Gobi (Cauli Flower) Manchurian Gravy

For preparing the batter :

Maida Flour   3/4 Cup
Corn Flour     3 Tbsp
Chilly powder 2 Tsp
Ginger Garlic paste 2Tbsp
Salt as required
Soy Sauce 2Tsp
Water as required

For the Gravy   :

Cauli Flower   1Medium
Garlic 3 Cloves chopped
Onion chopped 1 Medium
Spring Onion bulb chopped 1 samll bundle (Approx 6 bulbs)
Capsicum 1 small Chopped
Chilly sauce 1 1/12 Tbsp
Tomato Sauce  1 1/12 Tbsp
Soy sauce  1 Tbsp
Pepper Crushed 2Tsp
Salt and Oil as required
Corn Flour  2 Tbsp
Water    1 1/2 cup

Preparation :
Wash and boil the gobi florets in salted water in order to remove the impurities and insects. Drain it after some time and keep aside. In a mixing bowl prepare the batter with the sufficient ingredients as listed above. Make it a smooth batter adding required water. Now take the Drained gobi florets and dip it  in the batter and deep fry it till it turns golden brown and crispy outside. Drain the excess oil by spreading them on a kitchen tissue paper.
Heat oil in a kadai. Saute chopped garlic first and eventually add chopped spring onion onion and capsicum. Saute it well. once its done keep the flame on low, and add pepper powder, chilly sauce Tomato Sauce and Soya sauce. Mix it well. Finally add corn flour water. Stirr it and let it boil and turn translucent . Add fried gobi florets and mix well. Switch off the stove. Garnish it with chopped spring onions before serving hot. You can relish it hot with either fried Rice or with roti.

Boondi Ladoo

Boondi Ladoo is a popular south Indian delicious sweet which we prepare in our household during auspicious occasions and festivals .

For making boondis : 

Besan Flour / Bengal gram flour (kadalapodi)  1 cup
Baking soda     1 pinch 
Salt  1 pinch
Turmeric powder 1 or 2 pinch for the desired color
Oil for deep frying 

For making sugar syrup :

Powdered Sugar    1 cup
Water 1/4 cup 

Other Ingredients for flavoring :

Cardomom powder 
Cloves 3 no.s
Edible camphor 1 or two small crystals 
Black Raisins for garnishing  8 No.s
Kalkandum (sugar candy) 1 or 2 tsp
Ghee 1/1/2 Tbsp

Preparation:

In a bowl add sieved ingredients that is besan, baking soda, turmeric and salt. Add water carefully little by little. The batter consistency should be neither thick nor watery.
Heat a kadai and add ghee and fry raisins and cashews (optional). keep it aside.

Heat oil in a kadai. On a perforated ladle pour  a ladle full batter into the hot oil keeping the flame on medium. The batter should flow as round drops. Adjust the consistency of the batter in order to get perfect shape. No need to cook till its crispy. Boondis should be crunchy then only it will absorb the sugar syrup perfectly. Prepare the boondis like this pouring it batch by batch. During the process please wipe the ladle  with a tissue paper to remove the excess batter.  From this take a 1/4 portion and grind once using a mixer grinder. Again take a 2 Tbsp boondis and add cloves and camphor and grind it to a powder. finally mix all these boondis and keep it aside.

Heat a thick bottomed pan and add sugar and water. Stir continuously.  Bring it to boil and check its for a string consistency . check taking and holding  the syrup between our thump and index finger.
Switch off the flame. Immediately Add cardamom powder and boondi. Mix well. Sit it for 5 mints. Add kalkand as well and mix. While this mixture is warm , we have to shape it by applying ghee on our palm. keep a raisin to garnish each ladoo. ( here we can adopt a method of roughly shaping all the boondis initially  still its warm and later on shaping it perfectly) If it cools down we wont be able to shape it so I recommend to keep it on the stove for warming it again.
This way we can prepare a crunchy melt in the mouth delicious laddos. 

Semolina Sponge Cake (Eggless , Butter less and no oven)

I tried this cake from Mia Kitchen. It came out well. Its prepared in the iron kadai instead of oven.Kindly find the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th2_JB5FYX0

Ingredients :

Rava – 1 ¼ cup, non roasted Oil – ½ cup + to grease cake tin Curd – ½ cup Milk – ½ cup Milk powder – 2 tbsp Maida/All purpose flour – ½ cup Sugar – powdered, 1 cup Baking powder – ½ tsp Baking soda – ½ tsp Salt – ¼ tsp Tutti frutti or Cherries, raisins & pistachios – to garnish