Roasted Okra / Lady Finger / Bhindi

Ingredients -

1 pound okra pods

2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1 tsp chopped onion powder

Salt & black pepper according to taste

Method -

1. Preheat oven to 450F. Lightly oil a cookie sheet or roasting pan.
2. Trim the ends of okra and slit them into two pieces. Combine the okra, salt, black pepper, onion powder and oil in a large bowl and toss to coat well. Arrange in a single layer in the pan or sheet.
3. Roast for about 15 minutes, until the pods are well browned, shaking the pan occasionally for even cooking.
4. Transfer the okra to a serving bowl. Serve immediately.

Bread Pizza

Yesterday, I was looking for recipes in the GFCF group and I found recipe for GFCF pizza. Actually, my son never liked pizza when he was not on GFCF diet, so I didn't try to give him GFCF Pizza. He mostly eats dosas, pancakes & rotis. So, I thought I should give a try to add some variety. I haven't made any GFCF pizza at home. So, I thought I should make a small pizza and see how it goes.

Bread Pizza

So, I made a GFCF bread pizza. And I was shocked to see that Tanishk didn't resist to eat and he ate whole pizza. He liked it very much. I also tasted it a little bit and that was yummy. I had put everything what Tanishk likes.

Ingredients:

2 GFCF Bread Slices (Any GFCF Bread - I took homemade)

1/2 small Onion
1/4 cup Frozen Peas
1/4 cup Frozen Corn
1/4 cup shredded Daiya Cheese
1 tsp Oil
1 tbsp Casein Free Butter
1 tbsp Tomato Sauce
Salt according to taste

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 400 F. I used toaster oven. Heat a skillet and heat the oil.
2. Fry onion till little brown and then mix peas & corn in it. Pour the salt and cook till peas are tender. Put the mixture aside.
3. Apply some butter on both slices and put some tomato sauce on it.
4. Put the peas & corn mixture equally on both slices. Spread the shredded cheese on top of it.
5. Put both slices in the oven and bake for 15 minutes.
6. Serve them immediately.

Bread Pizza

Banana Walnut Bread

Banana Walnut Bread - Behind is the bread machine

One day I saw a recipe for Gluten Free Banana Walnut Bread on internet, and wanted to try it. This recipe uses Bread machine. My hubby also told me that he likes Banana Walnut Bread. But he used to eat the regular Banana Walnut Bread, not Gluten Free. So, I decided that I should give a try.

Yes, that was yummy. That was definitely delicious. Everyone liked the bread, even my both kids. And it was all finished in 2 days only.

But there was one ingredient which I wanted to avoid - yeast. So, I again tried to find another good recipe for GFCF Banana Walnut Bread. I found a recipe - Gluten Free Dairy Free Banana Bread from 'Book of Yum'  I tried that recipe. It was good. I modified the recipe according to our taste & also to make Banana Walnut Bread. So, here is the recipe. I hope you all will like this.

Ingredients:

2 cups Brown Rice Flour or Gluten Free All Purpose Flour

1/2 cup chopped Walnuts, toasted (See below)

1-1/2 tsp Baking Powder

1/2 tsp Baking Soda

1/4 tsp Salt

1/2 tsp Ground Cinnamon

2 Eggs, beaten

1-1/2 cups mashed, ripe bananas

1 cup Sugar

Few drops of Vanilla Extract

1/2 cup Canola Oil

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Spray medium bread pan with nonstick cooking spray.
2. Combine dry ingredients except sugar in a small bowl.
3. Mix other eggs, banana, sugar, vanilla extract and oil in a large bowl.
4. Add dry ingredients and mix it to make a smooth batter. Pour the batter into the pan.
5. Bake for an hour or until a toothpick comes out clean.
6. Cool for a few minutes before removing from pan and then cool on a wire rack.

Toasted Walnuts - Place the walnuts on a cookie sheet and bake them at 350 F for 15-20 minutes. 

Simple Jowaar Aloo Parantha

I have already posted recipe for Spicy Jowaar Aloo Parantha. After such a long time, today I made Jowaar Aloo Parantha but with very simple recipe. We don't need so much spices for this recipe. Still, my son liked it.

Ingredients:

1 large grated Boiled Potato

1/4 cup Sorghum Flour (Jowaar Ka Atta)

1/4 tsp Ajwain (Carom Seeds)

1/4 tsp Parsley Flakes

1/2 tsp Olive Oil

Salt according to taste

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredients in the mixing bowl. If dough is dry, add some sore olive oil. Don't add water.
2. Take a straight plastic and put some GF flour on it. Make one small ball from dough and roll it on the plastic. Roll it like chapati.
3. Heat the non-stick pan and put it on the pan.
4. After 1 min. turn it and put some oil on both sides. Cook it until both sides are light brown.
5. Serve hot with chutney, dip, curry, curd, pickle or you can eat it without anything.

Tanishk likes to eat it also with butter. He is real Maakhan Chor.