Tag Archives: bread

Warm & Delightful Tropical Bread

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Tadka Pasta

The sun has been particularly ruthless lately here in Bangalore. While we get through our days with tall pitchers of iced tea and melt into a sweet puddle of delight at the very mention of ice cream, there’s also the … Continue reading →

Posted in Bakes And Cakes, Uncategorized | Tagged bread, coconut, dates bread, desiccated coconut, healthy, healthy baking, healthy snack, home baking, navadarshanam, pineapple bread, tropical food, whole wheat flour | Leave a comment

Protein Power: Sprouts Theplas

Posted on March 13, 2016 by Tadka Pasta

There was a time when Thepla, Dhokla, Khakhra were a bunch of strange-sounding foods that belonged to a distant cuisine. Of course there were times when we were drawn close to them, thanks to the friendly Patel’s store in the suburbs where … Continue reading →

Posted in Bread Binder, Breakfast Basket, Snack Attack | Tagged bread, easy, Flatbread, Gujrati, healthy, Horsegram, Indian, kid-friendly, make ahead, mung beans, nutritious, panfried, parantha, quick, snack, sprouted, Sprouts, thepla, vegetarian | 1 Comment

Swing it on the Stovetop – Cornbread Paniyarams

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Tadka Pasta

With the amount of diverse flavours and textures available readily to us in our little Indian kitchens, we could traverse the world in a few days with prudently created regional recipes. Give us a block of good cheese and some … Continue reading →

Posted in Bread Binder, Breakfast Basket, Picnic Basket, Snack Attack | Tagged baked, bites, bread, castiron, cornbread, crusty, ebelskiver, paddu, paniyaram, stovetop, vegetarian | Leave a comment

Of Savoury Crusts and Crumbs

Posted on July 24, 2013 by Tadka Pasta

There are many reasons why we love baking yeasted goodies with the We knead to bake group and this loaf brings all of them to life. It is baked in the graceful and regal ring-shaped Kugelhopf pan that comes from … Continue reading →

Posted in Bread Binder | Tagged bread, cheese, Gouda, Italian, kugelhopf, loaf, recipe, Salty, savoury, spicy, vegetarian | 8 Comments

An Eggscellent Breakfast!

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Tadka Pasta

It’s hard to go wrong with eggs and toasts for breakfast, especially when Old Man Winter’s here to stay a while. Perhaps crunchy, gilded-faced toasts slathered with oodles of butter and topped with eggs done sunny side up could be … Continue reading →

Posted in Breakfast Basket, Snazzy Sandwiches | Tagged bread, breakfast, cheese, egg sandwiches, eggs, eggwiches, grated cheese, healthy breakfast, omelet, scrambled eggs, toast, walnuts | 3 Comments

Bonkers over Buns – Pull-apart Pav

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

Whether you call them Pav or Pull-apart Rolls, you could use them to mop up a teekhi bhaji (spicy curried veggie)or dunk torn chunks into a meaty stew, you could slit and char them on a tava (griddle) slicked with Amul butter (India’s favorite butter) or just … Continue reading →

Posted in Bread Binder | Tagged baking, bread, buns, buns with milk, dinner rolls, homemade, how to make rolls, laadi pav, pao, pav, pav bhaji, pull-apart, soft, tender, white, yeast | 26 Comments

Bonkers over Buns – Seed-Spangled Beauties

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

Buns are a crackerjack package for the bread lover – with the crust, crumb, toppings, as well as portion-control built right in. There’s none of the waiting that cooling down an entire loaf entails, nor the agony of cutting it … Continue reading →

Posted in Bread Binder | Tagged bread, buns, burger buns, healthy, how to make buns, made with milk, sandwich buns, seeded, seeds, whole grain, whole wheat | 17 Comments

It’s My Loaf! Multigrain Bread Tune-up

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

Kitchen science could be as labyrinthine as any other, if not more. Persnickety recipes that are so exacting in their requirements that they throw cold water on the cook who dares to substitute an ingredient or take a wee shortcut … Continue reading →

Posted in Bread Binder | Tagged atta, baking, besan, bread, corn meal, healthy, loaf, makki, multigrain, oats, ragi flour in bread, rye bread, substitute, whole grain, whole wheat, yeast | 44 Comments

Savory Carrot Muffins

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

Muffins are forgiving, but not too much. They have been split, slit, slotted and slashed to suit the whims of different kinds of muffin monsters, in the form of stubs and tops and crumbly middles. They’ll take that much. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Snack Attack | Tagged bread, breakfast, carrot, cheese, healthy, kid-friendly, mango, muffins, savory, spicy, zucchini | 2 Comments

No Haute Cuisine This – Lemon Yoghurt Snack Cake

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Tadka Pasta

A gentle breeze caresses the leaves of the lone lemon tree in the backyard, making its laden limbs sway enticingly within an arm’s reach. How easy it is to linger for a moment, to admire the clusters of plump, yellow … Continue reading →