Friday 27 May 2016

The Three Ingredient Treat, Butter Bun

A butter bun stall in Anna Nagar selling exclusively butter buns. 
So what if I said you(considering you to be sweet toothed) that I can give you a great tasting sweet which is made of just three ingredients.
 Sounds good? It tastes equally good. It's the butter bun.
Those three magical ingredients that satisfies your demonish sweet tooth are a bun, some cream butter and sugar.
Chances are you may or may not have heard of it.
If you haven't tried it yet then you're missing an amazing dish from the streets.
It has a buttery sweet taste(which my taste buds appreciate a lot) and is served hot.
And now we'll get into the details on how it's made

Step 1
The bun which is cut in the middle gets a nice coating of cream butter, on both sides.
And some sugar is added to the bun , over the layer of butter.
Step 2
And it's heated in the smoking hot pan for around a minute.

Step 3
It's turned over and some more butter is added in the top to enhance the flavor and give it that buttery texture while touching it. 

Step 4
It's flattened by pressing it and cut into four quarters
Step 5 
Final touches, a dab of cream butter, a few sprinkles of sugar, all served in an authentic banana leaf, 

Step 6 
This is how the end product looks like. And it is also served in a butter paper instead of a banana leaf.  I haven't yet tasted a sweeter thing than this in the street( except for halwa).

Tuesday 10 May 2016

Vellore's , Chicken Pakkoda With Semiya


This combination is the best way to eat chicken pakodas. 
 Before we begin, let me make it clear. Chicken pakodas are more or less the same chicken 65 I made a blog about earlier(link attached : click here).
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However with that being said chicken pakodas have way more ingredients in them which basically is Indian spices.
So, yes I find them taste better than the chicken 65 here in Madurai.
Sadly it ain't available here in Madurai. Vellore as you can see is full and full of chiken pakoda shops. And these guys know how to serve it the best.
With idiypam! Try it and thank me.
 And don't use the word idiyapam there.It's called "semiya"instead.
You'll get the question "where are you from?" when you use the former.
There are endless numbers of these soft tasting idiyapams..err semiyas, in every chicken pakoda shops(which you can find in every single street)


Coming to the taste of chicken pakoda, it has a more heavier spicier taste than the traditional chicken 65.This shop I went to add 16 ingredients including sunflower seeds and many such you never knew can be used in kitchen. So you can't really overload in this, you're stomach gets full pretty soon..
This leaf needs special mention. It's actually "mandharai leaf" considered to be an alternative to the traditional banana leaf as this one preserves the spicy flavor better it is used in packing biriyani too. Chicken pakodas are served in these,take a look at the previous picture .


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