Popped Rice Balls

Popped Rice Balls (Khoi Moa/Murkhi )

Makes:300gms                                                                                     Time:10 mins

Popped Rice Balls or Khoi Moa/ Murkhi as it is known in Bengali. Yes, this dish is a Bengali specialty. It is a simple, sweet and tasty snack which you can make in minutes. A near-extinct recipe as mothers are moving on to unhealthy fast food such as chips, noodles, and burgers. 

Ingredients

Popped rice   200gm

Jaggery         100 gm

Water             2 tbsp

Ghee              2tsp

Preparation

Take a kadhai/ sauce pan put the jaggery and water and keep on stirring while letting it boil until it becomes bubbly and starts sticking to the stirring spoon. Then add the ghee. Switch off the flame.Keep on stirring for a little more time to cool it. Add the popped rice and mix well so all of it is uniformly coated with the jaggery. Make sure it is not sticky.Then take a handful of the mixture and press it between the palms to shape it into a ball. Your snack is ready

Gluten Free Tandoori Roti

Gluten Free Tandoori Roti

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup rice flour
• 1/4 cup buckwheat flour
• 1/2 cup tapioca flour*
• 2tbsp Xanthium gum
• 1 tbsp fresh yeast
• 2tbsp milk
• little sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1tbsp curd
• ghee/butter for greasing

*(Soak the tapioca pearl balls/saboo dana which are easily available in any grocery store and makes the powder it's amazing how it holds the flour make it easy to bake make flatbread stuff flat bread and it makes it soft)

Method
1.Take the yeast in a mixing bowl add warm milk and sugar, 1 tsp rice flour and leave it aside for half hour.

2.Mix all the flours in a mixing bowl.

3.Now add the flours, gum, and salt to the yeast which has puffed up and make a nice dough by kneading adding water as required.The dough should not be too dry.Leave aside covering it properly.

4.After 2 hours the dough should have puffed up nicely gently divide the dough roughly into balls to make the flatbreads.

5.Take some dry flour roll the balls in it do not try to make it smooth and with the palms place it on a wooden floured surface.Press to make a flat bread.

6.Meanwhile, warm a tava/griddle where you are going to cook but not a non-sticky one.

7.Brush some water on the surface of the bread you just shaped and lift it up and flip the wet surface on the warm pan.

8.When bubbles appear on the surface hold the griddle and turn it over directly over the flame but make sure it's in a medium mode so you don't overdo the bread.Peep a little to make sure you get a brownish surface then straighten the pan let it rest on for a half minute and then remove.

9.Grease it with ghee serve it hot with some curry.

Cheesy flat bread from Rice flour and buckwheat

   Cheesy flatbread (roti) 

  from Rice flour and buckwheat.This simple recipe can be carried along when going for a trip.

   Ingredients

•          1 cup chopped spinach leaves
•          1/2 cup grated cheese (75g)
•          2 eggs
•          3 tablespoon rice flour
•          2 tablespoon buckwheat flour
•          2 tsp tapioca flour
•          2 tbsp oil
•          Salt 
•          Pepper

Preparation

      Step 1

     Wash, peel and chop spinach leaves.

      Step 2

      Place into a bowl and add the grated cheese, eggs, flours, salt, pepper leaves and oil.Combine and make a nice smooth dough and divide them equally into balls.

      Step 3

     Now press them with your palms to make some flatbreads(rotis). Heat up the cast iron frying pan on medium heat.

      Step 4

     Cook the bread and flip them when one side is slightly brown. After cooking both sides put some oil and make sure to flip it to get the pieces of bread evenly greased. Serve hot with some pickles.  

Rice buckwheat cake

Rice buckwheat cake

Rice buckwheat cake

Ingredients

Rice flour - 1/2 cup

Buckwheat flour - 1/2 cup

Sugar (Powder) - 200 grams

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Curd - 2 tbsp

Egg - 3 pcs

Milk - 2 tbsp

Vanilla - 1 tsp

Baking powder - 1 1/2 tsp

Cooking butter / Oil - 1/2 cup

Raisins and cashew nuts (Optional)

Preparation

First mix the sugar and butter then add the eggs. In a mixing bowl add all the dry ingredients and mix them thoroughly then start adding the liquid mixture little by little. Mix them thoroughly. Pour into greased 9 x 5 inch bread pan and allow to rise in a warm, still place until doubled in bulk. Bake in a preheated oven at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) until crust is a light to medium brown. Cool ten minutes in the pan, then to room temperature outside the pan before slicing.