Fish Roast

This is an fast and easy, but tasty recipe. Kids will like it as it is less spicy and colorful...Whenever I am feeling lazy to cook, this will come to my rescue... 


Ingredients:-


For Fish fry:
      Fish - cut into medium size pieces - 12
      Chilli Powder - 1 tsp
      Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
      Salt - as reqd


Marinate the fish pieces with the above spices and keep in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.


For Masala:
     Onion - 3 (sliced)
     Green Chilly - 2 (cut lengthwise)
     Tomato - 1 big (chopped)
     Chilly Powder - 1 tsp
     Turmeric Powder - 1/2 tsp
     Curry Leaf - as reqd
     Salt - as reqd


Method:-


Heat oil in a pan and fry the marinated fish pieces as we do in normal fish fry and keep aside. 

In the same pan, add some more oil if required and saute the sliced onion, green chilly and curry leaf. When the onion turns light brown, add the chilly and turmeric powder and fry it till the raw smell goes. Add the tomato pieces and fry it till the tomato pieces are cooked. Add the fried fish pieces into this masala. Mix the fish pieces very carefully otherwise the fish will break. Keep for another 1 or 2 minutes in  the fire.
Serve with rice, dosa, chappathi etc etc....

Steamed Dates Cake

My first recipe blog... 
             

Since my oven doesn't support baking, I was very much sad seeing the wonderful recipes in different blogs. Recently in Maria's Menu, I saw the recipe of a steamed cake and it gave me the idea that cakes can be prepared in this way also. Started searching for steamed cake recipes and tried making a Banana steamed cake. To my surprise it turned out super... 

Since during this season dates are available easily here, I wanted a dates cake recipe. 

This dates recipe, I got from Aayi's Cooking and originally it is an oven recipe. I made a little changes in the ingredients to make it a steamed cake. I am posting all the steps...

Ingredients:-

20 dates

1 cup milk ( I used 1 cup water and 3 tsp milk powder)

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup oil or butter

3/4 tea spoon baking soda powder

1 cup maida (all purpose flour)

                            

1. If you are using dry dates, soak it in water overnight. I used ripe dates, so no soaking was required.
   
2. Remove the seeds and add 1 cup of milk. Boil it till the dates become tender. ( I boiled it in water and added the milk powder while grinding)
   
   
   
   
3. Grind it to a smooth paste along with the sugar. Add 1/2 cup to 1 cup sugar according to your taste.
   
4. Pour the paste to a dish and 3/4 tea spoon baking soda add 1/4 cup oil or butter and mix it well. Add the flour little by little and mix it slowly.
   
   
   
   
5. Grease the sides of a pan and put a wax paper or butter paper on the bottom. Pour the cake mix on to the pan. Take care that the cake mix should fill only 2/3 portion of the pan. Keep the pan in a steamer/idli cooker/appachembu. ( I kept one idli thattu upside down so that the pan fits nicely on it.)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Close the lid and steam on low flame for at least 25 - 30 minutes. After 25 minutes open the lid and insert a knife on the cake and check if it comes out clean.
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. Keep the cake in the pan itself till it is completely cool and then transfer it to a plate and decorate it.