No Bake Strawberry Cheese Cake

No Bake Strawberry Cheese Cake

Ingredients

• 200 gram cream cheese (Britannia Cream Cheese)
• 200 gram whipping cream
• 60 gram icing sugar (powder sugar)
• ½ tsp vanilla essence
• 10-12 fresh strawberries (mashed) or ½ cup strawberry crush
• 200 gram marie gold biscuit
• 3 tbsp melted butter
• 8” inch spring form tin (or any cake tin)

Method (How to make strawberry cheese cake at home)

• Crushed the strawberries with fork, but do not make puree, the mixture has to be chunky.
• Make small pieces of the biscuit and grind in a mixture grinder till they are sand like texture.
• Transfer the biscuit powder in a bowl add melted butter and mix with hand well.
• Transfer mixture in to the spring form cake tin (if you don’t have a spring form cake tin make cake in small cups otherwise it is difficult to remove cake from the tin)and press mixture tightly to make cake base using any spatula or flat knife. Keep in the fridge for 30 minutes.
• Whisk whipping cream with the electric beater or hand beater till soft peak form, and keep in the fridge  for 1 hour.
• Whisk the cream cheese until soft and fluffy, and  add vanilla essence and  icing sugar and mix well.
• Add whipped cream and crushed strawberries and fold gently.
• Pour the mixture into the biscuit base and set in the fridge for 5-6 hour or overnight.
• Garnish with chopped strawberries and serve.

Sweet Potato Chat for Navratri Vrat

Sweet Potato Chat for Navratri Vrat

Ingredients (2-3 servings)

• 4-5 small sweet potato (boiled and peeled)
• 2 tsp tamarind chutney
• 2 tsp coriander chutney
• ¼ tsp roasted jeera powder
• 1 green chilli (finely chopped)
• 1 tbsp coriander leaves (finely chopped)
• 1 tsp ginger (finely chopped or grated)
• ½ tsp rock salt (sendha namak)

Method (How to make sweet potato chat for navratri vrat)

For tamarind chutney

• Take 2 tbsp tamarind pulp,  soaked  in hot water.  Grind it and Sieve it. Add 4 tbsp sugar and boil till thick.  Let it to cool down completely and store it in fridge for 2-3 months.

Coriander chutney

• 1 cup coriander leaves, 1-2 green chilles, ¼ inch ginger piece, salt to taste grind to make smooth paste add 1 lemon juice and mix well.

For chat

• Peel and Cut sweet potato into ¼  inch thin slices.
• Add salt, half of the jeera powder, 2 tsp coriander chutney, 2 tsp tamarind chutney, green chilli, ginger and half of the coriander leaves and mix well.
• Place in a serving plate sprinkle some jeera powder, lemon juice and chopped coriander leaves and serve.

English Trifle Pudding

English Trifle Pudding

Ingredients (for 8-10 servings)

• 100 ml whipped cream
• 1 cup strawberry jelly (make jelly follow the instruction given on the jelly box) or
• 1 cup pineapple jelly (make jelly follow the instruction given on the jelly box)
• 1 ½ cup custard
• ½ cup chopped apple
• ½ cup chopped banana
• ½ cup pomegranate
• 4-5 strawberry chopped
• ½ cup grapes
• 1 kiwi peeled and chopped
• 1 small vanilla sponge cake (250 gram)(cut into small cubes)

For custard

• 500 ml milk
• 3 tbsp vanilla custard powder
• 6 tbsp sugar

Method (How to trifle pudding at home)

For custard

• Mix custard powder in one cup of milk and keep aside, boil milk and add sugar, add custard paste and stir continuously till thick.
• Switch off the flame and keep side for cool down and then keep in the fridge for 1 hr.

For trifle pudding

• Cup cake into small cubes.
• Take one medium size pudding bowl spread cake cubes, then jelly cubes.
• Spread one layer of chopped fruits (half of the fruits) then spread half of the chilled custard.
• Again spread one layer of cake, jelly and fruits and custard.
• Now in finale layer decorate with whipped cream, garnish with chopped strawberry, pomegranate.
• Keep in the fridge for 3-4 hour and served chilled.

Chocolate Mousse

Chocolate Mousse

 

Ingredient

• 200 gm Dark Chocolate     
• 275ml Whipping Cream         

Method (How to make chocolate mousse at home)

• Melt dark Chocolate on a double boiler (boil water in broad pan and put one small pan in the water add chocolate and stir well till melt) or microwave for 1-2 minutes.
• Stir continuously, taking care not to let the chocolate get too hot
• Whip the cream with electric mixer in another bowl until soft peaks form.
• Gently fold the melted chocolate in to the cream until smooth
• Pour in the desired  moulds and refrigerate for minimum 4 hours
• Garnish with some chocolate shavings and serve.

Eggless Dora Cake For kids

Eggless Dora Cake For kids

Ingredients

For pan cake

• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• ¼  cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp melted butter
• 3/4 cup milk
• 1 ½  tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp vanilla essence

For filling

• 150 gram dark chocolate or chocolate chips
• 50 gram fresh cream
• ½ tsp butter

 

Method (How to make dora cake at home)

• Sift together wheat flour, and baking powder, add melted butter and powder sugar and mix.
• Add milk and vanilla essence and whisk to mix well.
• Heat a nonstick pan or tawa pour 1 big spoonful of batter and add some butter or oil, flip to cook from other side.
• Make all pan cake with the same manner.

For filling

• Heat fresh cream till boiling, switch off the flame and add chocolate or choco chips and keep aside for few minutes and mix nicely. Add butter and mix.
• Keep inside the fridge for 30 minute.
• After 30 min. pour 2 tsp chocolate filling on a dora cake and cover with the other cake.
• Serve and enjoy!!

Delhi Style Potato Chat

Delhi Style Potato Chat

Ingredients

• 4-5 medium size boiled potatoes
• 2 tbsp green coriander chutney
• 2 tbsp sweet and sour tamarind chutney
• ½ cup chopped coriander leaves
• 1-2 green chilles finely chopped
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• ½ tsp dry mango powder
• ½ tsp chilli flacks
• Salt as per taste
• 1 tbsp oil
• ½ tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tsp chopped ginger
• ½cup besan sev

Method (How to make Delhi style fry potato chat at home)

• Peel the boiled potatoes and cut in to squares pieces.
• Heat oil in a pan add cumin seeds, ginger and green chillies add potatoes pieces and mix well, fry till little crispy and brown.
• Add salt, chilli flacks, coriander powder, chat masala and mix well to coat all potatoes from all sides.
• Add chopped coriander leaves and mix well.
• Switch off the flame.

• Place fries potatoes in a serving plate, add green coriander chutney and tamarind chutney.
• Sprinkle some sev and serve immediately.

Bread Uttapam – Instant Bread Uttapam

Bread Uttapam – Instant Bread Uttapam

Ingredients (for 2-3 servings)

• 4 slice white bread
• 1/2 cup sooji
• 2 tbsp all purpose flour
• ½ cup sour curd
• 1 cup chopped vegetables (onion, tomato, capsicum)
• 1 green chilli finely chopped
• 1 tbsp coriander leaves finely chopped
• Salt as per taste
• 1 tsp ginger paste
• Oil as required

Method (How to make instant bread uttapam)

• Remove the sides of the bread and cut into small pieces.  In a mixer jar add bread, sooji, all purpose flour, curd and ½ cup of water and blend it to make smooth dosa like paste.
• Add chopped vegetables, coriander leaves, chilli, ginger paste and salt mix nicely.

• Heat a dosa tawa or any non stick tawa pour one big spoonful of batter and spread to make utaapam, pour oil form the side. Flip to cook form the other side.
• Remove from the tawa and serve hot with coconut chutney.