Ingredients:-

All Purpose Flour – 1 1/2 cup

Baking Powder & baking soda - 1 tsp

Salt – 1/2 tsp

Banana (Ripe) – 3 mashed

Sugar – 3/4 cup (as per your taste,but babana is also sweet so make sure the sugar amount)

Egg – 1

Butter -1/3 cup melted (optional)

Vanilla essence – 1/2 tsp

Method:-

Preheat oven to 350 degree (175 degree c) . Coat muffin pan with non-stick spray or butter.  Sift flour,baking powder, baking soda,salt and set aside. Combine banana , vanilla essence, egg,sugar, butter(if your using) and keep aside.  Now Mix wet ingredients with dry ingredients using a spatulla (Don’t over mix the ingredients). 

Scoope into muffin pan and bake it for 25-30 mins or check with the toothpick,if it comes without any batter then its done.

Variations:-

1. You can add a pinch of cinnamon power.

2. Instead of sugar you can use half brown sugar and white sugar.

3. Instead of butter you can use Applesauce (1/4cup)to cut the fat.

 4. You can add nuts on top for more crunchy.

Gulab Jamun is a most delicious dessert in India, wheras this can be made from scratch- we can make the flour instead of buying from the stores. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:-

Non-fat milk power – 1 cup

All purpose flour – ¼ cup

Unsalted butter – 3 tsp

Whole milk – ¼ cup

Sugar – 1 ¾ cup (according to your taste)

Water – 1 ½ cup

Baking soda – a pinch

Cardamom power – ¼ tsp

Oil – to fry

Method:-

Sugar Syrup:

In a large pan add sugar, water and cardamom powder and bring to a boil and remove from the heat and keep aside.

Jamun:

In a bowl add milk powder, all purpose flour, baking soda, butter and mix it. Once it is done add milk slowly and make a dough- it might be little sticky. Let the dough rest for 10 -20 mins.Then apply little butter to your hand and mix the dough nice and form a small balls (there should not be any crack in it).                           

Heat oil in a pan and deep fry it and place it in a paer towel, let it sit down for 2-3 mins before placing it in a sugar syrup. Let it sit in the sugar syrup for 30 mins minimum. Serve with almonds , pistachio or else only jamuns.

If Jamuns are fried in high heat it will be hard in the center, so try to fry in the minimum heat for about 7-8 mins for each jamun.

Ingredients:-

Chicken – 4 split -(2 whole chicken breast,skin removed)

Mayonnaise – 1/2 cup

Aragula leaves / any salad leaves – 1 cup

Grapes – 1/2 cup (cut into 2 pieces)

Vinegar – 2tsp

Salt ans Black pepper – to taste

Bread – 8 – 10 slices

Method:-                                                                                                                                                

Cook the chicken in the oven at 350 degree for 35-40 mins and remove the skin or else cook in a pressure cooker and keep aside.

Place the chicken in a bowl and add mayonnaise, grapes, salt, pepper, vinegar and toss well.

Serve: Toast the bread by adding little butter or oil and top with the chicken salad ,aragula and cover with other slice bread. Cut in half and serve.

Variations: Instead of grapes you can add orange pieces (without the inner skin)

                            Apply some mayonnaise in the bread – while serving.

                            Add some Tomato ketchup while serving.

                            Instead of bread you can add more salad leaves and serve as a salad too.

Ingredients:-

Fish – 7-8 pieces

Onion – ½ cup

Tamarind – Big lemon size

Garlic – ¼ cup

Red chili powder – 3 tsp

Tumeric powder – ½ tsp

Curry leaves – 10-12

Coconut – ¼ cup

Oil – 3 tsp

Salt – to taste         

For Seasoning:-

Mustard seeds – ¼ tsp

Fenugreel seeds – ¼ tsp

Method:-                                                                                                                                                                

Clean the fish and apply turmeric powder and little salt and rub into the fish and keep aside for 5 mins.

 Wash the piece again and keep aside. Grind the coconut and keep aside. Soak tamarind for 5 mins and then squeeze the juice and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan and the mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds and allow it to splutter. Once it is done add onions, garlic and curry leaves and fry till onions turns into translucent. Then add tumeric powder, red chili powder, salt and fry for few minutes.  Add the tamarind juice, coconut paste and bring it to boil.

Let this simmer for 15 mins or till the raw smell goes. Finally add the fish pieces, cover and cook on low heat for 5 minutes. Garnish it with coriander leaves and serve hot with rice.

Ingredients:-

Sugar – ¾ cup

Cream cheese(softened) – 1 package (8 ounce)

Eggs – 5

Sweetened condensed milk – 1 can (14 ounce)

Evaporated milk – 1 can (12 fluid ounce)

Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp

Method:-

Preheat oven to 350 degress F.

In a pan, on a medium low- heat cook sugar,stirring until golden colour. Pour into baking dish, titling to coat bottom and sides. Set aside.

In another large bowl beat cream cheese until smooth. Beat in eggs,one at a time,until the mixture is well incorporated. Beat in condensed milk, evaporated milk, vanilla extract until smooth. Pour into cramel coated pan. Place this baking dish into another dish (enough space)and add boiling water to reach half a way of the sides of the baking dish. Once it is done, place the dish into the oven.

Bake in preheated oven 50 – 60 minutes, until center is set or place a tooth pick in center and see whether it comes out clean. Remove from oven and place it in a cool rack for 1 hour.

Then chill in refrigerator 8 hours or over night.

To serve: Before serving unmold the flan, run a knife around the edges of pan and invert on a serving plate.