Rashmi's Rasoi

Loved the texture of this Oats-Semolina bread.....let's get started with the recipe Ingredients Chirotti rava(very minute one).  2 cups Oats flour.                                    1 cup Yeast.                                           1 tspn Honey.                                          2 tblspn Milk powder.                               2 tblspn Lukewarm water.                       Half cup Butter at room temperature.    2 tblspn Salt as per taste Method Activate yeast with lukewarm water and yeast, this will take 10 minutes. Add oats flour, Semolina, milk powder and salt into the yeast mixture, mix well and keep closed for 10 minutes. Add butter to it and knead into a dough by adding water little by little. Use the stretch and pull method and knead for 10 minutes and form a sticky yet soft dough and keep aside in a greased bowl for first proofing till it doubles in size. Then take the dough, punch it and knead for few seconds. Press with hands and

I always love to try out breads with different colours, that too using natural colours. Tried this flower shaped buns with some natural colours..let's see how Ingredients Whole wheat flour.                        2 cups Honey.                                           1 tblspn Yeast.                                             1 tspn  Unflavored oil.                               4 tblspn Pumpkin puree.                             1/2 cup Spinach puree.                              1/2 cup Pumpkin seeds  Salt to taste Lukewarm water as required Method Boil few pieces of diced pumpkin and blend it  to get 1/2 cup of puree. Blanch few spinach leaves, and blend to get 1/2 cup  puree. Activate yeast using  honey and lukewarm water. Take 1 cup flour, salt add pumpkin puree 2 tblspn oil and half of activated yeast and knead a soft n stucky dough with stretch and pull method by adding water as required. It should be kneaded for atleast 10 minutes, keep i

How to make recipes healthy is what I think when I bake. Tried this vegan, butter free, gluten-free , sugar free cake..yet it's delicious.. Ingredients Ragi flour.                       1/2 cup Jowar flour.                    1/2 cup Date syrup.                     1/2 cup Jaggery syrup.                1/2 cup Baking soda.                   1/4 tspn Baking powder.               1/2 tspn Cold pressed extra Virgin coconut oil.           1/2 cup Vanila essence.                Few drops Dates and walnuts.         2 tblspn Salt a pinch Method Mix thoroughly oil, date and jaggery syrup, vanilla essence. Seive ragi flour, Jowar flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder. Slowly fold in the dry mixture into the wet mixture and mix well. Also add dates and walnuts.  Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree for 35-40 minutes or till the toothpick comes out clean in a well greased baking tin. Let it cool down, drizzle some date syrup and slice it and serve. Not

Making wines is very interesting but I enjoy baking equally. So thought why not combine both ?? As I like to experiment and bake with different flours and sweeteners to make the recipe healthy enough for kids to consume, I tried this Red wine chocolate cake with multigrain flour and palm sugar as sweetener. The red wine is too home made Beetroot wine. Let's jump to the recipe....   Ingredients Multigrain flour.                      1 cup Palm sugar.                             1 cup Cocoa powder.                        2 tblspn Red wine.                                  1/4 cup Dry fruits (soaked in wine).     1 tblspn Baking powder.                         1/2 tspn Baking soda.                             1/4 tspn Unflavoured oil.                         1/2 cup Vanilla essence.                        Few drops Salt a pinch Method Take a bowl, mix well oil, palm sugar, vanilla essence. Sieve in multigrain flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cocoa

Foccassia bread was in my list for quite some time, yesterday was the day to try it out.....just used whole wheat flour to make it a healthy option. Ingredients Whole wheat flour.                          2 cups Dry active yeast.                              1 tspn Honey.                                               2 tblspn Milk powder.                                     2 tblspn Butter at room temperature.           2 tblspn onion (cut into stripes).                   1 tblspn Red, yellow and green capsicum(cut into stripes).                                              1 tblspn  Boiled corn kernels.                         1 tblspn Black olives/jalapeño pepper.         1 tblspn Dry mixed herbs.                             2 tspn Ginger garlic powder.                        1 tspn Black pepper powder.                        1/2 tspn Salt to taste Method Take a deep bowl, mix well honey, yeast and one cup lukewarm water  and let i