HOT CHOCOLATE--------------BAKED

Source:web
Serves:2

Ingredients Required:

Milk 10 oz
Dark chocolate 2 squares
Semisweet Chocolate chips 1/8 cup
Cocoa 1 teaspoon (optional)
Brown sugar to taste
Large Egg yolk 1

Preparation:

•  In a microwave safe bowl melt together dark chocolate and chocolate chips in a splash of milk for 30 seconds.
• In a bowl whisk together melted chocolate,coco powder ,brown sugar and milk.
• Add the egg yolk and mix it well.
• Spoon the batter  into cups.Place them in a baking pan
• Add enough  hot water to the baking pan to come halfway up the side of the cups.
• Place the pan in a preheated oven and bake this on 300 F for 15 -20 min.
• Remove and serve warm or chilled.
• Top it with ginger candy or hard butterscotch candy.

Suggestions:

• These chocolate cups  are slightly hard outside and extremely rich,chocolatey and gooey inside.
• It can stay fresh upto a day in the fridge and can be reheated in the microwave  for 10 to 15 seconds.
• More sugar can be added for extra sweetness ,but i like mine bitter.

EASY LATTICE TOP APPLE PIE

 




























Source:web
Serves:6 slices

Ingredients Required

For Filling:
Granny smith apples/green apples 3
Granulated sugar 1/2 cup
Brown sugar 1 cup(or substitute with white sugar)
Cinnamon powder 1/2 teaspoon
Butter 1 table spoon
All purpose flour 1 tablespoon

For Crust:
All purpose flour 2 cups
Butter 1 stick(straight from the fridge)
Salt 1/2 teaspoon or to taste
water 4 to 5 spoons

Egg yolk and milk for brushing on top of the pie.

Preparation:
For Crust:

• In a large bowl take together salt and flour.Mix well.
• Cut the butter into bits.Now add butter to the flour.
• Add few spoons of water and mix it just to hold together.
• Don't knead the dough.It must be crumbly .
• If the dough doesn't hold together then add some water and mix it.
• Divide this into two parts and place it in the refridgerator for 15 to 20 min.
• Now dust the working surface and rolling pin with some flour .
• Take the dough and roll it out to a 12 inch round flat disk and about 5 mm thickness.
• Every once in a while lift the dough so that it doesn't stick to the surface.
• After rolling the dough to the right size fold it in half and gently lift it and place in the 9 inch pie dish.
• Slowly pressdown so that it lines  the sides and bottom of the dish.
• Using a knife or a pair of scissors trim  the edges of the dough.Place this in the fridge.
• Now roll out the second ball to a 12 inch circle .You can use this directly as a pie top or you could  make a latticetop.(Roll out the second part after preparing the flling sothat the sugars doesn't melt)

For filling:

• Peel,core and thinly slice the apples.
• Mix a tblespoon of all purpose flour,cinnamon , sugars and apples together and place it in the refridgerator.

Combining crust and Filling and baking.

• Take the pie dish from the fridge and fill with the apple mixture and butter bits.
• Cover with  rolled out dough .Trim the edges and seal the bottom and top edges.
• Make a small vent in the middle.
• For lattice top you don't need to make a vent .But it is necessary to seal the edges.
• Beat the egg yolk and milk together.Brush this on the top of the dough to get a glazing golden top.
• Place this in a preheated oven .
• Bake for 30 to 40 minutes for lattice top and 50 to 60 minutes for a covered top.
• Place a cookie sheet lined with atleast two layers of aluminium foil to collect the drippings while baking.

Basic care tobe taken while preparing:

• Use cold butter.Room temp butter makes the dough soggy.
• To get a flaky crust don't knead the dough.It must be crumbly not soft.
• Mix all purpose flour to sugar and apple slices so that the filling is gooey and not watery.
• Place a cookie sheet lined with foil inorder to collect all the juices while baking.If it falls in the oven the juices burn and emits smoke.
• Remove the pie from the oven when u see a golden color on top.
• To make the Lattice top first practice with papers or take any help.

PALA KOVA / PEDA / MILK BURFI

This is a traditional  sweet which is prepared for festivals especially for DIWALI.We can make it semi-homemade or right from scratch.But the traditional recipe calls for 1 milk , half sugar and  a pinch of baking soda(milk doesn't curdle),where mik is boiled on low flame to reduce it to half of its volume(test : milk should slightly stick to the plate).It is then cooled for a couple of minutes .We need to stir it continously with a laddle untill it is thick enough to make a ball.Canned condensed milk is used in the instant/semi-homemade recipe.

Source: web
Serves:can make atleast 15

Ingredients Required:

Milk powder  2 cups
Condensed milk  2 small cans(7 oz cans)
Butter unsalted(melted)  1 stick

Preparation:

• In a microwavesafe bowl take all the ingredients and mix them well.
• Microwave the mixture for 3-4 minutes.
• Keep stirring for every 1-2 minutes so that they don't dry out.
• Check if u could make a ball out of it.Now u are done.
• Let it cool  down for a while.
• Make small balls when it is warm.
• Garnish with nuts,saffron or silver foil .

Eggless Chocolate Mousse

 

Recipe Source: Web
Serves: 4-5 cups

Ingredients Required:

• Semisweet chocolate chips or choped chocolate 1 cup
• Sugar 1/2 tsp(optional)
• Heavy cream 1 cup or cool whip 2 cups
• Marshmallows 1/2 cup
• vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon
• Butter 1/2 tspn

Preparation

• In a thick bottomed pan,melt together marshmallows,butter.
• Remove from stove and add chopped chocolate and blend them together using a whisk or fork.
• Set them aside to come down to room temperature.
• In a bowl whisk together heavy cream ,vanilla and sugar(optional) till stiff peaks are formed.
• Now fold in the melted chocolate and whipped cream slowly.
• Top it with chocolate shavings and whipped cream.

CHOCOLATE POTS DE CREME

Recipe source : web
Serves : 2
Ingredients required

•  All purpose flour 1 tsp
• Sugar 2tbsp
• Heavy cream 1/2 cup
• Egg white 1
• Dark chocolate 1 1/2 cups
• Butter 1/4 stick

Preparation

• Melt chocolate and butter in a microwave safebowl for a minute and give it a quick stir .
• Now the chocolate is completely melted.
• Set it aside and let it come down to the room temparature.
• Whisk together flour,sugar,egg whites.
• Add chocolate to this and make sure it is well blended.
• Now, spoon the mixture into ramekins or oven proof bowls.

Baking

• Boil 2 cups of water till warm and pour into a baking tray.
• Place the ramekins in the tray and bake for about 15 min on 350 in a preheated oven.
• Remove them immediately.

Toppings

• when they are at room temperature or warm add a dollop of whipped cream and shaved chocolate.

Note: This is soft outside and gooey inside when baked for 15 min(actual recipe calls for)
           If u would like to have a sponge cake bake for 15-20 minutes without placing the
           ramekins in the baking tray with water.

Bottle Gaurd Halwa

Bottle gaurd is very popular in india.koftas,sweets,appetizers and many other dishes can be prepared by using this bottle gaurd.It is usually called lauki,sorakay......This is a summer cooler.Those suffering with body heat during summer can have this frequently.It contains lot of water which helps in reducing body heat.




Ingredients required

• grated bottle gaurd 1 1/2 cups
• Sugar 1 1/2 cups
• water 1/4 cup
• Khoya grated 1/2 cup
• Ghee 1 teaspoon
• Cashew nuts 5
• Cardamom powder 1/8th teaspoon

Preparation

• Prepare the sugar syrup with water and sugar.Boil until the water achives one string consistency.
• Meanwhile, in a wide pan add a teaspoon of ghee and fry the bottle gaurd till the water gets evaporated on low flame.
• Now add this to the sugar syrup.
• Keep stirring it continously.When it starts leaving the pan add khoya ,cardamom powder and immedietly remove it from the stove.
• Mix well and decorate it with cashews fried in ghee.

Note

Peel the bottle gaurd and grated it.Make sure u don't burn bottle gaurd while frying.Khoya might melt if u cook for a long time.