Eggless Mango Muffins

Ingredients:
Self raising flour - 1 1/2 cup
Mango Puree - 1 cup
sugar - 3/4 cup
melted butter (unsalted) - 1/3 cup
Baking powder - 1 tsp
baking soda - 1/4 tsp
Cardamom powder - A pinch
Salt - A pinch
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Note: If using All purpose flour instead of Self raising flour, add 2 tsp baking powder.

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 340 degrees F/170 Celsius.
2. Line muffin cups with muffin paper cups.
3. Mash bananas well.
4. Mix butter, Sugar and keep aside.
5. Mix the dry ingredients(flour, backing soda/baking powder, Cardamom powder, salt) really well or sift [ Mixing dry ingredients is important. Otherwise you will be biting into lumps of uncooked baking powder - not a pleasant taste!]
7. Add the dry ingredients mix into the butter mixture each spoon at a time.
8. Mix thoroughly till the complete dry mixture is done.
9. Add to Mango pulp and mix.
10. Fill muffin cups about 3/4 to the top.
11. Bake for 20 minutes or till the muffins are golden brown or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

This makes 20 medium size muffins.

Note: If using fresh Mango pulp, taste the mixture before filling the cups. It might make the mixture very sweet.

Russian Vegetable Salad

Russian Vegetable Salad

Ingredients
1) Red or Pink Kidney Beans - one cup
2) Sweet corn - one cup
3) Long and Finely chopped cabbage - 1/2 cup
4) Finely chopped Green and/or Red Pepper - 1/2 cup
5) Green peas - 1/2 cup
6) Salt - 1/2 tbsp
7) Chat masala - 1/2 tbsp
8) Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
9) mayonnaise or any salad dressing cream
10) Herbs like Chopped coriander, chopped basil, chopped mint leaves etc.

1) Soak Kidney beans for 4-6 hours in boiled water.
2) Cook kidney beans until they are soft and remove the water.
3) Par boil Sweet corn, Peas and remove water.
4) Now mix cooked kidney beans, par boiled sweet corn, peas, chopped cabbage, chopped Capsicum.
5) Add mayonnaise and mix together.
6) Now add salt, Chilli powder, chat masala and mix together.
7) Decorate with herbs.

This is very healthy, tasty, nutritious and easy to prepare.

Any type of vegetables can be used, however needs to decide which one to cook, which one to par boil and which one to add in raw form.

Koora podi 2

Indregients:
1. Dhaniyalu: 1/2 cup
2. nuvvulu: 1/2 cup
3. sounpu: 1/4 cup
4. rendu mirchi: 20
5. minappppu: 1/4 cup
6. senaga pappu: 1/4 cup
7. pallilu/veru senaga pappu: 1/4 cup

Procedure:

1. Dry roast each spice separately, let them cool.
2. Grind them together with Salt.
3. Store it in a dry airtight container.

Mukka avakai / Makkala pachadi : Raw Mango Pickle

Ingredients:

1. 1 large raw, sour mango- not peeled and cut into very small pieces.
2. 4 to 5 spoons of fenugreek, roasted evenly and powdered fine.
3. 4 spoons of salt
4. 4 spoons of red chilli powder
5. pinch of turmeric

Ingredients for seasoning:

6. 5 spoons of sesame oil
7. 2 spoons of mustard seeds
8. pinch of fenugreek seeds
9. 2 whole red chillies
10. 4-5 dashes of hing

Process:

1) Take a medium sized bowl and add finely chopped mango pieces.

2) Add turmeric, salt, chilli powder and fenugreek powder. Mix thoroughly. Cover
and leave for 3 hrs.

The mango mixture becomes slightly moist as salt dissolves.

3) Do the tampering with ingredients 6-10. Let the seasoning come to room
temperature before adding to the mango mixture.

Serve with hot rice and drop of ghee.

Eggless banana cake

Ingredients:
1. 2 cups Maida/self raising flour
2. 1 cup Sugar
3. 1 cup Butter
4. 2 bananas (mashed)
5. 1 tsp baking powder
6. 1/2 tsp soda bi carbonate
7. 1/2 cup Milk

Prcedure:
1) Mix maida, baking pd, soda and sieve them together.
2) In a bowl mix sugar and butter and fold them
3) Add maida mixture slowly with milk. Also add mashed bananas in this mixture
4) Just fold all ingriedents in one direction
5) Now put the batter in greased and dusted baking tin
6) Bake for 20 to 30 min at 180 °C
7) Check with a knife by from center ,if knife comes out clean then cake is baked, if not then give it some more time.
8) when baked , let it cool and then remove from tin as if you remove it hot then it will not come out whole.