Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Basic Banana Muffins

 Ingredients

1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup sugar

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 medium ripe bananas

1 large egg, room temperature

1/3 cup vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients. In another bowl, mash the bananas. Add egg, oil and vanilla; mix well. Stir into the dry ingredients just until moistened. Fill greased or paper-lined muffin cups half full.

Bake at 375° for 18-22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes; remove from pan to a wire rack to cool completely.



Sunday, December 19, 2021

Sri Lankan Style Fried Egg Curry Recipe

Ingredients
4 Whole Egg , boiled
1 sprig Curry leaves
2 Onion , sliced
2 Tomatoes , chopped
1 inch Ginger , chopped
4 cloves Garlic , chopped
1 inch Cinnamon Stick (Dalchini)
3 Cloves (Laung)
1 Cardamom (Elaichi) Pods/Seeds
2 teaspoon Red Chilli flakes
1 teaspoon Fennel seeds (Saunf)
2 teaspoon Coriander Powder (Dhania)
1 teaspoon Garam masala powder
1 cup Coconut milk
Salt , to taste 

How to make Sri Lankan Style Fried Egg Curry Recipe
To begin making the Srilankan Style Fried Egg Curry Recipe, heat a saucepan with required amount of water. The quantity of water depends on the number of eggs you want to boil. Add water so that all the eggs are dipped under it properly.
Put the eggs in water and cook till you see some cracks on the outer layer of the eggs. This will take form 10 to 15 minutes. Once you see the cracks, switch off the stove and take the eggs out. Let them cool down.
Once the eggs cooled down, take out the outer shelf and keep the eggs aside.
Heat a flat skillet with 2 tablespoons oil. Once the oil is hot, add boiled egg and fry it evenly till it is golden brown from all the sides. Once done keep it aside.
In the same pan, add cinnamon stick, cardamom, clove and allow it to sizzle for few seconds.
Add curry leaves and leave it to crackle for few seconds. Add ginger and garlic and cook it for about 2 minutes.
After 2 minutes, add onions and saute till they soften. Once the onions have caramelized, add chopped tomatoes and sprinkle with little salt to cook it faster.
Once the tomatoes turn mushy, add all the spice powders including corainder powder, garam masala powder, red chilli flakes, fennel seeds, salt to taste and let it cook for about 2 to 3 minutes.
Next, add coconut milk at the end and you can also add 1/2 a cup of water to adjust the consistency. Simmer for 3 to 4 minutes and drop in the fried egg and serve hot with chopped coriander leaves.
Serve the Sri Lankan Style Fried Egg Curry Recipe along with Steamed Rice or Ceylon Parotha, or just Malabar Parotta and a Tomato Onion Cucumber Raitato enjoy your Sunday lunch.

Sunday, December 5, 2021

Betty Crocker Cake Mix Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients 1 box Betty Crocker™ Super Moist™ devil's food cake mix 1/3 cup vegetable oil 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 eggs 1/4 cup sugar Make With Make With Betty Crocker Cake Mix Steps 1 Heat oven to 350°F (325°F for dark or nonstick pans). In large bowl, mix cake mix, oil, vanilla and eggs with spoon until dough forms. 2 Refrigerate dough 15 to 30 minutes or as needed for easier handling. Shape dough into 1-inch balls; roll in sugar. On ungreased cookie sheets, place balls about 2 inches apart. 3 Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until set. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 30 minutes. Store tightly covered.

Manzano Pepper Salsa -Rocoto Pepper

https://menuofmusings.com/manzano-pepper-salsa/

Doubled recipe, grilled on fry pan, with olive oils 
Didn't add the water
only 1/2 tblsp salt
seems very wet

Easy to make, this Manzano pepper sauce is perfect to add to your huevos rancheros to "spice it up."

INGREDIENTS
3 Manzano peppers, halved and seeded
4 Roma tomatoes, whole
1 cup Onion, white and chopped
4 garlic cloves
1/3 cup water
1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 tablespoon of salt

INSTRUCTIONS
Place the tomatoes on a comal (or a griddle) and using tongs, rotate until all sides are slightly blistered.
Once roasted, transfer the roasted tomatoes to a blender.
Cut the Manzano peppers in half.
Remove the seeds from each Manzano pepper.
Place the Manzano peppers on the comal (or a griddle) and using tongs, rotate until all sides are slightly blistered.
Once the Manzano peppers are roasted, transfer the roasted peppers to the same blender with tomatoes.
Add the onion, garlic cloves, and water to blender and blend well.
Heat in a saucepan over medium heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil.
Add the mixture from the blender to the saucepan.
Add salt.
Cook until the mixture starts to boil.
Once the mixture is boiling, reduce to low heat and continue to cook for 5 minutes or until desired consistency.