Nami's Cookbook

 Cake or Muffins.. I jus love them.. 😃 Filled with lotzz of butter, refined flour and of course sugar.. Lotzz of calories, isn't it? 😐 So I thought why don't I skip all these ingredients and experiment with healthy ingredients? Here is what I ended up with.. 😊 The muffins were soo fluffy and moist, like the ones we prepare using refined flour n butter.. Here goes the recipe... 😊 😃 Print Banana Muffins Yield: Makes 6 muffins Author: Namitha Shenoy Prep time: 10 M Cook time: 25 M Total time: 35 M Healthy version of muffins made using whole wheat flour, without butter. Ingredients: Whole wheat flour - ½ cup Baking powder - 1 tsp Baking soda - ½ tsp Cooking oil - 5 tbsp (I used sunflower oil, olive oil will be best option for healthier version) Milk - 3 tbsp Honey - 3 tbsp Cinnamon powder - ½ tsp Vanilla extract - ½ tsp Bananas (ripe and mashed) - 2 small Egg - 1 Salt a pinch Sugar to sprinkle Instructions: Preheat oven to 150° C and grease muffin tin with oil. (I used silic...

Babycorn rawa fry, a yummy snack or starter, where babycorns are marinated with spicy masala and then coated in rawa and deep fried till crisp. Here is the recipe : Print Babycorn Rawa Fry Yield: 2-3 servings Author: Namitha Shenoy Prep time: 30 M Cook time: 15 M Total time: 45 M a yummy snack or starter, where babycorns are marinated with spicy masala and then coated in rawa and deep fried till crisp. Ingredients: Babycorn - 10 nos Small Rawa - ½ cup Oil for frying For marination : Red Chilli Powder - 3 Tbsp ( I used half Kashmiri chilli powder and half Tikhalal) Corn Flour - 2 Tbsp Rice Flour - 1 Tbsp Ginger Garlic paste - 1 tsp Soya Sauce - 1 tsp Chat Masala - ½ tsp Jeera Powder - 1 tsp Garam Masala - 1 tsp Sugar a pinch Salt to taste Instructions: Wash babycorn, and drain it. Put it over a clean kitchen towel to dry, no water content should be there. Prepare marination by mixing the ingredients under marination with little water. Marinade but be thick paste.. Apply the marinade to...

Brownies.. prepared using oats and yeah its eggless. a healthy version of I must say.. a must try recipe.. :) Here is d recipe.. Print Eggless Oatmeal Choco Brownies Yield: 3-4 servings Author: Namitha Shenoy Prep time: 15 M Cook time: 35 M Total time: 50 M a healthy and eggless version of brownie prepared using oats Ingredients: Powdered Oats - ¼ cup Whole Wheat flour - ¼ cup Powdered Sugar - ¾ cup Cocoa powder - 5 tbsp (I used 2 tbsp instant chocolate horlicks powder, since I had only 3 tbsp of cocoa powder , n reduced sugar to ½ cup) Apples, chopped - 2 nos Low fat yogurt - ¼ cup (at room temperature) Baking powder - 1 tsp Vanilla extract - ½ tsp Cinnamon power - a pinch Walnuts chopped - ¼ cup Instructions: Preheat oven at 180°C. Pressure cook apples to 1 whistle with ¼ cup water. Cool n puree it. Sift oats, whole wheat flour, baking powder, cinnamon and cocoa powder in a bowl., In another bowl, whisk the yogurt, add apple puree, sugar and vanilla extract.. Mix well.. Now add sift...

Easy Egg masala.. As the name suggests, this is a quick and easy side dish for egg lovers which goes well with phulkas and rotis. The main taste of the gravy comes from Onions. Onions should be fried until golden brown. Also adding besan gives a thick gravy.  This is my own recipe. And its too yummy as well. Recipe Video: Recipe card : Print Easy Egg Masala Yield: Serves 3 person Author: Namitha Shenoy Prep time: 10 M Cook time: 20 M Total time: 30 M A yummy side dish prepared with eggs in onion and besan gravy Ingredients: Boiled eggs - 6 Onions - 3 large sliced Tomatoes - 3 large chopped Green Chilli (slit) - 1 Besan - 2 Tbsp Saunf - 1 tsp  Milk - ½ cup Turmeric powder - ½ tsp Red Chilli powder - 2 tsp Coriander powder - 1 tsp Garam masala powder - 1 tsp Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp chopped Oil - 3 tbsp Sugar - 1 tsp  Salt to taste Instructions: Make X slits on each boiled egg and keep it aside. In a bowl, make paste of spice powders and salt with little water. Heat oil i...