Breads

Basic Homemade Bread

Ingredients
2 1/2 cups (250 gms.) plain flour
4 tbsp. oil
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. dry or 2 tsp. fresh yeast
3 tsp. sugar
1/2 cup water
1/2 cup milk water to knead
Method
Warm 1/2 cup water and milk together. Add sugar and yeast.
Cover and keep aside for 15 minutes. When yeast is fully dissolved and frothy, it is
ready to use.
Mix salt and flour in a large bowl. Add 1 tbsp. oil making a well in center.
Add yeast mixture to flour. Knead into a very very soft dough.
Knead for 5-7 minutes, till it is not sticky. Grease a large bowl, place dough in it,
cover and keep aside for 1 ½ hours.
Apply 1 tbsp. oil, punch dough for 3-4 minutes. Grease baking sheet or bread tin
well.
Using remaining oil, shape dough in desire shapes. Keep aside covered, to rest
for 1 hour.
Bake in preheated oven at 200C for 10-15 minutes or till golden. Just 1 or 2
minutes prior to removing, brush with a little milk.
Allow to cool a bit, before transferring to racks for cooling well. Cut into slices or as desired.
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Bread Sticks

Ingredients
4 cups plain flour
1 tsp fresh yeast
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp butter
1 cup warm milk
1/4 cup warm water
1/4 tsp each white cumin & omam seeds
Method
Warm milk, keep aside. Stir together yeast and sugar in a cup.
Pour a little milk in yeast, stir well, keep aside to froth till double.
Take a slightly warmed mixing bowl. Sieve in flour and salt. Make a well in center.
Sprinkle seeds onto flour. Mix butter into warmed milk. Pour this in center of flour.
Pour yeast mixture too.
Mix and knead well till very smooth and elastic. Add warm water as required for
kneading.
Cover and keep aside for 45 minutes, or till double. Lift dough and punch and
knead for 3-4 minutes.
Shape into a thin log. Cut into 30-33 parts. Shape each part into a finger shape.
Grease a baking sheet well, place fingers on it. Brush with some oil or butter.
Keep aside for 20 minutes. Bake in preheated oven at 200C for 10 minutes.
Thereafter at 170C for 10-15 minutes. Remove and cool first in sheet then on
racks till completely cooled.
Store in airtight jar. Serve with hot tea or coffee or even soup!
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Masala Buns

Ingredients
3 potatoes, boiled, peeled, mashed
1 large onion finely chopped
1 tsp ginger grated
1 tsp garlic grated
1 tbsp coriander finely chopped
4-5 green chillies finely chopped
1 tsp lemon juice
Salt to taste
1 tbsp oil
For the Stuffing:
Heat oil in a heavy pan. Add ginger, garlic, chillies, stir for a moment. Add onions,
saute till tender and pinkish. Add potatoes, lemon juice, salt, coriander. Mix well and cook for 2-3 minutes. Cool well before stuffing.
To proceed:
Prepare bread dough upto (including) the punching stage.
Take a golf ball sized lump of dough. Pat out thickly on palm.
Place a tbsp. of stuffing in center. Pull up sides and carefully enclose stuffing.
Shape into a round, and slightly flattened like a bun. Use a greased palm to do the
same.
Place on baking sheet keeping ample space for rising. Cover and keep aside for 30
minutes.
Bake in preheated oven at 200C for 15 minutes or till golden.
Brush with milk a minute or two before removing from oven. Serve warm with butter
and marmalade.
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Brown and White Triangulars

Ingredients
6 slices brown bread
6 slices white bread
3 potatoes boiled, peeled and mashed
3-4 green chillies
4-5 pods garlic
1 piece ginger
1/2 tsp turmeric
salt to taste
2 tbs cheese grated
1 tbsp finely chopped coriander
butter to apply
Method
Crush together chillies and garlic.
Mix all ingredients except bread and butter.
Cut bread -- any uneven side of bread, so that one brown slices matches one white
slices.
Apply butter on inner side of each slice.
Place some potato mixture on white slice.
Cover with brown slice.
Press into a preheated sandwich toaster.
Toast very light. Serve hot with ketchup.
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Bread Upma

Ingredients
Bread - 1 loaf
Onion(big) - 3 finely chopped
Chillies - 3 finely chopped
Tomato - 3 finely chopped
Kadugu (mustard)
Kadalai Parupu
Ghee - for frying and roasting bread
Sugar - to taste
Salt - to taste
Method
Cut bread slice into cubes.
Roast the bread cubes using ghee and keep aside.
Pour ghee in a tawa, add kadugu, kadalai parupu. Fry till golden brown.
Add finely chopped onions and fry till golden brown.
Add chillies and tomatoes.
Add salt to taste.
Fry till there is no water content in the mixture.
Add the bread cubes to the mixture.
Mix well till the mixture gets mixed with the bread cubes.
Add sugar and then mix well.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.
Tomato sauce will go well along with Bread Upma.
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Bread in Manchurian Style

Ingredients
Bread slices - 5
1/2 cup All purpose flour
3-4 tsp Corn flour
2 tsp Ginger finely chopped
1 tsp Garlic finely chopped
Spring onions - 1 bunch finely chopped
Soya sauce - 2 spoons
Ajinomotto - a pinch
Chilli powder
Salt
Oil for frying
Water
Method
Cut the corners of the bread slices. Now cut the bread slices into small squares and
keep them aside.
Make a batter out of the all purpose flour and corn flour.
The consistency of the batter should be neither thin nor thick (little thinner than
semisolid consistency).
Add little ginger and garlic to this batter. Now add salt and chilly powder to the batter and mix it up well.
Heat oil in a kadai & dip the bread pieces in the batter and fry them in oil and keep
them aside.
Take little oil in a pan put the remaining ginger-garlic and fry.
Now add spring onions and the fried bread pieces.
Sprinkle little ajinomotto, add the soya sauce and spread well. Serve Hot !!!
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Bread Bajji

Ingredients
Basin (Gram Flour) - 2 cups
Rice Flour - 1/2 cup
Ajwain seeds - 1 Teaspoon
Jeera - 1 Teaspoon
Bread Slices - 5
Salt
Red Chilli Powder - 2 Teaspoons (depending on how spicy we want)
Baking soda - pinch
Oil to fry
Method
First of all toast the bread slices for a minute in a bread toaster or on plain tawa just to make them little crisp
Cut the bread slice from corner to corner diagonally to make 2 triangular pieces. (
totally 10 pieces out of 5 slices). Keep them aside
Mix all other ingredients together with some water to make batter. Batter should not
be too thin or too thick.
Heat oil. Apply some butter or ghee on each bread piece and dip it in batter and
slide it into oil. Fry till golden brown.
Serve hot with Sauce or Chutney.
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Bread Pudding

Ingredients
8 to 10 left over bread slices
3/4 cup sugar (powdered in grinder)
2 cups milk
1 egg
1/3 cup broken walnuts or tutti frutti (depending on what is available at home)
1 tsp. vanilla essence
butter for greasing dish.
Method
Soak the bread slices in milk and mash till it is like pulp.
Add in the sugar, egg and essence and mix well.
Lastly add in the walnuts or tutti frutti and mix lightly.
Put into a covered greased dish and steam in pressure cooker for 20 mins.
When cool, run knife round inside of dish and invert on plate.
Makes a great snack for evening tea.
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Bread Pizza

Ingredients
onions - 1
chillies - 2
tomatoes - 2
coriander - 1 bunch
carrot - 1 grated
capsicum - 1
semolina/rawa - 1 cup
milk - 1/4 cup
salt
bread - 4 slices
tomato chilli sauce
tomato sauce
cheese
oil
Method
Mix all the ingredients and make a paste.
Apply chilli sauce on each bread slice.
Put 2 spoons of mixed paste on bread slice & grate cheese on top.
Heat non stick tawa.put 1 spoon of oil.
Keep the bread slice.fry it and turn the other side of bread.
Fry it until cheese melts.
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Bread Pakoda

Ingredients
Bread slices 8
Boiled Potatoes 2
Green Chillies 2
Mustard Seeds 1/2 tsp
Curry Leaves Few
Turmeric Powder 1/2 tsp
Gram Flour 5-6 tbsp
Water
Oil for frying
Salt as per taste
Red Chilli Powder as per taste
Soda Bicarb one pinch
For Filling
Heat one spoon of oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds and allow it to crackle... then add
curry leaves and finely chopped green chilies. Add in his turmeric powder and stir.
Now add boiled and mashed Potatoes and salt. Mix well and stir for 2-3 mins.
Now mix gram flour with water, salt, red chilli powder and soda make a fine batter.
Take the bread slices. Fill one slice of bread with potato filling and cover with other slice of the bread and cut this in to four equal squares.
Dip this properly in the gram flour batter and deep fry in oil till it is done.
Serve hot with Green Chutney or Tomato Sauce. You can also enjoy this with hot
tea.
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Bread Dosa

Ingredients
Bread slices - 3 or 4
Dosa Batter - 1 cup
Green Chillies - 2
Onions - 1 finely chopped (optional)
Coriander Leaves
Oil - for dosa preparation
Method
Mix onions and finely chopped green chillies and coriander leaves to the dosa
batter.
Heat the tawa, when hot smear with oil.
Dip the bread slices in the dosa batter and place it on the tawa.
Smear some oil around the bread slice.
Cook till it is golden brown on both sides.
Serve hot with Sauce or Ketchup.
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Bread Potato Cutlet

Ingredients
Bread with its edges cut - 4 or 5 slices
Potato - cooked and mashed - 2 nos
Salt - to taste
Green chilli - cut into pieces - 4
Grated cheese - 1 cup
Coriander leaves - cut - a little
Sooji (Maida) powder - 2 tablespoon
Bread crumbs - as required
Method
Soak bread slices, take it out and squeeze the water front that.
Mix the grated cheese, cut green chillies, required salt, cooked and mashed
potatoes, the bread, and make a dough.
Make small balls and flatten them in the shape of your choice, (heart shaped,
square, triangular or rectangular, circular etc) dip it in the sooji powder mix
(made with water), and then in the bread crumbs and deep fry them in well heated
oil.
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