Eggless Pav for Pav-Bhaji

Back again with new recipe called "Pav" yup! Homemade eggless tested never failed Pav recipe. "Pav" is also known as Ladi pav, Buns, Yeast rolls etc.. There are tons of recipe of making Pav online, but I love mine own never failed "Pav" recipe. Let's move to ingredients...

Ingredients....

All purpose flour       3cups
Salt                           1tsp
Sugar                       3tbsp
Active dry yeast      2 1/4tsp
Butter                     3tbsp
Luke warm water  1/4 cup
Water                   1 1/4cps

Method......

In a bowl take 1/4cup of luke warm water (just microwave it for 10-15 second) add sugar and yeast mix well.

Let the yeast mixture keep aside for 5-10 minutes or untill it become bubbly.

In a another large bowl add all purpose flour, salt and melted butter and yeast,

and make a sticky dough by adding water little by little. (Sometimes u need less or more water, water quantity is depend upon the quality of all purpose flour, so always add little by little)

 Place this on a lightly greased bowl and cover it with plastic wrap or damp towel Cover and let it rest for 45 minutes.(After 45 minutes dough should have doubled in size).

Now lighty dust your counter, take a dough out of the bowl and knead it for atleast 10 minutes. Kneading is very important to develop gluten. (for kneading don't use more flour just couple of tbsp is fine)

Grease the baking tray with butter, here I am using 9"x13" tray after done with kneading will divide Pav dough into 12 parts and make ball.

Will arrange these ball in the baking tray leaving 1 1/2inch space in between. Place them aside once again to double (that process take atleast 45 minutes)

After 45 minutes, they will take beautiful shape, and they will also stick to each other . 

Now bake them at pre-heated oven at 430degree F or 221degree C for 10 minutes or until golden brown.

Let it cool down completely and you have your own homemade super soft "Pav".

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Eggless Butter Bread

      "Eggless Butter Bread"  baking bread at home is not that much difficult, in fact it is quite easy to make at home, you need few ingredients to make a bread loaf. Of course home made bread is reduce preservative, more nutritious, and inexpensive toooo.
Let me show you excatly how to make a perfect "Butter Bread".

Here's the ingredients....

Butter                        4tbsp
Milk                           1 1/4cups
Sugar                         1 1/2tbsp
Salt                             2tsp
Instant yeast           2 1/4tsp
All purpose flour      3cups

Ok, let's get started...

Melt the butter in a pan over medium heat, add milk and sugar , and bring the temperature upto 115 degree.( don't boil it we need a luke warm that's it).

Remove the pan from heat , then stir in the yeast, add all purpose flour and salt and form a dough. Dough will be sticky, that's okie.

Now come to fun part kneading, if dough is too sticky, lightly flour your countertop and take the dough , punch it flat then fold it back up into a ball, and repeat several times(10 minutes). I also like to take it in my hands &squeeze & twist it. Spread the dough into 8x10 rectangle shape, with one size being roughly the length of the bread pan and the other side being about a bread pan and a half long. Then roll it up. The roll should be roughly the same size as a bread pan. Tuck the ends of the roll underneath, with the under. Grease the pan with butter and place the loaf inside the pan.

Cover the pan with the towel and wait until it in double in size.

Preheat the oven to 375degree F or 190.5degree C and place a sheet pan on the lowest self of the oven. Add enough boiling water to cover the bottom of the sheet pan, then bake the bread on the shelf above the water for atleast 40 minutes.Once it done take it out, let the bread cool completely on a wire rack and spread some butter on the bread to give extra shine and softness. 

Let's slice it & enjoy.......

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Kesar Sandalwood (Sharbat)

"Kesar Sandalwood" one of the best combination for summer drink. There are tons of recipes for summer drinks & Sharbat, same like food recipes. Sharbat and Drinks can be made with fresh fruits, vegetables, herbs etc...

But today I am sharing the my favorite summer drink recipe that "Kesar Sandalwood" Sharabt. It's cooling and refreshing in action. 

Ingredients....

Sandalwood scrap        50gm
Sugar                           4 cups
Water                          6 cups
Kesar                         20 to 30 strings
Cardamom powder   1tsp 
Sandalwood essence 1tsp 

Method.....
Soak sandalwood scrap in 5 3/4cups water at least 10-15hrs,

after done with soaking process,  Boil it for at least  10 minutes with lid at medium flame, and wait until it comes at room temperature, gently rub sandalwood scrap with hand. Meanwhile will dissolve kesar in 1/4 cup of water and keep aside.

  
Once it comes at room temperature, pass through the sieve and keep aside,

  

Boil it by adding sugar, till one sugar syrup strand. 

Once we get our one string consistency will switch off the gas,and add our kesar and cardamom powder in the syrup,

 and mix well.

Once our syrup is cool down completely, then will add sandalwood essence.

Our "Kesar Sandalwood" syrup is done. Store in glass bottle and refrigerate.
To make "Kesar Sandalwood" (Sharbat) add 1tbsp of kesar sandalwood syrup in a glass of chilled water and mix well, you can also increase or decrease the quantity of syrup in chilled water according to your taste. If you want you can also add some ice cubes in sharbat.

Note:- you can also used sabja seeds ice cubes for decoration.

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Rajasthani Sattu (Mini Version)

"Rajathani Sattu" is a one of very famous sweet in Rajasthan. This sweet usually prepare at the of month Saavan especially for "Rakhi" and "Teej" (badi teej or kajali teej which comes just after Rakhi).

Teej fast is incomplete with these "Sattu" (In teej fast sattu is offered by husband to his wife at moon rise at teej night, whole day wife neither eats nor drinks, even the water.

There are so many different method to make these sattu, some make from Rice flour, Chickpea flour, Wheat flour, Roasted channa dal,In this recipe I am using Split Dalia powder to make these Rajasthani Sattu. 

Ingredients:-

Split Dalia powdered       2cups
Sugar powdered              1cup
Ghee                               1cup     
Cardamom powder        1tsp
Silver Vark          for decoration 

Method:-
In a big bowl add split dalia powdered, sugar powdered and cardamom powder and mix well.

                   
(I already powdered my split dalia and regular sugar in a grinder before)







Once it mixes well, we are going to add melted ghee and mix it well with fingers ,mix it until you can make small balls without cracks. ( adjust the ghee quantity based on the quality of Dalia).

Here, I am using cookie cutter to make Rajasthani sattu but if you don't want to use, you can simply make golf size balls and decorate with silver vark(foils).

Now we are going to spread our dough on wax paper or parchment paper,

on the top cover it with another wax paper or parchment paper to cover this dough completely.

Roll it  with the help of rolling pin about 1"inch thick

Cut shape out of dough by using cookie cutter and place it on a plate.

Finally decorate with some silver vark.

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