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Eight things to know before making Churros

Churros can be enjoyed as a snack or served for dessert!
Preparation will take less than 30-40 minutes with the Maurimix Churros Mix with just two basic kitchen ingredients to make the paste. Bring water and margarine or butter to boil in a pan and add the Maurimix Churro Mix and mix to form the Churro paste. 

Keep these in mind during preparation 

Piping

1, Use a star 2.54mm (or #2110/1M) nozzle to pipe churros. Those ridges give a different style altogether. A small opening will build pressure inside and burst the piping bag. Churros tend to puff up a bit when frying. Churros that are big and bulky don’t look good.

2. Piping dough without a nozzle or with one that has no ridges will pipe smooth dough that will flatten when frying and give dense and chewy churros. The ridges created by the star nozzle creates structural stability and crunchier crust.

Frying

3. Churros are directly held over hot oil and piped into shapes, a silicon or nylon bag would be ideal to avoid the bag melting.

4. Once the churros are piped into hot oil ideally use a scissor to cut the dough. You will need both hands to pipe and cut.

5. Make sure the pan is 3 to 4 inches deep as you pipe and cut the dough from the piping bag the oil will tend to splash.

6. For perfectly fried Churros the oil needs to be heated proper. When the oil is too hot Churros are cooked from outside first. And then when the inner contents are cooked and tend to expand for space the Churros start to
burst.

Shaping 

7. Pipe the shapes on to an oil paper and fry the churros along with the oil paper. Remove oil paper as it comes off. 

Storage & reuse

8. Churros tends to get soggy when left in open air. However you can regain its freshness and crispness by microwaving or baking for a few minutes to get rid of any
moisture absorbed with time.

Churros can be enjoyed with cinnamon & sugar, fruit dip, chocolate dip, caramel sauce etc. served as a snack or dessert. 

The Maurimix Churros Mix is available to purchase at Keells Super Markets

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බේකින් පව්ඩර් පිළිබඳ ඔබ දැන ගත යුතු දේ.

ඔබේ බේකින් පව්ඩර් එකේ ක්‍රියාකාරිත්වය අඩු වෙලාද? මෙයට හේතු කිහිපයක් හඳුනගමු. 

කිසිම විටක බේකින් පව්ඩර්, වාතයේ තියෙන තෙතමනයට නිරාවරණය කරන්න එපා. එසේ වුවහොත් එය තෙතමනය සමඟ ක්‍රියාකර වායුන් පිට කරයි. මෙවැනි ක්‍රියාකරන ලඳ බේකින් පව්ඩර් ඔබේ නිෂ්පාදනයට යෙදීමෙන් කිසි ඵලක් නැත. 

සැලකිය යුතු කරුණු:

*බේකින් පව්ඩර් හොඳ ඇසුරුමක, කාමර උෂ්ණත්වයේ, තෙතමනය නැති ස්ථානයක තබන්න. තෙතමනය හේතුවෙන් බේකින් පව්ඩර් එක කැටි ගැසීමටද ඉඩ ඇත. 

*කිසි විටකත් බේකින් පව්ඩර් oven එක මත හෝ ලිප මුහුණලා ඇති කබ්ර්ඩ් එකක දැමීමෙන්ද වලකින්න. 

*බේකින් පව්ඩර් සඳහා වියලි හැන්දක් භාවිතා කරන්න.

*භාවිතයට ගත් විගස ඇසුරුම තදට වසා ඉහත කී පරිදි ගබඩා කරන්න.

*කාඩ්බෝඩ් ඇසුරුම් වල ඇති බේකින් පව්ඩර් ගැනීමෙන් වලකින්න. නැතිනම් එය වහාම ටින්, වීදුරු හෝ ප්ලාස්ටික් භාජනයක  අසුරන්න.

*.බේකින් පව්ඩර් වල කල් ඉකුත් වන දිනය මෙන්ම ඇසුරුම කඩා මුල් වරට භාවිත කල දිනයත් ඇසුරුමේ සඳහන් කරීම වැදගත් වේ. 

*ඔබ dual action බේකින් පව්ඩර් එකක් භාවිතා කරන්නේ නම් ඔබට කේක් එකට අවශ්‍ය උපරිම උස ලබා ගත හැකි වෙනවා. මන්ද dual action බේකින් පව්ඩර් එක කේක් බැටරය කාමර උෂ්ණත්වයේ තිබියදී මෙන්ම oven එකෙත් ක්‍රියා කරයි. 

Single action බේකින් පව්ඩර් ක්‍රියාකරන්නේ oven එක තුල පමණයි. 

කේක් සාදන විට පිටි ග්‍රෑම් 250කට බේකින් පව්ඩර් තේ හැඳි 2ක් එකතු කරන්න. බේකින් පව්ඩර් අඩු වැඩි වීමෙන් කේක් වල සිදුවන වෙනස්කම් පිළිබඳව අපි ඉදිර්යේදී කතා කරමු.
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Maurimix Pizza Mix Facts

We all love savouries don’t we? As much as we love the pan pizzas with the delicious toppings, mini pizzas are equally enjoyed too anytime, anyday! Either way, how do you make a perfect pizza dough base you can’t call a rotti or a bun but an actual pizza? We’ve got solutions! 

Here’s a few facts on the Maurimix Pizza Mix;

*Contains herbs such as oregano to add distinct dough flavour.

*Maintains consistent dough quality, soft, well risen dough texture. You can make both thin crust and thick crust pizza with the Maurimix Pizza Mix. We just love the texture. 

*Formulated to give enough dough elasticity and increase dough extendibility so that the dough rolls well without shrinking. 

*There are two methods you can make the pizza base. Either knead dough, rest and use immediately or refrigerate overnight before sheeting. Make sure the dough is shrink wrapped before you store.  
Refrigerating the dough overnight will develop good flavour and increase extendibility, that is preventing the dough from shrinking when sheeting. 

*Pizza made using the Maurimix Pizza Mix can be par baked. That is bake pizza shells slightly, seal in packs and freeze for 3 to 4 weeks. To make the finished product thaw pizza shells, add toppings and bake. 

*The Maurimix pizza mix comes in 350g consumer packs and 2.5Kg commercial packs. 

*The 350g Maurimix Pizza Mix is available at Keells, selected SPAR and Glomark supermarkets. on

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Cake making simplified!

Every baker has got its own good and bad experiences making cake. A soft, even, golden colour, yummy cake are the good days! Its such a dissapointment when your cakes are unrisen, lack height, cracked in the center, sunk in the center, hard and dense, unbaked or over baked after all the preparation, weighing, sifting, creaming fat and sugar and so on. 

You might want to maintain originality in your cakes but you still can with pre-mixed butter cake flour. Boxed cake mixes sound promising with their convenience to make and sure results. 

The Maurimix Butter Cake Mix allows the baker to concentrate more on presentation, gives good results in terms of height, taste and texture. You only have to handle three ingredients. Which is butter or margarine, eggs and the pre-mixed butter cake mix flour. How easy does that sound?

It get’s even better since there is no creaming of fat and sugar till pale white. All you need to do is beat the butter/margarine for two minutes at medium speed! There is no sifting of flour with baking powder required either.

Next you combine the Maurimix butter cake mix flour followed by the eggs with some beating in between.

Considering the beating time the total time to prepare the cake batter is about 7 to 8 minutes only. How easy is that?

You could also add some fresh milk and more vanilla suppose you like to create your own kind of flavour profile to your butter cakes.

In a nut shell
1. You only handle 3 ingredients in your cake making. 
2. No creaming of fat and sugar.
3. No sifting flour with baking powder.
4. Less washing to do. 
5. The recipe gives a little more than 1Kg cake. 
6. Ensures good cake height, taste, texture and softness. 
7. More time and focus on the decorating and finishing of the cake. 

Cake making is now just a breeze! You could try the convenience of cake making with the Maurimix 500g Butter Cake Mix now available at SPAR supermarkets. 

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Vanilla liquid or Vanilla powder?

Vanilla Essence is an essential ingredient in any kitchen. In the local context, we are more familiar with the liquid than the powder. There are instances where the vanilla powder can be an excellent choice in use.

Water sensitive recipes like meringue and kisses where a small amount of liquid can decide success or failure of the final product.

Products cooked at high heat for a long time. Liquid flavours are heat sensitive and tend to evapourate at high heat. The vanilla powder would retain the flavor better.

Colour conscious recipes. The usual liquid vanilla flavor is brown in colour. Suppose you are aiming for a wedding white frosting the vanilla powder which is a whitish powder can contribute towards your goal.

Vanilla Sugar & Salts. Suppose you want to add a vanilla note to sprinkled goodies such as sugar cookies, doughnuts, nuts etc.

Dry powder mixes such as cake mixes, pan cake, waffle mixes or protein shakes that require dry ingredients with a flavour note, vanilla powder could be the best medium. 

The Mauri vanilla powder is available to purchase at selected Keells, SPAR, Cargills & Arpico supermarkets.