Nivedhanam

For this month's HBC (Home Bakers Challenge), we had four breads to choose and I chose this Anadama Bread which was little different style of making than the regular bread and also had the awesome flavor from Molasses. Anadama bread is a traditional yeast bread of New England in the United States made with wheat flour, cornmeal, molasses and sometimes rye flour. The recipe is chosen from here. The original recipe used All purpose flour, but I have tried to make it little healthier by using Whole Wheat pastry flour.

Bread is an universal food, although it is more used in the Western Countries, bread has become an important food in most diets. Bread is normally made with All purpose flour or bread flour or Maida and this one is a much healthier one. I got this recipe from here. I chose this recipe for BM #25 under Baking with whole grain, the choice of grain today is Wheat.

Then Kinnam is a great desert made from sweet potatoes. I do not know the reason for its name. “Then” means  “honey” and “kinnam” means “small bowl”. I saw this in a TV Show and bookmarked it. Do not boil the thengai paal as it will curdle, but cook until the raw flavor goes away. Original recipe starts with caramelizing 2 table spoons of sugar and then adding the sweet potatoes. I did not prefer that. In fact I liked it without sugar better. The flavor of molasses is sooo good in this recipe!!