Showing posts with label cakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cakes. Show all posts

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Whole Wheat Choco-Chip Nutty Banana Bread


Ingredients:
  • ½ cup  brown sugar
  • ½ cup  unsalted butter
  • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cups ripe bananas (3-4 bananas)
  • ¼ cup  honey (you can used sugar or even thick sugar cane juice
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 cups whole wheat flour
  • ½ cups chopped walnuts
  • 1/2 Choco-chips
  • ¼ almonds

Preheat oven to 170 degrees C. Lightly grease a 9 x 5 inch bread tin( i used 7×5 inch bread tin)
Seive the flour 3 times to incorporate air along with the baking soda. Blend together the butter, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon and vanilla in a medium bowl until smooth. Add the mashed bananas, honey and eggs, beating until smooth. Add the flour, almonds, walnuts and choco-chips stir until smooth. Pour batter into the greased pan and let it rest at room temperature, uncovered for 10 minutes.
Bake the bread for 40 minutes. Cover a piece of foil gently across the top and bake until a knife or tooth pick inserted into the center comes out clean, 10 to 15 minutes more.
 Remove the bread from the oven andallow it to cool for 10 minutes before turning it out of the pan onto cooling rack.
   
Tips: Roll the choco-chips in little dry flour before adding to the mixture, this prevents them from sinking to the bottom during baking
If your banana’s are not very ripe either freez them for a night in freezer or just boil them a bit to make them pulpy.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

HELLO WORLD! WELCOME TO EPICUREAN DELIGHT AT CHILLICHATKA.




I have been thinking to blog about my kitchen experiments for long, but as usual i’m either lazy or busy :). Finally i made up my mind and started the search for names for my blog, i thought of various names right from very the predictable ‘recipe zone’, desi ‘pet pooja’ to something as boring as ‘cabbage & cauliflower’, something as direct as red chillies so on.. Then just this morning my brother made some home made pastas and they were so sipcy that i told him “how much of chillies have you put. the pastas are so chatakdar. Vola!!! i got the name for my blog. I love chillies as they add spice to food and make it chatakdar and chillies since my favourite among all the spices ‘chilli’ had to be there in name at any cost and i found it. Here at chillichatka you will get to read about some really spicy as well as tasty; veg and non-veg recipes and how to make them. For those who are non-spicy food lovers you will find recipes to suit you palette too.

Here I shall share only dishes that I have tried and tested.  You will also find me blogging a lot of dhankkani dishes and some of them are made only in Bangalore Muslim households.

P.S This blog was started in 2010 in wordpress and im replicating it in blogspot now, as i find the platform more easy. 
Photo credit : Nikhilesh murthy  http://nikhileshmurthy.blogspot.in/