Garlic Bread sticks

from Divya's cook book

Ingredients

Water - 1/2 cup
Instant Dry Yeast - 1/2 tsp
Sugar - 1/2 tsp
Flour - 1 1/2 cups,divided
Olive oil - 2 tbsp,divided
Salt to taste
Garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
Italian seasoning/Oregano - 1 tbsp
Amul cheese cube - 1,grated

Method

In a mixing bowl,add water,yeast and sugar and keep aside for 5-10 minutes or until the yeast bubbles up.

Mix in 1 cup of flour,1 tbsp olive oil and mix in until the flour is blended in.Cover and let it rise until it doubles-about 45 minutes to an hour.

To the doubled sponge,mix in the rest of the flour,salt to taste and garlic paste and again mix until the flour is blended in.

Now knead the flour for about 5-10 minutes or until the dough becomes smooth.Let it rise for another hour or so until it doubles.
Smear a baking sheet with olive oil and preheat the oven to 200C.
Flour your counter top and roll the dough to a rough elongated circle.Top with the grated cheese and fold the dough to resemble a semi circle shape.
Transfer it to the baking sheet and smear the rest of the olive oil on top and top with the seasoning/oregano.
Cut into strips using a pizza cutter and bake for 12-15 minutes or until the bread is golden brown on top.

Eggless Mango Cake (Mango Loaf Bread)

Ingredients

 taken from Sharmis Passion

• Maida - 1 cup (135 gms)
• White Rava(fine variety) - 1/2 cup (60 gms)
• Mango - 1 big sized
• Walnuts chopped - 2 tbsp
• Granulated Sugar - 3/4 cup (165 gms)
• Curd - 1/4 cup (60 ml)
• Olive oil - 2 tbsp
• Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Salt - a pinch
• Cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp

Method:

1. Chop the mangoes and puree it without water to get a thick pulp. Keep aside.
2. Sift maida, baking soda, baking powder and salt atleast twice for even spread of baking powder and soda.Now add rava to the maida mixture, keep aside.
3. In a seperate bowl, add oil,yogurt, mango pulp, cardamom powder,sugar and mix well till sugar is completely dissolved.
4. Now add the curd mango mixture to rava maida mixture slowly and mix until a thick batter is formed. Add chopped walnuts and mix once. Reserve 1 tbsp of walnuts for topping.
5. Preheat the oven at 190 deg C for 10mins. Meanwhile grease the pan with little oil and sprinkle maida. Arrange butter paper if you use it(I use for most of the cake for easy unmoulding).
6. Transfer the batter to the cake pan. Top the cake batter with remaining chopped walnuts and bake it for 35-40mins at 190 degree C.In my OTG it took exactly 40mins for the mango bread to get baked.
7. The top would have turned to a golden brown color by this time. Check with a toothpick in the center of the cake and if it comes out clean then ur cake is done.Cool it for atleast 15mins before you unmould and slice them.

Cocoa Chocolate Sauce

Cocoa Chocolate Sauce

Ingredients

• 1½ cups of milk
• 1 oz (30 g) of butter
• 4 tbsp of sugar
• 4 tbsp of Cadbury's cocoa powder
• 2 tbsp of cream
• 1½ tbsp of cornflour
• ½ tsp of vanilla essence

Method

1. Blend together the milk, sugar, cocoa powder and cornflour with a whisk until a smooth paste has formed.
2. Transfer the mixture to a saucepan and heat over a medium heat until the mixture begins to boil.
3. Reduce the heat and simmer for 2 minutes.
4. Remove the pan from the stove and add the butter. Stir the butter until it melts and blends into the sauce mixture.
5. Finally, add the vanilla essence and the cream and stir well.
6. Serve the sauce warm with your favourite pudding.