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SAMOSA @home...refrigerate after you make and still keeps crispy after you warm in microwave oven....Enjoy

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For the dough:- Flour - 2.5 cups Ajwain ( carom seeds) - 1.5 tsp Salt 1.5 tsp Clarified Butter ( Ghee) - 4 tbsp Water - 1cup Rub flour and clarified butter, add salt and Ajwain ( carom seeds), Add water slowly to form a hard dough. Rest the dough for 20 minutes For the stuffing (samosa filling):- Medium sized potato boiled, mashed (5 pieces) Green Peas- 1 cup ( boiled and smashed a bit) Clarified Butter ( Ghee) - 2 tbsp cumin seeds - 1 tsp Salt - 1/2 tsp Ginger chopped - 3 tsp Dry Mango powder - 2 tsp Red chili powder - 1 tsp ( optional, use only if you want it spicy) Coriander powder - 1.5 tsp GaramMasala Powder - 1.5 tsp For the filling, warm a pan with clarified butter, add cumin seeds wait till it starts to crackle, add ginger and saute, add mashed potatoes, green peas and saute. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix well, cook on a low flame for 15 minutes, mixing every 3 minutes to ensure the stuffing is not sticking to the pan. cool the filling to mak

Sunday Breakfast Sandwich

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This one's a winner...Takes approx 8 minutes to make Breakfast Sandwich - with bacon, egg, cheese and tomato sandwiched in a rye toast buttered and smeared with sriracha sambal olek mayo Sliced Rye Bread Mayonnaise mixed with Sriracha and Sambal Olek( 1 tbsp mayonnaise, add 1/2 tsp sriracha and 1/2 tsp sambal olek) delete the sriracha and sambal olek if you dont like spicy 1 brown egg - ( over easy medium) tomato slices i slice of cheddar cheese butter two strips of bacon/ ham Method:- Toast the rye slices, apply butter fry the egg, flip, add cooked bacon slices and cheddar, cook till cheese starts to melt place the egg on top of the buttered toast put 2 slices of tomato on the other toast make a sandwich enjoy !!

Birthday Cake inspired by Black Forest and Halloween Candies

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Birthday Cake inspired by Black Forest and Halloween Candies The Chocolate Cake Dry Ingredients flour all purpose - 2 cups cocoa powder - 3/4 cup baking soda - 2 tsp baking powder -1 tsp salt - 1 tsp Wet Ingredients sugar - 2 cups veg oil - 1/2 cup hot water - 1 cup milk - 1 cup ( add 1 tsp vinegar as well) eggs - 2 large vanilla essence - 2 tsp sift dry ingredients whisk sugar with eggs till the sugar dissolves and incorporates a lot of air add veg oil, hot water, milk with vinegar and vanilla essence. mix wet ingredients with dry. mix it well. do not over mix. put in 2 round cake pans with buttered parchment( butter paper) in the bottom. divide batter equally in two pans. cook at 350 F for 45 minutes, check with a cake tester it should come out clean.. The syrup.. 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup water 1/4 cup liqueur ( i used Drambuie) boil water add sugar, dissolve sugar. turn the heat off, add liqueur and let it cool completel