Eggless Butterless Choco Brownie

I have made this many times, but have not got it better than this. It was simply yummy, soft and butterless! And absolutely moist!

Dry ingredients:

APF/Maida - 1 cup

Cocoa powder - 1/2 cup

Sugar 1/2 cup

Baking soda 1/2 teaspoon

Wet Ingredients:

Curd 1/2 cup

Milk  1/3 cup

Melted dark chocolate 1/2 cup

vanilla essence 1 tbls

Preheat the oven to 180 deg Celcius.

Coat the baking tin completely with ghee(however you prefer to do it) and dust it with APF. Turn the tin upside down and pat to remove excess flour. Make sure it is coated well on all sides.

Melt Dark chocolate in a double boiler.

Sift Maida, Cocoa Powder, Baking soda and keep aside.

Cream Curd , Milk and Sugar with the help of hand mixer till sugar dissolves. Add the Vanilla essence to it.

Now add the sifted powders to the creamed mixture and fold them until they are mixed well.  Finally add the melted chocolate. Bake in the oven for 30 mins or until the tooth pick inserted comes out clean. Cool completely on a wire rack for 30 mins. Remove the brownie from the tin. Slice it, top it with some whipped fresh cream and serve!

Notes: To melt chocolate, in a vessel pour a cup of water. Keep another vessel on top of the first vessel. The second vessel should not touch the water in the first vessel. The chocolate should melt just from the vapour of the boiling water in the first vessel.

Vegetable Manchurian

Fried rice with low fat Vegetable Manchurian is a treat for me. I dont deep fry the manchurian balls but they will be still yummy. I usually make more balls than I require for the dish so that I can have them like a cutlet with sauce.

To make the Manchurian Balls:

Cabbage, Carrot, Beans, Cauliflower – Shredded – All together 2 cups

Corn flour – 2 spoons

Ginger garlic paste - ½ spoon

Oil, salt as required

Manchurian Gravy

Spring onion – 1 bunch

Garlic – 5 pods finely chopped

Ginger – 1 inch finely chopped

Capsicum, carrot, cabbage – All together 1 cup

Fine Oats powder – 1 ½ spoons

Soya sauce – 2 spoons

Tomato sauce - 2 spoons

Chilly – 1 no

Cook the vegetables mentioned for Manchurian balls with ginger garlic paste. Add required amount of salt. Once cooked cool them, add corn flour and mix. After Refrigerating for about an hour take the mixture out, make balls out of it. Flatten them and toast them in the tawa with oil till they become crispy and golden brown.

Keep them aside

In a pan add the vegetables for Gravy, ginger, garlic, chilly and salt in 1 ½ cups of water. The vegetables should be half done, crispy and should not be cooked completely. Add the sauces, oats powder and half of the chopped spring onion. I used oats powder to make the gravy thick. Corn flour can also be used. Bring it to a boil. Just when you are about to serve add the Manchurian balls in the gravy and add the Spring onions over it.

Oats Almond cookies

This is a low fat cookie I baked almost a month back. I followed the recipe from a little bit more religiously. I didnt have oats flour, so just ground the quick cooking oats and neither bothered to sift as the recipe asks and additionally I added the raisins.

It was a guilt free cookie. Never tasted different from any other cookie with loads of butter and sugar!

I totally forgot to take a snap of the cookie to post here till I packed the last cookie in DH's snack box. Didnt have time in the morning to move it to a plate and didnt bothered abt the angles or anything. Just clicked it!