carrot beet wheat honeycake(Eggless butter less,sugarless)

Eggless butter less,sugar free carrot beetroot cake is a excellent healthy cake for everyone.When I  first decided to bake the cake immediately thought to bake an egg less version.So,for a change first time tried honey instead of sugar. Truly I haven't expected a tasty cake.To my surprise to was yummy even my kids loved it.First Aarini( daughter) said mummy I don't want to taste it.Then I said first taste it and then come to the conclusion.She tasted soon after baking and said mummy it was good. Aaryan(son) too loved it.Sharing this recipe in my blog as follows...

Ingredients:

• wheat flour 1cup(250 ml)
• carrot and beetroot grated(1 cup)
• Honey 1 cup
• Oil 1/4 cup( vegetable or olive oil)
• curd 1/2 cup( home made yogurt)
• cinnamon powder 1 1/2 tspn
• salt a pinch 
• Baking soda 1 tspn
• Baking powder 1/4 tspn
• Vanilla extract 1 tspn
• Almonds chopped 2 to 3 tbspn

Procedure:

• Sieve dry ingredients,baking powder,baking soda,salt,cinnamon powder( flour in a bowl and mix it well.
• In another bowl mix wet ingredients oil,honey,curd,vannila essence.whisk it nicely until honey mixes well.
• Add grated carrot beet mix to the dry ingredients  i.e flour mix.
• Slowly mix wet ingredients in the flour and fold it nicely until everything mixes well.
• Arrange a baking tray,greased with oil.Pour entire mixture in the baking tray and sprinkle some chopped almonds on top of it.
• Preheat oven to 350F and bake around 40 to 45 mins or until a tooth pick inserted comes out clean.

vegetable paneer curry

Paneer vegetable curry is a mixed of vegetables with paneer and added spices. Paneer is rich in protein and adding vegetables to the curry makes very healthy dish.Any vegetable added to paneer obviously adds tastes to the paneer curry.with simple spices and adding vegetables to the curry gives very good taste.You can adjust the spices and add more vegetables as per your availability and choice.Here in this recipe I added only few vegetables as per my choice. Paneer being favorite to my kids I always try different varieties with paneer.

Ingredients:

• paneer 1 lb packet
• carrots 2
• Beans 10
• cauliflower chopped 1cup
• green peas 1tbspn
• capsicum 1/2
• milk 3 to 4 tbspns
• kasurimethi 1 tspn crushed(dried fenugreek)
• redchilli powder 1 tspn
• turmeric powder
• coriander powder 1 tspn
• cumin powder 1/4 tspn
• salt to taste
• oil 5 tbspn

Masala paste to grind

• onion1 small
• ginger 1 inch piece
• garlic 2 to 3 pods
• tomato 1 big
• green chilli 3
• cashews 8
• whole spices( 1 cardamom,2 cloves,cinnamon 2( 1 inch sticks),fennel seeds 1/4tspn,poppy seeds 1/4tspn)

 procedure:

• Heat 1 tbspn of oil in a pan then saute onion,ginger ,garlic green chilli,cashew and whole spices.Then add chopped tomato. Fry few mins until tomato little soft changes color.Then switch of the flame and grind into fine paste.
• In the same pan add little more oil ,fry paneer  a min and keep aside.Then add chopped beans,carrots,peas,capsicum,fry keep aside.
• Add remaining oil to the pan and once hot add turmeric powder ,chilli powder followed by grinded masala paste,little coriander powder ,cumin powder a pinch of garam masala. Fry few mins and add fried vegetables add little water and cook few mins until vegetables little soft,then add paneer cubes.
• cook everything few more mins then add little milk ( add milk in low flame stir continuosly)
• Finally add kasuri methi and cook a min and switch of the stove.Yummy paneer vegetable curry is ready.