Friday, February 15, 2019

Oats Blueberry cream cheese muffins



Oats Blueberry Cream Cheese Muffins
Light & spongy,  nutritious and tasty! These yummy muffins are packed with complex carbs, fiber, fruity flavor and protein, perfect for your quick breakfast to go or tea/ coffee time snack.

Prep time 10 minutes, Bake Time 15 to 20 minutes Total time 30 minutes.
Makes around 9 to 10 medium size muffins.

Ingredients:
Oats Flour 1 cup
All purpose flour ¼ cup
Soften cream cheese 2/3cup or 5 oz
Milk ½ cup
Canola oil or avocado oil ¼ cup
Eggs 2 whole
Sugar ½ cup
Baking powder ½ teaspoon
Baking soda  ½ teaspoon
Salt  ½ teaspoon
Blueberries 1 cup




METHOD:
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease muffin cups with cooking spray or line with paper muffin liners.
  2. Sift all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together with a sifter into a bowl and then add Oats flour to it.In a large mixing bowl combine sugar, cream cheese, milk, eggs, and 1/4 cup vegetable oil.
  3. Fold dry flour mixture into wet eggs mixture until batter is smooth. Stir in blueberries.   (a great tip which helps blueberry not sink to the bottom of pan is to sprinkle some all purpose flour on blueberries and give it a mix so that flour coats the blueberries) Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups or loaf pan.
  4. Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, 15 to 18 minutes.
  5. Enjoy these not too sweet high fiber healthy oats muffin which are perfect for those evening coffee breaks or a quick to go breakfast!

I used both 6 piece muffin mold and small loaf pan.


Soft & Spongy oats blueberry muffins Ready in 30 minutes! 


Enjoy!!




Sunday, January 27, 2019

Soft and Light Laadi Pav


Soft & light, that spongy airy Laadi pav, oh I miss them so much!
No matter how fancy the bread loaf seems but nothing can replace the taste of that
Mumbai Pav. Being from mumbai I crave on making pav bhaji, vada pav and misal pav
is staple thursday dinner. I tried alot of these dinner rolls and pavs available in grocery stores
but nothing did justice to all these dishes till I tried this Pav recipe.

Here you go with the Perfect Pav recipe




Perfect Pav recipe
cooking time 2 to 2 1/2 hours
Makes 6 to 8 Pav

Ingredients :

  • Plain flour 2 cups 
  • Milk and water mixture:  180ml (80 ml milk+ 100 ml water)
  • Salt 1 tsp
  • Butter 4tsp + some extra for brushing the fresh baked pav
  • Yeast 2 tsp instant yeast 
  • Sugar 1 tablespoon 


























































Take a mixing bowl, ( I use the stand mixer ) and add flour and salt, mix.
Warm the water and milk mixture for 20 secs or just till its warm and then add sugar, mix well
and then add yeast, cover and keep it aside for 5 mins till it gets frothy.


















Add this frothy yeast mix to flour ad knead, the mix will be sticky and messy now add
the butter and mix till it forms a soft dough.
Transfer this to a large oiled container and cover it an keep it aside for 1 to 2 hour till it
has doubled or tripled in size. ( my trick which helps always that i keep it in warmest spot
of the kitchen or simply place it in oven with slightly preheating it for a minute )
Once its doubled/ raised punch it down and knead it again and make equal 6 to 8 portions.



















Now make small balls and place these in a tray lightly greased with oil and sprinkled with
flour with keeping some room in between for these balls to rise double in size , place a moist
muslin cloth on these balls, and keep it aside for another hour in a warm spot
Once they are doubled and rise gently remove the cloth and give them milk wash this helps
the pav to get the beautiful golden brown color. Bake  at 375f for 18 mins.
Remove from oven brush with butter and let them cool off for 10 mins