Bun / Pav

I was thinking that making bun is very difficult, that too not possible without oven. I was 100% wrong.

Here is the simple recipe of making Bun.

Ingredients:

2 cups Maida/ All purpose flour
1 cup Luke warm Milk
2 TBS Sugar
2 TSP Yeast ( Powdered Yeast )
1/2 TSP Salt
1 TBS Butter
Some Milk for Brushing

Method:

Step 1: Mix Luke warm Milk, Sugar and Yeast in a bowl. Cover it and keep it aside for 5 Minutes. ( This procedure will activate the Yeast )

Step 2: Put 2 cups of Maida, salt and make a soft dough. Add butter and knead for sometime. (Approximately 2-3 Minutes)

Step 3: Tuck the dough, cover it and keep it in the warm place for 1 Hour. ( Dough will be raised)

Step 4: Punch the dough and knead it again for few minutes. Make 8 equal parts of the dough and make balls out of it.

Step 5: Prepare a tray by brushing oil/butter into the bottom and sides of the tray. Place butter paper and brush oil/butter on it again.  ( I did not have square tray so, I put aluminium foil and made it square. You can use round tray also )

Step 6: Pre heat a Pan(cover it) in low flame for 7-10 minutes.

Step 7: Place the prepared balls in the tray .

Step 8: Keep it aside for 15-20 Minutes in the warm place ( Dough will be raised again). Brush the balls with some milk.

Step 9: Place the tray in the pan, cover it and and cook it in the low flame for 25 minutes. ( Check with tooth pick, if it comes out clean bun is ready else continue cooking for few more minutes )

Step 9: Brush some butter on it, Cover it with a towel till it is cooled down then de mould it. Super soft Bun is ready to be served. ( I added some herbs on it, it tasted awesome)

Stuffed Potato Sooji Pancakes.

Ingredients:

For Batter:

1 cup Sooji
1/2 cup Curd
Salt to taste
Water as required
oil

Potato Stuffing:

2-3 boiled and mashed Potatoes
1 tsp Turmeric Powder
1 tsp Dry Mango Powder
1 Green Chilli finely chopped
Handful of Coriander Leaves chopped
2 tsp Coriander Powder
1 tsp Ginger Garlic Paste
1 tsp Kitchen King Masala
Salt to taste
oil

Method:

Step 1: Mix Sooji, Curd, salt and water together to make dosa batter consistency batter and keep it aside for 15 - 20 minutes.

Step 2: To prepare Potato Stuffing, Take a pan add little oil, Ginger Garlic paste and saute for few seconds.

Step 3: Add Potatoes and all the dry ingredients and mix well for few minutes and put off the flame.

Step 4: Let it cool down completely and take a ball size stuffing and make tikkis as show in the picture.

Step 5: The batter might be raised a little now and it might be little thick. Use little water to get it to the required consistency.

Step 6: Take a non stick pan and put some oil, wipe off the excess with tissue paper. Put some batter on it and place a Potato Tikki on it.

Step 7: Cover Potato Tikki with little batter.

Step 8: Cook both the sides with little oil, till it gets crispy.

Step 9: Stuffed Potato pancakes are ready to serve with Mint Chutney or Tomato Sauce.

Doodle

The meaning of Doodle is to scribble absent-mindedly.

A Doodle is an unfocused drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. They are simple drawings with some meaning or just be abstract shapes.

I have tried some drawings. These are few Doodles which I tried.

Ice Creams

Leaves

Doodles with few words

Vegetable Family

Source: I referred Youtube for few Drawings.

Bottle Gourd Chilla / Lauki ka Chilla / Dudhi ka Chilla

This recipe is similar to normal besan chilla with a slight twist.

Ingredients:

1 Cup Besan / Chickpea flour
1 Tomato finely Chopped
1 Onion finely Chopped
1 Green Chilli finely Chopped
Handful of Coriander finely Chopped
2 TBS Curd
Salt according to taste
1 Cup Grated Bottle Gourd
Oil to make chilla
1 tsp Coriander Powder
1 tsp Cumin Powder ( optional )
1 tsp Chilli Powder
1 tsp Ajwain / Trachyspermum ammi
1 tsp Turmeric Powder
A pinch of Hing / Asafoetida
Water

Method:

Step 1: Squeeze the grated Bottle Gourd and remove excess water from it.

Step 2: Take a bowl and add Tomatoes, Onions, Chilli and Coriander leaves.

Step 3: Add squeezed Bottle Gourd, Besan and all the dry ingredients to the bowl.

Step 4: Now add curd and whisk it well.

Step 5:Further, add more water and get the batter to dosa batter consistency.

Step 6: Spread oil on non stick pan and wipe off the excess with the tissue paper. Put a ladder full of batter on it and spread gently with soft hands. Spread softly, else chilla can break.

Step 7: Put little oil and cook it in the medium low flame for at least 3-4 minutes.

Step 8: Turn it and put oil and follow the same procedure of cooking. Press the chilla little if you like it crispy and the chilla is ready to serve.

Cucumber Cooler

This is one of my favourites. I beat summer heat with this Cooler.
So simple but tastes yummy.

Ingredients:

1 Cucumber
Handful of Mint Leaves
1 Lemon juice
Salt according to taste ( I used pink salt )
1 tsp Sugar
Pinch of Black Salt ( Optional )
1 cup Water

Method:

Step 1: Rinse Cucumber and Mint leaves in running water. Remove the skin of Cucumber and chop it.

Step 2: Put all the ingredients in the blender along with the water and run it till everything is combined and forms juice like consistency.

Step 3: Strain it and if you find the residue pulpy you can repeat the step 2 again with the pulp.

Step 4: Cucumber Cooler is now ready to serve.

Note:

If you like more sweet, you can add more sugar and less salt. Either ways, it tastes yummy.

Quilling - Greeting Card

Best Friend Greeting Card

Friends are the best part of life. Thanking them for what they have done and giving them some surprise is just a way to show the Love.

Here is one of the means of showing the Love.

Hand made Greeting Card.

I have designed this card by the method of Quilling.
 

 

Full view of the card.

Krishna Jewellery

Materials required:

Glitter Sheet
A4 White Sheet
Pencil
Eraser
Kundans and Beads of your choice
Glue
Thread
Newspapers
Lace of your choice
White pearls

Making of Crown and Hand ties:

Step 1: Make the design of crown and hand ties in a A4 Sheet and cut it into the shape.

Step 2: Apply glitter sheet on the shapes and cut it accordingly.

Step 3: Decorate it the way you want. This is how I did.

Step 4: At the end use needle and thread to tie thread on the crown and hand ties. Stick some stickers to cover the knots.

Making of Flute:

Materials required:

News Papers
Two types of Lace
Glue Gun
White Small Beads
Mirror
Decorative Lace

Method:

Step 1: Roll the paper tight so that it is as thick as Flute.

Step 2: Take Golden lace, make this pattern and stick it properly.

Step 3: Make two rounds using white beads.

Step 4: Attach it to the flute using thread like this.

Step 5: Take two types of laces.

Step 6: Attach the made pattern to the paper roll.

Step 7: Roll the lace alternatively to the paper roll stick it using glue.

Decorating Earthen Pot:

Materials Required:

Earthen Pot
White Fabric paint
Some Kundan Laces and stickers

Method:

Step 1: Paint the pot white and let it dry fully.

Step 2: Decorate the way you want. I did this way.