Butter Bun

Butter buns - They were my(many I would guess) favorite during my school days-indulged in the cream than the bun though :) Whenever, wherever, whoever says 'butter bun' it's this word which comes into my mind first always  - Best Bakery, yes! This bakery is right opposite to my school in Ernakulam and they used to sell this butter buns! Once in a week or so, my parents gave us the luxury of having these buttery, creamy buns...yumm! and we used to wait for that day.

Even after these many years, I still reach out for these butter buns whenever I go to best bakery and trust me you will love it too. My search for the recipe ended when I came across this simple recipe in a TV show. These buns can be made with few ingredients and you can fill the bun with butter cream or any other cream you like.

My little one was very interested to find out what the buns are filled with.

Here you go.

Ingredients

All purpose flour / Maida - 2 cups

Butter - 25 grams (at room temperature)

Yeast - 2 tsp

Sugar - 1 1/2 tbsp

Water - 1 cup

Salt - a pinch

For the butter cream

Butter - 40 grams

Icing Sugar - 1 cup

Vanilla essence - 1/4  tsp

Milk - optional

Method

1. Take a bowl and add flour, yeast and sugar and mix well

2. Next add butter and give a mix

3. Now add water little by little until you get a soft, little sticky dough. (sometimes you end up using less than 1 cup of water)

4. Cover with a plastic foil or a damp cloth and keep it aside for an hour.

5. It will be doubled after 1 hour.

6. Knead the dough a little and divide and shape into equal balls.

7. Cover it again and leave aside for 15 minutes.

8. Next, deep fry the balls until both sides turns brown
9. Drain into paper towel and let it cool.

Next we have to prepare the butter cream

Mix all the ingredients listed down under butter cream and whisk it until it turns creamy and fluffy . You can add a tsp of milk and whisk if the cream is very thick. Add more milk if necessary.

Butter bun - Cut the bun and fill it with the butter cream and cherish your good old school memories.

Do try this recipe and would love to hear your feedback.

Note: Butter cream will stay outside for 3 days and in refrigerator for 5 days.

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Red / Green / Chocolate Velvet Cake

Red Velvet Cake - first time I had this cake and have fallen in love with it :)
Baked this cake for our wedding anniversary, but without using red color instead used little amount of green (I couldn't find the red color on time in fact!)

You can watch out this space for the red velvet cake recipe very soon. Please bear with me and hope you like the pics from what I earlier baked without red color.

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Tuna fish cutlet

Fish in a can ? It was difficult to believe when I heard this for the first time 5-6 years ago :) Moreover I was very sure I am not going to like/eat it! But my perception of canned fish changed when one of my friends prepared a simple yet delicious food for dinner using canned tuna. It was during those days when I stayed with my friends, we always got together on Fridays and cooked dinner together and eat at 12 or 1 AM :)We discussed (gossip) everything from politics, climate, work, food, sales in shops, dress, perfumes, movies... you name it! Sweet memories :)

As these canned fish are ready to eat, and are minced, cutlet was the first thing came to my mind - by giving it a spicy aroma. Happy to add yet another easy recipe here. Please do try and let me know how you like it :)

Ingredients

Canned Tuna - 175 g

Potato - 2 medium

Onion - 1 medium size finely chopped

Ginger - One inch chopped

Garlic - 2 chopped

Green chilly - 1

Fennel seeds - 1/2 tsp (optional)

Black pepper - 1/2 tsp

Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp

Chilly Powder - 1/4 tsp

Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp

(If you have meat powder , you can use 1 tsp of it instead of the above Garam masala, chilly powder and turmeric powder)

Egg - 1

Breadcrumbs as required

Salt as required

Oil for frying (deep or shallow)

Method

1. Drain the water from the canned tuna as much as possible and keep tuna aside.(Refer Note)

2. Boil the potato and mash it.

3. Crush or grind together ginger, garlic, green chilly, fennel seeds, black pepper.

4. Heat oil in a pan and add onions, curry leaves and saute until onions become soft,
5. Now add crushed ingredients (step 3) into the pan and saute until raw smell goes.
6. Add all the powders - garam masala, chilly powder and turmeric powder and  saute for a minute.
7. Now its time to add tuna and fry until it is dry .
8. Remove from fire and let it cool.
9. Add mashed potatoes and salt to the tuna mixture and mix well until you get a smooth dough.
10. Take some mixture and shape it in the form you like- here I shaped it round balls.
11. Meanwhile beat the egg in a bowl.
12. Dip the tuna balls in the beaten egg first and then roll it in breadcrumbs.
13. Deep fry these until you get a nice brown color.

Note:
1. If you are using fresh fish, just cook the fish with turmeric and salt and shred it.

2. I used unniappam chatti / paniyaram chatti to make these tuna fish cutlet.
You can as well use a normal pan and shallow fry these cutlets.

tuna

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Hara Bhara Kabab

A healthy vegetarian kabab prepared with spinach, green peas and potato. This makes a great snack with the evening tea as well as with your meal. It's a nutritious snack for kids and they will love to enjoy it with any dips. My little one loves to have it with his meal :)

I usually use a cup of spinach leaves along with dal and by the time I want to use it again, may be after a week or so, the leaves would have got rotten and it's painful to throw the most nutritious thing.
I stumbled upon this recipe in the internet and decided to make this. It's quite an easy recipe and you will enjoy having this hot hot :P

Here is how you can make this.

Ingredients

Potato - 1 big or 2 medium (Boiled and smashed)
Green peas - 1/2 cup (boiled)
Spinach - 2 cups
Green chilly - 1
Ginger (crushed) - 1 tsp
Turmeric Powder - 1/4 tsp
Chat Masala - 1 tsp
Dry Mango Powder - 1 tsp
Gram Flour (Besan) - 2-3 tbsp
Salt - As required
Oil for shallow fry

Method:

1. First we need to blanch the spinach. For this, add washed and cleaned spinach into a bowl of hot water and let it for 2 minutes and then plunge into a bowl of cold water for 1 minute.  

2, Finely chop the spinach.

3.Take a bowl and add smashed potato, boiled peas chopped spinach and mash it well.

4. To this mixture add salt, green chilly chopped, Ginger, turmeric powder, chat masala, dry mango powder and gradually add gramflour. If you feel the mixture is sticking too much, add some more gram flour. I used almost 3 tbsp gram flour.

5. Shape the mixture into round.

6. Take a pan and add 1 tbsp oil and shallow fry the kababs until brown on both sides.

Serve hot!

Note: You can add pinch of salt when you blanch the spinach to retain the color of the veggies. But this is optional.

spinach

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