Banana Bread with a Cinnamon Touch

Ingredients :

3-4 ripe bananas 

1/3 cup melted unsalted butter

½  cup brown sugar

½  cup white sugar

1 egg beaten

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp baking soda

pinch of salt

1 1/2 cups flour

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C)

Line the loaf pan using parchment paper

In an blender add bananas, melted butter, egg and give a whiz till it is almost smooth.

Pour the mix a large bowl and add rest of the ingredients and mix using the beater or by your hand. Finally add the flour and mix everything together.

Pour the cake mixture to the lined loaf pan and bake to 35 to 50 minutes till the tooth pick inserted in the middle of the cake comes out clean.

Note: Mine took 50 minutes since oven temperatures vary. Original recipe do not call for brown sugar but I used it since I had some sitting in my pantry for ages. Also I have found that keeping the cake in refrigerator in a closed container enhances taste.

Easy Mushroom mezhukkupuratti /stir fry

This is my brother's creation. It might have born because of the bachelor desperation known as missing Mom’s food or the health freakiness he had adopted during the bachelor days. Whatever the reason, this is one of those dishes which can be prepared in ten minutes and has earned good certificate from my otherwise anti mushroom hubby. You know mine (hubby) belongs to that kind who will cringe his face whenever there is mushroom, spinach and greens in the trolley, forever convinced that I am trying to convert him to a cow. Now another finding about this particular genus is that they love salads and consume it in loads whenever and wherever available. Even going to the extent of paying for a bunch uncooked leaves. About the cowiness, now that needs to be discussed in another post.

Ingredients

2 cup sliced mushroom

½  onion sliced thinly

3 green chillies sliced

½ teaspoon turmeric

Pepper to taste

Salt to taste

Oil  1 tablespoon

Instructions

Take a pan and heat the oil. Once it is hot add the slice onion, green chilli ,turmeric and sauté till it is translucent.

Add mushroom and salt and keep stirring it. Do not add water since mushrooms will release water on its own.

Keep stirring till all the water dries. Add pepper and give a final sauté till everything comes together. Enjoy with rice or chapathi.

Always,

Teena

  

Easy Veg Roll with noodles

Courtesy: Remya Jackson

Ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour

1 egg

 ¾ cup shredded cabbage

  ¾ cup shredded carrot

 ½ cup celery minced into small pieces

 ½ cup cooked maagi noodles without seasoning

 1 egg white

Instructions:

Add oil and saute the vegetables on high heat for two minute without                 caramelizing the vegetables.The veggies should not lose its crunch.

Add cooked noodles; salt to taste and saute it for one more minute so that the mixture comes together.

Keep aside to cool

Make a batter out of all purpose flour, egg and salt.

Take a pan and make thin crepes/dosa out of it. You will easily get 10-12 crepes out of it.

Put the filling into the crepes , roll it and seal the roll with a paste made of AP flour and water.

Brush the roll with egg white and coat it with crumbs. It is now ready to go into hot oil or you can store in the refrigerator and fry it just before your guests arrive.

The best combo is veg roll and tomato ketchup.