Whole Wheat Sweet Buns

Its holiday time here and kids are at home. Obviously am very busy with them, since kids are at home, its quite an obligation for me to make different snacks to satisfy my kids tastebuds with healthy stuffs in it. Two days back, i quickly prepared some yeasted buns with whole wheat, wheat bran and all purpose flour with sugar pearls specially for their evening snacks. These buns turned out simply awesome, while serving with nutella spread or simply with any fruit jam, these buns were quite addictive. Everyone at home enjoyed it thoroughly and i was happy when these buns vanished very much quickly.Sending to Mireille's Taste of Tropic- Sugarcane and to Jagruti's Know Your Flour.

1cup Whole wheat flour
1cup All purpose flour
2tbsp Wheat bran
1/4cup Low fat milk powder
1/4cup Confectioner's sugar or powdered sugar
1tsp Sugar
1/4tsp Salt
1tbsp Active dry yeast
1/4cup Butter (room temperature)
1/2cup Sugar pearls
Milk (for brushing)


Take the flours,wheat bran,milk powder,confectioner's sugar,sugar pearls (keep aside few for topping) and butter in a bowl, meanwhile mix the yeast,sugar and salt in half a cup of luke warm water,keep aside for few minutes until the yeast turns foamy..

Add gradually the yeast to the already prepared flour mixture (add water if needed) and knead everything as a soft,smooth dough,keep aside in a warm place for two hours.

Preheat the oven to 350F..Once the dough doubled their volume,punch down and knead everything well for few minutes.

Make 6-8 medium sized balls from the dough and arrange them over a baking sheet lined over a baking tray.

Brush the buns with enough milkand sprinkle generously the sugar pearls,bake for 20-25minutes until the crust turns golden brown..

Enjoy for breakfast or snacks with your favourite spread or jams.

Eggless Spinach & Emmental Cheese Quiche

Eventhough quiche is loaded with eggs and cheese, its one of our favourite savoury tart and we have it occasionally for our dinner with salads.For this month's Baking Eggless, Gayathri choosed an incredible quiche, initially i wanted to make a quiche with spinach and loads of veggies, somehow finally i went for making the same spinach quiche recipe she choosed. To subsitute the eggs, i went for bechamel sauce,silken tofu with grated emmental cheese. Honestly, this quiche is super cheesy,addictive and definitely eggless to enjoy with a simple lettuce salad.

After baking and having few wonderful sweet eggless bakes for this baking eggless challenge, we truly enjoyed this month's challenge of baking this savoury eggless quiche.Thanks to Gayathri for this beautiful challenge, i simply loved this eggless quiche and truly amazed the way they came out super prefect without eggs, coz for me quiche cant be baked without eggs. Sending to Jagruti's COG guest hostes by me.

Pie dough:

2cups All purpose flour

Salt

1/2tsp Sugar

1/2cup Butter

1/4cup Olive oil

Take the flour in a bowl, add the salt,sugar,butter and olive oil, mix with your fingers to make a crumble like texture.

Gradually add the water and make a smooth dough. Wrap it and arrange in fridge for an hour.

For Bechamel sauce:

1/2cup Butter

1/2cup All purpose flour

2cups Milk

1no Onion (diced)

5nos Cloves

2no Bay leaves

Salt

1/2tsp Pepper powder

1/4tsp Nutmeg powder

Heat the butter in a pan in medium heat, once they start melting, add the all purpose flour and cook it for 5 minutes, they should nt change their colour n not to get burned,remove them from fire.

Heat the milk with onions,cloves and bayleaves for few minutes, let them sit aside and for more minutes.

Remove the onion, cloves, bayleaves from the milk, gradually add the hot milk to the butter flour mixture, stir them contiously..flame should be in simmer.

Cook them for few minutes until they turn thick,whisk well  and strain the sauce, add salt, pepper powder , nutmeg powder to the sauce.

For Quiche:

2cups White sauce

2cups Spinach (chopped)

1tbsp Olive oil

1/2cup Silken tofu (grinded as paste)

1cup Emmental Cheese (grated)+1/2 cup Cheese for topping

Preheat the oven to 350F, roll the already prepared pie dough as medium thick disc and tranfer it gently to a tart mould,meanwhile heat the oil and saute the chopped spinach until they shrinks a bit.

Spread the spinach to the prepared dough,add the emmental cheese,tofu paste to the white sauce,check for salt.Pour this mixture to the already prepared  pie dough.

Sprinkle generously the emmental cheese on the top and bake for 30-35minutes until the crust turns golden brown.

Serve with a simple salad.

Announcing Celebrate-Olympic Games Event

I love participating in various food events, these food events will definitely pull us to come with creative dishes. For this month of july, am hosting a wonderful event called Celebrate-Olympic games, this event is owned by Jagruti of Jagruti's Cooking Odyssey. July is going to be a celebration month in London coz of Olympic games. I love watching olympic games,definitely i'll support Indian team virtually to the core.Obviously guest hosting an event with olympic games as theme will definitely going to be more fun.Thanks a lot to Jags for letting me to host this event and am so happy for it.

Coming to the theme of this event,you can cook anything from starters to desserts from the countries participating in Olympic games,the dishes you are sending should be cooked in any country participating this Olympic games in London to be a part of this wonderful event. Even if you dont live in those countries participating Olympic, its will be really interesting to give a try to their foods. Wat a lovely chance to explore different cuisines na.  So friends, do cook many dishes and its time to try and taste different dishes from other countries.Thanks again to Jags for making this logo for me.

Here are the participation details :

1. Cook Any Dish from Any Country participating in Olympic games for the event.Post vegetarian /non Vegetarian recipes for the event.

2. Entries posted from 1st - 31st July 2012 is acceptable.

3.Please link your entries using the linky tools here.

4. Please use the event logo and its not compulsory. Your entry post should contain the link to this event announcement and Jagruti's Event Announcement.Its mandatory.

5. Multiple entries are welcome. If any of your previous posts qualify for this theme, you can send them too, provided it is re posted with the link to the event announcement.

6. Non-bloggers are invited to participate in the event. You can mail me your recipe and a photograph of the dish to the mail id Priyasuresh09@gmail.com.

Looking eagerly your creative and delicious entries.

Peach Lemon Cooler

The weather is not stable at all in Paris, actually its summer here but since a week either its raining or its too hot. After a week of nasty weather, yesterday its was too hot suddenly. We were running behind chilled juices and ice creams for the whole day. This peach lemon cooler was quite a fantastic refreshing drink,i simply prepared for us with soda yesterday. This cooler is quite refreshing and suits prefect for this super hot weather.Sending to Divya's Showcase-Fun in Sun.

3cups Yellow peaches (chopped)
1/2cup Sugar
2tbsp Lemon juice
1bottle Soda

Blend the chopped peaches with sugar and strain the juice. Take the soda and lemon juice together in a large vessel, add the peach juice, give a stir.

Serve immediately with ice cubes.Enjoy!