Cake flour recipe/Homemade cake flour

Cake flour can be easily made at home. You only need 2ingredients. Using this you can bake any recipes that calls cake flour. It is not a big task or recipe.

I baked a cake using this flour and it was too soft and moist. I'll also post that cake recipe as my next post so stay tuned.

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Homemade Icing sugar recipe/confectioner' sugar

Icing sugar are used in many frosting recipes. This needs only 2 ingredients granulated sugar and cornstarch. One of my viewers requested me to post this recipe so thought to share this here.

Many of the beginners doesn't know the difference between powdered sugar and icing sugar/confectioners' sugar. Cornstarch is used here to avoid clumps. If you grind sugar alone then it tends to clumps together. Also cornstarch helps to give creamy texture.

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Homemade condensed milk

As I promised here with another instant recipe. This time it is homemade condensed milk. I am damn sure everyone will love it. It tastes similar to milkmaid.

It needs only 4ingregients which is very easily available in pantry. Only thing is you have to take everything in mixer jar and blend it.

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Instant khoya/mawa using milk powder

Hi friends I was too lazy to post recipes these days because I don't have time to post as diwali is next made lots of sweets and savoury items. Not for only my family made a very big batch.

Though I wanna share my recipes. Tomorrow is diwali so if you didn't start cooking here is your life saver. Instant khoya/mawa you can do this within a minutes.

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How to clean banana flower/vazhai poo

Hey folks today I made vazhaipoo vadai for evening snacks. Cleaning vazhaipoo is easy but many of my friends doesn't know how to use it. So posting this for beginners in cooking.

Whole banana tree can be used in many ways and also each and every part of the tree is healthy for our body.

Leaves,flower,raw banana,fruit,steam. Banana leaves are used for cooking (ilai kozhukattai),serving foods(you can see in many traditional functions in South India).

Here goes how to clean banana flower. Hope this will help.

Ingredients:

Vazhaipoo/banana flower
Sesame oil for greasing your hands

Method:

Take a big plate and grease your hands using sesame oil.
Open the petals one by one and remove the florets.
Rub it in your palm. You can see the stamen(stem like one) and cover like portion. These are the ones you have to remove it before cooking.
Repeat this. At one stage you can't remove those those florets can be used as it is.
Finally you'll get small white cone shaped tender flower. Eat it as it is. It's healthy and good for stomach ulcer.
Chop the florets and cook any recipes using it.

Notes:

You can clean this a before and place this in Ziploc bag and refrigerate it or chop it and soak it in buttermilk.

Stepwise pictures:

Take banana flower.

You have to apply sesame oil to your hands to prevent from blackening.

Open the petals.

Remove the florets.

Collect big florets separately and smaller florets separately.

Repeat this.At one stage you can't remove those stamens and cover like one it can be used as it is.

Finally you'll get small white cone shaped tender flower. Eat it as it is. It's healthy and good for stomach ulcer.

Rub it in your palm and you can see stamen and cover like one.

Just pull both of it to remove.

Now its removed. This has to be used.

Chop it.

Use it in any of your recipes. I cooked vazhaipoo vadai

Stay tuned for upcoming recipes. Bye bye.

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How to bake using pressure cooker

Pressure cooker baking is simple and many may have doubts about it. So posting this post for begginers.

You can ask your all doubts about pressure cooker baking here. I'll try to cover all the do's and don't s. Use old unused pressure cooker because if you often bake using pressure cooker then you can't cook other recipes using it.

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