Monday, March 9, 2009

Rice Bread

Dear all,
I found this recipe from here.













Ingredients :
100 gm white rice
100 ml water
250 gm superfine flour
60 ml fresh milk
1 tsp dry yeast
3 tbsp sugar
20 gm butter (soften)
1 tsp salt

Method:
1) First activate the dry yeast. Soak yeast with 1 tsp sugar in water. Sprinkle with 1/2 tsp plain
flour and set aside for 10 minutes or until mixture turns frothy.
2) Blend the rice together milk and water finely.
3) Sift flour into a mixing bowl. Add in salt and sugar.
4) Pour in the rice mixture , butter and frothy yeast mixture.
5) Mix to form a soft dough. Knead the dough on a floured surface for about 10 to 12 minutes
until it becomes even in texture, springy and no longer sticky.
6) Place dough in bowl. Cover with wet cloth and leave aside to prove for 40 minutes or until it doubles in bulk.
7) On a lightly-floured table, knead the dough again.
8) Shape small balls and place them on a lightly-greased baking tray. Cover with a tea towel and
prove for 30 to 35 minutes or until they double in size.
9) Bake in preheated oven.
10) Spread some butter on baked bread

Thosai






Ingredients :
50g blackgram dhal (ulunthu) with skin
175g uncooked rice
75g cooked rice
1 1/2-2 cups water
1 tsp salt or to taste
1 tsp fenugreek (venthayam)
1 tsp yis
Cooking oil or sesame oil or ghee

Method :
1) Wash rice and dhal and soak each separately overnight or for at least seven to eight hours.
2) Drain, remove skin from the dhal. Grind rice and dhal together with the cooked rice and
water in a blender until smooth.
3) Add salt and yis. Mix well. Leave to ferment for 8 to 10 hours.
4) Grease an iron griddle lightly with oil (cooking oil/sesame oil/ghee).
5) Pour a ladleful of batter onto the centre of the griddle. Spread the batter immediately with the back of the ladle starting from the centre in a clockwise motion to make a thin pancake.
6) Cook for about half a minute or until the underside turns slightly brown.
7) Remove thosai from the griddle and repeat till the rest of the batter is used up.
8) Serve thosai with chicken curry.