Any One Can Cook : Series 3

This is the successful third series of Any One Can Cook. Thank you for all your support by linking up some excellent entries. Looking forward to the same enthusiastic support from you all in this week too.
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For Beginners- FB
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Link will be opened from Monday( 12.01 a.m)- and Friday ( 11. 59 p.m) closed ( European Greenwich mean time). Waiting for all the delicious entries......

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Turkish Lentil Soup

Tired after  working all day, or a lazy weekend, not feel like cooking then this is the recipe for you. Easy, delicious  and healthy. I actually got this recipe from one of my friend here in Germany Reshmi of lecker and yummy recipes, who is been heavily influenced by lots of Turkish and Arab cuisine by all her friends. First time I had this soup for Iftar in the Turkish mosque, which tasted absolutely amazing, immediately the very next day I made this. But I couldn't make or buy some fresh bread so I just used some normal white bread which tasted very good too.
  So for a quick healthy meal, just grab a couple of  bread, salad and some vegetables from shop and make this soup. A hot bowl of this soup with some nice crusty rolls will be a perfect and satisfying lunch, brunch or a dinner.
Serves 2
Preparation Time: 10 to 15 minutes
Cooking Time: 15 to 20 minutes( If using a pressure cooker)

Ingredients:
Red lentils- 1 cup
Onion- 1 chopped
Carrot- 1 chopped
Potato- 1 small sized chopped
Celery, leeks any vegetable of your choice- about 1/2 cup chopped
Garlic- 3 cloves
Olive oil- 3 tsp
Rice- 1/2 tbsp
Paprika powder- 1/2 tsp
Coriander leaves- 2 stalk
Salt as required
Method:
Chop the vegetables roughly, it doesn't have to look neat. Wash the rice and lentils and put them in a pressure cooker. Add all the chopped vegetables, paprika, salt and 2 1/2 cups of water. Pressure cook for 3 to 4 whistles. Let it cool down for a while, then blend it in a blender.
Return to the cooker again. In a separate pan, add olive oil and then add the finely chopped garlic and fry it for  while. Add this garlic oil to the soup and finally add the chopped coriander leaves.
Serve the soup warm with some bread.

This recipe goes to my own event Any One Can Cook and Souper Sundays by Kahakai Kitchen.

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Molten Lava Cake- Sweet Punch For The Month Of October

This is the third punch for me with Sweet Punch. As always I enjoyed making it and eating it. This month our punch is from Divya of  EasyCooking. The chosen recipe is Molten lava Cake.
When it comes to any chocolate based desserts it will definitely be a winner in a dinner party. Since chocolate is been loved by people of all ages. This particular dessert molten lava cake, which has a chocolate melt down in the middle is simply irresistible.

Hot pudding with cold ice cream is just time to sit and relax or even for a romantic evening ;-)
Thank you Divya for this delicious punch. If you want to join Sweet punch and have all these delicious sweet delicacies click here.

Serve 3 to 4
Preparation Time: 30 to 40 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 to 15 minutes

Ingredients:
Semisweet chocolate- 110 g or 4.5 ounces ( I used a mix of both milk and dark chocolate)
Butter- 110 g or 4.5 ounces
Sugar- 75 g or 3 ounces
Plain flour- 40 g or 1.8 ounces
Eggs- 2
Vanilla extract- 1 tsp( optional)

Method:
Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius.
Melt the chocolate in a bowl sitting on top of simmering water. Once the chocolate is melted, take the bowl from the pan, add the butter and stir until the butter gets melted completely.

In a separate bowl beat the eggs, sugar and extract until pale and fluffy. Slowly add the chocolate mixture to the egg mixture and stir until it's combined.

Then sift the flour to this mixture and mix it together.
Grease 3 to 4 ramekins with butter, dust it with flour and cocoa powder. Pour the mixture into the ramekins equally. I was able to get only 3, it depends upon the size of your ramekins.

Bake it in the preheated oven for 10 to 15 minutes. If you want the inner part to be cooked and not gooey, then leave it in the oven for another 5 to 10 minutes.
But believe me the gooey part is simply irresistible.
Serve the pudding while they are still hot with some vanilla ice cream.

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Sunshine loaf

When I first started baking bread, just baking a normal bread, working with yeast, looking at them rise was really fascinating and as days passed  I started getting interest in different types of bread like vegetable bread, breads from different countries and now breads with different shapes. Whenever I go through a recipe blog or turn the pages of my recipe book, one thing which attract me a lot is breads with different shapes.
 This particular bread Sunshine loaf is also from my all time favourite book The Bread , the actual recipe suggested a sourdough style bread, but I just made a normal bread with a tiny bit of pumpkin puree. Just the look of the bread will attract your guests in the table. Actually it was given as Sunshine loaf in the book, by looking at this my husband said you might also name this as spider bread, which I was not actually interested. The choice is yours :-)

Makes 1 loaf, serves 4


Ingredients:
White bread flour- 400 g
Pumpkin puree- 3 tbsp
Warm water- 170 ml( adjust accordingly )
Dried yeast- 1 1/2 tsp
Salt- 1 tsp
Honey- 3 tsp
Egg wash- beat 1 egg with 1/2 tbsp of milk.
Caraway seeds for sprinkling on top( about 1 tsp)
Method:
Prepare the pumpkin puree by chopping the pumpkin without any seeds and puree it by adding very little amount of water.
Sift the flour in a large bowl, add the yeast and salt and mix it together. Make a well in the center, add honey, pumpkin puree and add the water little by little to make the dough. Knead the dough with hands or with a electric mixer fitted with a dough tool.

Place the dough in a clean and oiled bowl and cover it with a cling film. Leave it in a warm place to rise for 1 to 2 hours or until doubled in size.
Once the dough has risen, punch the air back and divide the dough into half. Divide 1 half of the dough into 6 equal balls.

Roll the 1 large half of the dough into a 50 cm sausage and make it like a spiral shape and place it in a baking sheet. Roll the remainig dough into small sausage and place it around the spiral, curl it at the ends. Cover with a lightly oiled cling film and leave it in a warm place for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile preheat the oven to 200 degree Celsius. Brush it with egg wash. Sprinkle the bread with caraway seeds and bake it in the preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until lightly brown on top. Take it out from the oven and leave it in a wire rack to cool.
Serve the bread warm with soup.

This bread goes to Colour your palate: A visual treat by Creative Sanyukta, Champa's Bake- Off, Yeastspotting and to Hearth and Soul.

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Fried Masala Idli- Restaurant Style

I received this recipe as a entry from Nithu Bala for Iftar Moments. The moment I read this recipe, I knew I definitely have to try this and I did during in the beginning of ramadhan itself. It tasted simply amazing, the aroma released when I was cooking just made me feel like , I was in some Indian restaurant. Do visit from Nithu Bala's site for all her creative and yummy recipes. When  I read her profile she has written that she cooks reasonably good food, she doesn't cook reasonably good food, I would rather say she cooks more than good food.
Serves 2
Ingredients:
Idli- 10
Green Pepper- 1 chopped
Onion- 1 medium sized chopped
Ginger Garlic paste- 1 tsp
Tomato puree- 2 tbsp
Plain Flour - 2 tbsp
Cornflour- 2 tbsp
Chilli powder- 1 tsp
Soya sauce- 1 tsp
Coriander leaves- 2 stalk finely chopped
Oil for frying
Salt as required
Lemon- juice of 1/2 a lemon
Method:
First make a batter by mixing the flour, chilli powder, salt and just enough water to make the batter consistency like fritters. Chop the idli's into cubes. Heat oil in a pan to shallow fry. Dip the idli pieces in the batter and shallow fry them until they are crispy on outside. Set this aside.
Heat a wide non stick pan, add about 1 tbsp of oil, add the onions and ginger garlic paste, and fry it until the onion looks transparent. Then add the green pepper, tomato paste and fry for few minutes. If it looks too dry or burning at the bottom, add some water. Then add the fried idli pieces and coat well with the masala.
Finally add the soya sauce, coriander leaves and mix well. Then add a squeeze of lemon juice on top, take it of from heat, serve warm.
This taste simply amazing just like the restaurant one.

This recipe goes to Bookmarked recipes hosted by Priya and Aipi. Also sending this to Kids Lunch Box Treats by Taste Buds.

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Celebrate Sweets- Kheer: Event Announcement

Hi Everyone,
 I'm happy to guest host Nivedita's Celebrate Sweets Event. First I would like to thank her for giving me this great opportunity. As we all know, Celebrate Sweets event is started by Nivedita, with a theme of different sweets every month. Nivedita is a very enthusiastic food with tons of recipe ideas. Every time when I visit her blog I can find some new recipe idea. This is the third series of the event.
The sweet selected for this month is Kheer. Kheer is a milk based dessert made with rice, semolina, nuts etc...
There are so many variations in kheer like adding vegetables like carrot, beetroot etc.. Kheer is a one of the best way to finish of the meal. It's very light and makes you feel cool , probably a healthy when added less sugar.
Use your imagination and creativity to bring out different flavours of kheer and send me the recipe.

Few Simple rules for the event:
1. Create a kheer with any flavours of your choice from now till Nov 5th.
2. Link back to this announcement page and Nivedita's announcement page.
3. You can send as many entries as you wish.
4.Archived recipes are allowed if it's posted just two months back, for archived posts, please give a link to this event and update it.
5. Use of logo is highly appreciated.
6. Email me the following details at ayeesha.riaz@googlemail.com
Name:
Recipe name and url:
Picture of the recipe
7. Non bloggers are more than just mail me your recipe with the picture to the above email id.

Looking forward to your entries, checking my mail everyday...

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Any One Can Cook : Series 2

Thank you everyone for participating in Any One Can Cook and showing your support, you have made it a success. This is the successful second series of Any One Cook. I hope I get the same enthusiastic participation from everyone just like the series1.
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To view Any One Can Cook: Series 1, click here.

Just remember a few rules before linking your recipe, your recipe should fall under any one of the following categories. When you are linking your recipe here, please give the short form as I have mentioned to make it easy for the readers.
For Beginners- FB
With Less Ingredients- WLI
With Minimum amount of time- WMT

Archived recipes can be sent just by giving a link to the event in your post.

Link will be opened from Monday- Friday, European Greenwich Mean Time. Let's get started....

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