Four-flour-Medley Masala Bread

I bought some Corn flour and Amaranth flour from Whole Foods and along with it an interesting looking Coconut flour – never heard of that one before – It is not coconut powder or powdered coconut milk, guys – this is, I quote, a high source of fiber and protein and a good alternative to wheat if you want gluten-free. It is sort of pale brown/yellow in color almost like they have ground the coconut hair (if you understand what I mean) to get the fiber into it – needless to say you will see me experimenting a lot more with this new friend J

So where do I begin making this masala bread for which I certainly did NOT want to use any eggs? I googled corn bread and even hit our blogger friend and my name sake Priya of easy and tasty recipes post – She had made corn bread with quinoa, another friend of this family …  but no recipes with amaranth and coconut flour which I simply needed to use – I had bought it after all. Thus the experiment began. I remembered reading my guest Jan’s explanation of how eggs are substituted by baking soda and baking powder and buttermilk which I know is a natural leavening agent.

So here is what I did …

Ingredients

1 cup Corn flour

½ cup amaranth

½ coconut flour

½ multi-grain flour (bought from Indian store)

¼ cup salted butter melted

1tsp baking soda

1tsp baking powder

2 cups of milk

½ cup buttermilt

2 tbsp honey

1tsp salt

1 tbsp dried rosemary- crushed

1 medium sized jalapeno (optional)

1 tsp of olive oil for lightly frying the jalapeno

1tsp of oil/butter for greasing the pan/pans

Preparation

Mix in a bowl the flours, baking soda & powder, rosemary and salt

In another bowl, mix milk, buttermilk, honey

First dribble the melted butter over the flour and knead in gently with hand, like you would pizza or chappati dough

Get with an electric whisk gently whisk the flour while pouring the milk mix in.

When it came to consistency, I was not too sure how flowing it should be, but in walks my daughter from school as I was preparing it and asked me if I was making bread – I was wondering aloud about the texture and she said, that seems just right for bread, ma – (hmm wonder how she knows ;))) That was all the reassurance I needed at that point

In a small pan, heat the tsp of oil and lightly fry the jalapeno to take away its raw edge.

Set oven to 400

Grease your pan/pans (i made two batches one with the jalapenos and one without for my little one) Mix in with the batter

Scoop half the batter on the pan and level it

Cook for about 15-17 minutes – check with toothpick at around 15 mins to see if it is done – keep longer if necessary.

Cut and serve with jam, hot butter or cream cheese…makes for a relatively healthy after-school snack for your kids and a good snack with a hot cuppa chai J

I really LOVE doing this!!
This goes as an entry for my ongoing blog event Fast Food NOT Fat Food (not entered for award contest, naturally)

Day 3 of the week long blogging marathon initiated by Srivalli. 

In it with me are: Divya,  Harini, Jay, Kamalika, Ila,  Padma Rekha Pavani Priya's Recipes Suma Gandlur Vatsala Priya Vaasu Veena Krishnakumar

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