Surti Butter/Buttery Jeera Biscuits/Batasa

Surti Butter, its definitely an interesting baked goodies to give a try if you love something savoury. I never heard about this Surti butter before and i tried my hands for the first time. I baked this Surti butter for this month's We knead to Bake, a baking event by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and this dish is suggested by Madhuli Ajay.Do you know this Jeera Butter Biscuit are very popular tea time snack sold in most of the bakeries or in Irani tea houses in India. These biscuits are small, crisp,dried bread buns with a light texture. Trust me, this rich cookies are excellent munchies to enjoy as a fabulous accompaniment to enjoy with Indian masala chai or to go well with a bowl of soups. This recipe is from Crumbs! Bread Stories and Recipes for the Indian Kitchen by Saee Koranne-Khandekar, Madhuli Ajay pulled us to bake out these rich cookies.

Homemade Crumpets/Crumpets

A crumpet is a griddle cake and these cakes makes an excellent breakfast or snacks depends upon how its served. This English crumpets are generally round in shaped and their shape is obtained by pouring the yeasted batter by a shallow ring in a pan/griddle. This cakes have their characteristic flat top with many small pores, with a chewy and spongy texture. They are cooked in simmer and served immediately to serve warm. These cakes can be cooked slightly undercooked and toasted later to enjoy for breakfast. Often served with butter, you can enjoy thoroughly this spongy crumpets with jam, honey, spread like nutella, caramel etc.English muffins and Crumpets are two different griddle cakes, though they are both round with spongy texture. However crumpets are served whole with butter and jam while English muffins are splited before serving.

Pain d'Epi/French Wheat Stalk Bread with Caramelized Onions

Pain d'épi is known as the wheat stalk bread which calls for an impressive twist on the classic French baguette. We get these Pain d'épi very much easily in every bakeries here, obviously i never had a chance to bake these wheat stalk shaped bread at home. But finally it happened, and i baked Pain d'épi at home.Epi de Blé is the name given to the bread which looks like wheat stalk or the ears of wheat. This bread is often baked during special holidays and celebrations, this bread calls for an easy preparation and sounds almost like French baguette. Apart from cutting the dough to resemble as much as like wheat stalk, this bread calls for easy ingredients.

Vegetable Masala Buns/Raw Vegetable Stuffed Pizza Buns

Being a home maker, i always love to bake my own bread at home with easily available ingredients from my pantry. However i have still number of bakes to try,obviously i love to be a part of many baking groups. Unfortunately since ever i started working, i couldnt able to catch up with many baking groups. Somehow few baking challenges are very close to my heart and i never want to give up though life is super busy. One among those baking challenges is We Knead to Bake, a monthly baking event started by Aparna. I have baked many fantastic breads coz of this baking group and its still going on.

Iranian Barbari Bread/Noon Barbari/Naan-e-Barbari

Barbari bread is a type of flat bread which is quite popular in Iran and its neighbouring Armenia. Barbari means our fathers or else related to Barbars in Persian language. Barbars are a group of people who lives in Eastern borders of Iran. Obviously not need to explain that this bread comes from this group.Coming to this Bread, its often eaten with cheese with herbs, jam, or else simply with a cup of tea for breakfast. Its almost like our Indian Naan bread,and this bread is also known as Naan-E-Barbari or else Noon Barbari. However Persian also makes this bread as much as like Iranian. This bread is usually shaped as a longish oval and this bread calls for roomal, a flour paste prepared using flour and baking soda. This flour paste helps a lot to stretch the yeasted dough and this paste is also used to spread over the bread to give a deep brown colour after baking.

Pizza Swirl Bread

Pizza, this word itself make my family drool, especially my kids. Fortunately i learned to tame the yeast obviously i do my own pizza crust and go with the toppings of our own choie. Whenever we feel like having this cheesy food, i dont hesitate a second to bake some delicious Pizzas. Needless to say my blog baby have a couple of pizza related dishes though my today's post is also going to be a pizza bread. Yes Pizza Swirl bread, trust me this bread rocks, with simple ingredients and with an easy pizza dough, this swirl bread tastes simply awesome. If you are planning to make this incredible bread, dont forget to make the pizza dough in huge quantity.This post is going to be a part of a monthly baking event, i have been a part of this group since ever its started. Somehow i try to bake studiously for this baking event, as the bakes given for every month to the members of this group will be very interesting one to bake without any fail.

Gai Mei Bao - Chinese Coconut Buns/Cocktail Buns

Cocktail buns aka Chinese Coconut buns has its origins in Hong Kong which is a sweet bun,filled with a buttery, milky sweet coconut paste. This bun was created some time in the 1950's in Hong Kong, when the owners of a local bakery were left with quite a few unsold but perfectly good buns.Then the owners  ground them up with sugar to make a filling which was put into freshly baked buns the next day. While the original buns were made with filling made only from left over buns and sugar, some more creative bakers eventually added more flavour to the new buns by adding coconut, butter and milk to the filling. This has now become the accepted filling for these Chinese Cocktail/ Coconut Buns.

Broa de Milho - Portuguese Cornbread

Do you know baking bread at home is like a child play if the yeast god behave well with you. I love baking bread myself at home, obviously bread is one of our staple food after rice. Though i do bake variety of breads, am yet to try Sourdough breads. However baking bread by ourself will definitely makes everyone at home happy. Needless to say that baking is quite a stress burster, my today's post is Broa aka Portuguese corn bread, this bread is traditionally made in Portugal and in Brazil (where it is traditionally seasoned with fennel). Not like the Usual cornbread, this broa is made with a mixture of cornmeal and wheat or rye flour which is leavened with yeast.

Cheesy Spicy Pull Apart Bread/Cheesy Indianized Pull Apart Bread

Bread baking at home became quite a routine for me, if i dont bake a bread atleast once a week, my family will ask for it. Obviously freshly baked homemade breads are quite healthier than the store bought one. Since ever the yeast god behave good with me, i cant stop baking bread at home and seriouslyi have limited myself buying them from Bakeries. If i want to make sandwiches for our dinner or lunch, i will get the famous Baguette from the nearby bakery else i'll bake my own bread at home for our snacks or else for our lazy sunday brunch. My today's post was one of my recent bread with spicy vegetable-soya masala. I got this bread pattern from Pinterest which i bookmarked long back while i was checking for an interesting shape. Though this bread looks fantastic, shaping of this bread is very easy and quick to make. I enjoyed thoroughly shaping this bread and trust me, once this bread gets baked they will get vanished very much quickly than you can imagine.

Eggless Spiced Pumpkin Rolls

Pumpkin, this squash marks the fall season in most of the countries. I just love this fleshy squash, trust me anything i do with pumpkin goes directly to our family favourite dish. Most of the time i do soups, though sometime i make puree out of this squash to make baked goodies. One of my recent bread rolls with pumpkin puree is this spiced pumpkin rolls. Am sure this rolls will definitely please everyone. Not only the tastebuds also a real treat to eyes, this spiced pumpkin rolls makes an excellent dinner rolls to decorate your thanksgiving dinner table and they looks very much prefect to attract anyone especially the kids.This spiced pumpkin rolls are this month's  We Knead to Bake, monthly event by Aparna, My Diverse Kitchen.

Eggless Irish Bambrack/Speckled Bread - Irish Halloween Fruit Bread

Barmbrack/Speckled Bread/Irish Halloween fruit bread is often served toasted with butter along with a cup of tea in the afternoon. The dough of this bread is sweeter than sandwich bread, but not as rich as cake, and the sultanas and raisins add flavour and texture to the final product. In Ireland it is sometimes called Bairín Breac, from the Irish word bairín - a loaf - and breac - speckled due to the raisins in it, hence it means a speckled loaf.

When i check wikipedia to know more about this bread, i was totally amazed to read the tradition of this halloween bread. Here is wat Wikipedia says about this Halloween Brack , this bread traditionally have various objects baked into the bread and was used as a sort of fortune-telling game. In the barmbrack , there might have a pea, a stick, a piece of cloth, a small coin and a ring. Each item, when received in the slice, was supposed to carry a meaning to the person concerne. If its a pea, the person would not marry that year; the stick, would have an unhappy marriage or continually be in disputes; the cloth or rag, would have bad luck or be poor; the coin, would enjoy good fortune or be rich; and the ring, would be wed within the year. Other articles added to the brack include a medallion, usually of the Virgin Mary to symbolise going into the priesthood or to the Nuns, although this tradition is not widely continued in the present day. Thank god, else imagine the disaster after having this bread.

Yeasted Eggless Banana Sandwich Bread

Its been a while i baked a bread at home, summer vacation and few more personnal stuffs kept me away from baking. After two month's break to few baking events finally am kick starting my baking. Usually we make banana bread as quick bread using baking powder but today's bread goes for yeast. Actually this bread tastes mildly sweet and you can make excellent peanut butter sandwich and not to forget you can make fabulous french toast too. If you dont have sweet tooth, you can still make savoury sandwiches with different savoury stuffing or else serve this bread simply with different curries or gravies.I prepared this sandwich bread simply with bananas, you have numerous choice to flavor this bread with different fruits, or else with different spices like cardamom, cinnamon etc. To make this sandwich bread more interesting, you can still add chocolate chips, nuts and many more spreads or syrups like caramel, nutella etc.

Eggless Kimmelweck/Kummelweck Rolls

Kummelweck rolls are simple rolls , but they may sounds special and different as this simple rolls are topped with sea salt and caraway seeds. These rolls are great for sandwiches and even for making burgers.Do you know what exactly is a Kimmelweck Roll? It's a hard roll, much like a crusty Kaiser roll, but sprinkled with caraway and coarse salt instead of poppy seeds. They are German in origin and the word “Kummel” means caraway seeds while “Weck” means roll. In Buffalo in New York, these rolls are used to make a speciality sandwich called the "Beef on Weck", with thinly sliced rare roast beef and horseradish and it is typically served with fries and a dill pickle. 

Black Forest Buns

I have planned so many bakes specially for valentine's day but as usual i couldnt bake anything for this V day. However i planned to bake an interesting yeasted buns or breads for this special occasion. I couldnt stop myself to bake this fantastic black forest buns as they suits absolutely prefect for this celebration.This black forest buns are this month's challenge of We Knead to Bake, monthly event by Aparna, My Diverse Kitchen. Black forest buns sounds as much as like the famous Black forest cake which goes for chocolate cake, cherry compote, kirsch and loads of cream, while this buns goes for chocolate cake,cherry compote or strawberry jam.Actually its better to use cherry compote but unfortunately i went for strawberry jam as none at home like cherries in buns.

Pane Siciliano - A Sicilian Sesame seeded Semolina Bread

Needless to say am a foodie, everytime i join a group or a baking challenge i will immediately make the challenge without any delay. This is the first time i delayed baking this Pane Siciliano due to some personnel stuffs. However this Pane siliciano needs atleast two days as you need to make Cresciuta aka the famous Biga.What is unusual about this bread is that it is baked with semolina ( what we know in India as rava/ sooji). In Sicily (and Italy), the semolina they use for this bread is a specific grind of durum wheat called “semola di grano duro rimacinato” or just “rimacinato”, which translates as 'ground again'. This refers to semolina which is ground once more to break the coarser grain into finer flour.

Julekake Version 2 - A Norwegian Christmas Bread

Am baking this Norwegian christmas bread for the second time, this bread goes for this month's We Knead to Bake, monthly event by Aparna, My Diverse Kitchen.Julekake or Julekaka/ Julekaga is a rich holiday bread flavoured with cardamom which is traditionally served at Christmas in many Scandinavian countries. It is particularly popular in Norway and Denmark.Julekake means “Yule Bread” in Norwegian.  This bread is more cake-like in texture and sometimes it is dusted with powdered sugar or glazed with a white sugar icing. If it is not glazed or left plain, then it is usually served warm at breakfast with butter or a goat milk cheese called geitost/ brunost. 

Eggless Sheermal/Shirmal - Saffron Flavoured Flatbread

As per wiki ,Sheermal or Shirmal, is a saffron-flavored traditional flatbread made in Iran, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Lucknow region and Hyderabad, India, probably from Persian influences. It is one of the several rare Lucknow and Hyderabadi delicacies in India.It is also part of the Awadhi cuisine and is enjoyed in Old Bhopal, especially with meat delicacies. Sheermal is a mildly sweet naan made out of maida, leavened with yeast, baked in a tandoor or oven. Sheermal was traditionally made like roti. Today, sheermal is prepared like naan. The warm water in the recipe for roti was replaced with warm milk sweetened with sugar and flavored with saffron. The final product ressembles as much as like Danish pastry.Sheermal is sometimes served with Lucknow kababs or alongside nihari.The name of this bread comes from the Persian word for milk which is called 'Sheer'. Some decorates sheermal with a lovely rustic pattern while Lucknowi sheermal garnished with raisins and others garnish with silvered almnds, poppyseeds or simply with sesame seeds for the topping.Sheermal can be eaten with tea for breakfast and a part of a meal with non vegetarian curries like Nihari and vegetarian curries like Kurma.

Coca de Venduras/Coca Vegetable/Vegan Catalan Style Vegetable Pizza

Pizza, this word itself makes my kids happy, they just love to have pizzas everyday,but since i dont like to feed often my kids with these cheesy super rich Italian dish, i'll try myself to make them at home with healthy stuffs in it. Sometimes i'll make wheat based pizza crust or else i'll go for mixed millets pizza crust as well. Also i'll try to add grated veggies in my homemade pizza based crust.However i'll find all the way to add healthy stuffs in my homemade pizzas. Pizzas makes an excellent meal if they are prepared in a healthy way. If you have an opportunity to make a pizza without cheese, how can i miss it. When googling, the name coca pulled me to go through the recipe and got to know more about this Spanish aka Catalan style of tart aka pizza which goes for a yeasted thin crust topped with sauteed vegetables without cheese.

Vegan Russian Braided Bread with Pesto Filling

I love pestos, obviously i make varieties of pestos at home.Bread with pesto filling definitely goes directly to our favourite bread list, i tried my hands in making this Russian braided bread for this month's We Knead To Bake, a monthly baking event by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen. As Aparna asked us to chose any stuffed bread with a savory filling, actually she said to make a different shaped bread, immediately i checked my bookmarked recipes and baked this green gorgeous looking pesto braided bread. This bread is definitely a keeper, very easy to shape. This bread can be enjoyed thoroughly just like that or simply along with a bowl of warm soup to have filling and satisfying dinner. Pesto filling is used in this bread is Coriander, cashew pesto. This pesto gives any excellent flavor to this vegan bread which is dangerously addictive. One cant just stop with a slice.

Gibassier - A French Anise & Orange Flavored Loaf

Gibassier is a French loaf which makes an excellent bread for breakfast, this bread is prepared with candied orange, orange blossom water and aniseed which is later topped with plain or vanilla sugar. Gibassier is baked during christmas season when orange is found abundantly, some old French stories says that earlier during xmas,orange is given as a gift from Santa to poor childrens. When you check for Xmas special French bakes most of the breads or cakes have this citrus fruit in it. Gibassier is also named as large cookie from Lourmarin as they looks like oval shaped leaves.Gibassier sounds as much as like Italian Panettone, and its believed that it must apparently be torn apart with the hands when served to bring good luck in the New year.