Microwave Easy Cooking-Event Announcement

Hello friends,I am happy to announce that I am guest hosting Srivalli's Microwave Easy Cooking(MEC) event.Thank you so much Srivalli for giving me this opportunity.
Microwave oven is not only for reheating the food,a variety of delicious food can be cooked.A lot of one pot meal,exotic sweets,scrumptious fries,subzi and a lot more can be cooked in less time.So here comes a challenge to cook in the microwave and request you all to send in your innovative and interesting recipes to make the event success.

Here are the guidelines for the event

* The entire cooking needs to be done in Microwave oven. The use of food processor or other gadgets for grinding is allowed,but no stove top.

 *Please mention clearly the timings used for cooking process and the recipe with final cooking in microwave is not allowed.

* Multiple entries are permitted.

* Recipes submitted to other events are also permitted.

* Recipes from archives can be accepted ONLY if updated as current post.

* Both veg and non-veg recipes are allowed.

* Recipes from non bloggers can be accepted.Please send your recipe to sureshnalini4@gmail.com

*The last date for the submission is April 30th 2012

*Link to Srivalli's MEC event announcement page and this announcement page is mandatory.
*Link your recipes to the following linky tool.

Looking forward for all your wonderful recipes.

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Microwave Easy Cooking(MEC) Event - Round Up

Hello friends,I am happy to post the round up of Microwave Easy Cooking Event.Thank you so much Srivalli for the opportunity to guest host the event.I got 19 lovely and delicious recipes which including mine.I am so much thankful to all my blogger buddies who participated in the event.Here is the round up..... 

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Paalkova/Therattupaal/Milk Halwa(Microwave Method)

Paalkova is a delicious,tempting sweet which is made by boiling and condensing the milk with sugar.Originally paalkova preparation is a lengthy process to condense the milk and take hours to make.But this exotic sweet can be made with lesser number of ingredients in 10-15 minutes in the microwave oven.Here is the recipe......

 Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Condensed milk	1 tin
Curd/Yogurt	3tbs
Ghee	2tsp
Cardamom/ellakai Powder	1tsp
Cashews/Almonds(finely chopped)	to garnish
Pistachios(finely chopped)	to garnish

Method

                                       Take the condensed milk in a wide microwave safe bowl and microwave it for 3 minutes,stirring in between twice.Now add the curd and keep in the microwave for 6-7 minutes.Stir in every minute of interval.

Finally add the cardamom powder and ghee to the mixture and mix it well.

Keep it in the microwave for a minute.Let it sit for 5 minutes.

Paalkova is ready to enjoy.

Enjoy..............................

• Use the fresh curd otherwise the sweet will be slightly sour in taste.
• After adding the cardamom powder  and ghee do not cook it for more than a minute.It will get thicken after cooling.
• The cooking time varies from oven to oven,take every minute from the microwave and check for the consistency.
• The paalkova becomes harder if it is over cooked.

Linking this to the MEC event happenings at my space started by Srivalli of Cooking4allSeasons.

  Also linking Masala Peanuts and Shahi Rabri to the Microwave Easy Cooking Event.

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Aval/Rice flakes Payasam(Microwave Method)

For the day 2 of blogging marathon#17 I made this simple aval payasam in microwave oven and it came out super delicious.
This is a easy to make payasam which hardly takes 10-15 minutes and I make it mostly on Fridays for prasadham.
My mom makes this payasam little different using sugar and regular milk but here I used the jaggery and coconut milk.Now to the recipe................

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Rice flakes/aval	1cup
Powdered Jaggery/vellam	1/2-3/4cup
Coconut milk/thengai paal	2cups
Ghee	3tsp
Cashews(finely chopped)	2tbs
Cardamom powder/ellakai podi	1/2tsp
Coconut pieces(finely chopped)	2tbs
Raisins(optional)	2tsp
Edible camphor/pacchakarpooram	a small rice grain size

Method 

                              In a microwave safe bowl take the powdered jaggery and add 1/2cup of water, keep it in the microwave for 3-4 minutes or till it becomes a thick syrup.Fry the cashews and coconut pieces separately in a tsp of ghee,keep aside.

In an another big wide bowl heat the remaining ghee and fry the rice flakes till it becomes golden color,now sprinkle 2tsp of water and cook it in the microwave for a minute.

Add the melted jaggery  to the cooked rice flakes through a strainer and cook for 3-4 minutes.Now add the coconut milk and keep it for a minute.

Then add the cardamom powder,fried cashews and coconut pieces.Finally add the edible camphor and mix it well.

Aval payasam is ready.

Enjoy.................................

• I used the thin variety,so cooked it for a minute,if it is a thick variety add some more water and cook it for 3-4 minutes.
• Payasam gets thicker on cooling,if it it too thick add 1/2cup of boiled regular milk to get the consistency.
• After adding the coconut milk do not cook for more than a minute or two,otherwise it may curdle.
• The given measurement easily serves for 6-8 people but I halved the quantity and made.

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other bloggers doing BM#17.

Also sending this one the Microwave Easy Cooking event started by Srivalli and guest hosted by Priya.

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