Whole Wheat Italian Bread

I am loving it.... Another perfectly baked Whole Wheat Italian Bread..... With Red roasted Bell Pepper Pasto, Black olives, Tomatoes and Cheese......

Whole Wheat Italian Bread

2 1/2 cup wheat flour

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

3 tbsp red pepper Pasto sauce

Sun dried tomatoes or cherry tomatoes chopped and sautéed in 1 tsp olive oil.

5 black olives chopped

2 green chillies chopped

3 tbsp black olives chopped

1 tbsp chives chopped

Method

Take a mixing bowl. Add sugar, luke warm water, yeast and 1/2 cup wheat flour. Wait till the yeast rises. Add rest of the flour, pasto sauce, chives 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. Add black olives, chopped chills and tomatoes on top of the dough. Let it rise.Bake it for 20 minutes at 200 degrees. Cool the bread completely before cutting.

Veg Lasagna

Veg Lasagna

For the sauce
Ingredients
1/2 cup ripe tomatoes blanched, peel of the skin and chopped finely
1/2 cup tomato purée
1 tbsp garlic chopped finely
1 small onion chopped finely
1 tsp sugar
Salt to taste
1/4 tsp pepper powder
1 tsp chopped Basil leave
1 tsp olive oil

Method
Take olive oil and heat it. Add galic and onion and sauté it well. As the onion changes it colour then add the tomatoes and the purée and cook on a low heat till the tomato and the purée blends well and the juice from the tomato has reduce. Add salt to taste, pepper powder and  sugar and boil it for few minutes more. Add chopped Basil leaves and keep it aside. ( This sauce also serves for pizza and red sauce pasta)

Vegetables required for Lasagna
Ingredients
1/2 cup red capsicum
1/2 cup yellow capsicum
1/2 cup brinjal
1/2 cup mashrooms
1 onion
1 tomato
(All the vegetables cut in to medium size cubes)
1/2 cup spinach chopped
1/2 tsp garlic chopped
Salt to taste
1/2 pepper powder
2 tsp olive oil

Method
Take olive oil heat it and fry the brinjal cubes and keep it aside. Then add garlic. Sauté for few minutes and add the rest of the vegetables and cook on a medium flame till all the vegetables combines well. Add salt and pepper to taste and the sauce prepared earlier. Mix it well.

Lasagna sheets

Ingredients
2 cups of wheat flour
1/2 tsp oil
Salt to taste

Method
Take wheat flour add salt and oil. Mix the flour. Add water to make a soft dough. Keep it aside while assembling the lasagna.

Assembling the lasagna
Ingredients
1 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese grated
Dough
Vegetables prepared for the lasagna

Method
Pre heat the oven to 200 degrees.
Take a baking dish. Make two portions of the dough take one portion and roll it out in to the shape of the baking dish. Blanch the sheet into hot water. Spead the sheet out on the baking dish. Spread out the vegetables on the sheet add the fried brinjal. Sprinkle 1/2 of the grated mozzarella cheese. Roll out the remaining portion of the dough. Blanch the sheet in hot water and spread it out on the vegetables. Sprinkle the remaining grated mozzarella cheese. Bake it at 200 degrees for 20 minutes till all the cheese has melted and the top has become brown in colour. Serve it hot.

Death by Chocolate...

Death by Chocolate...
This cake just melts in the mouth... and is filled with Chocolates..

Chocolate Ganche Cake with Fondant

This cake is for this little chap who very proudly introduces me  as " Amchi Madam" to his friends... as his Grand mother is the lady who takes care of my house and Mother - In - Law. He is such a sweet heart..... Always wanted to bake a cake on his Birthday... So that he can cut his birthday Cake with his friends and say Amchi Madam ne banavle... ☺️☺️
This is a Chocolate Ganche cake decorated with Fondant.

Blue Berry Bread Pudding

Blue Berry Bread Pudding
12 pieces of Bread
6 Egg Whites
2 cups Milk
5 tbsp or more Sugar as per the taste
1 tsp Vanilla Essence
Few dried Blue Berries
Blue Berry Syrup
Method
Cut the breads in to pieces. Take a blender, add bread pieces, egg whites, sugar, milk and vanilla essence. Blend all the ingredients together. Take a baking tray. Grease the tray with butter. Add few blue berries in the batter.  Pour in the batter. Pour blue berry syrup on top and create some design. Sprinkle some blue berries on top. Bake at 160 degrees for 50 minutes in a pre heated oven.