Bisibela Bhath - For Blog Hop Wednesdays

For today's blog hop I was paired with Kalyani of Sizzling Tastebuds. Shae has a wonderful space and she has yummy recipes to try in kitchen. I have noted her Bisibela Bhath for blog hop. She has a pictorial space for the recipe. The rice was very very yummy and delicious.

I didn't made any alterations. But omitted ghee, coconut, peanuts and capsicum.





Ingredients:

Rice - 1 cup

Tuvar dhal - 1/4 cup

Masoor dhal - 1/2 cup

Water - 6 cups

Turmeric - 1 tsp

Chopped Veggies - 1 1/2 cup [ I used 2 carrots, 6 beans, 1/4 cup peas, 1 potato ]

Small onions - 2 cups

Tomatoes - 3 large ripen - chop fine

Salt

Castor Oil - 1 tsp

For Bisibela bhath powder:

Dry roast and grind to a fine powder:


Sambhar powder - 1 tbsp [ don't roast ]

Cinnamon - 1"

Cloves - 2

Elaichi - 1

Marati mokku - 1

Coriander seeds - 2 tbsp

Jeera - 1 tsp


Gram dhal - 1 tsp

Red chillies - 2

To temper:

Oil - 4 tbsp

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Hing - 1 tsp

Curry leaves - few




Preparation:


1. Wash rice and dhal separately. Drain. Soak rice for 20 min.

2. In a pressure cooker, add 2 cups water, dhal, castor oil and turmeric. Let it boil ( without lid ) for 8 min.

3. Add rice, chopped veggies, 2 cups water, 1 tsp salt and cook for 5 whistles.

4. Heat oil in a kadai and temper.

5. Add onions, tomatoes, salt. Cook till tomatoes are mashy.

6. Add tamarind pulp, ground powder and 1/2 cup water. Cook till raw smell goes off on simmer flame.

7. Cool and open the cooker. Add the above mixture and stir well. Add 1 cup of water and check for salt. Simmer on low flame and cook for 2-4 min or until the rice is like khicdi consistency.

8. Serve with papad / pickle.


Pumpkin Pound Cake - For Blog Hop Wednesdays

This week for blog hop I was supposed to cook from Deepali of Confusion Cook. She has a simple but beautiful space. I decided to bake her banana pound cake with some modifications. I had pumpkin at home. So I decided to replace pumpkin instead of banana.




 
Original recipe is here.





Ingredients:

Sifted Cake flour - 1 3/4 cup [ See Note ]

Butter - 1/2 cup

Eggs - 2

Sugar - 1 cup

Pumpkin puree - 1 1/4 cup

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Baking soda - 3/4 tsp

Salt - 1/4 tsp

Vanilla extract - 1 tsp 

Cinnamon powder/ Pumpkin Spice - 1/4 tsp


Preparation:

1. Sieve the dry ingredients thrice and keep it aside.

2. Cream butter and sugar. Add vanilla extract and mix well.

3. Add one egg each at a time and beat well for 1 min.

4. Add 3 tbsp flour at a time and fold in.

5. Add pumpkin puree and stir well.

6. Grease a baking tray and bake at 180 deg C for 40 - 45 min. My oven took 40 min exactly.




7. Cool, Invert and serve.

 






Notes:

1). Cake flour is:

Maida - 1 cup

Corn flour - 2 tbsp

Remove 2 tbsp maida and add cornflour 2 tbsp and sift it. This is cake flour.

2). To make pumpkin puree at home:

Remove seeds and skin of pumpkin. Cut into cubes,

Grind well in a mixie. Pumpkin puree is ready.

You can use this puree for halwa preparation too and no need to grate pumpkin.