German Apple Cake!

Assalamu alaikum,

I have been eyeing this German Apple Cake recipe for ages! I had some apples lying around and they were getting rotten when I thought I should try this. I had 2 pears getting rotten too. Added that too! But since it had already started rotting I only used up one and a quarter of those 2 pears. The cake was very soft and got more delicious when refrigerated. Do give it a try.

Simple Mutton Fry

Here is a recipe for a simple mutton fry which my sister had made when we went over to her place for dinner. It was really tasty and I was surprised at how simple a recipe it is.

Mutton - 250 gms
shallots - 3 - 5
Ginger- garlic paste - 3/4 teaspoon
Garam Masala powder - 1/4 tsp
Salt and Red chilli powder - As per your taste
Curry leaves - 5 Sprigs or more

Grind the shallots and ginger garlic to a fine paste. Add to the mutton along with the spices.

Pressure cook mutton for 4 whistles or until cooked.

Open the pressure cooker and continue cooking till the water has dried up.

Heat Oil in a frying pan and fry the mutton with the curry leaves.

Haleem Lite

I call it haleem lite as we don't use the amount of curd or fat that is normally used in haleem.This is how we make it:

250 gm mutton, cut into small pieces
2 cardamoms
2 cloves
1/4 tsp black cumin seeds ( I used shah jeera the last time I made it since I was out of black cumin seeds)
1/2 cup moong dal ( the small yellow ones)
1 TBSP. Chana Dal
1/2 to 3/4 cup Broken Wheat
1 Onion, fried and crushed
1 tsp. ginger-garlic paste
1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
1/2 tsp. red chilli powder
1 bunch coriander leaves chopped
1 TBSP. curd
Salt to taste
Oil

Soak the wheat seperately and the dals together for 6 hours.

Pressure cook seperately with enough water for 4 whistles each.

Heat oil, pop the black cumin seeds, cardamoms and cloves

Add the crushed onions and ginger- garlic paste and fry.

Add the mutton, turmeric and red chilli powder, salt and coriander leaves and cook for 4 whistles or until tender.

Add the curd and mix well.

Add the cooked dals and wheat to the mutton.

Mix well and serve hot with lemon and ghee if desired!

Malabar Mutton Curry

Assalamu alaikum,

Today for lunch I made Nei pathiri ( A kerala bread made with ground rice and deep fried. I will post the recipe some time in future inshaAllah) and Malabar Mutton Curry from malluspice. The actual recipe is malabar chicken curry but since my family is not much into chicken eating I chose to make a mutton curry out of it and needless to say as my experience has been with the dishes I have tried from malluspice it was really good. My husband really loved it and that delighted me even more : ). It is really simple to make, you must really give it a try. I, however reduced the green chillies and red chilli powder to suit our taste.

Banana Cake

Assalamu alaikum,

I have had my eye on this banana cake for a long time now. Having spare bananas at hand I tried this out and it was delicious! I, however reduced the quantity of sugar to one cup. I also got two 9 inch round cakes out of this batter.

This is a must try!

Bookmarking recipes for Ramadan

With Ramadan around the corner I want to bookmark some recipes that I might need for ifthar or dinner. I sure don't want to waste time during ramadan hunting for recipes!

Sanjeev Kapoor's Mutton curry recipes

Sandwich recipes

Bombay Vegetable Sandwich

Meat Samosa

Vegetable Samosa

Potato-peas samosa

Spring Rolls

Alu Cutlet/ Burger

Wheat flour Nankhatai

Pav Bhaji

Sooji Cake

Aloo Samosa

Coconut and banana bread

Date and Pecan Pudding

Falafel with Hummoos

Shammi Kababs

More will be added inshaAllah...

Recipe List

Every recipe given below has been tried, tested and proven successful by me atleast. All thanks to those who have posted these recipes on their blogs or websites.

Drinks

Watermelon Agua Fresca


Salads and Side Dishes

Carrot Pachadi

Spicy Hummoos

Baba Ghanoush


Breakfast

Sponge Dosa

Paper Dosa

Vattayappam


Rice and Rotis

Alu Paratha

Triangular Paratha


Dals

Spinach and Dal with Garlic

Spinach and Dal with ground coriander

Masoor Dal with Coconut Milk

Chana Masala

Punjabi Pakoda Curry


Non Veg Entries

Tamatar Goshth

Bhuna Ghoshth

Beef Gyro

Fish Curry with Coconut


Breads and Bakes

Pita Bread

Simple Scones

Tasty Buns

Amish White Bread

Whole wheat banana nut bread

Date and Nut Bread

Banana banana bread

Apple Raisin Bread

Cinnamon Bread

Tortino


Cakes and Muffins

Date Cake

Carrot Cake

Honey Wheat Muffins

Apple Muffins

Banana Bread Muffins


Cookies and Biscottis

Biscotti

Orange Almond Biscotti


Desserts

Chocolate Pudding

Indian Kheer

Kashmiri Kheer

Caramel Custard

All American Apple Pie

Tender Coconut Pudding


Ice Creams and Sorbets

Creamy Mango Sorbet