Eggless Coconut Macaroon

Many of us might have tasted these macaroons, from bakery. But making our own macaroons is something that gives us immense pleasure and tastes even more delicious and also hygienic.

This is very simple and hardly takes 30 mins for making these macaroons. Kids love these macaroons and even grown ups love to taste these macaroons.

Ingredients:

Sweetened Coconut Flakes - 2 1/2 cups
Sweetened Condensed Milk - 3/4 cup
Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp
Milk - 1 tbsp
Roasted Rava - 2 tbsp
Salt - a pinch

Method:

1) Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

2) In a bowl, take the condensed milk.

3) Add a pinch of salt, vanilla essence, rava and milk to it. Mix it well.

4) To it, add the coconut flakes and mix well. See that, it is not watery. Else adjust it, by adding little more rava. It should be in the consistency as shown in the below picture, once mixed.

5) In a cookie tray, line a parchment or wax paper. (Avoid using aluminium foil, as it is hard to remove the macaroons from the sheet. I used foil and it was little hard to remove) Using a scoop, scoop it on the parchment paper, little apart from each other. Else use a spoon to scoop it.

6) Place it in the oven and bake it for about 15 mins. After 15 mins, take it out and let it cool.

7) Leave for about 10 to 15 mins and then remove from the sheet. Else it looks to be sticky.

Delicious and mouth watering eggless coconut macaroons are ready to taste.

Podi Vazhakkai Poriyal (Spicy Plantain Poriyal)

With plantain we try fritters/bhajji, Vazhakkai poriyal or Vazhakkai puttu. But this is a very different, simple and delicious poriyal by adding ground roasted powder to this plantain. It tastes great with sambar and also goes very well with curd rice too.

Ingredients:

Plantain/Raw Banana - 2
Tamarind water - 1/4 cup (very thin)
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Mustard - 1/2 tsp
Urad dal - 1 tsp
Oil - 1 tbsp
Salt - to taste

For ground powder:

Bengal gram - 1 tbsp
Urad dal - 1 tbsp
Corriander seeds/Dhania - 1 tbsp
Red chilli - 2 or 3

Method:

1) In a pan, dry roast all ingredients for making ground powder.

2) Once it cools, make a coarse powder of it.

3) Then peel off the plantain skin and cut to small cubes. (Cut the plantain once you are ready to cook, else it will become dark)

4) Then in a pan, add the oil. Once it is hot, add the mustard seeds. Let it splutter and add the urad dal. Then add the cut plantain.

5) Saute it for few mins. Then add tamarind water and turmeric powder. Also add salt to it and let it cook. (do not add too much of tamarind water, as it will be so tangy and gets over cooked)

6) Once it is almost done, about 3/4 cooked, add the ground powder to it and mix it very well.

7) Let it cook about for a minute and your spicy plantain poriyal is ready now.

Tasty podi vazhakkai is ready to go with sambar or even with curd rice.