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Buns

buns

I had forgotten about buns for a long time. Then I made it last week and again today morning. Buns resemble puris, are very fluffy, a little sweet and is very easy to prepare for breakfast/evening snacks…..Just prepare the dough in the night, allow it to ferment overnight and make puris out of it in the morning. I made ginger chutney to go with it and I shall write about it in a separate post.

Ingredients

  • 2 Bananas ( pachhbaLe, the ones shown in the picture )
  • Curd – 3/4th cup
  • Maida about a quarter kg
  • Sugar – 4 tablespoos
  • A pinch of salt
  • Baking soda
  • Oil for frying

Method

  • Blend bananas, sugar, salt and baking soda in a mixer (do not add water)
  • Add curds to this mix.
  • Now add as much maida as it can hold and make a dough out of this (the dough must not be soft, no water must be added)
  • Leave overnight and in the morning make small puris out of it.

Tips

  • The buns must be deep fried on a very low flame till it gets the reddish brown colour.
    Preparation time: 20 minutes + Leave overnight
    Cooking time: 2 minutes

    Posted 21 September 2006, 04:14 by Nayanatara Pai · Comment [4]

    surnoLi

    sweet dosa

    Everybody especially the kids love this dosa because it is sweet and something different from the ordinary.

    Ingredients

    ( Serves 4-5 people)

    • Rice – 4 cups
    • Grated coconut– 1 cup
    • Parched Rice (poha) – half cup
    • Grated Jaggery – half cup
    • Fenugreek seeds (methi) – 2 teaspoons
    • Cucumber – 1
    • Turmeric powder
    • Salt to taste
    • Cardamom

    Method

    • Soak the rice and the fenugreek seeds in a container with just enough water to cover for an hour.
    • In a separate bowl, soak the parched rice for 15 minutes (with very little water)
    • Peel the cucumber and cut into small pieces.
    • Now grind together the rice, parched rice and cucumber pieces. Do not add water (the cucumber juice should suffice). The batter should be roughly as thick as idly batter.
    • To this batter, add jaggery, a pinch of turmeric, cardmom powder and salt to taste.
    • Leave the batter overnight. Do not refrigerate.
    • In the morning, prepare thick dosas (do not spread). The dosas will turn out very fluffy. Serve hot with ghee or butter.

    Tips

    • Puffed rice can be used instead of parched rice.
    • If cucumber is not available, use more coconut.

    Preparation time: 1 hour , soak overnight

    Posted 21 June 2006, 03:05 by Nayanatara Pai · Comment

    choLkya bhaakri

    Rice flour roti on banana leaf

    This is a very popular breakfast item and literally oil free.


    Ingredients

    For the roti (5 nos)

    • Rice Flour – 1 cup
    • Water or coconut water – 1/2 cup
    • Grated coconut – 1/4 cup
    • Salt to taste
    • Banana leaf – cut into pieces of about (1 feet x 1feet) which can fit into a pan.

    For the Dry chutney

    • Grated coconut – 1/2 cup
    • Mustard – 1 teaspoon
    • Tamarind to taste
    • Red Chillies – 4

    Method

    For the rotis

    • Mix together the rice flour,water,grated coconut and salt so that the batter is slightly on the thicker side of the dosa batter.
    • Now take a handful of batter and spread it on the banana leaf.
    • Cover this with another banana leaf and fry on tava.
    • After 2 minutes remove one of the banana leaves and turn the roti batter side down on the tava.
    • Similarly remove the other banana leaf after a few minutes.
    • Now the roti is cooked on both the sides.

    For the chutney

    • Heat half a spoon of oil in a pan.
    • Add the mustard. After it sputters, add the red chillies and fry for a few minutes and turn off the flame.
    • To this, add coconut, tamarind and salt to taste and crush well. ( do not use mixer for this)

    Tips

    • This roti can be had with regular chutney also.

    Preparation time: 20 mins

    Posted 12 June 2006, 06:34 by Nayanatara Pai · Comment

    aaLayile peeTa roTTi

    Rice flour Roti

    This roti is very tasty, nutritious and oil-free. It goes well with any of the sabjis,chutneys used with regular chapatis or rotis. It is an ideal breakfast dish.

    Ingredients

    • Rice Flour – 1 cup
    • Water – 1 cup
    • Oil – half teaspoon
    • Salt to taste

    Method

    • In a pan heat water with little oil and salt to taste. Bring it to a boil.
    • Now add the rice flour. The proportion of the rice flour to water must be roughly in equal parts.
    • Continue stirring the flour on a low flame for about 3 mins. Now the dough must be such that it does not stick to your hands. Close the pan with a lid and set aside for 2-3 mins.
    • Now use small quantity of the dough to make regular rotis.
    • Fry on tava without any oil.

    Tips

    • If you feel that the quantity of water or the flour is less, you can add it at any point of time.
    • While making the rotis, rice flour can be applied if needed.
    • The rotis need minimal time to be fried on the tava as the dough is already cooked.

    Preparation time: 20 mins

    Posted 12 May 2006, 09:02 by Nayanatara Pai · Comment

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