A collection of light snack recipes for your Hajj journey (13.08.15)

MUSKANA BISCUITS
½ butter
3 cups flour
3 tsp baking.powder
1 tsp salt
3 tblsp castor sugar
1 tsp whole jeeru
Add all ingredients in a dish, make dough with milk, roll out thick, cut into desired shapes, brush with milk and sprinkle tal. Bake till donbe then leave in oven to crisp.

JEERU BISCUITS
¼ 1b butter
3 tsp baking powder
2 tsp whole jeeru
¼ cup sugar
2 ¼ cups flour
1 tsp salt
½ cup fresh cream or milk
Rub together butter, flour, baking powder, salt and jeeru, mix in sugar and make dough with cream. Roll out 1cm thick, cut finger shapes, brush milk, sprinkle tal and bake till done, leave to crisp for about an hour.

TAL THUKRA
¼ 1b butter
3 cups flour
Tal jeeru
Green chillies
1 ½ tsp salt
1 ¼ tsp b.powder
Bind with water, roll out thin, cut in small blocks and fry.

ALL BRAN RUSKS
½ 1b butter
1 cup brown sugar
Beat together then add
4 cups brown flour
2 tsp bicarb
½ cup pecans
½ cup coconut
1 full cups all bran flakes crushed
500ml sour milk
Beat well together, put into baking pan, bake, once baked leave to cool, slice and pop back into oven to crisp.

NAAN KHATAI
2 cups ghee
1 ¾ cups castor sugar
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp bicarb
1 egg yolk
2 cups coconut
Ground elachi
Flour
Cream ghee and castor sugar till light and fluffy, add yolk and beat. Mix the baking powder, bicarb, elachi, and coconut. Add enough flour to make a soft dough, shape into balls, bake on 180 till light brown, cool on tray before removing.

Citrus Butter (Safeera Kaka)

8 Tbsp 1 stick unsalted butter softened 1 vanilla bean I used a tsp of vanilla bean paste 1 Tbsp sugar 2 tsp grated orange zest 2 tsp grated lemon zest Instructions Beat the butter in a mixer until light and creamy. Cut the vanilla bean in half and scrape the beans...

PUMPKIN SPICE BUTTER (Safeera Kaka)

Ingredients ½ cup (8 Tablespoons) unsalted butter softened ¾ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice ⅛ teaspoon coarse sea salt up to ¼ teaspoon, to taste ¼ cup pumpkin puree 2 ½ Tablespoons honey Instructions Add softened butter, ground cinnamon,...

Cowboy Butter (Safeera Kaka)

Ingredients 100g / 7 tbsp unsalted butter , softened, divided 1 large garlic clove , finely minced (1 tsp) - knife best (Note 1) 1 tbsp Dijon mustard 1 tsp smoked paprika (sub regular paprika) 1 tsp chilli flakes / red pepper flakes 1/4 tsp cooking salt Instructions...

Sweet Chilli

Garlic Marinade Perfect for Chops, Steak and Ribs Ingredients ½ Sweet Chilli Sauce 3 tbsp Chilli & Garlic Sauce 2 BBQ Sauce 2 Tomato Sauce 2 tbsp Oil or Melted Butter 1 tbsp Garlic Paste 1 Black Pepper 1 tsp Paprika 1 tsp Dhania Jeeru (Coriander & Cumin)...

Falafel (Safeera Kaka)

1 pound or about 2.5 cups dried chickpeas 1 bunch of parsley stems out 1 onion peeled 3-4 garlic cloves peeled 1 medium-size potato peeled 1 teaspoon cumin powder 1 teaspoon coriander powder 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 3-4 cups oil for frying...

Hummus (Safeera Kaka)

1 canned chickpeas ¼ cup (Tahini) ¼ cup of iced water (add ice cubes for a white hummus) one freshly squeezed large lemon 1 clove garlic salt to taste Parsley to garnish (optional) Open chickpeas can and rinse well, boil in clean water with a pinch of bicarb and...