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Easy Eggless Chocolate Cake using Microwave

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Easy Eggless Chocolate Cake Ingredients : Dry Ingredients: All Purpose Flour/Maida-1/2 cup Unsweetened Cocoa powder-1 ½ tbs Baking Soda-1/6 tsp Baking Powder-1/4 tsp Raw Milk-1/2 cup(Room temperature) Sugar-1/2 cup Vanilla Essence-1/2 tsp Oil-2 tsp Butter-1 tsp(Room temperature) Steps to prepare. In a wide bowl mix milk and sugar until sugar is completely dissolved Sieve the dry ingredients to the same bowl.Mix them well so that there are no lumps in the mixture. Take a deep,wide microwave safe dish and grease it with oil or butter.Place a wax paper or aluminium foil at the bottom Add vanilla essence,oil ,butter to the mixture in the bowl. If you want you can put some raisins and cashew nuts to the cake mixture. Add lemon juice and mix gently Pour the mixture to microwave safe dish and put it in the oven in microwave mode   for 5 minutes in high power. Take the dish and put it outside for   5 minutes Just check whether it is c

Unakkameen Chamanthi Podi/Dry Fish Chutney Powder

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Unakkameen Chammanthi Podi/Dry Fish Chutney Powder Ingrediants: 1.Unakkameen meen/Dry Fish -100 gm  2.Turmeric Powder-1/4 tsp 3.Cocunut Grated-1/4 cup 4.Shallots-5 5.Ginger -1/2 tsp 6.Curry Leaves- 2 strips 7.Dry Red Chillies - 5-6 8.Oil-For frying 9.Tamarind- 1/2 lemon sized Steps to Prepare 1.Soak the dry fish in water for 1-2 hrs. 2.Marinte it with turmeric powder for 1/2 hour. 3.Shallow fry the marinated fish in oil. 4.Start frying cocunut,sliced shallots,ginger in another pan.When it become slight brown add red chilly and curry leaves.Stir until it become fried. 5.Let the mixture and fish to cool.When both becomes cool grind them to powder by adding tamarind. 6.If there is moisture content just heat the chutney powder in pan for 5 minutes. 7.It will remain fresh for more than 2 weeks.

Sambar

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Ingrediants Vegetable pieces-3 cups Onion-1 Green Chilly -4 Garlic-2 Curry leaves -2 strip Toor   Dal-1/2 cup Tamarind -1 lemon shaped Salt Asafoetida/Hing Powder -1 pinch For Preheating: Sambar Powder-2  tsp Coriander Powder-1 tsp Turmeric  Powder-1/2  tsp Kashmiri  Chilly Powder-1 tsp Fenugreek Powder-2 pinch For tempering Oil-2 tbs Shallots- 5-6 Dried Red chilly -2 Curry leaves-1 strip Sambar Recipe Steps to prepare Soak Toor Dal for 2-3 hours Soak tamarind in ½ cup water for 15-20 minutes and take juice out of it Heat  Sambar Powder,Coriander Powder, Turmeric  Powder, Kashmiri  Chilly Powder, Fenugreek Powder i n a pan for 2 minutes. Pressure cook the vegetable pieces along with toor dal, tamarind juice, sliced onion, green chilly, garlic, curry leaves, heated Powders, salt  by adding  enough water so that the pieces are covered.   Just  one whistle is enough and release the pressure  immediately Heat  oil in a Pan and add mustard s