BREAD GULABJAMUN OR PAURUTIR PANTUA

“Gulab jamun” -  a very tasty Indian dessert, In northern India people say “Gulabjamun” and in Eastern India, like bengal people say “Pantua” or kalojam etc., I think most of the people who tasted it once became fan of it, like me. The day when I made this, I was eager to eat “Gulabjamun” but because sweet shops are far from our house, I felt very lazy to go and buy Gulabjamuns. So, I decided to make some in our house. I had seen some bread pieces in freezer, I had arranged all the ingredients and made this, because I had added coco powder in it, it was tastier and looked exactly like “Gulabjamun”.

 Ingredients :-

Bread – 1 whole Packet(10-12 pieces)

All purpose flour - 2 tbsp

Milk – ½ liter

Coco powder - 100 grams

Sugar - 400 grams

Water - ½ liter

Baking powder - 1 tsp

Cardamom powder – 1 tsp

Coconut crumbs - For garnishing 

Method :-

For syrup - heat a pan, make thick syrup with sugar,water and cardamom powder. keep aside.

 For Jamuns - Take bread pieces, soak in milk, now mash bread pieces, Add all purpose flour, baking powder, coco powder, Mix well, Now make balls from it, fry in hot oil, dip in sugar syrup, let the balls soak the syrup. At last roll in coconut crumbs.

PINEAPPLE DELIGHT

After many days I am posting this recipe. I was out of town so unable to post any recipe.But in Tour I have got very tasty and easy recipe from Chef Nikhil Rastogi’s programme that is “Pineapple delight”.Not only it is good at taste  but also looks awesome.It looks like cake, Isn’t it? But I have given my twist in this recipe, original recipe says to use maple syrup but I have used simple sugar syrup. Believe me any one can make this, It is made out of bread, pineapple, sugar syrup, whipped cream, cherry.So, here is the recipe-

Ingredients :-

Bread - 1 Packet

Butter - 250 gms

Pineapple -1(You can use canned Pineapple)

Full fat cream - 250 gms

Sugar syrup or maple syrup-  1/2 liter

Cherry for decoration

Method :-

Take bread pieces, Cut in roundels, Fry them in butter.

Cut roundels of pineapple.

Whip cream.

Now its time to assemble-----------

First take one piece of fried bread,

Now put Pineapple slices over the bread piece,

put whipped cream over pineapple,

Again put Pineapple slice over cream and lastly pineapple slice

now pour sugar syrup or maple syrup over the assembled dish

Decorate with cherry and little milk.               

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LACHHA PARATHA

This Lachha Paratha is totally different kind of bread, I have made this with coriander leaves,Please make it and say whether you like it or not .Lachha  paratha is a kind of bread of India. It is rich and flavorful, It has also lots of varieties,  I had made greenish  Lachha  paratha, you can make plain lachha  paratha i.e. without using coriander mixture which I have mixed while making dough, Lachha  paratha  looks good  and flaky in nature.

Ingredients-

Wheat flour-250 gms

Coriander leaves-little

Garlic-4-5

Green chilli-4-5

Lime juice-2tsp

Salt to taste

Ghee(clarified butter)-75  gms

Method-

Grind coriander leaves,garlic,salt and lime juice without water

Make soft dough with  wheat flour

Divide the dough in equal sized balls

Roll out each ball into chapatti

Smear little ghee over the chapatti

spread green mixture over it

cut the chapatti into 1”thick stripes

place the stripes one over the other

now roll the layers into a cylinder and press lightly,  roll out again in lachha or chapati

now roast the lachha in a pan,putting some ghee over it

serve hot