Unniappam

Ingredients

Rice flour - 2cups
Wheat flour - 1 cup
Jaggery - 250 gm
Ripe banana - 2 to 3
Coconut, grated - 1/2 cup
Black sesame seeds - 1 tbsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Oil for frying


Method

• Add 1 cup water to jaggery and melt it.  Strain and allow it to cool.
• Roast sesame seeds, then roast coconut in ghee until golden brown.
• Grind banana in little melted jaggery to a smooth paste.
• Mix together the rice flour, wheat flour, banana paste, sesame, coconut.
• Add jaggery gradually and mix, add water if need to get the required consistency. 
• Add baking soda and mix well and keep aside for 30 minutes.
• Fry in 'appachatti' or in a frying pan. 
• Sprinkle sugar over hot unniappams (optional).

Newbie on the Food Blog

Posted - Monday, October 21, 2013

Though not new to blogging, this is my first food blog.  I know I am joining this fraternity very late, all along wanted to but my full-time job kept me busy.  

Now, who does not love good food.  With the 24-hour food channels on television, recipes galore on the internet, apps to download recipes, we are all caught in the whirlwind of this culinary art.  Not only established chefs, wannabe chefs, amateur chefs, but ardent food lovers in every corner of the world dish out newer recipes every second to recreate innovative cuisines to titillate the modern taste buds.  There are others who revive the traditional recipes from our grandmas' times.

I will post and build this blog as I go along.

Choco Shells

Choco Shells

              

                 Meal Type - Dessert

This is an awfully easy to prepare dessert which requires no cooking or baking.  The ingredients are readily available in your kitchen.  Impress your family and friends and keep them wondering as to what it is made of.

Ingredients

For the coffee syrup dip:

I packet marie biscuits

2 tsp instant coffee powder

4 tsp flour

2 tsp icing sugar

Approximately quarter to half cup water

For the icing:

4 tbsp icing sugar

1 tbsp cocoa

2 tbsp butter or ghee

Method

·       Mix instant coffee, flour, icing sugar by adding water little by little to form a semi-thick syrup to dip the biscuits.

·       Mix the ingredients for icing with water as required.  Keep aside.

·       Dip marie biscuits one by one in the coffee syrup and stack them one on top of the other.

·       Once stacked, apply icing all over this with the help of butter knife.

·       Firmly roll/wrap the biscuit log in a plastic sheet or butter paper and keep in refrigerator until the icing is set.

·       Remove from refrigerator and cut them into slices in a slanting manner.

·       Drizzle chocolate syrup before serving.