Brwon Cake is a delicious sweet treat for all occasion. Here is my old and time tested recipe.
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| Brown Cake |
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| Brown Cake in Baking Pan |
Ingredients:
- Maida (all purpose flour) 2 cup (200g)
- Sugar 1 cup (150-175 g)
- Butter 100 g
- Eggs 2
- Cocoa powder 2 teaspoons heaped (10g)
- Baking powder 1 teaspoon
- Corn Starch 1 tablespoon
- Baking round pan 8 inch
Procedure:
- Sift maida, cocoa powder, baking powder and corn starch 4 times to mix well. Keep aside.
- Now in a large glass bowl , whisk together butter and sugar with a hand whisker.
- Then add egg one by one , while whisking to a smooth texture.
- Now fold in maida cocoa mixture in portions to a uniform batter.
- Shift the contents into a 8 inch round pan (lubricated and baking paper lined)
- Place in a pre-heated oven at 190-degree celsius ( 350-degree F or gas mark 3-4).
- Bake for 30-40 minutes.
- Check for completion of baking by inserting a knife or bamboo skewer. If come out clean then the cake is done.
- Remove from oven and cool for 20-30 minutes.
- Delicious Brown Cake is ready.
- Decorate with frosting/icing.
- Cut into pieces and serve.
Anda Gravy is a very simple and delicious low cost curry.
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| Anda Gravy (egg gravy) |
Ingredients:
- Boiled eggs 6
- Oil 1 cup
- Onion chopped 2
- Tomatoes chopped 2
- Ginger paste 1 teaspoon
- Garlic paste 1 teaspoon
- Fresh Coriander leaves for garnish
- Salt to taste
- Red Chillies powder 1 teaspoon
- Haldi powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Coriander powder 1 teaspoon
- Garam Masala 1/2 teaspoon
Procedure:
- Fry onion in oil till brown.
- Add ginger garlic paste , fry for 1 minute.
- Then add tomatoes and spices and fry for 3-5 more minutes.
- Add 1-2 glass water and cook on medium flame for 15 minutes.
- Add boiled eggs and garnish with fresh coriander leaves and simmer.
- Delicious Anda gravy is ready.
- Serve with roti.
Anady Ka Halwa is a dessert made with eggs in winter to provide warmness and nutrition to the body. This years winters are reaching try it on a cool night or day.
Its recipe is simple.
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| Anady Ka Halwa |
Ingredients:
- Eggs beaten 6
- Ghee/butter 2 tablespoon
- Sugar 2-3 tablespoon
- Cardamom green seeds 1/6 teaspoon
- Pistachio chopped 1 tablespoon
Procedure:
- Thoroughly beat the eggs.
- Heat ghee in a non stick frying pan.
- Add cardamom seeds, then add beaten eggs and sugar.
- Fry with constant stirring till eggs are fully done.
- Sprinkle pistachio and remove from heat.
- Delicious Anady Ka Halwa is ready.
- Cool and serve.
Anda Cholay is a very delicious dish from Punjab. It is a low cost dish but very nutritious and healthy. Protein from Eggs and carbohydrates from Cholay (Garbanzo bean) makes this dish a very healthy dish. Push cart vendors are selling this dish in road side of many industrial units.
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| Anda Cholay |
Ingredients:
- Eggs boiled 6-8
- Baking soda for soaking 2-3 teaspoon.
- Kabuli Chana (Sufaid Cholay)(Garbanzo beans) 250g
- Oil 1 cup
- Onion chopped 3
- Tomatoes chopped 3
- Yoghurt 1/2 cup
- Ginger paste 1 teaspoon
- Garlic paste 1 teaspoon
- Green chillies 3-4 for chutney
- Fresh Coriander leaves 1 bunch for chutney
- Fresh Mint leaves 1 bunch for chutney
- Salt to taste
- Red chillies 1 teaspoon
- Haldi powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Coriander powder 1 teaspoon
- Cumin powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Garam Masala 1/2 teaspoon
- Baking Soda for curry 2-3 teaspoon
- Black pepper whole 1/2 teaspoon
- Cloves 4
Procedure:
- Soak Kabuli Chana overnight with 2-3 teaspoon of baking soda in water.
- Wash and drain.
- Boil in enough water. drain and keep aside.
- Now Boil eggs and keep aside.
- Then saute onion in oil, remove and grind.
- In the same oil, re add grinded onion, garlic and ginger paste fry for 1 minute then add tomatoes, spices, and yoghurt.
- Fry for 5-6 minutes then add boiled Kabuli channa, baking soda and fry for 3-5 more minutes.
- Then add 1-2 glass water and cook on low heat for 10 minutes.
- Add boiled eggs and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Delicious Anda Cholay are ready.
- Prepare chutney by grinding together fresh mint , coriander and green chillies add little salt.
- Serve Anda cholay with prepared chutney and Nan/Roti.
Scrambled eggs are the most famous break fast dish in western countries. It is very easy and quick to prepare.
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| Scrambled Eggs |
Ingredients:
- Eggs 2
- Milk 1 tablespoon
- Butter 1 tablespoon
- Salt and pepper to taste
Procedure:
- Add milk to the eggs in a bowl.
- Stirr/whisk well.
- Heat butter in a non stick frying pan.
- Pour whisked egg and stirr on medium heat.
- Remove from heat when near to done.
- Soft and fluffy scrambled eggs are ready.
- Serve with bread.
- Sprinkle salt and pepper as required.
Today was a rainy day in Karachi. Very beautiful weather and comming night is the 27th Night of Ramadan (Shab e Qada/Laila ul Qadr). Temperature was also low so I decided to cook Anda Pakora for today's Iftar. I eating these tasty and protein rich Pakora I am sharing with you its recipe.
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| انڈہ پکوڑا |
Ingredients:
- Egg 6
- Hard boil eggs in water. Then cut each egg into four pieces lengthwise.
- Oil for frying
Batter Ingredients:
- Besan (Chick pea flour) 1 cup
- Salt to taste
- Red Chillies to taste
- Haldi powder 1/4 teasppon
- Coriander powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Cumin powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Baking soda 1/4 teaspoon
- Black pepper powder 1/2 teaspoon
Procedure:
- Add all spices and soda to besan. Mix well, then add water in small portions to make thin batter.
- Now heat oil in a woke/karahi. Dip egg pieces in batter one by one and fry in hot oil to a golden colour on medium to high heat. Be careful egg pieces some times may burst to splash hot oil on your face or body so try to fry on medium heat carefully.
- Delicious Egg Pakora are ready.
- Serve at Iftar during Ramadan, or with tea as an evening snack when temperature is low or there is cold weather.
Sandwich is one of the most popular lunch food. There are many varieties of Sandwich fillings and dressings varies from community to community.
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| Sandwich |
Ingredients.
- Bread Slices as many as required.
- Bread slices are the main ingredient of sandwich.
- The filling can be choose from the following list
- Cucumber slices
- Tomato slices
- Boiled egg slices
- Fried egg
- Kabab
- Onion rings
- lettuce leaves
- Olives slices
- Dressing can be choose from the following
- Tomato ketchup
- Ginger garlic sauce
- Dukkos
- Tahina Sauce
- Hummus
- Mayonnaise
- Thousand Island seasoning and many more
Procedure.
- Place filling on one slices, apply dressing. Put on 2nd slice on top and serve or bake in Sandwich maker and then serve. Yummy........Tangy...
Anda Ghotala at PC of Staff Town of Karachi University was one of the most favourite dish of me and my class fellow Aftab Husssain Ezzi when we were the student at Karachi University. When we fed up eating Biryani and Aloo Qeema at canteen we move towards a small hotel in Staff Town run by a Pathan Bhai, that why we say Pathan Continental Hotel (PC) to fill our tummy with this Anda Ghotala with freshly prepared Tandoori Roti/Naan with some shredded onion. Let try at home with Naans from Tandoor.
Ingredients:
- Prepared Chana Dal 2 table spoon
- Oil 1 tablespoon
- Onion chopped 1
- Egg beaten 1
- Green Chilli chopped 1
- Salt to taste
- Red Chilli powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Haldi powder 1/4 teaspoon
- Fresh Coriander leaves chopped 1 teaspoon
Procedure:
- Saute onion in oil , then add egg and spices .
- Fry for 2-3 minutes then add prepared chana dal and fry for another 4-5 minutes till water evaporates.
- Delicious Anda Ghotala is ready.
- Serve with Fresh Tandoori Naan.
Creme Caramel is a very delicious and full of nutrition dessert. Some 25 years backs peoples knows it as Egg Pudding, when Caramel sugar starts pouring over Egg Pudding it becomes Creme caramel. I was working at National Food Limited, Karachi, and Pudding Mix was their branded product. American when using custard powder instead of egg, they say it Custard Pudding. When I joined Ahmed Food Ltd, Karachi, It was Creme Caramel, Pudding Mix packed with a sachet of Creme Caramel. Commercially no egg is used in formulation or Pudding Mix or Creme caramel, they are using modified starches or gums.
Here I am writing a very simple recipe of Egg Pudding or Creme caramel. You can use Caramel sugar syrup during cooking or can be poured over prepared Egg Pudding.
Ingredients For Egg Pudding:
- Egg 2 no.
- Sugar 4-5 teaspoon
- Milk 250 ml
- Butter for glazing/lubricating moulds
Procedure:
- Beat eggs in a pan with the help of hand beater. Keep aside.
- Now glaze moulds with butter and keep aside.
- Now on a low flame warm milk in a pan add sugar, stir to dissolve. (Do not boil the milk only warm on low flame for 2-4 minutes)
- Take out from flame, add this milk to beaten egg with constant stirring.
- Fill in the pre-lubricating moulds, apply aluminium foil or poly bags with rubber band or glass lid on the top of the mould.
- Place these moulds in a pan/steamer with enough water to dip half height of moulds and muslin cloth placed on bottom of pan to avoid bubbling. Close the top of the pan with an airtight lid. Cook in steam for 15-20 minutes.
- Remove the moulds from steamer/pan. Cool , then place in a refrigerator for 30-45 minutes.
- Loosen the prepared Egg Pudding with knife, place a serving plate on top, then invert.
- Egg Pudding is ready. Serve as it is or pour caramel sugar syrup on top to enjoy the taste of Creme Caramel.
How To Prepare Caramel Sugar:
- Take 4 tablespoon sugar and 1 tablespoon water in a non stick frying pan and cook on medium flame till it starts changing colour. Stop cooking when required caramel colour of your choice is obtained. At last add 1 tablespoon of warm water carefully to thin this caramelized sugar.
- Caramel Sugar Syrup is ready.
- It can be pour over prepared Egg Pudding or can be used at bottom of the mould before cooking.
Aaloo Anda Curry is a very simple and poor man's curry who can not afford costly vegetable and meat or pulses. Egg provides him protein and potatoes carbohydrates.
Ingredients:
- Eggs (boiled) 6 no.
- Potatoes quartered 3-4 medium size
- Tomatoes chopped 2-3
- Onion slices 2 medium size
- Garlic paste 1 teaspoon
- Ginger paste 1 teaspoon
- Fresh Coriander leaves for garnish
- Oil 1 cup
- Salt to taste
- Chilli powder 1 teaspoon
- Haldi powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Coriander powder 1 teaspoon
- Garam masala 1 teaspoon
Procedure:
- Saute onion in oil, remove and grind, and keep aside.
- Now add ginger garlic paste in the same oil, cook for 1 minutes.
- Then add tomatoes and all spices accept garam masala.
- Cook for another 1-2 minutes.Then add grinded onion and fry for 1-2 more minutes.
- Now add potatoes, fry for 2-3 minutes and add 1-2 cup water and continue to cook till on low flame potatoes are tender.
- Sprinkle garam masala and fresh coriander leaves, introduced boiled eggs slowly and simmer for 5-10 minutes.
- Delicious Aaloo Anda Curry is ready.
- Serve with Roti.
Mayonnaise is a stable emulsion of egg yolk and oil with vinegar or lemon juice. Mayonnaise is originated from Spain. Now it is used world wide in salad dressing. Its recipe is simple and have many variations. In Pakistan Young Food's brand is more popular than imported brand. Because it is cheap as compare with Imported brands. You can prepare mayonnaise in your kitchen within 30 minutes by using my following recipe.
Ingredients:
- Egg yolks 2
- Oil 1 cup
- Mustard powder 1/2 teaspoon
- Salt 1/4 teaspoon
- Black pepper 1/2 teaspoon
- Vinegar 1 teaspoon
Procedure:
- Add mustard powder, salt, black pepper to the egg yolk taken in a bowl. Mix well.
- Now start adding oil in small portions to this mixture and beating with an electric beater/mixer. 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of oil to be added initially then increase the quantity. Continue adding oil and blending till all oil is absorbed and a creamy texture of Mayonnaise in obtained.
- Now Your homemade mayonnaise is ready, use as needed in dressing , in salads.
Variations:
- Crushed Garlic can be used to have Garlic Mayonnaise
- Curry powder can be added to have a curry like flavour.
Khagina is a breakfast dish, very simple and tasty. Cook today to enjoy.
Ingredients:
- Eggs 2
- Oil 3 tablespoon
- Spring onion chopped 4
- Fresh Coriander chopped 1/4 cup
- Fresh Mint chopped, a few
- Green Chillies chopped 2
- Salt to taste
- Red Chilli powder 1/3 teaspoon
- Haldi 1/3 teaspoon
Procedure:
- Heat oil in a frying pan.
- Add spring onion and green chillies, cook till soft.
- Now add eggs, fresh coriander leaves, mint leaves and spices , cook for 5-8 minutes..
- Delicious Khagina is ready serve with chapati/roti.
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