Subadras Kitchen

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...

Choco Vanilla muffins are quick, easy and interesting to do. I always used to wonder the marble effect in cakes and wanted to give it a try, and my thirst to do the marble effect has been drenched with this vanilla chocolate cupcakes. This is an eggless butterless recipe. I have used the same measurements as the  eggless chocolate cupcakes  and this time too, as always this recipe has also given smooth crackless domes in each of the cuppies.     Recipe Cuisine: International | Recipe Category: Cakes | Makes : 12 cupcakes Prep Time: 15 mins | Cook time: 15 mins | Total time: 30 mins Ingredients needed: Dry ingredients: All purpose flour / Maida – 1 1/4 cup   [ Check notes at the end, for maida substitute ] Cocoa powder – 1/4 cup Baking soda – 1/2 tsp Baking powder – 1/4 tsp salt – 1/4 tsp Wet Ingredients: Sugar – 3/4 cup Milk – 1 cup Any flavourless cooking oil – 1/4 cup Lemon juice / Vinegar – 3 tsp Vanilla extract – 1 tsp Method: Preheat the oven to 180 de...

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...

  Last weekend we had gone for strawberry picking. This is the first time I have seen a strawberry farm and was surprised to see acres of land with strawberries.. There were a lot of people picking the berries and enjoying the sweet and ripe berries in the farm. It was real fun. The ripe berries were really sweet unlike the store-bought ones which taste sour. So we plucked almost 3 to 4 kgs of strawberries and when we reached home, I and my hubby were looking at each other as to how we will finish eating so much, then struck the idea to make strawberry jam. So I distributed some of the strawberries to my neighbours and then started with jam making. Any fruit jam requires only 3 basic ingredients – the fruit, sweetener and a preservative. I have used honey as sweetener and lemon as a natural preservative. I have frozen lemon and I grated its peel and the pulp and used it. There are a lot more nutrients in the peel that the lemon juice. So I would suggest you to store some lemons and...

  Hey hi!! I am coming again with a strawberry recipe.. A quick and easy recipe that satisfies your sweet tooth and your tummy in a jiffy !! Yep Strawberry milkshake ! Just three main ingredients – fresh ripe strawberries, honey and milk.. You can top it up with any icecream and nuts of your choice.. You may even add choco syrup over it !! Just DELICIOUS!!! Ingredients for strawberry milkshake: Fresh strawberries – 7 Honey – 3 tsp ( or add as per your taste ) Milk – 1 cup Method: Blend well strawberries with honey and milk . Serve with any icecream and nuts as topping. Enjoy!!!