Eggless Marie Biscuit Chocolate Rolls!

Christmas is round the corner and the blogging world is full of lovely cakes and cookies . I dont have a proper oven to bake something.....so here I am with these eggless chocolate rolls which I tried from Mane Adige's sometime back. Before I go to the recipe, Wishing everyone a merry christmas!

Ingredients:
Marie Biscuit - 5 [I used Arrowroot which is quite similar to marie]
Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp
Butter - 1 tbsp
Milk - to knead the dough
Grated Coconut - 2 tbsp
Sugar - as per taste level

Method:
1.Powder the Marie biscuits, Add cocoa powder, milk and knead it to a smooth dough like chapathi dough. Keep aside.

2.Mix coconut , butter and sugar in a seperate bowl, the mixture should be sticky. Roll the coco dough to form small chapathis.

3.Now spread the coconut mixture over the chapathis and gently roll them to form cylinders and keep aside.

4.Refrigerate the rolls for about 30mins; Remove and cut them width wise . Serve it immediately as the rolls butter part tend to melt down.

And I am sending this to Mahimas event

Pasi Paruppu / Moong Dhal Kurma

This easy moong dhal(paasi parupu)kurma recipe is from my aunt. There is no grinding part at all, its so easy and simple still its lemony flavour adds to the taste.

Ingredients:

Cinnamom - 1/2 inch piece

Cardomom - 1

Cloves - 2

Moong Dhal - 1 cup

Onion - 1 medium size

Tomato - 1

Green Chilli - 1

Turmeric powder - a pinch

Chilli powder - 2 tsp

Garlic - 3 to 4 chopped

Lemon - 1 medium size

Oil - 3 tsp

Method :

1. Dry roast moong dhal for few mins till nice aroma comes. Pressure cook it with 1/4 cup of water till mashy and keep aside.

2. In a kadai, heat oil, add cinnamom, cloves and cardomom and saute well.Add chilli, garlic and onion and keep sauting till onions are fried well.

3.Now add tomato and fry for 2mins, add turmeric and chilli powder.

4.Add mashed moong dhal and 1/2 cup water. Leave it to boil for 5mins.

5.Switch off and squeeze lemon while serving!

It goes well with dosas, idlis and even chapathis. This is going to be my keeper hereafter when there is lil time in hand to cook a side dish!

Nutty Marie Biscuit Dessert - The quickest one!

I tried Nags Mom's delight yesterday with my so called oven and to my surprise it came out perfect, who cares about the look when it tastes yum yum :)

Ingredients:

Powdered Marie Biscuits - from 5 biscuits

Sweetened Condensed Milk / I used thickened milk- 4 tbsp

Coco powder - 2 tbsp

Chopped Cashewnuts - 5

Butter - 1 tsp just to grease

Method:

1. Grease the container with butter.

2. Layer the powdered marie biscuits into the container and press it till it is even. It will be 1 inch in thickness if you are using 5 biscuits.

3.Pour the condensed milk covering the powdered biscuits. I didnt have condensed milk and that didnt stop me from trying it....so what I did was I thickened the milk with 1tsp of sugar added and used it, no compromise in taste.

4.Next layer is the coco powder. Sprinkle it until the condensed milk layer is totally covered. Then lay the chopped cashewnuts on the top of the coco powder layer.

5.Bake it for 10mins at 180deg C. It came out just fine in my oven itself...so am sure it would come out well in any oven ;) Cool it and serve.

I refrigerated it for 10mins as I like it chilled. Now what are you waiting for, just scoop out and enjoy......Isnt that a quick dessert?!

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Beans Poriyal / Beans Stir Fry

To load this in reader I'm struggling from morning, friends let me know if you are facing the same issue with blogger, ie...when you give a new post and it doesnt update in reader? Any solution for this? please let me know!

Ingredients:

Beans - 15 apprx [Sliced thin]

Grated coconut - 3 tbsp

Chopped Onions - 1

Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp

Oil - 1/2 tbsp

Urad Dal/Ulutham paruppu -1/2 tsp

Hing / perungayam - a pinch (optional)

Curry leaves - 2 to 3

Salt - to taste

Green Chillies - 1 chopped finely

Method:

1.Heat oil in a pan, add mustard seeds, let it splutter.... now add urad dhal, curry leaves and hing.Add onions and saute till it turns slighly browned. Add green chillies and saute.

2.Add the sliced beans, coconut and saute for 5mins. Now sprinkle water and allow it to cook. Keep closed on medium flame until beans becomes soft, now add salt to taste.

3. Keep in low flame to avoid burning, mix well until the water leaves the beans. Leave it for 5mins and switch off!

Veg Burger - Its Burger Time!

Everytime when I order for burger I usually had to dig in the burger to pull out those lettuce and cabbages...I just hate them in my burger(But I added cabbages here as hubby likes it).So sat out to think why not try burger at home?! And here is my first try and it came out pretty decent. When I served it for hubby there was a big smile in his face and said its soo yummy and very much like in MB - thats the highest form of appreciation I've ever got I wud say!

This yields 2 burgers:

Ingredients:

Bun - 2

Chopped cabbage - 3 tsp

Tomato sliced - 2

Onions sliced - 3 to 3

Tomato sauce - 2 tbsp

Cheese - 2 slices or shredded cheese

For the patty:

Veggies - 1.5 cups (I used 2 big sized carrots,5-6 beans and 2 potatoes)

Aniseed powdered - 2 tsp

Finely chopped onion - 1/2 small sized

Ginger garlic paste - 3 tsp

Chilli powder - 3tsp

Method:

1.Boil the veggies till mashy. Drizzle oil in a wide bottomed pan, add aniseed powder,immediately add chopped onion. Then add boiled carrots and beans, saute them for 3mins.

2.Add ginger garlic paste,fry well.Add chilli powder and salt.

3.Now add this to mashed potatoes and bind them well.

4.Flatten them into patties and toast it in dosa pan. You can deep fry them if you arent guilty :)

NOTE : For the above mentioned quantity it will yield 2 big sized patties.

This is before assembling the burger , just to show you how my pattie looked!

5.Assemble the burger in the following order / any order of your choice:

Keep one half of the bun first, then the pattie, cheese slice, chopped cabbage, a slice of onion, tomato sauce then tomato slice and the other half of the bun. Your veg burger is ready! Isnt that quick n easy?!

Onion Mint Sandwich

I was happily napping one fine afternoon (which is rare these days with a 5.5months old hyperactive baby :)), my tummy started kicking me. Opened the fridge no veggies except for 1 not so fresh beetroot and half a packet of bread. I remembered the left over puthina chutney which I had for idly that morning, so made this quick sandwich.

So what are u waiting for.....no veggies in stock try this sandwich with the ingredients that are sure to be in your pantry!

Ingredients:

Bread - 4 slices (I usually use wheat bread)

Urad dhal - 2tsp

Mint(puthina) leaves - 3 tbsp

Finely chopped onion -1

Salt to taste

Turmeric powder

Chilli powder - a pinch

Sambar powder - 2tsp (optional)

Ghee - to toast

Method:

1.In 1 tsp of oil, add urad dhal, let it temper then add mint leaves and saute well till the leaves are crushed, add few drops of water and grind it to a fine paste. Keep it aside.

[Though this is not the orginal recipe for puthina chutney this goes well for sandwiches]

2.Drizzle oil, add onion, turmeric powder, chilli powder, sambar powder and saute till onions turn light brown.

3.Take 2 bread slices and apply the mint paste on both the slices.

4.Add the onion filling in between the 2 slices and press it.

5.Toast it with ghee in a toaster/dosa pan.

You can substitute mint leaves with coriander leaves.....It tastes gud too!'Just not any other dish'

Masala Kuzhi Paniyaram

I've been eyeing this masala kuzhipaniyarams since I saw it in Nags space, made it for breakfast last weekend and it turned out very tasty. I didnt know that the paniyarams with dosa batter wud taste soo gud!

I replaced coconut with carrot and sauted all the ingredients before I added them to the batter.

Ingredients:

Dosa/Idly batter - 2 cups

Mustard seeds - 2tsp

Turmeric powder - 1tsp

Finely chopped Onion - 1

Finely chopped Green chillies - 1

Red chilli powder - 1 pinch

Hing - a pinch

Grated Carrot - 1 big size

Curry leaves - few

Salt - to taste

Oil

Method:

1.Drizzle oil, allow mustard seeds to splutter.

2.Add onions, chillies, carrot and curry leaves and saute for 5mins till onions turn light brown.

3.Add turmeric powder, hing, chilli powder and salt. Now add above to the dosa batter and mix well.

4.Heat the paniyaram pan add a drop of oil in each hole, fill in each hole with the batter, but not more than 3/4th full as the paniyarams will raise a little . Let it cook on the other side until its crisp.

5.Turn over and cook the other side. Serve hot with chutney!

The spices were well blended that it needed no sidedish but we had it with leftover coriander chutney...:)