RED VELVET CUPCAKE

Ingredients:

• All-purpose flour - 2 1/2 Cups
• Sugar - 1 1/2 Cups
• Cocoa powder - 1 Tsp
• Baking powder- 1 Tsp
• Salt - 1 Tsp
• Eggs - 3 Nos.Large
• Vegetable oil - 1 1/2 Cups
• Buttermilk - 1 Cup
• Vinegar - 1 Tsp
• Vanilla Essence - 1 Tsp
• Rasberry red food coloring- 2 Tbsps(50-60 ml)

Cream Cheese Frosting: 

• Cream cheese(softened)- 100 gms
• Butter(softened) - 100 gms
• Castor Sugar - 200 gms
• Vanilla Essence - 1 Tsp

Method to Prepare :

• Preheat the oven to 190 degrees C' for 10 minutes.
• Line cupcake pan with cupcake papers.
• In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder(dry ingredients)
• In a large bowl gently beat together the oil, buttermilk, eggs, food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla essence with an electric mixer/blender(wet ingredients)
• Add the sifted dry ingredients into the wet and mix until smooth and well combined.
• Pour in the batter till 3/4th of each cupcake liner
• Bake in an oven for about 20-25 minutes at 165 degrees C', turn the pans once, half way through.

For the Cream Cheese Frosting:

• In a mixing bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla essence together until smooth, add the sugar and slowly beat untill well combined, mix until very light and fluffy.

Tips:

• Decorate the cupcakes when cool with designs & decorations of your choice
• Makes about 24-25 cupcakes
• For decorations:-Use fancy chocochips, choco vermicelli,candy flowers,fresh cherries/berries etc.,

Buttermilk :- 1 Cup = 1 Cup warm milk + Juice of 1 lemon
(add the lemon juice into warm milk & let it stand for 10 minutes)

Measurement:- 1 Cup = 100 gms,1 Tsp(Teaspoon)=10 gms/ml ,1 Tbsp(Tablespoon)=25 gms/ml

Green Chilli Chicken

Ingredients :

• Chicken small pieces - 500 gms
• Green chillies - 10 nos
• Pepper - 1 Tsp
• Capsicum - 1 Large
• Onion - 1 Large
• Ginger - 1 inch piece
• Garlic - 10 pods
• Oil - 50 ml
• Soy sauce - 1 Tsp
• Vinegar - 1 Tsp
• Spring onions
• Salt as per taste

Method to prepare :

• Take the chicken ,wash them and keep it aside,heat a pan with little oil and cook the chicken till soft & tender with a little salt
• In a mixer/grinder add 6 green chillies,pepper,ginger & garlic and blend them to a fine paste.
• Cut 4 green chillies,capsicum and onions into large  pieces
• In another pan heat some more oil ,add the green chillies, onions & capsicum toss it for 2-3 minutes,add the paste and fry well till the raw smell has gone
• Now to this add the cooked chicken,soy sauce,vinegar,chopped spring onions & salt,  mix well & fry it till dry
• Take off from the heat,serve this spicy chicken dish with rice/rotis

Tips : Add chillies as per the spiciness you need