An easy and fun to bake cookies that are a big hit with kids. I used a basic Shortbread ratio to make the dough and flavored it with ginger and cinnamon. Basic Short bread has a ratio of 1, 2 and 3. That is one part of sugar for two parts of butter and threeContinue reading “Gingerbread Cookies”
Category Archives: Vegetarian
Beetroot Dinner Rolls
Simple colorful bread dough. 2 medium sized beetroots. Whole Wheat Flour : 500 grams. All Purpose Flour : as needed. Vital Gluten : 30 grams Honey : 40 grams. Oil : 40 grams. Salt : 10 grams. Yeast : 7 grams. Peels and cut the beets into small pieces. Puree them in a blender. addContinue reading “Beetroot Dinner Rolls”
Garlic Cheese Flower Bread
A fun way to make spice up the simple dinner rolls. You can use any dinner roll dough. Here is my favorite, which is a mix of Semolina and All Purpose Flour. For Dough: Fine Semolina : 350 g. All Purpose Flour : 150 g. Milk : 150 g. Water : 100 g. Honey :Continue reading “Garlic Cheese Flower Bread”
Butter Biscuits (Eggless)
Butter makes everything better. Butter : 100 grams. Sugar : 50 grams. All Purpose Flour : 150 grams. Cardamom : 2, powdered. Baking powder : 1 tsp. Baking Soda : 1 tsp. Salt : a pinch. Blitz the sugar and cardamom in the mixie till its a fine powder. Put the butter in a microwaveContinue reading “Butter Biscuits (Eggless)”
Mixed Dosa
Everything in this recipe is optional except some curd and rice flour. Take a largish bowl. Put into it a couple of spoons of: Makai Flour. Semolina. Ragi Flour. Besan Flour. Corn Rava. Rice Flour. Half a cup of curd. Salt. The rice flour provides the “glue” that will bind everything together to form aContinue reading “Mixed Dosa”
Daliya (Bulgar / Cracked Wheat) Rolls
Experimenting is something I Knead. This was a dough yield of about 900 grams. Daliya : 100 grams. Semolina : 100 grams. Whole Wheat Flour : 250 grams. Milk : 175 grams. Vital Gluten : 25 grams. Butter : 50 grams. Sugar : 20 grams. Yeast : 7 grams. Salt : 9 grams. Water asContinue reading “Daliya (Bulgar / Cracked Wheat) Rolls”
Kaju (Cashew) Katli
No one can have just one. Cashews: 250 grams. Ghee : 1 tablespoon. Cardamom : 2. Sugar Water Buy broken cashews as they are significantly cheaper. Keep them in the fridge for a couple of hours. Pulse them in a mixie till they break down into small granules. Using cold cashews will prevent them fromContinue reading “Kaju (Cashew) Katli”
Pain de Mie, Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread.
This will yield an almost 1,000 grams Whole Wheat Loaf and needs a Pullman tin of size 10*4.5*4.5 inches. Whole Wheat Flour : 450 grams. Honey : 90 grams Olive oil : 30 grams Salt : 9 grams Yeast : 7 grams Milk powder : 25 grams Vital gluten : 30 grams Water : 300Continue reading “Pain de Mie, Whole Wheat Sandwich Bread.”
Almond (Baadam) Barfi
My daughter asked my mother to teach me how to make this. Almonds : One cup. Milk : 3/4 cup. Powdered Sugar : 1 cup and 1 tablespoon. Ghee : one tablespoon. Saffron strands. Soak the almonds in water for 24 hours. A shortcut is soaking them in hot water for an hour. But theContinue reading “Almond (Baadam) Barfi”
Uncomplicated Cooking 