Myriad Musings

Apple Beet and Chocolate. Sounds Sacrilegious right? Chocolate Yes.  And Apple? And BEETROOT?  Blech! I had been thinking about baking with beets and suddenly I was bombarded with recipes - David Lebovitz, Fine Cooking..  I make beets poriyal every week and stuff it down my kids throat forcibly.  Despite gasps of horror, I finally decided to plunge into baking sweet muffins with it. And it worked!  Surprisingly.  Shockingly.  It worked.  Gau Feasted on it and we finished the entire batch of 24 Muffins in 1 Day! We shared just 3 with our neighbours.  Gau, S, I and Ash finished the remaining 21.  In exponential order :) I decided to get fancy and beat my beat my whites to soft peaks and yolks until lemony instead of simply folding the eggs with a beater.  It helped my muffins rise beautifully despite the lower levels of flour to fruit/veggie ratio, 1 cup whole wheat flour (atta) 1 cup pottukadalai (popped chana daa...

 Baking smells for a wake up call. A warm muffin for breakfast Chocolate in the first bite. Earns forgiveness.  100% After yesterday's disaster , I felt obliged to make a good muffin, good from both our points of view. So here goes   Carrot - Coconut - Chocolate - Muffin Group I 1 cup whole wheat flour (aata) 2/3 cup chickpea flour (besan) 1/3 cup all purpose flour (maida) 1/2 - 1 tsp chai masala (or a combination of cinnaom, cloves, nutmeg, dry ginger) 1 tsp baking powder Group II 1 cup yogurt 1/4 cup oil 3 medium sized eggs 1/3 cup regular sugar 1/3 cup brown sugar Group III 2 medium carrots grated (about 1 - 1.5 cups) 1/2 coconut grated ( 0.5 - 1 cup) 1 sweet lime juiced 1 apple peeled and coarsely grated into above sweet lime 1 pear peeled and coarsely grated into above sweet lime. 1/2 cup chocolate chips 1/2 cup walnuts/almonds/pistachio chopped Preheat oven to 175 deg C or 350 deg F Mix group 1 ingr...