maida

It wasn't made often since it had "maida" & "baking soda" and my grandmother wasn't fond of both of those ingredients.

Archive 2009-09-01 Meera 2009

It wasn't made often since it had "maida" & "baking soda" and my grandmother wasn't fond of both of those ingredients.

Buns or Bhubhusroti 1&2 - Konkani Deep Fried Biscuits Meera 2009

Give up milk, (have curd instead), keep away from fried foods, aerated drinks, refined foods such as maida, white rice, white sugar and white table salt.

The Hindu - Front Page 2010

Give up milk, (have curd instead), keep away from fried foods, aerated drinks, refined foods such as maida, white rice, white sugar and white table salt.

The Hindu - Front Page 2010

For Hindi and Marathi speakers, the name of this author is a bit of a play on words because her first name is Maida, and maida or all-purpose flour is an ingredient (and usually the largest ingredient by proportion) in almost every cookie recipe (although I must clarify that the two are pronounced differently - her name is pronounced May-Da, and our Indian word maida is more like meh-da).

Archive 2008-01-01 Nupur 2008

Here are my results using 1: 1 maida to sooji with a tiny bit of baking soda and sugar in the dough; stamping out circles from a large rolled sheet and further rolling each piece thinly: about a 50% puff rate, with a wonderful light and crispy taste.

Archive 2008-01-01 Nupur 2008

Meanwhile measure out the maida and semolina into a big bowl.

The Imperfect Punjabi Samosa Anjali 2008

Then holmes hurried been in the study, because he was on the stairs, kind of spooky, don't you, maida?

Thoughts on...me. Aren't I cool. wendigomountain 2008

But if u want the smooth surface and faded colour, then fry the samosas in NOT HOT oil, i mean the oil should not be at smoking temp., just heat the oil, and fry them on low flame .... yeah they take time to fry this way, but u will get absolutely smooth surface and try keeping the maida layer bit thick for those jhama style samosas.

The Imperfect Punjabi Samosa Anjali 2008

So, Ramya, you rightly guessed that there is maida in there, but it is not the main ingredient!

Archive 2008-01-01 Nupur 2008