Blueberry Loaf coated with Glazed Lemon :)

Hi friends :)

I got bored by seeing plain bread sometimes and want to add some fruits to it rather than adding tutti fruity to the bread. Hmmm I got 1 pint of Blueberries and was wondering what to do with it.It is so cute smaller ones than grapes/cherry size :) One day I was watching TV that is food TV :) It showed me Blueberry loaf with lemon flavor.I do love lemons.:) It strikes  in my mind to bake it :) Finally baked it and wow what an awesome taste it looks alike cake like bread size.. Do you remember Wonder Cake since childhood memories.Its same alike sweet mini cute cakes like bread size with lots of different flavors  :) Loved it too. I missed it lots. So baked it and came out with an aromatic lemon flavor and glazed lemon flavor on the top of the loaf:) Here is the recipe as below. :)

Enjoy it :)

Ingredients:

For Blueberry loaf

DRY INGREDIENTS:

• 1 1/2  cups All purpose Flour(Remove 1 Tablespoon of All Purpose flour for covering the Blueberries)
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1 Tsp Baking powder
• 1/2 Tsp Salt

WET INGREDIENTS:

• 2 Eggs(Can be replaced with 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk) Reduce to 1/4 cup sugar or depends on your taste
• 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter(Room Temperature)
• 2 Tablespoons Outer grated  Lemon Zest
• 1/2 to 1 cup Fresh Blueberries (Washed it and dry it with tissue paper)
• 1/2 cup Skim Milk or Whole Milk

For Lemon Glaze:

• 2 to 4 Tablespoons Lemon Juice from Fresh Lemons
•  3 Tablespoons Sugar.

Method:

For lemon Glaze:

• Take a small oven proof bowl,add sugar and lemon juice.
• Microwave it for about 30 seconds. 
• Immediately pour the glaze on the top of the blueberry loaf.

Here is the Photo step by step wise :)

 

Preheat the oven to 350 F or 180 C

1.  Using Hand mixer or Electric stand mixer with paddle attachment,Add the sugar and butter. 
2. Beat both sugar and butter and mix well until it is pale yellow in color.
3. Take out the Dry Ingredients as above. Sift the  ingredients except sugar and salt into the bowl. Add sugar and salt and mix well until it is well combined and Add lemon zest to it.
4. Add eggs one by one at a time to the butter sugar mixture and mix well until it is well combined.
5. Add Vanilla extract to it and mix well
6. Add flour mixture to it by 3 additions along with milk.
7. Mix well until it is combined.
8. Put 1 Tablespoon Flour to the blueberries and make it sure that the blueberries are fully covered it with flour.
9. Put the floured blueberries to the batter and fold in the blueberries gently.
10. Transfer the blueberry coated flour batter to the greased baking loaf Pan.
11. Bake it for about 30 minutes or until the tooth pick comes out clean.
12. Allow it to cool on the cooling rack
13. Once it is still hot,pour the glaze over it on the top evenly after pricked it on the top gently with fork
14. Once cooled.Slice it by using serrated knife.
15. Serve it :)

Enjoy it 

Happy Baking :)

Linking this entry to 

Kavitha's FoodMania and Vardhini's Announcement Page

Nayna's Let's cook with Fruits

  Elisabeth's Food and thrift and Lora's Cake Duchess

 

Ren's Simple and In season

  Ros from The More Than Occasional Baker and Caroline from Caroline Makes

Basbousa An Egyptian Semolina Cake

Hi Friends

Do you know Why I made this. :) because I watched The Mummy Returns Movie again and again :) Liked it and also visited King Tut Museum, New York.It was very fantastic and known everything about their life and histories.After  NY trip, I had painted one of the Egyptian Paintings  :) Its just on my own :)I had enjoyed seeing movie, known interesting facts about Egypt and I want to try something new which we never heard of! So finally found an Egyptian Dessert called as "Basbousa" :)

Basbousa is an Egyptian dessert made up of Semolina soaked in sweet flavored syrup and garnished with nuts. It is so tempting :) Here is the recipe as below

Ingredients:

Dry Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup of semolina
• 1/4 cup of All Purpose Flour
• 1/2 Tsp Baking Powder
• 1/2 cup Grated coconut mixed with 1 Tablespoon sugar or Sweetened Desiccated coconut
• 1/2  cup sugar

Wet Ingredients:

• 1 Egg
• 1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract or 1/4 to 1/2 Tsp Almond Extract
• 1/2 cup  milk
• 1/4 cup Unsalted Butter

Notes : Replace the egg by substituting 1/2 cup Condensed milk and no need to add sugar. 

For Syrup:

• 1 cup Water
• 1 cup  sugar
• 2 tablespoons of lemon juice
• 1/2 to 1  tablespoon of Rose water or Orange Flower Water.

Method:

1.  For making the semolina cake,

• First add all the dry ingredients and mix well by using whisker.
• Mix all the wet ingredients until it is well combined.
• Pour the Wet mixture to the dry ingredient mixture and mix well until it is well combined and no lumps.
• Preheat the oven to 350F or 180 C
• Grease the butter or baking spray to the 6 Inch or 8 inch round pan or Square pan 9 inch.(I had used 6 inch round pan)
• Pour the batter to the greased baking pan and spread it evenly.
• Take a knife and try to make it into any desired shape 
• Bake it for about 30 to 35 Minutes or until a tooth pick is cleaned.
• Allow it to cool.

2. For Preparing the Syrup

• In a saucepan ,mix all the ingredients and heat it on Medium high flame
• Reaches it until boiling point.
• It forms a string consistency.
• Once simmering into low flame for about 10 minutes,
• Add Rose water or orange flower water
• Turn off the heat.
• Allow it to cool.
•  Pour it into the measuring cup for easy to handle and helps to pour it evenly.

3.Pouring the Syrup to the cooled cake.

• Pour the thickened sugar syrup to the semolina cake evenly.

4.Serving

• Retrace and cut into diamond shaped cake and garnish it with almonds or pistachios or dessicated coconut on the top if you want
• Serve it :)

Here is the image of Basbousa Semolina Cake

A Mughali Dessert : SHAHI TUKRA

Hi Friends

Hope everyone knew about the Mughal period..Shahi Tukra is truly Royal Dessert from the Mughal Empire at Royal Kitchen.It is very very simple,traditional and purely rich bread pudding with dry fruits and nuts flavored with crushed cardamom powder and milk saffron mixture.

Here is the traditional royal recipe as below :)

Ingredients:

• 1 Litre Milk plus 1 Tablespoon Milk for the saffron.
• 1 cup Sugar  or 1 can Sweetened condensed milk
• 6 to 8 Slices of  Bread.
• 2 or 3 Saffron Threads.
• 1/4 Cup or 6 tablespoon Ghee for deep frying the bread.
• 1/2 Tsp Cardamom powder
• A handful of Raisin/Sultanas
• Few Silvered almonds for garnishing.

 Notes:

If you want to reduce the half.Then make half of the measurements and make it.

 Method:

• Take a oven proof bowl add 1 Tablespoon milk and microwave it for about 30 seconds to get warm milk
• Put saffron threads to the warm milk bowl and Set aside.
• Mix Milk and condensed milk/sugar to the deep bottomed sauce pan.Allow it to heat on a medium flame
• Stir continuously to avoid burning from the bottom.
• Once it is reduced to half quantity.Turn off the heat.
• Allow it to cool.
•  Take Bread,Cut out the edges and cut it diagonally or cut into any desired shapes of your choice.
• Take a deep bottomed Kadai Add ghee to it. Allow it to heat on medium high  flame.
• Deep fry the bread one by one until it is golden brown. Drain into paper towels.Allow it to cool.
• Put Raisins/Sultanas to the remaining ghee and fry it till it is puffed up.
• Once the milk is cooled. Add cardamom powder and saffron milk mixture. Mix well until it is well combined,

How to Assemble:

1. Take  a serving plate or bowl, Place a bread slice on it and pour the milk mixture to it. Add another bread slice on the bread soaked milk and pour the milk mixture to form a stack. 
2. Repeat it to the same step 1 as above until the bread slices are set. 
3. Finally pour the remaining milk mixture to it.
4. Garnish it with silvered almonds and ghee roasted raisins/sultanas on your own design.
5. Set to the refrigerator before serving for about 15 to 30 minutes.
6. Once cooled from the fridge.Allow it to set at the room temperature if you don't want it to be cooled more  before serving.
7. If you want immediately then allow it soak for about 15 minutes then serve it on the serving plate once it is garnished.
8. Enjoy it from the Royal kitchen to yours! :)

Enjoy !!! Happy Royal Feast :)

Awaiting to hear your comments and your experience at home.

Linking this event to

Divya's Event Announcement from the royal kitchen and Pari's Foodelicious

Halal Foodie's Event announcement

Sadaf's Culinary Adeventures

Reine de Saba avec Glaçage au Chocolat : (Almond Chocolate Cake)

Dear Friends!

Am very happy to be a part in Baking partners group.Its so exciting to get new friends and get to know better by talking to everyone and sharing it with fun,laughter and of course our experiences and tips :) Am so thrilled once joined into a group. I loved it :) Here is the recipe we had kept it our secrets before posting it.Here the recipe  and  post title has been  declared and We are celebrating Julia's Birthday along with you all and our group. :) Here is the recipe Chocolate Almond cake.Enjoyed baking,decorating and finally celebrating it along with you everyone.! Here is Julia Child's quote :) I loved that quote by her :)

“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
― Julia Child

Well Here is the recipe as below

Ingredients: I had used 6 Inch Cake pan.

For Cake (8” pan)

• 4 ounce/ 113.4 grams   of semi-sweet chocolate melted with 2  tablespoon  of rum/ coffee
• ¼  lb/ 1 stick/ 113g softened butter
• 2/3 cup / 134g granulated sugar
• 3 Eggs  ( Yolks and White Separated)
• Pinch of salt
• 1 Tbs of granulated sugar
• 1/3 cup/ 65g pulverized (ground) almonds
• ½ tsp almond extract
• ½ cup/ 57g cake flour (scooped and leveled, turned into a sifter)

Notes: If you don't have cake flour then it is okay use 1/2 Cup All purpose flour.Take out  1 tablespoon Of All purpose from the measuring cup and put it back .Take 1 Tablespoon of Corn Flour/Corn Starch to the remaining All purpose flour.  Sieve it well using 2 times and You ll get cake flour! :)

I had used 6 Inch Cake pan and Made it finally. I got some leftover cake batter and made 6 mini cupcakes on it.  

You can make it whole cake pan 8 inch. 

Chocolate Icing

• 2 ounces (2 squares)/ 56.7 g semisweet baking chocolate
• 2 Tb rum or coffee
• 5 to 6 Tb unsalted butter

Method

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour the cake pan. Set the chocolate and rum or coffee in a small pan, cover, and place (off heat) in a larger pan of almost simmering water; let melt while you proceed with the recipe. Measure out the rest of the ingredients
• Cream the butter and sugar together for about 3 minutes until they form a pale yellow, fluffy mixture. Beat in the egg yolks until well blended.
• Beat the egg whites and salt in a separate bowl until soft peaks are formed; sprinkle on the sugar and beat until stiff peaks are formed.
• With a rubber spatula, blend the melted chocolate into the butter and sugar mixture, then stir in the almonds, and almond extract. Immediately stir in one-fourth of the beaten egg whites to lighten the batter. Delicately fold in a third of the remaining whites and when partially blended, sift on one-third of the flour and continue folding. Alternate rapidly with more egg whites and more flour until all egg whites and flour are incorporated.
• Turn the batter into the cake pan, pushing the batter up to its rim with a rubber spatula. Bake in middle level of preheated oven for 25 minutes. Cake is done when it has puffed, and 2 1/2 to 3 inches around the circumference are set so that a Tooth pick plunged into that area comes out clean; the centre should move slightly if the pan is shaken, and a needle comes out oily.
• Allow cake to cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Run a knife around the edge of the pan, and reverse cake on the rack. Allow it to cool for an hour or two; it must be thoroughly cold if it is to be iced
• To serve, use the chocolate-butter icing recipe below

Notes: For 6 Inch cake pan Baking time is done within 20 minutes. So keep checking and watch once it is baked and at the center it should have crumb when sticks it to the tooth pick.Then take it out.Cool it on the cooling rack. 

 

Glacage au Chocolat (Chocolate-butter Icing)

2 ounces (2 squares) semi-sweet baking chocolate

2 Tblspoon  rum or coffee

5 to 6 Tblspoon  unsalted butter

Method:

Place the chocolate and rum or coffee in a small pan, cover, and set in a larger pan of almost simmering water. 

Remove pans from heat and let chocolate melt for 5 minutes or so, until perfectly smooth.

 Lift chocolate pan out of the hot water, and beat in the butter a tablespoon at a time. Then beat over the ice and water until chocolate mixture has cooled to spreading consistency.

 At once spread it over your cake with spatula or knife. Then press a design of almonds over the icing.

Here is my experimented, baked and decorated it finally :) 

Notes:I made mini cupcakes.Here is the method as follows as below.

Preheat the oven to 350 F

If you got some left overs then take 1 Tablespoon Chocolate almond batter to the lined mini muffin paper on the mini muffin pan. 

Set to bake for about 15 minutes.

Allow it to cool.

Take icing and put it into the piping bag with a tip 3# Write out the design letter :)

Design on your own :)

Garnish with Sliced almonds or Whole Almonds or Silvered Almonds

Here is a piece for Julia!!!

 I had really enjoyed baked it and iced it. Its really awesome taste :) You also try for it !!!!

Enjoy!!! Happy Baking!!!! 

Tricolor Flag Tarts :) Independence Day Special!

Dear Friends!

Wishing you very Happy Independence Day!  Jai Hind!!!! Be proud to be An INDIAN!!! :)

I made very special pastry baked dish TART with Tri color theme color on it. I want to make it from our own country spices and nuts so selected Kesar Saffron for Orange color, Cashewnuts/Almonds for White color and Pistachio for Green color.It reminds me since childhood memories :) Used to enjoy colorful foods made by my mom.My mom used to make tarts as its used with an aluminum tart cups.

I called it as TRI COLOR FLAG  TARTS!!!! Made with Shortbread tart with colorful Cream Cheese Frosting:)

Here is the recipe as below ..Its Eggless Tricolor Flag  Tart :)

Ingredients:

1.For Making ShortBread Tart

• 1/2 Cup Unsalted Butter(Room Temperature)
• 1/4 Cup Powdered/Icing sugar
• 1/2 Tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1 1/4 Cup All Purpose Flour
• 1 Tablespoon Corn flour/Corn starch
• 1/4 Tsp Salt.

2.For Making Cream Cheese Frosting

• 1- 8 ounces Cream Cheese( Room Temperature)
• 1/2  to 1 Cup Powdered Sugar or depends on your sweetness. or 1 can 14 Ounces Condensed milk.
• 1 Tsp Vanilla Extract
• 1/2 Tsp Outer rind Lemon Zest(Optional)
• 1/4 cup Lemon juice from 2 Lemons(Optional) 

Note: You can buy Ready made Cream cheese Frosting :) 

3. For Adding Colors to the Cream cheese.

 3.1 For Kesar Saffron. 

• Put 2 or 3 threads of saffron into the warm milk(1/2 Tsp) and Set aside.
• For getting an orange color, Add a pinch of Kesar color with warm milk/orange juice.mix well.
• Combine both saffron soaked milk and kesar color mixture to it and mix well.

3.2 For White color

•    Chop Cashew nuts or Almonds( About 1/4 cup)

3.3 For Green Color

• Chop pistachios or coarsely fine (About 1/4 cup)
• A Food Green color(A pinch)

 Method:

• Using Hand mixer, Beat the sugar and butter together till it gets pale yellow color for about 2 minutes.
• Add Vanilla Extract to it and mix well
• Sift the Flour,Corn flour/corn starch to it.
• Add the salt to it
• Mix well until it is combined.
• The dough should be very soft and able to form a ball.
• If it is still wet,then cover the dough into  the bowl and keep in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
• Make a ball at least ping pong ball or lemon shaped ball. 
• Take a Mini muffin pan..apply butter on to the sides and base.
• Put each and every ball on to the muffin pan.
• Press it gently with your index finger to make a cup shaped as given in photo
• Preheat the oven to 350 F or 180 C
• Wrap it with plastic wrap and set to the Freezer for about 15 minutes
• Take out the pan from the freezer and place it on the center of the oven rack for about 5 minutes or until it is puffed up.
• Take out the pan using oven gloves.
• Pierce the center by using fork lightly.
• Return the pan back to the oven for another 10 to 15 minutes.Keep an eye watch.It should not be over bake and too much brown.
• Once it is baked until light brown
• Take out and keep it on the cooling rack.
• Once cooled, Take out the tart by using flat knife or turn upside down.
• Set aside.

For making Cream Cheese Frosting 

•  In a food processor or hand mixer,Beat the cream cheese to it and add powdered sugar or condensed milk to it.
• Make sure it should not be too much runny.just pulse it
• Add the lemon juice,lemon zest and vanilla extract to it
• Pulse it until well combined.
• Transfer it into the box with tight fitting lid.
• Set aside to the fridge for about 6 to 8 hours or overnight.

Note: You can prepare the cream cheese a day before if you wish.

For Adding the colors to the Cream Cheese After the cream cheese it firm!

• Divide the cream cheese into 3 bowls. Each bowl should have at least 1/4 cup of cream cheese
• Add the orange color to the cream cheese bowl
• Combine the 2nd bowl  white cream cheese  with chopped or coarsely almonds/powdered cashew nuts.
• Add the pistachios to the 3rd bowl  white cream cheese and add green color to it. Mix well.
• Put the colored cream cheese into 3 piping bags.Decorate it.

For Assembling the tarts:

1. Once the tart is cooled.
2. Take 4 or 5 tarts Pipe the orange color frosting on the tart.
3. Repeat the same step as above step 2 for white color and green color frosting
4. Garnish it with your choice by adding fruits on the top.
5.  Serve it :)

Here is my Tricolor Flag Tart picture :)

Happy Independence Day and Happy Baking!!!

Awaiting to hear your comments :) and try it at home :) 

Linking this entry to

Jagruti's and Geetha's Event Announcement

 Sharan's Celebrating Independence Day

Preethi's Azadi orIndependence Day

Walk through the memory lane hosted by Archana and Gayathri 

Ros from The More Than Occasional Baker and Caroline from Caroline Makes

Priya's Culinary Chronicles

Wow 2 Same Awards :)

Hi friends :)

Here Am really happy received the very same award "LIEBSTER AWARD" on Krishna Jayanthi Day  from dear blogger friends Nayana and Shailaja Reddy.

They both have very wonderful blogs and delicious recipes.Do please visit their blog :) Am very much thankful for tagging me along with your 11 blogger friends. So humble and kind for presenting this award to me and Am honored. ) 

I am writing rules one from Nayana and another from Shailaja :) Its gonna be tough decision to select 11 blogger friends from Nayana's Blog and other 11 blogger friends from Shailaja's blog because they have different rules so I created 2 games :) Enjoy :) :)Anyways Am enjoying and sharing this award to 22 blogger friends and feel good :)

Nayana's Blog Interesting Game for details of an questionnaires given by our dear friend  Divya Pramil's blog http://youtoocancookindianfood.blogspot.in 

Rules for receiving award:

1)  Each person must post 11 things about themselves.

2)  Answer the questions the tagger has set for you.

3)  Choose 11 people and link them in your post.

4)  Create 11 questions for the people you’ve tagged to answer.

5)  Go to their page and tell them.

6)  Remember, no tag back.

Rule 1: Post 11 things about yourself

1. Love to bake :)
2. Gardening
3. Paintings of various Indian cultures
4. Decorating cakes,cupcakes and so on :)
5. Enjoy reading books such as novels and fictions
6. Strong Believer in God.
7. Creative Crafts
8. Programming stuffs.
9. Love to visit Islands
10. Love to make friends and share it 
11.  Outing with my family and  friends :)

Rule 2: Answer the tagger's questions

1. What was the inspiration behind your blog? - Baking and other pastries :)
2. Which one do you prefer: A vacation trip to mountains or islands? - Islands :)
3. Craziest thing you've ever done ? I cried when seeing Mozhi Tamil
   movie three times  as it resembles like me :(
4. What is your idea for a perfect breakfast? - A fruit and an Energy Bar :)
5. Who is your favorite blogger? - Everyone :)
6. What kind of music do you enjoy? - Sorry cannot hear kind of musics :(
7. What is your idea of a perfect vacation? - Anywhere mostly at Islands and Singapore,Switzerland Europe :):)
8. What is your favorite past time? -Reading books and baking
9. Which is your favorite place to shop in this world? Why? -Anywhere as Am shopaholic :)
10. Are you active or quiet or calm person? - active with dearest friends and quiet with strangers.
11. What quality do you most like in yourself and why? - I like in myself of my thinking deeply such as ideas and things happened true and share it out with my family and friends because it helps in positive thinking and comes out with good results. :)

Rule 3: Tag and pass the awards to 11 other bloggers

1. Jagruti - http://www.jagrutidhanecha.com/
2. Vrinda Mahesh - www.reciperoll.com/
3. Reshmi Mahesh - http://funwidfud.blogspot.com
4. Rekha - www.indiantastyfoodrecipes.com
5. Anuja Sule -  http://simple-baking.blogspot.in
6. Kavitha- http://eezy-kitchen.blogspot.com/
7. Archana - http://madscientistskitchen.blogspot.com/
8. Prathibha Sreejith - http://cook-ezee.blogspot.com/
9. Sowmya Karthy-  http://nivedhanams.blogspot.com/
10. Maayeka- http://maayeka.blogspot.com/
11. Vidhya Viju Govind- http://aportiontoshare.blogspot.com

 

Rule 4: Create 11 questions for the bloggers to answer

 Here I posted my answers below and please kindly answer the following 11 question at your free time and please inform Divya of YOU TOO CAN COOK - INDIAN FOOD RECIPES once you have posted your answers on your blog. This is a Game that reads about you. Divya will update the answers only after you have posted the answers on your blog..This will be fun interesting game! Enjoy it!!

So now you are entering into a jungle and you like someone to accompany you..Who would that be? My husband

As you move further into the jungle which are the two animals that you'd love to meet?    Elephant and Tiger :)

Now you are walking further in and you find a big palace (not haunted), the door is opened and you want to go in, will you knock the door or will you just walk in without knocking.-  Knock the door

So after you enter the palace you find a square and a round table and wish to select one for yourself, which one will you chose, the round one or the flat one? Round

Then you find three jars, Gold, Silver and Bronze on the palace shelf and wish to chose one, which one will you chose?  Silver 

Now you have come out of the palace and you find yourself a nice place to settle, so you build a home there..How big will you construct your home? Compact or like a palace. -  Compact :)

Will you put a fence for your home? Yes

You find a cup on the backyard of your home..Now which cup do you wish it to be? A porcelain cup or a paper cup or a silver cup? My favorite Porcelain cup(China made) :)

Now there is a water source behind your home, which one would you like it to be? A lake or a sea?   A Sea

You find some ducks there and you'd like to pet them how many would you like to pet? Yeah i would like to have duck as pet.but duck won't feel happy.so let the duck be with other ducks and live happily :)

Finally you find a way to go back home and there are two ways, either you must cross the risky river or go around the river, its a very long way but less risky, which one will you opt for? -   Oops Just want to reach home safely after long way but less risky.:)

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Well Am doing another rule from Shailaja 's blog

Rule 1: Post 11 things about yourself

1. Love to bake :)
2. Gardening
3. Paintings of various Indian cultures
4. Decorating cakes,cupcakes and so on :)
5. Enjoy reading books such as novels and fictions 
6. Strong Believer in God.
7. Creative Crafts
8. Programming stuffs.
9. Love to visit Islands
10. Love to make friends and share it 
11.  Outing with my family and  friends :)

Rule 2: Answer the question

Who inspire you for creating such a wonderful food blog and what you think about Preeti’s Kitchen Life? Any suggestions for me?   

My husband and friends. I like your blog because you are having wonderful recipes as well as very useful tips and also beautiful arts :)

Rule 3: Choose 11 people and link them in your post

1. Janani   http://redchillycurry.com
2. Vijayalakshmi  http://www.nathivg.blogspot.in/
3. Divya Prakash http://divyasculinaryjourney.blogspot.com//
4. Swathi Iyer http://www.zestysouthindiankitchen.com/
5. Valarmathi http://valar-myblog.blogspot.com/
6. Kairali sisters http://kairali-recipeindex.blogspot.com/
7. Julie  http://erivumpuliyumm.blogspot.com/
8. Follow Foodie  http://www.followfoodiee.com/
9. Manju http://manjuzkitchen.blogspot.com/
10. Sobha  http://sobha-goodfood.blogspot.com/
11. Krupa http://www.pachanti.com/

Rule 4: Create 11 questions for the people you've tagged to answer

1) Who was the inspiration behind your blog? My husband and my friends

2) What you will do when you are free? Blogging and crafts

3) What kind of movies do you enjoy? Mozhi, Abhiyum Naanum

4) What kind of people you like?Everyone who are kind hearted broad minded and understand each other :)

5) What kind of food you like? Chinese and Asian :)

6) Most memorable moment. Received Silver Medalist for my Engineering course  :)

7) Who is the best teacher in your school? Thangam(Biology) and Anna Eapen(English Teacher and Principal)

8) Who is the role model in your life? My Parents :)

9) What is your favorite movie? BLACK(Hindi film by Rani Mukherjee and Amitabh Bachchan)

10) Name one book you had to read but hated? Never hated :) 

11) What is your favorite album?Sorry as I cannot hear as Am hearing impaired so don't know what is my favorite :(

 Here I posted my answers as above and please kindly answer the following 11 question at your free time and please inform Preethi once you have posted your answers on your blog. This is a Game that reads about you.  Enjoy it!!

Hope I had answered all questions given by blogger friends :)

Once again big thanks from the bottom of my heart to Nayana and Shailaja for giving wonderful award to me :)  

Also congratulations to all blogger friends who has got an award and enjoy your fun at games! :)

Very happy to have such a wonderful friends and always keep in touch with my followers and everyone :) 

Wishing to get more awards and share an award to everyone :)

Thanks to everyone dear :)

Happy Weekend :)

Awaiting to hear your comments :)

Sweet Poha Payasam :)

 Hi friends!

Wishing you and your family Happy Krishna Jayanthi :) May this festival brings you joy,peace and prosperity :)

Here I had made uppu seedai,sweet poha payasam,Vella seedai and Thattai and also Lord Krsihna's favorite Butter :) :) Had a nice darshan too :)

Here I am writing most favorite Sweet poha payasam as below :)

Ingredients:

• 2 cups Aval or Poha
• 3/4 cup Jaggery (Thick consistency) Filtered
• 1 Tsp Cardamom powder
• 1/2 cup Grated coconut
• 1/2 cup Cashew nuts break into pieces
• 1/4 cup Raisins.
• 1/2 cup Milk
• 3 Tsp Ghee

Method:

• Wash the poha/aval well thoroughly,Allow it to soak for atleast 10 minutes.
• Drain it and set aside.
• Take a frying pan,Add ghee into the medium flame,Add broken cashew nuts to it till golden light brown.Turn off the heat.Transfer it into another bowl.
• In the same pan,Add the remaining ghee into the medium flame.Add raisins till it pops up then turn off the heat.
• In the same pan on medium heat,toast the grated coconut till it gets an aromatic.Make sure not to allow to get burnt.just lightly roast it.
• Break the Jaggery into pieces,Add water to it.Allow it to boil till it gets single thread thick consistency
• Filter it to remove any particles/impurities.
• Take a wide pan,Boil the milk, Add the drained poha/aval in the medium flame. Pour the 3/4 cup jaggery and allow it to stir gently till combined well.
• Add cardamom powder and roasted  coconut to it.
• Mix well and turn off the heat.
• Add the cashew nut and raisins to it.
• Serve it :)

 Have a good Darshan :)

Linking this to the Event Announcement " Know your Natural Sweetness Jaggery :) owned by Jagruti

 

Event hosted by Celebrate- Month of Shravan and owned By Jagruti

Linking this event to Celebrate - August 15th guest host by Geetha Nair and owned by Jagruti.