Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Healthy Oats, Samolina and Whole wheat Milk Bread and Banana Honey Almond Bread Roll and Apple Honey Cinnamon Bread Roll

Very Healthy snacks for all....
Healthy Oats, Samolina and  Whole wheat Milk Bread.......
Banana  Honey Almond Bread Roll and Apple Honey Cinnamon Bread  Roll.....

Healthy Oats, Samolina and Whole wheat Milk Bread
Ingredients
1 cup Oats
1 cup Fine Samolina
2 1/2 cup Wheat flour
2 tbsp Milk powder
1/2 tbsp bread Improver
1/2 tbsp gluten
1/2 tsp Salt
2 tbsp Sugar
1 1/2 tbsp  dry Yeast
300 ml Luke warm Milk or more
1 tbsp Curd
2 tbsp butter
Method
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Mix all the dry ingredients together. Take Luke warm Milk, add sugar and yeast. Let it rise for 10 minutes. Add the milk and curd to the dry ingredients. Mix all the ingredients well to make a dough. Add a tbsp of butter, knead it gently for 5 minutes and keep it aside to become double in size. Punch the dough, apply little butter on the palm and knead the dough for another 5 minutes. Take a loaf pan, grease it with butter. Cut the 3/4 of the dough and flatten it on the platform. Fold the sheet from both the sides to fit in to the pan. The dough should be 1/2 the size of the pan as it is going to rise. Sprinkle sesame seeds and Oats from top. Keep it cover to rise.  Bake at 180 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes. After 15 minutes take the pan out and brush it with milk and butter and keep it back in the oven for baking. Once it is baked cool it for some time in the pan and take it out from the pan and cool it on the cooling rack. Cut the slices once completely cool.

Banana  Honey Almond Bread Roll and Apple Honey Cinnamon Bread  Roll.....
Ingredients
Remaining Bread dough
6 strips of Apple
6 small size Yellow  Banana ( Elaichi Banana)
2 tbsp Honey
1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder
1 tbsp Almond flakes
Method
Glaze the apples and banana with honey. Sprinkle cinnamon powder on the apples.  Roll the remaining dough and cut the dough into strips. Roll the dough strips on the apples and banana. Grease a tray with butter. Keep the rolled fruits on the tray. Sprinkle Almond flakes on the Banana rolls and sprinkle cinnamon powder on the apple rolls. Keep the tray covered for 15 minutes. Bake at 200 degrees for 20 minutes. Glazed with butter on top. Serve once cool.

Yam Tikki

Yam Tikki
Ingredients
1/2 kg Yam boiled
1/2 tsp garlic paste
1 onion chopped
1 green chilli chopped
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Lime juice
1/2 tsp garam masala powder
1 bread piece soaked in water and squeezed
1 tsp coriander leaves chopped
Oil for shallow frying
Method
Mash the yam. Mix all the above ingredients and bind it well. Make equal portions and flatten it. Shallow fry it. Once brown from both the sides take it off the gas. Serve it with green chutney...

Malai meethi mattar

Malai meethi mattar
Ingredients
1/2 cup peas
1/2 cup finely chopped methi leaves
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1 tsp ghee
1 bay leaf
1/2 red dry chilli
1/2 tsp coriander powder
1/2 cumin powder
1/2 tsp garam masala
Salt to taste

For the paste
2 tbsp kaju
2 tbsp curd
2 tbsp malai
1 green chilli
2 tbsp milk

1 tsp malai for garnishing

Method
Grind the ingredients for the paste.
Take a pan and add ghee. Add cumin seeds, bay leaf and red chilli. As the cumin seeds crackle add methi leaves and peas. Sauté it for 3 to 4 minutes. Add the paste and the powder masalas. Cook it on slow flame till the peas are tender and cooked. Add malai before garnishing.

Chandrapuli

Chandrapuli

Chandrapuli is a mouth watering sweet of Bengal. It is named Chandra puli as the shape is made into  half moon shape..

Ingredients:

1 Coconut  grated
1 cup Khoa
1 cup Paneer
1/4 cup Sugar  or as per taste
1/2 tsp Cardamom  powder
Pinch of salt

Method:

Grind the coconut in to fine paste.
Take a vessel and put the coconut  paste add sugar and pinch of salt, stir it for 5 minutes. Add paneer and stir for another 5 minutes and then add khoya and cardamom powder. Stir well till the ingredients mixes well and all the sides of the pan starts to leave. Take of the fire. While still warm give the sweets the desired shape in the mould....

Malai Chumchum

Malai Chumchum
Ingredients
1 liter milk
1 tsp of citric acid
1 tbsp of fine suji
1 tsp of maida
1/2 tsp of sugar
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of water
1/2 tsp rose essence
1/2 cup of fresh cream
2 tbsp condensed milk
Glazed cherries for decoration

Method
Add the citic acid to 4 tbsp water and keep aside. Boil the milk. Once the milk boils add at citric acid water and let it boil for a minute and switch off the flame. Let it stand for 5 minutes. All the paneer will float up. Drain the whey out. Pour cold water over the paneer.  Hang the paneer till all the water drains out. Take a cooker and add 2 cups of sugar and water. Let the sugar dissolve. While the sugar syrup is boiling, take the paneer on a plate and add maida, 1/2 tsp sugar and suji. Knead the paneer very well with the help of your palm at least for 5 minutes. Or knead until all the paneer comes together and will form a dough. Boil the sugar syrup to string consistently. To check make one small ball and drop it in the sugar syrup. The ball should not break. If it is breaking then add 1/2 tsp of maida and knead it well.  Make around 14 small balls. Flatten the balls with your hand. Add the flatten balls in the sugar syrup on high flame. Close the lid and give one whistle. Immediately take the cooker under the tap and pour cold water to release the steam. Now put the cooker back without the lid on slow flame for 5 minutes. Take the cooker off the gas. Take out the  chum - chums on the plate and cool it. Take the fresh cream and beat it till becomes stiff. Add the rose essence and condensed milk and mix it well. Take a disposable piping bag and put the cream in the bag. Cut the tip and with the help of the piping bag pipe out the cream on top of the chum - chumps. Garnish it with glazed cherries...
Note :-  Keep the sugar syrup for other sweet dish.