Skip to main content

Disaster recipe 5




"If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg"-Abe Lincoln




Wow, never thought trying out 25 new recipes in 25 days was going to be this hard- well part of the problem is I get lazy once I get back home, so am rarely excited about cooking these days! Anyway I am going to continue to see how long it does take.


And before we go into the recipes, let me just say it was a disaster, not in the sense that the final products were inedible but more like "what-in-the-world-did-I-end-up-with" disaster.  The recipe I tried was Makki di roti from here. Usually I like Sanjeev Kapoor's recipes but this one I am not sure what the problem was.

Ingredients


3 cups cornmeal (I used coarse, may be that was the problem!)
1/2 cup wheat flour
Salt to taste
Butter, to top the rotis with


Method

Whisk in salt and wheat flour into the cornmeal. Knead using warm water, until you get a soft dough. 
Divide the dough into small portions and roll in between a greased plastic wrap (it does stick!)
Cook in a pan on medium heat. Top with butter and serve hot.


Judgement


Well while the taste was alright (I did not add enough salt), some of rotis started to harden and then we had to eat them like pappads. Like the journal of negative results in science, Malar of Kitchen tantra was thoughtful enough to host an event called  "Kitchen Mishaps". Now I am not ashamed anymore of my failed culinary experiments, even those will have a home now! So this recipe goes straight to that event.
Labels:

Comments

  1. Malar GandhiDecember 22, 2009 at 3:56 PM

    Hi Abhi,

    Thanks for the entry, I really appreciate it. And good to discover your space...you have pretty good collection.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Christmas eve a la B

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more- Bernard Shaw Merry Christmas y'all!! Kinda late for that but hey the thought is what counts doesn't it? So the 24th evening we had a small get together with great people and even greater food. Lot of Japanese treats and snacks. For the main course we had Pav-bhaji, Rajma and Japanese rice (with radish, bamboo, beets and carrots- I should ask my friend for the recipe, it tasted real good!) . For dessert we had ice cream and an eggless chocolate cake .  I was aiming for a black forest cake but somehow lost my enthusiasm and made a chocolate cake with whipped cream and toasted almond topping. Ingredients 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 1/2 cup all purpose flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 can condensed milk 1/2 cup butter, melted and cooled 1/2 cup water a pinch of salt 1 tsp almond extract Method Preheat the oven to 360F. Sift the cocoa powder, flour, bak...
5 comments
Read more

Gingerbread house

Oh the warm smell of spices is the hallmark of the holiday season and is the one thing we all love, don't we? GInger is definitely one spice that I love to include in my cooking/baking expeditions during this time of the year. So I was naturally happy to see that this month we were doing the gingerbread house for this month's challenge, well it was a fleeting moment anyway until I realized that it was yet another kitchen mishap. Consider this my 10th new recipe and the 3rd in Nupur's marathon . The December 2009 Daring Baker's challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi . They chose to challenge Daring Bakers' everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book  as the challenge recipes. I used Y's recipe Ingredients 1 cup butter, room temperature 1 cup brown sugar, well packed 2 tablespoons cinnamon 4 teaspoons ground g...
9 comments
Read more

Tried and tasted

  This month on the Tried and Tasted series hosted by Priya , the blog being featured is "Chef in You". It features as one of my daily haunts. Now I am not too fond of mushrooms but this time I let the wise guy pick up some, thought would use it in an omlette or may be even some good fried rice. But a quick search on Chef in you and this recipe was an instant click. So I ordered the wise guy to go for it and he actually made this recipe with minimal help from me. We did not have a few ingredients on hand, so like any good cook I went with my own substitutions which are marked in red. Ingredients , original recipe can be found here 1 1/2 cups chopped button mushrooms 1 onion, chopped 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts 1/2 cup cheddar, grated 2 tbsp grated parmesan 1/4 cup milk ( or replace it with egg) 2-3 tbsp chopped parsley 1 cup panko bread crumbs ( Italina style crumbs with herbs and spices adds more taste) Method In a non stick pan, add little olive oil and saute onions an...
Post a Comment
Read more