Sunday, January 31, 2010

Naan

Posted by thecaramelcookie / 13 comments » / Breads

Today I am having my parents and mother-in-law up for and an Indian lunch. Before I was married, I heard horror stories of awful, overbearing mother-in-laws. I got lucky with my mother-in-law! She is a wonderful woman and I truly enjoy spending time with her.

Neither my parents nor my mother-in-law have had Indian food before, so I am fixing a traditional lunch of chicken tikka masala, basmati rice, and naan. Naan bread is yeasted flat bread, similar to pitas. If you have never worked with yeast before, this is a great recipe to start with. The dough is easy to work with and the recipe is not as involved as other yeast breads. Using a bread machine to mix and rise the dough makes the process even easier. This naan recipe produces a bread with a nice chewy outside and tender inside, perfect for mopping up all the tikka masala sauce!

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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Dulce De Leche Cookies

Posted by thecaramelcookie / 3 comments » / Cookies, Dessert
Last week I made dulce de leche from sweetned condensed milk for the first time. I’ve always been afraid of boiling the can and having it explode all over my kitchen so I used the double boiler method to be safe. It turned out great and since I now had an abudance of dulce de leche in the fridge, I decided to make Dorie Greenspan’s Dulce De Leche Duos from her book, Baking: From My Home to Yours. I can’t recommend this cook enough. I have loved everything I’ve made from it! The caramel flavor really comes through in these cookies. Sandwiching two cookies together with a thin layer of dulce de leche really makes them that much better!
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