Dhalpourie!

Guess what I did with our brand spanking new Kitchen Aid mixer?! I made dhalpourie!! :D It wasn't as great as my mom's, but it was dhalpourie. It was only my first try and it didn't turn out like a professional Trini would make it but, there's lots of room to improve! Dhalpourie is probably the most difficult kind of roti to make and it takes the most time! It took me and my sister about an hour to cook minus the few technical difficulties we had with our mixer!
We bought the Kitchen Aid because we eat a lot of roti in this household. And since I discovered that it can knead dough I knew I had to get my hands on one. I was so excited to use it for this recipe that I had to take pictures and post about it. :)

To start off, boil 2 cups of dahl (yellow split peas) in some water with 2 tablespoons of saffron. 

Boil it for about 15 minutes. The peas can't be too soft.

Then, with the use of my handy dandy Kitchen Aid, I used the grinder attachment to grind the peas into a powder along with 3 cloves of garlic.

After the dahl is all ground, toast some ground cumin and add about 2 tablespoons to the dahl mixture.

Now set that aside and it's time to knead the dough!

The recipe I used was 6 cups of flour and 6 tablespoons of baking powder with about 3 cups of water. Add more water if the dough is too dry and add more flour if the dough is too wet. Let it sit for about 20 minutes.

Divide the dough into equal parts. We got eight dough balls that were a little smaller than a baseball.

Make a bowl out of the ball of dough and add some of the dahl mixture.

Close it in by pinching the edges together.

Set it aside and repeat with the other dough balls.

Roll it out like a pizza.

Place it on the tawah (flat cooking dish made of metal used for cooking roti). 

Brush some vegetable oil and flip. Cook for about 3 minutes on each side.

Roll it up and break it in half. I ate mine with curry lamb (made by my sister) and curried potatoes.

This is one of my all time favorite foods and now that I know how to make it I will be eating it all the time. :) Like I said earlier, it wasn't THE best dahlpourie (the dahl needed to be boiled a little bit longer) but I will be practicing a lot since the Kitchen Aid makes it so easy! 

Hope every one has a happy holiday season no matter what you celebrate! :D

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Love at First Bite: Apple Cream Cheese Bundt Cake

Seeing that I will have a lot of time on my hands this fall, I decided that I wanted to try out a few recipes that I've had my eye on. Last week I tried baking an apple-cream cheese bundt cake. Well, I didn't really have my eye on this one because it was the first time I heard of a cake like that. My parents received a humongous slice from one of their clients and brought it home for us to sample. At first sight, it didn't look like a cake that I would eat. It was topped with a caramel glaze and pecans. Sounds yummy, but I wouldn't have come running to it. After tasting, it was love at first bite. :) It was very moist and reminded me of Thanksgiving. There were a lot of warm spicy flavors and the cream cheese filling complimented it perfectly. I got hold of the recipe and found out that it came from Southern Living magazine. It was part of their collection called "10 Tempting Apple Desserts." A few days later, I was all over that recipe. Total preparation time took me about 45 minutes. It's easier for me to put everything together if I have all of my ingredients spread out in front of me. That way I eliminate time running back and forth to the refrigerator or pantry. Baking time took exactly one hour and fifteen minutes as it said on the recipe, but to my displeasure, cooling time was two hours. That meant I had to wait two hours to add the glaze and that I had to wait to eat it. :( So I decided to just let it cool properly overnight. In the morning, as far as I could tell, the cake looked perfect and I proceeded with making the glaze. I didn't have a bundt pan so I improvised with a rectangular baking dish. That was a bad idea because when I poured the glaze over the cake (while it was still in the baking dish) it pooled in the corners of the dish and I had to spoon it over the surface to get one even layer. My glaze needed a little more time on the stove to melt because it gave the cake a candy like crunch that wasn't supposed to be there. All in all, everyone said they loved it. Probably because it was made by yours truly...just kidding. :) I hope they were being honest because I loved it and I plan on making it again! If you decide to try it out or any other recipe in the apple collection, let me know how it turns out! Peace! :D

For this recipe and others click here: http://www.southernliving.com/food/entertaining/tempting-apple-dessert-recipes