Aachi Samayal

Cuisine : American

Preparation time : 20  mins

Cooking time : 20 mins

Course : Snack

Main Ingredients : All purpose flour & Banana

Ingredients :

Banana - 3 mashed

All purpose flour : 2 cups

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Salt - 1/2 Tsp

Sugar - 1 cup

Butter - 1 stick

Egg - 2 ( you can use substitute too)

Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

Chopped walnuts - 1 cup ( any nut)

Preparation :

Christmas Plum Cake

Plum cake refers to a wide range of cakes made with either dried fruit or with fresh fruit. Most people prefer adding rum or brandy infused dried fruits in the cake while some may prefer to bake their cake without any alcohol. 

We know you can buy plum cakes from outside, but how about preparing it at home and making the Holiday extra special for you and your loved ones? Here's a wonderful recipe of Plum Cake by Aachi Samayal, Just for you. Its very simple, Easy and taste delicious. Cant wait to share the recipe with you. Lets get started...

Cuisine : IndianPreparation time : 30 minsCooking Time 45 minsCourse : Cake | Dessert Difficulty Level : MediumMain Ingredient : Dates, All Purpose Flour

For Soaking ( 2-3 days)
.5 cup	Trail Mix
1 cup	Cherry
.5 cup	Dates
1 cup	Mixed Nuts (cashews, almonds, walnuts)
2 Cup	Grape Juice
For Sugar Caramel
1/2 cup	Sugar
1/4 cup	Water
1/2 cup	Hot Water
For Spice mix
4	Cloves
3	Cardamom
For Cake Batter
2 cup	All purpose flour / Maida
2 cup	Sugar
1 cup	Melted Butter
5	Eggs
1 tsp	Baking powder
1/2 tsp	Baking Soda
1/2 tsp	Salt
1 tbsp	Vanilla extract

• Soak dry fruits and nuts in grape juice for minimum 1- 2 days

• Make sugar caramel with 1/2 cup sugar and 1/4 cup water. 

• Powder the spices with 1/2 cup sugar to a fine powder

• Mix the wet ingredients - Egg, Vanilla, Caramelized Sugar

• Add the dry ingredients and the soaked fruits with the Juice. 

• Bake it at 350 F or 180 C for 45 minutes

• Plum cake is ready to be served

• It can be stored outside for 1-2 weeks

Naan i just love to have in the restaurant, today i really wanted to go to a restaurant and have some but it was too late and i end up doing myself. I love garlic naan with paneer gravy, one of my favorite combo. I was just looking for the recipe and it was so easy and not so complicated. It was so much like making a pizza dough. And so tried it and it came out really well. My whole family liked it. Yum!! Let see this mouthwatering recipe....

Cuisine : Indian

Preparation time : 30 minutes

Cooking time : 3 minutes

Course : Main Course 

Main Ingredient : All Purpose Flour/ Maida

All Purpose Flour - 4 cups

Yeast - 1 Packet

Milk - 1/2 cup

Oil - 2 tbsp

Salt - 1 tsp

Sugar - 1 tsp

Egg - 1 (Optional)

Serving with some curry will taste good, i made paneer curry

Serving per recipe : 4

Calories per serving : 350 approx

I never tasted this kind of brownies before, i was introduced to this recipe from one of my friend. She made this lovely Brownies last week and it was just melting into my mouth. It was soft,chewy and delicious. I told her it was out of the world. And really wanted to try the recipe, so she shared the recipe with me. This recipe has a little twist, they didn't use normal white sugar, but the recipe has only brown sugar and so you get the chewy consistency. 

It has walnuts and chocolate chips in it, so kids will love to taste it, and my son was a great fan for this brownie. Its a very simple and yummy recipe. You can have this delicious brownies with a glass of milk.

Serve it after you make them into pieces.

Serving per recipe - 12

Calories per serving - 240 approx

This is one another cake but made it in the mug, i don't prefer using the microwave but once is fine. My daughter wants to make something for st. Patrick's day and so decided and made this quick recipe. She loves to bake, i don't know why and also she want the cookie or the cake to be done immediately after mixing the batter. And will start asking me "Mommy is it done yet" like 10 times. Then when it is out of the oven, she will start, "Can i eat it???" 

So i always prefer baking when she is at home, she loves to mix the batter and add the ingredients in the big bowl. And this is kind of so easy and simple recipe, prepare in the mug and keep it in the microwave for 2 mins and ta-da it is done!!!

Butter - 2 tbsp

Chocolate powder - 1 tsp

Milk - 2 tbsp

Egg - 1

Sugar - 1/4 cup

Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp

All purpose flour / Self rising Flour - 6 tbsp

Salt - a pinch

Frosting - 2 tbsp of vanilla frosting with, 1 drop of green food color 

• Just add all the ingredients in the mug and mix well. It is as simple as that. First this is to beat the egg well and then add all the ingredients.
• Place it in the microwave for 1 min first and then take them out and check the cake, if needed add 20 more secs to cook. It should not take more that 2 mins.
• Let it cool and then you can add the frosting on top of it.  The topping has to be done only after the cake is completely cooled.
• I made Vanilla frosting and added green food color for the topping.
• My daughter added some fruit loops as a garnish, you can add anything to it, even a small cherry will do.

Very simple and easy Breakfast. Most of the days in the week, I used to take this for the breakfast. Very simple and also you can add nuts and fruits to enhance the taste. It is just perfect Breakfast.  I usually add walnuts and raisins to it, if i had any fruits i add. Like Bananas, strawberries, blueberries, Blackberries, Apples, nuts like almonds. You can chop all the fruits and add it to the oatmeal, such a refreshing Breakfast. 

So this time i really wanted a change and my kid also stared eating Oatmeal. You have flavors in the pack but you don't get Chocolate flavor so i just thought i can add some flavor to the plain oats. So I decided to add some chocolate powder to it and few chocolate chip to garnish. Was just awesome and my kid loved it. Yum!!!!

Oats - 1 packet (plain oats preferably)

Flax seed - 1 tbsp (Optional)

Milk - 1 cup

walnuts - 1 tbsp

Raisins - 1 tbsp

Chocolate Powder - 1 tbsp

Chocolate chip - Few

Preparation :

• In a bowl, add milk, flax seed  and oats. I used Microwave for like 3 mins to cook the Oatmeal.  
• When it is like two minutes you can open the microwave and add the chocolate powder to the oatmeal. Mix really well till it is nicely incorporated. After one more minute of cooking you can add the walnuts and the raisin. 
• It should be nice and mushy, then everything is cooked. Without cooking the oatmeal we should not and can not eat. 
• Yummy breakfast is ready.

Serving per recipe : 1

Calories per serving : 150 approx

I made a banana nut muffin, but this is something like that but with a little variations. The crumbs as a topping is really a nice crunch to the mouth. It is good as the banana is incorporated in the muffin and kids will love it. Lets see the recipe!!

Cuisine : American

Preparation time : 15 mins

Cooking time : 20 mins

Course : Snack

Main Ingredients : All purpose flour & Banana

Banana - 3 mashed

All purpose flour : 2 cups

Baking soda - 1/2 tsp

Baking powder - 1/2 tsp

Salt - 1/2 Tsp

Sugar - 1 cup

Butter - 1/3 stick

Egg - 1 ( you can use substitute too)

Vanilla extract - 1 tsp

Crumb :

Brown sugar - 1/3 cup

Cinnamon powder- 1/8 tsp

Butter - 1 tbsp

All purpose flour - 2 tbsp

Oatmeal cookie is a very common and easy recipe. When i tried this very first time it didn't come out well because my baking soda was not that fresh i think. It started to become thin and fragile. I was wondering what went wrong, and one of my friend said to check the baking soda if it is fresh the cookie will not go wrong, if not this might happen. So every time when i buy baking soda, i immediately change the box and store it in a airtight container. And for the oats i used old fashioned rolled oats, you can get it in the local store. You can not do this recipe with Instant oats, that will not come out well.

The next important thing about baking is, if the recipe says room temperature butter or egg, it has to be done as such. If not the recipe will screw up. So if you are planning to make cookie or any baking and if the recipe tells you to have a room temperature butter, it is better we do so. Because the room temperature butter will be nice and soft but if you melt the butter it will be liquid and the consistency will change and the texture of the cookie will also change. So for this recipe i have used room temperature butter. And in this recipe they said only raisins, but i added a little of Chocochip too just to add little more fun in there. Kinds love chocolate in everything so just wanted them to enjoy the cookie, i added may be a handful of choco chip.

Ingredients :

Preparation:

• Take a large bowl and add old fashioned rolled oats to and with All purpose flour. Give it a nice stir so that the flour and the oats are mixed well. Now add salt and baking soda to it. Give it a nice stir to make sure everything is incorporated.
• Now it is time to add Raisin and the choco chip to the dry mix, because by adding this to the dry ingredient we are so sure the raisin and chocochip will not be accumulated in one place. It will be dusted with a the flour and be spread every where in the dough. That is the point to mix them in the dry ingredients. When you add them and mix the raisin will be spread everywhere and the each cookie will get adequate raisin and chocolate chip.
• Now it is time for the Wet ingredients, for this first we are going to take a bowl and ad room temperature butter. Mash it really well.
• Now to the butter add brown sugar and granulated sugar and give a nice mix with hand mixer or even wooden spoon will do the job. I used hand mixer to get a nice smooth paste kind of texture. 
• When they are nicely mixed add egg to it, and beat really well so it is mixed with the sugar mix. so now the wet ingredient is mixed well and ready, 
• It is time to add both dry and wet ingredient together to make the cookie dough.
• When they are mixed take a ice cream scoop to drop them in the cookie pan to bake in the oven. Place the cookie dough evenly in the cookie tray to bake them evenly.
• You can use a foil or a parchment paper to cover the cookie tray to avoid mess in the tray. 
• When they are nicely placed in the tray you can drop them in the oven.
• Preheat the oven for 350 deg F, and bake the cookie for 12 - 15 minutes. You can turn them and bake when they are half done.
• You can see the dark brown color on the side, that is the time you have to take them out.
• You cannot serve them as such, let them cool for like 20 - 25 mins and them it will be ready to serve 

POTATO QUICHE 

Cuisine : French

Preparation time : 10 mins

Cooking time : 17 mins

Course : Starter

Main Ingredients : Egg and vegetable

Ingredients :

Potato cubed and cooked - 1 cups

Onion chopped  - 1/2 cup

Garlic chopped- 1 tbsp

Washed and chopped spinach - 1 cup

Egg - 4

Shredded Cheese - 1 cup

Chili Flakes - 1 tsp

Italian herbs - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Preparation :

• Take a iron skillet, may be a medium size.Turn on the heat.
• When the pan is heating up, you can add oil. May be around 2 tbsp of oil. It can be EVOO, or any type of oil.
• Now when the oil is hot enough you can add finely chopped onion and garlic. You have to keep sauteing it. Till it turns slightly brown or translucent.
• When it is changing color you can add the finely chopped potato,Keep sauteing till everything is well incorporated.
• Add very little salt to it, for taste. If you add more then while adding salt to eggs you should be watchful.
• Keep those aside, till we are done with the egg.
• Now we are gonna prepare for the egg, Take a large bowl that will hold four eggs and all the add on.
• Then in the bowl break four eggs, if it is large four will do, if the eggs are really small then you should add two more, only then you can have 4 quiches.
• Now beat the egg really well till the eggs are nice and frothy.
• Now comes the magic to the recipe. We are gonna add some herbs and that is gonna enhance the taste of the recipe. (I love those Italian herbs) Add Italian herbs, chili flakes to the egg.
• Now for taste you can add required salt, if you have already added salt in the potato,better add salt only for the eggs.
• Adding chopped spinach is optional, if you dont want it, you can avoid it. 
• Then add the cooked potato onion garlic to the eggs and toss it really well, or while pouring in the ramekins the potatoes will be in the bottom and will not be equally spread in the quiche.
• Now everything is ready, take four ramekins spray oil to coat, so the quiche doesn't stick to the ramekins.
• Then add a tbsp cheese in the bottom to cheese it up!
• Now pour the egg mixture to it slowly and be sure your potatoes are getting into every ramekins.

• Again top it with cheese(you can add extra cheese if you like)
• Bake it 350 deg F for 17 mins.
• When you can see the top nice and hard, our Potato Quiche is ready.
• Very Healthy and Yummy Quiche can be served as Starter.