Thursday 28 July 2016

Gram flour cookies

Gram flour Cookies

Gram flour(besan) and Nigella seeds( kalonji) these are commonly found ingredients in everyone's kitchen. We use it for different recipes. We used to combine it for some recipes too. This combination is a classic in itself. While preparing pakodas or bhaji I used to add some kalonji (Nigella seeds) to the besan batter( gram flour batter) which give a different kick to the bhajis. So I thought of making Cookies with this combo.

My experiment with the combo was very successful. Everybody love the flavour and combo too. It became a perfect tea time partner. Here is my recipe of gram flour Cookies.

Gram flour (besan)- 1cup

Maida- 1 3/4cup

Castor sugar - 3/4cup

Rava(suji)- 3tbsp

Kalonji- 2tbsp

Salt - 1/2tsp

Baking powder - 1tsp

Oil- 1cup

Green cardamom powder -1tsp

Shift besan, maida and baking powder together. Add in Nigella seeds and rava and mix properly. Keep aside.

In another mixing bowl add sugar and oil beat properly upto the sugar dissolves totally in the oil . Add cardamom powder to it and beat again. Now add the dry mixture to the wet mixture and mix properly like a soft dough. Keep in the fridge for 15mins.

Preheat the oven in 200 degree for 10mins . Line the baking tray. Bring the dough  out of the fridge.  Make small balls and place on the baking tray. Now with hand or fork press a little. Don't forget to keep some gap between two cookies.

Place the tray in the oven and bake for 10 to 15 mins in 180 degree. Baking time of the cookies may differ from oven to oven. So while baking have a watch on the cookies. Bake up to golden in color . Keep on the wire rack to cool down and then store in the airtight container. It can be stored for 15days





Tuesday 26 July 2016

Radha Ballavi with Hing Wali Allo Curry

Radha Ballavi With Hingwali Allo

Radha ballavi is the staple bongo food. They love it so much that they can have daily. It is prepared as an appetizer during lunch and dinner at marriage functions. It is prepared during special pujas and occasion. Though it is a calories loaded dish as it is deep fried but it is very tasty and addictive. Radha ballavi is an 
Urad dal stuffed pooris ( flat bread). It is usually thick pooris and it is served with cholar dal and hing wali Allo ki sabzi.

This dish is my hubby's favourite dish. I wanted to prepare this special dish for my dad. Some other guest also came that night. All the People loved the food and kids loved it too. This version of the dish taught to me by one of my cosister ( jethani) shibani. But I made some changes according to my choice. Here is my version of the dish.

For filling

Urad dal - 1 cup
Castor sugar - 2tbsp
Salt to taste
Amchur- 2tbsp
Haldi - 1/2tsp
Red chilli powder - 1/2tsp
Ginger- 11/2inch
Oil- 2tbsp
Green chilli - 1
Hing- 1tsp
Nigella seeds- 2tbsp
Fennel seeds - 2tbsp
Zeera- 1tbsp
Red chilli - 2

 For dough

Maida- 2cups
Oil- 2tbsp
Salt to taste
Water to knead
Oil for deep frying

Clean and rinse urad dal and soak for 5 hours . After 5 hours in a grinder jar add soaked urad dal, ginger and green chilli make a smooth paste and keep aside

In a pan dry roast red chilli and then dry roast zeera separately. Make a powder and keep aside.

In a mixing bowl add urad dal paste, salt, castor sugar, amchur powder, haldi, red chilli powder and roasted zeera and chilli powder and mix properly. Taste the mixture and balance the taste.

Heat oil in a non stick kadai add hing, saunf ( fennel) and kala zeera (Nigella) and let it release it's flavour in the oil. Add urad dal mixture and fry properly. The paste will stick to the buttom of the pan but don't worry after cooling down it can be scarped off. Fry up to very dry and keep aside to cool down.

In a big mixing bowl add maida, salt, oil and rub properly. Add water and knead to a soft dough and cover wet cloth. And keep it for 20 mins.

Make small balls from maida dough. Stuff the above masala and make ball again. Heat oil in the kadai for deep frying. Roll the balls and make pooris. Deep fry the pooris in hot oil up to golden and transfer to the kitchen towel or tissue paper. Fry all the radha ballavis like this.

Hingwali Allo ki Sabzi 


Boiled potatoes - 5

Salt to taste
Hing- 1tsp
Red chilli powder- 1/2tsp
Red chilli - 2
Zeera - 1tbsp
Panch phutan- 1tbsp
Oil- 2tbsp
Ginger- 1inch
Tomato- 2

Heat kadai add zeera and red chilli dry roast properly and separately and make a powder.

Heat oil in a kadai add red chilli and punch phutan and let it crackle. Add hing saute again. Add chopped ginger and saute upto red. Add chopped tomatoes and fry upto oil separates. Break the potatoes randomly with hands. Add boiled potatoes and saute properly. Add water as per requirement and allow it to boil for 5mins. Add zeera and chilli powder to it. Serve hot with radha ballavi.


Sunday 24 July 2016

Odia style chicken curry

Odia Style Chicken Gravy


Every region has a special style of preparing chicken dish. Some dishes are gravy, some are dry and some are semi gravy. Odias do have a separate style of cooking chicken. This gravy dish is called Kukuda Mansa Jhola. Kukuda Mansa means Chicken and Jhola means Gravy.


While growing up I used to eat this dish. My parents are vegetarians, so cooking of chicken came to me. This is the first dish I learnt to cook for my younger brother. This dish is special as we add potatoes to the gravy. A simple dish with lots of flavour. Here is the recipe


Chicken- 1 kg

Onion- 4 Medium

Gralic- 6 to 7 cloves

Ginger- 1 1/2 inch piece

Salt to taste

Haldi- 1 tbsp

Red Chili Powder- 1 tbsp

I use Kashmiri red chili powder

Tomatoes- 2

Zeera Powder- 1 1/2 tbsp

(Cumin)

Dhania Powder- 1 1/2 tbsp

(Coriander)

Clove- 3 to 4

Green Cardamom- 3 to 4

Zeera- 1tsp

Black Pepper- 5 to 6

Cinnamon- 1inch piece

Potatoes- 4

Mustard Oil- 2 1/2 tbsp


Peel and clean onions. Make a coarse paste and keep aside.


Peel and clean ginger and garlic and make a smooth paste and keep aside.


Clean and cut the potatoes in half.


In a bowl add chicken and clean properly under running water. Squeeze out all the water from chicken and keep in another bowl. 

Heat 2 tbsp oil in a kadai. When hot, add whole garam masala and let it crackle.


Then add ginger and garlic paste to it. Fry it up to it starts sticking to the buttom of the kadai. Now add onion paste to it and fry till all the masala incorporated properly.


Clean and chop tomatoes. Add the chopped tomatoes and fry for a min or two. Now add dry spices and fry again .


In the mean time heat 1/2tbsp of oil in a kadai and add halved potatoes, salt, haldi and red chili powder and fry again. It should be cooked up to red in colour.


When the masala is mushy and oil separates, add cleaned chicken to it. Cook the chicken covered throughout.


When the chicken is half done add fried potatoes. Now cook the curry up to potatoes and chicken become soft.


Now add water as required. I have added 11/2 cup of water to it. Let it boil in simmer for 5 to 6 mins. Then switch off the gas. Garnish the gravy with chopped coriander leaves.


Chicken gravy is ready to serve. This goes really well with plain rice or paratha.


Thursday 21 July 2016

Mushroom Biryani

Mushroom Biryani 


Sinu, a friend of mine invited me to her house to have lunch. She prepared Mushroom Biryani. That was the best Mushroom Biryani I have ever had. It was very tasty and flavorful. The flavour of the mushroom was prominent there. I asked her for the recipe of this special Biryani. She obliged me by giving this recipe. Also told me that this recipe is her family recipe. She learnt this recipe from her mother. I was happy to get some one's family recipe.

There are different types of mushrooms. But all are not edible. All the mushrooms, mostly button mushroom, sold in the supermarket are commercially grown in mushroom farms. Mushroom is used commonly in many cuisine like Chinese, Korean, European and Japanese. It is known as the meat of the Vegetable world. Nowadays use of mushrooms become very famous in Indian cuisine too. People are making mushrooms in Indian version. Mushroom Biryani is one among them. Here is my learnt version of mushrooms Biryani.

For mushroom masala

Mushroom - 400gms

Onion - 1/2 kg

Garlic - 7 to 8 cloves

Tomatoes - 2big

Salt to taste

Curd - 1cup

Haldi- 1/2tsp

Red chilli powder - 1/2 tsp

Kitchen king masala - 1/2tsp

Garam masala - 1/2tsp

Oil - 1tsp + 3tbsp

Chopped mint leaves- 2 tbsp

Chopped coriander leaves - 2tbsp

Sugar - 1/4tsp

Clove - 3

Green cardamom - 2

Cinnamon - 1inch

Papper corn- 5 to 7

Zeera- 1/2 tsp

Saha zeera- 1/2 tsp

Mace- 1pinch

Green chilli - 2

For rice

Rice - 3cups

Water- 6cups

Salt to taste

Chopped mint leaves - 1tbsp

Chopped coriander leaves - 1tbsp

Ghee- 1tbsp

Clove - 2

Green cardamom - 2

Cinnamon - 1/2 inch

Zeera- 1//2 tsp

Sahi zeera- 1/2 tsp

For Assembling

Ghee- 2tbsp

Green chilli,- 2

Mint leaves - 3tbsp

Coriander leaves - 3tbsp

Rice

Heat ghee in a heavy button pan and add whole spices and allow releasing their flavour. Add cleaned rice and fry up to water dries up. Then add 6cups of water and salt to taste to it. Cook the rice till done.

Mushroom Masala

Peel and clean mushrooms properly. Cut them in big pieces and keep aside. Heat oil (1tsp) in a pan, add mushrooms and fry upto golden brown and keep aside.

Peel and clean the onion, slice them properly. Heat 11/2 tbsp of ghee in a pan and add sliced onion and fry it up to brown and keep aside.

Clean and chop tomatoes and peel garlic. In a grinder jar add tomatoes and garlic and make a smooth paste.

Heat 3tbsp of oil in a kadai, add the rest of the whole spices and allow them to release their flavour. Add above paste and saute up to the oil separates from the masala. Now add dry spices, salt and sugar to the masala. Beat the curd without lumps. Add curd to the masala and saute in high flame and mix properly. Then lower the flame and cook up to the oil separates from the masala. Then add fried mushrooms and half of the fried onion and saute again. Add chopped mint leaves and coriander leaves and saute again for 5mins. Switch off the gas and Keep aside.

Assembling

Heat ghee (1tbsp) in a kadai. Spread some mushrooms, masala, green chilli, mint leaves, coriander leaves and some rice like layers. Repeat the layers again. Add 1tbsp of ghee on the above the layers and put in low flame for 5 to 6 mins.

Serve hot with any choice of raita.
Heat ghee (1tbsp) in a kadai. Spread some mushrooms, masala, green chilli, mint leaves, coriander leaves and some rice like layers. Repeat the layers again. Add 1tbsp of ghee on the above the layers and put in low flame for 5 to 6 mins.

Serve hot with any choice of raita.

Tuesday 19 July 2016

Sahi Paneer, a no onion and no garlic dish

Sahi Paneer, No onion & No garlic

Any special occasion like birthday or anniversary on a fasting day is a tension for everyone. What to cook special without onion and garlic is the question. This year hubby's birthday fell on a vrat of ekadashi. Special dinner without onion and garlic is difficult to prepare. After much research I zeroed down with a dish named as Sahi panner.

Sahi means royal and paneer means cottage cheese. This is a gravy dish. Place of origin of tis dish is Punjab, India and Pakistan . It is to be believed that during mughal empire this dish was created . Sahi paneer is a preparation of paneer in a thick gravy made up of cream, tomatoes and spices . In my version I replaced dahi to cream. But the creaminess of the dish is intact 
Here is my version of Sahi paneer.

Paneer - 400gms
Almond- 30gms
Kaju- 20gms
Tomato - 2big
Ginger- 11/2 inch
Dahi- 3/4 cup
Salt to taste
Sugar- 1/2tsp
Haldi- 1/2tsp
Red chilli - 1/2 tsp
Kitchen king masala - 1/2tsp
Green cardamom -3
Clove- 3 to 4
Mace- 2pinch
Cinnamon - 1 inch
Butter- 1tbsp + 1tbsp
Oil- 1tbsp
Saha zeera- 1/2 tsp
Oil to frying paneer
Bay leaves- 1
Coriander leaves for garnishing 

Cut the paneer in triangle shape and keep aside. Heat oil in a pan and add the paneer pieces and fry upto golden brown and keep in hot water. 

Clean and chop tomatoes and keep aside. Clean , peel and chop ginger.

In a pan heat 1tbsp butter add almond, kaju- and fry up to golden. Then add tomatoes, ginger and green cardamom. Saute up to tomatoes cooked properly and mushy. Allow it to cool down and add bit water and make a smooth paste.

Heat oil and butter ( in this process butter won't burn ) in a kadai, add all the whole spices and fry them. Add the above paste saute upto the oil separates. Then add Salt , haldi, redchilli, sugar and kitchen king masala and saute again. Beat the curd without lumps. Add the beaten curd to the masala and stir in high flame or the curd will spilt. After 3 mins lower the flame, cover and cook till the oil separates.  

Add 1/2 cup of water and let it boil. Add fried paneer to the gravy, cover and cook. Switch off the gas when oil float up and come over the gravy. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves. Serve hot with nan or paratha.




Friday 15 July 2016

Prawn Curry



Prawn Curry

Prawn or shrimp whatever one name it, is the best sea food as per me. A very tasty sea food. But shrimp is the smaller one and prawn is the bigger one. It is a very commonly available seafood all over world but also commonly loved by everyone. Though this particular seafood isn't dearer to all.

Prawns are very good source of unsaturated fats. It is also a good source of omega 3 fatty acid which our body don't produce. This fatty acids can reduce inflammation and risk of heart disease, cancer and arthritis. It is a very good source of protein and sodium. But too much eating is also bad. It can increase cholesterol level of the blood.

Prawn can be cooked in different ways. But prawn curry is one of the way. It is the tastiest way one can cook according to me. Prawn curry is loved by one and all in my family. A family favourite dish in my blog. This is odia style of cooking prawn curry. Here is my version of the dish 

Prawn - 1kg
Onion - 3 (medium)
Garlic - 7 to 8
Ginger- 1 1/2 inch
Haldi - 1tsp +  1/2 tsp
Red chilli - 1tsp + 1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 1/2 tsp + 1 tsp
Cumin powder - 1 1/2 tsp + 1tsp
Garam masala - 1 1/2 tsp + 1 tsp
Mustard oil- 1 tbsp + 2 1/2 tsp + frying prawn 
Tomato - 1 big
Cumin - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 1/2tsp
Salt to taste 
Green chilli- 2
Clove - 2
Green cardamom - 1
Cinnamon - 1/2 inch
Potatoes - 2

Peel and devein the prawns. Wash properly and keep aside.

Clean and cut potatoes in wedges and keep aside in water.

In a grinder jar add garlic, ginger, green chilli and whole garam masala and make a smooth paste and keep aside.

In a mixing bowl add 1tbsp oil, above paste 1tbsp, 1/2 tsp of haldi and red chilli powder and 1 tsp of cumin, coriander and garam masala powder and mix properly. Add cleaned prawns and marinate for 20 to 25 mins.

After 25mins fry the prawns up to golden in colour and keep aside.

In the same pan fry the potato wedges and keep aside.

Clean and chop onion and keep aside.

Clean and chop tomatoes and keep aside 

Heat mustard oil in the kadai add sugar for caramelising, add zeera to it and let it crackle. 

Now add chopped onion and saute up to golden brown. Add the ginger garlic and spice paste and saute again in high for 2 mins. Then add chopped tomatoes and saute again. Add salt and all dry spices except garam masala and lower than he flame and let it cook up to the masala separates from oil.

Now add fried potatoes and fried prawns to it, saute again properly. Add water as per the gravy one needs. Let it be in simmer for 5 to 6 mins or up to the potatoes are cooked . Add garam masala and coriander leaves and switch of the gas.

Serve hot with rice or luchi as per choice .


Wednesday 13 July 2016

Eggless Lychee Cheese Cake

                          Eggless Lychee Cheesecake

Cheese cake is a sweet dessert.  It is sometimes baked and sometimes frozen.  Egg, sugar,  fruits and cheese added to make cheese cake.  History of cheese is very ancient.

Lychee is a seasonal fruit. Now it is end of the season.  The yummiest summer fruit for me.  I love lychee and it's flavour. So do my parents.  So I thought of making lychee cheesecake with lychee glaze.  The crust is something which my kids loved a lot, that is Oreo biscuits.  So it has become a family favourite.

Here is my version of lychee cheesecake with lychee glaze.
Oreo biscuits -  10 to 15
Milk -  1lit
Curd -  600ml
Vinegar -  3 tbsp
Sugar  -  7 to 8 tbsp (According to taste) 
Agar Agar (China Grass)-  4  tbsp
Milk- 1/2 cup
Lychee  -  1/2 kg
Butter -  2 tsp
Boil 1 lit milk and add vinegar to it.  Let the milk curdle and let it boil for 5 more mins.  Then spread a cheese cloth on a colander and pour all the milk solid and water on it.  Collect all corners and tie it and press a heavy object and keep in the fridge for 3 hours.

In another colander spread a cheese cloth and pour in all the curd. Collect from all corners and tie it and press a heavy object and keep in the fridge for 3 hours.

After 3 hours grind the oreo cookies to biscuits crumb, transfer to a mixing bowl. Add butter to the powdered biscuit and mix properly.

In a loose bottom cake tin pour the biscuit powder, press the biscuit mixture with hands. It should be even from every side. Keep in the fridge for half an hour.

In the mean time peel and de-seed lychees, make a smooth paste from the lychees. Soak agar agar in water. Boil the lychee puree and reduce it to half.

In a blender jar add hung curd, paneer and milk and make a smooth paste. Add sugar to the paste and grind again.

Put the soaked agar agar on the stove and melt. Add the liquid to the reduced lychee puree. Allow to cool down a bit, then add to the cream cheese mixture. Bring the cake tin from the fridge and pour the lychee and cream cheese mixture. Keep it in the fridge to set.

For Lychee Glaze

Peel and de-seed the lychees and make puree. Put the puree on the fire and reduce to half. Add sugar and lemon juice to the reduced puree. Mix corn flour and water and add to the puree and let it thick and allow it to cool down.

Bring out the cheese cake from the fridge and pour the Glaze on it and level it. And keep it in fridge for over night to set. Serve with whipped cream.





Thursday 7 July 2016

Sattu paratha and aalo curry

             Sattu Paratha And Aalo curry

Sattu is a flour made from ground pulses and cereals. It is very famous in India and Pakistan.  This dry powder is used as a principal or secondary ingredient for many dishes. This is very popular in Bihar. It is also known as "Desi Horlicks".  In Bihar, sattu prepared with toasted gram flour.  It is commonly served as a cold porridge with milk, sugar and banana.  In savory dishes sattu can be flavoured with green chillies,  lemon juice and salt. It is also a popular stuffing in paratha.

For summer vacation I went to my parents’ house at Dhanbad for some days. At Dhanbaad, my father told me, “let's go to the veggie  market”. We went to the market and purchased some veggies. While returning we saw a local vendor selling some hot breakfast. Thought of purchasing some. We saw he was selling poori, sattu poori, sattu paratha and aalo kala chana ka sabzi.

We ordered some sattu paratha and waited for those. While the order was processing I asked the recipe of the stuffing. The shopkeeper obliged me with the recipe. The sattu paratha was heavenly in taste. But unfortunately  I was not having camera or mobile, I was not able to take a picture of that master chef. But thought of making the parathas at home.
Here is my recipe of Sattu Paratha.
For Filling
Sattu- 100gms (You can make at home by roasting lightly and grinding chana dal)
Salt to taste
Mustard oil- 11/2tbsp
Ajwain seeds - 1 1/2tsp
Nigella seeds- 11/2tsp
Chopped onion - 1tbsp
Chopped ginger -1tbsp
Chopped garlic - 1tbsp
Chopped green chilli -  1tbsp
Haldi- 1/2 tsp
Red chilli powder -  1/2tsp
Lemon juice -  1 1/2tbsp
Water- 3 to 4tbsp
For  dough
Atta- 2cups
Salt to taste
Oil- 2tbsp
Water to knead the dough
Oil for frying the paratha
In a mixing bowl add sattu and other ingredients of filling except water.  Mix properly all the ingredients.  Add water to the stuffing one tbsp each time and mix properly.  The stuffing should be wet enough to be gather together and also crumbly enough like bread crumbs.  So add water more or less according to your stuffing.

In another mixing bowl add atta, salt,  and oil.  Rub it to get a bread crumbs texture.  Now add water and knead a smooth dough like paratha.  Cover a wet cloth and let it rest for 15 mins to 20 mins.  After 20 mins make balls out of the dough.  Roll it a bit and stuff the stuffing and seal it as you do for allo paratha and Continue the process until the stuffing finishes. Heat a tawa on gas and start rolling the parathas.

Generally in dhanbad they make thick paratha.  But I made thin paratha like allo paratha.  Put on the tawa.  Flip the paratha when one side is done.  Add oil to cook the paratha and make golden brown on both the sides.

Allo curry
Boiled allo or potaroes- 4 to 5
Salt to taste
Haldi- 1/2tsp
Red Chili powder- 1/2tsp
Tomato- 1
Kitchen king masala- 1tsp
Zeera- 1/2tsp
Oil- 1tsp
Ginger- 1/2 inch

Boil the potatoes up to soft.  Let it cool down.  Once cooled break into small pieces with hands and keep aside.

Peel ginger: crush it and keep aside.  Chop tomatoes and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan, add zeera to it. When zeera is bit brown, add crushed ginger.  Saute properly and then add chopped tomatoes and dry masalas. Fry upto oil separates.  Add broken potatoes and for 5mins. Add water according to your choice and let it boil for 5 mins and switch off the gas.  Serve hot with sattu paratha








Tuesday 5 July 2016

Eggless Beet Root Cup Cakes with Chocolate Ganache Icing

Eggless Beet Root Cup Cakes 

My kids are fuzzy eaters.  They hardly eat any vegetable.  But feeding them beetroot is the most difficult task.  They are very adamant regarding not eating of beetroots.  Same with my friend Swapna.  Her daughters even don't like beetroot but they love beetroot cup cakes.

Beetroot is the taproot part of the beetroot. Beet greens are also edible. It is generally eaten alone or combined with any salad veggies. It can be consumed fried, boiled, roasted or raw. Variety of dishes like beetroot soup, salad, porrial, pickle even halwa or stir fried also made. Betanin obtained from the roots is used in industrial purpose as red colour to improve colour and flavor of tomato paste, sauce, desserts, jams and jellies.

Beetroot is of exceptional nutritional value. The greens are rich in calcium, iron and vitamins A and C. Beet root is an excellent source of folic acid and a very good source of fiber, manganese and potassium.

Beetroot cupcakes are nothing but simple cupcakes with beetroot pulp.  It is really  colourful cupcake because of the colour of the beetroot.  A healthy and easy recipe to follow.  Here is my recipe ….

Multi grain atta- 1 ½ cup
Suji (rava)- ½ cup
Milk- ¼ cup
Curd- ½ cup
Castor sugar- ¾
Oil- ½ cup
Beetroot pulp- ½ cup
Baking powder- 1 tsp
Baking soda- ½ tsp
Salt- ¼ tsp
Vanilla essence- 1 tsp

Chocolate Ganache

Dark chocolate- 200 gms
Unsalted butter- 50gms
Milk- 3 tbsp

Bring a beetroot and clean it properly. Put the whole beetroot in a pressure cooker and cook for 2 whistles (1 in high and 1 in low). Let it cool down properly. Now peel the beetroot and grate in a grater. Now make a smooth paste from the grated beetroot. Beetroot pulp is ready to use.

In a mixing bowl shift atta, , salt, suji, baking powder and baking soda. Shift twice properly and keep aside.

In another mixing bowl add castor sugar and curd and beat properly till it becomes creamy and fluffy. Sugar should be melted by that time. Add oil to the mixture and beat again. Now add beetroot pulp and milk to the mixture and beat properly. Now add vanilla essence and beat again. Electric beater is easy in beating all these stuff properly than in hand.

Now add dry items to it but in batches... Now use cut and folds method to mix the dry and wet items. In that way air in the wet item will be intact.
Preheat the oven for 10 mins. Pour the batter to cup cake papers or in the silicon mould and tap on the kitchen platform.

Set the oven for 25 mins in 180 degree celcius. If not done again set for 5 mins. Insert a needle in the cake if come outclean then its ready. If not, then again keep for some more time. It depends upon the temperature of the oven. Keep on a wire rack for cooling down. 

For chocolate ganache
Chop dark chocolate keep in a mixing bowl. In a sauce pan add milk and butter. Let the butter melt in milk properly. Add this mixture to the chopped chocolate and let it stand for 4 to 5 mins. Now mix the above mixture with wire rack properly. Slowly it will get thicken. Now beat with hands properly and your chocolate ganache is ready to serve.
Bring the cooled cup cakes and decorate with chocolate ganache and cherries.