mins

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1. Add butter and egg in a bowl. Whisk them nicely till you get fluffy structure.
2. Add brown and icing sugar and mix them nicely,whisk them if required.
3. Add maida flour slowly little by little and prepare soft dough.
4. In a wide pan, fill sand in half and keep it on flame in low flame. Meanwhile, prepare the biscuits from the dough. Grease a plate with ghee or butter and keep the biscuits on that.
5. Keep this plate on the pan. Close the lid with little open aside. Keep this for 20 mins.

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Bake - Biscuits - Oat Biscuits

Oat Biscuits

Ingredients Quantity Oats 1 Cup Maida 1/4 Cup Sugar 1/2 Cup Butter/Ghee 1/2 Cup

Serving 3 Preparation Time 10 mins Cooking Time 15 mins

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1. Blend oats,maida and sugar together and prepare a fine powder out of it.
2. Keep adding to this powder till you get the binding consistency like biscuits.
3. Take small lemon size of dough and roll over it like a ball. Once you get smooth finishing just press with your two palms to get biscuit shape. Prepare rest of the dough like this. Decorate them as you like with nuts or cherries.
4. Keep non stick tawa on low flame and arrange the biscuits nicely on tawa.Cook them without lid for 10 mins. Flip them and cook for 5 more mins.

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Sweets - Other Sweets - Kaakinada Kaja

Kaakinada Kaja

Ingredients Quantity Maida 500g Gram Flour 50g Ghee To Deep Fry+40g Baking Soda 1 Tbsp Sugar 300g

Serving 20 Preparation Time 10 mins Cooking Time 30 mins

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1. Sieve the maida with baking soda in a wide bowl. Add the ghee and rub well. Slowly add water and knead to a stiff dough. Let it rest for a while with a wet cloth. By the time we got back to the dough, it was almost 15 - 20 mins.
2. Add the sugar with just enough water to cover. Heat it till the sugar melts. If there are any impurities, remove. Then continue cooking to rolling boil. After 5 -7 mins, take a drop and check if it's reached 1 thread consistency. When you touch between thumb and index finger, you should get a single thread. Switch off the flame. Rolling out the dough.Divide the dough into equal balls. Take one ball, cover the rest with wet cloth. Dust the dough well and using a roll out softly with hand to a medium thickness discs the size of a regular chapati. Spread them all over the surface. Have everything ready for frying together.
3. Heat a kadai with ghee. When the ghee gets hot, simmer. Add the rolled out kaja and cook on both sides.
4. When it turns colour and cooked on both sides, drain using a spatula and put into the sugar syrup. Let it be for 5 mins, remove to another plate.

1. This variety of Kaja doesn't require resting time. Make the kajas into small shape so that it's easy to make and giveaway.
2. If the sugar syrup gets thick, you can add little more water, bring to boil. Make sure the syrup is thick.
3. You can deep fry kaja's in oil instead of ghee. Ghee for the pathir, the kajas will be more flaky.
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Bake - Cake - DryFruit Chocolate Cake

DryFruit Chocolate Cake

Ingredients Quantity All Purpose Flour/Maida 1 Cup Sugar Powder 1 Cup Baking powder 1 tsp Baking Soda 1 tsp Honey 1 Oil 3 tsp Eggs 2 Vanilla Esssence 1 tsp Cocoa powder 2 Tbsp

Serving 5 Preparation Time 5 mins Cooking Time 40 mins

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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two nine inch round pans.In a medium bowl, whisk the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder.
2. In a separate small bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk and vanilla until well combined. Whisk in the 1 cup of boiling water. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and mix well.
3. Batter will be thin. Pour evenly into the prepared greased pans.
4. Bake 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until the cake tests done with a toothpick. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.

Sweets - Burfi - Maida Burfi

Maida Burfi

Ingredients Quantity Maida/ All Purpose flour 1 Cup Sugar 1 Cup Ghee 1/4 Cup Elachi Powder 1/4 tsp Dry nuts Few

Method :

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1. Heat 2 Tbsp of ghee in a heavy bottomed kadai. Fry all the dry fruits one by one till they turn golden brown - first almonds, then cashew nuts, walnuts, pistachio nuts, lotus seeds and lastly melon seeds. Keep them aside on kitchen paper to drain the excess oil.
2. In the same ghee, fry maida, and keep them aside as well.
3. To make the hot sugar syrup add mix the sugar and water. Add 4-5 cardamom pods, slightly crushed and a few strands of "Kesar". Mix with a spoon and then heat at medium heat for 5-10 minutes until sugar is all dissolved in water. Do not overheat, that will caramelize the sugar. Add few drops of lemon this will ensure that once syrup cools down it does not solidify.
4. Add maida and cardamom powder to syrup. Mix well and heat gently at the same time stirring continuously with out interruption till the entire mass becomes thick and sticks to the sides of the Pan.
5. Smear ghee on to a flat plate. Transfer the entire mass on to the plate and roll it with the help of a Chapati roller uniformly. When cool cut into shapes as you lik or diamond burfies.

Tips :

1. Store it in air tight container and enjoy eating for 15 days.

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