Thursday 9 July 2015

Garlic Cheese Bread

Garlic  Cheese  Bread
Ingredients 
2 cups of All purpose flour
1 1/2 tbsp of Dry yeast
1 tbsp Sugar
Salt to taste
1/2 cup of Luke warm water
1/2 cup Grated cheddar cheese 
1 tbsp Garlic Crushed 
1 tbsp Butter
1 tbsp Oil
Butter + Milk mix for brushing
1 tsp Dry Oregano for sprinkling 

Method 
Take a mixing bowl, add flour and salt. Take Luke warm water, sugar and yeast. Mix it, let it rise. Pour the yeast water in to the flour. Add more water if required to get a soft dough, add 1/2 tsp of oil and knead the dough well adding some more oil in between for 5 minutes. Cover the dough and  let it rise double in size. Sprinkle some flour on the platform, take the dough and knead it again. Divided the dough into 2 portions. Roll out one portion of the dough. Add 1/2 tbsp butter, 1/2 tbsp garlic crushed, spread it on the rolled dough. Sprinkle 1/2 the grated cheese. Fold the dough in to half. Lightly slit the dough into strips. Let it rise for 20 minutes. Brush with milk + butter. Sprinkle with dry oregano seasoning. Bake at 180 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes or till brown in colour in a pre heated oven.  Brush with butter. Cool a bit and then take it out from the tray. 

Buns

Buns 

Ingredients 

2 1/2 cup All purpose flour 

1 1/2 tbsp Dry Yeast

2 tbsp Sugar 

1 Cup Lukewarm Milk

1 tbsp Melted Butter

Salt to taste

Egg wash / Milk wash + Butter wash

Method

Take a mixing bowl. Add flour and salt. Mix it. Make a well in the centre of the flour. Add sugar, yeast and 1/2 cup lukewarm milk. Stir the yeast, sugar and milk with out disturbing the surrounding flour. Cover and let it rise. After it rises. Start mixing the flour... Add the remaining milk little at a time to make a soft dough. Add 1/4 tbsp melted butter, Knead the dough for 5 minutes adding 1/4 tbsp melted butter in between. Rub some butter on top, cover and keep for rising double in size. Rub some butter on the palms. Sprinkle some flour on the platform, take the dough, punch it and knead it again for sometime. Divide the dough into equal proportions. Grease the baking tray.  Rub some butter on the palms. Take one portion of the dough. Roll the dough giving it a round shape. Place each buns on the baking tray at some distance. Spray with water and cover with soft Malmal cloth till it rises double in size. Brush it with egg wash or milk + butter wash. Bake it in a pre heated oven at 190 degrees celcius for 25 minutes or till brown on top. Optional brush butter on top. Cool the buns a bit and remove it from the tray. 

Balochi Gosht


Balochi Gosht
Ingredients
500 grams Mutton
1 tbsp Ghee
2 Onion sliced
2 Green chilies crushed
1 tsp Ginger  paste
1 tsp Garlic Paste
1/ 2  cup Curd
1/2 tbsp Garam masala powder
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Red Chillie crushed
1/2 tsp Peppercorn crushed
Coriander leaves chopped for garnishing

Method
Marinate the mutton with ginger, garlic and chilies for 30 minutes. Take a pan. Add ghee. As the ghee heats up add the sliced onions. Fry the onion till light brown in colour. Add the mutton. Stir the mutton  and stir fry for 15 minutes, on a low flame. Take the curd and beat it. Add the salt, chilli crushed, pepper crushed and garam masala powder to the curd and mix it. Add the curd  to the mutton and stir the mutton. Cover and cook on low heat  until mutton is tender and water dries.When it’s done, garnish with fresh coriander leaves. Serve hot.

Whole wheat Flat Bread

Whole wheat Flat Bread

Whole wheat Flat Bread
Ingredients
2 cups Whole wheat Flour
1 Egg OR 2 tbsp Curd
1/2 Cup Luke warm Water
1/2 tspYeast
1 tsp Sugar
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp white and black Sesame seeds
1/2 tsp Ghee

Method
Add flour in a mixing bowl. Make a well in the centre. Add yeast and sugar in the centre of the flour. Pour Luke warm water and let the yeast rise. Beat the egg. Keep 1 tsp for brushing the naan. Add the rest of the beaten egg or curd, start mixing to make a soft dough. Add 1/4 tsp ghee, knead the dough for 5 minutes. Cover the dough and leave it to rise. Apply ghee on the palm. Punch the dough, grease the baking tray with oil. Divided the dough in to 2 portion. Take one portion. Sprinkle little flour on the platform. Roll out the dough into 1/2 inch thick  circle. Keep it on the baking tray. Cover and let it rise. Press the dough with fingertips. Brush with egg. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake in pre-heat oven and bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 15 to 20 minutes or till brown on top. Serve with any gravy dish.

Wednesday 8 July 2015

Su's style Spanish omelette for breakfast

Su's style Spanish omelette for breakfast :-)
Ingredients
6  potatoes
1 onion
4tbsp olive oil
3 tbsp chopped  parsley
6 eggs
6 sliced cheese
Salt to taste
Pepper powder
1 tomato sliced
Oregano seasonings
Method
Peel the potatoes  and cut them into thick slices. Chop the onion. Heat the oil in a large frying pan, add the potatoes and onion and saute them, partially covered, stirring occasionally until the potatoes are cooked. Take the excess oil out and keep the potatoes and onion a side. Beat the eggs separately, then stir into the pan with potatoes and onions and add parsley, salt, pepper. Add sliced cheese and sliced tomato. Sprinkle oregano seasoning on top.  Cook on a moderate heat covering the pan. When almost set, invert on a plate and slide back into the pan and cook a few more minutes till done. Slide on to a plate and  serve.