Showing posts with label Baking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Baking. Show all posts

I am good at baking. I don't know if that counts as a talent, but I love to bake. Everybody says I'm good at it, so apparently I make the best banana bread. - Meaghan Jette Martin

 

I have baked many versions of banana bread. But today's recipe is my favorite version and easy to bake even for beginners cook too. It has a good amount of ripe bananas in it. Whenever you have some ripe bananas lying around then try this recipe. It is super easy recipe. The Bread is soft, moist and full of banana flavor.

 


Hope you guys will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you. 

 


 

Ingredients

  • All Purpose flour - 1 cup
  • Wheat flour - 3 cups
  • Baking Soda - 2 tsp
  • Raw Brown Sugar - 1 cup
  • Unsalted Butter - ½ cup
  • Cinnamon powder - 2 tsp
  • Ripe Banana - 3 to 5 as you need
  • Eggs - 2

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 250.
  2. Line 2 loaf pans with parchment paper.
  3. Take a bowl and beat peeled bananas.
  4. Add butter, sugar, eggs beat till fluffy.
  5. Add in flour, baking soda, cinnamon powder and fold gently. DON'T BEAT.
  6. Spoon this into baking pan and bake for 35 to 40 mins.
  7. Remove and cool completely. Slice and serve.

 

Take ripe bananas
Take ripe bananas

Smash it
Smash it
Add sugar
Add sugar
 
Add melted butter
Add melted butter

Add Eggs
Add Eggs
Add all purpose flour
Add all purpose flour

Add wheat flour
Add wheat flour
Add cinnamon powder
Add cinnamon powder

Transfer it to bowl
Transfer it to bowl
Ready in 40 mins. Let it cool down
Ready in 40 mins. Let it cool down

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Baking is fun anytime. 
Homemade Bread recipe I usually made with simple and available ingredients in the kitchen. Only challenge is you have yeast. This recipe suits well for beginner level bakers. Generally I follow the detailed recipe and it takes at least 4 hrs for bread recipe. But after few trial and errors, I come up with this easy peasy recipe.

During this lock-down time, we can't run every time to buy bread for grocery shops. At the same time we can't store more pockets because the breads have short life. I spend time max 1 hr to make and yields 2 loaves of bread. One bread loaf I used with 3 - 4 days and the second one I cover it properly and stored in freezer. I can use it on second week. If you try it once you will never go back to store bought stuff again. Baking bread at home is so fresh and they makes your house smell so heavenly. This is the best fool proof method which never fails.


Ingredients

  • Whole wheat flour - 4 cups
  • Maida - 1.5 cups
  • Active dry yeast - 2 packs each 7 oz
  • Sugar - 4 tbsp
  • Salt - 2 tsp
  • Milk - 2 cups
  • Oil - 1/2 cup

Method

  1. Take a large bowl or cake mixer or food processor, add whole wheat flour, 1 cup maida, sugar, salt, yeast. Mix all together.
  2. Add warm milk to this mix and add oil. Now start kneading the dough. Finally add 1/2 cup maid and knead well.
  3. Grease the loaf pan and split dough into 2 equally. Place the dough in the loaf pans. Cover with dish towel for 30 mins. After 30 mins, you can see the dough double in size.
  4. After 30 mins, place it in preheat 375 degrees F for 25 - 30 mins. My oven take approx 28 mins.
  5. Cool down completely and cut into desired size. 
Add whole wheat flour, maida, sugar, salt, yeast.
Add whole wheat flour, maida, sugar, salt, yeast.
Add warm milk
Add warm milk
Add 1/2 cup maida and start kneading
Add 1/2 cup maida and start kneading
Cut into 2 half
Cut into 2 half
Grease the pan and pace the dough
Grease the pan and pace the dough
After 30 mins, it doubles the size
After 30 mins, it doubles the size
Bake for 25 - 30 mins
Bake for 25 - 30 mins
Allow it to cool and store it
Allow it to cool and store it

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When you roast a chicken perfectly, there's nothing more delicious. Marco Pierre White
 "When you roast a chicken perfectly, there's nothing more delicious".  - Marco Pierre White

Tandoori chicken is traditionally cooked in a tandoor. Tandoor at home is impossible for our lifestyle. But we have oven to make a perfect tandoori chicken. I used lemon skins it adds fresh and tangy taste to chicken. I hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turned out for you.


Ingredients

  • Chicken drumstick - 8 pieces

For First Marination

  • Coconut oil - 2 tbsp
  • Kashmiri Chilli Powder - 2 tbsp
  • Turmeric Powder - 1 tsp
  • Salt as per taste

For Second Marination

  • Coriander Powder  - 2 tbsp
  • Cumin Powder - 2 tsp
  • Parsley Flakes - 1 tsp
  • Rosemary - 1 tsp
  • Lemon Juice - 2 tsp 
  • Ginger Garlic Paste -  2 tbsp

Method

  1. Clean the chicken and make deep slits as shown in picture 1. 
  2. Take a bowl and mix all the ingredients under For First Marination.
  3. Add chicken and mix well. Marinate for 10 - 15 mins.
  4. Now take For second marination ingredients in a bowl and mix well along with chicken.
  5. Grate lemon skin over mixture. You feel fresh and tangy flavor while eating.
  6. Leave this to marinate for minimum 6 hours or over night. Keep refrigerated.
  7. Next day, remove it and let it come to room temp.
  8. Preheat oven to 350 Degrees. 
  9. Now place the chicken over a foil lined baking tray and pop it in oven for 15 mins.
  10. Remove it and flip over, apply leftover marination if any.
  11. Bake it for 15 more mins. Remove the tray from oven and check it cooked fully using fork.
  12. Broil for 5 mins, it gives crispy texture on top.

Clean and make slits

Mix all the ingredients under For First Marination

Mix well
Marinate for 15 mins



Second marination

Grate few lemon skin

Mix well

Seal it properly for marination

Next day morning

Well marinated

Place on tray with aluminum foil covered

After 15 mins take and flip over

After 15 mins check it cooked fully
Ready to serve


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 If you are trying to create a company, its like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion - Elon Musk

Love this quote. Compare the cake and relations. lol.
Wow!! My day become special today, my husband model with my cake. That's sweet.


German Chocolate cake is layered chocolate cake and topped with coconut-pecan frosting. Topping is caramel made with egg yolks and evaporated milk, after the caramel cooked, coconut and pecans are stirred in. But in my recipe i used mix of Walnuts, Almonds and Cashews, because kids don't eat walnuts alone even me too :D so always mix with cakes :)

OMG!!! My cute M&M's gifted by my bestie that he bought at hongkong airport while travelling on the way to meet us :)  My favy owl cup and M&M's rocking my photo background.


Today i'm going to share the recipe for German Chocolate Cake. Whenever i think about to making cakes, i remember Betty Crocker recipes. I love the cookbooks by BettyCrocker. For dinner, i made this cake so no layers i did. Make it and enjoy with family. Happy Dinner!!

And i bought this snowman storage box at Biglots for last christmas.


See the below link for the recipe. This is free and available in their website.
Betty Crocker Recipe link



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