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Oven Baked Salmon and Stir Fry Vegetables Actually today being Friday I am super lazy to cook actually my body battery is completely down. I wanted to eat something tasty and easy to cook today so thought of preparing Indian Style Salmon Fry with Veggies. This recipe would only take 20 mins of your time once you have marinate the fish. Ingredients: For Marinating Fish: Salmon- 500 Gms Red Chilli Powder - 1 Tsp Garlic Salt - 1 Tsp Garlic Powder- 1 Tsp Garlic - 2-3 pods Vinegar - 1 Tbsp Oil - 1 Tsp For Veggies: Broccoli- 1 Little Carrot- 1 Big French Beans- 5-10 No.s Oil- 1 Tbsp Garlic salt to taste How to prepare yummy Indian Style Salmon 1. Marinate fish with all the ingredients under Fish Marination and marinate for minimum an hour 2. After an hour brush fish with Oil and bake at 200 ° C for 20-25 mins in a preheated oven 3. While the fish is cooking, heat Oil in a Wok and ad all the veggies, Stir the veggies on high flame for 3 minutes, add G...
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Kerala Red Fish Curry I have had so many people asking me the recipe of my style of Kerala Fish Fry so I thought why not post one. Its a pretty easy yet yummy curry which can be made in no time Ingredients · Fish - ½ kg, cut into small size pieces · Coconut oil · Mustard seeds - 1 tsp · Fenugreek - ¼ tsp · Crushed Ginger - 1½ tbsp · Crushed Garlic - 1½ tbsp · Onion – 8-9 · Kashmiri chili powder - 2 tbsp · Coriander powder - 2 tbsp · Turmeric powder - ½ tsp · Kudampuli – 3 big pieces · Hot Water to soak Kudampuli · Curry leaves – the many the better · Salt Instructions Soak cocum in 3 tbsp water for 10 minutes  Mix Chili, coriander & turmeric together with in cold water & make a paste  Heat oil in a pan & splutter mustard, fenugreek and curry leaves  Add crushed ginger garlic paste & stir until well cooked  Now Add Onion and saute till soft  Add the C...
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I am sure everyone loves Macarons... But have you tried making it? Its one of the most easiest cookies to make all you need is patience.  The moment I see macarons I wanna eat it so I thought why not make them as I can eat as many as I can.. :P  Few tips before making Macarons: The first and the most important thing required is a Food scale / Kitchen Scale . Yes you can definitely use cups to measure the ingredients but its important to be perfect when you measure  ingredients . 2nd important thing is use Food Gel for colour and not food colour- Adding unnecessary liquid to the macaron mixture spoils the mixture Ingredients For the Macarons : 70   grams   of Almond meal/flour, room temp 120   grams  powdered sugar 2   egg whites   about 65 grams (Out of the fridge for at least 12 hrs)  50   grams   granulated sugar 1   " strip Red or Pink GEL food Colour  Sprinkles ...

Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Buttercream

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Ingr edients 2 cups all-purpose flour ¾ cup cocoa powder 2 cups sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1½ teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon espresso powder 2 large eggs 1 cup hot water 1 cup milk ½ cup vegetable 2 teaspoons vanilla extract Raspberry Buttercream Frosting Recipe Frozen or Fresh Raspberry's 5 Cups Caster/Powdered Sugar 1 Stick Butter i.e. 1 Cup Instructions: Preheat oven to 170º C.  Prepare  two 9-inch cake pans by buttering and lightly flouring  For the chocolate cake Sieve flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt to a large bowl.  Add Sugar and espresso powder.  Add milk, vegetable oil, eggs (1 at a time), and vanilla extract to flour mixture and mix together on medium speed until well combined.  Carefully add boiling water to the cake batter until well combined. Distribute cake batter evenly between the two prepared cake pans. Bake for 30-35 minutes, unt...
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Recipe no 2 -  Egg Puffs 😍  Friends coming home for chai???  And you haven’t done your weekly grocery ☹️ Not sure on what too make ...??? Don't stress too much make this very easy and quick recipe...  Egg Puff Ingredients: Pastry sheet - 1 pac  Boiled Egg - 4  Onions - 4  Tomatoes - 1  Ginger - garlic paste - 2 Tsp  Green chillies-  2 Red chilly powder - 1 Tsp  Turmeric - 1/4 Tsp Chicken Masala/ Garam Masala - 1 Tsp Coriander powder- 1 Tsp  Curry leaves - the more the better  Tomato ketchup - 1tbsp  Coconut oil - 1 tbsp Water - 1 to 2 tbsp Egg white  Salt For the egg filling:  Take a kadai put in some coconut oil, once hot add curry leaves and green chillies... Stir for a minute... Add onions and sauté till their light brown in colour... add ginger garlic paste, keep sautéing for 3 to 5 mins. Lower the gas flame and add all the dry Masalas, sau...
Hi... NamasKaram... I am Natasha... Natasha Jibu earlier known as Natasha Joy...  😎  I am a catholic mallu girl who lived in Bombay for 25 years... I was born in Kerala but got transported to Mumbai in few months of my birth... I moved to the kangaroo land a year ago... Basically let’s get to the blog... my mum never allowed me to cook saying that I increase her work than help  😜  I started cooking after moving to Australia, I slowly started realising that I cook well... my friends say I have magic in my hands... in Malayalam we say kaippunyam... so I thought I will pass on some magic to others..  😝 And moreover I am a girl who loves to eat... I live to eat... I am a big foodie  🤷🏻‍♀️  I always tell my husband that he is is lucky to have a wife from Mumbai as I can cook  👨‍🍳 north and South Indian khana..  💁🏻  so this blog will have a mixture of north and South Indian recipes... so friends wanna impress people with food browse t...

Chocolate Muffins

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Let our first recipe be something sweet and healthy... how about Healthy chocolate muffins 👩🏻‍🍳 Recipe no 1... super moist chocolate muffins... The credit for this recipe goes to Jaspreet, my colleague... she used to get freshly baked muffins to work and that’s how I got addicted to this healthy unhealthy food 😜... I was too nervous to bake however she encouraged me to bake this and it turned out to be awesome... Ingredients required: Dry ingredients: Whole wheat flour - 1 cup Sugar - 1 cup ( I use brown sugar) Cocoa powder - 1/2 cup Salt - 1/2 tsp  Baking powder - 2 Tsp  Wet ingredients: Egg - 1 Olive oil - 1/2 cup  Boiling hot water - 1 cup  Vanilla essence - 2 Tsp  Optional ingredients :  Chocolate chip or sprinkles  Preparation time: 30 mins  Makes around 10 to 12 muffins  Instructions: Pre heat oven to 170 C. Lightly grease a 12 hole non stick muffin pan.  St...