Vaniila Sponge Cake Recipe / How to Make Basic Sponge Cake / Sponge Cake Recipe by Cook with Seema

Vanilla Sponge Cake is a basic cake recipe which anyone can prepare in no time.

You can decorate the sponge according to your choice or you can add dry fruits to make it more flavourful.

It goes very well with evening tea.

Preparation Time:- 60 minutes

Servings :- 6 to 8

Ingredients:-

• All purpose flour - 1 and 1/2 cup or 200  grams
• Curd -1/2 cup (fresh)
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Butter - 1/2 cup or 80 grams
• Baking Powder - 1 tsp
• Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
• Milk - 1/2 cup
• Vanilla extract- 1 tsp

Method:-

• First grease the 9 inch tin with butter.
• In a big bowl take curd, butter and sugar and mix well with the help of whisker.
• Now strain maida ,baking powder and baking soda.
• Now add the dry ingredients to the bowl.
• Mix and now add milk and make a smooth batter, make sure no lumps left.
• Now pour the batter into greased tin.
• Tap the tin to get rid of bubbles.
• Place the tin into preheated oven for 50 minutes.
• After 50 minutes take it out from oven .
• Check with knife ,if knife comes clean it means cake is done.
• cool it on wire rack for half an hour.
• Your yummy vanilla cake is ready.

Gud ki Kheer / How to make Gud ki Kheer / Step by step recipe of Jaggery and Rice Kheer

Gud ki Kheer is very Healthy and Tasty Desert used to make in winter.

  As gud is very high in Iron and minerals  and also this is the time of the year when you get fresh gud so give it a try this season.

Preparation Time :- 40 minutes
Servings :- 4

Ingredients:-
Full cream Milk- 1 litre
Rice - 1/2 cup
Jaggery or Gud - 3/4 cup
Dry coconut - 2 tbsp chopped
Cashewnuts s-2 tbsp
Raisins- 2 tbsp
Ghee - 1 tsp
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Method:-

First Put the milk in a pan and keep it on Stove to bring a boil.
When milk is about to boil add soaked (15- 20 minutes ) rice.
Mix well turn the flame medium and cook it till rice cooks completely and turn into thick consistency by stirring in between.
Once rice cooks and kheer thickens, turn off the flame and let it cool.
Take another pan, add ghee and fry dry fruits till light golden.
Take it out from pan and in same pan add gud and 1/2 cup of water.
Let the gud melt and boil the syrup for 2 to 3 minutes.
Now turn off the flame and let it cool.
After sometime when kheer and gud syrup both cool down slightly then add gud syrup to kheer,add dry fruits and cardamom powder too.
mix well.
Your yummy Gud wale kheer is ready.
Serve hot or cool according to your taste.

Cauliflower and Potato Spicy Dry Sabji / How to make Aloo Gobhi Masala / Halwai Style Aloo Gobhi ki Sabji

Aloo Gobhi masala is a very common yet very delicious sabji use to prepare almost every Indian household.

Today I am going to share the recipe of making aloo gobhi masala in very easy way and by using very less oil.

Preparation Time:- 50 minutes
Servings - 3-4

Ingredients:-

• Gobhi (Cauliflower) -300 grans
• Potato - 300 grams
• onion- 2 medium size
• Tomato - 2 medium size pureed
• ginger garlic - 1 tbsp grated
• turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1 tsp
• Red Chilly powder - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - as per taste
• Hing - a pinch
• Cumin seeds- 1 tsp
• Garam masala powder -1/2 tsp
• Green Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp chopped
• Oil - 5 tbsp
• Ginger - 1/2  inch cut into Julian's
• green chilly -2 slitted

Method:-

• First wash and cut cauliflower and peeled  potato in to around half inch pieces.
• Heat a pan over medium heat add 3 tbsp of oil into it.
• Once oil hot add cauliflower and fry it for 3 to 4 minutes on high flame.
• After 4 minutes reduce the flame to medium , cover with Lid and cook for 5 minutes .
• After 5 minutes open the lid , stir and add potatoes and cover the lid and cook it for 10 minutes.
• Stir occasionally in between.
• After 10 minutes check cauliflower and potato with a fork, if its done then cook it for another 3 - 4 minutes without covering, so that brown spot comes on potato and it fried.
• Take  out the fried veggies from pan. 
• In the same pan add 2 tbsp of oil.
• Once oil hot add hing and cumin seeds and let it splutter.
• Now add onion and cook for 3 to 4 minutes.
• Add ginger and garlic , mix well and cook it for another minute.
• Now add pureed tomato , salt, turmeric powder, coriander powder and red chilly powder.
• Mix well and cook it till oil separates from masala.
• Now add cauliflower and potato and mix with soft hand.
• Now add 3 to 4 tbsp of water, cover the lid and cook for 2 minutes.
• After 2 minutes open the lid add garam masala, coriander leaves, juliennes of ginger and 2 slitted green chilly, cover the lid cook for 2 minutes.
• After 2 minutes open the lid and fry it on high flame till it dry.
• Your yummy spicy allo gobhi ki dry sabji is ready.
• Serve hot with roti, puri or plain paratha.

Instant Rava Dosa / Restaurant Style Rava Dosa Recipe / How to Make Rava Dosa / Onion Rava Dosa

We all love dosa but don't want to do the lengthy and time taking process of making the dosa batter so, here is the no fail recipe of Instant Rava dosa which you can prepare in no time.

 Here I am sharing very easy and instant way of making this delicious recipe.

Preparation Time:- 30 minutes
Servings:- 3-4
Ingredients:-

Semolina or Rava - 1/2 cup
Rice flour - 1/2 cup
Refined flour or maida - 1/4 cup
Onion - 1 finely chopped
Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
Salt - as per taste

Method:-

In a big bowl take rava, rice flour, maida, cumin seeds,onion  and salt and mix well.
Now form a batter of running consistency by adding water to it.
The batter should be very thin.
Cover the batter and give it 15 minutes rest.
After 15 minutes open the lid and give it a mix.
Check the consistency of batter if it becomes thick then add water and mix.
Now heat tava nicely and pour a laddlefull of batter spreading all over on it.
Let the outer surface of dosa dry then add one tbsp of oil or ghee on it, cook the dosa on medium flame till golden brown in colour.
your crispy crunchy , porous rava dosa is ready to it .
Serve hot with chutney or sambhar.