Showing posts with label Beetroot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beetroot. Show all posts
Monday, 8 September 2014
Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Walnut and Raisins
Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Walnut and Raisins is an exceptional combination of cake made with Beetroot and walnuts mixed together in the cake batter and the cake top sprinkled with walnuts and raisins. Walnuts that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids strengthen the heart and Beetroot is low in fat, full of vitamins and minerals and packed with powerful antioxidants. So here comes the healthy cake recipe...
100 grams Wheat flour
100 grams Butter
100 grams Beetroot (grated)
100 grams Sugar powder
3 number Egg (medium size) (approximately 100g)
4 tbsp Unsweetened coca powder
2 grams Baking powder
2 tsp Vanilla essence
100 grams Walnuts
50 grams Raisins (Optional)
To prepare Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Walnut and Raisins :
1. Take a bowl add butter, sugar powder, cream it and add vanilla essence, egg, mix this well.
2. Take another bowl add wheat flour, coca powder, baking powder, walnuts, Beetroot grated, mix this with the flour, add this wet mixture to the butter mixture and mix it well.
3. Transfer into the greased baking tray and spread the walnuts and raisins on the top of the cake batter and bake them at 200 c for 20 to 25 minutes or until the tester (toothpick or knife) inserted near the center comes out clean. Allow the cake to become cool for 15 min before inverting on a wire rack.
4. Delicious Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Walnut and Raisins is ready to serve.
Tips / Notes :
- U can add any nuts instead of walnuts for this cake
- U can prepare Carrot Walnut Raisins cake by following the same steps by replacing the Beetroot with Carrot.
- Instead of Walnuts and Raisins spreading on the cake u can sprinkle sugar powder before cutting and serving the cake.
- U can use All purpose flour or Ragi flour instead of wheat flour.
Health benefits :
Beetroots :
1. Beetroots have long been used for medicinal purposes, primarily for disorders of the liver as they help to stimulate the liver's detoxification processes.
2. Beetroot is rich in fiber, exerting favorable effects on bowel function, which may assist in preventing constipation and help to lower cholesterol levels too.
Walnuts :
1. Walnuts have potential health benefits in the area of memory and cognitive function as well.
2. Walnut helps prevent heart disease and are the fruit recommended for lowering cholesterol.
3. Walnut is a good ‘hair food’ too. This is because walnut contains biotin (vitamin B7) that helps strengthen hair, reduce hair fall and improve hair growth to certain extent.
4. Walnuts are high in protein, vitamins, omega 3 fatty acids, trace minerals, lecithin and oils. Compared with other nuts, which typically contain a high amount of monounsaturated fats, walnuts are unique because the fats in them are primarily polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) and are the only nut with a significant amount of alpha-linolenic acid. Moreover, walnuts have insignificant amounts of sodium and are cholesterol free.
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Monday, 14 July 2014
Baking a Cake Using Pressure cooker
Baking a cake without using an oven? is a common question most of the women get. Before buying the oven I used to bake cakes using a pressure cooker and the outcome used to be marvelous. I thought to share my experience and the recipe since too many queries exist! Here, is how to bake a Egg-less Chocolate Beetroot Cake Using Wheat Flour in a pressure cooker.
Ingredients for Egg-less Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Wheat flour:
2 cup Wheat flour
2 med size Beetroot grated
1/2 cup Oil
2/3 cup Sugar
6 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
1 1/2 cup hot water
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
For baking
Pressure Coker to bake cake
1 cup salt
To prepare Egg-less Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Wheat flour :
1. Spared a cup of salt at the bottom of the cooker.
2. Preheat the cooker without putting the Vishal.
3. Prepare the cake batter by fallowing the below steps.
4. In a bowl add all wet ingredients - Oil, Sugar, Hot water, Vanilla Essence, and stir well till sugar dissolves.
5. Sew all dry ingredients to wet ingredients Wheat flour, Cocoa Powder, Baking Soda, Baking Powder and mix well.
6. Add Lemon juice. It reacts with baking soda in it, which helps cake to rice.
8. Grease cake tin with butter and pore the cake mixture.
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6. Delicious Egg-less Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Wheat flour prepared using pressure cooker is ready to serve.
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Sunday, 1 June 2014
Egg-less Chocolate Beetroot Cake Using Wheat Flour
Healthy, moist, delicious Egg-less Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Wheat flour for Vegetarians. A Chocolate Beetroot Cake that will change your mind about beetroot – and chocolate cake – forever. A deeply chocolatey cake, this is moist, lush and delicious. The fact that it’s packed full of really good for you beetroot is just an added bonus. Nutrients, antioxidants and dark chocolate cake.
Ingredients for Egg-less Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Wheat flour:
2 cup Wheat flour
2 med size Beetroot grated
1/2 cup Oil
2/3 cup Sugar
6 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
1 1/2 cup hot water
1/2 tsp Baking Soda
1/2 tsp Baking Powder
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
To prepare Egg-less Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Wheat flour :
1. Preheat the oven for 220'c for 10 min.
2. In a bowl add all wet ingredients - Oil, Sugar, Hot water,Vanilla Essence, and stir well till sugar dissolves.
3. Sew all dry ingredients to wet ingredients Wheat flour, Cocoa Powder, Baking Soda, Baking Powder and mix well.
4. Add Lemon juice. It reacts with baking soda in it, which helps cake to rice.
5. Grease cake tin with butter and pore the cake mixture.
6. Place the cake tin in oven and bake at 220'c for 25 min or until a tester inserted near the centre comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes before inverting on a wire rack.
7. Delicious Chocolate cake is ready to serve.
Tips / Notes:
· If you taste the cake while warm you will taste the beets. Strange, I know, but if you wait until the cake is completely cool, you will taste nothing but rich chocolate!
· U can prepare this cake using Mida/plain flour instead of wheat flour.
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Thursday, 29 May 2014
Chocolate Beetroot Cake with wheat flour
Healthy, moist, delicious Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Wheat flour. A Chocolate Beetroot Cake that will change your mind about beetroot – and chocolate cake – forever. A deeply chocolaty cake, this is moist, lush and delicious. The fact that it’s packed full of really good for you beetroot is just an added bonus. Nutrients, antioxidants and dark chocolate cake.
If you've never eaten a chocolate cake with beetroots before or you’re worried about adding beets to a cake recipe, fear not. You can’t taste the beets themselves. They give the cake a subtle earthiness, which works wonderfully well with the dark chocolate flavor of this cake. Plus they increase the moistness of the cake.
Ingredients for Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Wheat flour:
1 cup Wheat flour
5 tbsp Cocoa Powder
2 tsp Baking Powder
2 med size Beetroot grated
1 cup sugar
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
4 Eggs
150 ml Oil
To prepare Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Wheat flour :
1. Preheat the oven for 220'c for 10 min.
2. Mean wile add all dry ingredients - Wheat flour, Cocoa powder, Baking powder and sieve them 2 times.
3. In a bowl add all wet ingredients - Eggs, Sugar, Vanilla Essence, Oil and mix well till sugar dissolves.
4. Put dry ingredients mix to wet ingredients mix and mix well.
5. Grease cake tin with butter and pore the cake mixture.
6. Place the cake tin in oven and bake at 220'c for 25 min or until a tester inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes before inverting on a wire rack.
7. Delicious Chocolate cake is ready to serve.
Tips / Notes:
- If you taste the cake while warm you will taste the beets. Strange, I know, but if you wait until the cake is completely cool, you will taste nothing but rich chocolate!
- U can prepare this cake using Mida/plain flour instead of wheat flour.
- Use the Preheat and baking instructions as per oven user guide.
- U can add walnut / pecan nut / chocolate chips for this recipe.
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Saturday, 10 May 2014
Beetroot-stir-fry
Ingredients:
Beetroot - 2 big sized
To Temper:
To Temper:
1 tbsp olive oil
1/4tsp Hing
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
2 dry red chillies
2 green chillies, slit
Curry leaves - few
pinch turmeric pwd
pinch turmeric pwd
Dania pwd 1tsp
Salt - to taste
To prepare Beetroot-stir-fry:
1. Wash beetroot, peel off skin and chop it finely. Pressure cook beetroot with water( just till immersing level) for 3-4 whistles.
2. Heat olive oil, add hing, mustard seeds and once they splutter, add the cumin seeds, red chillies, green chillies and curry leaves and sauté for a minute.
3. Add the cooked beets, once the moisture is absorbed add turmeric pwd, Dania pwd and salt, cook for 5 more min. Turn off the stove.
3. Add the cooked beets, once the moisture is absorbed add turmeric pwd, Dania pwd and salt, cook for 5 more min. Turn off the stove.
4. Serve hot with rice and dal or Chapati.
Tips / Notes:
· You can skip pressure cooking and cook beets while sating itself. But I find this method easier as it makes cooking faster.
· U can add fresh grated coconut before switching off the stove. My mom always adds coconut only after switching off any stir-fry as raw coconut is not much of cholesterol. So using it as raw as much as possible is good.
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