Dear Readers,
A very good evening to all of you. I got really busy with my life and had forgotten about this blog altogether. I happened to access my google account the other day and came across this blog and all my memories rushed back of those beautiful years when I was newly married and was just learning to manage a house with a kid. And I thought it's a right time to continue sharing my food journey with you all. I have evolved a lot from the time I was newly married woman to now, with more responsibility of parenting two kids and managing a full time job. Along with this even my cooking has evolved and now I can say that I make quite a decent dishes for everyone.
So today as I welcome you all to my blog once again, I would like to share a very unique recipe that I tried yesterday. My hubby dear got maize flour (cornmeal) from D-mart and I had no idea what to do with it and was lying in my pantry for almost a week. And as you all ladies can relate with me, the thought of What to cook for breakfast? is like solving one of the big mysteries of life. And as we are still under lockdown and working from home, everybody wants something new each day for their breakfast. So I took that maize flour packet and decided to make something new for the day.
Here's what I made, and I call it - Cornmeal Cake
Ingredients:
1 cup All purpose flour
2 cups maize flour(cornmeal)
1 cup fine sugar
200 gms butter
1 egg
4 green cardamom
1.5 cups thick buttermilk
1 tsp Baking powder
1/4 tsp Baking soda
Method :
Prepare your 8 inch baking pan by greasing the pan and lining it with your parchment paper or butter paper. Also keep your oven for preheating for atleast 15 minutes at 180 degree Celsius.
Dry Ingredients preparation - Open the cardamom pods and grind the seeds in to powder using your mortar and pestle. Now take two bowls, one for the dry ingredients and another for the wet. In one bowl add cornmeal and cardamom powder and sift flour, baking powder and baking soda. Mix well using egg beater. If you want to add any nuts, like almonds to add some crunch in your cake, you can do so by roasting it and chopping it in small pieces and adding it in this dry ingredients. I didnt put any nuts in my cake as I had just woken up and was in a hurry to finish baking.
Wet Ingredients preparation - Next melt butter and let it cool. Take another bowl, put melted cooled butter and add sugar (ensure that the sugar is fine in texture or you can grind it in the mixer to make it fine). Beat this using your egg beater for 1 minute. Now add one egg and beat till smooth consistency, around 2 minutes. Add curd and beat again for a minute.
Now combine dry ingredients into your wet ingredients by using cut and fold method. This is a method where you are not beating rigorously, but are folding the dry ingredients gently to avoid any gluten in the batter. This will ensure our soft and fluffy cake.
Pour your batter in your prepared tin and bake it in your preheated oven for 30 minutes. It took 30 minutes for me to bake but the timing changes as per your oven, so keep checking the cake after 20 minutes by putting the toothpick in the center of the batter. If it comes with batter, then bake for another 10 minutes but if the toothpick comes out clean then it's done.
Once my cake is done, I keep my oven in grill mode where only the top rod gets heated , for 1 minute to get that brown color on top of the cake.
Enjoy cooking/baking and keep smiling. Signing off now, will come back with many more recipes to share. Till then, take care of yourself.
