Parmesan Oregano bread

Introduction

Its very easy, soft and very tasty bread. I bet, most of you are well aware of the name. You might have heard this name in Subway. I am also one of the subway sandwich lovers. I thought of trying it out. The most important part of the sandwich is the bread. After you have soft and tasty bread, you can make sandwich or whatever you like.

Ingreditents needed

• 500 gm of white flour
• 40 - 50 gm of parmesan cheese
• 20 gm of instant yeast
• 7 gm of salt
• 40 gm of sugar
• 60 gm of melted butter
• two eggs mixed with 1 tbsp of milk
• 200 ml of lukewarm water
• one egg for brushing
• 1 tbsp of oregano herbs
• sesame seeds

The process

• Take flour in a bowl and add yeast, sugar, salt and mix it well with spatula. Now add two eggs mixed with milk, honey, grated cheese and butter to it, and mix it thoroughly. Knead the dough properly constantly adding little water and oil. The dough should be very soft at the end.
• Cover the dough with cling film and leave it for 1 hour.
• Divide the dough into nine equal parts and roll each small doughs with the help of hand to make long cylindrical dough
• Tie three of cylindrical dough just like you braid your hair. You are ready with one piece of bread as shown in pictures. Shape of the bread is up to you. You and try your own creativity and come up with different shapes of the bread.
• Repeat the process for other two breads as well.
• Cover the bread with some cloth or cling film and leave it for 10 -15 minutes.
• Take a bowl with one egg white and mix it well.
• Brush the egg over the body of each bread and put some sesam seeds over the bread
  
• Pre-heat the oven at 180 ° C for 15 minutes.



• Put bread in oven for 15 minutes.

Now you are ready to serve it. I made chicken sandwich. It was very tasty. It's up to you how you want to eat the bread. Enjoy and guten appetit. I hope you try the recipe and please do comment. Thank you and see you after some days with some more recipes.

Medovnik Cake

Introduction

Medovnik is a type of delicious honey cake. Its very famous in Czech Republic. Well, I read somewhere that it originated in Russia. Does it really matters where it originated from? It tastes great, that's all I care :). Medovnik consists of thin plates, which are associated with thick cream. Before eating the cake leave it in refrigerator for at least a day. When I thought of making Medovnik, as usual I looked up in the internet for recipes. I could hardly find some recipe in English, most of them were in Czech. Then I thought of translating it, thanks to google translator. But still, you know how these translator works, I could not understand all of it. I did not want to spoil my cake. With the help and discussing with my friend and offcourse with the help of the recipes online, although not in English, I successfully made most tasty honey cake I have ever had. I will try my best to explain the recipe to you. Trust me, it takes some time to prepare but it is worth trying. Enjoy!!

Overall recipe of the cake can be divided into two parts: the body & the cream

Ingredients for the body (dough)

• 3 cups of white flour
• 2 tablespoon of baking powder
• 3 tablespoon of honey
• quarter cup of butter
• 1 whole egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 cup sugar

Ingredients for the filling cream

• 500 ml of whipping cream
• sugar as per taste
  

The Process

Take flour in a bowl and add baking powder, sugar and mix it well with spatula. Now add eggs, honey and butter to it and mix it thoroughly. Knead the dough until it forms the circular ball. Well, dont worry much about the shape of the dough. Now, take out 20% of the dough and place it somewhere else. We will discuss what to do with it later. Divide the remaining dough into two equal parts. Roll the first piece of dough with the help of the rolling pin like the one while making pizza dough in my earlier post. Repeat the process for second piece as well.

Now, its time to bake. Pre-heat the oven for 5-10 minutes at 200 ° C. Now bake both of the rolled dough for 10 minutes one after the other. Remove the baked dough and slice each of them to two parts with the help of knife. Be careful while doing so. By now you have four pieces of circular baked dough. You are ready to decorate your cake. Let me reveal the secret behind that small piece of separated dough :). Roll and bake this small piece of dough like other pieces. Since this rolled dough is thinner, it will be crispy after baking. Crush it until it becomes almost powder.

Place one layer of baked dough on a big plate or baking paper, wherever you want to store the cake. Spread the cream filling over it. Place another layer of baked and sliced dough and repeat the process for all the slices of baked dough. Now on the top-most layer spread the cream and spread the crushed powder homogeneously on the top of the cream layer. Also spread the cream at the circumference of your cake and spread the powder. Thats all you need to do. It is ready but sad part is that you still need to wait 24 hrs more to eat. Keep the cake in refrigerator for 24 hours and it's all yours then. Bon appetit!

Sorry I forgot to mention how to make the filling cream. Its simple take whipping milk and add sugar as per test to it. You can easily get whipping milk in supermarket. Whip the mixture nicely. If you are using hand whisk then whisk it for around 20 minutes until it becomes creamy. If you are using electric whisk, 4-to-5 minutes should be enough. Don't worry if you happen to have extra cream, you can always add cream as much as you like. You can also serve this cream with other things like strawberry and other type of cake. If you think its too much of work, you can buy readymade cream in the supermarket

Julie & Julia

Hello everyone, its not the name of any dish as you might have already noticed. Today, I was talking to my friend NJ, she told me about this movie when I shared my blog with her. I did not have any idea about story of the movie. I logged in to www.tvshack.net right away and started watching it. You know what, I am watching it right now :). One of my friend recently started blogging about his language class. I loved the idea and thought may be I can start blogging too. But I did not have any topic in my mind. Since cooking is my favorite hobby, I thought why not write a cooking blog.

This movie inspired me even more. I am enjoying writing and cooking and I hope you are enjoying reading it too.

Chicken Pizza

Introduction

Pizza is a world-popular dish of Italian origin, made with an oven-baked, flat, generally round bread that is often covered with tomatoes or a tomato-based sauce and cheese. Other toppings are added according to region, culture, or personal preference (Ref: Wiki).

I believe everyone loves pizza. You will love it even more when you cook it yourself - from scratch. Today, I will share my experience of making chicken pizza.

Ingredients

You need following ingredients to make ~10 inch pizza.

• 175g of plain white flour
• 1 tea spoon of yeast
• 1 tea spoon of sugar
• 1 tea spoon of salt
• 1 table spoon of oil
• 125 ml of warm water
• 1 medium sized chicken breast
• 1 chopped tomato
• 1 chopped onion
• 1 chopped garlic clove
• Half (green) paprika chopped
• 75g mozzarella sliced
• 3-4 olives chopped
• tomato sauce (I used readymade sauce)

The Process

Preparing dough

Take the flour in a bowl and add sugar, salt and yeast. Mix it well with a wooden spoon. Now, add olive oil and warm water and mix thoroughly. Knead the dough with your hand until it becomes a smooth ball. Now, cover the bowl containing the dough with a cling film. Leave the dough for 2 hours, by then dough will reach nearly double of its original size. After two hours, you are ready to proceed further. Now using your rolling pin, make a circle of around 10 inches from the dough.

Preparing chicken

Cut the chicken breast into small cubes and fry over a medium heat. You can add any spices (masalas) you prefer along with onions and tomato. I used chicken masala, a pinch of turmeric, cumin seeds, cumin powder and coriander powder. Add salt and pepper to taste. If you like, you can add a little soy sauce too. Feel free to improvise; the bottom-line being that the chicken must taste great for the pizza to be tasty!

Baking

Pre-heat the oven for 10 minutes at 250 °C. Then place the circular dough on baking paper or baking tray. Spread a layer of tomato sauce over the dough. Then place half of the cheese over the sauce. Add the cooked chicken, along with onion, paprika, olives, tomato. Again, add the remaining mozzarella on the top and bake the pizza in oven for about 15 minutes. You can check the base of the pizza using a spatula, if it is brown then your pizza is cooked. The cheese would have melted by then.
The pizza is ready to be eaten!

My pizza was very tasty, it was the best one I had ever had. So share your experience too. I will post some other recipes soon! Guten appetit and enjoy your pizza!