Onion Thalipeeth | Kandache Thalipeeth Recipe

Onion Thalipeeth | Kandache Thalipeeth Recipe

Ingredients:
2 Cup Chopped Onion
1 Cup Jowar Flour
2 Cup Wheat Flour
1 Cup Chick Pea Flour
1 Cup Rice Flour
2 Tbsp Garlic Paste
1 Tbsp Carom Seeds (Ajwain)
1 Tbsp Crushed Cumin Seeds (Jeera)
1 Tbsp Crushed Fennel Seeds (Sauf)
5 Tbsp Sesame Seeds
1&1/2 Tbsp Red Chilly Powder
1 tsp Turmeric Powder
1/2 Cup Chopped Coriander Leaves
Salt as per taste
Oil
Water

Preparation:
1. Take a big bowl and add chopped Onion, Garlic Paste, Sesame Seeds, crushed Sauf, crushed Jeera, Ajwain, Red Chilly powder, Coriander Leaves, Turmeric and salt in it.
2. Now add 5-6 Tbsp Oil to it and mix it well.
3. Add all the Flours one after the other and mix it well.
4. Now knead the mixture till the dough become smooth by adding enough water and keep it aside for 10 minutes.
5. Now heat the tawa on a low flame.
6. Take a wet cotton cloth and spread it on a rolling board.
7. Take some dough in your palm and spread the thalipeeth evenly on the cloth.
8. Make a hole at the center of the thalipeeth to add oil.
9. Now carefully with the help of the cloth place the thalipeeth on the tawa.
10. Cover thalipeeth with lid and keep on low flame for about 1 minute.
11. Roast thalipeeth on both sides and keep adding oil as required.
12. Keep roasting till brown spots appear on thalipeeth.
13. Thalipeeth is ready. Repeat the above procedure for the remaining dough.
14. Server Kandache Thalipeeth (Onion Thalipeeth) with pickle, Butter, Curd or Thecha.

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Makki Di Roti recipe | Makki Ki Roti | Indian Corn Bread

Makki Di Roti recipe | Makki Ki Roti | Indian Corn Bread

Ingredients :
2 Cups Makki ka atta (Cornmeal)
1/2 cup Wheat Flour (Atta)
1-1/4 cup Water (or as required for dough)
Salt to taste
3/4 teaspoon Ajwain / Carrom seeds
1/4 cup Oil / Ghee

Preparation :
1. Mix all the ingredients in a big bowl and knead a soft dough.
2. While Kneading, add water slowly and gradually to make the dough smooth and soft and now it is ready.
3. Take a plastic Ziplock bag and cut it open and place it on your rolling surface and grease it in the center.
4. Make a small ball out of the dough and place it between the two sheets of plastic and drizzle some oil on top of it.
5. Now spread the dough ball around using your hand or flat bottomed plate and make it look like a large disc. Now the roti is ready.
6. Now carefully remove the roti from the plastic disc and transfer it on a hot seasoned Tawa.
7. Grease the roti along the way and allow it to cook on the bottom.
8. Now flip it over and cook the other side too.
9. Apply oil/Ghee as needed and cook both sides until the roti turns brown and is cooked thoroughly.
10. Crispy brown Makki di Roti is ready. Repeat the process with the remaining dough.
11. Serve hot with Sarson ka Saag or Daal !

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Phulka Roti / Chapati Recipe

Phulka Roti Recipe

Phulka Roti / Chapati are the softest of all Indian flat-breads. They are made to puff up by Cooking them on direct flame, creating an air pocket in between, hence making the bread very soft. It is also very rich in nutrients and fibers that whole wheat brings along with it, and also low in fat and very light on the stomach. Phulka Rotis are usually served with Curries, Gravy or Vegetable Sabjis. Find Easy to Understand Phulka Roti Recipe Below.

Ingredients:
3 cups Atta / Whole Wheat Flour
1 to 1½ Cups of Water or as required
Salt to Taste
1 - 2 tsp of Oil or Ghee

Preparation:
1. Take 3 cups of Atta / Whole Wheat Flour in a bowl. Add salt, a bit of Water and oil/ghee and start mixing.
2. Begin to knead the dough adding a bit of water in between.
3. Keep kneading the Dough till it becomes soft and pliable. The Dough should not be very soft or very hard.
4. Now make balls of the dough as per the size of the phulka roti required.
5. Flatten the ball with your hands and dip it in whole wheat flour before rolling it on the board to make a flat round circle.
6. Put the Tawa on the Gas Stove and make it Hot.
7. After the Tawa is Sufficiently hot,  put the round phulka roti on the tawa.
8. When the bottom side of the roti is less than half cooked, turn the roti and cook the other side.
9. The other side should be cooked a little more than the first side.(brown spots will start to appear)
10. Now cook the first side of roti on direct flames using a Tong. The Phulka roti will start to Puff.
11. Similarly cook the other side of roti on direct flame and the roti will puff some more. Avoid burning the roti.
12. Now your Phulka roti is ready. Now apply some ghee or oil on the roti to keep them soft for a long time.
13. Serve the phulka roti hot if possible or you can store the roti in a Hot Pot Roti Basket or a Casserole.
14. Serve the Phulka roti with Dal or Vegetable Sabji.

Tips : To make the Roti more Softer, Add 1/4 Cup of Milk to the Dough during Kneading.

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Puran Poli Recipe

Puran Poli Recipe

Puran Poli is a popular maharashtrian recipe made during Holi, Gudi Padwa,Gaanesh Chaturthi or diwali or any other festive occasion.
Puran Poli is a flat bread stuffed with a sweet lentil filling made from skinned spilt bengal gram/chana daal and jaggery. In marathi language the sweet filling is called as Puran and the bread is called as Poli.

Ingredients:
For Puran:
Toovar daal or chana daal - ¾ cup
Jaggery or sugar - ¾ cup
Cardamom powder - 1 pinch
Saffron - few strands
Water - 2½ cups

For Poli:
Whole wheat flour (chapatti atta) - 1 cup
Oil - 1 Tbps
Ghee (Clarified butter) - for frying
Water - ⅓ cup or little more
Salt

Preparation:
Making Puran:
1. Wash the daal under running cold water. Then Soak it into warm water for 30-45 minutes. If using chana daal then soak for 1 to 1½ hours.
2. Drain the Soaked water and discard, add daal to pressure cooker with fresh 2½ cups of water. Cook the daal for 4 whistles or till the daal is cooked.
3. Drain the daal water so that only mashed Daal Remains.
4. Heat a Pan on medium flames and add mashed daal and Jaggery. Jaggery will start to melt. Keep Stirring.
5. It will start to thicken up. Keep Stirring to prevent Sticking to Pan.
6. As it thickens more, Add cardamom powder, saffron and mix well.
7. To check the consistency of Puran, try to make the spoon stand vertically in the center of the puran. If the spoon falls cook a little more to achieve good consistency. Now the puran is ready.
8. Let the Puran cool, meanwhile make dough.

Making dough:
1. Mix dough and salt in a bowl. Add a little oil and mix.
2. Start kneading dough by adding little water at a time. Dough should be smooth and soft. Cover it and let it rest for 15 minues.

Making Puran Poli:
1. When dough is ready and puran is cool to touch. Divide the puran into 6 equal portions smooth balls.
2. Also divide the dough into 6 equal portions and make smooth balls. Flatten it out between your palms.
3. Put the Puran ball in the center of Dough and start gathering the edges, pinch in the center to seal.
4. Dust a little flour and roll gently to make round poli.
5. Heat the tawa on medium heat. Once hot place one poli and let it cook on bottom side, you will see small bubbles on top.
6. Smear some ghee on top.
7. Flip and cook by pressing gently with spatula.
8. Smear some ghee, by this time bottom part has few brown spots and it is cooked.
9. Flip and cook by pressing again the other side.
10. Once cooked from both sides, remove it to the plate, apply some more ghee on top and serve hot immediately.

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Tandoori Roti without Tandoor

Tandoori Roti without Tandoor

Ingredients:
Wheat flour
Salt (Optional - i don't use it)
Water to knead the dough

Preparation:
1) Knead the dough of regular roti. Keep it a little sticky.
2) Heat a thoroughly scrubbed tawa (or cooker) on high flame.
3) Roll oval shaped (just for effect, in any shape they will taste equally good :) ) rotis using as little flour as possible.
4) Wet your hands and brush the roti with water.
5) Now take roti in one hand and shift it to the other hand with little pressure. keep flipping between hands 4-5 times.
6) Now carefully put the roti on tava and by applying little pressure everywhere stick it to the tawa. Sticking the roti is very important.
7) Now flip the tawa, so that roti is facing the flame.
8) Cook the roti properly and then flip the tawa to get it back to it's normal position.
9) Using a chimta (forceps) pick up the roti from the tawa, cook it directly on the flame on the other side also.
10) Apply Ghee/butter if you want to and have Garam Garam Tandoori roti with gravy of your choice.

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Methi Thepla

Methi Thepla Recipe

Ingredients :
1 cup Wheat Flour
2 crushed Green Chillies
1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
1/2 tsp Haldi (turmeric)
1 tbsp Ginger & Garlic paste
1 tsp Ajwain
1 pinch Hing
1/2 bunch Methi Leaves
1 tsp Coriander powder
1 tsp Cumin Seeds powder
Salt to taste
Oil as needed

Preparation :
• Put wheat flour in a flat vessel bowl.
• Mix all the ingredients in it including the Methi leaves.
• Add 1 tsp oil and knead it. Let it stay for 15 minutes.
• Then make even size small balls of the dough.
• Roll them separately with a rolling pin into a round shape.
• Cook on a flat tava or fry-pan, spreading a little oil/ghee on either side, until golden spots appear.
• Repeat the same with the other side.
• When evenly roasted remove it from the tava.
• Repeat this for all the balls.
• Serve them hot with butter or chutney or curd or pickle.

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Naan

Tandoori Naan Recipe

Ingredients :
Maida(flour) - 400 grams (2 cup) + 100 grams dry Maida
Fresh curd - 50 grams (1/4 cup)
Baking soda - 1/4 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 tsp
Salt - 2/3 tsp or add to taste
Oil - 1 1/2 tbsp
Ghee/butter to make Naan

Preparation :
Take Maida in any utensil. Make a little crater in the middle of the Maida with your hands. Now put curd, baking soda, salt, sugar and oil in the crater and mix these properly with Maida using your hands.
Put little amounts of water at a time in the mixture and knead Maida. You can feel yourself when the kneaded dough turns very soft and smooth. Cover the dough and keep it aside in a warm place for 2 hours allowing it to ferment.
Heat the Tandoor(furnace).
Make 10 equal sized balls of the dough. Take one ball of Maida, apply dry flour and roll into a round circle(5 to 6 inches in diameter). Spread butter/Ghee on it evenly. Fold the rolled Naan into half(forming a semi circle), then again apply butter /Ghee on this folded section. Now double this fold as it takes the shape of a triangle then apply dry flour to it. Then prepare by rolling it like a paratha on all 3 sides(thinly) and make them ready.
Place this rolled Naan in the Tandoor to cook. After one side turns brown flip the Naan over to the other side.
Naan is ready. Take out Naan on a plate and apply Ghee on it, Cut into 2 halves using a Naan cutter (Optional).
Prepare all Naans in this same manner.

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