THE KASHMIRI DONUT (CHOCHUVOUR/TILIVOUR)

kashmiri breads

Kashmir has bread for every season. Kashmiri bread originated from the great love that people had for bread. Actually it is not love; it is matter of survival for them, because for Kashmiri people, bread is the main source of survival.

Over thousand years of evolution of Homo sapiens and a subsequent development of new cultures on this planet, led the bread to secure various forms. A Kashmiri breakfast is incomplete without baker’s bread. And due to this fact in every colony of the Kashmir region, bread bakery is located.

Kandur is a word which is used for a “bakery shop” in Kashmir. In Kashmir there is bread for every season. Bread is an integral part of their social custom too- engagement, wedding, birth. These breads go well with their salty pink tea called Nun Chai. There are many types of traditional breads like: Chot, Katkam, Kulcha, Lavaas etc. that are made and sold in Kashmir.

 Today's recipe is one of the most common &famous bread chachovour

 Czochworu / Chochwor: It is a desi donut. It is a soft and round in shape. It is about three inches diameter and six inches circumference.seasame seeds are sprinkled on the upper portion of the bread. Poppy seeds on the lower portion that make it crispy. It is an evening and afternoon bread. This bread can be consumed with a combination of jam or butter. Hot Czochworu are best in taste. I t can be taken with a combination of salted tea by some people; people can consume bread as per their choice

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Chochuvour/kashmiri common donut

©by shariqamaryamk

Ingredients

3 cup of maida

1/2  teaspoon sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon  yeast.

Sesemi seeds

ghee/ butter

1 egg.

Preparation.

Mix all the dry ingredients and 2 scoop of butter/Ghee with spatula then add Luke warm water so that the yeast will get activated&cover with moist muslin cloth for 2 hour, so that the dough will increase its size.

After that ,knead it onces again to remove all air from dough,then make a loaf of it and cut in to equall portions

From each portion make a round ball and make a hole in center of ball so that we can get a donut like shape.

Then rest it for 20 mint.now boil water and place this donuts into boiling water 1 mint each side.

Then place them.in to baking try with butter paper alredy placed there,then give an egg wash on the top side of chochvur/donut and sprinkle sesame seeds on the top 

Then remove it ,then preheat oven at 220°c  on convection mode and let it bake for 35-40 mint

U will get a nicely golden crust chochur crunchy from outside and soft from inside. which is served with pink salt tea