Chicken Stock

You can't beat the taste of fresh homemade stock which add lots of flavour to your food which is also healthy.
Ingredients:
Bones of 1 whole chicken
Leeks-1
Onion-1
Carrot-1
Potato-1
Garlic-5 cloves
Coriander leaves- a few spring
Freshly ground black pepper-2 tsp
4 cups of water
Method:
Chop the vegetables roughly and boil all the ingredients together and leave it simmer for about half an hour to 45 mins. Leave it to cool down for a while and then filter it, your freshly homemade chicken stock is ready.
Variation:
If you want vegetable stock leave the chicken bones and reduce the water to 3 cups and follow the rest of the method.

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Chapathi

Chapathi's used to be common food only in north india and pakistan,but it's very common among south indian's also.Almost every day people will have this for breakfast,lunch or dinner.In this recipe i have used atta(chapathi flour), you can also use wholemeal flour,avoid using plain flour it will make the chapathis tough.
Dough:Makes four to five chapathis
Atta- 100 gm
Oil-1 tsp
Warm water- 75ml
Salt- a pinch
Method:
Mix all the ingredients togethe to make a nice smooth dough, if the dough is too sticky add little bit more flour.Cover the bowl with tea towl. Let the dough reest for about 30 mins. Roll about 4 to 5 balls. Flatten it into circle with the rolling pin, heat a non stick pan put the chapathis and cook on both sides as the chapathi puff up.

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Sponge cake

Sponge cake is almost the basic cake for making any cake with icing and this is the first ever cake i tried. You can fancy this recipe by adding different flavours and icing.

Ingredients

Selfraising flour- 250 gm
Caster sugar- 250 gm
Unsalted butter- 250 gm
Eggs- 5
Lemon zest- 1 tsp
Vannila essense- 2 tsp
a dash of milk if needed

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree celsius.
2. Grease and line a 23 cm square cake tin.
3. First beat the sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Now add the eggs one by one and beat it well.
5. Don't allow the mixture to curdle, if u see like that add some flour.
6. Now add the flavouring and the flour and mix it smoothly without any lumps.
7. Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 20 to 25 min.
8. Check the cake with wooden skewer or fork if it comes out clean the cake is ready.

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