Cholafali for Indian Cooking Challenge / Chorafali Step-by-step with pictures

The chosen recipe for this month's Indian Cooking Challenge is Chorafali - A Gujarati snack. Having not seen or tasted Chorafali is not much of an issue when I have not even heard of the name before now. But that aspect of trying out an unknown snack was the challenge really. Lataji's step-wise recipe was very helpful for a newbie like me. The recipe called for besan and mathia flour. When I

Which Bulb Works Best for the Fixtures Around Your Home?

The Lumen Coalition has just inaugurated their new web site that answers this question for all of the lighbulbs (lamps) found in a typical home.

Here's the link:

http://lumennow.org/choosing-a-bulb/

Peggy

Raspberry Muffins

My another experiment with baking is raspberry muffins. I adapted this recipe from here and reduced the quantity of ingredients in to half as I prepared only for me and my husband. I used fresh raspberries and with the batter you can make 6-7 muffins. Instead of raspberry, you can also use strawberry, blueberry and blackberry. Good thing is you can also use whole wheat flour instead of all purpose flour. But I used only all purpose flour.



Did you know? Raspberries are high in vitamin 'C' content and it has about 50% of the recommended daily allowance.



Basic Information:

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 20-25 minutes

Makes: 6 muffins

Ingredients:



Butter - 1/4 cup

Sugar - 1/3 cup

Egg - 1 no

All Purpose flour / Whole wheat flour - 1 cup

Baking powder - 1 teaspoon

Salt - 1/4 teaspoon

Milk - 1/4 cup

Vanilla extract- 1/4 teaspoon

Raspberries - 1/2 cup

Cinnamon Sugar mix - to sprinkle on top of muffins (Optional)

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