Multi-grain Rolls with garlic, green chillies and coriander

Making bread is quite easy as long as you follow the recipe!!  Well nearly...I decided to make some fresh bread to go with my soup.  However, I fancied something spicy with my soup so decided to spice up my bread rolls.

Ingredients for 14 Rolls:

500grams of ready bread mix ( this saves you having to add yeast to the bread flour)

1 teaspoon salt

2 teaspoons butter

300 mls of warm water

1 tablespoon of sesame seeds

1 tablespoon of sunflower seeds

you can also use poppy seeds, oats or pumpkin seeds.

A mixture of chopped garlic (3 cloves), 2 green chillies and a small bunch of coriander

2 tablespoons of milk

Method:

1.   Add the butter and salt to the bread dough and add the lukewarm water to it to make a dough.  Using your palm, knead the dough on a floured surface for 5 minutes.  

2.   Shape the dough into a ball and place it in a lightly oiled bowl and cover it with a clean tea cloth.  Leave it in a warm place for 2 hours.

3.  After 2 hours, the dough will double in size.

4.  Transfer the dough on to a floured work top.

5. Knead it gently for 2 minutes.

6.  Divide the dough into 2.

7.  To one half of the dough, add the ginger, chillies and coriander mix and leave the second batch as plain bread rolls.

8.  Divide both the halves into 7 equal pieces making 14 rolls.

9.  Ensure that each roll is a round ball.

10.  Arrange the rolls on a greased baking tray by arranging 6 rolls around one central roll so that they are almost touching.

11.   Brush each roll with milk and top each roll with the different seeds like sesame, sunflower etc.

12.  Leave the rolls in  a warm kitchen for 20 minutes.

13.  Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Centigrade.

14.  Place the bread rolls in the top half of the oven and bake for 15 minutes.

15.  Serve the warm rolls with soup or any other rasams.  These are great with pav bhaji too.  The spicy rolls were a great favourite with my family.


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Garlic Rolls

I saw the recipe for Garlic Rolls on Suhaina's blog and couldn't resist trying it out.   I followed her recipe mostly but am posting my version to remind me of how lovely the rolls turned out.  We had these rolls instead of plain rolls with our pav bhaji.  The pav bhaji's recipe was from Nayna's blog.

Ingredients for 8 Rolls:

500 gms Bread flour (I used  ready mixed breadmix with added yeast)
2-3 tablespoons of Olive oil
350  mls of warm water
2 tablespoons of sesame seeds

For the Garlic butter:

50 grams of butter
3-4 cloves of finely grated garlic
a small bunch of fresh coriander


Method:

1. Add a tablespoon of Olive oil to the Bread mix with 350 mls of warm water.

2. Knead until you get a smooth dough.

3.  Transfer the dough into a clean dish and cover with a dish cloth.  Allow it to  rise for 40-45 minutes. The dough will double its initial size.

4.   Whilst the dough is rising make the garlic spread :  Mix the  butter and  the  finely grated garlic to it.    Add some coriander to the mixture and keep it at room temperature.

5.  After 45 minutes, mix the bread dough so that the air is knocked out.

6.   Divide the dough into 2 portions.

7.    Roll out the dough into a square of about half inch thick.

8. Spread the garlic spread on the rolled out dough.

9.    Roll in the rectangle dough to form a cylinder shape.

10.    Divide the roll into two equal parts.

11.   Now divide the 2 halves into 2 again giving you four pieces.

12.   Place the rolls with the cut side up in the greased pan.


13.  Repeat the same procedure for the remaining dough.

14.  Apply any remaining garlic butter to the rolls and sprinkle some sesame seeds .

15.  Cover the rolls for a further 20 minutes.  The rolls will raise again.

16.   Cook the rolls at a temperature of 180 degrees C.

17.    Bake the rolls for 20 - 25 minutes.

18.  Like Suhaina mentioned in her blog, the aroma of garlic bread filled the house and we all fell in love with the rolls.

19.   We had the hot rolls with bhaji.   Recipe to follow soon.

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Toasted Sandwiches Indian style

This is one of my favourite snacks at the weekends.  The recipe is simple, quick, tasty and spicy just as I like it.  I used a sandwich toaster for making  these but you can use the filling in paninis and even in simple sandwiches.

Ingredients for making enough sandwiches for 2 to 3 people:

2 medium potatoes diced as small as you can
2 cups of frozen mixed vegetables - I used the ones with more peas, carrots and sweet corn.
1 loaf of medium sliced bread
Butter or margarine
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon chilly powder
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
2 or 3 chopped green chillies ( or not if you do not like hot stuff)
1 finely chopped onion (optional)
I tablespoon oil
I teaspoon mustard seeds
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 teaspoons sugar
some chopped coriander

Method: 

1.   Heat the oil  and add the mustard seeds.
2.   Once they finish popping - add the diced potatoes and stir them well.
3.   Add the spices - salt,  chilly powder, turmeric, green chillies, sugar and allow to cook for 5 minutes.
4.   Now add the frozen vegetables and allow them to cook.  If you cook this mixture gently with the lid on - you shouldn't need to add any water to the mixture. 
5.   Once the vegetables soften - it didn't take too long for mine about 10 minutes- add the sugar, lemon juice  and coriander and allow the mixture to cool by transferring it to a wide dish.
6.    Now mix in the finely chopped onions.  The mixture can now be used for filling pita bread, paninis or sandwiches.

7.    Switch on the sandwich maker.
8.     Butter 2 slices of bread using either butter or margarine and turn them over.   My sandwich mixer requires the bread to be buttered on one side and the mixture to be topped up on the other side.
9.     Add the sandwich filling between the two slices of bread and cook them in the sandwich toaster.
10.   Continue making all the sandwiches in the sandwich maker.
11.   Serve them with any chutneys or dips or ketchup.

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Bread and mixed vegetable bhajias/pakoras

Most families tend to buy a variety of bread whist shopping and find that it either starts to go stale  or gets very dry and hard and it ends up either in the bin or gets fed to the birds.   I am one of those people who hates waste and am always trying to  use up sliced bread to make sandwiches.

I experimented with this recipe a number of years and now is a favourite .  This recipe works best with stale bread of any kind.  The seeded bread is the best as it gives the bhajias a unique flavour. 

Ingredients ( serves 6): 

Bread.: 6 slices of any bread or 3 to 4 rolls .  
1 small Onion - grated
1 small potato - grated
Small bunch of spinach or fenugreek (methi) finely chopped.
2 or 3 Crushed green chillies (depends on your taste)
1 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of turmeric
1 teaspoon of Ajwain or ajma seeds (Ajowan caraway, carom seeds)
2 teaspoons of whole coriander seeds
1 cup of chickpea flour (chanaflour)
Sunflower oil to fry the bhajias

Method

1.  Cut the bread or bread rolls into manageable size and soak them in water

2.  Prepare the vegetables. ( you can use almost any vegetables - I've tried this with marrow, apple and even carrots).

3.  Transfer  the bread from the water into a colander and remove as much water as possible by gently pressing the bread.

4. Mash the bread by hand in a mixing bowl.

5. Add in the grated onions, potatoes, spinach or fenugreek, chillies and the dry spices such as ajwain, coriander, salt and turmeric.

6. Mix all the ingredients.

7. Add in the chickpea flour - just enough to make a managable batter.

8. Heat the oil.

9. Drop spoonfuls of this mixture into the hot oil.

10. Fry on medium heat until the bhajias look golden brown.  The bhajias should be crispy on the outside and soft and pluffy on the inside.

11. Serve hot with any chutneys or ketchup or a nice cup of tea.

12.   These bread Bhajia/Pakora can be served as a starter or can also be eaten as a snack.

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