Beetroot Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

200ml Vegetable Oil
250g Caster Sugar
150g Raw Beetroot (Grated)
100g Walnuts, chopped
3 Eggs, Separated
1 tsp Baking Powder
2 tsp Mixed Spice
3 tsp Milk
200g Flour

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC

2. Pour the oil and sugar in a bowl and whisk.
3. Mix in the beetroot, walnuts, then add the egg yolks, baking powder and mixed spices and whisk in.
4. Mix in the milk and the flour.
5. In a separate bowl whisk the egg whites using a hand mixer or a stand mixer at full speed until firm peaks form.
6. Fold the whisked egg white into the beetroot mixture.
7. Place the mixture in a greased 20cm cake tin and bake for 45 minutes in the oven.
8. Cool on a wire rack.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients:

250g Packaged Cream Cheese
30g Soft Butter
1/2 TspVanilla Essence
1 Cup Icing Sugar Mixture

Method:

Beat Cream Cheese, butter and Vanilla in a small bowl with electric mixer, until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in icing sugar.

Chicken Biryani

This is a well-known Indian dish. It is composed of aromatic rice and with a variety of fragrant spices. It is extremely delicious.

Healthy Ingredients: Beetroots



Beetroots are an excellent source of folic acid. They are a very good source of fiber, manganese and potassium. Beet greens and beetroot are a good source of phosphorus, magnesium, iron and vitamin B6. Betacyanin is the pigment that gives beetroot its color, and has powerful antioxidant properties.


Acidosis: Its alkalinity is essential and effective in combating acidosis.

Anemia: The high content of iron in beets regenerates and reactivates the red blood cells and supplies fresh oxygen to the body. The copper content in beets help make the iron more available to the body. A great blood builder.

Atherosclerosis: This wonderful crimson juice is a powerful solvent for inorganic calcium deposits that cause the arteries to harden.

Blood pressure: All its healing and medicinal values effectively normalizes blood pressure, lowering high blood pressure or elevating low blood pressure.

Cancer: Betaine, an amino acid in beet root, has significant anti-cancer properties. Studies show that beets juice inhibits formation of cancer-causing compounds and is protective against colon or stomach cancer.

Constipation: The cellulose content helps to ease bowel movements. Drinking beets juice regularly will help relieve chronic constipation.

Dandruff: Mix a little vinegar to a small cup of beets juice. Massage it into the scalp with your fingertips and leave on for about an hour, then rinse. Do this daily till dandruff clears up. Warning: you will smell awful during this hour!

Detoxification: The choline from this wonderful juice detoxifies not only the liver, but also the entire system of excessive alcohol abuse, provided consumption is ceased.

Gastric ulcer: Mix honey with your beets juice and drink two or three times a week on an empty stomach (more frequently if your body is familiar with beets juice). It helps speed up the healing process.

Gall bladder and kidney ailments: Coupled with carrot juice, the superb cleansing virtues are exceptional for curing ailments relating to these two organs.

Gout: Another ailment that can be greatly helped by the cleansing that beets have to offer.

Liver or bile: The cleansing virtues in beets juice is very healing for liver toxicity or bile ailments, like jaundice, hepatitis, food poisoning, diarrhea or vomiting. A squeeze of lime with beets juice heightens the efficacy in treating these ailments.

Varicose veins: In similar ways that it helps to keep the elasticity of arteries, regular consumption of beets juice also helps prevent varicose veins.

In the future, I will try to post some recipes for dishes including the ingredient, beetroots.

Beef with Artichoke Hearts, Asparagus and Zucchini

This salad is extremely simple and healthy.

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Rolled Aubergine with Mozzarella and Basil

Ingredients:

3 Firm Young Aubergines

600ml G

2 Large Fresh Mozzarella Balls

20 Anchovies Fillets in Oil, drained

a handful of fresh basil leaves

Salt and Freshly Ground Black Pepper

Unsalted Butter, for greasing

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees Celsius. Slice the aubergines length ways about 5mm thick.

2. You should be able to get around 20 slices from the two aubergines in total. Heat the oil in a large frying pan and when it is hot, fry the aubergine slices in batches, until golden. Remove them from the pan and drain on kitchen paper.

3. Cut the mozzarella ball in half, then cut each half into five even slices. Top each aubergine slice with an anchovy, a slice of mozzarella and a basil leaf. Season lightly with salt and few grinds of pepper.

4. Roll each slice up tightly and secure the end with a toothpick.

5. Lightly grease a shallow ovenproof dish with butter. Arrange the involtini dish, then bake in oven for 10 minutes, until the mozzarella begins to melt.

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Mango Stuffed Konafa

This dessert, called Kataifi (pronounced KA-TA-IF-EE) is the Greek name for this pastry. It may be known as Konafa, Kadaif. This dessert is very popular in the Mediterranean region of the world. I made this pastry with mango and mango flavoured syrup.

This dainty dessert is both simple and exquisitely sweet. The mango segments inside the Konafa is so sweet, that when you taste it will be like a party in your mouth.

Cheers!!