That wisp of fresh aroma that awakens every single one of your taste buds, the satisfying crunch that is music to the ear and pure love to the heart, the perfect blend of spices and an ally to your health.
Here are five wheat flour recipes that will never leave you guilty when you ask for a second serving!
1. Atta Cake Recipe- 2×1” of Pure Delicacy!
This atta cake recipe is a delicious homemade wheat flour recipe that can meet all choices or requirements varying from person to person. You can serve it like a dry cake, or ice it with frosting. It tastes amazing whether you add an egg or not! (slightly more flavourful with the egg though). So here’s how it works:
- Grease a square baking pan with salt-free butter while you simultaneously preheat the oven at 3500F or 1800 C for 20 minutes.
- Take a mixing bowl and add 120g or 1 cup of Chakki Fresh Atta and ½ a teaspoon of baking soda to add the fluff to this atta cake recipe.
- Mix the whole wheat flour atta and baking soda together, add ½ a cup of sweetened and condensed milk, add ½ a teaspoon of vanilla essence and set it aside.
- Take another pan and add 6 tablespoons of butter with ½ a cup of water and 4 tablespoons of sugar (or more based on your sweet preferences) and stir in medium flame. Stir the mixture until it attains consistency.
- Add the butter batter to your wheat flour recipe and now mix all the ingredients with a wired whisk.
- Place the batter in the baking pan and bake for 45 minutes. There you go, it is ready to eat!
2. Aloo Ka Paratha Recipe- a Delicious Dish with the Goodness of Whole Wheat
Amongst the most frequently cooked and thoroughly relished wheat flour recipes is the Aloo Ka Paratha recipe- most of our favourite dishes since childhood! Want to learn how to make this delicious Indian atta bread delicacy?
- Add 3-4 big potatoes to a pressure cooker with water and cook them up to 4 whistles.
- Peel these potatoes and put them in a mixing bowl. Either use a masher to mash these potatoes or use your good old hands once the potatoes are cooled off. Ensure that you don’t leave any lumps.
- Add ½ teaspoon garam masala powder, ½ teaspoon red chilli powder. ½ teaspoon mango powder or amchur powder 1-2 finely chopped green chillies and salt as per your taste.
- Mix them up well and set them aside while you work on the whole wheat paratha dough.
- Take 2-3 cups of atta in a bowl, ½ a cup of water, ½ a teaspoon and ½ a tablespoon of ghee and mix them together until the mixture attains a tight consistency. Your whole wheat paratha dough is ready.
- Now shape them into round balls, press them flat and fill in the potato stuffing. Wrap up the stuffing like a dumpling and then flatten it into the shape of a paratha.
- Put it over the cooking pan and lightly brush some Rice Bran Health Oil and cook it until golden brown. You can serve these delicious Punjabi atta breads hot with a side bowl of curds and mango pickles for a tangy taste!
3. Whole Wheat Pizza Dough- Delicious Homemade Pizza that Packs a Healthy Punch
Generally made with Refined all-purpose flour (Maida), here is a healthy alternative to satiate your pizza cravings! Here’s the whole wheat flour recipe for your healthy pizza:
- Take 1 teaspoon of instant yeast in a mixing bowl, ½ teaspoon sugar, 1 cup of water and mix the ingredients well.
- Add 3 cups of wheat flour and 1 teaspoon of salt. 3 teaspoons of healthy rice bran oil , 1 tablespoon lemon juice and knead for 8 minutes until the whole wheat pizza dough attains a tight consistency.
- Sprinkle some water on the dough, cover it with a wet cloth and set aside for 45 min if the weather is hot and approximately 1.5 – 2 hours in cold weather.
- Keep the whole wheat pizza dough in the refrigerator for 2-3 days.
- Your whole wheat pizza dough is ready to be cooked.
4. Atta Dosa- South Indian Express!
Last but never least- atta dosha, a whole wheat flour recipe that will prove to be your knight in shining armour when you are horribly late for work and need to cook up a healthy yet delicious meal for breakfast!
- Take 1 cup wheat flour and ¼ cup rice flour in a mixing bowl and add ¼ cup chopped onions, 6-7 chopped curry leaves for flavour, ½ teaspoon ginger, ½ teaspoon cumin seeds and add salt as per your liking.
- Add 2.5 cups of water, you can mediate the quantity while mixing the batter to ensure a smooth consistency.
- Once you have mixed all the ingredients together, heat a non-stick pan (Tava) and apply a light film of rice bran oil.
- Take a round-based serving spoon and put a spoonful of this whole wheat flour recipe on the pan as you swiftly swirl the batter in a circular motion.
- Flip the dosha once it attains a golden brown colour and serve it hot with gunpowder (Podi) or coconut/onion chutney.
Hope you enjoy making and devouring these 5 whole wheat flour recipes that are a must in your food-making armoury!