Quark Cheese-DIY

Quark

When we did the alphabet marathon Nandini had made quark. The first time I had heard of this delicious cheese. I had to make it.

Various cuisines feature quark as an ingredient for appetizers, salads, main dishes, side dishes and desserts

Quark Cheese

Recipe Source: here 

Ingredients:

• 3 ½ cups milk
•  ¼ cup curd
•  ¼ cup water

Method:

• Bring the milk to a boil and let it cool completely.
• Meanwhile blend the curd and water to get your buttermilk.
• Add buttermilk and mix
• Let it rest undisturbed for 24 hours in a warm corner of the kitchen
• One full day later, line a sieve with cheesecloth (or a thin kitchen towel). Place this on a bowl with at least ½-ltr capacity to collect the drained whey water
• Pour the curds into the lined sieve and secure. Pull the edges together and twist it up or secure with a rubber band
• Place the entire apparatus in the refrigerator for 24 hours
• Remove the cheese from the cheesecloth and keep refrigerated in an airtight container. 

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QuroosAsal Khubz a Traditiona Bread from Oman

QuroosalAsal

For the alphabet O we have a choice do it with Oman or OMAN in our Mega Blogging Marathon !!

Come on can we not have some more countries with O?

Cuisine of Oman is a mixture of several staples of Asian foods.  Food basically revolves around chicken, fish, and lamb, with rice as the staple food.   Omani food is a rich mixture of spices, herbs and marinades.

Omani food is different for different regions of Oman   but the staple food is curry, cooked meat, rice, and vegetables.  

Soups are also common and are usually made from chicken, lamb, and vegetables (e.g., smoked eggplant). (This I need to check).

 So far Oman I could not find any street food but then somewhere I saw this bread being made. It was a video of some fair and I loved this bread. I just caught the name Khubz, which is bread in Omani.

I searched and was lucky to find the Times of Oman featuring the bread called QuroosAsal

I quote here what Ms.S. Kamal has said in her write up,” Quroos, which means circle in Arabic language, is a bread baked by many tribal people to celebrate the birth of a child in the family. She said that many people in Oman as well as the Gulf mark the festive event by making the honey bread.”

But the actual recipe I got here . 

Loved it so much that I had to make it. The original recipe said use maida but I used whole wheat flour. I scaled down the recipe to get only two of these beauties. As you can see I need some practice before I get the perfect smooth layer. But that is for later.

Needless to say these were done in a hurry and were finished by yours faithfully for breakfast( but will taste yum with any curry) as I did not expect a warm reception from the family,for they seemed like Neer Dosa only made from wheat flour!!

Later when Apeksha, my elder one asked me what I am making for O I mentioned that I had finished making O!

“How did I not get a taste? When was this? Where was I?” She will make a great Police Inspector, I know!!

My sheepish replies did not satisfy her. Needless to say I need to make them again.

QuroosAsal

QuroosalAsal

Recipe Source: Times of Oman and here

Ingredients for the QuroosAsal:

• ½ kg whole wheat flour
• 1 tsp salt
•  water as needed

For the filling:

• Grated cheese Or Honey

Method:

• Mix salt, flour and water (add water slowly as needed)into soft, sticky dough. 
• Put flat dosa tava or griddle on low heat.
• Coat griddle with the dough with one hand.

• Spread the desired filling on the QuroosAsal. I used cheese.

QuroosalAsal

• Remove from the griddle after about 30 seconds. 

QuroosalAsal

• Makes about 30, enough for a meal for four.

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Cheddar and Sage Scones

Cheddar and Sage Scones

First I would like to thank Swathi for giving me this opportunity to suggest bakes here at Baking Partners. 

Lets face it I am safe baker I prefer tried and trusted recipes, and a lazy baker for I hardly open the books I buy for baking (or cooking for that matter) for that matter take up elaborate recipes.

Now at Ahmedabad airport I had picked up The BBC Good Food Issue for two reasons one  it was a vegetarian one  and two there was a Gordon Ramsay recipe featured. Boy was I excited! Hardly sat in the plane and that was the first page I opened, but sadly will never make it as the recipe calls for phyllo sheets , something we do not get here and I have no patience to make  the sheets. So I just kept the magazine on the kitchen side shelf. I did not think I will use the magazine at all.

Then at work I saw Swathi’s message asking me to suggest bakes. I just casually mentioned savoury bakes like tarts, scone I was surprised when Swathi asked to make two.

 I panicked!

 Then I realised that at the back of my mind I had these two interesting recipes that I had noticed in the same magazine.  These scones are very simple and the only complaint against them at home was why only 8 pieces or rather make one more batch !