Friday 19 June 2015

Whole wheat Butter Masala toast

Whole wheat Butter Masala toast
Ingredients
2 1/2 cups of Whole wheat flour
2 tsp yeast
1 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp chilli powder
1/2 tsp roasted Cumin powder
1/2 tsp Dry mango powder
1 tsp Black Salt
150 Ml Luke Water
100 Ml Luke warm Milk
2 tbsp butter
Method
Mix all the dry ingredients. Add the luke warm water and Milk little at a time till you get a soft dough. If more liquid is needed to make a soft dough, then add. Add butter and knead well for 5 minutes. Keep the dough covered for rising. Punch the dough and knead again for few minutes. Grease a bread loaf tin with butter. Roll the dough evenly and place it in the tin. Cover and keep for rising. Brush the top with butter. Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes in a pre heated oven. Take the tin out and cool the bread. Slice it and place it again in a tray and now at 100 degrees bake till it is hard for 40 minutes.

Cottage Cheese Vegetable Stewed fried Noodles, Soya Chunks dry Manchurian, Stirred Fried Sweet and Sour Vegetables....

Cottage Cheese Vegetable Stewed fried Noodles, Soya Chunks dry Manchurian, Stirred Fried Sweet and Sour Vegetables....
Soya manchurian
Ingredients
1 cup soya chunks
Salt to taste
2 tbsp chopped garlic
1 tbsp chopped green chilli
5 green chillies slited
1 onion cubed
1/2 capsicum cubed
2 tbsp corn flour
Oil to fry
2tsp soya sauce
1/2 tsp vinegar
1/2 tsp green chilli sauce
1/4 cup water
1 tbsp chopped spring onion for garnishing
Method
Add 1/2 tsp salt to 3 cups of water and boil the water. Add soya chunks and boil them. Drain the water and wash the chunks again. Squeeze the chucks and remove the water out. Take oil for frying and heat it up. Mix 1 tbsp garlic, chopped chilli, 2 tbsp corn flour and Soya chunks. Mix the ingredients well. Fry the chunks in hot oil. Keep the fried chunks aside. Take 2 tbsp oil in a pan. Add the remaining garlic and green chillies slited. Add onion and capsicum. Sauté it for few minutes. Add the soya sauce, chilli sauce, salt to taste and vinegar. Sauté it again and add water. Let the gravy boil. Add the soya chunks and cook it till all the gravy dried up. Garnish it with chopped spring onion.

Sweet and Sour Stirred fried Vegetables
Ingredients
1/2 cup broccoli
1/2 cup each green and red capsicum cubed
2 green chillies slited
1/2 cup onion cubed
1/2 cup carrots cubed
1/2 cup mashrooms cut into two (optional)
1 tbsp chopped garlic
1 tbsp oil
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp red chilli sauce
3/4 tsp vinegar
1 tsp honey
1 tsp tomato sauce
1 tsp corn flour
2 tbsp water
1 tbsp roasted sesame seeds
1/2 tsp chopped spring onion for garnishing
Method
Take oil and heat it up. Add chopped garlic and sauté it for few minutes. Add all the vegetables  and stir fry them on high heat. Add salt and all the sauces, honey and vinegar. Stir fry the vegetables. Take corn flour and mix with water. Add the corn flour paste to the vegetables and mix it. Cover and cook for few minutes. Garnish with sesame seeds and spring onion...

Stewed fried Noodles
2 cups boil noodles
2 cups starched water retained from the boil noodles
Oil for frying
Salt to taste
1/4 tsp vinegar
1/2 tsp pepper powder
1 tbsp corn flour
1/4 cup water
1 cup mix vegetables sliced ( coloured capsicum, carrots, mashrooms, broccoli )
1 onion sliced
1 tbsp garlic chopped
4 green chillies slited
1/2 cup cottage cheese cubed
1/4 cup spinach chopped
1 tbsp spring onion chopped
Method
Take a pan. Add oil for frying. Heat up the oil. Add boiled noodles and fry them. Drain the oil and keep the noodles aside. Take a vessel add 1 tbsp oil. Add chopped garlic. Sauté it for few minutes. Add the sliced vegetables, spinach leaves and cottage cheese. Sauté it for few minutes. Add the starch water. Let it boil. Take the corn flour and mix it in 2 tbsp water. Add the corn flour, salt, pepper and vinegar to the gravy. Boil the gravy till it thickens up a bit. Take a plate. Spread the fried noodles and pour the gravy on top. Garnish it with spring onion.

Perfectly Baked home made Bread for Sandwich.....

Perfectly Baked home made Bread for Sandwich.....
Bread
1/2 cup wheat flour
2 cups Maida
1/2 tsp salt to taste
1/2 cup Luke warm water
1 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tbsp yeast
1/2 cup water if required
2 tbsp oil
Method
Take a mixing bowl. Add sugar, luke warm water, yeast and wheat flour. Wait till the yeast rises. Add Maida and salt. Mix the flour to make a soft dough. If more water is required add it to the flour. Add 1 tbsp oil and knead the dough for 5 minutes. Keep the dough covered till it rises. Grease a bread tin. Once the dough rises, punch the dough and knead it again. Roll the dough and put it in the tin. Let it rise . Apply milk and butter on top of the dough. Bake it for 20 minutes at 200 degrees. Cool the bread completely before cutting.

Thursday 18 June 2015

Donuts

Donuts
For kneading dough
Ingredients
Maida - 2 cup
Luke warm milk as much as required to make soft dough
1 1/2  tsp dry yeast
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 cup butter
1 tbsp sugar
Salt - ½ tsp
Oil - for frying oil

For glazing donuts:
Ingredients
Powdered sugar - ¼ cup
Brown chocolate - 100 grams
White chocolate - 100
Colourful sprinkles and stars

Method
Add yeast, sugar and 1/2 cup lukewarm milk and keep it aside till it rises. Take flour in any big utensil add salt, baking powder and butter. Mix in yeast and milk as much required to make a dough and knead the dough. Keep kneading the dough for 5-7 minutes so that it gets soft. Roll the dough giving it a round shape. Spread some dry flour on the board and place dough on it. With help of rolling pin make a round circle with ½- ¾ cm thickness and cut round doughnuts with help of a donut cutter. Make doughnuts from rest of the dough again in similar manner. Keep the doughnuts on a greased tray. Brush all prepared doughnuts with oil so that they don’t get dried.
Cover the doughnuts and keep them aside till they become double in size. After 2 hours take oil in a pan and place it on flame for heating. Gently place 2-3 or as many doughnuts as many as possible in medium hot oil. Fry on low flame until they turn golden brown in color. Take out fried doughnuts in a plate with absorbent paper. Fry all doughnuts like wise. Dust piping hot doughnuts with powdered sugar.

How to glaze the doughnuts:
Melt brown and white chocolate. Dip some doughnuts with white chocolate and rest with brown chocolate.
Make a cone filled with brown chocolate and make line on the white chocolate doughnuts for garnishing and make white chocolate cone for garnishing the brown chocolate doughnuts. Sprinkle some colourful sprinkles on some doughnuts.

Home made Tomato Ketchup

Home made Tomato Ketchup
Ingredients
2 1/2 kg Tomatoes
6 Garlic cloves
1 cup Light Corn syrup 
1/2 cup White Vinegar
1 cup Water from the boiled tomatoes
4 Cloves
1 stick Cinnamon
1/2 cup Sugar or more as per the sweetness required 
Salt to taste

Method
Add  the tomatoes, cinnamon,cloves and garlic in 1 1/2 cup hot water and boil for few minutes till the tomato skin has  ruptured. Take the tomatoes and garlic cloves out. Retain 1 cup  water from the tomatoes.  Peel the tomatoes. Blend the tomatoes and garlic cloves in a blender. Strain the tomato purée. Take a pot.  Combine all the ingredients over medium heat. Whisk until smooth. When mixture comes to a boil, reduce heat and simmer. Stir it often. The tomato purée will reduce to 1/2 the quantity.  The tomato ketchup will give a glossy look and will be thick. To check, dip a spoon in the ketchup and it will stick to the spoon. Remove the pot from heat and cool. Store in the bottles and refrigerate.