Ladi Pav

Ingredient.....

1. Warm Milk  - 1 cup +1/4 cup
2. Yeast - 2 tsp
3. Sugar - 2 tbsp
4. Butter - 3tbsp (slightly more for greasing the tin)
5. Salt - 1tsp
6. All purpose flour/maida - 3 cups (extra  flour for kneading the dough)

Pictorial recipe....

1) In otg

Take 1 cup warm milk  , 2tsp yeast and 2tbsp sugar.

Let the mixture rest for 5 min.

Now add in melted 3 tbsp butter.

1tsp of salt goes in.

Now add  3 cup of maida .

Knead a dough .

Add the remaining 1/4 cup of milk . Here the dough becomes sticky.

Knead for about 5-10 min.

Grease the clean counter and knead for further 5 min.This is the most important stage to develop gluten and make the dough elastic.you can also use extra flour if required while kneading.

Keep the dough in a greased large bowl.

Cover it and Allow it to rest for 1 hr.

After an hour dough should have rise double of its original size.

Knead again for about 2-3 min.

Divide it into 10-12 equal parts.

Grease a baking tray or tin with butter or oil.

Arrange them in a tin leaving 1 inch space in between.

Cover it with a dry cloth and allow to rest once again for about 15-20 min to rise.

      Beautiful they have rise and double size.

              Brush with milk before baking.

        Preheat the oven at 180c for 10 min.

    Place the tin in the oven and bake at 180c      for 25 min.

               Happiness in baking 😍😍

                   Brush with butter on the top.

Look at the air pockets, sponginess and the aroma of baking all across the home....is all loving it !!

when you first remove pav from the oven , they might feel hard on the top .But don't worry after cooling down it will become super soft.

                                 Enjoy...!!!

2) In pan or kadhai....

    Pre heat the pan or kadhai with a rack in it.

           Place the balls in the greased tin.

       Cover it with dry cloth for 20 min to rise.

                         Place in the pan.

             Demold and allow it to cool.

                                  lovely....

                         With Vada ...  Enjoy..!!

                         With tea.....Enjoy...!!!

                           As pizza bytes.....