Monday, February 16, 2015

Butter Biscuits

Ingredients:
Maida or All purpose Flour - 2 cups
Powdered Sugar - 1 Cup
Butter - 150 gms
Salt - a Pinch

Preparation:
Prepare a dough with all the above ingredients. Knead well for some time. Nicely process the dough with hand. No need to add water.
Turn the dough into big rectangular cake.
close the container.Leave it untouched for 2 hours.
After 2 hours, cut the dough into smaller pieces (to a thickness of normal cookie)

Preheat the oven to 380 deg for 30 minutes. Do this before cutting the dough.
Arrange the cut pieces in baking tray or Aluminium sheet with some distance.
Bake it in 375 deg for 15 minutes. You will see the biscuits are turning golden brown in edges and nice buttery smell is coming out.

Now take the tray out of oven. Biscuits will be soft as soon as it is out of oven. So let it cool for an hour to harden.

Yummy home made biscuits are ready for your evening snacks !!

Servings:
18 Biscuits

Onion Tomato Chutney

Ingredients:
To Grind:
Onion - 1 large
Tomato - 1 large
Green chilli - 2
Red Chilli - 3
Salt - 1 spoon or as needed

To Temper:
Oil - 5 spoons
Mustard - 1/4  spoon
Hing

Preparation:
Grind all the ingredients in "To Grind" section, in Mixi.
In a pan, heat oil and temper mustard seeds with hing.
Pour the ground paste in tempering. Add 1/4 cup of water to it.
Let the mixture boil until the raw smell goes off. Switch off the flame when chutney thickens and starts separating oil.

Serve with Hot Idlis or Dosas !