Chourico Pao

After I tried the sausage rolls I thought I'd try the chourico pao; ;) the same thing basically but just a change in shape. My sis-in-law had bought some tiny chourico pao but I simply cannot make them in miniature just like my potato chops. How on earth do people make them ever so tiny? Maybe because they have to sell them, I guess! Mine always turn out big!

Ingredients:
Same as for sausage rolls.


Method:

• Prepare dough as already shown for the sausage rolls.

• Divide the dough into 12 balls.

• Take a ball and flatten onto a flat floured surface.

• Roll into a small circle, making sure that it is fairly thick.

• Put some sausage filling at the centre.

• Bring the edges to the centre and seal.

• Turn them so that the smooth side is at the top.
• Leave to rise.
• Bake as for chourico pao that I posted earlier.

• Serve warm.

Deviled Eggs for Easter

It's Easter time again and I have been looking for something different and in theme to make for our Easter family lunch! We came up with these adorable little hatching chickens and bunny rabbits; a great way of producing artistic deviled eggs in sync with the Easter theme.

Deviled eggs - hatching chickens

Deviled eggs - bunny rabbits and chickens

Ingredients:
11 eggs, hard boiled
1 green coconut, grated (only the white part) taking care to avoid the skin
1 cup grated cheese
1 big onion, finely cut into bits
1 big tablespoons full mayonnaise
3 small boiled and mashed potatoes

A pinch of salt
A pinch of pepper powder

For decoration :
1 carrot
1 capsicum
A few pepper corns

Method:

• Cut the eggs horizontally for the hatching chickens in the first picture and vertically for the bunny rabbits and the chickens in the second picture.
• Remove the egg yolks from their white shells and mix with all the other ingredients.
• Put the mixture in a piping bag, and pipe it out into the empty egg whites as seen in the pictures.
• Cut out the beaks and feet for the hatching chickens using the carrot.
• Cut bunny ears, nose and whiskers from carrot and capsicum.
• Cut some grass for decoration from the capsicum for the hatching chickens.
• Serve as a snack.

PIZZA BASE

If you have been looking for a Pizza Base recipe then I am sharing mine with you. This one is from the British "Girl" magazine that I had got from a cousin who was down from Kuwait when I was a kid. It works pretty well and so if you have been looking for how to make pizza bases you have indeed arrived at the right place. This pizza base recipe yields 30 small ones.

Ingredients:

600 gms maida/all-purpose flour

3 level tspns sugar

3 ¾ level tspns salt

75gms ghee/butter

5 level tspns dry yeast

300 ml warm water

Method:

• Dissolve sugar in water. 
• Add yeast and dissolve it. 
• Sieve the flour, add salt. 
• Then run in the ghee. 
• Add the yeast liquid. 
• Knead well. 
• Leave to rise for 7 hrs. approximately in a bowl coated with a little oil & sealed with a plastic bag & rubber band. 
• Knead dough once again.  
•  Make round chapattis (use steel tiffin for cutting). 
• Keep for 15 mins. before putting topping. 
• Bake for ½ hour.