Saffron Biscuits or Osmania Biscuits

Saffron Biscuits or Osmania Biscuits

Osmania biscuits are very famous in a place called Hyderabad in India.They are served with Irani chai(tea).I had heard a lot about it from my husband and brother.My brother recently visited Hyderabad and liked these biscuits very much and kept talking abouth them for couple of days, which made me try one day as I badly wanted to taste them.It turned out be the best biscuits I ever made.
                 

Ingridients:
1.Butter - 120 gram
2.Powdered Sugar - 80gram( as I didnot have powdered sugar I ground sugar+1 tea spoon corn flour in a mixer)
3.Milk - 20ml
4.All purpose flour - 200 gram
5.Custard powder - 10gram
6.Milk powder - 10 gram
7.Cardamom - a pinch
8.Baking powder - 1/4 tea spoon.

Method:

                                 

1. keep the butter outside in a room temperature for 1 hour        2. Mix the butter +  powdered sugar with  
and mix it with powdered sugar untill it becomes smooth.             All purpose flour untill it forms a short                                                                                                      crust as shown in the pic.
                                                                                               

                                         
                                                                                             

3.Roll it on a flat surface by dusting with flour on the surface.           4. Cut them into desired shape using                                                                                                          cookie cutter or lid of any bottle.

5. Bake them at 180 deg centigrade for 15 mins( but keep an eye as every oven is different).

Stuffed Okra (Bhindi or ladies finger)

STUFFED OKRA

This is a delicious okra preparation to go along with chapathi or Naan.

Serving tip: Serve with Naan or roti.

         

Ingridients:

1.Okra (bhindi) - 500 grams
2.Onion  - 1 small
3.Ginger - an inch peice
4.Green Chillies - 1(optional)
5.Sesame seed - 1/4 tea spoon.

For stuffing:
1.Coriander powder - 2 tab spoon
2.Cumin powder - 1 tea spoon
3.Amchur (dry mango powder) - 1 tea spoon
4.Garam masala - 1 tea spoon.

Method:

   
                              







                                                                             


1.Slit the Okra  as shown in the pic                                          2. Prepare the stuffing as shown in 
                                                                                                       the pic and stuff the Okra 


                                                                                                
   






3. Heat oil in a pan and throw in onion , ginger         4.After onion turns translucent,add all the  
 and green chillies with sesame seeds                            stuffed okra in a single layer and fry 
                                                                                          10mins by closing the lid.                  
                                                                                                         
NOTE: You can also play around with the suffing by using sambhar or rasam masala.