I WAS DOING NOTHING SINCE THE MORNING!
Yet I started to write late. I am not in the mood to write a new blogpost today but I have to share this. I am pretty happy with the outcome, not that happy with the photo feature though. To concentrate on something at a stretch you require a calmer state of mind. At this time, something is bothering me way too much. I stay quiet, I do not get vocal at every issue does not mean I lack the concern. Many of us do have grudges against the system, we do want to voice our displeasure but we cannot do that out of fear, for the safety of our self and for our own. I didn't teach our son to be fearless, I wouldn't, his life is precious to me / us parents. It is pathetic how the majority are made to live with fear, only the powerful few would rule us. If there is danger waiting outside our doors, we have to be cautious about the dangers, there is no point questioning why we do not have the freedom to live our own ways. We just want a decent society to roam free, the women's plight are worser. When I feel pathetic, I usually go out to somewhere or cook something but I decided to write a new blogpost. Although, we live a secured life in this island, we cannot be that selfish not to think about our fellow countrymen, family and friends.
NOT IN THE NORMAL RYTHYM, I FORGOT CLICKING MY SUNDAY MEALS!
I updated the Potato Biryani blogpost yesterday which took me half of the day, Cristine is not around on a Sunday. The man perhaps enjoyed it but for reasons unknown he would never say I cook good biryani if not with an expertise. I kept a bowlful for Cristine, she had for lunch today, praised it. I had to cook the rice slightly more, I use minimal oil and ghee in a biryani, put it in dum on the gas top, I should not expect the half-cooked rice to fluff and double in amount. The fun is that even some of Kolkata's renowned joint's biryani rice remain slightly under-cooked; biryani and over-cooked rice does not work for an Indian origin Bengali. Yesterday night, I made cooked semolina parathas, the dough got softer, the parathas smooth though but I did not wish to click their pictures. My food has to taste good and look good too, unfortunately that does not happen always. For my first meal I had air-fried Bengali French Toast and it tasted lame. I would have it rare but I would have it fried in oil.
Watermelon is something that soothes my entire internal system. But overeating watermelon and litchi causes severe stomach congestion!
WHAT IS VEGAN GLUTEN-FREE KOKI?
Koki is a breakfast bread of the Sindhi Community, that I read about pretty late in life. My food blogging journey has taught me a lot about cuisines, yet to know a lot about. Sindhi Koki can be sweet or savoury. The dough uses a mix of whole-wheat flour and gram flour. I wished to do it but a vegan & gluten-free version, so that I can blog about it and make others try my recipe. I do not buy pricier gluten-free flours. Also millet flours are not suitable for me as I have hypothyroidism. The man and Cristine wants bread made of wheat flour and refined flour only. When the son stayed with us, he liked having sticky brown rice along with me, do not know if he would have liked gluten-free flours or not. At this time, I am using only sattu and besan for my gluten-free breads. I felt the VEGAN GLUTEN-FREE KOKI bread making would not be that difficult as it demands a tight dough for it's making and that it's a thick bread.
That I did, I used roasted gram flour / sattu and the raw gram flour / besan for the making of the vegetarian Sindhi flat-bread, the rest used remains the same as original.
INGREDIENTS :
ROASTED GRAM FLOUR / SATTU : 1 COFFEE MUG
GRAM FLOUR / BESAN : 1 SMALL TEA CUP
CHOPPED ONION : 3 TBSP
CHOPPED CORIANDER : 2 TBSP
CHOPPED GREEN CHILLI : 2 TSP
CAROM SEED / AJWAIN : 1/2 TSP
CUMIN SEED JEERA : 1/4 TSP
CRUSHED BLACK PEPPER : 1/4 TSP
SALT : A LITTLE
OIL : 2 TBSP + A LITTLE TO BRUSH EACH SIDE OF A BREAD
PROCEDURE :
I had taken the two flours, salt, carom and cumin seeds, crushed black pepper in a wide-mouthed bowl and mixed well.
Thereafter, I added to it the chopped and washed fresh coriander, green chillies, onions and 2 tbsp of oil. I mixed together everything.
We are required to prepare a tight dough, not knead it. I did wet my right palm 2-3 times and brought together everything.
I kept the dough covered for 10-12 minutes, gave a one minute knead and tore off portions, pressed between my palms each.
I used the sattu flour / roasted gram flour to dust each ball and roll out thick flatbread. Then I made shallow slits with a knife as a Sindhi Koki bread demands.
I heated a griddle, roasted both sides of each paratha until brown, brushed oil on both the sides, roast again and we should be done.
I enjoyed it with thick, plain yogurt and sweet boondi.
