Eggless Chocolate Nut Cake ( using Microwave oven)

Eggless Chocolate Nut Cake ( using Microwave oven)

Ingredients

1. All purpose flour/Maida - 1 cup

2. Milk - 1 cup

3. Refined Sugar - 1.5 cups 

4. Cooking Oil - 2 to 3 tea spoons

5. Butter - 1/4 cup

6. Cashew nuts/Almonds ( any nuts of your choice ) - 1/5 cup

7. Baking powder - 1/4 tea spoon

8. Baking soda - 1/2 tea spoon

9. Cocoa/chocolate powder - 3 tea spoons

10. 2 to 3 pieces of Chocolate bar  - broken into small chunks

Procedure:

1. In a wide bowl, pour the milk and add sugar in it. Mix until all the sugar is dissolved completely in the milk.

2. In a sieve, add the all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder and sift them together till there are no lumps.

3. Add this flour mixture to the milk, oil, butter and mix well using a whisk, till the cake mixture is smooth, fluffy and has no lumps.

4. Apply butter inside a microwave safe bowl, spread the chocolate chunks and nuts all over the bottom. Now pour the cake mixture in it till about 1/2 full. Gently tap the bowl to ensure that the air bubbles trapped inside the cake mixture raises and get removed from the top.

5. Cook this cake mixture in the Microwave over for 6 minutes. 

Then stop the oven , check whether the cake mixture is raising and then cook for another 4 to 5 minutes checking intermittently at 1 minute intervals till it is fully cooked and raised at the top.

Insert a knife/tooth pick through the center of the cake and it should come out clean without the mixture sticking to its surface.

 

6. Invert the Cake  onto a plate/cooling rack and allow it to cool down for 20 minutes.
Slice and serve in a bowl.

  

This delicious mouth-watering cake serves 4 to 5 people and is a very quick and easy recipe.

Okra (Ladies' finger) curry - poriyal

Okra (Ladies' finger) curry - poriyal

Okra poriyal is a mildly-spiced Indian side-dish which is taken along with Rice or chapathi

Ingredients

1. Okra/Bhindi/Ladies' finger  - 250 gm ( chopped into small pieces)

2. Red Onion - 1/2 cup - finely chopped

3. Green chillies - 4 to 5 ( slit length-wise)

4. Cilantro/Coriander leaves - a bunch

5. Curry leaves - 4 to 5

6. Mustard - 1/4 tea spoon

7. Cooking oil - 2 to 3 tea spoons

8. Salt - 1/2 tea spoon ( adjust according to your taste)

9. Turmeric powder -a pinch

10. Red chili powder - 1/2 tea spoon

11. Red chillies - 2

12. Coriander powder - 1/4 tea spoon ( optional)

Procedure: 

1. Heat 2 to 3 tea spoons of oil in a wide pan.Once the oil is hot, add mustard, red chillies and allow to splutter. 

2. Add curry leaves, green chillies, red onion and saute till the onion turns golden brown.

3. Add okra pieces and sprinkle salt, turmeric powder, coriander powder, red chilli powder and keep sauteing.

4. Cover the pan with a lid and cook for 5 minutes. Stir occasionally.

5. Turn off the stove when okra turns dark and becomes slightly crispy. Sprinkle chopped cilantro  on top and stir lightly.

6. Serve hot with cooked rice or chapathis and enjoy this okra poriyal.