Muggle Diaries

Post Title: +Instant Green Moong Dal Dosa/ Instant Green Gram Indian Savory Crepe..;) Racking your brains..what to make..?? for Breakfast is indeed a big task...especially when you have people going to work and you work your self..then its a larger challenge...well lets add one more option to our daily +Breakfast Recipes..;). " Moong dal Chilla/Dosa/Crepe"!! Easy to make and i also made a very easy n quick tomato chutney along with it...which was a hit at my place..;). This one is a long lost recipe, my mum makes some variations of this one with a combination of different dal's at times...also adds Dill leaves..and it tastes really yum..that way too.....but i decided to go simple this time..just to see how the taste would be accepted at my place where i have a bunch of fussy eaters..!! " My Husband and our Two Little Ones..;)" I just got Lucky !!..;0. I have added a concise collage below,of the simple steps i follow...

Post Title: +Raw Mango Rice..Aam Ka Khatte Chawal/Maavinkai Chitranna..;): A dish i have loved since i was a little child.This was usually made at my home for breakfast or as one of the items on the banana/bel patra/leaf platter on festivals, Also packed into my tiffin box in mango season. An Iconic traditional rice dish in  + Karnataka, very common dish in every household in Karnataka region during the mango season. Simple,subtle, and very easy as well as a dish that you could store in the refrigerator for up to a month or more and use as and when you desire. Just cook rice and toss in some of the mango mix and mix well and tadaa....eat all you can...!!! As for people who love to eat "Khatta" then i'm damn sure you will love it..!! Cooking Time: 10 mins Serves: 1 Cup Mix What goes Inside:  Ingredients: Raw Mango: 4-5 small sized raw green mangoes. Cooked Rice: As Required. Mango Masala mix/Mango Thokku: As Required...

Post Title: +Beetroot n Rice Baby Food)..;) Cooking Time: 10 - 15Mins Serves: 1 What goes Inside: Fresh / Frozen Beetroot cubes(i used fresh): 4-5 nos Medium sized(boiled or steamed). Cooked Rice: 2-3 Tablespoons. Salt: To Taste Ghee/Clarified Butter: 1 Tsp. How to put it together: Boil 1 Cup of water in a small pan, once it begins to boil, Wash,peel and dice the beetroot into medium sized cubes. Now add these cubes to hot water and boil until cooked(they cook real quick, in fact blanching is a very good idea at this point, but since i had the idea of making beetroot subzi for a side dish on my lunch menu i chose to cook it a little further). Take a small mixer jar add the cooked rice i took 2-3 table spoons as that is the amount my little one takes in one feed you could add or reduce the rice and cooked beetroot cubes as per your baby's eating habit/requirement. Now carefully drain out the hot water into a bowl...

+Egg less Chocolate Mocha Mousse Cake:) Its 'May Day'..or more commonly known as 'International Workers Day'...wow for the fruits of Labour...are so sweet...today finally after 2 years of typing this post i finally get to post it..;) still wondering how i missed uploading it..!! Now Being My Hubby's Birthday Cake couldn't be so simple as a Busy Day Chocolate Cake ...now can it...?? (psst: Now had it been someone else's birthday then i'd have rather just done up with a simple phone-call), But it's my hubby had i not done something special... (meri tho beezathi ho jani thi....yaar..!!). I had to make it special somehow...though i knew hubby wouldn't care so much.. especially being his birthday which he hates to celebrate cos he feels people make it a point to remind him he's getting older(as if he didn't know that and never sulked about it through the whole year..)...;(( Awww...you darling..;P.  But how would m...

Post Title: Perfect Classic Sponge Cake (Butter-less & Baking Powder or Soda..;) Ever wondered what it would feel like to have a perfect classic sponge cake without any butter at all?? no butter can still be understood, almost everyone on blog-sphere is trying to do the same,...(;P cut down on calories..eh) Ahem let me clarify i plan to do no such thing, so what makes this recipe different from the others..?? just that this one needs none at all, but no baking powder and baking soda and the cake still rises perfectly well and turns out perfectly spongy..?? Nope..!! more to come this one is: *Tried,Tested & Vouched* for I've tried and tested and can vouch for this one as many times as you ask me to..!! And that is a bet..!!  Is this for Real..?? Well a few years back even i wondered the same when i stumbled upon this recipe from my baking book:  Essentials of Baking,by Williams-Sonoma, today it is my bible for baking...

Post Title: +Spinach n Rice/ Paalak Rice  (Baby Food)..;) Cooking Time: 4 -  5 Mins Serves: 1 What goes Inside:  Fresh Spinach Leaves(i used fresh): 4-5 nos Medium sized. Cooked Rice: 2-3 Tablespoons. Salt: To Taste Ghee/Clarified Butter: 1 Tsp. How to put it together: Boil 1 Cup of water in a small pan, once it begins to boil, take the pan off the heat. Wash and sort the spinach leaves and break off the stem if it is too thick, or leave them as is.Now add these leaves to the hot water and close the lid and set aside for 2 mins.When you take it out after two minutes you will notice it would have turned into a nice bright green color, pretty attractive so much so that even you would be tempted to eat this. Take a small mixer jar add the cooked rice i took 2-3 table spoons as that is the amount my lil one takes in one feed you could add or reduce the rice and spinach as per your baby's eating habit/requirement. ...

Post Title:+Homemade Ghee Recipe/Clarified Butter made right @ Home..;) As a little child i remember how both my grandparent(maternal and paternal) would stress on my mom to give me food topped with homemade ghee, its only later i came to know of the goodness of ghee in itself. ghee has many benefits It i s used to relieve burning sensation, to relieve burn wounds, wound scar, herpes wounds, chicken pox scars, etc. It acts as natural skin moisturizer, if used daily. It can be applied over face, left for 10 minutes, washed with warm water.also got to know of its medicinal properties while i was expecting my second baby and had unexplained bleeding, i remember a lady i met randomly advised me while we got chatting that  In pregnant woman, who experience unexplained bleeding or spotting, traditionally, it is advised to apply this Ghee around the umbilicus, the bleeding must reduce in a couple of days..time. well these are just a few to name but the use of ghee is vast in o...