Cooking&more

My family loves eating baked treats such as cookies, muffins, pizzas and so on. But ever since we have pledged to go gluten free, we have found it difficult to indulge ourselves. The gluten free products that we buy outside, do not taste as good, and sometimes I get skeptical about what goes into them. I was looking for options to make gluten free baked goods at home, so when my friend from USA was visiting us, I asked her to get a packs of Bob’s Red Mill gluten free flour for us. I used the flour to make a batch of apples muffins that came out really fluffy and moist, with a yummy apple flavor running through it. I got the recipe from the official site for Bob’s Red Mill, and tweaked it a bit to suit our taste. The kids loved it and the muffins disappeared in no time. I would definitely keep making this recipe again and again. Recipe for gluten free Apple muffins Prep time – 15 min Baking time – 20 min 1 cup gluten free flour (I used Bob’s Red Mill All purpose gluten free

Mung bean pancake (Peserattu) Mung bean or moong dal pancakes known as cheelas in hindi or pesserattu in telugu are an easy and popular dish in India. Many varieties abound, with whole or split mung beans and with or without filling. For our Saturday dinner, I chose to make them with split mung beans because they take the minimum effort and soaking time, and because I am lazy like that and because I would rather just read a novel or watch a movie with DH on a Saturday evening than spend hours in the kitchen preparing dinner  :) To make the pancakes (makes approximately 6 pancakes of 8 inch diameter each) Take  1/4 cup of rice to 1 cup of split mung dal Soak them in enough water to cover  Along with 3 dried red chillies and a shake/pinch of asafotedia powder (also known as hing this powder is easily available in Indian grocery stores. Its totally optional but I would totally recommend it) Soak for two hours-(this is where using split mung gives me a maj