Carrot and Radish Pickle

Ingredients

Carrot                                500 gm
                                          Wahsed ,peeled and slit lengthwise
Radish                               250 gm
                                          Washed, peeled and slit lengthwise

Green chilli                       50 gm
                                          Washed , peeled and slit lengthwise

Ginger                               100 gm
                                          Washed,peeled and slit lengthwise
Salt                                    4 tsp
Mustard Oil                      1/2 cup
Red Chilli
powder                              1 tsp
Turmeric powder              1 tsp

Black Pepper                    1/2 tsp
Carrom Seeds                   1/2 tsp
Mustard seed powder       6 to 7 tsp
Asofoetida                        2 pinch
Vinegar                             2 Tbsp

Method

Wash and let dry carrot, radish ,green chilli and ginger. Slit them lengthwise about 2 inch long pieces. Add 2 tsp salt, mix well and keep it in glass container with lid on. Let it sit for 24 hours. Stir once after 10-12 hours.If you want to increase or decrease the quantity of vegetable please feel free to do so.

After 24 hours juice will collect at the bottom of jar. Strain the juice and take out all the vegetables on kitchen towel and let dry for about 1 hour. If you have sun put this to dry in sun.

Once it is dry add all the dry spices except asofoetida and vinegar and mix well. Also add 2 tsp salt.
Heat the mustard oil till it starts smoking. Switch off the flame and let it cool down a bit. After that add asofoetida. Pour this oil over the vegetables and mix well. Once everything is mixed well add vinegar and mix again.

Pickle is ready for consumption.  Though it will taste far better 2 - 3 days later after it had time to sit and release juice and flavors come together.

Chocolate Chip Cookie pizza

Made this for small bake sale at our community. Forgot to take proper picture of final cookie but nonetheless it was perfect. Very well received. For recipe please visit : https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/2016/06/27/chocolate-chip-cookie-pizza/.

Recipe 

Whole Wheat Bread

In my quest for perfect loaf of whole wheat or more appropriately Atta aka Chapathi flour bread here is another recipe with more than satisfactory results. Only regret that it is part whole wheat. Would like to try it out with 100% wheat and update the results.

I have baked quite a few whole wheat loaves earlier. The whole wheat flour used in U.S is different then the atta we use for chapathi. Hence all recipes that call for whole wheat flour do not give same results.

But this recipe yields a light and moist  loaf which is pleasure to cut and toast unlike my earlier loaves. Have worked with vital wheat gluten earlier but this is first time I used milkpowder and indeed it made the difference.

Recipe has been adapted from here. I made few changes to the original recipe. Instead of 1.5 cup of AP flour I used  1 cup . Instead of  instant yeast I used Active dry yeast amd surprisingly even when I added it directly to dough mix without proofing it worked well.

Some more pictures from the various steps