Berry Nutty Chocochip Cake
Thick Poha Chivada
Well this time around in
Cosco I found fresh cranberries and since I love cranberry juice I thought of
buying that packet and trying it out.. The first bite of cranberry and I was
sure that I cant have it as it is and have to make something out of it. And
then after searching for lot many recipes, none were appealing enough to try
out. That is when I decided to try my own one from the few ones I read.
Ingredients
2 Cup Maida
1 Cup Sugar
1 Cup Cranberries
1 Cup Choco Chips
1 Cup Mixed Nuts
1 Cup Grapes
1/2 Cup Melted Butter
1.5 Spoon Baking Powder
1/2 Spoon Baking Soda
1 Egg
4 Spoon Chocolate Sauce
Salt to taste
Method
- Chop the mixed nuts, cranberries and mix them with
choco chips and keep aside.
- Sift through Maida, Baking Powder, Baking Soda and Salt
couple of times.
- Preheat oven to 350F/180C
- Grease the loaf pan/any other baking pan with butter
- In a large bowl, take this sift through mixture, add in
sugar and mix well
- Add in melted butter and mix with hands to form a
crumbly mixture
- Grind grapes in the mixie to get its juice. Add in the
mixture in bowl
- Add egg and nuts-berry=chocochip mixture. Mix well.
- Pour the batter in the previously greased pan and bake
it in the oven over 350F/180C for 45 minutes.
- Let the cake cool down and then sprinkle the chocolate
sauce over its top and serve.
Notes
Dont worry if the batter isn't of flowing consistency, its normal. The batter in this case is more of a moist thick mixture.
I already had the mixed nuts bottle at home so I used that one, but you can combine any kind of nuts like cashews, almonds, walnuts, peanuts.
Dont worry if the batter isn't of flowing consistency, its normal. The batter in this case is more of a moist thick mixture.
I already had the mixed nuts bottle at home so I used that one, but you can combine any kind of nuts like cashews, almonds, walnuts, peanuts.
Chivada (Mixture) in general is weak point for all most everyone i guess :) This one is very common preparation we end up preparing. Even more than one with thin poha (though i like that one too).
Ingredients
2 Cup Thick Poha
2.5 Spoon Red Chilli Powder
1/4 Spoon Sesame Seeds
1/4 Spoon Jeera
1/2 Cup Peanuts
1/4 Cup Pootane Daal(Chanaa Daal)
1.5 Spoon Sugar
7-8 Curry Leaves
4 Spoon Cashews
4 Spoon Raisins
1/4 Spoon Mustard
A pinch of Asafoetida
Salt to taste
Oil
Method
- Roast jeera and sesame seeds over low flame for around 3-4 minutes
- Dry grind jeera, sesame seeds and sugar to form fine powder
- In a big pan, mix the above powder, 2 spoon of red chilli powder, cashews, raisins and salt to taste. Mix well
- In a pan heat oil over medium flame
- Fry pohas in small batches by adding them in another strainer (steel or aluminium one) which is dipped in the hot oil
- Drain them on the kitchen towel and keep adding them to the above masala mixture when 2-3 batches are on towel. Mix well
- When pohas are fried completely, strain out the remaining oil and heat it in a pan (around 2-3 spoon)
- Fry groundnut till they turn reddish in it. Keep them aside.
- In same oil, add mustard and let it splutter.
- Add Asafoetida, curry leaves and futaane daal(chanaa daal) and roast it for around 2 minutes.
- Add in fried groundnuts and remaining 1/2 spoon of red chilli powder and add this mixture to the chivada mixture prepared earlier. Mix well.
Use litte oil at a time and add some more oil when half way though. The oil turns black after frying poha, so it would help in reducing the remaining quantity that we need to throw away.
Using strainer helps in taking out pohas easily after they are fried.
I drained the fried pohas over kitchen towel so that it can soak out oil, but one must make sure to transfer them to masala mixture when it is warm and before it cools down
