Walnut Chocolate Chunks Brownies

Every-time I go shopping for pantry items, I have always wanted to try Pillsbury's ready made brownies mix. Its super easy to make and awesome, fudgy delicious brownies. I have added some chopped walnuts to give perfect brownies, finally my dream came true....hehehe...

Ingredients:

1 pack of brownies mix
1 cup of chopped walnut
75 ml of water
30 ml of oil
1 egg

In a bowl, mix everything together, pour into a 9x9 greased square tin and baked for 20 minutes on a preheated oven at 150 degrees. Once baked let it cool before cutting and serving the brownies. Now our Hazelnut Chocolate Chunks Brownies is ready to be served!

Yummy yummy brownies

Home-made Garlic Butter

Ingredients:
1 bar of unsalted butter (softened)
6 cloves of garlic paste or diced
1 tbsp of chopped parsley (optional)
A pinch of salt

Beat softened butter oh high speed until its fluffy, add the garlic paste mix well. Finally add salt and chopped parsley. Fill in a bottle and store in fridge, can be kept for a week or up to a month if frozen.

Now our Home-made Garlic Butter is ready to be used for garlic bread or to spread on a toast. Do try and I'm sure you will love the flavor.

Cinnamon Sugar & Raisins Pull Apart Bread (Egg-less)

For many months I have been admiring many blogger sisters baking breads, different types and shapes which pokes me every day to try my hand on baking bread but some how delayed all this while as I didn't have the gut to try it. The steps seem to be very tedious and I thought I didn't have that much of patience to wait for it but the first step to any major decision are quite tough isn't it, OMG its just baking a bread nothing as major to a liposuction. I went through many recipes from other bloggers' post and have decided that I would choose Pull Apart Bread as my first choice as the process is quite easy and you can choose any filling of your choice to incorporate with the bread.

I love the Cinnamon Sugar and Raisin combo as its very simple and doesn't need much ingredients and they are something available in almost every kitchen. Now let us look at how to make this wonderful, soft and flavorful bread, I have chosen to follow Nags recipe from Edible Garden, thank you so much dear for the wonderful recipe. For the step by step pictorial do visit her website;

Ingredients:
3 cups of all purpose flour 
1 tsp of sugar 
2 tsp of yeast (I used Mauripan) 
1/2 cup of warm milk 
1 tsp of salt 
25 gm of butter, at room temperature 
3/4 cup of milk, at room temperature 
Oil

Filling:
1 cup of sugar 
3 tbsp of butter (at room temperature)
1 tsp of cinnamon powder
2 tbsp of black raisins

In a bowl, mix warm milk, yeast, sugar and leave it aside for it to work its magic (this mixture will be frothy and it's ready to be used it takes approximately 5-10 minutes).

In another mixing bowl add flour, salt, butter and yeast mixture, mix all these ingredients until it comes together and add the 3/4 cup milk until a soft, slightly sticky dough is formed. Apply some oil and cover the dough with a cloth or cling wrap and set aside for 1 1/2 hour.

If you have followed the exact steps this dough will rise, punch and release the air in the dough and roll on a flat surface using a rolling pin to get a rectangle or a square. Apply some butter, sprinkle generous amount of cinnamon and sugar mixture on the flatten dough on the buttered side, add the black raisins on top of this and lightly roll using a rolling pin t slightly embed the raisins.

Cut the dough into 6 strips and stack on top the other strips filling side facing up, now further cut the strips into equal smaller squares and arrange in a well buttered loaf pan. Cut part facing down, once all arranged cover with a wet towel and let the dough rise for another hour.

Pre-heat oven at 180 degrees and bake for 25-30 minutes until its golden brown, once baked apply generous amount of milk on the bread and let it cool down completely. Now our Cinnamon Sugar & Raisins Pull Apart Bread is ready to be served.

Do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Salted Brownies

I made another favorite of my Dearest Husband's Brownies for Valentines Day, this time I sprinkled some salt on the cake batter to give a great taste to the brownies but before going to recipe, I would like to share a poem that I wrote many years back. This is an unique poem it's a Tamil poem written in English, I apologize to those who can't understand but its all about love. It may seem funny because I can't read or write in Tamil but I wrote this 10 years ago out of love, nothing planned, all of sudden I had the inspiration to write.

Etho Oru Vegathil Unai Kanden

Mayanggi Poi Nindren

Nee Yennidam Varavillai

Naanum Unnai Vidavillai

Nee Yen Munnil

Nee Yen Kannil

Nee Yen Kanavil

Nee Yen Manathil

Ninaikavum Mudiyamal

Marakavum Mudiyamal Thavikiren

Nee Varuvaaya

Unnai Tharuvaaya

Naan Kaathirupen

How is my poem? Okay now without wasting anymore time, let me share the recipe for today;

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup of unsalted butter

1/2 cup of white chocolate (chopped)

1/4 cup + 2 tbsp cocoa powder

1 1/2 cup of soft brown sugar

3 large eggs beaten

1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract

1 cup of all purpose flour

1/4 cup of chocolate chips

1/2 tsp of salt

Melt butter and white chocolate on double boiling, remove from the water bath add cocoa powder, sugar, eggs and vanilla extract. Mix everything well and fold in flour and pour on a buttered square or rectangle cake pan. Finally add the salt over the batter, using a stick swirl the salt over the batter. 

Bake this mixture for 35 minutes at 150 to 170 Degree brownies should not be baked like cake it should be slightly wet so 35 minutes will be accurate, once the brownies bake let it cool before cutting and serving it. My husband prefers to have it warm and sometimes with vanilla ice-cream.

Dust with cocoa powder before serving or plain depending on your preference

Do try and let me know how was it!

Butter Prawn

My love for Chinese Cuisine, I just can't explain. I love the cuisine because of its quick preparation and does not need long hours of waiting even when you order in a very busy restaurant. I have admired the food since I was a kid, dad used to bring us to Chinese restaurants almost every week, my love for it grew fonder after I have started cooking. Butter Prawn is a dish that have been my all time favorite and must order dish when ever we eat out. It look me so long to get a perfect recipe of this dish, you can find many similar recipes in the net but I have copied this recipe long long ago even before I blog so I don't write down the source of this recipe. My heart felt gratitude to those who have shared this recipe, now let us see how to prepare this easy and delicious dish;

Ingredients:

10 large prawns (cut the antennae)

3 egg yolks (I have used 2 large whole eggs)

2 sprig of curry leaves 

3 bird eye chilli (chopped)

1/4 cup evaporated milk

2 tbsp of vegetable oil

2 tbsp of corn starch

1 tsp of white pepper powder

4 tbsp of butter

1 tsp of sugar

Salt to taste

Marinate prawns with salt and pepper for 10 minutes, before frying add cornstarch. Heat 2 tbsp of butter and 1 tbsp of vegetable oil, let the butter melt and fry prawns until it turns red/pink/peach colour. Do not over cook the prawn, it take a couple of minutes to achieve this. Drain the prawns and keep aside.

In another pan add 1 tbsp butter and oil, pour the whisked eggs and fry until you get tiny pieces of scrambled egg (very tiny pieces like you can see from the above picture). Pour the balance 1tbsp of butter and oil add curry leaves and chopped chilli, then add the evaporated milk when it starts bubbling add prawn, sugar and salt. Quickly stir fry until all the ingredients are well incorporated and serve.

This dish best eaten while its hot. Do try and let me know how it turned out for you!