Thai-Rice Flour Muffins

Thai-Rice Flour Muffins

This is the Thai version of muffins, they are made with rice flour, scented very gently with rose or other flower water and steamed rather than baked. To cook this you will need foil or paper cups, the dough mixture is runny and needs to be held in a cup during cooking. You can see from the pink muffin sliced in half in the picture above, that the mixture forms light moist muffins.

Ingredients for 4 Muffins
125 gms Rice Flour
125 gms Sugar
125 ml Rose Water
1 Teaspoon Fresh Yeast
1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
Food Colouring (Optional)

Preparation
1. Mix the yeast with the rice flour, add the rose water little by little and mix until the flour is soft.
2. Add sugar, and the remaining rose water and the baking soda.
3. At this point you can add 5 drops of food colouring. Or even divide the mixture into sections and colour each section separately.
4. Stir the mixture well and place in a covered bowl, leave for 1-2 hours for bubbles to form.
5. The mixture should be thick but still fluid. Fill each paper or foil cup to just below the top, the mixture will expand during cooking.
6. Place in a Chinese steamer for 10 minutes. You can check they are cooked by sticking a tooth pick or fork into the centre and if it comes out clean it is cooked inside.
7. Serve cold.

Indian-Spinach Soup

Indian-Spinach Soup

Ingredients:
Spinach - 2 bunches
Onion -1, chopped
Tomato - 1, chopped
Butter - 1 tbsp
Pepper powder - 1 tbsp
Split Orange Lentils ( Massor Dal) - 1/2 cup
Panner - for garnishing
Salt to taste

How to cook:
Pressure cook masoor dal and smash them properly. Add 1 cup of water to it and boil for 2 Min's and the stock is ready. Keep them aside
Melt butter in a pan, then add chopped onions to it and fry for 3 Min's.
Then add chopped tomato to it and saute for few Min's.
Then add chopped palak leaves and enough water to it and cook till leaves becomes tender.
Grind them to a smooth puree in a mixer.
Then add this puree to the dal stock and add salt and pepper to it and bring to a boil.
Garnish with grated pannner and serve hot with bread.