Friday, April 30, 2010

Microwave Caramel Popcorn

Another easy recipe to make when you  are having a kids party around. They will surely be a huge hit with the kids. Once you taste it you will never ask for the regular popcorn. The caramel flavour will surely tempt you. sending this easy popcorn to MEC- Kids party food guest hosted by Priyanka event by Srivalli



You need:
Corn Kernels               1/2cup
Dark Brown Sugar       3/4cup
Oil

Microwave Matta Rice Flakes/ Aval Laddu

Once again laddus in microwave but this time with Matta rice flakes. The matta rice is typically used in kerala cuisine and is typical whole grain, very very healthy especially fo the kids. This is very easy to make within 5 minutes in a microwave. It tasted great and I found an easy way to make jr eat wholegrains without any fuss.
Sending this to Divya's show-me-your-wholegrains, Priya's CWS-

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Mixed Sprouts And Soy Cutlets/ Patties

Still had some sprouts in my fridge and thought why not make them into cutlets. Didnt want to use regular potatoes for filling hence used soy kheema and to bind them I used oats powder. Added few spices and voila! the cutlets didnt let me down. They were soooooo delicious. You can also use soy chunks if you dont have soy kheema but see to it that it comes to about 1 cup. Frying in tawa with less

Microwave Rava laddu

This is the first time I am preparing sweets in microwave and was quite excitied about it.Since weekend is approaching had to prepare sweets and my first trial was rava laddu. Usually laddus are favorites with both my hubby and jr but had to stand in front of hot stove roasting the rawa and grinding them to a fine powder and making laddus. What a hard work! But now I can make them in microwave in

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Instant French Doughnuts

Again with a easy recipe. I made these with Day old French Bread  and It tasted like Doughnuts and hence the name. Very easy to prepare and under 15 - 20 minutes. Perfect for breakfast or snack or for kids lunch or snacks box.



You need:
French Bread                      8 slices(thick)
Egg                                     1nos(extra large)
Milk                                    1cup

Mixed Sprouts Chappati

Sprouts are one dish that is packed with nutrition like vitamins, proteins etc., all together. There was one packet of mixed sprouts which I purchased last week but just didnt know what to do. No one was prepared to have them as salad. Put on my thinking cap and there stuck an idea. Why dont I make them into chappatis. So cooked them and added onoins, chillies, wheat flour, soy flour and made

Monday, April 26, 2010

Sagu Biyyam Murukku/ Javaarisi murukku

This was last month's challenge for ICC but couldnt participate coz of chicken pox. But I wanted to make them coz they sounded soo crispy. So on Friday I made this Murukku and to be honest they were really really tasty. RA and jr loved them a lot and my son came asking for it again again " Amma give me muruk"
" Amma give me muruk". It was so crispy and definitely this is my first homemade murukku