Mushroom Rolls

A roll is a British savory pastry snack popular in European Countries. In addition to being sold at retail outlets, they are also available from bakeries as a take-away food item. A miniature version is popular as a buffet or party food. The basic composition of a roll is generally a filling of meat or any savory things are rolled between these puff pastry sheets and baked with egg glazed or milk on top. They can be served either hot or cold. 

These Mushroom rolls is so light and uses much lesser amount of butter than the original puff pastry recipes and that is why I like it to have it in my morning breakfast as often as possible. It is one of the most quick and easiest recipes to make. So for this Foodie Monday BlogHop theme of Baking prompt me to share this recipe with you all.

Cuisine: British

Serves- 12 to 14

Preparation Time: 30 minutes

Cooking time: 3o minutes

Ingredients:

• 2 cups All purpose Flour
• ½ cup warm milk
• ¼ cup Extra Virgin Olive Oil
• 1 teaspoon each of sugar and salt
• 1 teaspoon active dry yeast
• 7 teaspoon of butter for layering

For the Filling

• 500gms mushrooms
• 1 large onion
• 1 teaspoon ginger shredded
• 1 teaspoon of garlic finely chopped
• 1 medium size tomato finely chopped
• 2 green chilies finely chopped
• ¼ teaspoon turmeric
• 1 teaspoon garam masala
• salt to taste
• 1 teaspoon of Olive oil 

Let’s learn how to make Mushroom Rolls

•  Wash and chop the mushrooms and pat them dry.
• Take a pan and add olive oil and once it is hot, add the chopped green chillies and chopped onions. Sauté till the onions becomes brown.
• Add the chopped ginger and garlic and sauté for a minute. Add the chopped tomatoes and the gram masala. Sauté till the tomatoes become mushy .Add salt and turmeric powder.
• Add the chopped mushrooms and cook on high flame for 4 to 5 minutes till the mushrooms are cooked and dry. Take off from heat and let it cool.
•  Now dissolve the yeast along with the sugar in warm water. After 5 minutes you will notice bubbles coming from the yeast. Now you know your yeast is ready to be used.
•  Take a deep bowl and mix salt with the all purpose flour. Make a well in the center of the flour and pour the yeast mixture. Add the olive well and start kneading the dough with required amount of warm milk to make soft dough. Make sure that it is not sticky.
•  Wrap the dough in a cling film and keep in the refrigerator for minimum half an hour.
•  Now take out the dough and divide it into eight equal parts. Now dust the kitchen top with flour and take one part of the dough and roll in the shape of a thin chapatti or flat bread. Apply a teaspoon of butter over it and keep aside. Repeat the same for the rest of the dough and keep stacking it bone over the other applying butter over each chapatti. Do not apply butter on the top layer.
•  Now roll these stack of chapattis  together to make about a 10 inch diameter round which is quite big in size so you have to use your kitchen counter for this purpose. Now with the help of a pizza cutter divide the circle into 12 to 14 equal halves.

• Now preheat the oven to 180 degree.
• Place 1 tablespoon of fillings on the wider side and fold both the sides and starts rolling from the wider wedges to the tip. Repeat the process for rest of the rolls and let them rest for minimum 15 minutes .

•  Arrange them nearly in rows on a greased baking sheet, leaving a little space between pieces. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree for about 15 to 20 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm with an Orange Juice and enjoy this for your breakfast.

The pastry recipe has been adopted from http://www.yogurtland.com/2006/11/22/feta-rolls/

Salty Spinach Crackers (Palak Mathri)- A twist to the traditional Diwali Snack

India is known as the land of festivals with a large number of religious festivities and celebration each having its own importance and meaning in our day to day lives. Diwali is a special time in the life of many Indians. Diwali is almost associated with vibrant clothes, colors, lights, firecrackers lighting up the sky and the variety of sweets and snacks. The household looks decorated with beautiful pattern of Rangoli wit use of vibrant colours.

The most quintessential part of any festival in India is the Food. During Diwali many types of savoury and sweet dishes are prepared in many households. We at #Foodie Monday Blog Hop event Team decided to try the savoury snacks prepared in households. The theme for this event has been suggested by my talented friend Rupal Patel, who lives in Texas with her family and blogs some amazing recipes in her Blog www.goodfoodgoodmoodbyrupal.blogspot.inwhere you can have access to some of the most amazing  traditional and fusion cooking  with style and  taste.

Mathri is one of the favorite Indian tea-time snacks. It’s a crumbly, salty and savory Indian biscuit that’s perfect for serving alongside a hot cup of chai. Typically, mathris are deep fried and made with all-purpose flour. And this is the reason why many health conscious persons donot like to try this super snack. So I decide to give this traditional savoury snacks a makeover by making it healthy easy to make – you just bake these little biscuits in an oven with whole wheat flour in place of all purpose flour . The Oven Baked Mathris are flaky and tasty and one can have it without any guilt pangs.

Mathris have a very distinct flavor due to the presence of carom seeds (ajwain in Hindi). Carom seeds are known to help with digestion . I have added some Rosemary and Spinach leaves in it making it more of an  digestive biscuit… only a way tastier.

Ingredients

• Whole Wheat Flour - 2 cups
• Semolina – 1 cup
• Ghee/Oil  - 4 heaped tbsps
• Rosemary- 1 tsp
• Carrom seeds-( Ajwain)-1tsp
• Salt to taste
• Spinach leaves – 2 bunch
• Cold water

 

Let's Learn how to cook Mathris:

• Clean and finely chop the spinach leaves and keep it aside.
• Sieve the all purpose flour, Semolina and salt 2 to 3 times.
• In a bowl, add flour,semolina, rosemary, carom seeds, chopped spinach , ghee (or oil) and salt and combine well. The mixture should resemble fine bread crumbs. Slowly add cold water and knead into a stiff yet pliable dough. Keep it inside a cling wrap and refrigerate for minimum 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 180 degree.
• Take out the dough from the refrigerator and keep aside for 5 minutes. Divide the dough into two parts. Now start rolling the dough keeping between two sheet of  baking paper with some flour for dusting.
• Roll into a circle of thickness of your choice and with the help of cookie cutter , take out small circular Mathris. Prick all over with a fork.
• Arrange in a baking tray and apply a brush of ghee on all the Mathris  and bake on 180 degree for 10 to 12 minutes.
• Take out from oven and let it cool on wire rack for some time. Your health Tea time mathris is ready to be relished.
• Store in airtight containers. Serve them with tea.