in kitchen 17

Chocolate Cake

Use whole wheat flour (not maida) -

Take 2 teacups of flour,
Mix it with 5 spoons of cocoa powder and 1 spoon baking powder and keep aside.
Take a hard anodized cookware and heat it. Remove from the stove in a minute.
Drop a 100gm butter into the cookware and immediately add one cup of sugar and stir.
Add 5 eggs to the mixture of butter and sugar and stir.
Add 4 drops of vanilla essence.

Slowly add the flour mix to the butter mix.

Take a baking pan, smear it with ghee and lace it with butter paper (parchment paper). The butter paper should be bigger than the pan.
Pour the cake mix in it and cook.*

Optional:
1) You can add coffee powder, about 4 gms, to the flour mix;
2) You can add nuts (walnuts taste best with coffee);
3) You can add pieces of chocolate or coffee flavoured biscuits (not cream-biscuits)

*Cooking depends on the kind of oven or stove you are using. For cooking instructions it is best to follow the oven's user manual.

in kitchen 16

 Indian (a new type of) French Toast:

Heat a non-stick frying pan with ghee
Sprinkle salt and chopped onions on it
Crack two eggs and drop their contents straight on the ghee
Take two (or three) slices of bread, tear into pieces and drop on the fluid egg
Immediately cover with the lid of the frying pan
In a minute, turn off the gas. Wait for two minutes.

Shift the half cooked toast onto a plate
Heat the frying pan with ghee again
Shift the toast upside down onto the ghee
Cover with the lid and in a minute turn off the gas.
Wait two minutes before opening the lid and your sizzling new "Indian French Toast" is ready !!

In kitchen 15

Moong Khichdi

An easy way to cook one quick nutritious meal:

Take 1 cup rice and 1 cup moong dal (yellow) in a bowl.

Wash it and pour 1 cup water. Keep aside.

In a pressure cooker, add 1 spoon ghee, salt to taste, half spoon cumin (jeera), 2 spoons soya mini nuggets(optional), heat and stir. Use the big burner.

Add 1 cup water as soon as the ghee is heated.

Add the rice-dal-water mix.

Add a pinch of (packaged) pulao/biryani masala powder (not garam masala) and half spoon of sugar.

Pour 3 cups water into this. Stir and close the lid.

After 2 whistles, turn off the burner.

The exact proportion of rice:dal:water is 1:1:5.

This is suitable for kids, single parents or bachelors. In place of cumin, pieces of onion can also be added. If the masala is hot and spicy, no need to add sugar.