Cookbook for my girls

                                                  Ragi Dosa Preparation time: 30 minutes Ingredients: urad dal-1/2 cup Raw Rice-1 tbsp Ragi powder-1/4 cup Preparation: As a first step, in a large bowl, add 1/2 cup of urad dal and 1 tablespoon of raw rice. Rinse well and soak in enough water for 4 hours. After soaking for 4 hours, drain all the water and transfer to the grinder or mixer. Add water as required and blend to a smooth paste then add 1/4 cup of ragi powder. Blend for another minute. Add water slowly and scrape the sides. Blend to a smooth paste. Transfer to a bowl. Mix well making sure everything is well combined. Ferment in a warm place for at least 8 hours or until the batter doubles in volume. (If you are living in a cold climate, you can place the batter in the warm oven to ferment.) Once the batter is well fermented, mix gently, and add one tablesp...

                                                                                                                                                        Healthy pancake and waffle recipe for kids!     Here is a delicious and nutritious ragi banana pancake and waffle recipe! Preparation time: about 25 minutes Ingredients:  Banana-1 big Ragi flour- 1/4 cup whole wheat flour-1/4 cup egg-1 milk-1/2 cup sugar-1 tbsp (according to your taste) Baking powder-1/2 teaspoon (If  you don't have or don't want to use baking powder, you can use dosa batter-1 tbsp instead) (If you want, add cocoa powder-1...

                                                                                                                Semiya Payasam Preparation time: 30 minutes Ingredients: vermicelli-1 cup ghee-2 tbsp salt- 1 pinch sugar-according to your taste  cashew nuts (optional) water-1 liter raisins cardamom powder-2 pinches milk-2 liter (fresh whole milk) Steps:     Boil 1 liter of water along with milk. To this add the fried semiya mix, then add carda- mom powder or cardamom. Cook it for 15 minutes. Then add the sugar and salt, and switch off the stove. Add some fried nuts and raisins and then......ENJOY!!!!!! :)

                               Kerala Christmas dried fruits cake                 Try out my plum cake recipe (Non-alcoholic version) and I promise you that this will be one of the most delicious and authentic plum cake you have ever tasted! Preparation time: 30 minutes Baking time: 50 minutes to 1 hour and 15 minutes Temperature: 180 °C/350 °F Ingredients: All purpose flour- 1   ½ cup Ginger powder- ½ tsp Cloves powder-½ tsp cinnamon-  ½ tsp nutmeg powder-  ½ tsp baking powder- 1 tsp salt-½ tsp dry fruits-400 grams butter-100 grams sugar- 1   ½  cup egg-3 vanilla essence 1 tbsp orange juice- 1 cup Preparation

                                                                                            Rice ladoo                                          (Ariyundaaa)       Rice ladoo is a kerala traditional evening snack. Sometimes when I came back from school my mom would make this for me as a delicious snack. I hope you enjoy this treat as well!   Preparation time: 30 minutes Ingredients: Kerala boiled rice (Matta rice) -1 cup Grated coconut-  1/2 cup Grated jaggery- 1/2 cup Cardamom powder- 1/4 spoon     Steps:    Heat a kadai (steel pan) Dry roast washed-boiled rice until it pops up and turns a...