Safna's Cook Book

Ingredients Semolina (Rava)            -  1 cup Dried coconut                -  1 1/2 cup Sugar                              -  1 1/4 cup Melted Ghee                   -  1/2 cup Cardamom powder         -  1/2 tsp  saffron (kesar) strands    -  a pinch Preparation Dry roast the  rava in a non - stick pan on slow flame for 3 minutes. Switch off the flame, add the dried coconut and mix well. Take sugar in a thick bottomed pan with 1 cup of water. cook on a medium flame for 5-6 minutes while stirring occasionally.put saffron strands to this syrup.keep this aside to cool slightly. Heat ghee in a pan, add rava-coconut mixture to this and cook on medium flame for 5-6 minutes. Add cardamom powder, sugar syrup an...

Ingredients All purpose flour                -  1 tbsp Melted butter                      - 1 tbsp Milk powder                       - 1 cup Baking powder                   - 1 tsp Egg                                     - 1 (large) Sugar                                  - 1 ½ cup Water                                  - 2 ¼ cup Cardamom powder             - ½ tsp Lemon juice                       - 1 tbsp Preparation Lets start wi...

There are a number of Thai dishes which we can try. Thai green chicken curry is one among that. This is my husband’s favourite dish. I have noticed several times, whenever we go in any continental restaurants and if Thai green chicken curry is available there, he never miss that. Normally all Thai dishes are spicy. This one also same. However, while preparing you can control the spiciness according to your taste. For preparing Thai dishes, of course some of the ingredients may not be easily available. We can use substitutes but it is better to get the original items to get the real Thai taste. The aroma and taste of Thai dishes are very different from Indian dishes.This is usually served with white steam rice. Ingredients 1.      Boneless chicken                                   : ½ kg...

Ingredients Cake flour         - 1 cup(replace two spoon maida with cornflour) salt                     -  1/2 tsp baking soda       -  1/2 tsp butter milk         -  2 tsp baking powder  -  1  tsp cocoa powder    -  1/2 cup sugar                  -  1 cup oil                      -  1/2 cup brewed coffee    -  1/2 cup (1/2  tsp  coffee powder mixed with hot water) egg                     -  1 vanilla essence   -  1 tsp Preparation Sieve the cake flour,salt,baking soda,baking powder and the cocoa powder together. Add sugar to the sieved flour. Beat egg lightly,add to the egg the oil,buttermilk,brewed coffee and the v...

Ingredients  Milk                     -  1 litre Lemongrass         -   2 strands China grass           -   8 g Water                     -   1/2 cup Condensed milk    -   1 tin Sugar                     -   4 tbsp Preparation Boil milk and condensed milk with lemon strands in a thick bottomed pan. Add sugar and slow down the flame. Soak china grass in 1/2 cup water for 10 minutes and heat until it dissolves completely. Add china grass mixture into the hot condensed milk through a strainer and mix well. Reduce the quantity until the mixture thickens. Pour this mixture into a pudding tray and refrigerate.

Those who likes spicy food, cannot forget about Chicken Vindaloo or fish Vindaloo.Vindaloo or Vindalho is an curry dish famous in the region of Goa, Konkan and some other parts of India. The name Vindaloo is derived from the portuguese dish carne  de vine d'alhos. Funny name right? We indians are so intelligent to rename it as simply Vindaloo. In the beginning itself, one thing need to be noted, this dish may not be liked by every body because of the sourness. Main ingredients of this dish are sour taste Vinegar, Tamarind etc. Ingredients Chicken          : 1/2 kg Potato             : 2 no. s Table salt        : 1 teaspoon Garlic              : 8 to 10 clove depending on the size Onion              : 2 no. s (When I made it, I used one onion and 6 sambhar onion to give a Kerala touch) Red chilly       :...

Ingredients Rawa                                                -  2 cups Onion(finely chopped)                     -  1 medium Green chillies                                    -  2 nos Ginger                                               -  1 inch piece Carrots chopped                                -  1/2 cup  Boiled green peas                             -  1/2 cup Split black gram skinless         ...