As part of Maitri chain Nancy from Kitchen Gypsies has sent me a pack of CousCous.Maitri is a friendship chain started by Priya and Reshmi. I used half a cup to make salad.I prepared sweet couscous with the remaining. This recipe is basically a replica of sweet aval/poha that we used to make with aval, milk and coconut.This makes a healthy after school snack for kids and is almost instantaneous to prepare
Ingredients
Couscous: 1/2 cup
Milk: 1.5 cups
Sugar: 3 tablespoon
Grated coconut:1/2 cup
Cardomom powder: 1/2 tsp
Cashewnuts, rasinins, sliced almonds: as desired
Procedure:
Step1:
Mix couscous and hot milk and leave it covered in a bowl for 15 min
Step2:
Add sugar, coconut and cardomom powder and mix well
Step3:
Garnish with cashews fried in ghee, raisins and sliced almonds
I had bookmarked this recipe from SunitaBhuyan and yesterday was a perfect occasion to bake this. It was my husband's birthday and I made this sponge cake.
Ingredients
Wheat flour/Atta: 1.5 cups
White granulated Sugar: 3/4 cup
Baking powder: 2 tsp
Vanilla essence: 1 tsp
Sunflower oil: 6 tablespoons
Water: 1 cup
Procedure:
Step1:
Powder the sugar and add it to sifted wheat flour
Step2:
Add baking powder and mix well
Step3:
Mix all the wet ingredients (water, oil and vanilla extract) in a separate bowl
Step4:
Mix the wet and dry ingredients and beat to a smooth batter
Step5:
Pour into 2 8" square pans (Line the pans with parchment paper)
Step6:
Bake at a preheated oven of 350 F for 20 min until the sides turn light brown.The center of the cake should feel springy to touch.
Step7:
Cool the cake and then decorate it.
Sending this to Bookmarked recipes by Mharo Rajasthan's Recipes
As part of Maitri friendship chain I was matched with Nancy of Kitchen Gypsies.The mystery ingredient that I received was couscous. She has also sent me a cute little bunny.The bunny is nowadays busy in my daughter's hands.
I have heard of couscous but I have never seen it before.Obviously this is my first recipe with Couscous.
Nancy gave me a hint to identify the ingredient after which I figured out. Thanks Nancy for expanding my cooking horizon with a new ingredient and thank you so much for the little bunny.
Yesterday I used half of the cup of couscous to make a healthy veggie salad and remaining half to make a dessert(Will post the recipe in my next post).My whole family liked the salad. Couscous brings a wonderful texture to the salad.And the recipe is very simple which does not involve any cooking but tastes absolutely great.
Ingredients
Couscous: 1/2 cup
Bell pepper chopped: 1/2 cup
Tomato chopped: 1/2 cup
Green onions chopped: 1/2 cup
Cucumber chopped: 1/2 cup
Cilantro chopped: 2 tablespoon
Green chilli chopped: as per taste
Lime juice: 1 tsp
Salt: as per taste
Pepper powder: 1/4 tsp
Step1:
Mix couscous and 1.5 cups of boiling water in a bowl and leave it closed for 15 min.
Step2:
Fluff the couscous well breaking up any lumps. Add salt
Step3:
Add all the vegetables and mix well
Step4:
Season with pepper and lime juice
Step5:
Serve at once or can be refrigerated as well.
