M'c Egg burger (M'c Donald style)

Last week my son's friend gave his birthday treat in M'c Donalds . They all had various burgers of their choice and he told me about a new addition called M'c egg burger. On further discussion I came to know that it simply had an half fried egg with some sauce and onions . I decided to make them for our dinner along with some french onion  soup.

And here is how I made them, very very simple, filling and nutritious burgers.

You can make it a whole meal by having with it  some soup or salad of your choice.

Ingredients :

4....................Burger buns
4 ................ eggs
1/2 cup.................onion finely chopped
4 tbsp....................green-coriander-chutney (optional)
4 tbsp.....................mayonnaise-sauce-with-eggs(can use eggless also)
4 ........................cheese slices (optional)
salt
Pepper
ghee

Method :

In a small non stick pan make half fried eggs.
Sprinkle salt and pepper on them .
I turned them and cooked them a bit on the other side too  for just 1 minute.
This ensures that the yolk doesn't ooze out while eating.
Cut the burger buns and apply green chutney.
Arrange the half fried egg on it.
Sprinle some onion and top it with a cheese slice if you want.
On the other half of burger apply mayonnaise and cover the burger.
Your healthy and delicious burger is ready to eat.

Ambade Udid Methi ( Curry)

Ambada is a sour fruit. I don't know what it is called in English but it is very tasty. In our native place almost every house had the ambada tree. The fruit is used to make curries, sasams and chutney. It is a very delicious  sour fruit.


Ingredients :

2 to 3 ...................Ambade
1 cup ....................fresh grated coconut
1 tbsp....................udid
1 tsp.....................methi
1 tbsp..................raw rice
 3 to 4 ................red dry chillies
1 tsp ..................turmeric powder
10 to 12 ............curry leaves
1 tsp..................mustard seeds
2 tbsp or more................jaggery
salt
coconut oil




Method :

In little coconut oil stir fry udid daal, methi and rice till pink .
Grind this along with coconut, turmeric and chillies.
Wash and crush ambade a bit.
Heat coconut oil add mustard seeds, curry leaves and ambade.
Cook ambade a bit add jagerry and add the ground masala. Add salt.
Cook for 5 to 10 minutes.





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Bharle paplet ( Stuffed Pomfrets)

Pomfret or paplet as this fish is locally known is a very clean and tasty fish. And hence this fish can be used in various ways. The dish  I made today is prepared by stuffing green chutney and is  very yummy . It does take some time but the end result will leave you fully satistisfied. You can have it with hot rice and any curry of your choice.



Ingredients :


3 to 4 ...........palm sized pomfrets

2........................onions finely chopped
1 bunch............coriander leaves
1 cup.......freshly grated coconut
4 to 5 ...............green chillies
7 to 8............garlic flakes
1 ........lemon or equal tamarind
3 to 4................cloves
1 tsp.................pepper corns
1/2 inch ..........dalchini
1  1/2 tsp.......chilly powder
1 1/2 tsp......turmeric powder
1 1/2 tsp......karwari sambar masala
1/2 cup............semolina (rawa)
salt
coconut oil to fry

 Method :

Clean the pomfrets and remove the middle thorn taking care to keep the pomfret intact.
You can get this done also by your local fisher woman.
Apply salt, chilly pd , turmeric pd and sambar masala and keep the pomfrets aside.

Grind together coconut, coriander, green chillies, garlic, cloves, pepper , dalchini and tamarind.
Heat little oil and fry chopped onions, when they turn pink add above masala and fry till it is semi dry.

                Let this mixture cool and then stuff this in the pomfrets.

Heat the tawa and add coconut oil on it.
Coat the pomfrets with rawa on all sides and shallow fry on all sides till crisp.


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Orange Cake with Chocolate Icing

It was celebration time as there was a teenager's party at my place. I wanted to bake a cake which would be suitable for their palate. Children of this age group aren't fascinated by fancy shapes or decorations. What they want is something experimental and new  but down to earth.

 So finally I zeroed in on this cake. I usually like citrus flavours in cakes, cookies or desserts as it gives a nice twist to the sweet dish . So I decided to combine orange and chocolate flavours.

So here's my recipe for the orange cake. This cake was super yummy and a great hit with the children and adults.

Sending this entry to 

1)Srivalli's kids-delight at vaishali's ribbonstopastas

2) Vardhini's  bake-fest  guest hosted by Archana @  madscientistskitchen


3)  Akila's event  dish-name-starts-with-o



Ingredients :

 2 cups...............All purpose flour
2 .....................eggs
1 cup...........Orange juice
           (I used Tropicana Orange 
juice pack as fresh oranges are                              not available)
1 cup.....home made white butter
1 cup ............sugar
2 tbsp.......cocoa powder
1 tsp.............baking powder
1/2 tsp............baking soda
2tbsp.....chopped candied orange peels
1 cup.........................fresh cream ( I used Rich brand)
200 gm .....................bitter chocolate slab( Morde brand)








Method :

In the grinder mix All purpose flour, baking powder and baking soda for 2 minutes and keep aside.

Againg in the grinder add the butter and sugar and mix well for 2 minutes, add broken eggs and mix for further 2 to 3 minutes .
Add orange juice and cocoa powder and again mix for 2 more minutes .

Butter the cake tin with and smear little flour on it and pour the cake mix .

In the mean while preheat the oven for 15 minutes at 150 degrees.
Now take out the mixture from the grinder in a vessel and go on adding all purpose flour little at a time and go on gently folding it .
Add the chopped peels and if thick can add little milk.
Keep the tin in oven and bake at 180 degrees for 20 minutes and then at 150 degrees for 10 more minutes.

When cool invert the cake and cut it into two slices .
Sprinkle some orange juice on both the slices to keep them moist.
Whip fresh cream for 10 to 15 minutes or till stiff and spread 3/4 th of it on lower half slice.

Melt the chocolate slab on a double boiler and add remaing 1/4 the cream to it.
Spread this on the top of the cake.
Your orange cake is ready.