Fish fingers

Ingredients

• Seerfish/Sea bass/Barracuda - 1/2 kg deboned & sliced as fingers
• Lemon - 1
• Salt and Pepper
• Bread crumbs - 1 cup
• Maida - 2 tbsp
• Cornflour - 2 tbsp
• Egg - 1
• Water - 1tsp
• Oil - to fry.

Method.

Marinate the fish in lemon salt and pepper and refrigerate for 1/2 hour minimum. 

Beat egg with 1 tsp water.

Mix flour and cornflour with lilittle pepper.

Toss the fish piece in the flour mix to make thin coat. Dipbthis flour coated fishnin egg andvtoss it in bread crumbs and coat evenly. Now fry the crumb coated fish.

Serve it with mayonnaise. 

Note: the fishes that could be used are koduva, ooli, vanjaram or neimeen. If needed more spice mix 1/2 tsp chillinpowder and a pinch of salt in the bread crumbs.

Wheat and Jaggery Cake

Ingredient

• Wheat flour -1 1/2 cups
• Baking Powder - 2tsp
• Salt - 1tsp
• Jaggery - 1 cup
• Water - 250 ml
• Vanila Essence - 1 tsp
• Oil - 100ml

Method

Pre heat the oven at 180 degree.

Prepare a mould. Grease and dust.

Sieve atta, baking powder and salt twice or thrice. 

Dissolve jaggery in measured water along with vanila essence and filter to remove dust and impurities off jaggery.

In a mixing bowl take the sieved flour make a well and pour the jaggery mix. Using a spoon gently, very gently mix the batter. Wen half done add in the waoil and mix very very gently.

pour it in a prepared mould. Bake at 180 degree for 30 min or untill the cake is done, untill the skewers come out clean.

Note: Need not use beaters. Must be very careful not to over mix, or doit hard since it is wheat flour. Be very very gentel. Can either use a spoon or a hand wisk. There may be few lumps, but that's absolutely okay.  Can use normal cooking oil or even olive oil. 

Rainbow Cookies

A friend of mine had pistedvthis vdo from Eugenie Kitchen and asked me to try it. Had been waiting for a perfect day to try them. And it was really a miraclebthat my 1 1/2  year old boy slept for a longer time. So there i went in to the kitchen to make these. If in case u dont want to use egg, u can use ur regular butter cookie recipe. I had tried with that too.

Ingredients

• Butter - 175gm
• Powdered sugar - 155gm
• Flour - 310gm
• Egg yolk -3
• Vanila eessence - 1tsp
• salt - 1/4 tsp
• Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
• Food colours
• Egg white 1 + 1 tsp water for egg wash.

Method

Sieve baking powder and flour.

Bewat butter and sugar. Add vanila essence, salt and egg yolk and beat well.

Fold in flour and mix. Gently kneed with palm. 

Cut into 3 portions. Wrap 1/3 with a foil and set aside.

cutvtge remaining 2/3 into 6 portion and color them. Wrap them and leave for 10 minutes.

Roll each color dough into rectangle trim the edges and refrigerate them to set.

stack the layers one over the other by brushing the egg wash between layers. 

Take the desired cookie cutter mark the width of the cookie cutter and slice the slab. Now use the cookie cutter to cut out the shape. Refrigerate them to set.

Now stack those cut out cookies one over the othe with egg wash inbetween and form a lig.

cover it with rolled out white dough. Smooth it by rolling it. And refrigerate to set.

Apply egg wash over the log. Roll it over the sugar sprinkles and slice to cookies. 

Preheat the oven at 200degree. Bake the cookies at 170 degree for 15min.