Guest Post - 12 : Today's Guest - Niloufer

Today's guest is Niloufer from Kitchen Samraj. She is a Commerce graduate who is interested in painting and reading books. She loves to bake. Now, let us hear from her...

Nithu's Kitchen : Tell us about you.

Niloufer : I'm a commerce graduate, housewife with a lovely husband and a cute kid. I'm very passionate about cooking and love to try out different cuisines and dishes.

Nithu's Kitchen : That is great to know about you Niloufer. Tell us your interests apart from cooking.

Niloufer : My other interests are painting especially fabric. I love reading books too.

Nithu's Kitchen : Good to hear that you love to paint. Can you share us a picture of your painting.

Niloufer : I actually don’t have a picture. Will surely share when I take one.

Nithu's Kitchen : When did you start to blog and what inspired you to start a blog?

Niloufer : I started to blog in last September. More than What inspired I would say who inspired: its my husband. I used to tell my husband that I wanted to write a cookbook. Seeing my passion for cooking my husband encouraged me in starting my blog.

Nithu's Kitchen : If your hubby hadn't encouraged you, we wouldn't have gotten such a wonderful blogger. Thanks to him. At what age you started to cook and Do you remember the first dish you tried?

Niloufer : I started to cook when I was studying 9th std. The first dish I tried is Moong Dal Gravy.

Nithu's Kitchen : Nice to know that you entered kitchen at 14 . Whom you consider as your best critic?

Niloufer : My husband.

Nithu's Kitchen : Do you have any unforgettable incident happened in your kitchen. Please share with us.

Niloufer: This incident happened when I was 18. It was fasting month for us and my father arranged a big feast for the opening of the fast. I took the responsibility to prepare chicken buns. Kneaded the dough with yeast and waited for the dough to rise. Waited waited for 2 hours but the dough did not rise. I started to cry and just didn’t know what to do coz the guest were to arrive in half n hour. Then my mother gave me the idea, she told me go ahead with the chicken buns, and I made stuffed the chicken filling in the prepared dough balls. My mother flattened the stuffed dough balls and cooked them on a tawa as just how we cook parotta. We served this tawa fried buns and to my surprise all the guests liked them very much. We even named them Mystic buns coz no one knew what was the mystery behind this buns.

Nithu's Kitchen : Wow! that is very interesting to know about your mystic buns... From your profile, we understood that you love to bake. What was the first thing you baked?

Niloufer: The thing I baked was Date n Walnut cake. It became a fudge in the middle and cake in the corners. But still it is fresh in my memories.

Nithu's Kitchen : Tell us about the dish you have today to share with us.

Niloufer: I'm sharing Suyyan recipe. This is my hubby’s favorite and it is a very tasty dish too.

You need:

Chana Dhal 1/2cup

Jaggery 1/4cup

Coconut( shredded) 2tbsp

Cardamom 3-4nos

Sugar 2tbsp

Ghee 1tbsp

Maida 1/2cup

Cornflour 1/4 cup

Baking powder a small pinch

Salt

Oil

Preparation:

1. Cook the chana dal till soft, do not make it mushy. If you are using pressure cooker, cook it carefully.

2. Mash the softly cooked chana dhal.

3. Remove the cardamom seeds from the pods and grind it to a powder with sugar.

4. Grate the jaggery finely.

5. In a bowl mix in the dhal, jaggery, coconut, cardamom seed powder n a little pinch of salt. If you feel if you need a little more sweetness add a little more sugar.

6. Heat ghee and add in the dhal mixture. Cook till the mixture thickens a little. Cool.

7. Make a thick batter with maida, cornflour, baking powder, and little salt.

8. Heat oil in a kadai. Make small balls, dip them in the batter and fry the till golden colour.

9. You may find the stuffing getting mixed in oil and settle down. Strain the oil now and then fry.

10. Serve hot!

Nithu's Kitchen : Thank you Niloufer.

Hope all of you like Niloufer's Suyyan. If you are interested to be featured as Nithu's Kitchen's guest please do mail to nithuskitchen@gmail.com.