Vanilla cupcakes

Ingredients:

• ¾ cup all-purpose flour or cake flour
• ½ teaspoon baking powder + 1 pinch (or 1/8 tsp)
• ¼ teaspoon baking soda
• 1 tiny pinch salt
• 6 tablespoons sugar
• 3½ tablespoons melted butter or oil (refer notes)
• ½ cup milk
• ¾ tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice (I use apple vinegar)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method:

• Place the cupcake liners in a muffin tray or ramekins.
• Preheat the oven to 01340 F for atleast 15 mins.

Making eggless vanilla cupcakes

• Place a sieve over a bowl and sieve flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Give a good stir.
  

  
• In another large bowl, mix together milk, melted butter, sugar, vanilla and vinegar.
  

  
• Then add ½ of the flour mixture to the prepared wet mixture and mix with a whisk just until combined.
  

  
• Next add the rest of the flour and gently mix until combined.
  

  
• Scoop the batter equally using a small cup or ice cream scooper to 6 cupcake liners.
  

  
• Bake them in the center of the oven for 13 to 15 mins. Please adjust the baking time as it differs from each oven. When done a tester or a skewer inserted comes out clean.
  

  

  
  
• Cool them completely before frosting.
  

  

Plain paratha

Ingredients 

• 2 cups wheat flour 
• 2 teaspoons oil 
• ¾ to 1 cup water 
• ¼ teaspoon salt 
• 2 tablespoon ghee

HOW TO MAKE 

Making dough 

• Mix together wheat flour, salt, oil in a wide mixing bowl. 
  

  
• Pour water little by little as needed & make a stiff non sticky dough. 
  

  
• Knead well to make the dough soft .
  

  
• If necessary knead with moist fingers.When you press down the dough with a finger, you must feel it is soft and dent easily.Wrap it in a moist cloth or cover it in a container and set aside for 30 mins.
  

  

    How to make paratha:

1. You can also grease the ball with a few drops of oil and cover. 
   
   
   
2. Knead the dough lightly & divide Into parts.Then roll to balls & keep them covered.
   
3. Take a few tbsp of flour to a small bowl & flour the rolling area. 
   
   
   
4. Rolling as chepati .Apply ghee to it and fold up and down.
   
5. Between Sprinkle the powder and roll as paratha.Heat pan on medium flame fry paratha.
   
6. Serve hot with curry.
   
   
   
   
   

Palak Chapati

Ingredients:

Wheat Flour 2 cups
Oil 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
palak leaves(cut into small pieces)-1 cup
Water to knead dough
Preparation:

1.Mix salt, wheat flour and palak leaves adequate amount of water to knead smooth dough add oil.

2.Leave it for an hour.
3.Make equal sized balls,smear them with dry flour and roll them out on a rolling board.

4.Heat a pan. Put the chapati on it.
5.Moderately roast both the sides of chapati.
6.Chapati is ready to serve.

Butter Naan

Naan is a Indian flat bread which is normally made in a tandoor...If you are wondering what is a tandoor...

Tandoor is a large clay container which is filled half way with coal...Traditionally thet stick this naan bread dough over the sides of the tandoor and the heat from the coal will cook the naan bread in no time...

Normally our house don’t carry these kind of things so I have a naan recipe which is made in normal oven and it works perfect...

In future I will post a recipe which can be made in normal tawa...So wait for it...

Now off to the recipe...I hope you like it..

Ingrediants:

All purpose flour / Maida-2 ½ cup or 250 gms

Yeast-1 tblspn

Salt-1 tsp

Sugar-1 tblspn

Warm water as needed

Oil-1 tblspn

Butter for brushing on top

Method:

In a mixing bowl add flour,sugar,salt,yeast together..

Pour in warm water and make a soft dough.

Apply some oil and cover it with a damn cloth.

Let it rise for 30 mins..Divide into equal balls.

Roll this into oval shape.place on tawa and pour  some butter on both side.

Serve it with your favorite curry. i served with butter paneer masala

 

Aloo Paratha

Ingrediants:

For Dough:

Wheat flour-2 cup

All purpose flour(Maida)-1 cup

Salt to taste

Oil-1 tblspn

For Filling:

Potato-3 large boiled and mashed

Onion-1 chopped finely

Coriander leaves- ½ cup chopped

Mint Leaves- ½ cup chopped

Green chilli-2 chopped finely

Cumin seeds-1 tsp

Chilli powder-1 tsp

Turmeric powder-1 tsp

Garam masala powder-1 tsp

Chat masala-1 tsp

Lemon juice- 1 tblspn

Salt to taste

Method:

In a mixing bowl add wheat flour,maida,salt  and mix well.Pour in water and make a soft dough.Apply oil over the dough and cover it with a damp cloth.Let it rest for 30 min.

Mix every ingrediants given for the filling together.Set this aside...

Divide the dough and the filling into equal portions.Make it into round ball.

Take the potato ball and fill in inside the dough ball and roll it into thick paratha.

Heat tawa and fry this paratha by applying oil or ghee on both sides till golden..

Serve it with raita..

Chapati

Ingredients:

Wheat Flour 2 cups
Oil 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water to knead dough
Preparation:

1.Mix salt, wheat flour and adequate amount of water to knead smooth dough add oil.
2.Leave it for an hour.

3.Make equal sized balls,smear them with dry flour and roll them out on a rolling board.

 

4.Heat a pan. Put the chapati on it.


5.Moderately roast both the sides of chapati.



6.Chapati is ready to serve.