Raisin Bun

Ingredients

All Purpose Flour: 1 ¾ cups

Milk: ½ cup

Milk Powder: 1tbsp

Water: ¼ cup (or as required)

Egg: 1 (take ¾ portion and balance keep for egg wash)

Sugar: 1  ½ tbsp

Oil: 2tbsp                   

Melted Butter: 2tbsp

Yeast: ¾  tsp

Salt: as needed

Raisins: ¾ cup

Method Of Preparation

Sieve the flour, then add milk powder, sugar, yeast and salt. Then add the oil and butter and the egg, and mix together. Now add all the milk. Start kneading together and gradually add the water a little at a time. You might not need it all, so add it sparingly until your dough is nice and soft. Knead for 8-10 minutes. The more you knead it the softer the buns will be.

Touch a bit of oil with your fingertips and apply all over the ball of dough. Cover in a bowl and set aside for 40mins to an hour for it to double in size.

Punch it down, and break off tiny bits of dough.  Add the raisins to it and just knead it again. Divide the dough into small balls. Grease your pan. Place the balls of dough into the greased tray. Leave enough spaces in between.

Cover the pans and set aside for a second rise, about half an hour.

Now apply egg wash on the balls, preheat your oven to 180 C and bake for about 30-35 minutes, or until the bread is nice and golden on top.

Remove from oven ad cool on a wire rack.

Punjabi Fish Fry

Ingredients

Fish (any bis fish): 500gms

Ginger: 2” piece

Garlic: 4 cloves

Green chilli: 2

Jeerakam/cumin seeds: ½ tbsp

Coriander leaves chopped: 2tbsp

Salt: needed

Besan/gram flour: 1 cup

Rice flour: 2tbsp

Baking powder: ¼ tsp

Egg: 1

Oil: needed to fry

Method Of Preparation

In a bowl add egg, chopped coriander, ginger, garlic, green chilli, jeerakam, besan flour, rice flour, baking powder and salt. Add little water and make to a thick batter.

Heat oil in a pan, dip each piece of fish in the batter well and deep fry in oil. Take out when it turns golden brown colour on both sides.

Serve hot.

Simple Vanilla Biscuit

Ingredients

Egg: 2 (at room temp)

Sugar: ½ cup

All-purpose Flour: ¾ cup

Baking Powder: ½ tsp

Vanilla Extract: 1 ½ tsp

Salt: a pinch   

Method Of Preparation

Combine flour and baking powder and sift and keep aside.

Take another bowl. Add in egg, sugar, salt and vanilla essence. .

Beat well with an electric beater till it becomes pale yellow and doubles the volume.

Now add the flour mixture to it and combine by using a wooden spoon. At this stage don’t use electric beater.

Line the baking tray with greased butter paper.

Scoop out the batter with a spoon and lay on the prepared tray.

Preheat the oven at 180 deg C.

Bake in preheated oven to about 20-25minutes or till it become light brown colour.

When done remove from the oven and let it cool. These biscuit will be slightly soft at the stage while we are removing from the oven, it will go crisp when it cools. So don’t over bake.

When cooled, store in an air tight jar.