Buttery Jeera Biscuits#BreadBakers

For Bread Bakers this month were are asked to make Yeasted Biscuits or Scones, by our Host Sue .

These buttery jeera biscuits are my favorite right from my childhood.  I love them with my evening tea.  These are so buttery and crisp, you will love them. Take these into a saucer,  pour hot tea over it, top with fresh malai, eat it with a spoon ... mouth melting and yum, this is how I enjoy them.
These so much sought after  in India and are a popular tea time snack sold in most bakeries or Irani tea houses and small roadside tea stalls. They  are a great accompaniment to our chai and also go well with soups. I, actually kept four to enjoy with my meat soup, but, because of the strict lock down here, it's difficult to get what you want at this juncture. 

Makes around 20-25 biscuits  - depending on size
Ingredients
300 Grams All Purpose Flour 
10 Grams  Fresh  Yeast
1 Tablespoon Sugar
100 Ml + 1 Tablespoon Luke Warm Water
1/4 Teaspoon Salt

1 Tablespoon Sugar
1 Tablespoon Heaped Cumin seeds 

155 Grams Chilled Butter - used salted butted

Method

Place the yeast and sugar and 100 ml luke warm water in small bowl, give it a stir, cover and let the yeast froth for 10 - 12 minutes. Place the flour, salt, cumin seeds, butter in a mixing bowl and with your fingers rub the butter into the flour till represents bread crumbs.

Add the yeast to the flour mixture and knead to a soft dough. Add more water if required. You may either not require all the water or you may need  more  depending on the quality of the flour.

Knead for 3-4 minutes, until the dough feels light and soft. Cover the bowl with a cling wrap or damp muslin cloth and leave to rise for an hour.

Deflate the dough and knead lightly. Pinch off small balls of dough about the size of a small lime and roll them to smooth balls. Place slightly apart on a greased baking sheet. Mine were real jumbo size.

Brush the tops lightly with a little water to prevent any crust forming/the tops not to dry out. Allow the balls to rise for 20 to 30 minutes or until they are almost double in size.

Preheat the oven to 190°C. When the balls have risen sufficiently, place them in the hot oven and bake for initial 20 minutes at this temperature. Then reduce the temperature to 120°C  and continue to bake for another 50 - 60 minutes or until crisp.(This time may change depending on your oven or the size of the biscuits mine took exactly an hour).

Cool completely on a wire rack and store in an airtight jar for up to 3-4 weeks. Do try them, very simple to make, these are fantastic biscuits will become your favorite if you try once.

Labels : Biscuits & Cookies, Bread Bakers, Jeera, Indian, Baked, Eggless  

Bread Bakers July 2020

Yeasted Biscuits and Scones

Thanks to Sue for hosting this month's event!

Angel Biscuits from A Day in the Life on the Farm
Buttery Jeera Biscuits from Sneha's Recipe
Cheddar Herb Scones from Food Lust People Love
Cheddar and Chive Blossom Scones from Palatable Pastime
Cheese and Herbs Scones from Ambrosia
Chocolate Scones from Passion Kneaded
Freeze and Bake Yeasted Mini Ginger Scones from A Messy Kitchen
Laminated Biscuits from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
Herbed Angel Biscuits from The Schizo Chef
Sourdough Orange Biscuits from Zesty South Indian
Sourdough Sandwich Biscuits from Karen's Kitchen Stories
Yeast-Raised Angel Biscuits from Making Miracles

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. Follow our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated each month on this home page. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.

Lavash#BreadBakers

Lavash is a thin flatbread or Crisp Whole Wheat Crackers,
from the Middle East, specifically from Armenia. These can be made as soft flat breads and use to make wraps and rolls.

I made the crisp version, Lavash crackers and served them with  Ajvar sauce and these can be  stored for days. Enjoy them as an appetizer with a dipping sauce or just nibble with a cuppa.

Serves 4 to 5
Ingredients
1½ Cup Whole Wheat Flour
1 Teaspoon + 1 Teaspoon Black & White Sesame seeds
¾ Teaspoon Salt
¼ Cup Olive Oil
½ Cup water
1 Tablespoon Oregano 
Method
Pre-heat the oven at 180°C. Grease and line a baking tray. Toast the sesame seeds lightly. Keep aside.

Add salt, olive oil and sesame seeds to the flour and 

rub with your fingers to mix well.

Add the water slowly and make a soft pliable dough.

Divide into four.

Roll out really thin, almost see through thin, on a greased silicon mat.

Or on a greased baking paper.

Cut out a circle using a round plate

A perfect circle

Sprinkle a little of black and white sesame seeds

Roll it with rolling pin

so that the sesame seeds and pressed well

then cut into triangles.

Transfer to the greased tray and brush the top with oil.

Bake till golden and crisp about 15-18 minutes. Cool them on a wire rack. 

Then store in an airtight container.

 Served this with Vegan Ajvar Sauce
My Notes 

Can use half whole wheat and half all purpose flour

Labels: Appetizer, Armenia, Bread, Bread Bakers, Crackers, Healthy, Middle Eastern, Sesame seeds, Starters, Whole Wheat Flour, Biscuits & Cookies , Vegan   

This month the Bread Bakers we are making Crackers and  the Host is Sneha  -

Baked Nacho Chips from Anybody Can Bake
Cheesy Crunchy Mini Crackers from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
Homemade Senbei Rice Crackers from Food Lust People Love
Lavash from Sneha's Recipe
Olive Oil Crackers from A Messy Kitchen
Rosemary Crackers from Passion Kneaded
Sourdough Cheddar Cheese and Rosemary Crackers from Zesty South Indian Kitchen
Sprouted Wheat Crackers with Sea Salt from Karen's Kitchen Stories
Wholegrain Sesame and Flaxseed Crackers from Ambrosia
Wholemeal and Oats Carrot Crackers from Cook with Renu

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. You can see all our lovely bread by following our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated after each event on the #BreadBakers home page. We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.

Lemonade Scones#Bakingbloggers

This is a perfect scone with a crusty top and bottom, when you split it in half it's soft ,flaky and moist.

Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
2 Cups Level Self Rising Flour
A Pinch Baking Powder
A Pinch of Salt
2 Tablespoons Heaped Caster Sugar
Wet Ingredients
90 Grams Chilled Butter
20 Grams Chilled Vegetable Shortening 
½ -¾ Cup  Lemonade
1 Small Egg
Method

Sieve the dry ingredients, break the chilled butter and shortening with a pastry blender  till forms bread crumbs.

Now add the egg  mix lightly , add the  lemonade little at a time. Mix to make a dough, do not knead it.

Take the dough on to large piece of cling wrap on a  surface and lightly press it with a press it with the bench scraper and keep folding the dough 3 -4 times like a laminated dough. 

Lightly roll the dough. Cut into scones but do not twist the cutter. 

Place in a greased parchment sheet, they should be placed close to each other. 

Brush with egg wash. Bakes for 20 to 22 minutes in a preheated the oven at 220°C.

Baked to perfection.

Slater it with butter  and enjoy!!

Labels: Biscuits & Cookies, Lemonade, Scones, Baked, Baking Bloggers  

Baking Bloggers

March 2020: Scones

• Apricot Orange Scones from Making Miracles
• Baileys Irish Cream Almond Scones from Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
• Basic Tea Time Scones from Sid's Sea Palm Cooking
• Coconut Mango Scones from Caroline's Cooking
• Irish Cream Scones from Tara's Multicultural Table
• Lemonade Scones from Sneha's Recipe
• Oatmeal Currant Scones from Palatable Pastime
• Orange and Cranberry Scones from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Raspberry Lemon Scones from Cookaholic Wife
• Savory Cheesy Chive Scones from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Savory Mediterranean Scones from Food Lust People Love
• Sourdough Mango Scones from A Day in the Life on the Farm

Eggless Chocolate Dipped Cookies#FantasticalFoodFight

Was craving for some cookies so I made these.  These cookies look so yummy that one would want to finish them in no time.  They are so addictive.  

Ingredients 

190 Grams All purpose flour
1/2 Teaspoon Baking powder

1/4 Teaspoon Baking soda

 100 Grams Sugar powdered

100 Grams Unsalted Butter
1 Teaspoon Vanilla essence

6 -8 Teaspoons Milk

For Dipping the cookies
1 Cup Chocolate - melted

Method

Sieve the flour, baking powder and baking soda, keep aside

Cream the butter and sugar well till fluffy, add the essence and flour  and mix well till incorporated. Add a teaspoon of milk at a time and from a soft dough.   Roll the dough in a cling film and keep it in the refrigerator to chill for 10 minutes.

In the meantime preheat the oven at 150 degrees.

Roll the dough between two plastic sheet or butter paper about 1/2 inch thick.  With a cookie cutter cut into desired shape and bake for 12 - 15 minutes.  

Let it cool for 3-4 minutes in sheet then remove it on cooling rack and let it cool completely.  Then dip each cookie in the melted chocolate and enjoy. 

Serve with tea or coffee.  Kids will love these dipped cookies. 

Labels: Biscuits & Cookies, Eggless, Fantastical Food Fight, Chocolate, Baked

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Mini Bundt Chocolate Chip Cookie#BundtBakers

These are so soft in the center and crisp outside.  Very delicious to have as a snack or perfect for a HI Tea Party. Thank you Felice from All That's Left Are The Crumbs, for choosing such a challenging theme, loved it.

Makes 6 mini bundts
Ingredients
50 Grams Butter , softened
60 Grams Brown sugar
30 Grams Caster Sugar
1 Large Egg
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla essence
90 Grams All Purpose Flour
1/4 Teaspoon Baking soda
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
1/3 Cup Chocolate Chips
1/4 Cup Chopped Walnuts
For the Chocolate Frosting - A Small Batch Chocolate Frosting 
40 Grams Dark Chocolate - chopped
15 Grams Butter - unsalted
2 Tablespoons Heaped Icing Sugar - sieved
3 Teaspoons Milk

Method
Pre heat oven to 175 degrees C.
Mix together the butter and sugars in a mixing bowl. 

Add the egg and the vanilla and continue mixing until well combined.  Add in the flour, baking soda and salt to the bowl and stir until just combined.  Fold in the chocolate chips and chopped walnuts.  Cling wrap the dough and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes. 

Make equal balls of chilled cookie dough and press it into  the mini bundts.  Bake for 22 to 25 minutes or until top is golden and the edges of the cookie is set. 

Remove from the oven and place on a cooling rack 

to cool for 10 minutes 

See the soft texture inside the cookies and black diamonds/chocolate chips peeking out..yum..yum
For the Chocolate Frosting - A Small Batch Chocolate Frosting

In a sauce pan add the chopped chocolate and butter, melt it over a double boiler. When melted mix it well so that it is smooth and shiny. Let is cool completely, add in the icing sugar and whisk well till smooth and lump free, add in the milk a teaspoon at a time to make it a spreadable frosting. Spread it over the cooled cookies.  

Enjoy, my hubby loved these cookie bundts and frosting on it was yum.

Labels : Cookies, Biscuits & Cookies, Bundt Bakers, Chocolate Chip, Walnuts, Healthy, Bundt
Bundt Bakers August 2019
Cookies Reimagined as Bundt Cakes


#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. Updated links for all of our past events and more information about BundtBakers, can be found on our home page. If you are a food blogger and interested in joining in the Bundt Baking fun please send an email to Stacey at foodlustpeoplelove at gmail dot com. Our theme this month is Cookies Reimagined as Bundt Cakes and our host is Felice from All That's Left Are The Crumbs.
Apricot Pistachio Oatmeal Cookie Bundt from Sweet Sensations
Bundt Cookie Oatmeal and Blueberries from Patyco Candybar
Kingston Bundt Cake from All That's Left Are The Crumbs
Mini Bundt Chocolate Chip Cookie from Sneha's Recipe
Oreo Bundt Cake from Patty’s Cake
Snickerdoodle Bundt Cake from A Day in the Life on the Farm