Whole Wheat Banana Bread

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat Flour - 2 Cup

Baking Powder - 2 Tsp

Baking Soda - 1 Tsp

Salt - 1/4 Tsp

Sugar - 3/4 Cup

Butter - 1/2 Cup

Mashed Ripe Banana - 2-3

Milk - 1/2 Cup

Vinegar - 2 Tsp

Method:

1) Preheat oven to  350° F or 175° C.

2) In a bowl take butter and beat well. Add Sugar and beat again for couple of min. till mixture is fluffy.

3) Add milk and vinegar and mix well.

4) In another bowl mix flour, baking powder and baking soda and salt.

5) Add butter mixture and mashed banana to flour mixture and mix it.

6) Grease the loaf pan and pour the batter in it.

5) Bake for 55-60 min. or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

6) Let it cool for 15 min. and then serve.

White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour  - 1 1/4 Cup

Baking Soda - 1/2 Tsp

Baking Powder - 1/2 Tsp

Butter - 1/2 Cup

Powdered Sugar - 1/2 Cup

Light Brown Sugar - 1/4 Cup

Pure Vanilla Extract - 1/2 Tsp

White Chocolate Chip - 1 Cup

Vinegar - 2 Tsp

Oil - 2 Tsp

Water - 2 Tsp

Salt - 1/4 Tsp

Method:

1) Preheat oven to 350° F or 175° C.

2) In a bowl take butter and beat it for 1 min.

3) Add powdered sugar and brown sugar and beat the mixture well.

4) In another bowl mix together all purpose flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.

5) Add this flour mixture to butter and sugar mix.

6) Add vanilla extract, salt, vinegar, water and oil, beat well.

7) Add chocolate chips and mix well.

8) Make small balls of mixture and put on greased baking sheet. You can grease the sheet with oil or butter.

    Try to make all balls of same size. You can use ice-cream scoop for that.

9) Bake for 11 mins. If you like cookies soft then bake for 10 mins.

10) Leave on tray for 5-7 min and transfer cookies to wired rack and let it cool for another 10 mins and then serve.

White Chocolate Chip Cookies

Varan Bhat

This is very simple yet tasty delicacy from Maharashtra.

Ingredients :

Rice - 1 Cup

Tuvar Dal - 3/4 Cup

Turmeric powder - 1/4 Tsp

Salt - 1 Tsp

Sugar or Jaggery - 2 Tsp

Asafoetida - a pinch 

Ghee (Clarified butter) - 1 Tbsp 

Method:

1) Wash rice, put 2 cup of water and pressure cook.

2) Wash tuvar dal, put 1 1/2 cup of water, turmeric powder, jaggery and asafoetida and pressure cook for 20 min or up to 3 whistles.

3) Transfer cooked dal in a saucepan, add salt little water to get your desired consistency and let it boil on medium flame .

4) Take cooked rice in a plate or bowl, add hot dal and ghee on it and serve with a lemon wedge.
   

Varan Bhat

Chana Dal Vada/ Split Chickpea Fritters

Chana Dal Vada

Ingredients:

Chana Dal/Split Chickpea  - 1 Cup

Green Chili - 4 or to taste

Curry Leaves - 10

Salt - to taste

Lemon Juice - 1/2 Tbsp

Cumin Seeds - 1 Tsp

Coriander Seeds - 2 Tsp

Oil - To deep fry

Method:

1) Soak chana dal in water for 4 hrs.

2) Rinse it and grind coarsely. Add green chili, curry leaves, cumin seeds and coriander seeds while grinding.

3) Add salt and lemon juice to mixture and mix well. If mixture is too thick add little water.

4) Heat oil in wok and drop vada mixture by spoon in oil, deep fry vada on medium-high heat till golden brown in color.

5) Serve hot with coriander chutney.

Split Chickpea Fritters

Ghee Using Butter

Ghee Using Butter

Ghee is clarified butter. It is also knows as butter oil.

Ingredients:

Unsalted Butter - 1 kg (2 Lb)

I used Sam's club unsalted butter.

Method:

1) Ghee using butter is very simple and there is no recipe. Just take out butter from box and put it in a saucepan with thick bottom. Heat it on low medium flame till you get butter oil and fats separated.

Refer following images and video. 

Video Link : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGU36OM9P-Q

2) Once ghee is done let it cool for 10-15 min. and then sieve it to remove fats.

3) Ghee is ready.Store it and enjoy.