Black Forest Cake

Ingredients
1) All Purpose Flour - 2 cups
2) Cocoa Powder - 6 table spoons
3) Condensed Milk - 1 can
4) Baking Powder - 1 tea spoon
5) Baking Soda - 1 tea spoon
6) Unsalted butter - 8 tea spoons or 1 slice
7) Whipped Cream - 1/2 cup
8) Sweetened Sugar - 1/2 cup
9) Grated Chocolate - 5 spoons
10) Cherries - 6
11) Soda(coke, pepsi) - 150 ml
12) Vanilla Extract - 2 tea spoons

Procedure
1. Take butter in small pan and heat it until it becomes liquid.
2. Take condensed milk in a bowl, add liquid butter, stir thoroughly and keep it aside.
3.Take All purpose Flour in another bowl, add cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder to it and mix the ingredients well and ensure there are no lumps.
4. Take the liquid mix and add vanilla extract to it and stir thoroughly.
5. Take the powdered mix(Step 3) and mix with liquid mix(Step 4) along with Soda slowly and steadily. Stir the mixture until a thick viscous liquid with uniform texture is prepared.
6. Preheat the Oven for 350 degrees.
7. Take a cake pan and grease it with butter or cooking oil spray. Fill half the cake pan with above liquid and bake it for 20 mins.
8. Take out the cake once baked(insert a toothpick or small sharp thing to check. If the toothpick is clean without any liquid sticking to it, cake is baked)
9. Take whipped cream and sweetened sugar in a bowl and mix well.
10. Apply the cream on the cake and spread uniformly. cover the entire cake with the cream.
11. Can design the front portion of the cake with small flowers with the cream and decorate with cherries.
12. Apply the grated chocolate on top of the cake and side of the cake for extra decoration.
13. Eggless Black Forest Cake is Ready.

Note: In case of no oven, pressure cooker can be used. Close the cooker and do not put the whistle.

                                 

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Bagara Baingan

Ingredients
1) Brinjol(Baingan) - 10
2) Groundnut - 50gms
3) Onion - 1 large
4) Green Chillies - 3
5) Tamarind - 20gms
6) Sesame Seeds - 3/4th cup
7) Coconut Powder - 2 pieces
8) Ginger Garlic paste - 1 spoon
9) Whole Garam Masala(bay leaves, cinnamon sticks, Cloves, Cardamom)
10) Red Chilli powder - 1/2 spoon
11) Fenugreek Seeds - 5gms
12) Coriander Powder, Cumins Powder - each 1 spoon(or can use homemade Garam Masala - 2 spoons)
13) Mustard Seeds - 3gms
14) Cumin Seeds(Jeera) - 3gms
15) Turmeric Powder - 1/4 spoon
16) Curry Leaves - 5
17) Asafoetida(hing) - 2gms
18) Oil - as needed
19) Salt - as per taste

Procedure
1. Soak Tamarind in water and keep it aside(To prepare Tamarind Juice).
2. Take Groundnuts in a pan and heat them(Can add little oil) until they turn dark brown.
3. Add Sesame seeds  to the groundnut and heat them until the seeds turn brown colour.
4. Add Coconut powder to the pan and mix them and heat it for 2 mins.
5. Grind the above mixture by adding water(the mixture formed should be little gravy) and keep it aside.
6. Cut the Brinjols each into four parts keeping the stem intact(i.e from bottom of the Brinjol).
7. Deep fry the Brinjols until they become soft.
8. Take oil in another pan and heat the whole Garam Masala.
9. Add mustard seeds to the pan and once they splutter add cumin seeds.
10. Once the Cumin seeds splutter add the Fenugreek seeds.
11. Add Onion(finely chopped) and Green Chillies(cut into parts) and heat.
12. Add Asafoetida to the above mixture and mix well.
13. Add Curry leaves and Turmeric powder and mix thoroughly until the Onions are fried.
14. Add Ginger Garlic paste to the mixture and mix thoroughly. Add Water to maintain consistency and uniform mixture.
15.Allow the mixture to heat properly. Once Oil starts separating out and then add home made Garam Masala and Red Chilli powder and mix properly.
Garam Masala - Take Chana daal, Urad daal, Coriander, Cumin seeds, Asafoetida, Red Chillies and heat all of them and grind them into fine powder.
16. Add the groundnut gravy to the above mixture and mix thoroughly.
17.Let the mixture boil (bubble pop up) and then add Tamarind Juice(squeeze Tamarind in the water) and mix properly.
18. Add Salt to the above mixture and stir it.
19. Close the pan and let the gravy boil for 5 mins.
20. Add the fried Brinjol to the gravy . Ensure that each Brinjol is covered with the gravy.
21. Let the Brinjols get fried in the gravy for 10 mins.
22. Bagara Baingan is ready and serve hot.

                             

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