Hi
When Nupur of ONE HOT STOVE announced the event blog bites BB#7,(on the lines of IRON CHEF AMERICA)
she wanted us to cook 2 dishes with a common star ingredient, the next minute i was frantically searching my bookmarked recipes because i had already set my mind on "BEETS".Ask me why?????
Because I never imagined that this root can be cooked in so many different ways until i saw PRIYA'S beetroot kootu and APARNA'S beetroot cup cakes. Wow!!!!! such an versatile root!!!!!Thanks to Priya and aparna, i found two new recipes
BEETROOT KOOTU:
The original recipe can be seen here
3 beets chopped
1/4 cup green gram dal
1 tsp oil
1 tsp mustard seeds
1/4 tsp asafoetida
Grind together
Coriander seeds 1 tbsp
Fenugreek seeds 1 tsp
oats 2 tbsp
red chillies 3
Pressure cook the beets along with the dhal and just enough water.
Dry roast the ingredients under the "grind together list", cool and grind it in the mixie
In a pan add a tsp of oil and when heated up add the mustard seeds and asafoetida.
When the mustard seeds crackle add the cooked beets and dhal and let it boil for 3 minutes
Now add the ground mixture to it and add the necessary salt as well.
Let it boil for a few minutes and add the curry leaves to flavour
Lovely red kootu is ready
This tastes very different and very good as well.
This will be a regular in my kitchen. Too good. Thanks a ton PRIYA
NEXT BOOKMARKED DISH WITH THE SAME ROOT IS APARNA'S BEET CUP CAKE.
I have always wanted to bake a red cake but the red colouring stopped me. Never wanted to use RED after reading the article or even this RED
But Aparna had found another way to colour her cake and i loved this.wOW!!I wonder as to how she came up with this!!. DO READ HER POST FOR THE CHEMISTRY BEHIND THE colouring. Loads OF INFORMATION
Now to the recipe. The original recipe can be seen HERE
All purpose flour 1 1/4 cup
Granulated Sugar 1 1/4 cup
Cocoa powder 1 1/2 tbsp
fresh beet puree 3/4 cup
Lemon juice 1/4 cup
OIL 1/3 cup
Baking powder 1 1/2 tsp
vanilla extract 1 tsp
salt 1/4 tsp
PREPARATION
Peel 2 medium sized beets , chop and cook it. I microwaved it for 5 minutes. Cool and puree it along with 3 tbsp of water and keep aside
Whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt
whisk the cooked beets, oil, lemon juice together.
Mix the dry flour mixture with this, just till the combine together
Line the cup cake moulds
Spoon the mixture into the moulds and bake them at 180 C for 20 to 25 minutes or till done(a toothpick inserted at the center should come out clean)
Cool the cakes and then do the icing though we liked it without any icing
Thanks Aparna for that wonderful post and for the loads of information too.
This goes to NUPUR'S BB#7. Do check out her blog and the round up because you may find new ways to cook the same ingredient!!!!!!!Labels: baking powder, Beetroot, CAKE, cocoa, dhania, greengram dhal, icing sugar, kootu, lemon juice, oats
