home made chocolate wafers

Ingredients

300 gm cooking/ compound chocolate
              (take milk chocolate and dark chocolate both in equal quantities)
wafers any flavour

Method

Melt cooking/ compound chocolate in double boiler or in microwave on 50% power of heat

Smoothen and even the hot chocolate on a smooth surface.
Its called tempering.

now dip the wafer in this melted chocolate and put them carefully on a tray and let them cool. else puut them in fridger for 10 mins.

wafers are ready to consume.

chocolate creme pie

dark compound chocolate - 2 cups
whipped cream  - 1/2cup
Marie biscuits 1.5 cup
Melted butter - 1 cup
Powdered sugar - 1 cup or as per taste

Melt chocolate in double boiler ( hot water then put tumbler in it with dark chocolate cubes)

Take a pie dish (borosil or square one)
spread marie biscuit roughly grounded (not finely crushed)
pour melted butter mixed with powdered sugar on it.
spread evenly in pie dish on base.

Now spread whipped cream mixed with dark melted chocolate as final layer in pie dish.

Let it freeze and garnish with chocolate scrapes or cut fruits or dry fruits.

Rakhi with coconut barfi / नारळाच्या वड्या

Raksha bandhan is round the corner so what sweet are you making? ?

Well in Maharashtra rakhi is associated to coconut sweets as this day is also called as "नारळी पूर्णिमा".

So it's considered auspicious to make नारळ or नारियल or coconut sweet that day.
Known as नारियल बर्फी or नारळाच्या वड्या in Maharashtra

Sharing my mom's simple recipe of nariyal barfi/ नारियल बर्फी or नारळाच्या वड्या

Ingredients 

1 coconut grated

2 cups sugar

2 cups milk if you have mava or khoya then reduce milk and increase khoya

If milk or khoya both are unavailable we can use milkmaid tin also by decreasing sugar as milkmaid is already sweet.

Method

Heat desk ghee or clarified butter a spoonful in pan and add grated wet coconut to it. Roast properly till it's milk is reduced. Add milk/ khoya/ milkmaid to it with sugar.

Keep stiring continously till reduced to thick paste.

Add cardamom powder before switching off gas. 

Once warm spread on greased steel plate abd cut in desired shapes.

Enjoy the sweetness of Rakhi with this sweet.

Raw Mango/ kacchi kairi/ aaambi

Ahh the tingling taste of raw mango or saw kairi or say aambi...is mind boggling.
Come summers and we are blessed with mangoes.
Be it ripe or raw there are endless things we can make with it.

Just to enlist few of raw mango recipes-
Aam panha
Kairi chutney
Kairi sweet pickle
Kairi murrabba
Kairi loncha or say pickle
pickle too is made in many varieties be it with grated raw mango or pieces.

Salad/ Koshimbir

Koshimbir in maharashtra is a must have side with lunch. Its a salad where in all ingredients are grated or finely chopped so as to consume more quantity and more ingredients instead of just picking up one single at one time.

There is no set rule for what to add.
this is a simple example to add the basic salad ingredients...

onions -2 finely chopped
cucumber - 2 finely chopped
tomatoes - 2 finely chopped
carrots - 2 finely chopped
reddish -1 finely chopped
cabbage - 1/4th or say 1/2 cup finely chopped

green chilies 2-3 finely chopped
coriander - 2 tbsp finely chopped
salt, pepper sugar to taste

all this can be just mixed and eaten or we can temper it with 1 sp oil n rai or
to enhance taste add curd to it.

chilly coriander chutney

Chilly coriander chutney

Ingredients

coriander - clean n cut approx 2 cups
green chillies - 5-6 as per spicy taste
cumin seeds/ zeera - 2 tsp
salt to taste
lemon juice of one lemon

Grind all in  a mixer pot to fine paste and squeeze lemon juice

Chooocolate Cake

The Basic simple yum chocolate cake....everyone's favourite...

So what we need...

Ingredients

Flour/ Maida        - 1.5 cup
Baking Powder    - 1 tsp
Cocoa powder      - 2 tpsp
Coffee pdr            - 1 tsp
Eggs                     - 4 numbers
powdered sugar   - 1 cup
vanilla essence    - 1 tsp

How to bake chocolate cake...

Add sugar, then oil and then eggs one by one in a bowl or mixing pot.

side by side seive flour + cocoa powder + baking powder and coffee.

No pre heat oven for 15 mins at 180° C in convection mode.

Now add flour mixture to oil egg mixture and beat a little more

Now bake cake for 45 minutes in oven.

Suggested serving - Coffee liquour poured on cake adds taste to this cake
Coffee liquor - 1/2 spoon coffee + 4sp grounded sugar + 1 cap rum.