Morning Buns!!!!!

Ingredient's

250 g flour
1 pinch of salt
20 g butter
25 g sugar
12 g fresh yeast
280 ml milk
50 g flour for dusting
1 egg, beaten with 2 tbsp water
1 tbsp sesame seeds

Baking Method
Add to the bowl pinch of salt, sugar, yeast, and 3tbsp of luck warm water, and keep it aside for 10 to 15 minutes. Then in the large mixing bowl add the flour and butter mix it well then pour in the yeast and milk, Make a soft dough by adding flour if needed. Finally, dust some flour over a flat surface, put the dough in the centre and knead it with the palm of your hand. This will give it more texture and strength. Knead for about 1 minute until the dough gets a velvety texture. Leave the dough to rise. Place the dough in a bowl, cover it with a tea towel and leave it in a warm place to rise. This should take about an hour.

Punch the dough down into the bowl to remove the air and peel it out. Then dust a flat surface with flour and place the dough on top. Now cut it lengthways and across four times to make 10 buns. Do this by folding each bun into itself and then rolling it into a ball. Place the buns on the baking tray lined with greaseproof paper and cover them with the tea towel. Then leave them to rise for 20 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 190ºC for 10 minutes. When the buns have doubled in size we need to prepare them before baking. Using a brush, generously coat each of the buns with the egg wash. Then sprinkle over the sesame seeds. Bake the buns. Place the baking tray in the centre of the oven and bake the buns for 15 minutes. When golden brown, remove the buns from the oven and serve warm. 

Black Channa Sundal (Chick Peas Stirfry)

Ingredient's
Channa - 1 cup
Water - 10 cups
Salt
Green Chilli - 2 - 3
Curry Leaves - 7 leaves
Coconut - 2 tbsp
Mustard Seeds - 1 tbsp
Oil - 2 tbsp

Cooking Method
Soak the channa in water over night. Add 5 cups of water in a pressure pan and add some salt and pressure cook it to 3 whistles. Heat the wok with some oil. Add mustard seeds allow it to pop, add green chillis, Coconut, and curry leaves. Saute to lite brown. Drain the water from the channa and add it to the seasoning. Mix well check for salt and add more if needed.

Serve hot...

Aaloo Kachori...

Today morning i woke up and was not having any plan to cook breakfast at home. I was thinking will go out to have breakfast.. Then again i thought we have to eat idli and dosa only , why not make something different at home. I forced myself to think something different, then i got this idea. When i had gone to Mumbai in 2008 i ate this aaloo kauchori in one of my colleague's house. Her mom was super-chef, i ate food many times in there house only, she use to cook awesome food like my mom.. I was having plans to make this kauchori for a long long time but never gave a try.. Today was the day for kauchori finally....

Ingredients:
Boiled Potatoes: 2
Finely Chopped Green Chillies: 3-4
Ginger Garlic Paste: 1 tsp
Finely Chopped Coriander Leaves: 1 tbsp
Lemon Jucice: 1 tsp
Salt to Taste

For Cover:
Wheat Flour: 2 Cups
Water
Salt to Taste
Oil for Deep Frying and for Cover

Cooking Method
Mix salt and small amount of oil in a wheat flour very well. Then add some water and knead the dough. Dough should be just like chapati dough. Cover this dough and keep aside for a while.
Then grate boiled potatoes. Add all other ingredients of stuffing in potatoes. Mix this stuffing mixture very well. Make small ball of dough. Apply some oil on both palms & flatten the ball to form a 2 inch roti. Take small portion of stuffing and wrap that stuffing in each roti and roll into a small ball. Roll this ball to form a 3-4 inch round kachori. Heat the oil in kadhai. Now lift the rolled kachori and carefully slip it into the hot oil. Immediately start flickering hot oil over the top of it with a spatula so that it will swell up. Flip the kachori and cook both sides till it become golden brown.
Serve this hot kachori with Tamarind and mint chutney...

Gulab Jamun..

Gulab Jamun is among India's most popular desserts! This delicious dessert consists of dumplings traditionally made of thickened or reduced milk, soaked in rose flavored sugar syrup. It gets its name from two words: Gulab which means rose (for the rose flavored syrup) and Jamun which is a kind of deep purple colored Indian berry (the cooked dumplings are dark brown in colour). Serve Gulab Jamun warm or at room temperature..

Ingredient's
3 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups water
1 tbsp cardamom powder
2 tbsps rose water
3 cups powdered milk
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour

2 cup milk
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
Oil for deep frying

Preparation:
Mix the water and sugar in a deep pan and boil till all the sugar is dissolved. Turn off the flame and add the cardamom powder and rose water. Mix well and keep aside. Mix the powdered milk, all purpose flour and baking powder well. Add a little of the milk at a time to them and knead to make a dough that is soft but not sticky. Divide the dough into walnut sized balls and roll between slightly greased palms till smooth. Heat the oil for deep frying in a wide pan on a low to medium flame. Fry the gulab jamun, stirring often to brown on all sides. Do not cook on very high heat as the gulab jamun will burn on the outside and remain raw inside!
When cooked, remove the dumplings from the oil and transfer immediately into the sugar syrup. Repeat this till all the dumplings are cooked and added to the syrup. Allow the gulab jamun to soak in the syrup for 2 hours. Then serve...

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