Friday 19 June 2015

Strawberry Shrikhand

Strawberry Shrikhand
Ingredients
8-10 medium sized strawberries
2 cups of hung curd
3/4 cup powder sugar
2-3 tbsp honey
1/2  cardamoms powder
finely sliced Almonds
1/2 tsp pistachio powder
Saffron strands
Method
Take the hung curd into a mixing bowl. Slice the strawberrie and put them in the blender. Purée the strawberrie and add the purée to the curd. Add sugar, honey and cardomom powder. Whisk the curd well. Put the shrikhand in the container and keep it in the freeze.  Sprinkle with pistachios powder, saffron strands and almonds before serving...

Strawberry Frozen Yogurt Serverd in home made cones....

Healthy Strawberry Frozen Yogurt Serverd in home made cones....

Ingredients:
4 cups fresh strawberries frozen in the freezer
3 tbsp honey
1/2 cup plain hung curd
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
Method
Add the frozen strawberries,honey, hung curd and lemon juice in the food processor.Process until creamy.
Serve the frozen yogurt immediately or transfer it to an airtight container and store it in the freezer.

Home made cones
Ingredients
6 bread pieces
1 tbsp milk powder
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 tsp icing sugar
Oil for frying or Bake
Method
Soak the breads in water. Squeeze out the water and add all the above ingredients except oil and knead it like a dough. Take cone shape moulds. Apply oil on the hand and mould. Take one portion of the dough and start spreading the dough on the mould giving it a cone shape, gently press the dough uniformly. Heat the oil and fry the cones and when half fried remove the mould and fry it till golden brown.

Home made Vanilla Fruit Custard......

Home made Vanilla Fruit Custard......
Ingredients
1 Apple cubed
1 orange chopped
2 Bananas chopped
4 Strawberry chopped
Handful of dried Blue berry
2 tbsp Blue berry syrup
1/2 liter Full Cream Milk
1/4 cup extra Milk
2 tbsp cornflour
6 tbsp Sugar
2 tbsp Milk maid
1 tsp Vanilla essence or powder
Method
Take a pot. Boil the Milk. Add sugar and milk maid to the milk boiling.  Take 1/4 cup milk and mix cornflour and add to the boiling milk. Stir the milk continuously so that the lumps don't form. Add Vanilla essence or powder and keep on cooking and stirring the Milk till the milk thickens up. Cool the custard a bit and strain it. Add to the cut fruits. Keep it in the fridge and chill it. Add the Blue berry syrup while serving...

Chocolate and Coconut Mousse

Chocolate and coconut mousse.....
Extremely simple recipe....
Ingredients
400 grams Dark chocolate
200 grams White chocolate
1 tetra pack Coconut milk
1 tetra pack Amul cream
1 1/2 tsp vegetarian gelatine
2 tsp desiccated coconut
1/2 tsp coconut essence
2 tbsp chocolate shavings
Method
Take 3/4 tetra pack of each coconut milk and Amul cream and mix both and keep it to boil, but before boiling take 2 tbsp of the coconut and Amul mix in a small bowl and add gelatine, mix it and keep aside. Now add the Dark chocolate and mix it till the chocolate dissolves, add 1 1/2 tbsp gelatine and mix it. Take of the gas and put it in a container and cool it for 6 hours. Now take 100 grams white chocolate, add the remaining Amul cream and coconut milk. Boil it till the chocolate melts. Add desiccated coconut, coconut essence and 1/2 tbsp gelatine and mix it, keep it aside to set in the fridge for 6 hours. Now take shot glasses. Take 2 piping bags and 2 star nozzles. Take take some chocolate mousse and put it in the piping bag. Swirl the chocolate mousse in the glasses till 3/4 of the glass. Now add the white chocolate mousse in the other piping bag and swirl the white chocolate mousse on the top. Add chocolate shavings and either serve it immediately or chill it for some time more and then serve it chilled.

Whole wheat,Samolina and Oats Bread Thandai Mava Gujjya.....dipped in sugar syrup...




Healthy Whole wheat,Samolina and Oats Bread Thandai Mava Gujjya.....dipped in sugar syrup...a baked fusion recipe for Holi

Ingredients for the Bread
2 cups whole wheat
1 cup Simolina
1 cup Oats
1/2 cup Maida
300 ml Milk or more
4 tbsp sugar
2 tsp Yeast
2 tbsp Ghee
1/2 tsp Salt
Method
Mix all the dry ingredients. Take Luke warm milk mix sugar and yeast. Let it rise. Make a soft dough with the yeast milk. If needed add more milk... Add the ghee and knead it for 5 minutes. Keep it cover till it rises.

Ingredients for the Stuffing 
250 grams Mava
2 tsp Thandai powder
2 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp Raisins
2 tbsp Almond flakes
Few strands of saffron
1/2 tsp Cardomom powder
1/2 tbsp ghee
Method
Take Ghee and heat it. Break up the Mava and add to the ghee. Add cardomom powder, Thandai powder, saffron, raisins and Almond flakes. Mix it. Keep on stirring occasionally on low flame till the Mava becomes a bit dry and starts to leave the sides of the vessel. Take of the gas and keep it aside.

Ingredients for sugar syrup
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
Few strands of saffron
Method
Boil all the ingredients till the syrup reduces and becomes a bit sticky.

For the Gujjyas
Take the dough and knead it again. Roll the dough and cut circles out of the sheet with a cutter. Add filling and fold one side to the other side. Press it and fold the edges. Brush the tray with ghee. Keep the Gujjyas and brush ghee on the Gujjyas too. Garnish with almond flakes, saffron and Pistachio powder. Keep it for 20 minutes.... Bake in a pre heated oven for 30 minutes at 180 degrees. Take it out of the oven and pour hot sugar on the baked Gujjyas and Enjoy.......