Vegetarian Curry Puff

Ingredients :

500 gm Potato

200gm Carrot

300gm Dried soya meat (i used Enrico's)

1 big Onion

2 tsp Garlic & ginger paste

2 tbsp Masala powder (meat)

1 tbsp Chilli powder

1/2 tbsp Tumeric powder

a pinch Salt

a pinch of sugar (optional)

Method:

1) Wash the soya meat in water and cook for few minutes until it well cooked and soft. Drain the

water. Cut into small pieces. Keep aside.

2) Peel potato and cut into tubes. Keep aside.

3) Cut the carrots into tubes. Keep aside.

4) Chopped the onions. Blend the garlic and ginger. Make it as paste.

5) Heat oil and saute the chopped onions. After few second, add in garlic and ginger paste.

6) Add in the soya meat. Stir for a while. Add in the potatos and carrots. Stir in small heat.

7) Add in chilli, tumeric, masala powder. Followed by salt. Stir well.

8) Add in water and cook until the ingredients cooked well.

9) Take a tbsp of potato mix and fill in puff pastry.

10) Bake it until it turn gold colour.

Payasam (sweet)

Ingredients:

1/2 cup kadalai paruppu

1/2 cup vermicelli

1 cup sugar

1 tbsp raisins(dry grapes)

1/2 cup cashews

1/4 tsp cardamon powder

1/4 tsp dried ginger powder

1 tsp ghee

1 cup milk

1/2 cup sagu

Method:

1) Wash 'kadalai paruppu' in water and cook until soft.

2) Heat ghee and fry raisins and cashews for sometime. Keep aside.
3) Heat ghee and fry vermicelli till a nice aroma comes out. Keep aside.
4) Now inside the paruppu add milk, sagu, vermicelli and cook till vermicelli cooked well
(You can cook them in water instead of milk, but milk gives a nice flavor).

5) Add sugar, cashew nuts and cook till sugar is diluted. Add in the cardamon and dried ginger

powder. mix well. Take out from heat.

Source By : Kamalam Attai

Cashew nut cookies

Ingredients:
225 g butter cup
140 g Icing sugar
1 egg yolk
140 g cashew nuts (roast n blended)
380 g wheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla essence
egg yolk (add some yellow colour)
Cashew nut for decoration (roasted)

Method:
1. Cream butter and sugar till soft and creamy.
2. Add in vanilla essence and egg yolk.
3. Add in baking powder and blended cashew nuts, mix well.
3. Add in the flour and mix till it becomes a dough
4. Take a small portion of dough and shape it as cashew nut and decorate with cashew nuts.
5. Arrange on tray and apply with egg yolk on it.
6. Bake at 150C for 15 min atau or until it turn to yellow colour.

Source by: Mazna

Double layered biscuit

Ingredients:

200 gm. Butter
180 gm. fine sugar
30 gm. beaten egg
300 gm. plain flour
Strawberry Jam

Method :
1) Cream butter and sugar till creamy.
(2) Add in beaten egg.
(3) Add in plain flour, knead into a pliable dough.
(4) Roll Dough between 2 plastic sheets, use a fluted cutter to cut the cookies. Pair them up. 1 with hole and the other without a hole. (Use a small cookie cutter to cut out the hole)
(5) Bake at 170C for about 10- 15 mins.
(6) Transfer to wire rack to cool.
(7) Spread jam onto the cookie without hole and then top up with the cookie with a hole.
(8) Srinkle with sugar.

Source by : Mazna