Blueberry Bread

I love to have homemade baked breads made with fruits as a morning breakfast.  So this weekend I baked Bread with Blueberries.  

Blueberries are an excellent source of Vitamin C and this healthy blueberry bread is prepared with blueberries which makes a better breakfast that tastes delicious too. A bit of lemon zest and juice also enhance the flavors.

Ingredients:

Blueberries – 1 cup

Melted Unsalted butter – 5 tsps

Eggs – 2 no

Sugar – ¾ cup to 1 cup

All purpose flour – 2 cups

Salt a pinch

Vanilla extract – 1 ½ tsp

Baking powder – 1 tsp

Lemon Zest – 1 tsp

Lemon juice – 1tsp

Preparation

• In a bowl add sugar, eggs, melted unsalted butter and beat for few minutes until light and fluffy.
• Now add vanilla extract, baking powder, lemon juice and mix well.
• Add all purpose flour and mix well until fluffy.
• Fold in the washed blueberries and lemon zest.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
• Lightly grease a loaf pan with 1 tsp of butter
• Pour the batter into the loaf pan

• Bake for 55minutes-1 hour or until bread turn light brown and bounces back to touch.
• Remove from oven and cool for 10 minutes.
• Server warm or at room temperature.

Sending this to Breakfast Club - Berries hosted by Nayan originally started by Helen and Food palette series purple hosted by Akheela.

  

Banana Ice Cream

Banana Ice cream is a quick, simple recipe, there’s no cooking, no ice cream maker, and no fancy culinary technique just few ingredients. And the main ingredient is a banana it’s healthy and suitable to make many dishes.

Making this homemade ice cream is a great way to use up some of these ripe bananas you have hanging around in your kitchen before they go bad!!

Banana Ice cream is a great fruit ice cream and perfect for summer season. The banana not only provides a great taste, but also produces a soft and creamy texture. I topped it with caramel which gives a wonderful taste.

Ingredients:

Ripe Banana – 1 large

Half & Half Milk – 1 cup

Heavy cream – ½ cup

Sugar – ¼ cup

Preparation

• Mash banana in a food processor until smooth
• In a Air tight container/Bowl add banana pulp and half & half and mix well.
• Add heavy cream, sugar and mix thoroughly.
• Cover the container and keep it in freezer for 6 hours.
• Take out from frozen and enjoy this yummy Ice Cream.

Sending this to 'Healing foods - Banana' hosted by Krithika originally started by Siri.
Along with this sending Mango Nut Icecream and Strawberry Icecream to Kid's Delight hosted by PJ originally started by srivalli , Serve It Chilled hosted by Denny & Krithika , Only Icecreams hosted by Reva and originally started by Pari, and Let'z Relishh - Ice creams hosted by Jay 

Chocolate Nut Cookies

It’s been a crazy baking weekend for me as I prepared couple of baked items.  I was planning to prepare something with chocolate and decided to bake cookies with full of chocolate, almonds, cashews and walnuts.

Chocolate Nut Cookies are crispy, moist and chewy which combines the subtle flavor of chocolate with nuts. These cookies were fabulous and delicious to eat. They have been highlight of the weekend in our home.

Once we make the cookie dough, if we don’t want to bake the cookies right away, we can freeze it and can enjoy freshly baked cookies on demand. These bake very fast.

Its soft texture makes it a perfect cookie. They are good for gift giving.

Ingredients:

For Cookies – 35 to 40

All purpose flour – 1 cup

Eggs – 2 no

Sugar – 1 cup

Semisweet Chocolate chips – ½ cup

Butter – ½ cup

Chopped Nuts (walnuts, cashews, almonds) -1/2 cup

Vanilla Extract – 1 tsp

Salt a pinch

Preparation

• In a microwave safe bowl take chocolate chips and butter and heat for 2 mins
• Stir well until smooth in between and keep aside.
• In a large bowl take sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, salt and beat well till soft and fluffy
• Add above chocolate mixture and mix it well
• Add all purpose flour and stir well.
• Fold in chopped nuts
• Keep the cookie batter in freezer for 1 hour or whenever you want to bake them.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees

• Drop by heaping 1 tsp batter with 2 inches apart on greased baking plate
• Place some nuts on top of cookies.
• Bake for 10 minutes or until edges are crisp.
• Cool for 2 mins and remove to rack to cool completely.

Sending to Drive with Nuts hosted by Anamika 

Mushroom Balls

I realized that, mushrooms had been sitting in my fridge for a few days and would probably go brown soon; I came up with these cute balls.

This is quick and easy snack, and is a great way for me and my husband to eat mushrooms. These balls are a nice variation than mushrooms with regular rice, curries.

Mushroom balls are prepared by using mushroom, potato, chaat powder, lemon juice.

These can be served with sweet chutney or tomato ketup.

Ingredients:

Mushrooms – 1 cup

Potatoes boiled mashed – ½ cup

Green chillies chopped – 3 no

Chaat Powder – 2 tsps

Lemon juice – 2 tsps

Corn flour

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Coriander leaves chopped – 2 tsps

Salt As Required

Oil for frying

Preparation

• Boil potatoes in microwave for 5-6 mins and mash them and keep them aside.
• In a mixing bowl, add chopped mushrooms, mashed potatoes, salt,chopped green chillies, coriander leaves, chaat powder, ginger garlic paste.
• Lastly add lemon juice.
• Heat oil on medium heat for deep frying.

• Make above mixture into small balls.
• When oil gets hot,  roll above small balls in corn flour and deep fry them in oil.
• Fry them until light golden color all over it.
• Serve with sweet chutney or tomato ketup. 

Sending this to Cooking with Herbs & Flowers - Mushrooms hosted by RS originally started by PJ

Toor Dal Khichidi

Toor Dal Khichidi is a quick meal and a comfort food. I regularly cook this quick food usually in my busy days.

It is nutritious and very low in masalas, when compared to pulao or biryani. We can prepare khichdi in many ways one common is rice and lentils are cooked together.  

We can use either Toor dal, masoor dal or moong dal. I usually make khichidi using toor dal and moong dal. This weekend I prepared using toor dal. 

Ingredients:

Toor dal – ½ cup

Rice – 1 cup

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp

Ghee – 2 tsps

Pepper corns – 4-5 no

Cardamom – 1 no

Jeera – 1 tsp

Cinnamon sticks – 2 no small

Onion – 1 small chopped

Green chillies – 3 chopped

Coriander leaves chopped – 3 tsps

Methi leaves chopped – 5 tsps

Fresh Coconut grated – 5 tsps

Garam masala powder – 1 tsp (optional)

Salt As Required

Water – 2 ¼ cups

Lemon juice – 2 tsps

Preparation

• Soak Rice and Dal together in water for 30mins
• After 30 mins drain the water out of rice and dal mixture and keep aside
• Heat oil in a pan, when oil gets heated
• Add ginger garlic paste, jeera
• When jeera gets crackle add cloves, cardamom, pepper corns, cinnamon sticks and stir well
• Add chopped onions, green chillies and mix well
• After onions get soft add chopped coriander, methi leaves and mix well
• Add fresh grated coconut, garam masala and mix well.
• Add rice, dal mix stir for 2-3 minutes
• Now take the above mixed rice, dal mixture into rice cooker add water, salt.
• Lastly add lemon juice and cook rice well
• Serve with ghee, Curry, pickle, Chutney or papad.

Sending this to Cooking with Whole foods -Toor Dal/ Pigeon Peas hosted by Suma orginally started by Kiran