Mango pachadi/ Mango sauce

Its been a really longtime since I updated this blog. Okay its not I don't cook anymore, ofcourse I do , and its definitely not the time excuse either. With 24 hours in a day, I certainly can not do a blame game on that. Its just that I always forget to take a good picture of my recipe and I end up not updating my blog. But today I thought I will post something anyway even with one of my 'not-so-good' photos, something better than nothing anyday right?

Ingredients

• 1 big raw mango
• Jaggery (or brown sugar) as needed
• 1/4 tsp salt
• cumin seeds
• ghee(melted butter)
• 1/2 tsp chilli powder / or a small slit green chilli
• curry leaves
• grated coconut 1/4 cup(optional)

Pre-cooking

• Peel the mango and cut into pieces

Method

• Mix all the ingredients mentioned above except coconut,cumin seeds ,curry leaves and ghee
• Sprinkle some water and keep it to boil in a saucepan.
• Cook till the mango is all mushy; take care to check in between.
• Alternatively you can keep it in a pressure cooker and keep it for 2 whistles.
• Add the grated coconut to this mixture
• Heat ghee in a saucepan and add cumin seeds ,curry leaves when hot.
• Drizzle the mango sauce with this.

Serving suggestions

• Serve with any bread or rice 

Tips

• The quantity mentioned in the ingredients are rough; Might vary depending on the sweetness in the mango.

Eggless Banana Muffins

This is my second attempt in baking a muffin. My first one was a disaster because of the high oven temperature and the wrong oven rack. Silly me and metric conversions !

The eggless banana recipe that I got from here is a very easy breezy one and you can make it in a jiffy. I didnot like my muffin shape though..thanks to the mismatch between my oven tray & paper cups.

Ingredients

• 1.5 cups all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup sugar(original recipe calls for half a cup)
• 1 banana
• 1 tsp butter
• 1/2 cup warm milk
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp baking soda

Pre-cooking

• Pre heat oven to 180 degree C

Method

• Mix the flour,baking powder and baking soda
• Put the butter in a mixing bowl and mix the sugar with it thoroughly
• Mix it with mashed banana and milk
• Now add the flour mixture slowly in parts to the wet banana mix and turn it so that all the ingredients are blended.
• Do not over mix.
• Pour in the muffin trays till half and bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes clean.
• This yields 12 small muffins

Serving suggestions

• Serve warm with honey or cream

Tips

• Take the muffins out from the tray after they are cooled completely
• Remove the muffins from paper cup only after they are fully cooled