While I was on holiday in Budapest, we had the most delicious traditional street food: Langos. I was craving these when we got home so I decided to look up the recipe and give it a go. Thankfully, it was surprisingly easy to make these and tasted pretty good! I used the recipe from this website.
You only need a few ingredients to make this:
300g All purpose flour
7g dried (instant) yeast
250ml water
1/2 tsp salt
Toppings: Grated cheese, garlic butter, or cream cheese
The recipe was very easy to follow. You pretty much mix the dry ingredients into the wet and create a dough-like texture. Add a little extra flour if it's too sticky and simply allow it to prove for about an hour. The recipe says it will double in size but mine just increased slightly!
Rolling the dough was pretty easy but it's handy to have a bowl of flour next to you to stop it from sticking. Then I just used a standard biscuit cutter to create the shapes. In Budapest they were much bigger in size, almost like a plate size. But it's nicer to have smaller ones for people to snack on and you can have it as a side to a main dish.
Then all that's left to do is fry! They blow up slightly and they take about 3-5 minutes to cook depending on how hot your oil is. You want them to turn slightly golden and it should just tear like normal bread.
I decided to have mine with a home made garlic butter. I simply added crushed garlic and dried herbs into some butter and created a paste. It's really simple but of course you can get a shop bought one!
They turned out really nice and actually I only made half the amount which still produced about 10 langos! The grated cheese on top was the perfect finish too.
Love Always,
Neelam xx
I'm meant to be saving, but I just couldn't resist doing a little order at John Lewis. I love that John Lewis has all the brands under one roof and they often do a price match sale so things are sometimes a little cheaper. I didn't go too crazy but I thought I'd share the things I got!
It's my second week back at uni and I'm getting back into the routine of things. I thought I would do something a little differnet and do a 'what's in my bag: uni edition' post. Of course, this applicable for any stage of study and just a few things that I class as essentials.
At school I always wanted to have the coolest pencil case and now that I have grown up, not much has changed! To be quite honest, my course doesn't require me to do much writing, so for the most part, I only really need a writing pen. But I like to have the options there. So I picked up a small pencil case from Monki (available at ASOS) that would fit a few essentials like: A coloured pen, highlighter, ruler, pencil, ruler and a rubber. That sounds like a lot but I got a thin pen style highighter and a mini rubber so that it would fit neatly into my pencil case. It's super handy to have, even if you don't study so that your pens don't get the lining of your bag dirty.
This year I have been really dedicated to staying organised and having a diary has been my biggest help! I put everything in here, from gym classes to assignment deadlines. It's an easy way to keep track of all the things you've got going on and if you're as forgetful as Dory, like me, you'll find you can't go anywhere without a diary. My diary (which is now on sale!) is an academic one from Paperchase and I adore the design of it - it's so tropical and refreshing! Paperchase do an amazing selection of diaries and they're really good quality too!
Even though note-taking, doesn't really seem to be a big deal at uni, I always like to have a notebook at hand in case I need to write down anything important. I've always been loyal to the Pukka pads as the quality of the paper is so good and the notebooks are always really sturdy. I've gone through many pukka pads over my studies and I always buy from their range!
A few other essentials include: my glasses, water, a portable phone charge, a USB in case you're doing any work on the local computers and can't email it over to your private account and of course me beloved Ted Baker purse that was gifted to me for my birthday by my Boyfriend.
What are your essentials?