Cardamom and Pistachio Cake recipe

Cardamom and Pistachio Cake recipe

Ingredients

3 cups all-purpose flour 300g
1 ½ tablespoons cornstarch
½ tspn salt
2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 cup or 100g unsalted chopped pistachio
1½ teaspoon fresh ground cardamom about 20 pods
3 eggs
1 cup milk
1 sour cream
¾ cup or 150g butter
1 ½ cup or 300g sugar
2 tablespoons breadcrumbs for coating the Bundt cake
For Rose water cream cheese frosting:
1 pack or 200g Philadelphia cream cheese
5 tablespoons rose water
5 tablespoons milk
½ cup or 62 gram powder sugar
3 tablespoons natural unsalted pistachios

Cooking Instructions

Preheat oven to 180°C /350 °F /Gas mark 4.
Butter a 12 cup bundt pan and coat with fine dry breadcrumbs. Set aside.

On a chopping board, gently ponder the cardamom seeds till split open. Using your hands, remove and discard cardamom’s green shells.

In the mortar, crush the cardamom seeds till powdery. Or use a small coffee grinder to grind the seeds.

In the food processor, blitz the pistachios until they are finely grounded.

The Cake:
In a large bowl, sift the flour, salt, cornstarch and baking powder three times.Add the pistachios and cardamom..

In the bowl of the stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment beat the sugar and butter until light and fluffy. About 5 to 8 minutes.

Add the eggs one at a time. Mix just until combined. Then add the sour cream. Mix for three to four minutes or till combined.

Beginning and ending with dry ingredients, alternate between the liquid and dry ingredients.

Add 1/3 of the dry ingredients, then ½ the milk, then 1/3 of the dry ingredients, then ½ the milk and finally the last 1/3 of dry ingredients.

Pour batter into prepared bundt pan, spreading evenly.
Bake in the third rack of the oven, for about 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.

Once done, allow the bundt cake to cool on a wire rack for 20 minutes before inverting it.

Let the cake cool completely before decorating and frosting.

Frosting & Assembly:
Sift the icing sugar.Add all the ingredients to the bowl of the mixer and mix until combined.Mix all the ingredients in the bowl of the

Spread the frosting over the cakes. Sprinkle with pistachios & drizzle with chocolate then let the cake cool for one hour hours before serving.

Chicken Filled Croissants recipe

Chicken Filled Croissants recipe

Ingredients

For chicken filling:
Chicken ½ kg (boneless)
Soya sauce 2 tbsp
Lemon juice 1 tbsp
Hot chilli sauce 2 tbsp
Cumin seeds ½ tbsp
All spice powder ¼ tsp
Onion 1 (chopped)
Garlic paste 1 tsp
Oil 3 tbsp
For croissants:
Flour 2 cups (sifted)
Salt ½ tsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Instant yeast 1 tsp
Butter or vegetable oil 4 tbsp + for brushing
Milk (warm) according to flour quantity
Egg 1 (beaten)
Sesame seeds 1 tbsp

Cooking Instructions

Chicken for Filling:
Heat oil in a pan and add the onions and fry until they become transparent.

Add the garlic paste and chicken and fry.

Then add soya sauce, hot chilli sauce, cumin seeds, all spice powder and lemon juice.

When the chicken becomes tender remove it from flame.

For croissants:
Mix the sugar and dry yeast in ¼ cup of luke warm water and put it aside until frothy.

In a bowl take flour, salt, oil or butter and yeast mixture and mix.

Knead well and make smooth dough with warm milk.

Now make a ball of the dough and apply a little oil on it and cover with a damp muslin cloth and leave it for an hour.

Flatten the ball on a floured surface and make a round circle using a rolling pin.

Brush the circle with butter or oil and using pizza cutter or knife make quarters and then make 8 triangles.

Take a single triangle and put chicken mixture on the broad side make a little cut on the tip of triangle for design.

Then roll it like a spring roll, slightly press the edges to seal them and make the croissant shape.

Brush the surface of the croissants with egg and sprinkle with sesame seeds if desired.

Then bake for 15 minutes on 180°C.

Serve hot.

Cheesecake Squares recipe

Cheesecake Squares recipe 

Ingredients

1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
3/4 cup M&M or Smarties candies
1/2 cup walnuts, chopped
1 egg
1/3 cup margarine
1 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar, granulated
1/3 cup sugar, brown packed
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Cooking Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Beat the margarine and brown sugar until light and fluffy.

Add the walnuts and flour; mix well.

Reserve 1/2 cup of the crumb mixture; press the remaining crumb mixture into bottom of a 8? square pan.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes.

Combine the softened cream cheese, granulated sugar and vanilla; using an electric mixer, mix at medium speed until well blended. Add the egg; mix well.

Layer 1/2 cup of the Smarties or M&M candies over the crust; top with the cream cheese mixture.

Combine the remaining candy and reserved crumb mixture; mix well.Sprinkle the crumb mixture over the cream cheese mixture.

Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes.Let cool completely before serving

Sandwich Pizza recipe

Sandwich Pizza recipe

Ingredients

All Purpose Floor (maida) ½ kg
Yeast-1 packet
Sugar-1tbsp
Salt-to taste
Baking powder-2tsp
For topping
Onion (sliced)-2
Chicken (boneless boiled)-1 cup
Tomatoes (without seeds and cut it into slice)-1
Capsicum (without seeds and cut it into slice)-1
Mushrooms (cut it into slice)-½ cup
Black Olives-½ cup
Mozzarella cheese-400 grams
Pizza sauce-1 cup
Eggs-2
Butter-½ cup

Cooking Instructions

Take a bowl and add normally hot water, and add yeast to it, along with add sugar in it and mix it nicely, and leave it for a while.

Take a bowl and add flour in it, when the yeast gets enlarged than mix it with flour, than add salt and baking powder and mix it properly, than rap the bowl with plastic and leave it for 3-4 hours, than take out the dove and fold it with hands so it gets even, than make 2 equal size from it, and take a tra and put butter on it, and put one dove on it.

For topping

Put pizza sauce on the dough which is on the tray.

After that add capsicum, tomatoes and capsicum on it.

Now add chicken all over the pizza in small cubes, after which add cheese to it, and then add black Olive on it.

Put on the corners glycerin the dough with mixed egg, than add the other dough above the dough on the tray, than press the dough so the ingredients is set in side, and than brush it with egg, bake the pizza in the oven which should be pre heated for 15min before putting the pizza, pizza sandwich is ready

Cottage Cheese Sandwich recipe

Cottage Cheese Sandwich recipe

Ingredients

100 gm Panch Phoran (Mixture of five spices)
2 slices Bread
As per requirement Butter
A pinch of dried Mango Powder
A pinch of Red chili Powder
A pinch of Black Salt
1 cup crumbly paneer

Cooking Instructions

Melt some butter in a pan, sauté the paneer slices with mango powder, red chilli powder and black salt for a few minutes.

Stuff the sautéed paneer in between the bread slices and toast it. Now you can serve it with green coriander chutney.

Crispy Chicken Vegetable Sandwich Rolls recipe

Crispy Chicken Vegetable Sandwich Rolls recipe

Ingredients
Chicken Breasts (boneless cut into strips lengthwise) 2
White vinegar 1 1/2 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Black Pepper (ground) 1/2 tsp
White Flour 3/4 cup
Egg (beaten lightly) 1
Bread Crumbs 1-2 cups
For Salad:
Mayonnaise 3 tbsp
Salt 1/4 tsp
Pepper 1/4 tsp
Capsicum (chopped) 1
Radishes (grated) 2-3
Carrot (grated) 1
Green Onions (finely chopped) 2
Cabbage (finely shredded) 1-2 cups

Cooking Instructions

Marinate chicken strips in white vinegar, salt and pepper for 1/2 hour. Add 1/2 tablespoons of beaten egg and mix well.

Put flour in a shopper and put marinated chicken strips and shake the bag so strips get coated with flour evenly.

First dip the floured strips into egg then place in a shopper full of bread crumbs and shake to coat strips.

Deep fry the strips until golden brown and crispy then set
aside.

In a bowl put the ingredients for salad together and mix until uniform.

Place the strips onto a bun or bread with the salad.
Drizzle mayonnaise if you wish and serve.

Cornmeal Pancakes recipe

Cornmeal Pancakes recipe

Ingredients
½ cup cornmeal
½ cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
2 tbsp sugar
1 egg (beaten)
1 cup milk
2 tbsp margarine

Cooking Instructions

Combine dry ingredients together including cornmeal, flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.

Add egg, milk and margarine and mix well until become smooth batter. If batter looks too thick add milk accordingly to prepare batter of normal consistency.

Heat grease griddle pan and pour one ladle batter over the griddle, cook over slow heat until bubbles starts to appear on to the surface and batter would become dry turn the side and let it cook until become golden brown form both sides.

Similarly prepare rest of the pancake.