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This glorious rice dish belongs to the traditional Indonesian cuisine which has now been embraced by other countries in the region has become a culinary star in its own right! This is just ONE POT dish with multiple flavours and tastes which is the main reason for it to gain such huge popularity! Indonesian mothers who used to serve this dish as breakfast by tossing some vegetables and meat with the leftover cold rice from the previous night’s dinner must have never believed that their simple, hurriedly rustled up dish would become one of the most sorted in the whole of South-East Asia, South Asia and beyond! It’s indeed, a very clever way to give the leftover rice a scrumptiously flavourful finishing. So, keeping the tradition, even now it is made with pre-cooked cold rice. Adding prawns to this dish proves to be a perfect culinary ingenuity, as seafood and rice just go so well together. Yet, the secret of the addictive delicious taste and the tempting colour stems fro...

These sweet little crunchy biscuits are called “Linguas de veado” in Portuguese.   Quite interestingly, when translated into English it means; “Butter cookies in the shape of a large tongue”.  However, I made them round in shape so that they are easier to pop into the mouth and crunch away in seconds! Super easy to make and they all will vanish in a jiffy. What you need: Egg whites  3 Icing sugar  120 g Margarine or butter (melted)  120 g Plain flour  120 g Salt  3 pinches Vanilla 1 tsp Let’s make: Set the Oven to 160 C Cream the batter Clean wipe a wide bowl perfectly dry to beat the egg whites Pour the egg whites and beat until frothy.  This will take  2- 3 mins In a seperate bowl beat butter and icing sugar until creamy Now add the butter and sugar cream to the egg whites Add Plain flour Add salt and vanilla Give a good stir and bring all together using a wooden spoon or a spatula Pipe onto the t...

The intoxicating scent and sweetness of bananas and the crunchiness of walnuts make this cake the ultimate best you can ever dream of a tea-time cake! In the process of trying to produce something similar to Starbucks’ banana and walnut cake, I ended up creating something far better and simply irresistible.  Adding a generous amount of lemon juice did the miracle of incorporating the tastes of all the ingredients included. Also, drizzling a spoonful of golden syrup out of impulse brought wonders to the flavours! No need of describing the taste and flavours, please do make this gorgeous cake and let me know whether it won over the Starbucks’ version. Over-riped bananas with black patches on the skin are the best for this cake. They are high in flavour and moisture, which in turn gives a delicious scent and taste to this cake. Over-riped bananas – best for banana cake Necessary ingredients:  Over- riped bananas  2 large  Soft brown sugar  170 ...

You can see the moods created on top of the iced cupcake to imply that expressions are unique to us, humans: Cool faces, mild faces, wild faces, glamours faces with pouting lips and guys with cool glasses and some sad faces with a single tear.  You can set your creative ideas to take over and enjoy doing something unique and beautiful to make yours look special! I used ready-to-roll icing in different colours to make the features.  Delicious homemade butter icing (recipe is given below) is smeared liberally on all the cupcakes. I normally bake the cupcakes on the previous day and let them cool off completely.  The next day, you have all the time and energy to spare for decorating them elaborately.  If you couple both on the same day, you could be too tired to launch yourself in decorating them at your heart’s desire. So, let’s start, You will need the following ingredients Self Raising flour 250 g Margarine or butter softened (30 secs in the microwave ) 250 g ...

With its g orgeous looks, this Swiss sponge roll is a real beauty that could win the crown! As Valentine’s day is around the corner, I painted a few hearts on the sponge to display a festive notion relevant to the occasion; you need some liquid food colouring and a good quality paintbrush to paint a simple design on the cake.  Quite a simple decorative idea but the enhanced appearance is a real winner of hearts! So, let’s make this beauty and bring a special glow of love to this Valentine’s day! Get ready with the following ingredients : For the cake  Plain Flour  50 g  Sugar (white caster is best)  120 g  Eggs  3 whites and yellows separated  Baking Powder  1 tsp  Corn Flour  1 tbsp Yellow food colour 3 drops (optional)  Salt 3 pinches ( this is a must to take the blandness of egg whites away)  Vanilla  1 tsp Let’s make the sponge roll first Set the Oven to 180 C Beat eggs Separate the egg whites a...