Microwave Rava Kesari Recipe/Sooji Halwa

Hi friends, I hope you all had a great new year celebration. I had a wonderful day with morning darshan at a nearby perumal temple for vaikundha ekadesi, breakfast with this rava kesari, lunch at Rajdhani Restaurant and above all I bought my favourite red color Handbag in JP nagar central mall as New year gift. The day went on really well more than I expected but we missed our daughter Raksha as she is in Salem for vacation. Tomorrow we are going there & spend this weekend with my in-laws.

Coming to this recipe, I must thank my friend Sudha for insisting me to try rava kesari recipe using microwave. She gave me a recipe too. I made some modifications & tried it yesterday for New year celebration.We loved it a lot. 

 I have used oil & ghee after watching Revathy shanmugam mam’s recipe in youtube video and I also referred Mrs.Mallika Badrinath’s Microwave recipes book for the timing and method. I added yellow food color and pineapple essence. So its flavor was very similar to pineapple kesari. But I tell you its not the authentic pineapple kesari version. So you can follow this recipe in my way using pineapple essence or just add cardamom powder with kesari color.It tastes great in either ways! 

Try this easy, hassle free microwave rava kesari for poojas,special occasions and for your guests. I am sure it will come out great !!

Rava kesari - Microwave version

Rava kesari recipe using microwave !

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Sweet

Serves: Serves 2

Prep time: 4 Minutes

Cook time: 4 Minutes

Total time: 8 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

Rava/sooji/Bombay rava - 1/4 cup Sugar – 1/2 cup Water – 1.5 cups Ghee - 1 tbsp + 2 tsp Oil - 1 tbsp Yellow food color - 2 pinches Pineapple essence or cardamom powder - little ( as needed) Cashew nuts – few ( to garnish)

METHOD

Take a big microwave safe bowl & add oil + ghee.Choose a big bowl because rava will rise well while cooking & it may spill. Add cashews & roast it for 2 minutes in high power(mine is 800w power). Keep an eye after 1 minute.If cashews turn golden brown quickly,remove it.No need to keep it for 2 minutes.Remove cashews alone & add rava to the oil+ghee mixture,mix well so that rava is well coated without any lumps. Roast the rava in high power for ONE minute.Open the microwave,mix well & again roast it for a minute.So roasting takes TWO minutes here.Take care that rava doesn’t get burnt.So stand nearby and watch carefully.Remove the rava bowl and keep aside. In a vessel,heat water in gas stove till it starts to roll boil and add it to the roasted rava.Take care,it splashes.After adding water,add food color.Mix well without lumps. Cook the rava for TWO minutes in high power covering with a lid. Choose a big bowl because rava will rise well while cooking & it may spill.After 2 minutes,remove the bowl,mix well, cover it with the lid & cook again for ONE minute.Rava will thicken and gets cooked very well.Now remove the bowl. Add sugar,essence & mix well without lumps. The mixture will turn watery & small lumps may form.Mix quickly and break the lumps.As u mix,mixture will thicken slightly due to the heat of glass bowl & lumps will break.Make sure u break all the lumps.If u touch the mixture,it will be slightly sticking to the fingers. Keep it in high power for 30 seconds,remove & mix well. U will see the rava leaving the sides of bowl.Immediately add 2 tsp of ghee.Mix well & transfer to a plate or bowl.Do this process quickly else kesari may turn hard because of the heat of glass.If u touch,mixture will be non-sticky. Mixture will be semi solid initially. But it becomes thick & well set as it cools down.So don’t panic. Serve in a bowl by garnishing with roasted cashews.U can also reheat the kesari for one minute in high power before serving ! But this step is optional. NOTE : Timings may differ based on the power of your microwave.If its more than 800w,the entire process needs lesser time than mentioned and if the power is less than 700w,time taken may be more.So keep an eye and do it carefully if making for first time.

Note

Rava has to be cooked well else kesari turns chewy n hard. Adding right amount of sugar also helps to give u soft kesari. Adding oil helps to retain the moisture & prevents the kesari turning hard even after it cools down.Skip it & add ghee alone if u wish. Adding pineapple essence is completely optional.U can add cardamom powder or saffron as u wish. Here i used more water than mentioned in the original recipe.It helps to make lump free and perfectly cooked kesari.

Try this easy microwave rava kesari and enjoy your day !

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Microwave Fruit Cake | Eggless Microwave Plum cake recipe in 3 Minutes

I wish all my friends and readers merry Christmas and a very happy New year. I should have posted this eggless, microwave fruit cake recipe without alcohol/ rum before Christmas. But I couldn't do it as I was busy with some personal work. Better late than never. Here is an easy microwave plum cake/ dry fruit cake recipe that can be prepared under 3 minutes for you all. Try this cake for your kids as evening snacks or for this New year and have a great celebration. 

I tried this eggless microwave plum cake recipe from “The Hindu” Christmas special recipes edition. I made some changes in the actual recipe to make it more soft n flavourful. It came out really spongy and crumbly as well. I tried this cake twice with and without cocoa powder too. Both came out well but I liked the one without cocoa powder. Its a very easy and awesome plum cake recipe that can be made in 3 minutes using a microwave. It can also be done in pressure cooker I guess.

Please check this link for my eggless cooker cake recipe to get some idea.  Lets see how to make this easy, yummy, eggless,  no butter, no condensed milk, alcohol free microwave fruit cake recipe in 3 minutes at home easily !

Also check out my Christmas fruit cake recipe using convection oven and my eggless Christmas fruit cake recipe in a pressure cooker !

Microwave plum cake recipe/Fruit cake

Microwave plum cake/Fruit cake recipe for Christmas !

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Cakes

Serves: 10 

Prep time: 10 Minutes

Cook time: 3 Minutes

Total time: 13 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

For 1 cup = 240 ml All purpose flour/ Maida - 1 cup Sugar or brown sugar - 1/2 cup ( 100 gms ) Vanilla essence - 1 tsp Curd - 1 tbsp ( semi solid,fresh) Cooking soda /baking soda - 1/2 tsp Baking powder - 1/4 tsp Oil - 1/4 cup / 60 ml Lion dates syrup - 4 tbsp Water - 1/2 cup/125 ml + (2 tbsp extra,only if needed) All spice powder OR powdered cinnamon,cloves & nutmeg – 1/2 tsp Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp (optional) **Finely chopped dry fruits n nuts - 1/3 cup (add more if u wish) Orange zest - 1 tbsp ** I used cashews,badam,pista,walnut,plum,cherries,tutti frutti,raisins

HOW TO MAKE MICROWAVE PLUM CAKE - METHOD

Heat 1/2 cup ie 125 ml of water in a microwave safe bowl for 1 minute. Put the finely chopped nuts & dry fruits in water and let it soak for 10 minutes. In the mean time, sieve maida,cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and set aside. To the soaked dry fruits mixture, add sugar, oil, curd, vanilla essence, orange zest and lion dates syrup. Mix well till sugar dissolves. To this, add the sieved maida mixture & all spice powder .Fold it well in one direction.Cake batter would be slightly thick but pourable.If u feel the mixture is very thick,add 1 –2 tbsp of warm water to it and mix well. Grease a microwave safe bowl with oil generously and pour half of the cake batter till half of the bowl.Cake will rise till the rim.So you should bake in two batches. Microwave in high power for 2-3 minutes ( mine is 800w.It took 3 minutes ). Please keep an eye after 2 minutes based on the power of your microwave.If u over bake it,cake will burn or the sides will be dry n chewy. Please be careful. Remove the bowl after 2 minutes & insert the back of spoon. If the spoon comes out clean or with little crumbs, cake is done. If you see the uncooked batter in the spoon,keep it for another 30 seconds and test it again. If not done, keep it for 30 seconds more. Cook till your cake is done. Remove the cake bowl from microwave as soon as its done and keep it outside for 5 minutes. Run a knife all through the sides and loosen it. Invert it in a bowl. Cake will come out easily. Some of the portion might be sticking to the bowl. But that’s fine. Serve hot if you like or keep the cake completely covered and set aside for an hour. It tastes the best when served after 1-2 hours as the cake needs some standing time for all the flavour to infuse well. But don’t keep the cake open. It will dry soon. If you want to make the cake without cocoa powder, do refer the pics below. U will get some idea. Also check out the cake batter consistency which is missing in cocoa version. No need to refrigerate the cake. You can keep it outside for 2 days but keep it covered else cake will become dry.( I always store my cake covered with a lid inside the oven after it cools down because that is the safe place to avoid ants) Enjoy !

Note

This cake takes maximum of 3 minutes to cook in microwave 800w power. So keep an eye after 2 minutes if yours is more than 800w. Over baking makes the cake hard n chewy. Take care. This cake remains soft even for two days if properly covered and stored. Else the outer layer will turn dry. Adding cocoa powder is optional. U can skip it and use the other ingredients as given above. No need to reduce the quantity of water or oil.

Try this easy microwave cake recipe for New year. Have a fantastic year ahead !!

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EGGLESS BROWNIE RECIPE IN MICROWAVE IN A MUG - ONE MINUTE RECIPE

Nowadays I have become crazy to try 1 minute microwave cakes and cookies recipes in a mug. After making my one minute microwave mug cake and 5 minutes eggless oreo cake successfully, I have become more confident in trying out recipes under few minutes using microwave. Somehow my daughter Raksha is also fond of these instant recipes because she loves to help me in making them. Here is a one minute microwave, eggless brownie in a mug. 

Recently we tasted brownie with ice cream in KFC and loved it a lot. Raksha was asking me to prepare the same at home. Basically I was not aware of the difference between a cake and brownie. When I googled for it, I found few differences from here that the texture of cake should be spongy & fluffy. So it needs a leavening agent like baking powder & soda whereas the texture of brownie is dense and chewy. So it doesn’t require all these. Also a brownie tastes more chocolaty than a cake.

When I tried this one minute brownie recipe in a mug from here using cocoa powder, it tasted perfect. As I defined above, it was more chocolaty, mildly sweet, dense and slightly chewy too. I can name it as “perfect brownie in a mug” and that too under 2 minutes. Moreover this brownie tasted the best when we had with vanilla ice cream. You know what my daughter told after tasting this brownie, she told ”mom, this is the world’s best eggless brownie” as if she had tasted all brownies in the world. But still, as a mom, I was very happy with her feedback. So what are you waiting for, surprise your kids with this perfect brownie & ice cream this evening. I am sure they will be super excited to taste this. And don’t forget to leave your feedback here.

Microwave eggless brownie in a mug

Eggless brownie in a mug using microwave under 2 minutes !

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Brownie

Serves: Serves1-2

Prep time: 5 Minutes

Cook time: 1 Minute

Total time: 6 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

All purpose flour/maida - 1/4 cup (30g) Sugar - 1/4 cup (50g) Unsweetened cocoa powder - 2 tbsp ( any brand is fine) Melted butter - 2 tbsp Milk at room temperature - 1/4 cup + 1/2 tbsp (60ml) Vanilla essence - 1/4 tsp

HOW TO MAKE EGGLESS BROWNIE IN MICROWAVE - METHOD

In a wide bowl, take all the dry ingredients. Mix well without lumps. Then add the melted butter, milk and vanilla essence. Mix well for a minute in one direction. Sugar should be dissolved in the mixture. The consistency of batter should be slightly thin and not too thick. It should fall like a ribbon. Transfer the mixture to a microwave safe mug or bake in the same bowl if it is microwave safe. Microwave in high power ( mine is 800w) for one minute. Take it out and check for its texture. If you find any fluid on top, microwave it again for 10 seconds. Now remove and insert a tooth pick or back of a spoon. If it comes out clean, brownie is done. Else keep it for 10 seconds. Mine got done in 1 minute 20 seconds. ( Never over bake. Brownie will become hard. Keep it only for 10 seconds & check it ). Brownies won’t double in size after baking. It will raise slightly as you see in the picture. Serve it warm with your favourite ice cream. Enjoy !

Note

Color of brownie may slightly vary as per the color of cocoa powder. I used weikfield cocoa powder which was dark in color. While mixing the dry ingredients, make sure there are no lumps. Add the wet ingredients and mix in one direction always. Never over bake it. Keep it for a minute first. Remove and check its texture. If you find any fluid on top, keep it for 10 seconds again and check. Repeat the same until a toothpick or back of spoon comes out clean. Over baking makes the brownie hard and chewy.

Enjoy this hot one minute brownie with your favorite ice cream. It tastes heavenly !!

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5 MINUTES MICROWAVE EGGLESS OREO BISCUIT CAKE RECIPE

This is my first recipe using Oreo biscuits. After I tried my one minute eggless microwave chocolate mug cake successfully, I kept hunting for some easy microwave cake recipes that can make wonders in few minutes. This is one such recipe & I got it from here. All you need is just 3 major ingredients and 5 minutes. Your cake is done, Cool right ?

The highlight of this eggless oreo cake is, its butterless, eggless, no oil and no curd too. Oreo biscuits & Eno fruit salt will do the magic here. Even your kids can do it by themselves and Iam sure they will enjoy both the cooking process as well as its taste. You can very well replace Oreo biscuit with bourbon or hide n seek biscuits and Eno with baking powder.

I won’t say this cake will double while cooking OR it comes out super soft. It does rise & comes out soft & not as the ones you bake in convection mode. But this recipe really  made wonders in few minutes i should say!  Last year I shared a fool proof, eggless, no oil, no butter Orange biscuit cake recipe using convection microwave oven. Do check it if interested. 

Friends, go ahead and try this cake now. Surprise your kids while they come back from the school.

5 Min Eggless microwave oreo biscuit cake

Microwave oreo biscuit cake recipe in just 5 minutes - There is no oil, no butter & no egg !!

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Cake

Serves: 4-5

Prep time: 2 Minutes

Cook time: 5 Minutes

Total time: 7 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

Oreo biscuit – 20 nos (any flavor) Milk – 1 cup ( 240 ml) Plain Eno or baking powder – 3/4 tsp Sugar – 2-3 tbsp

HOW TO MAKE MICROWAVE EGGLESS OREO BISCUIT CAKE - METHOD

In a big mixie jar, take all the biscuits with cream & sugar.Grind it coarsely. Now add milk & Eno. Grind to a smooth paste. Grease a microwave safe bowl with butter or oil generously (I used oil for greasing the pan and the cake got a shine as you see in the first picture, in stepwise I shown the one in which I used butter paper for lining.) OR line the bowl with parchment paper or butter paper. Pour the cake batter to the bowl. Batter should fall like a ribbon. It should not be too watery or too thick. Pat the bowl in the bottom to spread the batter evenly. Microwave it in high power ( I used 800W) for 3-5 minutes.Check at 3 minutes. If not done, keep it for more time. Mine took 4 minutes. Check it with the back of spoon or tooth pick. If it comes out clean, cake is done. Else keep it for one more minute. Cake will rise but wont double. Remove & keep it outside. Let it cool down. Then invert the cake, cut into pieces and enjoy ! If you try to remove the cake before it cools down, cake will crack. If you use butter paper, you can remove it easily. Enjoy !

Note

You can use either butter paper or grease with oil. But when u use oil, you should wait till the cake cools down completely & the upper part of cake will get a shine as you see in the picture. U won’t get this shine if you use butter paper. U can decorate this cake by sprinkling some icing sugar on top OR apply Instant whipped cream over it. I kept an edible sugar flower. For variations, you can use bourbon OR hide n seek biscuits too. Adjust the quantity of sugar as per your taste. Add plain ENO salt ( blue colored sachet) OR 3/4 tsp of baking powder. Use a butter paper or grease the bowl with butter for easy removal of cake.

Do check out my One minute eggless mug cake and Orange biscuit cake recipes too !

Serve this cake with a glass of milk! Kids would love it & even you can have a bite. 

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EASY MYSORE PAK RECIPE- 3 MINUTES MICROWAVE SWEET RECIPES

Wishing u all a very happy Raksha Bandhan. On this Rakhi festival day, I am here with an easy, peasy 

3 minutes microwave sweet recipe, Mysore pak.

Thanks a ton Aarthi ( yummytummy) for sharing this wonderful recipe with us. I tried Mysore pak for the first time in my life and it was a huge hit among my family and friends. My family members are not a big fan of mysorepak. So I never got an idea to try this sweet recipe by seeing the time consuming procedure and the gallons of ghee. But I know my Sister is a die hard fan of mysore pak especially from Sri Krishna sweets and Salem Lakshmi sweets. She loves the soft, melt in mouth texture and she never minds about emptying one full box of it in one day. So just for her sake, I wanted to try Mysore pak recipe for this year’s Diwali. 

When I saw this super easy, Instant microwave mysore pak recipe & that too in less than 5 minutes, I got tempted like anything and bookmarked it immediately. In this method, you don’t have to worry about sugar syrup consistency,no stirring job, less ghee comparitively & moreover it gets ready in 5 minutes. Its really a great sweet for beginners to try.

In Facebook’s Bombatt bhojana group, few people had tried the same and shared their pictures too. This gave me double assurance for this recipe to try. So what else, I tried this yummy mysore pak recipe for 3 times since yesterday & passed some of them to my friends too.They all loved it very much, took the recipe, tried it immediately & shared their pictures with me. I was so happy because this is the first recipe which became a super hit even before I blog it here. 

I have shared all the possible tips in “Note” section. This mysore pak won't come out so porous and not so soft like SKC's mysore pak. Its texture would be in the middle. But this recipe really makes wonders in less than 5 minutes I should say!. Try this, you will come to know. I was very much satisfied with my first attempt. I will try to share the stove top authentic mysore pak recipe for this Diwali.

Friends, do prepare this easy, yummy mysore pak recipe for Raksha bandhan celebration & treat your brothers. Lets see how to make this mysorepak at home using microwave instantly !!

Easy microwave mysore pak recipe

Easy,instant mysore pak recipe using microwave in less than 5 minutes

Cuisine: Indian

Category: Sweet

Serves: 6-8nos

Prep time: 5 Minutes

Cook time: 3 Minutes

Total time: 8 Minutes

INGREDIENTS

1 cup - 250ml Besan flour - 1/2 cup Powdered sugar or icing sugar - 1 cup Melted ghee - 1/2 cup + 1 tbsp Boiled & cooled milk - 2 tsp ( at room temp,not hot)

METHOD

Powder 1/2 cup of crystal sugar to a fine powder. U will get around 1 cup.Set aside. Melt ghee & measure it. Set aside.Keep a plate ready greased with ghee.( I used my aluminium burfi plate which i bought from Salem) . In a wide bowl, sieve the gram flour. Keep aside. In a microwave safe bowl (preferably glass bowl), take 1 tbsp of melted ghee & add the sieved gram flour. Mix well and keep it in microwave high power ( mine is 800w) for 1 minute. It will get roasted well. Now remove the roasted gram flour in a bowl and set aside. In the same microwave bowl, take 1/2cup of melted ghee, add the powdered sugar or icing sugar & 2 tsp of milk. Mix well. To this, add the roasted gram flour without any lumps( this is more important to get a soft, non-crumbly mysore pak). Mix well and microwave in high power for 1 minute. U can see the ghee completely melted and floating on top. Remove and stir it well. Again microwave for 1 minute in high power. Take it out, you can see foamy texture with bubbles in it. If its not foamy, mix well & keep it again for 20 seconds. ( You can increase the timing to 30 seconds based on the texture) After 20 seconds, remove & just pour it in the greased plate, press it very well with the back of spatula and smoothen it. The mixture will be slightly crumbly. Don’t worry. Leave it aside for 10-15 minutes. Once it becomes warm, draw shapes. Remove once its cooled down completely. Serve n enjoy it ! Tastes yummy.Initially you may feel it little hard but as the time proceeds, it will become soft. It tastes best the next day. But everything will be vanished within NO time!!

Note

Cooking time depends on the heat & power of microwave. But don’t worry, even if you keep it for 30secs extra by mistake, it comes out well. But at any cost, do not keep it more than 2 mins 30 seconds excluding roasting time. I used melted ghee in this recipe. If you use frozen ghee, take the required ghee & melt in microwave for 1 minute each time and then use. Do not use frozen ghee as it is. It won’t work. Don’t worry if the mixture becomes crumbly because of over cooking. Just spread the mixture in greased plate and press it very well with a spatula or with your hands covering the mixture with sheet.Careful,it would be very hot. It will set when it turns warm. Tastes good too. Second time, I over cooked it slightly & color became dark but still the taste was great. Make sure there are no lumps in besan flour before & after roasting because lumps results in uneven cooking and crumbly mysore pak. So better break it well with your hands or sieve it well. As I said, it tastes the best as time proceeds. So reserve few pieces to check its actual taste the next day. U can also use icing sugar instead of powdered sugar. If using crystal sugar,powder 1/2 cup of it. U will get little less than 1 cup. But that’s enough for this sweet.

Don’t forget to check out my Easy coconut ladoo recipe too

Enjoy Rakhi festival with this easy, yummy sweet !! Once again I wish you all a very happy

Raksha Bandhan..

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