Southern Style Mutton Gravy

 

        Heat some oil and add the spices, green chillies and ginger garlic paste, saute it for few minutes.

                               

              Add the onions and tomatoes saute it and cook it well, once done add the mutton.

                               
           
                Add the chiili powder, salt and turmeric and pressure cook it for about 15 mins.

                               

                  In the mean time grind a paste of coconut, fennel seeds and  cashews.

                               

                       Add the coconut paste and bring it to boil and cook it for about10 mins.
           

                               
             

Miniature Book Earrings

Mini Book Earrings, Its very simple and fun to make, My daughter helped me to cut the paper, this is my first try with earrings. I thank Mrs Kathe Rauch who taught me how to make this.

You can take print out of your own choice of book, the printouts could be taken in regular paper and apply 2 to 3 coats of modpodge on it, so that it becomes stiff and hard. Or you can print it out in photo paper.

For the pages you can simply fold the paper about 4 times and cut it out to the size of the book and now fold the book cover and stick the pages to the spine of the book.

Make a hole at the top corner of the book with the help of a push pin or nail and insert a jump ring and attach the hook to it and close the jump ring.

You can print out the below image to make one.

Candle Holder decor

Make your own design on a glass candle holder, with readily available items.

For this holder I have used glitter ,salt and food color.

Make your own template on a piece of paper, make sure the paper fits into the candle holder.

Place that template paper inside the holder and stick the edges of the paper to the holder with tape so that it doesn't move while you trace the design outside, you can do that with a marker or paint, I have used paint to do it so that it pops out well.

Now use the glitter glue of your desired color and fill the gaps inside your design, you can do the same thing on all the four sides or can do something like what I did.

I mixed some Epsom salt with food color(red) and I mixed some glitter powder to it as well but it didn't make much difference so just food color would be enough or you can try mixing with paint of your desired color, not sure if the salt will melt.

I used painter's tape to make the design, apply modpodge or glue onto the surface and sprinkle the salt generously and dust off the excess with a paint brush once it dries out.

Potato Roll Gravy

Ingredients Needed are potatoes, cauliflower or any kind of veggies, besan flour, chilli powder and salt for the rolls, For the gravy tomaotes, onions, ginger garlic paste, turmeric, chilli powder and cashew paste.

Boil and mash the potatoes and keep it aside, grate the cauliflower and saute in oil for few minutes adding salt and chilli powder so that the moisture is gone out completely. Now add the mashed potatoes to it mix it well, add 1 tbsp of besan flour and mix it well until the mixture is not moist and sticky anymore, If it is too sticky you can add more flour.

                               

Now shape the mixture into your desired size and shape. Dust the rolls in besan flour and deep fry it in oil, You can even use maida or cornflour to dust itt, the reason we are doing it because, so that rolls stay bit firm if not it tends to absorb more oil and also can get dispersed once you add it to the hot gravy.

                              

Now comes the gravy part, heat some oil, saute the ginger garlic paste for few minutes and then add the onions once done add the tomatoes and chilli powder, turmeric and salt, cook it until its done, then add the cashew paste and water and bring it to boil.

                               

                                                 Add the rolls once the gravy comes to boil.

                                                       Enjoy it with any kind of bread.

Fatta Fat Parotta

I named this recipe as fatta fat because, the dough doesn't need more resting time unlike the usual parottas. I added vital wheat gluten to make the gluten formation process quick, since you add the ready made gluten u don't have to wait for a long time.

Ingredients needed are 1 cup all purpose flour/maida, 2 tbsp of vital wheat gluten, 2 eggs, salt and water.

                               

Mix all the ingredients well and knead it into a soft dough, needs resting time about 1hr so keep it in a warm place.

                                    After 1 hr knead it again and divide into desired size balls.

Dust some flour and roll it into thin sheet like this and brush the sheet with oil/butter.

                               

Now take the sheet from the rolling surface by gently lifting one end of the sheet, if it tears while taking it don't worry that's ok coz any how we are gonna roll it again, it will look like a piece of cloth, roll into spirals and keep it aside, do this process for all the balls.

Now roll the spirals into flat parotta, please note don't make make it thin and be gentle while rolling, do not apply more pressure, coz air has to be trapped inside it else the parottas won't be flaky.

Heat the tawa spread some oil and cook it on each side for about 2 mins, yes it consumes more oil, so if u are diet conscious, this recipe is not for you guys, but still you can have it once in a while since it's home made, unlike the store bought frozen parottas has too much of fat in it. Hope you enjoy trying out this recipe.

                       You can have this with any kind of gravy, I made chicken chetiinad gravy.

Mawa Muffin

Muffin made out of Khoa/Mawa

Ingredients Needed:  1cup all purpose flour/maida
                                 1/2 cup sugar
                                 6oz of Mawa/ khoa
                                 1/2tbspn vanilla essence
                                 1tbspn baking powder
                                 3 eggs
                                 1/4 cup oil

                             

                  Beat the eggs well, my little one is helping to beat it, she did a good job.

                             

              Add the sugar beat it up again and then add the vanilla essence and baking powder.

                             

      Grate the mawa/khoa and add it to the mixture, the batter gets to tighten up at this time, so give it a                                               gentle stir and then add the oil and mix it well.

                             

                  After mixing it up well add the flour and beat the batter for about 5 to 8 mins.

                             

The consistency of the batter should be like this, add some water if the batter is too thick and then add it to the mold and fill just 3/4th of the cup. Bake it in the oven at 350c for 10 to 15 mins.