Butterscotch Sauce #1

Ingredients:

Unsalted butter - 56 g
Light Brown Sugar - 100 g
Amul cream - 125 ml
Vanilla esc - 1 tsp
Lime juice - 1 tsp
Salt - a pinch

Method:

• In a pan add butter cubes and sugar.
• Cook in low flame till both are well combined.
• Add in lime juice and mix well.
• Now add fresh cream and whisk well.
• Let it boil in low flame for 2 minutes.
• Remove from flame and add in esc and salt.
• Let it cool and store in a bottle.
• Stays good for a week when kept in room temperature.

Note:

• The consistency depends on where you are going to use this sauce.
• This consistency is good for adding in cakes/frostings.
• I you boil for 5-6 mins you will get toffee consistency.

Mini Pizza Bites

Ingredients:

Bread Slices - As reqd
Chilly flakes - 1/2 tsp
Oregano - 1/2 tsp
Onion - 1 (small dices)
Tomato - 1 (deseed and dice)
Capsicum - 1 (small dices)
Grated Cheese - 1/2 cup

Method:

• In a bowl add diced onion, tomato and capsicum.
• Add chilly flakes, oregano and mix well and set aside.
• Heat a pan and brush with butter.
• Place the bread slices and toast and set aside.
• Take the bread slices and apply pizza sauce.
• Place onion, tomato and capsicum.
• Sprinkle little chilly flakes and oregano.
• Top with grated cheese.
• Heat a pan and brush with butter.
• Place the prepared slices and  cover and cook in low flame.
• Cook till cheese melts.
• Or apply garlic butter to the bread slices and toast them in grill mode.
• Bake it in oven (OTG) at 200°C for 8-10 mins.
• I made garlic bread with few slices.

Garlic Bread

Ingredients:

Bread Slices - As reqd
Unsalted Butter - 3 tbsp
Garlic - 5-6 (grated)
Chilly flakes - 1/2 tsp
Oregano - 1/2 tsp
Salt - Little

Method:

• Heat butter in pan.
• Reduce the flame and add grated garlic, chilly flakes and oregano.
• Add little salt and mix well.
• Add the bread slices and flip and toast.
• Or apply garlic butter to the bread slices and toast them in grill mode.
• Bake it in oven (OTG) at 200°C for 8-10 mins.
• I made mini pizza bites with few slices.

Quick Baugette Bread

Sliced

Baked

Slit on top

Second Proofing

Before Proofing

Ingredients:

All purpose flour - 3/4 cup
Wheat flour - 1/4 cup
Warm water - 1/2 cup
Sugar - 1/2 tbsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Dry yeast -3/4 tsp
Olive oil - 1 tbsp

Method:

• In a bowl add yeast, sugar and warm water.
• Set this aside for yeast to activate.
• In other bowl add flour, salt and mix well.
• Add in activated yeast and mix well.
• Add in oil and knead well.
• The dough will be sticky.
• Add in some flour and knead till you get a soft dough.
• Spread it to a rectangle and roll it.
• Seam the edges.
• Place this in a lined baking tray.
• Set this aside for 30 mins for proofing.
• Make slashes o top of bread.
• Bake this in a preheated oven at 200 °C for  20 - 22 mins.
• When you place the tray for baking just place (throw) 2-3 icecubes at the bottom
• Close this  immediately.
• Doing this way, steam builds up and we will get a chewy crust.

Note:

• If your oven is big and has a bottom rack, then place a tray.
• Put the ice cubes in the bottom tray.
• I baked two logs, one I used 75% maida and 25% wheat flour.
• Other log I did vice-versa.

Vanjiram (Sear) Fish Fry #4

Ingredients:

Vanjiram Fish pieces - 500 g
Ginger garlic paste - 1 1/2 tbsp
Red Chilly powder - 2 tbsp
Pepper powder - 1 tsp
Corn flour - 2 tbsp
Salt - 1 tsp
Curry Leaves - a sprig
Oil - For deep frying

Method:

• Clean the fish pieces and set aside.
• Place them in a plate and apply ginger garlic paste to each fish piece.
• Apply the paste on both side.
• In a big plate add in chilly powder, pepper powder, corn flour.
• Add salt and mix well and set aside.
• Take the fish pieces and coat it with this powder.
• Set this aside for 20-25 mins.
• Now heat oil in pan.
• Oil should be very hot.
• Now reduce the flame and add in fish pieces.
• Fry them for 2 mins for each side.
• To the same oil add in curry leaves and top it on fish pieces.
• Serve hot.

Note:

• The more it marinates the spicy it turns.
• So 20 mins marination is enough.