Fried Cookie Dough

 

It’s been a long long time since I have visited mine or any others virtual space. I think busy schedule & diet is keeping me away from this. My diet is coming along well & I am so happy to see some improvement in me. I am not sure if this is a long term solution but this diet has definitely made me realise how much of unhealthy food I was having all this while. More than weight loss I would call this as a healthy eating diet for a healthy lifestyle. After seeing improvement in me, my hubby also has joined hands with me & he too has been following this for some time now. I keep cheating every now & then eating cakes & some fried stuffJ. May be in couple of months I will publish my entire diet plan with all meals with recipes.

Well this sweet was made long time ago & I have a lot of sweet childhood memories attached to this sweet. This is a fried cake dough & is available in most of the small tea shops back in South India. We used to buy this almost every day from a small canteen near our school in Madikeri. This tasty sweet has many names & I have known it as cake:) This sweet is very easy to make & can be done under 15 – 20 mins. I made this for my son as he likes crispy stuff to eat.

 

 

Ingredients:

• 1 cup All purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 tspn salt
• Pinch of baking soda
• 1/4 cup semolina
• 3 Tbsp melted butter
• 3 Tbspn water

Direction:

1. Just mix all of the above to form a soft dough.
2. Now roll the dough to 1 inch thickness, cut them into any shape & deep fry them in oil for 3 to 5 minutes.

 

 

 

 

Banana Cake

Zion is a fussy eater. Chicken is his favourite & he can eat it all the time. Since he is a very active & social kid, we enrolled him to a school when he was 19  months. He is the most active kid in the class. My lill charming boy gets famous wherever he goes. I feel so proud that he is so famous among his peer groups at this age. Although he is very active, he never tries to hit others but he definitely bullies them:) hahahaha its so funny to watch him play with his friends. If I am around while he is playing he gets a little cranky. So I hide & watch him play.

Fortunately my maid "Mary" & he share a very good chemistry. They have a great bonding & he treats her like his friend. Coming back to food, I have noticed that Zion's snack box comes back full. He doesn't eat anything in school & just wants to play. My maid mentioned to me that he loves Banana cake. It seems she happened to buy some from a store & shared some with him. Zion loved it so much that he ended up eating the major portion. I was so happy to hear that he loves something healthy so immediately brought some Bananas & made Banana Horlicks cake for him. Made this yesterday & packed it for his snack box, Guess what?? The boz was empty:) He loved it & this will be one snack that I will make more often. This is a no fuss recipe & no thumb rule to make this. This is how I made it.

Ingredients:

• 3 large Bananas
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 Tbspn Butter
• 1 cup all Purpose flour
• 1 Tspn Baking powder
• 1/2 tspn Baking soda
• 1/4 tspn salt
• 1 tspn Vanilla Essence
• 3 Tbsp Horlicks (I used Junior Horlicks)
• 2 Eggs

Method:

1. In a Mixie jar/ Blender blend in the Bananas & sugar to a smooth puree
2. Now add in rest of the ingredients to this & blend it well for about a minute. The mixture will be a little thin due to Banana Puree.
3. Grease a 9 inch Baking Pan & pour in the mixture to it.
4. Bake in a preheated oven at 150 C for 35- 45 mins, until a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool and enjoy!

The cake is extremly moist & delicious.