Subadras Kitchen

These eggless chocolate cupcakes are so so good, they are soft and yummy , I was surprised of the outcome the very first time I baked these, and every other time I baked it. It has always resulted in crackless top with a small dome. In my young age , I never knew that cakes can be made without eggs. As years passed by, I learnt that there are eggless cakes but those wont be as soft as the ones with eggs. But after trying out this recipe, I never tried any cakes with eggs. Believe me or not.. ! These eggless cakes are so soft and moist, they are not dense at all. I found this recipe  here  and it was so promising, that I wanted to try it the very same day. But I have made this many times now and everytime I have got wonderful cupcakes. Last month, I tried a two tiered birthday cake for my hubby with this same recipe and WE were all surprised , it stood tall like the ones bought from commercial bakers. I also tried chocolate collar around it, hope you like it too..    ...

Chokladbullar is a type of unbaked pastry that is a popular Danish confectionery.  This is very common here in Sweden. This is the very first sweet that we had in Sweden after coming here. So a small sweet remembrance for me 😉 The main ingredient is oats, mixed with some cocoa powder , sugar, butter and vanilla sugar (for vanilla flavour) with some water and made into balls and rolled over dried coconut flakes or pearl sugar crystals.  Chokladbullar can be prepared by kids too as it does not require fire or heat for making it.  It can be prepared in a jiffy and enjoyed for a week. I meant to say, that it keeps well for atleast a week in room temperature.   Lets get into the making of Chokladbullar : Ingredients: Butter or  ghee  – 100 grams Sugar – 100 grams Vanilla sugar – 1 tbsp Cocoa powder – 3 tbsp Oats – 300 grams Water – 3 tbsp To garnish: Pearl sugar or dessicated coconut or sprinkes Method: 1.Mix all the ingredients and bring it toge...

R agi puttu is an easy and healthy recipe, that can be had for breakfast or even as an evening snack for kids back from school. It has the calcium rich ragi combined with iron rich jaggery , and mixed with coconut and elachi for the flavour. I learnt this recipe from my mother in law. She does it with so much ease. She does not require any specific utensil for making puttu. I have used idly steamer to make this here   Quickly, lets get on to the recipe of Ragi puttu using idli steamer : Recipe Cuisine: South Indian | Recipe Category: Sweet Prep Time: 5 mins | Cook time: 15 mins | Total time: 20 mins | Serves: 3 to 4 Ingredients: Ragi flour – 1 cup salt – half tsp Jaggery – 3/4 cup Elachi / cardamom pods – 5 Coconut – 1/2 cup Ghee  – 2 tsp Cashews – to garnish Method: Mix ragi flour and salt together. Add water little by little and mix with the flour till it holds its shape. Place the flour over idly plates and steam in idly steamer for 15 minutes. Meantime, grate jaggery . Gri...

Banana dosa is a quick and easy recipe, and will definitely be loved by kids. I started making this banana dosa, when I ran out of regular dosa batter. This recipe comes to my rescue during breakfast times. This can also be served as an evening snack when kids get back home from school. This banana dosa recipe requires very few ingredients that will be easily available anytime. If you have over-ripened bananas which cannot be consumed as such, then you can use it for this banana dosa.   Ingredients for Banana dosa: Well ripened bananas – 3 Vanilla essence or cardamom/elaichi powder – 1 tsp  ( optional ) salt – a pinch Wheat flour – 3/4 cup Oil/ ghee – few teaspoons Method: Peel the skin of bananas and grind them to a paste in  a mixer. Take the banana paste in a mixing bowl and add a pinch of salt. Add vanilla essence or cardamon powder to it. Add wheat flour and mix well , add water if needed, to get a dosa batter consistency. Heat a tava, pour a laddle full of batter an...

Cinnamon buns are rolled buns with cinnamon flavour in each bite 🙂 I was hesitant about cinnamon flavour in baked buns initially, But after tasting it in IKEA I started to like them . Hence gave it a try at home and it was great. I made it simply by using my bread dough as I tried  here , with cinnamon powder, butter and sugar mixed well and applied in the rolls. Ingredients for the filling, Melted butter – 1/2 cup Sugar – 3/4 cup Cinnamon powder – 2 tbsp Procedure is just simple , I prepared the bread dough and rolled it out into a large rectangle. Applied the butter liberally on the rectangle. Then mixed sugar with cinnamon powder and sprinked all over the buttered dough. I rolled the rectangle and then cut into small pieces but the shape wasnt so good. Then I cut lines on the rectangle as below, and then rolled the strips, now the shapes came out well. You can see the difference in the buns pic below. Hahaha,,, I did not click step wise pics that day 🙂 Then placed them on the ...

Ghee mysurpa is one of my favourite sweets. I just love the melting mysurpa from Sri Krishna Sweets… And I promise this recipe is almost 90 % similar to krishna sweets mysurpa… I was a real fan of this sweet from my childhood days but never knew it would be so easy to make it at home, that too by myself. Its all in the ghee that makes it sooo soo special. If you are health conscious you can’t enjoy this sweet, so just forget about it and enjoy this rich and melting mysurpa. Its Okay to indulge in such a heart melting sweet once in a while. My daughter is not a fan of sweets unlike me and my son. But she loved this mysurpa. Whenever she sees this video of my mysurpa recipe, she is asking me to make it again.. Happy me!!! Whatelse would make a mom happy, other than this!! Those who are fans of melting mysurpa, please do give this recipe a try and you will definitely thank me for sharing this recipe.. The main ingredient is  ghee  ( clarified butter ) as the name says, followed b...

Oven roasted chickpeas is a healthy gluten free crunchy snack, can be relished any time of the day. These roasted chickpeas can be used to pack as a snack for kids or can be given as after-school snack. Chickpeas are a rich in proteins, carbohydrates and fiber. Roasting in oven requires less oil, so its definitely a healthy snack. I always prefer to make a batch and store it, whenever it gets over at home. I have used spice powders and oregano to get that extra flavor. You can mix and match with any spices as per your choice. These oven roasted chickpeas stay crunchy for more than ten days, if stored in an air tight container.   Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Recipe Category: Snack | Soaking time: 8 hours  Resting time : 3 hours | Prep Time: 5 mins | Cook time: 60 mins | Makes – 2 and half cups Chickpeas – 1 and half cups Oil – 2 tbsp Salt – as per taste Turmeric powder – 1 tsp Red chilly powder – 2 tsp Garam masala – 1 tsp Oregano – 2 tsp Procedure to prepare Oven roasted...

Ribbon Pakoda , also called as Ola pakoda is a south indian snack made with rice flour and gram flour as the base. They resemble the shape of ribbons and hence the name. As a lover of garlic, I add garlic with red chillies and some fried gram ground to a fine paste. A few teaspoons of butter and some sesame seeds for that extra crunchiness makes them more addictive. It has been a while since I posted something here.. I was a little too busy preparing for the “International Food Fair” here that got over last weekend. We had a great time preparing our south Indian specialties like idly, vada, sambar vada,  chicken biryani ,  poori masala , ladoo, jangiri, murukku , ribbon pakoda and some more. My friend Kavitha and myself together set up a south Indian food stall this time. We enjoyed the whole process from planning to preparing food pictures and printing them and finally the FOOD and SELLING them out. We had some friends who came home to buy murukku and ribbon pakoda even after...

Kadalai Urundai or Peanut chikki is a healthy snack and can be made quickly too. Peanuts are rich in protein and healthy fats and jaggery is rich in iron – so this is a very good snack for kids, to be packed to school or can be enjoyed as an evening snack. I had this saved in the draft for so long, and finally got to post it today. When we were in Chennai we used to buy this kadalai urundai often. We always made sure to stock them up before they got over, but after coming to Sweden we started to miss this. After many days, I realized that I can make it at home too. We just need peanuts and jaggery as the main ingredients. Here is the list of ingredients needed for kadalai urundai Peanuts – 1 cup Jaggery – 3/4 cup Cardamom – 1 tsp ( optional ) Ghee – 2 tsp Method: Dry roast peanuts until there are little dark spots on the skin. Let it cool completely and then remove the skin. Prepare the jaggery syrup, by heating jaggery with 1/4 cup of water. 4. If it has impurities, filter it out and ...

Ragi Choco cookies are very healthy and tasty cookies. I wanted to make ragi cookies since long, but was hesitant over the amount of ghee that goes into it..  Finally today, I thought of tweaking my ingredients a little and arrived at this recipe, so as to use little lesser amount of ghee. My usual ragi biscuits will consume a lot of ghee, almost equal to half the quantity of the ragi flour. But they taste awesome too 🙂 Ragi flour should be roasted in low heat for a while to get rid of the muddy smell , but I was a little lazy and did not want to roast it. Who likes to stand and dry roast for a long time 🙁 Definitely not me.. Thus arrived this idea of adding cocoa powder to overcome the muddy smell. Yaay! IT worked .. I also added some wheat flour to get a lighter colour, and oats for some texture. Ghee and some eggs as the wet ingredients and organic sugar to satisfy my consciousness to not give unhealthy food. You can also use any other healthy alternative for sugar like coconu...

Gobi – 65 | Cauliflower fry Gobi 65 is one starter which I can keep munching on and on and on. All kids love this vegetable, and in this form it is definitely loved by everyone. I have never seen someone saying no to this dish. I have used beetroot juice in this recipe to get a natural red color, and to avoid using artificial food color and it did its job. Gobi 65 had a bright red color and the beetroot flavor was not seen at all. Do give it a try and let me know how you liked it. I use grated lemon peel for tanginess. There is a lot of health benefits in the peel of lemon. But unfortunately most of us extract only the juice of it and consume. The peel of citrus fruits contain a lot of Vitamin C, antioxidants and its also anti- cancer. More info  here.  Its easier to grate the skin of frozen lemons, so I have freezed a batch of lemons and whenever needed I grate the peel and use it. Hope you will try it too.   Ingredients for Gobi 65 Cauliflower – 1 big flower , cut ...