Superfood pancake muffins

This is my go to quick recipe for my baby's muffin fixes 😊, those times when she dreams about Muffins during her nap and demands muffins for evening snack!



Ingredients

1 cup Kodiak Cakes superfoods flapjack mix ( any pancake mix will do, I specially like this one because of its clean ingredients and super food grains)
1 egg
1 ripe banana
1 tbsp butter ( can sub with apple sauce if you want healthier options)
sprinkling of cinnamon powder
1 tbsp chocolate chips ( I use dark chocolate)
Optional:   walnuts, 1/2 cup.
Prep

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees bake
2. In your blender mix banana, egg, cinnamon, butter/apple sauce
3. In a bowl measure and pour the pancake mix.
4.  Add the wet blend to the dry ingredients
5. Mix well.
6. Fold in the chocolate chips and nuts if using
7. Grease the muffin tins or ramekins if you don't have muffin tins
8. Put in the oven, for 14 mins. Cool for 5 mins before serving !

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Cauliflower 'Steaks'

I found this recipe on Pinterest , and thought I can Indianize it a bit.

Ingredients

1 small head of cauliflower cut into sections , not florets
1 tbsp rice flour
2 tsp rasam power
1/4 spoon Garlic paste
Oil for coating

Prep:
Choose a cauliflower which has its florets closely binded , the closeness of the florets indicates the tenderness
Green cauliflower tastes even better
I cut the cauliflower slowly with a sharp knife  vertically into 1 inch thick sections
Pre heat the oven to 350 F

Place them on a parchment paper and put all the seasoning and mix well with hand until it's fully spread out and all parts of the cauliflower are coated

Place the parchment paper on to a baking tray and roast ( if you have a pizza setting or convection roast setting use that) for 10 min

Take out and flip on to the other side and let it stay another 10 min

Serve with rice, couscous ..  or eat as is :)

Slow cooker minestrone soup

Ingredients :serves 6

1.5 cups Small white beans
5 cups water
1 Zucchini medium sized, chopped into 2" pieces
2-3 baby carrots ( not the packet, real baby carrots with leaves ) chopped
1/4 cup Cauliflower , broken into florets
2-3 sprigs of carrot leaves for garnish
2 cubes of vegetable boullion ( I use Rapunzel brand)
4-5 tbsp Marinara sauce
1 tsp Thai Red Curry ( optional)
Rock Salt
1/2 tsp Pepper/spice of choice
Regular salt
McCormick Italian spice for seasoning
McCormick Garlic powder for seasoning
( can use garlic or garlic paste too)

Method:

Very simple!

Put all the ingredients into the slow cooker except carrot leaves and regular salt , cook on high for 6 hours at minimum and more if you want thicker.

We don't want to cook with much salt because it prevents the beans from breaking down well .

Once done taste and make adjustments , add more salt, seasoning , paprika as needed. Garnish with carrot leaves.

Green Chutney with coconut

Ingriedients 

Shredded coconut 1/4 cup

Cilantro - 10 sprigs 

1 jalapeño 

1/2 tsp lime juice 

Ginger small piece 

Salt

Tempering 

Mustard seeds 

Roasted Chana Dal

Urad Dal split

Curry leaves , 3-4

Sesame oil/ mustard oil.

Dry chilli

Method:

Grind all the ingredients for chutney other than the tempering and lime juice with as little water as possible. Add lime juice. 

Roast the tempering mix in sesame oil and add to the chutney. Mix and serve. 

Ragi Rava Dosai

Ingredients

1/2 cup Ragi flour
1 cup rava dosa mix from Gits
OR
1/4 cup rice flour, 3/4 cup Sooji
Optional :
1 Finely chopped onion
Cilantro
Green chillies
Ginger grated (1/4 tsp)

Take about 8 oz hot water ( microwave for a min) and add it to the Ragi and rava flours.
Whisk to make smooth batter, dilute it further to make it buttermilk consistency.
Add onions, chillies, ginger, salt extra if needed and cilantro .


Heat tava on high, then turn it to medium and pour the batter onto the tava it will form a holes in the dosa as you pour , this dosa does not need spreading. Forming 'holes' is the indication that the batter is of right consistency . Add more rava if too water and breaking up with when flipping the dosa. Flip and roast again.

Serve with chutney.

Pacchi Pulusu

So this pacchi shall not be confused with the pacchi in aloo mattar recipe ;) the peril of being in a multi lingual family ! This pacchi is the Telugu pacchi means raw, while the Pacchi in all mattar recipe is Konkani for Aunt .

So this pacchi pulusu roughly translates to raw soup or cold soup , no cooking involved!!

Ingridients

Tamarind - small lime sized. Or 1/4 spoon of tamarind concentrate
1/2 Large onion or 1 small onion finely chopped
1 Thai chilli or half a jalapeño sliced or chopped into big pieces
Cilantro for garnish
Water 2 cups
Salt to taste.

Soften the tamarind and squeeze the juice out , add to water
Sprinkle some salt on the onions and chillies , and mix and let it rest for 5 mins.
This is important , because we are not cooking the ingredients, salt will sort of cleanse and disinfect if I can say, the ingredients.

Take the salted onions and green chillies and add them to the tamarind water , while adding , just give them a nice massage / squeeze, this will make the onions and chillies ooze out their juices and flavor the pulusu well.

The more you squeeze the more spicy it will turn out!! So watch out. But don't worry if it's too spicy just remove some water and add plain water with salt to Mellow it.

Garnish with cilantro. Adjust salt if needed.

As you see this recipe is more about technique than ingredients or proportion, so you can be flexible in quantities as per taste!

Whole Moong Khichidi

This recipe is adapted from Anupy Singlas slow cooker book.

Ingredients

1 cup whole moong dry
1/2 cup brown or white rice
1/2 cup Mixed veggies if desired (frozen)
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon jeera seeds
1 teaspoon ghee
Optionally 1 tomato and 1/2 onion rough chopped
Salt to taste
4 cups of water

Recipe makes 5-6 cups of cooked Khichidi

Slow cooker :
Combine all ingredients in the slow cooker and cook for 3.5-4 hours.  Check the moong to see if the Khichidi is ready. Serve with raw onions or spicy pacchi pulusu and a tiny bit of ghee.

Pressure cooker

Soak the moong for 3 hours if possible , then combine all ingredients in a pressure cooker and cook for 1 whistle and sim for 2-3 mins and let it release pressure fully before opening.