Chocolate Orange Shortbreads | Chocolate Shortbreads Recipe | Easy Christmas Cookie Recipe

Today's recipe is an easy and yummy chocolaty cookies with Orange punch. Orange & Chocolate is one of my favorite combo and love to bake anything in this combo. This Chocolate Orange Shortbread Cookies is one of my bookmarked recipes for this Christmas Baking. When Poornima of Poornima's Cookbook given me, Citrus Fruit and Chocolate as secret Ingredients for this Month's Shh Secretly Cooking Event by Priya, instantly this recipe came to my mind and tried it. As she gave me any citrus fruit option, I used Orange and cocoa powder for chocolate. The original recipe was Dark Chocolate Orange Shortbread but we don't like bitter or 90% cocoa, so reduced the cocoa powder to half and it was perfectly chocolate cookie.

Shortbread are kind of biscuits with mild sugar and rich buttery cookies. No eggs needed and just 3 basic ingredients is needed for a plain Shortbread cookies. Addition of cocoa and orange juice & Zest took this simple shortbread to an exotic bake and loved the aroma while baking. These Chocolate Orange Shortbread makes a perfect Edible gifts to Share with your friends and families this Christmas. You can cut it to your desired shapes, you can even use cutters/holiday themed cookie cutters.

Quinoa Pulao Recipe | Quinoa Capsicum Pulao | Quinoa Pilaf Recipe

Today's recipe is a healthy, delicious and Vegan One Pot meal with Quinoa and vegetables - Quinoa Capsicum Pulao. More than Millet I love Quinoa and including it in my diet regularly. This time experimented the Indian way as One Pot Meal and it turned out so good. When Hema of Aromatic Cooking, gave me the two secret Ingredients,Capsicum  and Cashew nuts for Shh Cooking Secretly Challenge Event, an event by Priya, I wanted to make some rich cashew tomato curry sauce with Mushrooms but then decided to go with simple cooking and prepared this Quinoa Pulao with both the Ingredients in it.

Soya Chunks Brown Rice Biryani / Soya Chunks Biryani Using Brown Rice / Brown Rice Biryani Recipe!

Today's recipe is a healthy, flavorful and delicious one pot meal Soya Chunks Biryani using Brown Rice. For more than 2 years i am using brown rice for my meals. I have tried more recipes with brown rice before but biryani, this is the first time. For May month's Shh secretly cooking challenge i was paired with Manjula of Desi Fiesta and she gave Brown Rice and Cilantro as the secret ingredients and in turn i gave her wheat flour and Pepper. She made healthy Wheat Dosa with Pepper. And i am here with Soya Chunks Brown Rice Biryani.

Aloo Methi Paratha / Aloo Methi Stuffed Paratha Recipe

Today the tamil Month Aadi started, Aadi Month is specially celebrated in My Home town, Salem, Tamil Nadu. The first day of Aadi is celebrated as Thengai Suduthal Pandigai in our home town. The local schools will be closed early mainly for this occasion and i still remember those days where we rush to home to clean coconut, fill it with stuffing and to do fire roasting. Me, my sister, cousins and neighbor friends wil have a competition like who is filling the coconut first and whose coconut has the more quantity of stuffing and tasty one. Mom buys a whole fresh coconut from the market and we ourself remove the outer fibre and rub it in sand to get the smooth shell. Then we wash the coconuts and put a hole on one of the 3 eyes on the coconut and start stuffing the coconut with sweet stuffing like - Jaggery, poha, rice, moongdal, dalia, sesame seeds. To know how the coconut is filled and roasted checkout my friend Chitra's space where she explained everything with detailed pictures. Chitra is my school mate and we are from same town, same area. Today Morning after seeing her post, i was excited & tempted to taste that delicious roasted coconut and at the same time felt sad missing my home town. I too wanted to try it but so far in all my apartments we have electric stove only. And more over here the coconuts will not be fresh, tender and good like we get in India. Not only the first day of the month, the whole month is considered auspicious and we worship the Goddess Amman, salem Kottai Mariamman Festival is very popular lots of people visits the temple this month from in and around the districts.

Now coming to the recipe, this Aloo Methi Paratha /Potato Methi Stuffed Paratha goes to the Shh Cooking Secretly Challenge started by Priya. In which every month the group members were paired each other and each pair exchange ingredients between them and cook a recipe with the given ingredients by their partner.