Recreating Domino's Garlic Bread

Hello Friends,


Who doesn't like Pizza and Garlic bread right. Many of us make them at home, but there is always that extra taste that these vendors have which we miss somehow.


I saw this replica or recreation of Domino's Garlic Bread @ Bombay Foodie Blog and I knew I had to give it a try. And, let me tell you friends, I wasn't disappointed. Very easy to make and yummy to taste. Give it a try and you will like it.

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Recreating Domino's Garlic Bread

Ingredients
All Purpose Flour - 1.5 cups
Warm Water - 1/2 cup
Active Dry Yeast - 1/2 tsp
Olive Oil - 1/4 cup
Garlic Powder - 1 tsp
Italian Spice Mix - 2 tbsp, you can use anything here that you would like as topping.
Salt - To Taste
Preparation

• Add yeast in warm water (it shouldn't be too hot or room temp, but just slightly warmer). Let it rest for 5 min. to make sure yeast is indeed active.
• Now, add 1 cup flour and 1 tbsp olive oil to it. Mix well, cover and let it double (about an hour or so).
• Now, to this doubled flour mixture add rest of the flour, salt, garlic powder and 1 tbsp and mix well.  Cover and let it double again.
• Heat your oven to 400 degree F.
• Brush your baking pan or sheet with olive oil and transfer this doubled dough and flatten it with your fingers itself.
• Sprinkle the Italian seasoning and drizzle the remaining oil.
• Bake this for about 15 min. or you see that hint of golden color.
• I wished I had baked may be 2 min. longer to get that golden color, but the taste was no less.
• We enjoyed warm itself, right out of the oven :)

Serving
I served it as an evening snack with out coffees and just loved them.

That's all for now. Take care till next post.

Roasted Garlic Focaccia for Blog Hop February

Hello Friends,


How is everyone? HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY. No, my post is not related to valentine's day. A simple but delayed post for this month's Blog Hop. I would like to apologize to Radhika and my this month's partner Neha. Sorry ladies, made it over the weekend and just blogging about it.


Neha, got to say girl, it was a hit, loved by all and wow, what a flavor and texture and that smell of roasted garlic was simply awesome. 


In my family, both hubby and I absolutely love garlic in almost anything, yes, even in our bread :) This was a perfect recipe. The only change I made was I didn't add all the toppings that Neha suggested which are cherry tomatoes, onions etc. as I was making it considering my kids and a friends' kids as well and didn't think kids will appreciate it as much. I will give it a try in my next attempt.


Unfortunately, I forgot to take the picture when it came out of oven or when I was serving the first slice. I could only take it once everything was almost done. Thus, the poor picture. I promise to update the picture pretty soon as I am very sure that I am going to bake it again very soon. Till then enjoy this !!!

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Roasted Garlic Focaccia

Ingredients

For the bread
All purpose flour-5 cups
Salt - 2 tsp
Sugar - 1\2 tsp
Yeast - 1 1\2 tsp
Luke warm water - 1 1\2 cups
Garlic - 6-7 pods, Roasted and chopped or sliced as you may like
Extra virgin olive oil - 1\4 to 1/3 cups and 2 tbsp for oiling the pans
Bread Toppings
Cherry tomatoes-5-6(halved, optional)
Onion-1\4 (sliced, optional)
Garlic - a couple of pods roasted, to top the bread
Mozzarella cheese - 3 tbsp (or use any  combo of cheeses)
Preparation

• Mix water, sugar and yeast in a bowl and let it sit for 5-10 minutes till froth forms at the top, confirming that yeast is indeed active.
• Now, take the rest of the ingredients for the bread and mix them till all comes together as a ball. 
• Mix well for 3-4 minutes. Remember it will be very sticky, so don't try to add more flour to make it dry.
• Oil your hands and bring the dough together into a bowl.
• Oil a bowl (with 1 tbsp oil) and place the dough in it. Cover and let it rise for an hour in a dry warm place. Your oven is a great place, just don't switch it on.
• After an hour, oil the baking pan (I used a square pan) and punch and place the dough in the pan. Use your fingers to spread the bread evenly on the pan. I usually prefer leaving my finger denting in the pan.
• Top the bread with all the toppings depending on what you prefer and cover and let it rise for another hour.
• Preheat oven to 350 F and bake the bread for upto 35 - 45 min. Ovens vary, so, please check the time. Inserting a toothpick should come out clean.
• Let it cool down a bit (not all the way as it tastes better warm) before enjoying.

Serving
I served it with our evening tea. But, you can also prepare a dipping sauce of any kind you like and serve it as an appetizer as well.

That's all for now. Take care till next post.

Focaccia Bread

Hello Friends,


How is everyone doing? It is so much fun. All of a sudden winter started, to get cozier in warm clothes and with a cup of hot chocolate or this nice hot panini sandwich using Focaccia Bread.


I had seen this recipe @ Champa's Blog. Who doesn't know her, right? She is one stop for all baking needs. You will get every kind of baking recipe there, even recipes for home made bake mixes. Isn't that cool.


So, I had this recipe bookmarked from her as I am into baking these days. I tried this recipe, sounds tricky or weird due to the amount of oil, but it comes out perfectly. One of my friend tasted the recipe and she said, it tasted like a masala bun that they used to get in Bangalore. How cool is that :)

As I am submitting this recipe to my Bookmarked Recipe event, as per rules, I won't post the recipe, but just my recreated pics. Please follow Recipe link to check the details. Her recipe is inspired by famous chef Anne Burrell's Sourdough Focaccia recipe.



This goes to Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday (Volume 71) event hosted by Aipi and I




That's all for now. Take care till next post.

Cafe Style Best Ever Banana Bread for December Sweet Punch

Hello Friends,


Another wonderful Sweet Punch posting day. This month Ria gave us a free reign to bake anything we would like to, which as usual confused me. But, I had this recipe bookmarked for a while and I had bananas ready to go bad, so this is what I made for this month.


The bread was as mentioned by Tia, a cafe style and that too a melt in the mouth kind. If you like banana bread, this is the recipe you can count on. I guess this is the best banana bread I have baked so far. Take my word for it.

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Cafe Style Best Ever Banana Bread

Recipe Source: Buttercream Barbie
Ingredients
Wet
Banana - 3 large ones (about 1 to 1.5 cups mashed banana puree or little chunky as you like)
Eggs - 2 beaten
Buttermilk - 1/3 cup
Oil - 1/2 cup (I used Canola Oil)
Dry
All Purpose Flour - 1 3/4 cups, sifted
Sugar - 1 - 1.5 cups (I added 1.5 and felt that I could have reduced a bit)
Baking Soda - 1 tsp
Salt - 1/2 tsp
Nuts
Walnuts - 1/2 cup, chopped to bits
Preparation

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F and grease a load pan.
• Whisk together all wet ingredients  till nicely blended.
• Sift together all dry ingredients.
• Now, add dry ingredients to wet slowly and mix till all come together and there are no lumps.
• Add walnuts (you can also add 1/ cup of chocolate chips here, if you want to) and mix them in the batter.
• Pour the batter in the greased load pan and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes. Keep checking after an hour to make sure you don't over bake.
• Let it cool on rack completely before you cut them into desired sized slices.
• The ingredients mentioned above made one loaf for me.

Serving
Serve it just as it is. I have tried both warm and cold and it tastes alike, simple delicious.

That's all for now. Take care till next post.

Eggless / Butterless / Sugarless Banana Chocolate Chip Bread

Hello Friends,


Did the title intrigue you enough? If not I am pretty sure after reading this recipe, you will surely give this a try.


Somehow since I have started baking a couple of months ago, I have been obsessed with bananas, in baking. I am not a banana fan. I mean if someone asks me to eat banana, it will be a huge task for me to eat it, and finish it. But, somehow I have always loved that wonderful sweet smell of banana in baking. So most of my baking these days include banana in some or other other way. For example, Eggless Chocolate and Bread Pudding, Best Chocolate Banana Bread Ever, Soft/Moist Eggless Banana Cake,  Banana Strawberry Muffins, Quinoa Cake Stix.


I am pretty sure most of you in the blog world know all about Champa and recognize as one of our baking queens as that is what she is to me. I refer to her blog for all my baking needs. She has everything from basics of baking to charts of conversion to baking mixes to wonderful baking recipes along with other non baking stuff. If you have never visited her blog or new to blog world, please make sure to visit her and user her as a guide for all baking needs.

So, this is a recipe I had bookmarked from Champa in June last year and this last weekend is when I got time to make it. What fascinated me to this recipe is of course banana, but on top of that, it is eggless (I have no aversion of cooking with eggs, but if I can avoid it why not as I don't eat eggs in my daily life other than for baking), it is sugarless (banana's sweetness and addition of honey does the work) and it is absolutely butterless and believe me when I say that you won't miss it a bit when eating the bread. And, to top all the above said things, there are chocolate chips. For some chocoholics like me, that is surely the cherry on the top :)


Another wonderful thing about this recipe is that you can bake it into a bread, a cake or even muffins. So, go with your what your heart tells you at that time. You can enjoy it as a perfect breakfast or evening snack or even dessert with some ice-cream.


Please go to Champa's blog to check details on this Banana Chocolate Chip Bread recipe. I have followed it as it is, so not going to copy here.



This goes to Bookmarked Recipes - Every Tuesday (Volume 62)event hosted by Aipi and me.

Spicy Focaccia Bread for Blog Hop

Hi Friends,


Today is the 4th week of Blog Hop Wednesdays, an effort started by Radhika. It encourages us to blog hop and try our fellow blogger's recipes. Please check out what all this is about.


This week, I am paired with Charishma of Cherie's Stolen Recipes, who has this amazing blog with variety of recipes. You will find recipes from every course and every like of yours. Love it. Please check out her blog and follow if you are not already doing so.


I wanted to try something that I hadn't tried yet. And, now that I am this pattern of trying to bake, my eye caught the recipe of my favorite savory bread on earth, which is Spicy Focaccia Bread. It is my absolute favorite. Every time I go out for hot panini or sandwich, this is the bread I request it on. I simply love the texture and how nice it is in my mouth. If you have never tried it, you don't know what you are missing when it comes to savory breads. 

I have used her recipe as it is with the exception of adding cilantro (because I forgot, dumb me) and chilies on top as my kids and hubby do not like it very spicy. My husband, who is usually a big critic, loved it and wanted to try another slice even though he is watching his diet. It took me just 5 minutes of prep works, 1 hour of bread rising (remember like Charishma says, it doesn't rise a lot like other yeast breads)  and thereafter 40 minutes of baking @ 375 degree F. Thanks Charisma for this wonderful recipe :)

Please do check what other blog hoppers are cooking.

That's all for now. Take care till next post.

Best Chocolate Banana Bread Ever

Hello Friends,

It has been a few days since I posted something, just too busy with summer activities. Here is a simple yet the best Chocolate Banana bread I have had ever. This is a recipe I got from a colleague, Jerri, who is such a great baker and I love that I get to taste them very often.. lol

I am very very sure that if you try, you will thank me and her both and save this recipe forever. Technically this is a bread recipe, but as I did not have a loaf pan, I tried it as a round cake and loved it. So, you can make it into a cake with some chocolate frosting or a bread and serve it at breakfast with some butter on it. Notice those nice chocolate chips peeking from the slice? This is all I could take picture as the cake was gone within minutes and I cannot even tell you how moist it was, just amazing.

Now, without further ado, here is the recipe from Jerri to me to you.

Best Chocolate Banana Bread Ever

Ingredients

Butter - 1/2 cup, softened 
White Sugar - 1 cups
Eggs - 2
Bananas - 3 pureed
Vanilla Extract - 1 tsp
All Purpose Flour - 1.5 cups
Baking Soda - 1 tsp
Unsweetened Cocoa Powder - 2 tbsp
Sour Cream - 1/2 cup
Semisweet Chocolate Chips - 1/2 to mix in the batter and about 1/4 cup more to just fold in
Preparation

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a loaf pan.
• In a large bowl, cream together margarine, sugar and eggs. 
• Stir in bananas and vanilla. 
• Sift in flour, baking soda and cocoa; mix well. 
• Blend in sour cream and chocolate chips. 
• Right before pouring in pan, fold in those extra chocolate chips (totally optional step).
• Pour batter into prepared pans. 
• Bake in preheated oven for 60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center of a loaf comes out clean. 

Note: You can substitute 1/2 cup of sour cream with a combination of 1/4 cup sour cream, 1/4 cup of buttermilk an 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda.  Be sure to start the buttermilk and baking soda combination a few minutes prior to mixing with the other ingredients so they react.
Serving
Serve it with your favorite ice-cream on the side or top. You can also use some frosting. In my case, I just enjoyed it as it is :)


That's all for now. Take care till the next post.