Thursday, May 29, 2008

Pizza


For making the pizza u need:
1. pizza base or pizza peel
2.pizza knife(pizza wheel)

Ingredients:
To make dough:
Flour: 3 cups
sugar:4 tsp
salt:1 tsp
Dry active yeast:1 tsp
Olive oil:3 tsp
warm water:1 cup

Method:

1.Make dough with all the above ingredients.And keep it aside in a tight container,until it doubles in size, about 41/2 to 5hours
Meanwhile, prepare the toppings:
Pizza sauce
shredded cheese and mozzarella cheese
Bell peppers,thinly sliced
chicken ,thinly sliced(grilled)
onions,thinly sliced
Pineapple,thinly sliced

For preparing the Pizza:
Preheat te oven 350-470 degrees for 10 minutes.
1.Divide the dough into two halves.
2.Now take first half dough and flatten it with your hands on a slightly floured work surface.Untill it reaches the diameter 10-12 inches.Brush the top of the dough with olive oil.
3.Now srinkle the pizza base(pizza peel) with corn meal.Now keep this flatten dough to the pizza base.If the dough has lost its shape in the transfer,shape it to the desired dimensions.
4.One spoon of pizza sauce,sprinkle cheese and place onions,pineapple,chicken(grilled) and bell peppers on the pizza.
5.Bake this pizza until the crust is brown color for about 10-15 minutes.









Friday, May 23, 2008

Bakshalu


Ingrediants:

Jaggery: 1/2-1 cup

Bengal gram dal: 1 cup

Maida: 1 cup

salt:pinch

cardammom powder:1/2 tsp

Oil-1tsp

Ghee-1tsp


Method:

1.Make a very soft dough with the maida ,oil,salt and with water and keep aside.

2.Pressure cook the dal,drain the excess water and mash toa fine paste with jaggery and cardammom powder.

3.Divide the dough into fine positions and roll it.Place the ballof the dal mixture in the centre.Close the maida dough over it sealing the edges carefully and roll it like a chapathi. 4.Roast it on the tawa without oil and server hot. While eating apply ghee on it and eat.

Majjiga Atlu


Ingredients:

Butter milk:4 cups
Poha:1/2 cup
Rice:2cups
salt to taste

Method:
1.Soak the rice in buttermilk for 12-15 hrs.
2.Before blending the poha, soak it in butter milk for 3-4 hrs.
3.Now grind this poha and rice with buttermilk(Dont use water for grinding)

On the layer of Atlu:
Onion:1 ( cut into small pieces)
Green chilli:6(cut into round)
Carrot:3(grate)
Coriander:1 bunch(cut into small pieces)

To do Atlu:
1.Now heat the Tawa on a medium flame for 3-4 minutes.Pour the spoonful of batter in the centre of the tawa, spread with the back of the spoon to a thick round.
2.Now sprinkle the onions,carrot,green chilli,coriander.Now pour the oil at the edges of the dosa and over the dosa.
3.Cover with the lid and let it cook for 1 minute.
4.Now remove from the tawa