Cauliflower Bake

I got this recipe from one of my aunties. Tried it and it came out very well.But very rice in Cheese and Butter..

INGREDIENTS:

1 large cauliflower, broken into flowerets
6 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup corn starch
1 teaspoon salt
Pepper to taste
3 cups milk
1/2 cup soft bread crumbs
1/4 cup Grated cheese

PREPARATION:

1. Cook cauliflower in boiling salted water until just crisp-tender, about 6 minutes.
2. Drain cauliflower and transfer to a lightly buttered 1 1/2-quart baking dish.
3.In a small saucepan, melt 3 tablespoons of butter; blend in flour and salt.
4.Stir until smooth and bubbly. Gradually add milk, stirring constantly. Continue cooking and stirring until sauce is thickened and smooth, for about 3 minutes. Keep the heat very low, since it would thicken up very quick, you need to be fast.
5. Arrange cauliflower, Pour sauce over cauliflower in casserole. Sprinkle cheese
6.Melt remaining butter in a medium saucepan; add bread crumbs and toss to coat. Top the casserole.
7. Bake at 375° until bubbly and browned.

Note: If you have a small baking dish, layer it and bake. cauliflower-sauce-cheese cauliflower-sauce-cheese-bread crumbs

The Cook in me!

Thanks to Ammani for tagging…

What's your first memory of baking/cooking on your own?
I always liked to cook and used to love making tomato chutney. I baked a caked, in my first year of college with the basic baking vessel in my home, it was my grand mom old baking dish, and it came out like a stone. Actually nothing to do with the dish, it was my baking skills.

Who had the most influence on your cooking?
My grand mom, mom and all my aunties. Each one cooking technique was different and I used to be amazed by my grand mom cooking, she would just create recipes on the fly and everything would taste so well.

Do you have an old photo as "evidence" of an early exposure to the culinary world? Nope! Thank god for it.

Mageiricophobia - do you suffer from any cooking phobia, a dish that makes your palms sweat?
Brinjal. Never works for me. Atleast our indian one’s were ok, but these big eggplants makes me go crazy and I can never get it right.

What are your most valued or used kitchen gadgets and/or what was the biggest letdown?
Most valued kitchen gadget: My knife and cutting board.
Biggest Letdown: Is the American Blender, burnt 2 already. In the process of burning the Ultimate chopper.

Biggest disappointment?
Orange Capsicums – Peppers (as they call it here), so expensive, but the taste is sort of poolipu..

Name some funny or weird food combinations/dishes you really like - and probably no one else does.
I like to mix pickle, curd, sambar lots with rice and have it.

What are the three edibles or dishes you simply don't want to live without?
Rice, sambhar, rasam

Your favorite ice-cream
Don’t care much for icecreams. My all time favorite Arun Ice Cream casatta. In US, nothing so far, just the basic vanilla I would say. But I never eat much to taste others.

You will definitely never eat...
Snakes…

Your own signature dish...
Butter Chicken & Rasmalai - Made out of Ricotta cheese. . All my guests love it.


What is your most memorable meal?
The first meal after 7 days of delivery, carrot porial, rice and rasam by mom, since no one was there for 7 days :-(.



I like to tag PVS and Narayan (I know he cooks during the weekends ;-))

Stuffed Molaga(Chilli) bajji

Stuffed Molaga(Chilli) bajji

4 Big Molaga
4 tbsp - Chana Dal Flour (Kadala Mavu)
1 tbsp rice flour (optional- It would be nice and crispy if added0
1 potato
2 tbsp peas
few Cauliflower florets
1/2 - onion
1/4 - jeera
1 tbsp - chilli powder
1/2 tbsp - garlic paste (optional)
salt to taste

Direction

1. Boil Potato in microwave for 5 to 7 mins
2. Boil Cauliflower in microwave for 3 to 5 mins
3. In a pan, saute onions and fry well.
4. Add chilli powder 1/2 tbsp, jeera and fry well. Add garlic if you wish.
5. Mash potato and add to the onions, fry well. Donot add water, the stuffing should be thick.
6. Add peas, cauliflower and fry well.
7. Clean the chilli, scoop out all the seeds.
8. Stuff the veggies and set aside
9. In a pan heat oil for deep frying.
10. Mix chana dal flour,rice flour, chilli powder, salt to taste mix with water. The consistency should be thick not watery.
11. Dip the chilli in the flour mix and deep fry.

Eat with any sauce...and enjoy!!

Mutton/Lamb Cutlet

1 kg Lamb
1/2 tbsp Ginger, garlic paste
6 big Onion, cut into very small pieces
6 Green chillies
1/4 tbsp Chilli powder
2 tbsp Cornflour
1 Egg
Salt to taste
If you feel its too meaty add a boiled potato to the mix.

1.Cook the Lamb well and drain all the water.
2.Grind green chillies, ginger, garlic.
3.Heat oil, add some garam masala, fry the onions in it
4.Add the ground paste to it and Fry well till onion turns golden brown and become 1/4 after cooking.
5.Now add the ground lamb to it, put little chilli powder and fry well.
6.Fry well till oils leaves the mix
7.After it cools. Add corn flour, egg and mix well.
8.Flatten portions of meat .
9.In a tawa heat oil, dip the flatten meat in breadcrumbs and fry well.