Gluten Free Sattu paratha/Roasted Gram Flour Flat Bread

Gluten free Sattu Paratha /

Roasted Gram Flour Flat Bread

For stuffing:

·         1 cups - roasted Chana dal powder (sattu) india  US

·         5 - Cloves garlic, chopped fine or grated

·         3 - green chilies, chopped

·         2 tsp - coriander leaves, chopped

·         2 tsp - Lime juice

·         1/2 tsp – ajwain

·         ¼ tsp- Kala jeera/black cumin

·         salt to taste

·         4 tsp - Mustard oilhttp://amzn.to/2r0q2s9

For dough:

·         1 cups -Rice flour

·         1 cup- Tapioca flour *

·         ¼ cup- buckwheat flour

·         4 tsp- oil

·         1/4 tsp – salt                                                                                                                             *(Soak the tapiaco pearl balls/saboo dana which are easily available in any grocery store and make the powder it's amazing how it holds the flour make it easy to bake make flat bread stuff flat bread and it makes it soft)

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1.    For stuffing:

2.    Mix all the stuffing ingredients with sattu/,

For  dough:

3.    Add 1 tbsp of rice flour to some boiling water  and stir it until to a sticky consistency

4.    Let it cool down a little add the rest flour and salt

5.    Knead the flours, adding the required amount of water to make a soft dough.

For making  paratha:

6.    Divide the dough into small portions.

7.Take a portion of the dough curve out a bowl shape with the help of the thumb

8.    Place a portion of the mixture (approx 2 tsp) in the middle, enfold the filling

9.    Then with the pressure of the fingers and palm shape it to a flatbread don't try to make it too thin otherwise the contents will burst out.

10.    Cook on a flat pan, applying oil/ghee till both sides are cooked and golden brown in color.

11.  Serve with pickles.

Baked Veg chops/Cutlets

                               Baked Veg chops/Cutlets

INGREDIENTS(MAKES 15-20 MEDIUM CUTLETS):

• ½ tsp of cumin seeds,
• ½ tsp of fennel seeds,
• 6 cloves,
• 3 green cardamoms,
• Small ½ inch cinnamon stick,
• 5 peppercorns,
• 2-3 green chili,
• 1-2 dry bay leaf
• 2 medium sized beetroot, cut into small pieces,
• 2 medium sized carrots, cut into small pieces,
• 2 small potatoes, boiled and mashed,
• 1 tsp of grated ginger,
• 2 green chilies, finely chopped,
• 2 tsp of peanuts,
• Salt to taste,
• Sugar to taste,
• Green coriander, finely chopped
• 4 tbsp oil

FOR THE COATING:

• 2 tsp of rice flour
• 5-6 tbsp of gram flour
• 3 eggs

PREPARATION:

1. First, grind the roasted whole spices and keep it aside.
2. In a skillet, take 1 tsp of oil and lightly fry the peanuts. Keep them aside and in the same oil, fry ginger and green chilies till you get a light aroma.
3. Into this add the grated beetroot and carrot and saute well. Cook until they are soft and can be smashed. Now add the mashed potatoes, salt, sugar, ground roasted spice powder and chopped coriander leaves. Mix well.
4. Cool the mixture and make 15-20 medium cutlet balls.Take medium sized balls and pressing it softly on the palm give it an oval shape as shown in the picture.
5. In a separate bowl beat the eggs, in another take 2 tsp of the rice flour and in a third container keep the gram flour. Roll each ball into the egg batter and then roll them in gram flour and then rice flour.
6. Now warm the oven and place them in a greased baking pan and bake them at 200.Try to turn them over after 10 mins to give nice even coloring.Now, bake it for 10-15 minutes till it turns a little brown.To get nice crispiness like the fried ones grease them with oil ones you turn them.
7. Serve them piping hot with onion rings, ketchup.

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.  

Sweet crepe (patishapta)

Sweet crepe (patishapta)

Ingredients

Rice : 1cup
Buckwheat : 1/4cup
Dry dates : 3-5pieces finely chopped
Salt : 1 pinch
Milk : 1/2 cup
Grated coconut : 1/4 cup
Jaggery : 100 gm
Ghee/oil : 1 tbsp

Preparation

Soak the rice and dates in water for 2 hrs .Grind it into a coarse paste try not to add more water but substitute with milk while grinding.Make a pourable batter by adding milk.In a separate bowl mix the grated coconut and jaggery evenly .To make it tastier you can add Khowa or solidified milk to the mixture.

Now take a skillet add a little oil and warm it pour some of the batter on the skillat and spread it out. Cook it for 2 mins until golden brown flip it cook the other side add some of the coconut mixture on one edge so that you can roll it. Spread some ghee on it. Best when consumed warm.

Stuffed Moong dal pancake / roll

Stuffed Moong dal pancake / roll

Ingredients

Moong dal/split green gram - 2 cup
Hing/aesofoetida - 1 pinch
Ginger finely chopped
Finely chopped green chillies
Finely chopped coriander leaves
Salt
Oil - 2/3 tbsp
Cottage cheese finely grated
Radish finely grated
Cheese
Some finely chopped vegetables (veggies) like capscicum carrot

Preparation

Soak the dal / pulse in for 2 hrs in water and make a paste of it add the chillies and ginger and radish while grinding.Add the coriander salt and aesofoetida to the paste and mix.The batter should be as free flowing as you would for any pancake recipe.

Brush a large griddle with oil and heat over medium-low heat. Pour some of the batter and spread it out and cook until bubbly on top and golden on the bottom, about 2 minutes. Flip and cook until golden on the bottom, about 2 more minutes. Now take some grated cottage cheese and mix together with the freshly chopped vegies or some leftover cooked veggies make a fine layer on one side of the pancake and roll it.

Suggestion(oil-free cooking)

If you do not desire to use too much oil heat your iron skillet add oil when it smokes rub it off with kitchen towel sprinkle water and again spread out some oil and rub it off it would become non stick and definitely adds more flavor to the food then the nonstick ionized ones.And you can keep on cooking and just keep on rubbing the oil soaked towel on the skillet and get a oil free pancakes.

Pizza (free from gluten!)

PIZZA (free from gluten!)

If you just want to buy the mix you can get it here

Ingredients for Pizza Dough

• Rice flour - 220 gms. (2 Cup)

• Buckwheat flour-1/2 cup

• Olive Oil - 2 table spoon.

• Yeast - 1 tea spoon.

• Sugar - 1/2 tea spoon.

• Salt - 1 tea spoon.

• Xanthum gum -2tbsp

Ingredients for pizza toppings

• Pizza Tomato Sauce - 4 table spoon.(Homemade Pizza Pasta Sauce recipe)

• Tomato - 2

• Capsicum - 1

• Onion-2

• boneless chicken-300gm

• Mozzarella Cheese - 50 gms.

• Pizza cheese-50 gm 

• Mushroom-200gm

• Black Pepper - 1/4 tea spoon.

• Oregano

• Red chilly flakes

• Olive Oil - 1 table spoon.

Pizza Dough

1. Take some warm milk in a bowl add the yeast and sugar and add some rice flour on it and keep it aside.
2. Warm some water in a pan and add 1 tbsp of rice flour and make it a sticky paste and then add the other flours, Xanthan gum and salt.Now knead and make it into a soft dough which sticks a little and leave it aside to blow up.

Pizza (Whole)

1. Cut the onions capsicum and the mushroom into medium pieces and saute in a skilllet. Keep aside.Fry the chicken pieces until just cooked or better you can broil them and just cut them into small pieces
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3. Take the Pizza dough and divide into small balls without disturbing or trying to make it smooth. Dust it with a little dry rice flour and pat it into 4 inch round disc on a rolling board (Don't try to make it very big/thin otherwise the base will crumble). The Pizza base should be thick from the corners.
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5. Preheat the Oven at 220 Degree Celsius.Spread some dry rice flour on the Pizza baking tray and put the Pizza base in it. Top up the Pizza Base with Tomato Sauce leaving about 1 cm space at the corners. Spread the Sauce evenly in all directions. Now place the chicken pieces and spread Capsicum slices mushroom onions at a little distance from each other on the Tomato sauce.  You can also spread little Olive Oil on all the corners.
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7. You can create the topping according to your taste and preferences. Just keep in mind that the vegetables should not be extremely moist, else the base will not get crispy.
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9. Put the tray in the preheated Oven and set the temperature at 200 Celsius for 20 minutes. when it is almost done add the cheese and bake it for the last 5 mins.Crispy and tasty Pizza is ready. Cut the Pizza into slices from the center and serve it hot.

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