Monday, January 25, 2010

Yummy Chocolate Crunch

Ingredients:

150 gm butter
2 cups; flour
1 1/2 cups; white sugar
1 teaspoon; vanilla essence
2 tbs; cocoa
1/2 cup; milk
1 tbs; golden syrup
3 tbs; brown sugar
2 tsp; baking powder
1/2 cup; cornflakes(cereal)
1/2 cup; rice bubbles(cereal)
1/2 cup; Chopped nuts(optional)

Chocolate Crunch

Method of Preparation:

To start with, preheat the oven to 180C (350F) degrees. Take 50 gms of the butter in a pot. Once the butter gets melted add some cocoa and milk.
In a separate bowl mix flour, baking powder and pour the cocoa plus butter mixture in the flour mix. Mix these ingredients with a wooden spoon. Add vanilla essence to it. Now, melt rest of the butter and add to mixture,also adding white sugar. Add brown sugar and golden syrup and stir mixture well. You can now add the candy bars(chopped)and corn flakes, nuts, sprinkles and anything else you think will be good in the mixture and tastes good to you. Remember it serves good for 4.

Monday, January 18, 2010

Simple Tomato Chaat!

The simple Tomato Chaat recipe involves slices tomatoes layered with interesting common spices and puffed rice. Its an extremely simple recipe to prepare and takes seconds. The recipe does not involve any chutney with it, so it can be served with any sauces available at home.

Indian Tomato Chat

Ingredients:
2 Tomatoes
1 small Onion
Carrot: 1/2 Small
Puffed Rice: 1 Cup
Fine Sev; 1/4 Cup
Roasted Peanuts: 10
Red Chile Powder: 1/2 tsp
Cumin Powder: 1/4 tsp
Chaat Masala: 1/4 tsp
Salt to taste
Oil: 1/4 tsp

Method of Preparation;

Wash the tomato and slice it. Chop the onion and grate the carrot. Take a bowl and mix puffed rice, onion, carrot, sev, roasted peanuts, cumin powder, red chile powder, oil and salt. Take 7 chaat plates and put the slices tomato as the first layer. Sprinkle some chaat masala and salt over it. Cover each slice of tomato with mixture of puffed rice. Sprinkle some instane chaat masala over it. Remember to serve it fresh.