Sunday, March 29, 2009

Chocolate Chip Cookies



Ingredients

• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

Procedure
1. Preheat the baking oven to 375 degrees.
2. Take a big bowl and put in sugar, brown sugar, butter, vanilla and eggs. Mix the ingredients well with hand
3. Now stir in flour, baking soda and salt. The dough mix would be very stiff by now
4. Add in the chocolate chips at this stage
5. Drop the dough by rounded tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
6. Bake this for about 8 to 10 minutes or till it turns light brown
7. Cool it well and then remove from the cookie sheet
8. Your chocolate chip cookies are ready to be served

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Vegetable Idli



Ingredients
1. Idly rice - 1/2 kg
2. Black gram - 200 gm
3. Salt - As required
4. Carrot - One (Medium)
5. Beans - Four
6. Cauli flower - 25 gm
7. Capsicum - Half
8. Ginger - One (Small)
9. Coriander leaves - 5 gm
10. Oil - 5 gm
11. Pepper - a small spoonful

Method
01. After washing rice and black gram well soak it for four hours.
02. Drain the rice and black gram, grind rice and black gram separately adding required amount of water.
03. Mix rice and black gram adding required amount of salt. Leave it to ferment.
04. Cut washed vegetables into small pieces.
05. Mix them with the batter. A a tea spoon of pepper powder.
06. Smear oil in the idli moulds and pour the batter into the mould. Cook it in steam and serve it hot.