Carrot Beet & Red Apple Soup#SoupSwappers

This cold soup has the freshness of apple and the earthiness of carrot, beetroot and ginger. A bowl of this before dinner will set your palate for other dishes to follow. This comforting bowl of red soup, is a delicious blend.

Serves 2
Ingredients
1 Medium Red Apple - chopped
1 Large Carrot - chopped
1 Large Beetroot - chopped
½ Teaspoon Grated Ginger
Lemon Juice to your taste
A Pinch of Salt

½ Cup Cold Water
A few cubes of Ice

Method 

Place all the ingredients except the lemon juice in a blender and blend it well. Strain the juice and add lemon juice to your taste. Have this immediately and enjoy a healthy and delicious cold soup. 

So simple and yet delicious. You will love to have this during summer it's so refreshing.

Labels : Carrot, Beetroot, Apple, Ginger, Cold Soup, Soup, Soup Swappers, Healthy, Vegan, Gluten free
Theme for July 2020 Soup Swappers is Summertime Soups - Hot or Cold and our host is Camilla. Thank you Camilla for hosting this event. 

• Carrot, Beet Red Apple Soup by Sneha's Recipe
• Chilled Peach Soup with Labneh by Palatable Pastime
• Cucumber Gazpacho by Veggies First Then Dessert
• Fresh Summer Corn Chowder by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Instant Pot Summer Soup by Making Miracles
• Summer Fresh Corn Chowder by Pandemonium Noshery
• Summer Vegetable Soup with Sausage and Lentils by Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Zucchini and Summer Squash Soup by A Day in the Life on the Farm

Tomato Apple Soup With Pull Apart Cheese Bread#SoupSwappers

Event for Soup Saturday Swappers is Main Course Soups and Stews, Hosted by Wendy Klik the brain child of Soup Swappers.

Made an accompaniment for today's soup since we can have this as a filling meal itself.  This combo was enjoyed by hubby dear very much.

Serves 2

Ingredients

2 Large Tomatoes - chopped
1  Apples  -peeled & chopped (peels reserved)

1" Piece Ginger - chopped
1 Green Chilly - remove the seeds
2 Tablespoons Coconut powder
1 Teaspoon Salt
3 Whole Black peppercorns
1 Tablespoons Cumin seeds
3 Tablespoons Butter
2 Tablespoons Chopped Coriander  Leaves

Water as required to make a thick soup
Method

Peel the apple and keep the skins aside. Chop the apples and keep aside keep them in water. 

Cook tomatoes, apple skins, green chilly, ginger, coconut powder, peppercorns together with a cup water and cook till tomato and apple skins soften cool and then and puree it along with chopped apples. Pour it back into the pan season with salt, and cook further with apple puree. 

Garnish it chopped spring onion greens and serve.  

Pull Apart Cheese Bread

I baked this beautiful bread 

from the remaining dough of this Apple Bread Rolls

Ingredients  
1 Round loaf bread
1/2 cups Shredded Cheeza cheese
1 Green onions / Scallions - finely sliced
1/4 cup Unsalted butter - melted
Method 

Slice the bread horizontally and vertically into 1-inch cubes. Do not slice all the way through the loaf — leave bottom of the loaf intact with the bread pieces still attached. 

Toss the cheese, , green onions and together in a bowl. Gently stuff the cheese into the bread between the slices. Stuff between the vertical slices first, then go back and fill in the spaces between the horizontal cuts. Transfer the stuffed loaf to a sheet of foil. Dot it with softened butter, over the loaf. 

Wrap the loaf tightly in foil. Bake the loaf for 20 minutes. Uncover the top and bake for another 10 minutes, until the cheese is totally melted and the top of the loaf is crispy. 

Serve immediately.

This was a fantastic combo. Loved it!!

Labels: Tomato, Apple, Soup, Main course, Pull Apart Cheese Bread, Scallions, Cheese, Baked, Bread, Soup Swappers, Serves Two , Vegan, Gluten free 

Amish Stuffed Pepper Soup by Palatable Pastime
Green Pork Chili by A Day in the Life on the Farm
Instant Pot Beef Stew by Making Miracles
Kjötsúpa (Icelandic Meat Soup) by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
Tomato Apple Soup with Pull Apart Cheese Bread by Sneha's Recipe
Vegetable Beef and Quinoa Soup by Sid's Sea Palm Cooking
Vietnamese Beef Stew (Bò Kho) by Karen's Kitchen Stories

Apple Bread Rolls#BakingBloggers

Sue our host and brain child of Baking Blogger asked us to  "Start the year 2020 off with some sweet rolls". 

One Apple will make 6  Rolls with the remaining dough I made a large bowl shaped bread. 

These rolls are so soft , fluffy and delightful to look at that my guest couldn't take their eye's off it. 

For the Apple Filling 

1 Medium Apple
2 Tablespoons Caster Sugar 

1 Teaspoon Butter 

¼ Teaspoon Cinnamon powder
1 Teaspoon All Purpose Flour 

For the Bread Dough 

250 Grams Bread Flour 

2 Tablespoons Heaped Caster Sugar
½ Teaspoon Level Salt
1 Egg - lightly beaten
100 Ml Milk 

15 Grams Fresh Yeast

25 Grams Butter
Water - as required to knead the dough

For the Garnishing 

Cinnamon Sticks as required
Pumpkin seeds as required

Method

Slice the apple and dice then into tiny cubes.

In a pan add the sugar , butter, on medium heat cook till the sugar caramelizes. Then add the apple , flour and cook till the apple softens. Do not over cook they should be just soft. Add the cinnamon and take it off flame. Keep aside to cool

For the Bread Dough
For the Sponge
In a bowl add the milk, sugar, 3 tablespoons flour and yeast, mix well and keep aside till it froths/bubbles for about 20 minutes.
For the  Dough

In a food processor add flour,lightly beaten egg and all of the sponge mix , knead this to a dough, if kneaded then add a tablespoon of water till you get a soft and sticky dough. Now add the butter,  again knead till the butter is incorporated. This dough is a sticky dough, so do not be tempted to add more flour. Take the out on to a work surface and knead for about 5 to 8 minutes till the dough does not stick to your hands, it should be soft and smooth. Keep this in a oiled bowl till it doubles in volume.

As the dough is kept aside to rise, let's prepare our tray to make the rolls. 

Brush small tart molds with butter and then dust it with flour and arrange them in the baking tray. 

Make small stems with cinnamon sticks.  Keep these aside.

Then deflate the dough and divide into 10 small balls. Roll each into a smooth ball, cover keep them to rest for 15 minutes. 

After 15 minutes flatten each ball with just a sprinkle of flour, into a circle  

Place a heaped teaspoon of apple filling in the center. Bring the ends to together to form bag, pinch the ends well then again lightly roll it into a ball. 

Place each into the prepared tart molds. 

Take a toothpick and make a hole in the center lightly, 

Insert a cinnamon stick, then light apply water to one side and place a pumpkin seed. Keep them covered till they double in volume. 

Bake in a preheated oven at 170°C / 340°F for 15 to 18 minutes.

When they are out of oven brush them with butter and take them out of the molds and let them cool on a wire rack for 15 minutes. 

Slice and enjoy.  

Served these for a Hi Tea Party. These were simply delicious.
My Notes

If you are using instant yeast then add 1¼ teaspoon. 

Use green pumpkin seeds, they make these look even more delightful, could not find them in my pantry shelf, used the white ones.

Lables :  Apple, Sweet Rolls, Bread, Baking Bloggers, Stuffed Bread, Yeasted, Hi Tea  

Baking Bloggers January 2020, Sweet Rolls

• Apple Bread Rolls from Sneha's Recipes
• Buchteln - German Sweet Rolls from Veggies First Then Dessert
• Cherry Sweet Rolls from Palatable Pastime
• Cottage Country Style Chelsea Buns from Making Miracles
• Fastelavnsboller + Some Danish Culinary History from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Hawaiian Sweet Rolls from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Orange Sweet Rolls from Cookaholic Wife
• Overnight Apple Cinnamon Breakfast Rolls from Cook with Renu
• Pan de Mallorca from Caroline's Cooking
• Portuguese-Style Sweet Potato Rolls from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Sticky Buns from Sid's Sea Palm Cooking
• Voisilmäpulla (Finnish Butter Eye Buns) from Tara's Multicultural Table

Vegan & Sugar Free Oats & Apple Porridge#Foodieextravaganza

Welcome to this month's event in Foodie Extravaganza {Party}. Our theme is Apples and our Host is Kelley Meyer . Thank you for hosting this months event.

This is a very healthy and delicious breakfast, serve this your kids and they too will love it.

Serves 2
Ingredients
¾ Cup Oats
1 Medium Apples - peeled & chopped
¼ Cup Jaggery -  grated
1/8 Teaspoon Cinnamon or Cardamom powder
A Pinch of Salt
1 Tablespoon Vegetable Shortening

Method

Melt vegetable shortening in a pan and saute the oats for a minute or two. Add 4 cups water and bring to a boil. Now add in the jaggery and salt. Let it simmer for 5 minutes, keep stirring in between or else it will burn at the bottom.

 Then add the  apple pieces and  cook  the apple on low flame until it softens a little. Keep the apples slightly crunchy ( do not overcook them). Switch  off the  flame , add cinnamon or cardamom powder, I used cinnamon flavor since apple and cinnamon complement each other.  

Enjoy this warm, a hearty, light and healthy breakfast to begin your day with.

Labels: Apple, Breakfast, Healthy, Vegan, Gluten free, Sugar Free, Oats, Porridge, Foodie Extravaganza Party 
Check these other Porridge recipes
Oats & Honey Porridge

Hafragrautur / Oats Porridge - Iceland

Foodie Extravaganza is a monthly food fest, where a group of bloggers all create and share a recipe around one of the monthly food 'holidays' as detailed in The Nibble. Posting day is always the first Wednesday of each month. If you are a blogger and would like to join our group and blog along with us, come join our Facebook pageFoodie Extravaganza. We would love to have you! If you're a spectator looking for delicious tid-bits check out our Foodie Extravaganza Pinterest Board! Looking for our previous parties? Check them out HERE.

See all the other recipes for today's Foodie Extravaganza

Check out the other #FoodieExtravaganza recipes this month!

Posting day is always the first Wednesday of each month. If you are a blogger and would like to join our group and blog along with us, come join our Facebook page Foodie Extravaganza. We would love to have you! If you're a spectator looking for delicious tid-bits check out our Foodie Extravaganza Pinterest Board! Looking for our previous parties? Check them out HERE.
Apple Crisp by Simply Inspired Meals
Cider-braised Pig Cheeks with Apples by Food Lust People Love
Crock Pot Apple Butter by Making Miracles
Double Apple Beignets by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
Pork Tenderloin with Bacon, Apple, and Gruyère by Karen's Kitchen Stories
Pot Roast with Apples and Onions by A Day in the Life on the Farm/
Vegan & Sugar Free Oats & Apple Porridge by Sneha's Recipe

Honey Apple Dessert Bundt#BundtBakers

September is National Honey Month. For Bundt Bakers event we are celebrating Bundts sweetened with Honey and our host is Wendy Klik. 

This is an easy, sugar free and a one bowl dessert. Serve this with vanilla custard or whipped cream or ice cream since this a dry dessert bundt.

Ingredients

2 Apples - peeled & diced
1 Apples - peeled & sliced
½ Cup Raisins
¼ Cup Honey
1 Teaspoons Cinnamon powder
¼ Cup Butter - melted
¼ Cup Yogurt
1¼ Cups All Purpose Flour
½ Teaspoon Baking powder
For the Creamy Vanilla Custard

250 Ml Full Fat Milk
2 Tablespoons Heaped Sugar
1 Tablespoons Heaped Vanilla Custard Powder
100 ML Fresh Cream
Method

Sieve cinnamon, baking powder and flour well
Clean and wash the raisins.

Add a tablespoon of flour with the raisins, keep aside.
In a large bowl mix apples, raisins, butter, honey and yogurt. Add sieved flour, to the apple mixture and mix in well. It's a dry lumpy batter, so do not add any additional liquid. 

Arrange the sliced apple in greased 7 inch bundt. 

Pour the batter in the bundt and level it with a spatula. 

Bake at 180°C for 45 minutes. 

Cool and then un mould.

Slice it..

Serve hot with warm custard.

It's delicious!!

For the Creamy Vanilla Custard

Mix in vanilla custard 2 tablespoons water or cold milk  till it dissolves.
Heat milk, add sugar and bring it to a boil, keep stirring in between so that is does not burn at the bottom. When it comes to a boil, add the custard powder mixed in cold milk, stirring continuously , cook till sightly thick and creamy . Take off flame and whisk it well to make smooth and silky. Add the fresh cream and whisk to mix well. Keep aside to cool.

Labels : Apple, Sugar Free, Dessert, Honey, Raisins, Creamy Vanilla Custard, Bundt Bakers, Sweets & Desserts



For this month’s Bundt Baker group event, our host, Wendy of A Day in the Life on the Farm, challenged us to bake a Bundt sweetened with honey. Check out all the other honey Bundts in the list below.

Honey Apple Dessert Bundt from Sneha's Recipe
Honey Babka from A Day in the Life on the Farm
Honey Elderflower and Marmalade Bundt Cake from Nunca es demasiado dulce
Honeyed Apple Bundt Cake from Making Miracles
Lemon Honey Olive Oil Bundt from Food Lust People Love
Pear Honey Rosemary Bundt Cake from All That's Left Are The Crumbs
Sweet Honey Cornbread Bundt Cake from Patty's Cake

#BundtBakers is a group of Bundt loving bakers who get together once a month to bake Bundts with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our of lovely Bundts by following our Pinterest board. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.

This wonderful group is administered by Stacy of Food Lust People Love. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page.