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Dear Chithra,
I made ragi demitasse but it got too cooked. I soaked the semiya for a minute in water, drained and steamed for 5 minutes in MW. Then seasoned it like aval. It was lumpy. How to make it? We had it at a eatery in Trichy, was good though a little oily.

 

hello chitra madam,
My son and all my family members love restaurant style veg fried rice. I too tried in different ways. Things go well, but the boiled rice spoils. I tried soaking for 1/2 n hour, boiling for few mins and draining the water, pressure cook etc. But it becomes too soggy (kuzhainthu) or half cooked.
Pls suggest me the correct procedure, with how much water to add etc. Also can we use any other raw rice than basmati?. Kindy suggest. Thanks in advance.

 

Hello Karthiga,

Look for the recipe of veg fried rice in Rice & Pulao Varieties link.

All the recipes given by Chitivish ma'am are indexed in the links given below. If there is something that you would want to know beyond what is listed here, you could put your queries to her.

Links for Various Categories in Chitvish Recipes
Check here - The Recipes Index
Recipe Index for Step by Step Photos of Recipes.

Bye

 

Dear Maami,

Hope you are doing good. Been a long time on this forum since I use the app pretty much everyday.
Athmika is keeping me busy here. Shiva has put maalai (There is a kovil with 18 steps here ) and we are planning to have ayyappan poojai next weekend.I was planning to make Aravanai payasam for neivedyam. I did a trial attempt last week. It was delicious but had some problems. I hope you can help me so that I make it right on poojai day. I have never eaten/seen aravanai payasam before. so, I dont know what consistency it should be in.

1. Mine was like pongal. How do I get payasam consistency. For 1 cup of rice, should I add 4 cups of jaggery water? I dissolved jaggery in water but it was not 4 cups of jaggery syrup.
2. The ghee that I added didnt mix well with payasam. After cooling down, the ghee was separate from the rice. What could have gone wrong?

I really hope you can help. I dont want to mess up the neivedyam on poojai day.

Thanks a lot,
Aswini

 

pathiya saapadu

can u please send the link for pathiya chapadu.

 

What went wrong with my Chocolate Cake?

Hi ChitVish,

I baked a chocolate cake for the first time today for Christmas. It turned out quite ok, taste-wise, but I had problems with the cake's crust. When I tried to test the cake with a skewer 25 mins into baking, the skewer left a big hole on the crust. The crust was flaky and thin and easily crumbled. I baked in 2 sandwich tins, and both cakes had the same problem. It was fine after frosting, taste-wise, but the crust was flaky and had a texture of hardened brownie-crust.

I used self-raising flour (1.5 cups), caster sugar(1 cup), half Bertolli (Olive oil spread -3.4 of a stick) and half vegetable oil (1.5 tbsp), melted chocolate in cream (1.5 bars - instead of cocoa powder), 2 large eggs and 2 tsps vanilla extract.

I blended it in a mixie and baked it for 30 mins in an oven pre-heated for 15 mins at 180 C

I am not sure what went wrong in this. Maybe I didn't blend the mixture well. I didn't put baking powder or baking soda because it was self-raising flour and read somewhere that adding more baking powder would leave a bitter taste. Can you also please tell me on the difference between baking powder and baking soda and what purpose it serves? It would be great if you can spot any mistakes in my technique.

Thanks!

 

Re: What went wrong with my Chocolate Cake?

overbaking might be the reason.