Shredded chicken my style

This is again one of my innovation of mix and match ..Try this at home , you will not be disappointed I am sure :) Again no special ingredients, no special technique etc.

Ingredients:

Boneless chicken breast: 100 gms
Soya sauce: 1 tbsp
Corn flour: 1 tbsp
Salt to taste
Crushed Garlic : 2 tbsp.
Vinegar: 1tsp
Black pepper powder: 1tsp
Oil for shallow fry
Spring onion for garnishing

Method:

Cut the chicken breast into shreds and wash properly. Marinate this chicken with the soya sauce, 1 tbsp garlic, corn flour, salt, pepper powder, vinegar and keep in the refrigerator for about at least 1 hour.

Heat oil in a non-stick pan. Take out  the marinated shredded chicken and shallow fry them in the oil and cook . It should not take more than 10-15 minutes to get cooked . Toss and stir fry them continuously. Add the remaining one tbsp crushed garlic into this before the chicken gets cooked completely and mix well for that extra taste and flavour of garlic.

Once the chicken is cooked add the chopped green portion of  the spring onion. Transfer them to a bowl and serve hot as snack/starter/appetiser or with main course as well .

Mix this shredded chicken into your kids' sandwich stuffing of vegetables and serve them as snack or pack in their lunch boxes. My little girls loves to have this in her sandwiches with mayo.

Do write your feedback !



 

Pasta in white sauce

Whenever we go to any Italian restaurant, we normally like to order pasta in white sauce . Somehow we are not very fond of the tanginess of red sauces with pasta. So I make pasta at home mostly in white sauce. Sharing this simple recipe with you all today, I am sure your kids and you will love this recipe as the ingredients used here will give the taste and flavour not less than that of a restaurant. Just try once and please give your feedback.

Ingredients:

Spaghetti pasta: 200 gms
Milk: 2 cups
White flour/Maida: 1 1/2 tbsp.
Cream: 3 tspn
Oregano: 1 tspn
Butter: 2 tbsp.
Crushed garlic: 1 tbsp.
Crushed black pepper: 1 tsp
Chilly flakes: 1tsp
Salt to taste
Cheese: 2 tbsp. grated (you can use more if you want)
Red & yellow capsicum cut into julienne (1/2 cup approx)
Cherry tomato: 4-5 numbers
Few fresh Basil Leaves
Oil to cook (I use olive oil in pasta, you can also use any other cooking veg oil)

Method:

Cook the pasta in water and salt in a saucepan. Do not overcook the pasta, else the crunchiness while biting wont be there. Once it is cooked , remove from the gas and strain the water and keep under running cold tape water to stop the process of further cooking of the pasta.

In a non-stick pan, melt butter and add the crushed garlic. Saute it and add the maida . Keep stirring continuously in low flame, keeping in  mind that the maida/flour should not change its colour at all. Once you see the flour is cooking, add the milk and mix it nicely and keeping in  mind that this wont form any lumps. Flame to keep in low. After cooking for 1-2 minutes, add the cream into this mixture. Stir properly and you will see the mixture taking a thin creamy texture. Now add the oregano, chilly flakes, crushed pepper and salt and give it a nice mix. Put the gas off then. Remember one thing that this sauce should not be very very thick. It should reach only a running consistency.
 Your white sauce is now ready. Keep this aside.

Take another pan , heat  small amount of oil. Saute the pieces of red & yellow capsicum and the cherry tomatoes. We do not have to cook them completely. We only need to saute them. After 2-3 minutes, put the gas off.

Now back to the white sauce. Put it on to the gas again. Add the cooked Spaghetti, capsicums & cherry tomatoes and mix them all very nicely. Now sprinkle the grated cheese on the top of this pasta.


Present this pasta in white sauce in a beautiful plate and garnish with some fresh roughly chopped basil leaves and serve hot.

 

Perfect porridge of oatmeal & apple

Oatmeal is something that I have been feeding my little girl from the time she started having solid food. She prefers it only as porridge , no salted oatmeal at all. The other day I was thinking of what to make for her to eat after her sports activity class in the evening to make her tummy full with some healthy twist at the same time. Then I saw one of my container half full of oats and in the refrigerator there was one single apple lying in the fruit basket. And milk as usual is always available in the house. So I made this apple oatmeal porridge. Both the daddy and the girl loved it so much that a small portion of it only left for me :P

Ingredients:

Oats : 1 cup (that was my measurement according to my requirement. You can adjust as per your serving requirement)
Milk: 2 cups
One whole apple
Honey: 3 tablespoon
one pinch of ilaichi powder for that extra flavour


Method:

Boil the milk in a deep bottom pan. Once the milk started getting boiling add a pinch of ilaichi powder. Now add the oats and stir well. Cook the oats for some time. Grate the apple (keep one whole portion for garnishing). Now add these grated apple into the oat milk mixture and stir continuously. Slowly the grated apple will start dissolving . Now pour in the honey into it and again stir well. You can use sugar instead of honey. Soon You will see the mixture getting a thick creamy texture and now the porridge is ready to serve.

Transfer to a bowl and garnish with few apple wedges.. Simple oats porridge is anyways healthy but the twist was ,the addition of apple made it more healthier .




 

Healthy & tasty soft drink for our kidz

This one particular drink is like a regular one at home once the little girl is back from school tired and exhausted. This works like an energy booster for her after a day's hard work at school :)
No special ingredient no use of mixer grinder juicer here. Very simple to prepare, as most of my dishes .

Ingredients:
Orange flavoured Glucon D: 4-5 tablespoon
Juice of 2 1/2 lemons
Honey: 1 tablespoon
Jeera powder: 1/2 tsp
Pinch of salt
Fresh mints leaves: 5-6
Water : 2 cups


Method:

Take a big jar. Take the lemon juices in the jar, add glucon -D and water and stir with a big spoon and mix them well till the glucon -D gets dissolved properly. Now add the honey (you can use sugar also instead of honey), Jeera powder , salt and  crushed mint leaves . Mix them all nicely. Do taste it while mixing in case you would want to add some more sweetness to it. You can add ice cubes to this drink while serving. I prefer to give this to my girl without ice and with natural sweetener honey.

Serve this drink in nice beautiful glasses to your kids when they are back from school to boost up their energy level. Keep the remaining drink in a bottle in refrigerator and consume as and when you require :-)

Pasta Salad no oil no butter - tried & tested

We all love to eat pasta no doubt about it! But this particular pasta recipe was not what I exactly wanted to make. Last year Diwali, we had invited friends over dinner and there when I invented this recipe. Actually I wanted to bake the pasta after mixing all ingredients for our guests' two little girls and mine too. And then at the end of all the other preparations , I was running short of time even to put the pasta into the oven. Then I thought of serving it this way only with some mix and match tricks.. Yes I tested it before serving and it was just so good  to eat. Most importantly the guests liked it & their little girls as well.
Its a simple pasta salad which you can feed your kids as evening snack or you can pack this in their lunch boxes to school. My little girl likes to carry pasta in her tiffin.

 

 

Ingredients:

Farfalle Pasta : 2 cups (You can use any type of pasta)
Red, yellow & Green Bell peppers : 3/4 cup
Corn: 2 tbsp.
Tomato sauce: 1 tbsp.
Mayonnaise: 1 1/2 tbsp.
Mustard sauce: 1 tbsp.
Grated Cheese (processed cheddar cheese): 2 tbsp. or u can always use cheese cubes in this
Roughly chopped some basil leaves
Pinch of salt

Method:

Boil the pasta in a deep pan with a pinch of salt. Put the gas off as soon as the pasta gets cooked. Do not allow to over cook the pasta, it should have little crunchiness in it when you eat. Strain the water in a strainer and keep under running tape water to stop further cooking process of the pasta.

Chop all the bell peppers into small cubes. In a mixing bowl add the bell peppers, corns (you can use boiled corns if your kid doesn't like it raw) and mix well. In case if you want to use cheese cubes , you can add now. Add the tomato sauce, mayonnaise, mustard sauce into this and mix properly. Add the boiled pasta into the mixture, add the roughly chopped basil leaves and give a nice mix. Transfer this mixture to a bowl and spread the grated cheese on the mixture and mix. Now the salad is ready to serve.

To make a variety of this salad and if your kid is fond of eating chicken, you can add boiled shredded chicken pieces with this or diced cooked mushrooms also...

Try this at home for your kids and for yourself as well and enjoy.



 

Our very common Pan Cake

Lets begin this kids special week with our very own Pan Cake. I know and am sure you all must have tried making pancake at home for your kids several times. It is one common breakfast meal for your little ones and for the elder ones as well. It is healthy as it has egg & milk. Lets make it more healthier with some hide and seek tricks !!

Ingredients:

Maida - 1 cup
Sugar : 2 tbsp.
Eggs : 2 eggs
Milk : 1/2 cup
Baking powder : 1/2 tsp
Vanilla Essence: 1 tsp
One small ripe banana
oil to shallow fry the pan cake
Few chopped cherries
Honey for garnish


Method:

In a large mixing bowl, sieve the maida (flour), Baking powder well. In another bowl, mix the eggs and milk until it gets smooth. Add the vanilla essence, sugar and beat them well to get a smooth fluffy texture. Now in the maida and baking powder mixture, add one ripe nicely mashed banana and mix well. Pour in the milk and egg mixture now to the maida,banana, baking powder mixture and beat them well again till we reach a smooth texture.
Now  in a non-stick pan, heat small quantity of vegetable oil . With the help of a round big spoon, pour the mixture into the pan. Size of the pan cake depends upon your choice and the spoon size as well. I normally like to make large round pancakes and give them different shapes with the help of different cookie cutters available these days in market. After pouring the batter into the pan, sprinkle the chopped cherries on to  the upper side. Cook it till the lower side is golden brown. Once it changes its colour, flip  upside down. Cook the same till the other side too is golden brown.



Transfer the ready pancake now to a dish. Make the rest of the pancakes as well ..Did you notice how we used the cherries in the pancake . This is going to give the regular pancake a nice colour on the top and a little crunchiness while eating the pancake. You can use other fresh/canned fruits like blue berries/apricots/black berries . Also like I used banana to add a health factor and flavour to this pancake , you can use par boiled mashed apples, pears etc. according to your kid's choice of fruit.

Serve these hot pancakes with honey/chocolate syrup/strawberry syrup/Jam etc in their breakfast or their lunch box to school. I give my little girl pancakes with honey with icing sugar dusting on it, as you can see in the picture, again to make it more healthier.



Enjoy !!

Kidz week

So I know most of my friends out there are moms now and I am sure you would always want to try and feed your little ones something new and healthy at the same time , right !(including mine too).... Keeping that in mind and few of my friends' request, I am dedicating this coming 2-3 weeks to all our lovely kids. Of course I am not going to do any kind of rocket science with their food but yes will try to make regular dishes interesting with addition of some tricks and magic for our bachcha party. Do follow my posts moms!!

Are you all set ?!

 

Chicken nuggets my style - tried and tested

Tried this recipe for the first time when we had invited friends over dinner few months back. Was in a confused state of mind whether they would like it or not.. yes I got the best compliment from my friend. Still remember her stating that this is tasting like the ones we buy from shops..WOW!! is nt that a huge compliment.. I was all happy. So here I am going to share the recipe with you today. This is quite an easy recipe to cook with the available ingredients at home and goes well with your dinner or you can have it as starter /snack etc.

Ingredients:

Boneless Chicken breast: 200 gms
Kashmiri mirch : 1tsp
Crushed pepper: 1 tsp
Chilli Flakes: 1/2 tsp
Soya sauce: 2 tsp
Juice of one lemon
 1 Egg white
Salt to taste
Italian Mixed herbs: 1 tsp (you can get these herbs in bottles in any departmental stores)
Ginger Garlic Paste: 1 tsp each
Bread crums and finely crushed cornflakes to coat the chicken pieces
Oil for deep frying
Red & Yellow Capsicum cut into thin strips for garnishing (keep them in the deep freezer in a bowl with water to get curly shapes which looks very nice on presentation)

METHOD:

Cut the chicken breast into thin cubes and wash them very nicely. Marinate the chicken pieces with juice of one lemon, salt, Kashmiri mirch, pepper, chilli flakes, mixed herb, soya sauce, ginger garlic paste. Mix all these ingredients with the chicken pieces nicely and keep in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour or so.

After an hour, take out the marinated chicken. Mix egg white in a bowl (U can use the whole egg. I used only white portion keeping the calorie content in mind being a diabetic). In the mean time spread the bread crumbs in one dish and crushed cornflakes in another dish.

(Process of making bread crumbs at home: Take the left over slate breads and toast them on tava or toaster till they get brown in colour and hard. Now break the toasted breads into pieces and put in the mixie to make it as fine powder as possible. Keep them in an air tight container and use it as and when you require).

Now dip the chicken pieces into the egg mixture one by one and roll over the bread crumbs first and then on the thinly crushed cornflakes and keep aside on another plate. Finish off with all the chicken pieces one by one keeping them aside on a plate. Once again keep them into the refrigerator for about half an hour to set the bread crumbs and cornflakes coating on the chicken. Crushed Cornflakes is used to give it a nice texture and crunch.

Heat sufficient amount of oil in a deep pan (I used Borges olive oil). Take out the coated chicken pieces from the refrigerator and deep fry them in the heated oil. Keep a tissue paper ready on a plate to drain off the excess oil from the fried chicken nuggets. Fry the pieces till they turn into golden colour.  Once fried, keep them on  the tissue paper . Now the nuggets are ready to garnish. Transfer the nuggets to a beautiful plate and arrange them nicely according to your own style and garnish them with strips of capsicum and serve hot.

I used one spring onion twig and made a flower out of it to garnish along with the capsicum as you can see in the picture above.

 

Gobi Manchurian with thick gravy

This is one dish  I am dedicating to my husband. He normally doesn't have any particular choice or likings of food. But on every Thursday when he sees me cooking pure vegetarian food, he would come up and ask me about Gobi Manchurian. So one day I decided to make this dish for him specially . I followed the recipe of Gobi Manchurian from the blog "Archana's kitchen" and he just loved it. Then on my little girl's 5th birthday this year, we ordered the food from a nearby caterer and Gobi Manchurian was there in the menu. Believe me it was so so tasty and mouth-watering that I could not stop asking the manager about the recipe. And he very happily shared the same with me. Though I am not sure if he has disclosed any of the secret ingredients they add on to it. Whatever I could understand and fixed in my mind from him, I tried with that to make my Gobi Manchurian  the next time.



Ingredients:

1 small sized cauliflower,
3 tbsp maida
4 tbsp cornflour
Ginger and garlic paste 1 tspn each
Pepper powder 1/2 tsp
Oil for deep frying
Salt to taste
1/2 of a small green capsicum
1 tbsp soya sauce
1tbsp tomato sauce
2 medium sized spring onions finely chopped (both white and greens)

Method:
Break the cauliflower into medium florets and par boil them in water with some salt over medium flame for 4-5 mins. After boiling , strain the water and pat dry on tissue paper.






Make a nice batter with the maida, corn flour, salt to taste, pepper powder, ginger garlic paste 1/2 tsp each with sufficient amount of water. The batter should not be very thick also should not be very thin. Now add the par boiled florets in the batter. Note that the batter should coat all the florets  nicely.





Now in a deep pan, heat oil and fry these florets carefully till golden brown in medium flame. To drain excess oil, transfer the fried florets into a tissue paper.








For the gravy, chop the white portion of spring onions and capsicum. You can give chopped green chillies also into it. I avoid this because of my little girl. Heat oil in a pan , add the chopped onions, capsicum , 1/2 tsp each of ginger and garlic paste, salt to taste and saute them for 2-3 minutes on high flame. Now into this add the soya sauce, tomato sauce and give it a nice mix and cook for about a minute.

Add the fried florets into the mixture in the pan and toss them nicely for 1-2 minutes keeping the flame on high. Now in a small mixing bowl make a light batter of 1 tsp corn flour with required amount of water and pour this into the pan and stir . Cook this for 2-3 minutes on medium flame. Slowly the gravy will get thickened because of the corn flour mixture.
 Once you see this, put the flame off  . Transfer the Gobi Manchurian to a plate and garnish with chopped spring onion.

 

I scream you scream we all love ice-cream ...fried ice-cream

Well..sometimes I just don't want to think about healthy eating, calories, my blood sugar level and bla bla blaaa..So I decided to indulge myself and cheat my diet on last weekend and made fried ice-cream with lots of chocolate syrup on it. Though the little girl did not like much and the husband did say that it tasted so different and crunchy, I have enjoyed eating this to the fullest. And the next day I was on full roti and dahi diet :-(
Really wanted to share this with you for your likes and feedback. Easy to make easy to dig in and finish off in no time :-)

Ingredients:

Vanilla ice-cream - 2 scoops or (no.of scoops as per ur requirement)..
Flour - 3 tbsp.
Cornflakes - 1 small bowl crushed
Vegetable oil  to fry - 1medium bowl
Chocolate syrup for garnishing

Method:

Take two scoops of ice cream and keep in the freezer for half an hour/45 minutes. Mix flour with sufficient amount of water to make a thick batter. Now take out the  scoops and then dip them in the batter nicely and then roll in crushed cornflakes on a dish. Once the scoops are covered properly with the crushed cornflakes again keep them in freezer for atleast another 2 hours.

The longer you keep the scoops in the freezer the better they are gonna bind and hard. Take them out from freezer and deep fry in vegetable oil in a deep pan till golden brown but very  and carefully. Strain extra oil by keeping them on a tissue paper.

Serve immediately these hot crunchy fried ice-creams with chocolate sauce/syrup

 

Rava (Sooji) Barfi

Rava Barfi or sooji barfi is something that Ma used to make when we were kids. Mostly she used to make it in the evenings when we all come back home after playing outside for hours to have it with milk/complan/tea. Ma used to make them without dry fruits like pista/almond. It was very simple and very soft to eat having beautiful barfi shape she used to give with her long knife. I have tried to make this last weekend and it came out nice. Though not soft like ma's..

Ingredients:

Rava or sooji : 1/2 cup
Sugar: 1 1/2 Cups
Hot boiled milk:  2 cups
Cardamom powder - 1 pinch and a little more
Ghee to roast the rava
Almond: 2-3 tbsp roasted and crushed 
Saffron - 5-6 strips
Few grated almonds for garnishing.

Method:

In a hot pan put ghee. Add the rava and stir continuously and slowly in low flame until the colour changes to little brown. Then add the sugar , crushed almonds, cardamom powder and give all the ingredients a nice mix for about 5-7mins. While boiling the milk in another pan , add few strips of saffron to the milk to give a nice colour and flavour. Now pour the hot milk into the rava mix keeping the flame low. Stir them well for another 3 -4 mins in medium flame. Once mixture gets thickened and takes a body put the flame off and  transfer the mixture into a tray. Spread them evenly and sprinkle grated almonds over it. Now keep the tray in the refrigerator to set for an hour or so. Once it is set, cut into desired barfi shapes/square shape and serve .


 

Baking Brownie

It was a lazy Saturday afternoon and the husband busy with his laptop and working from home, my little girl busy watching her favourite cartoon shows.. And I was as usual doing some household work.. Suddenly I found one sheet of paper in one of the drawers at home. This sheet had nothing but a hand-written note of a recipe of brownie. Then I realised that was the recipe of Tarla Dalal. I quickly checked my facebook profile where I had uploaded the picture of the final product made by me following her recipe long time back. I immediately thought to pen it down for you all in my blog. So here it is...

Ingredients:

2 cups chopped dark chocolate
(250 gms)
1/2 cup softened butter
1/4 cup castor sugar
1cup plain flour
1/2 tsp soda bicarbonate
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup curd beaten
1 tsp vanilla essence
1/2 chopped walnuts


Method:

Grease and line a microwave safe bowl with butter and keep aside..
In a bowl, Sift together flour, baking powder, soda and keep aside. Now in a microwave safe bowl add the chocolate pieces and microwave on high for 1 min. Remove from microwave and Stir to get a smooth mixture. You can use double boiler method also for melting the chocolate. In another bowl add the butter and castor sugar and stir with a wooden spoon till the mixture is soft and creamy. Now add the melted chocolate to this butter mixture and mix lightly.Into this mixture now add curd, vanilla essence, walnuts, flour mixture and mix and fold lightly. Now the batter is ready to go into the oven. Transfer this mixture to the greased bowl and microwave on high for 3 minutes. next reduce the temperature from high to 70% power and microwave for another 1 min . 

Now preheat the oven using oven+grill option for 5 mins at 220deg c. Bake the brownie in the preheated oven for 3 mins at 220degC.  Once it is baked, remove and keep aside to let it cool.

Cut the brownie into square shaped pieces and serve with hot chocolate sauce and ice cream. My twist while serving the brownie was with sprinkling some icing sugar on it and whipped cream on the top of the brownie with a cherry which added a nice colour to it and made it look more gorgeous..

DO try this recipe and lemme know the feedback too :)



 

Butter Chicken / murg makhani (Recipe from Sanjeev Kapoor show)

Butter chicken is one dish that we all love in the family. Though I cook this very rarely because it needs a good amount of time in marination and then grilling etc etc. I am sure all my friends out there would definitely love to try this recipe out once atleast at home.

Ingredients:

1. Take 400 gms of boneless chicken
2. Kashmiri Mirch - 3tsp
3. 1 Lime juice
4. Tomatoes - 12 nos.
5. Butter - 4tbsp
6. Ilaichi - 4
7.  Mace/Javitri - 1gm
8. Ginger Garlic Paste - 6tsp
9. Hung Curd - 1/2cup
10. Garam Masala - 1 tsp
11. Mustard Oil - 2tsp
12.Salt to taste
13. Kasoori Methi - 1/2 tsp
14. Honey - 1tsp
15. 3 1/2 tbsp. cream
16. coriander twig for garnishing



There are two types of marinate for the chicken in butter chicken recipe. Method given stepwise

1st Marinate:

Cut the boneless chicken into medium sized cubes and wash properly. Marinate the chicken with salt, 1tsp Kashmiri mirch and 1 lime juice. Mix well and keep this in refrigerator for half an hour or so.

While the marinated chicken is in the refrigerator , start to prepare the gravy for the butter chicken. It is said that its all about how you cook the gravy to make a perfect butter chicken.
Take 12 med sized nice red tomatoes n cut them into cubes and then blend them with little bit of water in it to make a nice puree. In a hot deep pan put 2tbsp of butter. Do not let the butter to get burn. Add immediately 4 ilaichi, 1gm mace (javitri), ginger garlic paste 1tsp each and stir. Now pour the pureed tomatoes, add salt to taste, 1tsp kashmiri mirch powder. Mix well and let it cook for 7-10 minutes covering with lid.

2nd marinate of the chicken:

Take 1/2cup of hung curd in a bowl , add 1tsp kashmiri Mirch powder, salt to taste, ginger garlic paste 2 tsp each, 1/2 tsp garam masala and mix all these ingredients well and now add the marinated chicken pieces which was kept in the refrigerator. Now pour 2tsp of mustard oil into this and again give them a nice mix and keep it in refrigerator for atleast 2 hours.


After 2 hours of marination, take out the chicken from the refrigerator and cook the pieces in gas tandoor/normal pan/grilled pan/tawa whichever is available with you with little oil. I use my grill pan for cooking the chicken pieces. Cook them till they are golden brown and soft.

Now back to the gravy - Into the gravy add 1/2tsp kasoori methi, 1tsp honey, 2tbsp butter and give it a mix. By this time the gravy should have been cooked properly. Finish with 31/2 tbsp fresh cream and 1/2 tsp Garam Masala..Give a nice stir and you will be noticing the body and thickness the gravy gets after pouring cream.  Now add the cooked chicken pieces into the gravy, stir and cook for another 5-7 mins and you are done with your butter chicken. Transfer the butter chicken to a beautiful bowl and garnish with cream and coriander twig. :)

Rich Dark Chocolate cake

Thought I should start my blog by sharing one sweet dish with you all.. So its time for a simple regular chocolate cake which you can make very easily at home. I did put my own trick to this simple recipe. Follow the recipe step by step with the correct ingredients and the quantity.. So here we go!!!!





Super soft Rich Dark Chocolate cake with chocolate sauce

Ingredients:
200gms dark chocolate of good quality
200 gms butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
3 eggs
1 1/2 cup flour
2 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 milk
1/4 soda bicarbonate


Method:
Preheat the microwave oven at 160c. Grease one cake tin (of any shape -round/square/oval shapes) with butter/vegetable oil with the help of a silicon brush or you can always use tip of your fingers to grease the tin. Or in case if u use silicon mould, you do not need to grease.

 Melt the chocolate through double boiler process (what is double-boiler process: take one big saucepan on gas with water and bring to boil. Cut/grate the chocolates in a glass bowl and keep that on the saucepan with hot water on the gas. Stir the chocolate continuously till it melts). Add the butter (room temperature) with the melted chocolate and beat them well with blender or mix with a spoon/spatula. In another bowl sieve flour, soda and cocoa powder . Add sugar with this dry mixture and mix them well.. Meanwhile beat the eggs in  a bowl and stir in 1/2 cup of milk. Now pour the chocolate n egg mixture into the flour mixture and beat them nicely until u get a smooth running consistency. Now the batter is ready to go into the oven. Pour the mixture into the greased tin and bake for 35-45 minutes in convection mode. Once it is baked let it cool. After getting cold, transfer the cake to a cake stand or u can use a dish also to place it.

Here is the twist I gave to my normal chocolate cake. After transferring the cake from the tin to a cake stand, slice it diagonally from between and keep aside the upper sliced portion of the cake. Now spread chocolate sauce evenly on the base of the lower portion of the sliced cake which is there on the cake stand or u can spread evenly whipped cream also. Now cover it with the upper layer  which we had kept aside and gently press a little with your hands. Now keep the cake in refrigerator to set for half an hour or 45 mins. Once it is set , cut into wedges and serve with hot chocolate sauce pouring on it. Also sprinkle some tutti frutti on the pieces as well while serving to add some colour to it. Happy baking !!!:)