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Naan I am finally here with the recipe for Naan. There are not many who are not familiar with these teardrop-shaped flat breads, soft pillowy cushions with rippled surface, and smothered with butter. They are utterly delicious! Over the past few months, I have been getting so many requests and seeing searches for Naan in my blog, I am almost embarrassed to have taken so long to come up with the post. As in all cuisines, bread is an integral part of Indian cuisine. Naan may be made in different flavors; garlic, spices, herbs or whatever you can think of. This is a more traditional recipe of Naan with yeast. Please do not be intimidated by the long process. Since Naan is traditionally cooked in the Tandoor – a clay oven with extremely high temperature, Naan made at home usually do not have the authentic texture and look. The cooking time is very important; it has to be well done, but overcooking it in the skillet or the oven will stiffen it making it crusty, which is not desirable. Pocket Pita

Crusty Bread Recipe There’s just something about the smell of fresh baked crusty bread that makes you feel at home. If you like fresh baked bread but don’t like all the elbow grease that goes into it then keep reading. Bread makers were all the rage a few years ago and took a lot of the work out of fresh homemade bread. But what if I told you you could get the best homemade crusty bread ever without needing any gadgets, machines or even kneading the dough? That’s correct, NO KNEADING! Crusty Bread Ingredients 3 cups all-purpose or bread flour, more for dusting ¼ teaspoon instant yeast 1¼ teaspoons salt Cornmeal or wheat bran (optional) Directions 1. 2. 3. 4. Easy right? Oh and if you’re into frugal cooking check out Frugal Mom’s Guide to Cooking Once a Month. See also: Cupcake Wedding Cake Gratitude Journal 5 Ways To Save Money With Young Kids Spring Cleaning Food: Use Up The Old, Make Way For The Fresh Coat Rack with Shelf: Add To Your Mud Room Or Entry

Flour Tortillas When I was growing up in South Texas we had this neighbor who would, on Saturday afternoons, make her tortillas for the week. Believe me, I made friends with her children so I could make myself available for tortilla day. I think she enjoyed my enthusiasm and always had a few extra tortillas for me to take home. They were sublime! Eventually we moved to North Texas and that ended my weekly tortilla gorge. I had quite a bit of culinary know-how, and I had the internet which would surely hold the key to delicious tortillas, right? You would be surprised! I tested a number of recipes for tortillas with all manner of ingredients. I discovered pretty early that all-purpose was the flour to use. I despaired that I would never find what I was looking for when, while looking at the shortening shelf at the grocery store, I remembered one thing from the Saturday's at my neighbors. Flour Tortillas Makes 12 Combine the dry ingredients in a bowl. Cover and let rest 30 minutes. Enjoy!

Honey Wheat Bread with Homemade Honey Butter « The Modest Kitchen The past few days I have been craving a fresh loaf of bread. Adam really likes whenever I bake honey wheat bread so that’s what I made. I have also been seeing around the interwebs how to make your own butter. So I did and IT WAS SO EASY! Recipe: Honey Wheat Bread Ingredients: 1 package of active dry yeast (or 2 1/2 teaspoons of bread machine yeast, if using a bread machine)1 cup of warm milk (80-90º F)*1 egg1 teaspoon of salt1/3 cup of honey 1 cup all-purpose flour*1 and 1/2 cup whole wheat flour1/2 cup of rolled oats *Scald milk first and let sit until it reaches correct temperature. *You can use all wheat flour if desired. Okay, so I dumped all the ingredients in the bread machine and let it mix and rise in there (I know, I am so lazy). If you want to do this by hand, just dissolve the yeast in the warm milk and then begin adding the other ingredients. You will let your bread rise initially after mixing for about an hour. Okay now onto homemade butter. Back to making homemade butter…

Step-by-Step: Homemade Bagels I was visiting a friend recently and she casually offered me bagels for breakfast—she just had to finish baking them, she said. Baking them? You see, she let them rise overnight, then finished them off in the morning so they’d be warm and crusty for breakfast. She made them from scratch. If that isn’t impressive, I don’t know what is. But it got me to wondering. When I saw Meredith’s recipe for homemade bagels, I was inspired to give it a try. You start by adding warm water to a mixing bowl. You add the yeast to the warm water… …along with the sugar. Once the yeast doubles, you add the oil. Then comes the flour and salt and the whole thing gets placed into the mixer with the paddle attachment. You could also simply do this in a heavy glass bowl and use your hands to mix. But if you have a mixer, you use the paddle attachment until it all comes together. Then you cover the bowl and put it in a warm place to help it rise. Once it has doubled, you punch it down and put it on a floured surface.

5 Ingredient Guinness Quick Bread Here is a quick and easy recipe for Guinness bread, perfect for St. Patrick’s Day or any day of the year. This is a great beer bread to go with your corn beef and cabbage or shepherd’s pie tonight. This recipe is too easy, it’s got just 5 ingredients. It uses self-rising flower, brown sugar, a pinch of salt and Guinness. How could you get any easier? You can substitute all purpose flour in this recipe too, but make sure to add 1 1/4 teaspoon baking powder and 1/8 teaspoon salt for every cup of flour used. Make sure to also check the date on your self rising flour. 5 Ingredient Guinness Quick Bread Ingredients 3 cups self rising flour 1 cup brown sugar, not packed a pinch of salt 1 – 11.2 oz Bottle of Guinness Butter Method 1. 2.

Pita Bread Pita Bread There are SO MANY things out there that just taste better when you make them at home. It’s especially nice when you can say that about something that’s really easy to make as well. These pitas fit into both of those categories. They taste amazing and they’re surpringly easy to make. I’ve made these a couple times in the past year and every time I do, I say that I should make them more often. If you want to make these into pita chips, just cut them up and bake them at 350 for about 10 minutes or until browned. Two Years Ago: Fourth of July Layered Cookie Cake These homemade pitas are easy to make and delicious! Ingredients: 3 cups flour 1 1/2 tsp salt 1 Tbsp sugar or honey 1 packet yeast (or, if from bulk, 2 tsp yeast) 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups water, at room temperature 2 Tbsp olive oil, vegetable oil, butter, or shortening Directions: If you are using active dry yeast, follow the instructions on the packet to active it. While the dough is resting, preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Kitchen Hack: One-Minute Bread Oven-fresh bread is one of life’s simple joys. Ciabatta, a crisp-crusted Italian bread with hints of sourdough and loads of crannies longing for butter, is one of the easiest breads to make at home. Why are we talking about baking bread on Lifehack? Because kitchen hacks aren’t just impressive, they often have very tasty results! In this instance, I’m going to show you how to make ciabatta with less than one minute of prep time. How is that possible? You may have heard of “no-knead” bread before. I wanted something very, very simple that delivered great results in 60 seconds of prep time or less. For your ciabatta you’ll need: 4 cups of all-purpose flour (do NOT pack the flour into the measuring cup)2 cups of warm water1 teaspoon of salt1/4 teaspoon of granulated yeast (or equivalent) For the gorgeous readers needing metric equivalents of this recipe, Toon left a comment with the following conversion: Have everything handy? 1. 2. Add flour and salt to your bowl of yeasty water. 3. 4. 5.

Kerala Parotha, a Flakey South-Indian Flatbread There are a million good reasons to visit South India. The people, for one, are amazing – warm-hearted, generous, and absolutely vibrant in culture. Then there’s the setting – think, the most amazing beaches you have ever seen. Tropical trees heavily laden with sweet fruit. Winding waterways through villages, making it a “Venice of the East”. If I had to choose just one food to eat for the rest of my life, this flatbread would be a sturdy candidate. The best part about it, beyond its general mind-blowing-ness, is how easy and fun it is to make! Kerala Parotha 2 cups flour1/4 tsp salt1 egg, lightly beaten2 tbsp oil3/4 cup water 4 tbsp butter, meltedoil, for frying 1. 2. 3. 4.

Amazing Artisan Bread for 40 Cents a Loaf - No Kneading, No Fussing, No Kidding Update: If you're interested, I've written an update on this technique here. What if I told you that instead of buying bakery bread for four or five dollars a loaf, you could make delicious handmade bread whenever you wanted, at a fraction of the cost and it is so easy a kid could do it? Well, read on because this method of making artisan bread at home will change your life. You can make incredible bread without having to do all the usual time consuming tasks of breadmaking : no need to make a new batch of dough every time you want breadno need to proof yeastno need to make starters or prefermented doughno kneading! In the last few years, several methods for making easy no-knead bread doughs have crept up on the internet and gained popularity. "The results have forced me to reconsider all of the premises I once held sacrosanct". So what is going on here? Boules Rising and Boules after Baking To see how easy it is to get a loaf ready, you can watch me form a loaf in about 30 seconds: 1. 2. 3.

Basic Whole Wheat Pizza My husband and I both like to try new foods, but sometimes we just want to eat pizza for dinner. This is my standard pizza recipe… I recommend making the dough early in the afternoon and letting it rise a few hours until dinner time. If you don’t have time during the day, make it the night before and let it rise for about an hour before refrigerating it. Pizza Dough Ingredients: 1 cup warm water1 package yeast (1 tablespoon)1 tablespoon sugar1 1/2 teaspoons salt2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour1 1/2 cups all purpose flour Pizza Dough Directions: Start by combining the water and the yeast in a large mixing bowl (if you are using an electric mixer, use the mixer bowl). Add the remaining 1/2 cup of whole wheat flour and the all purpose flour. Transfer the dough to a large greased bowl. Lightly grease a 15 inch pizza pan or a large baking sheet. Pizza Sauce Ingredients: (Note – my husband likes his pizza saucey, so this recipe makes a lot of sauce. crispy).

Bread Recipes Bread has been around for thousands of years, from all corners of the world. For many civilizations bread has played an important part of everyday lives. One example is "Breaking bread" which is an ancient symbol of friendship and hospitality. I hope these classic bread recipes will help to strengthen your bonds with both family and guests that come to your home. Enjoy! Ingredients: 1 cup water (lukewarm 110 - 115F) 1 cup buttermilk (room temp.) 1/4 cup oil 5-6 cups bread flour 1/2 cup sugar 2 large eggs (beaten) 1 tablespoon salt 4 teaspoons instant yeast Egg Wash: 1 egg white 3 tablespoons milk Method: This Country White Bread Recipe is in a step by step cooking class or go to the printable recipe card Mix together water, buttermilk and oil. Classic Bread Recipes Rye Breads Sourdough Breads Dessert Breads

Tracy’s KILLER Garlic Bread › shutterbean While we’re on the subject of soups, I thought it would be nice to share my SECRET recipe for the most KILLER Garlic Bread. What goes better with soups than garlic bread? Not much! My neighbor taught me to add dill in the garlic butter. If you were to ask me what my death row meal would be, I’d immediately tell you a buffet full of this KILLER GARLIC BREAD. And we’re off! Get your butter ready. Chop up your garlic, nice & fine. Put the garlic and the butter in a microwave safe bowl & melt in the microwave. Time for the dried herbs! Put all the herbs in the melted butter. Let the butter sit until it gets harder. Now smear it on your bread! Put the halves back together again. Unwrap your bread and put it under the broiler for 2 minutes. Wait for it to cool slightly and cut up your bread with a sharp knife. Brace yourself. Tracy’s Killer Garlic Bread (recipe by me!) Place the stick of butter and chopped garlic in a microwave safe bowl. Shutterbean Notes: