Rice Upma

Ingredients:


Raw rice - 1 1/2 cup

Gram flour - 1/2 cup

Ginger - an inch chopped fine

Coriander leaves - few

Hing - 2 tsp

Salt

To Temper:

Mustard - 2 tsp

Urad dhal - 2 tsp

Gram dhal - 2 tsp

Red chillies - 1

Curry leaves - few

Method:

1. Wash rice and spread it in a cotton cloth so that all the water absorbs in the cloth.

2. Grind rice like a rava in a mixie and with it mix gram flour throughly.

3. Heat oil and temper the given ingredients.

4. Add 2 1/2 cups of water, salt and allow it to boil.

5. Now add coriander leaves, ginger and hing.

6. Add rava and mix it thoroughly.

7. Keep the stove in a slow flame for 25 - 30 minutes and close with a lid.

8. Serve with rasam and coconut chutney.

Banana Cake

Ingredients Required:

Maida - 250 gms

Butter - 250 gms

Powdered sugar - 250 gms

Eggs - 3

Banana - 3

Baking Powder - 2 tsp

Soda Bicarbonate - 1/4 tsp

Salt - a pinch

Vanilla Essence - 2 tsp

Method:

Sieve the dry ingredients for 3 times.

Separate white and egg yolks and beat them separately.

Beat butter until creamy.

Mix powdered sugar and beat well.

Mash bananas.

Add eggs and maida alternately and beat well.

Add vanilla essence and mix.

At last add mashed bananas and mix well.

Don't beat the mixture too much since the mashed bananas will leave the watery content in it.

Grease the baking tray and pour the mixture till 3/4 th of it.

Bake it in a preheated oven at 220 deg C for about 35-40 minutes.