THATTAI RECIPE/ SAVOURY RICE CRACKERS

INGREDIENTS:
1.  Rice flour - 2 cups
2.  Fried gram (pottukadalai) - 2 tablespoon
3.  Sesame seeds - 1 teaspoon
4.  Red chilli powder - 1 tablespoon
5.  Asafoetida ( perungayam) - 1 pinch
6.  Salt to taste
7.  Butter - 1 tablespoon
8.  Curry leaves - small amount
9.  Cooking oil - 1/4 kg
10. Warm hot water - 1 cup

METHOD:
1.  Take a bowl and mix all the ingredients except 9 and 10.

2.  Now mix them together with some hot water little by little and make a dough and keep it aside.

3.  Then make lemon sized balls and make shapes to prepare thattai.

4.  Take some tissue papers or a tracing paper and press the lemon sized balls one by by and keep it ready to fry them.

5.  Now take a kadai pour some oil when they gets hot add the pressed thattai in oil and fry them till golden brown.

6.  Then place them on a tissue paper and serve hot. Crispy thattai is ready to eat.

You get around 10 to 12 thattai's.

Note:

If you use tissue paper the dough wont get sticky. See that dont do more than three thattai's for a tissue.

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CREAMY CHOCOLATE CAKE RECIPE/ CHOCOLATE CAKE/ EGGLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE/

INGREDIENTS:
1.  Maida - 1 cup
2.  Condensed milk - 1/2 cup
3.  Butter - 1/4 cup
4.  Vanilla essence - 1 teaspoon
5.  Coco powder - 3 tablespoon
6.  Baking powder - 1/2 teaspoon
7.  Powdered sugar - 1 cup
8.  Soda powder - 1/4 teaspoon
9.  Cherries - 100g
10.Water - 1-1/2 glass
11.Chocolates - 2 bars
12.Cherry - 10 pieces
13.Cream - 170 g (you can get in super market)
14.Water 3 tablespoon
15.Boiled milk - 3 tablespoon
16.Sand - 1 bowl

METHOD:
1. Take a bowl mix the butter with 1/4 cup of  powdered sugar and mix till it comes to a creamy stage.

2. Then add the condensed milk and mix them till it becomes like a idly batter.

3. Now sieve the maida and add it to the mixture and add coco powder, baking soda and essence.

4. Mix them well with 3 tablespoon of water and boiled milk for 10- 15 mins.Now the mixture is ready.

5. After that  take an  idly cooker fill them with some sand. Place a lid on the sand and on that place a perforated plate and close the cooker and heat it for 10 mins.

6. Then take a bowl and grease it.  Fill the cake mixture in the bowl and after opening the cooker place the bowl in the middle of the perforated plate and cook it for 15-20 mins in a low temperature.

7. Meanwhile mix the cream in a bowl with 4 tablespoon of powdered sugar and whisk it fast for 10
mins and refrigerate the cream for 15 mins.

8. Keep the cherries and sugar syrup ready. Scrape the chocolate bars and keep them aside.

9. When the cake is cooked  remove it from the bowl carefully and cool it for 10 mins.

10.Now take a knife cut the cake into 2 or 3 layers. If the layers are not even, need not worry.

11. Take a plate and apply a little cream in the middle of the plate and place one layer of the cake
 in the middle of the cream and press it.

12.Pour a little sugar syrup on it and some cream and spread them evenly.

13.Likewise the same has to be followed by the 2nd and the 3rd layers and with a final touch
spread the cream evenly on all sides of the cake and decorate them with cherries and scraped chocolates.

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