Happy's Cook

Monday, December 08, 2014

Homemade Ghee | How to make Homemade Ghee from Homemade Butter | Desi Ghee Recipe

Nothing can beat the homemade stuff. I made this ghee around 1.5 years back when my Mom was with me. She collected the milk malai on a daily basis and stored it in the fridge for a month. Later she brought it to Chennai and I tried this homemade ghee and homemade butter. Happy tasted this aromatic and flavorful ghee for the first time when she was one year old. Mom was super excited about the outcome of the ghee. It was lying in my draft for such a long time now. Let's go to the preparation steps:

Mutton Dalcha | Mutton Toor Dal Curry | Dalcha

Yet another new and aromatic mutton curry which can be accompanied either with biryani or plain rice. Jany likes it to the core. Nowadays he often asks me to prepare this curry whenever we get mutton. Mutton Dalcha is a very famous mutton curry from Hyderabad with fantastic flavors. In this recipe mutton is cooked along with toor dal and flavored with spices. Let's see the preparation steps:

Oats Raisins Walnut Cookies Recipe | Oats Cookies | Christmas special Recipes

December is one of my favourite months. I am preparing myself to post more cakes and cookies during Christmas time. Recently, I attended a baking session with chef Joe Francis of Gateway International Hotel and he taught me a few cakes and cookie recipes. This is the first one I tried from that list and it came out really well. He also taught me the Chocolate Sponge Cake and Chocolate Walnut Brownie. If you are looking for more cookie recipes, then please try the below cookies:

Final pictures updated on 01/June/2020

Ingredients:(Got around 40 cookies)

Oats - 1 and 1/2 Cup

Flour - 3/4 Cup

Butter - 200 gms

Brown Sugar - 1/2 Cup

White Sugar - 1/2 Cup

Eggs - 2

Baking Powder - 1/2 tsp

Cinnamon Powder - 1 tsp

Raisin - 100 gms

Broken Walnut - 100 gms

Salt - a pinch

Method:

1. Bring all the ingredients to room temperature. In a large wide bowl, cream the butter, sugar and eggs together.

2. In another bowl mix the flour, raisin, oats, cinnamon, walnut and salt. Now mix the dry ingredients with the butter, sugar, egg mixture. Refrigerate it for 30 mins.

3. In a baking tray line the butter paper and place the cookie dough roughly. I used a tablespoon to get the equal-sized cookies. Preheat the oven at 170 deg celsius and bake it for 18 - 20 mins or bake until the cookies turn light brown.

The cookies will be very soft as soon as it is out of the oven. But after it cools completely it turns crispy. The Yummy crispy and crunchy cookies are ready to be served with evening coffee.

Points to remember:

The cookies will expand while baking. So leave enough space between the cookies. Also, it is not required to flatten the cookies and it flattens while baking by itself.
The cookies will be very soft as soon as it is out of the oven. But after it cools completely it turns crispy
The temperature and baking time varies between ovens. So bake until the bottom of the cookies turns light brown.
The sugar should be completely dissolved before adding the dry ingredients(flour, maida etc), so whisk it accordingly.
The dough has to be refrigerated before baking.
You can make the cookies a little big but you have to bake it longer.

Warm Regards,
Happy's Cook - Divya

Quail Gravy | Kaadai Gravy

Kaadai(Quail) has many health benefits when compared to chicken. Appa doesn't prefer broiler chicken for us, so when he is in chennai he frequently buys fish, mutton and kaadai. Kaadai is similar to chicken and can be cooked on the same way. We get this in the regular chicken shops. Let's see the step by step preparation:

Pink Velvet Roulade | Pink Roll Cake

I wanted to make roll cakes for a long time now. Finally, when I came across this recipe here, I decided to give it a try. My initial few attempts had dominating eggy smell. Tips of Joe, helped me get the perfect roulade. They are very simple and looks really amazing. Kids will enjoy it to the core, like Happy did. If you prefer not to add color, you can continue it as a basic roll cake after skipping pink color. The perfect measurement needs to be followed for perfect roulade. Here we go to the preparation steps:

Squid Roast | Kerala Kanava Roast | (Calamari / Koonthal Roast)

One of the dishes that is quite famous in kerala is squid roast. It is one of the seafood delicacies, which I haven't tasted or tried before. Jany likes to explore all kinds of seafood, hence I tried this. It tasted awesome and now I am planning to try different recipes with Squid. Here we go for the recipe:

Ribbon Pakkoda / Ribbon Murukku / Ola Pakkoda / Nada Thenkuzhal | Diwali Special Recipe

Finally I am posting in the Day one of new month with many resolutions in mind :). This post was composed last week during diwali because of internet issues I couldn't post it. Jany prefers to have crispy savoury snacks than sweets or desserts. Whenever I make sweets he tastes it, but asks for something spicy and crispy. So, I made this ribbon pakkoda in a jiffy without much preparation. It came out really well and he enjoyed for the evening coffee. Here, we go for the recipe: