Tasty and Easy Recipes

Ingredients:
1 kilogram bread flour
1 1/2 tablespoon salt
1/2 tablespoon sugar
1/2 ounce (15 grams) active-dry yeast
2.5 cups (.6 liters) lukewarm water
2 ounces (60 grams) canola oil

Method:
1. Sift flour into a large mixing bowl. Add remaining ingredients. Mix with an electric mixer until a unified ball of dough has formed.
2. Put the dough in an oiled bowl. Cover with a towel. Let rise in a warm place for 1 hour, or until doubled in size.
3. Punch down the dough. Knead the dough for a few minutes.
4. Preheat the oven to 200°C. Line 3 cookie sheets with parchment paper and spray with non-stick spray.
5. Break the dough into 3 portions, and roll the dough out until it covers the whole sheet.
6. Let the dough rise for another 10-15 minutes on the cookie sheets.
7. Spread olive oil and coarse sea salt on the dough. You can also spread chopped herbs such as thyme or rosemary on the dough.
8. Bake at 200°C for 15 minutes, or until golden on top.

For pizza, bake for 10 minutes without cheese, add cheese and then bake another 5 minutes.

Cut the bread into squares. Serve the bread hot out of the oven or at room temperature.

Ingredients:
6 Cup Whole Wheat Flour
1 Cup Yogurt
1 tblsp Dry Yeast
1/2 Cup Water (warm)
1 1/2 Cup Water (hot)
1 tblsp Salt
Cornmeal

Method:
Put yeast in warm water. Let it dissolve in warm water for 5 minutes, set aside.
In a big jar mix hot water, salt and yogurt. Combine yeast and 4 cup flour.
In a mixer at low speed mix it for 7 minutes.
Mix remaining flour and knead for 10 minutes.
Combine more flour if dough is sticky type.
Place the prepared dough in an oiled bowl and coat the dough from both the sides.
Let it rise in warm place until doubled in size.
Make two long loaves for the dough.
Place it on a oiled baking sheet. Drizzle it with cornmeal.
Let it rise in warm place for 30 minutes.
Cut the top of the loaves with a knife and spray it with water.
Bake it in a preheated oven to 400 F till it appears to be brownish, it will take about for 30-40 minutes.

Ingredients:
2 cups Wheat Flour (Gehun Ka Atta)
Water as per requirement

Method:
Knead soft dough with above ingredients.
Leave it for atleast 30 minutes.
Break off to a table tennis – ball sized (even smaller) bit of dough.
Roll with help of dry flour to a thin round.
Roll as thin as possible.
Heat tawa and place phulka on it.
When dry on one side, turn it.
When brown spots appear on second side, turn again.
Use a kitchen towel and lightly press the phulka, rotating at same time, it will puff.
Make as crisp as desired. Serve hot.

Ingredients:
2 1/2 cups Chappati flour
2/3 cup Water at room temperature
Ghee for brushing the bread while rolling out the dough
Oil for deep frying

Method:

Put flour in a large bowl. Make a well in the middle and pour in a stream of water in the center. Use one hand to mix the flour and water in a rotating motion from the center of the bowl outward, until the dough is moist enough to be gathered into a rough mass. Wet hands and continue until the mixture cleans the sides of the bowl and has become a nonsticky, kneadable dough. When the dough is kneaded, it will be elastic and silky smooth. To test the dough, press it lightly with a fingertip. If it springs back, it is ready to be rested. Resting the dough is the last step and allows the dough to relax and absorb the water and kneading.
Rest for 1/2 hour in warm climates and 1.5 hours in cold climates. Cover with a wet towel so the dough does not dry out. The rested dough is light and springy, less resistant to being rolled out into the thin rounds.
Knead dough a little again. Dough should be stiff enough to roll without extra flour.
Make small balls of the dough and cover them with damp cloth.
Take one ball of dough and dip a corner of ball in melted ghee or oil and roll it out into 4 to 5 inches round. Repeat the same process to roll out all pooris.
Heat plenty of oil in a kadhai until very hot.
Put in a poori and immediately start flickering hot oil over the top of it with a spatula so that it will swell up like a ball.
This should take only a few seconds. Flip the poori over and cook the other side until golden brown.
Serve the puri hot with pindi choley or other vegetables.