All Purpose Flour
is relatively a new addition to my kitchen. From very rarely used its slowly
becoming a most used ingredient. Each one of us knows that it’s what we should
avoid but can we?
I for one prefer to make my cakes at home so
that my girls do not eat the vanaspati or margarine loaded cakes from the shop.
Slowly I want to make different breads too but not being patient with the yeast
gets me in trouble.
So what is All
Purpose Flour or Maida as it is know in India?
According to
Wikipedia” Maida is a finely milled and refined wheat flour, closely resembling cake flour, and used extensively in making Indian fast
food, Indian bakery products such as pastries and bread, and sometimes in
making traditional Indian
breads such as paratha and naan. It is made from the endosperm (the starchy white part) of the grain, while the fibrous bran is removed in the mill. Originally yellowish in colour,
maida is popular in a white color, bleached with benzoyl peroxide.”
Abroad I believe
you can get unbleached flour also the flour need to be enriched with certain amount of iron, thiamin,
riboflavin, folic acid and niacin. You can read more here.
Like me you do know all this but we still use
APF or maida. So can we make this flour more nutritious? Don your thinking Chef Hats ladies and send me
your entries for I am hosting Jagruti’s popular series of Know your flours and
my choice is All Purpose Flour or Maida.
Here are a few rules for the event
·
Cook and post about a recipe that features APF or Maida flour as the
star ingredients.
·
Vegetarian and Vegan recipes are accepted.
· Use of logo is appreciated.
· Send in as many recipes you
like but only 3 from archives are accepted.
· Non bloggers are also welcome
to participate please send me a mail @themadscientistskitchen@gmail.com.
· The last date to send in your entries – 31st December, 2012.
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Will send my entry to this one... Thanks for ur comments on my place :)
ReplyDeleteNice event!!! Have linked my Multigrain Bread.. Some more to come!!!
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Ongoing Event - CWF - Whole Wheat Flour
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Nice event,happy hosting!!
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Happy Hosting Nice event , just I linked my recipe/
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