Muffins

Ingredients

Butter at room temperature - 1/4 cup

Eggs - 3

Sugar - 3/4 cup

All purpose flour - 1cup

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Vanilla - 1/2 tsp

Raisins - 1/4 cup

Method

Preheat the oven to 325 degree F. Mixing Cream butter and sugar together until it is nice and smooth. Separate egg whites.Beat the egg whites in a bowl till it become white frothy.Add sugar little by little while beating the eggs. Sift flour and baking powder.Add this mixture little by little. Add vanilla. Add the raisins,nuts and gently stir to incorporate. Pour into muffin tins and bake 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted at the center of a muffin comes out clean. Remove from the oven and cool on wire racks. This recipe makes 6 medium size muffins, but you can easily double or triple it.

American Cheesecake

A cheesecake is a sweet, often cheese-based dessert. The combination of its crust and soft filling (typically containing eggs, cream, and a soft fat-like cream cheese) means the various varieties often resemble custard based desserts like buttermilk pie or creme brulee more than traditionally firm cakes. This places it firmly in the pie category, rather than (as its name would suggest) that of cakes.
Here is a basic cheesecake recipe with blueberry marbling.

Ingredients
8oz cream cheese
1/2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1tbsp cornstarch
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup melted butter
2tbsp sour cream
graham cracker crust
frozen blue berries

Method

Take the cream cheese in a large mixing bowl; beat until smooth. Gradually add sugar, stire well(dont beat). Add eggs and stire(dont beat) until well blended. Add cornstarch, lemon juice, and vanilla; stir well. Note that the mixture should be pasty not watery.You can add corn starch to short the water.
Add melted butter and sour cream, stirring until smooth.Pour filling into 9-inch graham cracker crust (below). (Here I used the wheat crustof pillsburry.Make the smoothie paste of frozen berries.For this you can use the fruits mix of blueberry,strawberry,raspberry etc.Pour this mixture little by little on the top of cake mix.Lightly move the spatula only at the top to form a marble design.slowly move the spatula not vigorously.Then u will get a pretty design.Ok its time to bake.Preheat the oven to 300F.
Always bake cheese cake at low temperature .This will prevent the cracking on the cake.When the oven is ready, place the crust at middle part of oven. Make sure,not put in the top of oven.Bake for 15 minutes or until the top become dry. Turn off oven and let cheesecake cool with oven for10 minutes. Remove from oven and cool completely. Then refrigerate for 2 hrs. When completely chilled, serve.

chicken curry

This is a chicken curry with less ingredients.The appearance is also very good-dark brown.Some people likes the dark gravy not the yellow orbrown.This chicken doesn't use the coconut and tomatoes.

Ingredients
Chicken breast cubed- 2cups
Onion - 2 nos
Ginger paste - 1/2 tsp
Garlic chopped - 1tsp
Curry leaves - 1 stalk
Chilly powder - 1 tsp
Coriander powder -1 tsp
Pepper powder-1tsp
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Garam masala powder - 1 tsp
Salt to taste

Mehtod

First fry all the masalas till a dark brown colour appears.Mix this masala with chicken pieces and salt, Set it aside(marinating).
Heat oil in a pan.
Add garlic and saute till its colour changes. Then add onion(savaula) and saute for a few mins till it becomes transculent. Add curry leaves. Saute the onion to become fried(browned). The color of the fried masala and onion will be the colour of our curry.So fry them as we can. Add the marinated chicken pieces Mix well and stir for few mins. Add less water because the curry should be a little pasty.If you feel that the curry is more watery the add 1tsp of corn starch(optional). Add salt to taste. Close the vessel and cook. When the chicken is fully cooked and appears the consistancy,its ready to serve.we can serve it with chappathi, porotta, idiyappam or rice.

Potato Pudding

Ingredients

1 large sweet potato peeled and quartered

3 tblsp butter

1/4 cup sugar
1 egg beaten

1 1/2 cup milk

1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

nuts and raisins

Method

This is a simple and delicious pudding.The speciality is we dont need an oven for this recipe.You may wonder by seeing two colours.Here I made two types of pudding -one by red sweet potatoes and other by white sweet potatoes.Now it's your turn,try this anyone or both.

Do you know what the yummy taste when the milk is combined with the potato.I'm sure you will like it, try this recipe.

Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the sweet potatoes(I use the white sweet potatoes from Indian grocery store) and cook until tender, about 20 minutes. Drain and mash. In a thick bottom vessel boil the milk.To this add sugar and butter.Before boiling add the mashed potatoes.Stire continously.Otherwise it may stick in the bottom.When the mixture is evenly combined, add the beatened egg.Keep stirring till a thick paste is occured.we can add a one tsp of corn starch for the thickening of mixture.Take it out of flame and cool for 20minutes.You can blend this mixture in a blender(here I use my mixy).Pur the smoothe paste in a vessel.Garnish with some nuts and raisins.Chill in a refridgerator and serve.

Uzhunnu Vada

Ingredients

Urad dal soaked in water for 2 hours - 2 cups

Finely chopped shallots - 10

Green chillies - 3

Chopped Ginger - 1 tsp

Chopped curry leaves - 2 tsp

Crushed pepper - 1 tsp

Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp

Salt - to taste

Oil - to taste

Method
Grind urad dal and salt together adding very little water,into a coarse paste.It would be better if you don’t add water at all.But if you think,your grinder won’t coperate, just add necessary water little by little.Now add shallots,ginger,curry leaves,pepper and baking soda into the ground paste and mix them together.
Pat your hands with water and make a ball with the paste.Flatten it and make a hole in the center like a doughnut.Wet your hands with water,when ever needed.
Drop the vadas into hot oil and deep fry till golden brown in color.Serve with chutney or Sambar.(If you’ve accidently added more water while grinding,you can always use Urad dal powder to compensate it)

Chicken Tandoori

Ingredients

yogurt 4tsp

ginger/garlic paste 1/2tsp

lime 1/2

pepper powder 1/2tsp

red chilli powder 1tsp

fenugreek leaves 1/2tsp

garam masala powder 1/2tsp

cumin powder 1/2tsp

coriander powder 1tsp

turmeric powder 1/2tsp

red color 1 or 2 drops

chickendrumsticks 4

chatmasala 1/2tsp

salt to taste

Method

For this recipe we can use the chicken legs.Cut some of the places near bones of chicken legs.Rub these cuts with the mixture of lemon juice and chilli powder(light coating).Make the marinating mixture by mixing yogurt (yogurt should be thick and take 1 tblsp yogurt for 1 leg),chilli powder,salt,pepper powder,fenu greek powder,garam masala,cumin powder,coriander powder,turmeric powder.Then add re color.put chicken to this mixture and marinate it.Atlast add alittlle oil to this marinate.

If you dont have a tandoor to cook tandoori chicken you can use an oven.For this in a oven based tray or aluminium tray made a bed by chopped vegetables like cabbage,carrot etc.

OrangeMeringue Pie

A pie is a baked food, with a baked shell usually made of pastry dough that covers or completely contains a filling of fruit, meat, fish, vegetables, cheeses, creams, chocolate, custards, nuts, or other sweet or savoury ingredients. Pies can be either "filled", where a dish is covered by pastry and the filling is placed on top of that, "top-crust," where the filling is placed in a dish and covered with a pastry/potato mash top before baking, or "two-crust," with the filling completely enclosed in the pastry shell. Some pies have only a bottom crust, generally if they have a sweet filling that does not require cooking.These bottom-crust-only pies may be known as tarts or tartlets.Here is a tart pie recipe.

Ingredients

1(9-inch)chocolate pie crust in a deep dish

1/2 cups corn starch

1/4 cups sugar

1 cups milk

3 eggs

1/4 cup orange juice

1 Tsp Orange Extract

1Tbsp butter

1/2 cup sugar

2 tsp corn starch

some dry fruits to garnish

Method

Separate the egg whites and yolks into 2 dishes. Lightly beat the egg whites in a dish.Add the milk,1/4 cup sugar and 1/2 cup corn starch.Heat this mixture in a sauce pan, stirring constantly,bring mixture to boil( about 8 minutes) ,reduce heat and continue stirring for 1 minute until very thick. Remove from heat;stir in orange juice,orange extract until smooth.

Por hot filling into pie crust.

Beat egg whites using a hand mixer at high speed until soft peaks form;gradually add 1/2 cup sugar and 2tsp of corn starch,beating until stiff peaks form about 3 minutes.This is the merigue.Top this mixture in the pie by spooning merigue oer hot pie filling, making sure merigue touches edge of pie crust to seal. Use the back of the spoon to spread equally.

Garnish with some dry fruits.

Preheat oven to 375 F.Bake the pie for 10 minutes until top is lightly browned.

Cool at room temperature for 30 minutes. Chill for minimum 3 hours before serving.