Srav’s Culinary Concepts turns ‘3’!!! With Coffee Cake

Three Cheers for Three Years!!!! I am celebrating three years of blogging and I am totally overwhelmed with this journey J

A Big Thanks to everyone who supported me in my journey of blogging and many thanks to all my blogger friends for all the encouragement with your valuable suggestion.

Celebration is not complete without sweets & treats. So here is a sweet treat ‘Coffee Cake’ for this wonderful fest.

Coffee Cake is a simple sweet moist rich cake usually made with nuts and spices. This Coffee cake with its rich crumble topping tastes great as a morning treat with a cup of coffee.

Srav’s Culinary Concepts turns ‘2’!!! With Lamingtons

Happy Second Anniversary to My blog!!!!!

Two years already? I am still amazed when I think about it. I can’t believe it's been 2 years since I started this blog. Blogging helped me to know different cuisines, cultures and ingredients. It helped me to attempt various recipes that I haven't heard or tasted before.   

A big Hug to my lovely hubby who helps me in my cooking and tasting all my dishes!!!

Huge thanks to each and every one of you for giving me all the support and encouragement that has kept me going these wonderful two years.

Chocolate Almond Biscotti – My 150th post

This is my 150^th post which is quite exhilarating!! I am really thrilled!!

First thing a very big bow/thank you to all my fellow bloggers, friends, family and readers for visiting/reading/following my blog and for your sweet and wonderful comments and hugs to my lovely hubby who tastes all my dishes and helps in all my cooking.

On my journey of my blogging I really started learning many new recipes/baking in spite of my busy work life which really makes me proud of myself.

Srav’s Culinary Concepts Turns One!! With Coconut Cake

Srav’s Culinary Concepts turns one today.  Woohoo !!!! 

It’s amazing it has been one year since I started my blog. 365 days of pleasant memories because of all of you, my dear readers, food blog friends and family.

Many things have been changed since my first post. I never expected I would gain so much from writing a blog. I learnt so many varieties, writing about 110 recipes, conducting events.

Badhusha – My 100th post - Diwali Special

Hooray for my 100^th post!! Wow what a journey it has been. I am so excited about this little milestone!!

I really never thought I can make these many kinds of recipes, but over the last 6 months, I have exposed a love to baking, tried many new recipes first time, organized some foodie events, and met so many inspirational and lovely bloggers of whom some have already became friends!! I love reading all your comments and you all inspire me to carry on.

I wanted to say a heartfelt thankyou to all my friends, followers, bloggers and readers. And I am very grateful to my sweet hubby who supports and helps in my cooking.

To celebrate this small milestone, I prepared badhusha. I learnt this recipe from Raks kitchen. 

Badhusha is an Indian festive Sweet made easily with available ingredients of flour and sugar. First time I made these Badhusha’s and I enjoyed making those shapes. They came out so soft and I and my hubby enjoyed them a lot.

Initially I taught it is very difficult to make, but when I decided to prepare I felt it is very easy and infact I made it on weekday after coming from work within 1 hour, enjoyed making them :)

Source : Rak's Kitchen

Ingredients:

All purpose flour/Maida – 1 ½ cups

Butter – ¼ cup

Ghee – 8 tsps

Curd – 1 ½ tsp

Baking Soda – 2 pinches

Sugar – ½ tsp

Water – ¼ cup

Oil for deep Frying

For Syrup:

Sugar – ½ cup

Water – little

Elachi powder – ¼ tsp

Lemon juice – 1 tsp

Preparation

• Melt butter in microwave and keep aside.
• In a wide bowl, add ghee,sugar,baking soda,curd and whisk it to mix well.
• Later add flour and mix well without lumps.

• Add water slowly and mix well to make a smooth dough.
• Keep the dough aside and covered it with wet cloth for 15 mins.
• Boil water with sugar and elachi to make thick syrup. Remove from heat and keep aside.
• Divide the dough into small lemon sized balls.
• Take a ball, flatten slightly and twist the sides using fingertips decoratively and shape the edges.
• Prepare all the balls and keep aside by covering them.
• Heat oil in a frying pan.  Add some badhushas into oil. Remove from heat and let it cooked for 5 mins.
• Later the badushas float on top, again switch on the heat and cook on medium flame for another 5 mins or till they turn golden color.

• Drain them in paper towel and immediately put them into the sugar syrup for about 5 mins and serve in a plate.
• Sprinkle nuts or dry coconut and serve !!

Sending this to Serve It - Festival Potluck hosted by Krithi & Denny, Diwali Special - Sweets & Savories hosted by Radhika,  Diwali- Festival of LIGHTS hosted by Anu,My Diwali MyWay hosted by Khusi, Bookmarked Recipes hosted by Priya, and to my event CC-Festive Food, Only Sweets and Desserts hosted by Gayathri originally started by Pari

     

Bobbatlu / Puran Poli – My 50th post

I can’t believe this is my 50^th post!  Half century Hurray!!!! I am amazed!! Thank you to all my fellow bloggers, friends, readers for your sweet comments and thanks for reading my blog, And to my lovable hubby who is my food taster, encourages with his comments and helps me out in my cooking. And also to my sweet mom who suggests and guides me in my cooking.

I prepared Bobbatlu for 50^th post – Andhra Special sweet which is my and my hubby’s favorite (he has many LOL!!!!). 

Bobbatlu is one of the traditional and delicious sweet prepared for festivals and occasions. In Andhra they call Bobbatlu and in Maharasta as Puran Poli. This sweet is very time consuming but it’s worth.  I learnt this recipe from my mom.

Ingredients:

Maida – 1 cup

Channa Dal – 1 cup

Jaggery – 1 cup

Cardamom powder – 1 tsp

Salt – a pinch

Oil/ghee

Preparation

• In a bowl mix maida, salt , water and make smooth dough. Keep aside for 1 hour.
• Wash channa dal and boil it in 3-4 cups of water until the dal becomes soft.
• After it gets boiled, drain the water completely.
• In the same vessel add jaggery and cardamom powder and mix well and make a smooth paste
• Finally add ghee to it
• Make this puran into round balls and keep aside
• Grease your hands with oil and take a small portion of dough and spread it on a plastic cover and make a small round chapatti.

• Place puran inside the little rounded chapatti and close it till the puram will not be visible
• Using roll stick roll it like chapatti or we can use hand and spread it slowly by pressing it down until it forms a round like chapatti.
• Now on pan put little ghee/oil and cook on low heat
• Cook on both sides till it turns golden brown
• Delicious Bobbatlu’s are ready. Serve these with ghee.

Sending this to Celebrate Sweets-Stuffed Sweets event hosted by Akila originally started by Nivedita and to MLA 35 started by Susan