ORIGAMI BASKET

The other day i saw these chocolate panettones baked in folded paper cases on wild yeast blog.

I just love handmade stuff and i knew i had make these cute lil baskets.You can find  detailed instructions on how to make these origami baskets here.

I used 13 cms x 20 cms baking paper.

Firstly mark the center of the longer side ( at 10 cms)(you can also mark the center of the shorter side and continue with the rest of the steps to make a longer basket)

Fold the two sides towards the marked center point.

Fold the corners(as shown in the picture) towards the center,leaving almost 1 cms from the center line.

Repeat this for all the 4 corners as shown in the picture.

Now fold each 1cms flap upwards .

Press the side to form a sharp corner after insert your thumb into a corner as a guide.

Repeat this with the rest of the corners.

I used these baskets to make egg less carrot cake !! They make perfect christmas/new year gifts!!!

Sending this to Tutorial Tuesday event at Hope studios

PEAS PULAV

1. IngredientsBasmati rice- 1 cup
2. Water 2 1/4 cups
3. Onion chopped- 1 small
4. Green chillies - 1 nos
5. Ginger- 1 piece
6. Garlic -2 or 3 cloves
7. Green peas-3/4 cup
8. Carrots and green beans cubed- 1 1/4 cup
9. Corriander leaves chopped -1 handful
10. Ghee/oil-2 to 3 tbl spoon
11. Cinnamon stick- 2 nos
12. Cardamom- 2 no
13. Star anise - 2 nos
14. Cloves-6 nos
15. Bay leaves- 2 small
16. cumin seeds- 1 tsp
17. Salt

Method

• Heat ghee/oil ,add cumin seeds and let it splutter,add all of the whole spices and roast till the aroma is released.
• Add chopped onions and saute till transparent ,now add the crushed green chillies,ginger and garlic and cook till the raw smell leaves.
• Add the chopped vegetables ,and green peas and fry for few minutes.
• Now add the washed and drained rice and fry for few minutes.
• Pour two cups of water,add salt to taste .
• Add the corriander leaves.
• Cover the pan and cook till the rice is done.

Serve with raitha and pickle.

Brownies

Ingredients

• 14 tbsp butter
• 1 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/4 cup sugar
• 2 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 11/2 cup flour
• salt

1. Preheat the oven to 350 Degree F.Line the bottom and sides of 12" square baking pan and grease
2. Gently melt the butter in a small saucepan.Remove from the heat and stir in the cocoa powder.
3. Beat the egg and vanilla until light and add to the cocoa butter mixture.
4. Add sugar and mix well.Add a pinch of salt.
5. Sift the flour over the cocoa mixture and gently fold in.Scrape the batter into the prepared pan.
6. Bake in the center of the oven for 30 minutes .Do not over bake.Leave in the pan to cool before cutting into 2-inch squares and removing.
7. The brownies should be soft and moist

(for fudge icing,add 100 gms icing sugar,50 gms melted butter,1 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder,3 tbsp of milk and heat.stir well to get paste consistency.pour the icing on the brownie.)

(Recipe:American baking heritage-Patricia Lousada)

Butterhorn rolls

Ingredients

• Yeast-2 1/4 ounce


• Warm water-2 cups


• Sugar-1/3 cup


• Salt- 1 1/2 tsp


• Butter- 1/2 cup


• Egg- 2 nos


• Flour- 7 cups

Method

• Put yeast into the warm water and let it rise(it tales almost 5 minutes)


• Make a dough using all the ingredients and the yeast.


• Place on a greased tray and refrigerate it in a tightly closed container for 8 to 10 hours or overnight.


• Take a portion of the dough and roll it into a circle of almost 20 cms dia(almost 1 cms thick)Brush with butter


• Cut it into wedge shape pieces.


• Roll the wedge shape piece towards the sharp edge starting from the wide side.


• Brush with butter and bake for 8 to 10 minutes till the top turns light brown.

Beef fry

Ingredients

• Beef-500gms


• Tomatoes(chopped)-1 no


• Onion(chopped)- 1 no


• Turmeric powder-1 1/2 tspn


• Chilly powder -2 tspn


• Mustard-1 tspn


• Curry leaves-10 nos


• Fennel seeds- 1/4 tspn


• Green chillies-3 nos


• Ginger garlic paste-3 tspn


• Pepper powder-2 tspn


• Meat masala-2 tspn


• Corriander powder -2 tspn


• Oil


• Salt

Method

• In a vessel Cook beef with salt ,1 tspn chilli powder and 1/2 tspn turmeric powder ,until the beef is tender .


• Heat oil in a pan, saute the mustard seeds,curry leaves,fennel seeds ,green chillies and ginger garlic paste .


• add the onion and fry till it turns golden brown.


• Add the chilli powder,turmeric powder,meat masala ,pepper powder and corriander powder ,stir constantly.add salt to taste.


• add the tomatoes ,saute.


• After a few minutes add the beef and fry till it turns dark brown

Serve with rice and tempered yoghurt

Chicken pepper(fry)

Ingredients

1. Chicken(cut in to small pieces)-500 gms
2. Chopped onions-3 to 4
3. Chopped tomatoes-2
4. Chilly powder- 1 tsp
5. Corriander powder-2 tsp
6. Turmeric powder- 1/2 tspn
7. Ginger garlic paste-1 tbspn
8. Meat masala-1 tspn
9. Garam masala-1/2tspn
10. Pepper powder-1to 2 tspn
11. Salt to taste
12. Curry leaves-10
13. Oil
14. Water

Method

• Heat oil in a pan


• Fry the onions and tomatoes together,


• when the onion turn brown add the chicken and sprinkle some water on top.


• let the chicken cook


• When the chicken turns soft and is almost cooked add ingedients 4 to 11 and fry


• When the chicken turns really brown add another teaspoon of pepper powder and the curry leaves.

Tips:If you like it really spicy,increase the amount of pepper powder rather than the chilly powder.

You can ever try the same thing recipe with mutton,only thing is that you have to cook the mutton before adding it to the fried onion,coz mutton takes more time to cook.