Popular Bakery Items: A Show of the best of Ingenious Indian cookery

Special Recipes for Serving Indian Food

Indian cookery has come of ages. While a variety of traditional recipe continues to grab the priority of the majority of Indian households, the spread of internet and the progressive footprints of globalization across even the villages of India resulted in an interest to try out newer tastes and flavours. The modernity that has crept in with the due course of time has only added to the charm of Indian cooking.

The other important aspect that adds to the diversity of India is that it is a fairly large country; there are numerous states, towns and villages all featuring a distinct individuality of its own. Almost anywhere in India you go, you will find the cooking changing - sometimes drastically.

The food you get in the north is totally different from what you get to eat in the east, south and the west. One of the biggest challenges has been in the art of baking Indian bread. This art has reached great heights. Therefore, there are chapatis and parathas, puris and naans among several other variations and all of these are termed Indian bread. The second important feature in Indian cookery is that baking has been introduced deftly and here modern technology has helped by providing Microwave Oven and Baking Oven to quickly complete the task. Leading online grocery shops make recipes available on their websites. These recipes help the housewife (or the husband!) make different types of breakfast lunch, dinner, snacks and desserts. Baking is present in one form or the other in these recipes.

Baking the Indian Bread

As mentioned earlier, there are many kinds of Indian breads. What makes these a staple diet in much of the country is that these can be used to make a full meal just by adding a dal and a vegetable curry with maybe some pickle or chutney. The various Indian breads are the roti which is made from whole wheat that has been ground or millet or jowar.

These are kneaded with ghee or fat and made into thin pancakes known as chapattis. When these are shallow fried they are parathas and when deep-fried these are called puris while the baked ones are called naan. For 6-8 naan you will require 1 ½ cups of flour plus some more for dusting. You will also need sugar, some oil, fresh yeast, oil and salt to taste. For garlic naan you will also need a few cloves of garlic.

Other Baking Recipes

There are excellent baking recipes among Indian cookery. Some of these are

• Eggless Cinnamon-Butter Cookies
• Mocha Mug Cake
• Baked Camembert with croutons.

Eggless Cinnamon-Butter Cookies

This is a versatile recipe. All you need to do is to add ginger powder or cocoa besides nutmeg and any other flavour you may like to be able to make different types of cookies. You need 15 minutes to make cookies for 15 people. You will require 200gm of unsalted butter, 125 gm of caster or fine sugar, 250 gm of flour, a tsp of vanilla essence and ½ tsp of cinnamon powder and salt.

For the uninitiated there are several recipes online in grocery shopping sites for making all meals in Indian cooking. This form of Indian cooking includes Indian bread or cookies that need to be baked.