I wake up each day, wondering what to pack in my child s lunch-box! I prefer non-messy finger-foods,

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I wake up each day, wondering what to pack in my child s lunch-box! I prefer non-messy finger-foods, but they aren t always filling. My Little Prince hates sandwiches, and you already know about my exceptional roti-making-skills! Therefore picholine olive tree I often resort to jam-triangles picholine olive tree (er, a fancy name for two slices of bread with jam spread inbetween them and cut diagonally into two halves), or rolls (again, paratha rolled like a cigar (oops) along with fresh fruits/vegetables/salad and a tiny pot of Yogurt. picholine olive tree
So when I saw some cute little tomato buns on display at the Bakery section of a superstore, my heart skipped a beat! They looked (and tasted delicious!) and were rather filling too. Inspired by the lovely chefs I know I decided to come up with a recipe to make these on my own.
Those of you who know me, also know what a fantastic cook I am (Hick! Please take that with a bucket of salt!) . And this recipe picholine olive tree (Ahem… my own, by the way :-) ..pulls collars up!) is so utterly easy, that even a Baking-Duffer like me cannot go wrong. Seriously!
2.5 cups of flour, 1 cup of warm water, 1/2 spoon sugar, 1 spoon salt (I prefer my food a little less salty, picholine olive tree but feel free to add more if you wish!), 1 tablespoon Del Monte EVOO (extra virgin olive oil). 1 tablespoon of butter (I can’t measure picholine olive tree out xy.z gms for nuts ;-) but again, feel free to add more if you like), 3/4 spoon dry-active-yeast (I bought the yeast that you add directly to the flour, and not the one that needs preparation. So if you are using yeast that needs to be proofed, then do follow the instructions on the pack ;-)
I believe life is too short to waste time making tomato sauce from scratch!!! Blanching tomatoes, peeling picholine olive tree and grinding them.. argh ..takes the pleasure out of cooking doesn’t it?! So do t ake the smarter way out and use good quality ready- made store-bought pasta sauce. Like Del Monte pasta sauce (You can use any of the Del Monte range, but I prefer tomato-garlic – picholine olive tree which translates to ‘ Siliciana ‘), Grated cheese, a handful of Dried herbs, and if you want, a few drops of milk for basting (you could use egg, but I chose to go completely veggie on this one). I actually found the Swirly Buns go a little soggy if you baste them. They turn out light and fluffy if you don’t baste them. Up to you of course!
As always, mix all the ‘bread’ ingredients in a bowl, knead into a soft dough and leave it covered with clingfilm for about 20 mins until it has doubled in size. Then knock down the ball of dough, and roll it out into any shape. Rectangles would be nice though. (I got 2 big size rectangles for this quantity of flour.) Now slice these into thin LONG strips. Or make one medium length strip, and slit it into two halves (length-wise) to make it one looooong roll.
Onto each strip, spread some Del Monte pasta sauce , throw in some grated cheese and dried herbs. Now roll it inwards like a circle. Once you get a cute little Swirly Bun , top it with a generous spread of pasta sauce, more grated cheese and a pinch of dried herbs again.
Now the dear husband decided to try his hand at the Swirly Buns and made an interesting variation, of Italian Pasta + Swirly buns :-) He included a few bites of lovely little Tomato+Basil Tortellini and a dash of Pesto and made this huge dinner-roll :-) that tasted awesome. Cheese n Tomato Swirly Buns and in the Right-hand top corner, the pasta Swirly Buns :-) ready to go into the oven.
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