Recipes by Sweatha Pai (Page 2)

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	Vánocka - Czech Christmas Bread \| Baking Partners Dec'15 by Sweatha Pai Now that Christmas is just a few days away it makes sense to post the festive bakes one by one. Especially the christmas festive bread. This time Swathi has chosen a Christmas bread from Czech Republic- Vánocka (va-nawtch-kah) for Baking Partners A Simple sugary brioche type bread but rich with eggs. Now thats where my adaption skills…	1 vote 484 views
	Healthy Cooking with Canola Oil \| Healthy New Year 2016 by Sweatha Pai These days people are becoming aware of more and more about eating healthy and eating right. But are you sure you are actually eating right? Ofcourse you are substituting butter ,ghee and shortening with oil but is the oil right?How about reusing oil?You have also heard conflicting opinions about the reuse of frying oil.. Some say you…	1 vote 389 views
	Spiced Pumpkin Rolls for Thanksgiving \| We Knead to Bake # 33 by Sweatha Pai Its autumn and season of apples and pumpkins. Thanksgiving which is celebrated on 26th November every year in the US makes full use of autumn produce - pumpkins, orange sweet potatoes, apples, cranberries etc. So its only apt that we decided to bake…	1 vote 354 views
	Chilli Cheese Corn Bread \| Baking Partners October '15 by Sweatha Pai Diwali came and went in between rains. It was almost a wet Diwali but it was nice to simply sit and chat doing nothing. Though I made regular sweets I didn't touch my computer or look at my blog those days. Now that one festival is over, we can slowly think of cooking clicking and posting about another festival which we don not…	1 vote 328 views
	Sweet Potato Peanut Bisque \| Soup Saga Continues by Sweatha Pai Preparation:Cook the sweetpotatoes either in steamer or microwave. You can even roast the sweetpotato and then chop it. Choose the sweetpotato accordingly to get roughly 3-4 cups.Peel and chop the sweet potatoes and keep aside.Heat oil in a deep bowl and saute onion until its transparent and start to brown. Add in minced garlic and…	1 vote 328 views
	Irish BarmBrack or Speckled Bread \| We Knead to Bake #32 by Sweatha Pai After spicy quiche, its time for sweet nutty fruity barmbrack. This month Aparna had chosen Irish Barmbrack or speckled bread for the We Knead to bake challenge. A tasty sweet bread it turned out to be with the dry fruits soaked in "tea".Thats true. Barmbrack or Bairin Breac or simply brack is a dry fruit bread where there the dry…	1 vote 335 views
	Bell Pepper Quiche \| Baking Partners October '15 by Sweatha Pai Its back to school again now that festival is over. Actually its just a break.. Diwali starts in two weeks. In between there are weekends, government holidays, sports/annual day.. and then wind up everything for december and new year. Anyways, now that I am getting time to post so I thought I would start with Baking Partners Quiche…	1 vote 642 views
	Roasted Butter Nut Squash Apple Soup \| Bye Bye wintry Nights by Sweatha Pai Sometimes I buy ingredients and then wonder how to cook it. This used to happen on a regular and by the time I decide from a list of recipe, the vegetable would have said bye bye to this world. Finally I purposefully stopped buying such vegetables and…	1 vote 522 views
	Yeasted Banana Sandwich Bread \| We Knead to Bake September '15 by Sweatha Pai I love banana bread though I never tried yeasted version. So when Aparna suggested yeasted version from KingArthurFlour for this months challenge I did try it out and it was perfect with nutella and peanut butter.I halved the recipe and got a mini loaf…	1 vote 457 views
	Tomato Onion Galette \| Baking Partners September Challenge by Sweatha Pai Galette is a French term for free form or rustic cakes, pies or pastries - sweet as well as savoury. Based on the size and content these can be used a side ,snack or dessert. These are most popular as desserts though. I remember baking apple galette for Suma Rowjee.Ingredients:Preparation:In a bowl, mix flours, salt and sugar. Cut…	1 vote 523 views