No Oil Or Butter Fijian Coconut Bread#Eattheworld

This was really easy, one bowl bread, which turned out so  moist and flavorful.  What really  surprised me that this recipe had no oil or butter in it.  Although I was tempted to add a tablespoon or two of oil, but refrained from doing so since I wanted to taste and see how this turns out.  Halved the recipe and tweaked it a little. 

 This recipe  is a keeper, if you love coconut.  I loved it.

Recipe Source Travel by Stove

Measurement is a 200Ml Cup
Ingredients

1 ½ Cups All Purpose Flour
½ Cup Caster Sugar
½ Tablespoon Baking powder
2  Eggs
½ Teaspoon Vanilla Essence
1 Cup Coconut Milk
½ Cup Grated Fresh Coconut
Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and flour a loaf pan.

Let's first toast the grated coconut in a dry pan until light golden.

Sieve the flour together with the baking powder, salt and sugar. Mix in the toasted coconut.

In a separate bowl, beat the eggs, coconut milk, essence  with a hand whisk,  until just frothy.  

Add in the dry ingredients and mix till well combined. 

This is a thick batter, so do not get tempted to add more liquid. 

 Pour into a greased and floured loaf pan and bake for 45 to 50 minutes ( it took exactly 48 minutes in my oven)

or until the top is golden and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Perfectly baked.

It's a dense bread, but taste good, especially when warm.

This will keep  good in the refrigerator for a week, just cling wrap it.  Whenever needed slice, toast and enjoy.  

My husband does not like coconut, had a slice when it was just baked. 

So the rest of the I, enjoyed it, one day I even had it with Lotus spread and it tasted great. 

This bread is filling for breakfast, have two thick toasted slices and you're full.

Labels: Coconut, Fiji, Bread, No Oil Or Butter, Baked, Eat the World, Breakfast, Healthy, Preservatives free, Coconut Milk, Breads
Join us as we Eat the World!!!


Each month Evelyne of CulturEatz invites us to visit a country and explore their foods. This month it's Fiji.

Check out all the wonderful Fijian dishes prepared by fellow Eat the World members and share with #eattheworld. Click here to find out how to join and have fun exploring a country a month in the kitchen with us!
Palatable Pastime: Pawpaw Curry with Lolo
Making Miracles: Lolo Buns
Culinary Adventures with Camilla: Fijian Food for a Crowd: Curry, Pulao, and Cassava Cake
Dinner By Dennis: Palusami
Sneha’s Recipe: No Oil Or Butter Fijian Coconut Bread
CulturEatz: Kokoda, a Fijian Coconut Milk Ceviche
Pandemonium Noshery: Fijian Banana Cake with Dates and Coconut
Amy’s Cooking Adventures: Fijian Creamy Lentil Soup (Dhal)
Kitchen Frau: Spiced Sweet Potato and Banana Salad

Homemade Celery Salt#Foodieextravaganza

What do you do with the flavorful celery leaves? Put the leftover celery leaves to work, use them in making stock for soup or to make Homemade Celery Salt! It tastes  better and cost less, preservatives free, when you make it home, that too from the celery leaves that we usually do not use.  

You can dry them in a microwave for 5 minutes turning the leaves after every minute or in the  air fryer at 80°C for 20  to 25 minutes. I make these every year, in winter, when celery is darn cheap and seen in abundance.  I dried celery leaves in the microwave as well as air fryer.  

Makes 2/3 Cup

Ingredients
½ Cup Dried Celery Leaves
¼ Cup Sea Salt

Method

I got a big  bunch of celery ( used even the yellow leaves, because they too are full of flavor).  

Remove all  the leaves, wash them well and then dry them on a cloth till the leaves are absolutely free of any moisture.  

Place them in the  air fryer basket at 80°C for 20 to 25 minutes or until dried, but not browned.  Let the  cool completely.  

Transfer them to a spice grinder along with the sea salt, just  pulse the grinder two or three times or  until evenly ground and well combined.  

Store it in a  small air-tight  jar or container and use whenever required.

Labels : Celery, Homemade, Celery Salt, Foodie Extravaganza Party, Preservatives free,  Air Fryer, Microwave

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.

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. See all the other recipes for today's Foodie Extravaganza :  
Bacon Ranch Stuffed Celery from Food Lust People Love
Braised Celery Over Cheesy Polenta from Culinary Adventures with Camilla
Homemade Celery Salt from Sneha's Recipe
Italian Celery and Mushroom Salad from Making Miracles
Shaved Celery and Apple Salad from Palatable Pastime
Shaved Celery Salad with Sauteed Scallops from A Day in the Life on the Farm

Cream of Mushroom Soup With DIY/Homemade Cream Of Soup Mix#Soupswappers

This is excellent for a party. Place this in a large bowl and keep small individual soup bowls at the side. Let each one serve themselves.

This is so delicious and easy to make from start to finish it take just 30 minutes and you are done with a quick meal.

Serves 3 as a meal and 4 -5 as an appetizer
Ingredients

1/2 Cup Level Cream Of Soup Mix -DIY/Homemade 

1 Big Vegetable Stock Cube
4 - 5 Cups Water
1 Cup Sliced Fresh Mushrooms
2 Cloves Garlic - minced
1 Small Onion - finely chopped
A Dash of Black Pepper powder
Salt to taste¼ Teaspoon Freshly Grated Nutmeg - optional
1 Tablespoon Butter

Method

In a sauce pan add the butter , garlic and on medium low flame saute till it start to turn brown, immediately add the onions and saute till its translucent. Add the cream of soup mix and stir it with a whisk for a minute or two. Now add the chopped mushrooms and saute them for 2 minutes. Add the stock cube and water and whisk till it is lump free. Continue to whisk on medium low flame till it comes to a boil.

Continue to whisk till it thickens, taste for salt and pepper, if you like nutmeg add at this stage . Give the soup a good mix. Remove half of the mushrooms and puree it in a blender. Add this puree back into the soup and again give it good whisk and heat it if necessary. 

Serve this into big bowls, garnish with a dash of pepper powder and few fresh basil leaves. Enjoy it as a meal.

Labels : Mushroom, Vegetarian, Creamy, Healthy, Preservatives free, Main course, Appetizer, Soup, Soup  Swappers, Homemade Cream Of Soup Mix

Check the other recipes for Soup Swappers this month, our host is Camilla M. Mann.  Thank you dear for hosting this event.

• Cream of Mushroom Soup With DIY/Homemade Cream Of Soup Mix by Sneha's Recipe
• Italian Wedding Soup by Karen's Kitchen Stories
• New Year's Soup by Making Miracles
• Pear and Sweet Potato Soup by A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Potato Leek Soup with Herbes de Provence by Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice
• Trinidadian Corn Soup by Culinary Adventures with Camilla
• Velouté de Châtaignes by Palatable Pastime

Maple Yogurt#FoodieExtravaganza

Maple Yogurt is so easy and delicious!  When we buy  the sweetened commercial yogurt it has so of much sugar and also preservatives.  Add maple syrup  in your yogurt and you have   delicious homemade preservative free version! After making this yogurt, trust me, , you will never want to buy commercial yogurt again! 

I  have added orange zest just for garnishing.  

Ingredients 

1 Cup Full Fat Milk
1 Tablespoon Plain Yogurt
1 Tablespoon Heaped Maple syrup
½ Teaspoon Orange Zest - optional
Method

Heat the milk in a small saucepan over medium heat until your little finger feels warm (see my notes).  Switch off the flame and let cool a little. Whisk in the yogurt and maple syrup, till combined thoroughly.

Pour this  into serving bowls and keep it to set at room temperature in a warm place. 

When it sets, add the orange zest and keep it to chill in the refrigerator. 

Enjoy chilled  thick maple yogurt with your  meal or as breakfast dish or  in a sandwich.  Super delicious, my hubby loved it. 

My Notes

I pour  the milk  in a microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for a minute. Then whisk in yogurt and maple syrup well.  Keep it in the microwave to set. 

Any remaining maple yogurt can be kept refrigerated up to 2 -  3 days, just add a tablespoon of fresh milk on top (do not stir it) and it will stay fresh and sweet, for week even.

Labels: Maple Syrup, Yogurt, Homemade, Full Cream, Milk, Foodie Extravaganza Party, Delicious, Preservatives free, Yogurt

This week we are celebrating National Maple Syrup Day with all things Maple for #Foodie Extravaganza  and our host is Juli Meyers. 
Maple Pecan Caramel Corn Palatable Pastime
Pecan Streusel Maple Coffee Cake Food Lust People Love
Oatmeal Maple Bread Karen's Kitchen Stories
Maple Brined Pork Chops Making Miracles
Maple Yogurt Sneha's Recipe
Maple Coconut Cookies A Day in the Life on the Farm
Mapled Pink Banana Pumpkin Pie Culinary Adventures with Camilla
Canadian Maple Beaver Tails Pandemonium Noshery

Mawa/Khoya Chocolate Barfi#Choctoberfest

This is a homemade Mawa/Khoya Chocolate Barfi , which is quick, easy to make and cost half the rate of the sweet shop. It's also made with pure ingredients and preservative free. Takes just 15 to 20 minutes to make.

Ingredients 

600 Grams Homemade Mawa / Khoya
1/3 Cup Level Cocoa powder
½ Cup Packed Caster Sugar
1/3 Cup Milk
Almond slivers for garnishing

Method 

Crumble the mawa or grate it.

In a heavy bottomed pan, heat the mawa on a medium low flame till it becomes soft and starts to melt. Make sure not to burn or brown it.

Add the milk and sugar. Mix well. Keep stirring so that it doesn't stick to the bottom.
Cook this till it thickens, it took me about 8 minutes. 

Add the cocoa powder, stir it well, making sure there are no lumps and forms a smooth mix. 

Keep stirring continuously and cook for 2-3 minutes more or till it starts to come in the center.

Spread this on a greased pan and sprinkle almonds on top.

 Let it cool and keep in the fridge for a few hours till set.

Slice, share and enjoy!!

Labels: Choctoberfest, Mawa, Cocoa powder, Milk, Sugar, Festival Sweets, Barfi, Homemade, Preservatives free 
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