Category Archives: Baking

Baked Chicken and Vegetables

Use any sturdy vegetable like pumpkin, beetroot or carrot. Chop them into 1 to 2 centimeter pieces and place in a baking dish. Keep chicken pieces on top. Sprinkle salt, any dried herb like oregano or thyme, chilly flakes. Drizzle olive oil.   Bake at 200 degrees Celsius for 40 minutes. Then use only topContinue reading “Baked Chicken and Vegetables”

Eggless Princess Cake

Limited experience baking but when my daughters birthday came up, we decided to try and make a princess cake. This is a simple breakdown of how amateurs can make a simple and pretty cake. There are two pressure cookers  and one oven in my house. So we made three cakes using: The chocolate cooker cakeContinue reading “Eggless Princess Cake”

Kadoo ki Mithai

Grated Bottle gourd and squeezed excess water. Then sauteed in butter with cinnamon, cardamom and cloves. Mixed into reduced milk. Like 1.5 liters reduced to less than 300 ml. Blended this into creamed butter+sugar. Whisk in 2 or 3 Eggs. Some saffron strands. Baked in an oven for 30 mins at 180 Celsius. Made itContinue reading “Kadoo ki Mithai”

Baked Sweet Potato

I don’t think you can have a simpler dinner than this. Make lots of thin V type incisions in a fairly large sweet potato after peeling it. Stuff in a lot of garlic. Rub olive oil. Sprinkle thyme or any dried herb. A little paprika or any spice. Bake at 190 degrees Centigrade for 40Continue reading “Baked Sweet Potato”

Cassava (Tapioca Root) Cake

Cassava is a root that is very popular in Africa and Philippines. In India we usually eat it steamed like a snack. It is also one of the main ingredients in the Sabudana. For this recipe you need to scrape the dark skin and then finely grate it. Its slightly tiring work but its aContinue reading “Cassava (Tapioca Root) Cake”