Raagi idiyappam/Finger millet idiyappam

Most of the south indians makes this dish called as idiyappam or nool puttu or stringhopper. This is generally made of fine roasted rice flour, but this time I tried with raagi flour only to make it more nutritious and assure you that it was tasty too.. I made coconut milk sweetened with jaggery and flavoured with cardamom powder to go along with it but would honestly suggest you to make some spicy veg or non veg side dishes to go with it, may be something like a veg stew or any masala curry.

Following is the recipe for the same

Ingredients

Fine rice flour- 1 cup ( roasted)

Raagi flour - 1 1/2  cup ( roasted)

Hot water - as required

Method

Put the rice flour and raagi flour in a big bowl or big flat plate adding salt and two teaspoons of oil. Pour around two cups of hot water, mix it with a spoon, fork or a whisk. Let it rest for a while and then knead it softly adding more water ( now the water can be warm) until you get a soft not so watery dough. Use the idiyappam presser and press the dough through the nozzle to a greased plate. Repeat the same for the rest of the dough and then steam for about 8-10 minutes.

Serve it hot with your favourite side dish!!

Banana butterscotch cake

 

It was such a day when I had loads of over riped bananas in my fruit bowl and scratched my head as to how to use it off. being a weekend thought of baking a quick banana muffins with it , but dint have the patience to even arrange the muffin moulds and whole of the experiment resulted with a cake in the shape of a foccacia bread :) . Anyway it tasted lovely and so all was fair!!

Here goes the recipe which is quite simple and I did the mixing in my food processor bowl , so it was all the more easy, nevertheless the texture of the cake was good

            

                         

                               

  

Ingredients

Eggs  - 2

Mashed bananas - 1 cup

Raisins - 1 cup

Sugar - 2 tbspns

Whole wheat flour - 1 cup

Refined oil - 1/4 cup

Baking powder - 1 tspn

Baking soda - a pinch

Butter scotch - a handful

Method 

Mix everything in a food processor or in a large bowl whisk it up and pour the batter in a pan . Top it with a handful of butterscotch and bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees celsius for about 20 - 25 mins or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean

The butter scotch gives a very nice crunchy crust for the cake !

Multigrain choco- chip cookies

Its been long I have blogged and its even more longer that I have baked some cookies, I was seriously thinking of substituting sugar with something healthier and just the other day I made some jaggery syrup at home. So when I saw my freshly collected home made butter and this jaggery syrup I thought of going a step high in making some crunchy cookies and hence the resultant product. Fine will take you to the recipe too !

Ingredients

Ragi flour - 1/3 cup

Barley flour - 1/2 cup

Powdered coconut- 1/2 cup

Butter - 1/3 cup

Jaggery syrup- 1/3 cup

Sesame seeds - 2-3 tspn

Choco chips - a handful

Baking powder - a pinch

Method

Mix all the ingredients in a large bowl except the choco chips into a soft dough , add the choco chips in the final stage of mixing 

Scoop small quantities of the dough and place in a greased baking tray .

Place the tray in the top rack of the oven and bake in a preheated oven for about 10 minutes and then grill for another few minutes until the top and bottm of the cookie is slightly browned. 

Remove the cookies to a wire rack and let it cool!

Store in an airtight container and enjoy the cookies with your tea

Totally guilt free cookies !!