New Year Special Recipes

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Red Velvet Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2-1/2 Cups cake flour
• 1 Cup vegetable shortening
• 1-1/2 Cups sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp Cocoa powder
• 2 Ounces red food coloring
• 1 Cup buttermilk
• 1 tsp Baking soda
• 1 tsp Vinegar
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract
• 1 tsp Salt
• White frosting

For White Frosting:

• 2 tbsp Flour
• 1 Cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 Cup milk
• 1 Cup unsalted butter
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract

How to make Red Velvet Cake:
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a bowl of a mixer, cream together the shortening, sugar and eggs.
• Take a separate bowl and combine together the cocoa and food coloring.
• Combine this paste with the shortening mixture.
• Sift flour and salt together over the parchment.
• Combine the shortening mixture to the flour batter alternately with the buttermilk in 3 additions.
• Add the vanilla extract to it and fold in the baking soda and vinegar.
• Transfer the batter into 2 greased 9 inch cake pans and bake for about 30 minutes till an inserted cake tester comes out clean.
• Let it cool on a cooling rack and reverse the cakes from the pans.
• For frosting, cook the flour and milk on medium flame, until thickened.
• Let it cool, meanwhile in the bowl of an electric mixer, cream together the butter, vanilla and sugar till light and fluffy.
• Combine it with the flour mixture, mix well.
• Frost the top of the first layer with frosting and place the second layer on the top.
• Frost the entire cake with rest of the frosting.

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Pasta Soup Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Garbanzo beans (Chickpeas)
• 1/2 cup Pasta
• 2 cups Vegetable stock
• 1/2 Onion (chopped)
• 1 piece Garlic (finely chopped)
• 1/2 Carrot (scraped and chopped)
• 3 sprigs Parsley Leaves (chopped)
• 2 tbsp Vegetable oil
• 3 tsp Tomato Sauce
• Salt and Pepper as per taste

How to make Pasta Soup:


• Soak the Garbanzo beans in enough water taken in a bowl for overnight.
• Cook it in the morning. Keep aside.
• Heat oil in a pan, add onion and garlic. Fry till onion turns tender.
• Now add vegetable stock, carrot, parsley leaves and pasta into it.
• Bring soup to a boil, cover, and reduce the flame.
• Simmer for 5 to 6 minutes or until the vegetables are cooked.
• Add tomato sauce and cooked garbanzo beans.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.
• Simmer about 4 to 5 minutes or until flavors are blended.
• Serve hot.

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Apple Muesli Recipe

Ingredients:
• 1/2 cup Skimmed Milk
• 1/4 cup Oats
• 1/4 cup Low Fat Vanilla Flavored Yogurt
• 2 Apples (medium sized)
• 1 Pear (medium sized)
• 1/2 cup Orange and Pineapple Juice
• 2 tbsp Ground Pecans
• 2 Tbsp Honey
• 1 Tbsp Orange Zest (grated)
• 1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon
• 1 Banana (sliced)
• 1/2 cup Blueberries
• 2-3 Almonds (sliced)
How to make Apple Muesli:
• Mix the milk, oats, and yogurt in a bowl and keep it aside for 5 minutes.
• Discard the seeds of apples and pear, and grate them.
• Now mix the grated fruits and sliced bananas, juice, pecans, honey, orange zest and cinnamon with the oat mixture.
• Garnish Apple Muesli with almonds and serve.

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Crock Pot Cola Chicken Recipe

Ingredients

• 3 Pounds whole chicken
• 1 Cup ketchup
• 1 Large onion, thinly sliced
• 1 Cup cola
• Salt and pepper to taste

How to make Crock Pot Cola Chicken

• Put chicken in Crock Pot with the onions on top. Mix the ketchup, cup cola, and salt and paper and pour it over and cook on low heat for 6 to 8 hours.
• Serve.

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Grape Jelly Recipe

Ingredients:

• 5 Cups Grape Juice
• 7 Cups White Sugar
• 4 tbsp Powdered Fruit Pectin

How to make Grape Jelly:

• Mix grape juice and pectin in a large pot over medium-high heat.
• Bring it to a boil, and stir one minute at a rolling boil.
• Stir in sugar for a few minutes to completely dissolve. Remove from heat.
• Store in sterilized jars and seal the lid.

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Fish curry

Ingredients:

• 800 gms Fish (washed and sliced)
• 1 Onion Sliced
• 1 tsp Garlic (chopped)
• 12 Dry Red Chillies
• 1 Tomato (chopped)
• 1 tsp Cumin Seeds
• 1 tbsp Tamarind Paste
• 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
• 4 Green Chillies
• 1 tbsp Oil
• 2 tbsp Coriander Seeds
• 1 tbsp Ginger(minced)
• Salt to taste

How to make Fish Curry:

• Grind dry red chillies, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, ginger, garlic, and turmeric powder with water to make a fine paste.
• Rub the slices of the fish with some salt and a pinch of turmeric powder and keep aside for 5 minutes.
• Wash well and drain the water.
• Heat the oil in a wok and saute the onions till they turns golden brown.
• Add the paste and the chopped tomatoes. Saute slightly.
• Now add tamarind paste and water to it and bring it to a boil.
• Add the fish, green chillies and salt.
• Mix very gently and simmer on moderate heat for about 6 minutes or till the fish is cooked .

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Plum Liquor

Ingredients:

• 4 Quarts plums
• 4 Cups sugar
• 3 Cups dark rum

How to make Plum Liquor:

• Wash and quarter the plums. Fill them in a 4-quart mason jar.
• Add 3 cups of dark rum and 4 cups of sugar.
• Turn the jar once every day for 15 days to allow the sugar to dissolve.
• Filter out the fruit bits after 16 days.
• Plum Liquor is ready.

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Chocolate Mousse Cake

Ingredients:

• 250 gm Dark Chocolate
• 1-1/4 Cup Whipping Cream
• 9 Inch Pie Shell
• 4 Egg Yolks
• 1/2 Cup Sugar

How to make Chocolate Mousse Cake:

• Melt finely chopped dark chocolate over hot water.
• Beat the egg yolks with 2 oz sugar until white.
• Heat ¼ cup whipping cream to the boiling point, and whisk in beaten egg yolks.
• Add melted chocolate to the mixture to make it thick. Allow it to cool.
• Whisk 1 cup of whipping cream in a bowl, add the above mixture and stir.
• Transfer the mixture to the cake tin, and place in the refrigerator for several hours.
• Chocolate Mousse Cake is ready. Serve chilled.

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Sweet French Toast

Ingredients

8 slices of one day old bread
3 no: Eggs
125 ml: Cream
1 1/2 tbsp: Castor Sugar
1/2 tsp: Grated sweet lime rind
1 tbsp: Orange juice
1 tsp: Cinnamon powder
100 gm: Butter
Sifted icing sugar
Cut fruits

Method

1. Whisk eggs, cream, sugar, rind, spice and juice together.
2. Dip bread into egg mixture.
3. Heat half the butter in a frying pan. Add half the bread. Cook until golden on both sides.
4. Repeat with remaining butter and bread.
5. Serve toast dusted with icing sugar and accompanied with a little fruit if you wish.