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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Orange Sponge Cake
Orange Sponge Cake
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup flour
2 tablespoons orange juice
1/2 teaspoon orange extract
Beat the eggs until they are light and lemon-colored.
Gradually add the sugar.
Sift the flour into the sugar mixture.
Add the orange juice and orange extract.
Pour batter into a tube pan or loaf pan.Bake at 350ºF/180ºC for approximately 30 minutes
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup flour
2 tablespoons orange juice
1/2 teaspoon orange extract
Beat the eggs until they are light and lemon-colored.
Gradually add the sugar.
Sift the flour into the sugar mixture.
Add the orange juice and orange extract.
Pour batter into a tube pan or loaf pan.Bake at 350ºF/180ºC for approximately 30 minutes
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Salads
Ingredients
Serve for four people
- Tomato - 2nos
- Cucumber-2nos
- Beetroot - 1 no
- Carrot - 1nos
- Parsley (leaves)- 1cup
- Jarjeer (leaves)- 1/2 cup
- Lettuce- 2 petals
- Red Kidney Beans- 1cup
- Mushroom- 3 nos
- Chick peas- 1 cup
- Lemon-2 nos
- Salt- as per your requirement
- Pepper powder- 1 teaspoon
Tools required.
- Cutting board
- Knife
- Salad bowl.
- Grater.
- Pressure cooker / sauce pan
- Strainer
- Kitchen Scissors
- Lemon juice extractor / squeezer
Preparation:
- Soak red kidney beans in water for about 8 hrs.(Note: Don't soak if you bought tinned red kidney beans)
- Soak chick peas in water for about 8hrs.(Note: Don't soak if you bought chick peas).
- Wash tomato, cucumber, carrot, parsley, jarjeer, lettuce etc throughly and Dip in a bowl of water for atleast one hour.(This is to get rid of the pesticides and all other poisonous material which was applied by the farmer which you are not aware).
- Simultaneously you can cook red kidney beans and chick peas, by adding a two cups of water and a 1/2 teaspoon of salt in a pressure cooker in a low flame. ( will do this in 15minutes)
- Peel the beetroot skin with a peeler, and boil it in a sauce pan for 15 minutes.Let it cool. Slice it into thin pieces.
- Wash the mushroom under the tap using running water.
- Cut the mushroom to thin pieces
- In two cups of water, boil the mushroom pieces for 5minutes and keep it aside.
- Now remove the items mentioned in line no:3 from water and keep over a strainer for 10minutes.
- Cut tomato into small cube pieces and put in the mixing bowl.
- Cut cucumber into small cube pieces and put in the mixing bowl.
- Grate carrot and put in the mixing bowl.
- Take parsley and pluck the leaves and chop the leaves with a knife. ( the stem you can throw away).
- Take jarjeer and remove the stem in the bottom of the leaf and chop using a knife.
- Take lettuce and remove the steam and chop the leaves using a sharp knife.
- Transfer the parsley , lettuce and jarjeer to the mixing bowl.
- Now open the pressure cooker and drain the excess water and get the boiled red kidney beans out and transfer it to the mixing bowl.
- Now do the same way as you had done for red kidney beans for chick peas also.
- Trasfer the mushroom also to the mixing bowl after draining the excess water.
- Transfer the sliced beetroot also.
- Now cut the lemon into two halves and squeeze it with the juice extractor( this is not the motorized orange , apple juice extractor).
- Pour the lemon juice to mixing bowl.
- Now add little salt ( the quantity of salt is upto you, usually one teaspoon will be ok, if you don't have an idea.
- Add one teaspoon of black pepper powder to the mixing bowl.
- Now mix everything with your hand for one minute.
- Now transfer your salad to a serving bowl.
- Enjoy the tasty and healthy salad.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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