Whole Wheat Bagels

Whole Wheat Bagels 

Bagels are shiny, crispy, chewy and dense in taste and texture.  These Bagels are made with  whole wheat flour.

Ingredients:

Whole Wheat flour - 200gms

Instant dry yeast - 1.5 tsp

Salt - 1 tsp

Jaggery powder / sugar - 1 tablespoon

Water - 3/4 cup / 200ml 

Sesame seeds (white+black) - 1 tablespoons 

Poppy seeds - 1 tablespoon

Oil - 1 tablespoon

Method:

# Mix flour, Jaggery powder, yeast, salt.

# Add Luke warm water and start kneading the dough. Sprinkle  water and knead...until you get a smooth, soft dough. Apply oil and allow the dough to rise / double in size. It takes 1 hrs. 

# Once dough rises/ doubles...slightly punch and divide the dough to 7-8 parts.

# Boil 2 cups of water.

# shape the bagels, by placing a hole in the center as we do for donuts.

# Drop the shaped bagels into the  boiling water. After 2 Minutes  flip.

# Preheat oven @ 180'c.

# Grease the baking tin. Arrange the  bagels in baking tin...Sprinkle  Sesame seeds and Poppy seeds.

# Bake at same temperature for 20-25 Minutes.

Whole Wheat Bagels are ready to serve.

Littlemillet Dosa / Samai Dosai

Little Millet Dosa / Samai Dosai

Millets are very popular now a days. This is a simple, healthy millet breakfast recipe.

Ingredients:

Samai / little Millet - 3 cups

Urud dal - 1 cup

Aval / flat beatten rice flakes/ chivda - 1 cup

Fenugreek / methi seeds - 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil - for making dosa

Method:

# wash and soak urud dal with fenugreek/ methi seeds for 1 hr.

# Wash little Millet and soak seperately for 1.5 hrs.

# Wash aval / beatten rice flakes for half an hour.

# Grind urud dal by adding little water. Sprinkle water and grind to a smooth, fluffy paste.

# Drain the water from little millet and grind by adding little water. Grind it to a smooth paste.

# Grind beatten rice flakes / aval to a smooth paste.

# Mix all the three paste together. Add salt and let it ferment for 2-3 hrs. Dosa batter should be slightly thin in consistency.

# Heat a tawa/ dosa pan... sprinkle some oil...tawa should be hot not smokee. 

# Add a laddle full of dosa batter, spread, add little oil. Let it cook....when sides of the dosa slightly changed its colour, try to flip. Cook for 30 seconds. 

Little Millet Dosa is ready to serve.

Please do try and provide your comments.

Thank you!