Gobi baingan aalo sukhi sabji

Ingredients:
Potato - 3 medium(cut into desired sizes)
Cauli - 10 florets
aubergine(baingan) - 8 small
tomatoes - 1.5 medium
tadka - mustardseeds,fennal(saunf),carromseeds(ajwain),
onion seeds(kalongi),fenugreekseeds(methi)
red chilli - 2 whole(as per taste)
bayleaf - 1
turmeric - 1/4 teaspoon
salt to taste
corriander leaves chopped
Preparation:
Heat oil in kadai(wok),put 1 tea spoon of tadka,red chilli and bay leaf. put potatoes and stir it for 2-3 mins add cauli florets ,little turmeric and salt to it stir it for 3-4 mins and then add baingan.....when it is about to done add tomatoes and stir it untill the tomatoes mix to the veggie..finally add corriander leaves and serve with hot chapati or naan or sattu parantha

Thepla

Ingredients:
Wheat flour: 2 cups
Oil: 2 tea spoons
Curd: 1 cup
Turmeric powder: 1/2 teaspoon
Chilli powder: 1.5 teaspoon
Coriander powder: 1 teaspoon
Salt to taste

Method:
Mix all the above ingredients into a dough. You can sprinkle some water if the curd is not enough. Not make thin rotis out of this dough and cook them with little oil on both sides like parantas.
They will come out very soft and do not go bad for longer time, so you can cook and store them.

Tip of the day :)

If an egg is boiled for 7 min, its yolk will get a bright yellow color(rather than pale yellow) and it will not be watery(like half boiled) at all....also it will be nutritionally healthy than a hard boiled egg.

Pineapple cake

This is a very beautiful and yummy cake. My husband's colleague got this cake to office for a potluck. He came home and described the cake so nicely that....that I got the recipe and tried it..I got this recipe from food network website, but i split the ingredients to half(that's why the measurements of ingredients sound weird), since the reviews said that it was too much batter for one cake.

INGREDIENTS:
1.5 cups All purpose flour
1.125 cups Sugar
1.5 cups butter, 1/4 cup melted butter.
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking powder
0.125 teaspoon salt
0.625 cups buttermilk
0.75 cups brown sugar
1 can pineapple with juice (well drained)
Reserve 2 table spoons juice for frosting.
Chopped pecans for garnish.

Pineapple butter cream frosting:
1/2 cup butter softened.
2 table spoon pineapple juice reserved.
3.5 cups confectionery sugar.
Beat above ingredients in a large bowl till well combined.

METHOD:
Preheat oven at 350F.
Spray the pan with cooking spray and sprinkle some flour.
In a large bowl, beat 1/2 cup butter until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy. Add eggs at a time. Now add vanilla essence.
In a small bowl take flour+ baking powder+ salt
Add flour mix into egg mix, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and end with flour.
Now comes the fun part:) Spread brown sugar in the cake pan. Pour melted butter (1/4 cup) over the brown sugar evenly. Arrange pineapple slices over the brown sugar.
Pour batter on top of it and bake for 40-45 min.
After baking cool the cake for 10 min, and invert the cake onto a base.
Frost the side with Pineapple butter cream frosting and press chopped pecans on sides.