Friday, 21 December 2012

Choco-Orange Delight

                                       Choco-Orange Delight

Ingredients:

1 packet Orange jelly crystals

300 ml Amul Cream

11/2 tsp Lemon zest

1 nos Lemon (juice extracted)

200 gm Chocolate biscuits (crushed)

3 tbsp Cocoa powder

2 tbsp + 1 tsp Amul Butter

3 -4 tbsp Sugar (powdered)

2 tbsp Cashewnuts (finely chopped)

11/2 tsp Maida

1 nos Orange (segments separated)

Method: 

1. Heat 1 cup water and dissolve ¾ packet of jelly crystals. Cool and mix in cream. Refrigerate the cream for 5 minutes.

2. Mix  lemon zest, lemon juice and 11/2 tbsp  sugar into the cooled cream mixture.

3. Combine biscuits with 2 tbsp cocoa, 2 tbsp butter and cashewnuts and press into glasses. Refrigerate for 5 minutes.

4. Pour the orange cream mixture on top of the biscuit mixture and chill till set.

5. Combine 11/2 tbsp sugar with 1 tbsp cocoa, maida and ½ cup water. Cook on a low flame stirring continuously till mixtue thickens, cool a bit and mix in 1 tsp butter. Strain and fill into piping bag.

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Rasgulla Cake recipe from MasterChef India judges

                                   Rasgulla Cake recipe from MasterChef India judges

Ingredients:

2 cups: Refined flour

1 tsp: Baking powder

¾ tbsp: Soda bicarb

1 cup: Amul curd

A few drops of Vanilla essence

¾ cup: Milk

¾ cup: White butter

¾ cup: Caster sugar

6 tbsp: Cocoa powder

500 gm: Chhena

2 nos. Star anise

3 cups: Sugar

400 ml: Non-dairy cream

3 nos. Tangerines

3 nos. Sweet limes

1 nos. Butter paper

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 170*C. Grease a cake tin and line it with butter paper.

2. Sift flour, baking powder, soda bicarb and cocoa powder together. Heat the milk till it is lukewarm.

3. Whisk the curd, caster sugar, butter and vanilla essence together till smooth and frothy.

4. Fold in the flour mixture alternating with milk. Mix quickly but gently to a smooth batter.

5. Pour into the cake tin and bake on the centre rack for 20 minutes.

6. Meanwhile in a saucepan mix 3 cups of sugar with ½ cup milk, 2 cups water and star anise. Place on flame and stir till sugar dissolves. Bring the mixture to a boil.

7. While the sugar syrup is cooking, grate/crumble the chhena, mix in 1 tsp flour and knead till very smooth and light. Shape into small balls.

8. Check the cake. Insert a skewer or knife in the centre. If it comes out clean, remove cake from the oven and after a few seconds, demould it and leave to cool.

9. Check the sugar syrup. Clarify it by spooning off the grey layer. If syrup has come to a boil, gently add the chhena balls and poach them till done. To test whether rasgullas are cooked, drop one in a deep bowl full of water. If it sinks to the bottom, the rasgulla is cooked.

10. If rasgullas are done, remove and cool.

11. Whip the non-dairy cream till soft peak stage. Cut the cake into three horizontal layers. Cut rasgullas in half. Peel and cut tangerines and sweet limes into segments.

12. Arrange one layer of the cake on a presentation plate. Arrange the rasgullas and place one more layer on top.

13. Fill half the whipped cream into a piping bag with a large star nozzle. Cover the cake with the remaining cream. Arrange the tangerines and sweet limes as shown. Pipe stars onto the cake using the piping bag and chill till set.

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Master chef Recipe ‘Black Forest Rasgulla Cake’ – Simply Brilliant Cake by Star Plus Masterchef India – Indian recipe

In last week’s episode of master chef contestants faced a challenge to make Black forest rasgulla cake. It was not ordinary Black forest cake but it was full of fruits like orange and sweet lime, and melons. These fruits were introduced to balance the extra sweetness of rasgulla. Basically this cake is a combination of 3 main components:

Rasgulla, Black Forest cake, Blue berry jam

Let see the recipes of these three separately:

Rasgulla as it name suggest ‘Ras’ and ‘gola’. Ras is water syrup and ‘gola’ is a formation of milk. Let see gola part first from Ras gulla.

Ingredients

Milk – 1 liter

Lime juice- 2 spoon

Arrow Root- 1 table Spoon

Sugar – 300 gm

Method

The main ingredient to make rasgulla is chenna. It can be bought from dairy or can be prepared at home. In masterchef participates were provided ready made chenna. But we will tell you how to cook chenna at home.

Prepare Chenna at home.

First you need to boil the milk in some heavy metal base utensil. Once milk start boiling squeeze few drops of lime juice into milk .This way milk will start curdling. When milk curdled completely then you will see water will separate from coagulated part of milk.

Now wrapped this coagulated component in cheesecloth and drain extra water from it.

Chenna is ready to use in Rasgulla.

Now spread chenna in a flat surface pan or thali and mix arrowroot and baking powder well. Now knead this mixture and turn into a dough. This dough is ready to make Rasgulla. Now make small balls out of it.

Sugar Syrup (chashani)

Take 300gm Sugar into a pan and pour 1 liter of water and put this pan on flame. When it starts boiling put already prepared small balls of chenna into sugar syrup. Let it cook for 15-20 minute. Rasgulla will soak syrup and become large in size. Now put off the flame let it cold for a while.

Your Rasgullas are ready!

Cautions

Remember Smita dugger how her rasgulls were dismantling in Syrup. To avoid such situation keep in mind the expert comment of Chef kunal, ‘Do not put chenna balls into too watery syrup other wise it will not hold in syrup and they will melt in syrup’.

Blue Berry Jam.

Ingredients

Blue Berry ½ kg

Sugar 250 gm

Method.

Take a small batch of blue berry.

You need to wash the berries in a colander.

Now remove bits of stems, leaves and mushy berry.

Manually crush the berries or run the blueberries through a blender until you get a smooth consistency.

Now add sugar and mix the blueberries with the pectin and cook to a full boil.

Now set the mixture in a pan or jar and wait till it gets cold.

Blue Berry jam is ready!

Black Forest cake

It is basically a German dessert .In masterchef they make egg less Black forest cake. The Masterchef cake was different from ordinary black forest cake as they replaced traditional cherries with fruits and rasgullas.So lets have a look how they prepare it.

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour – 2 cups

Baking Powder – 1 teaspoon

Baking Soda – 2 teaspoons

Unsweetened Cocoa Powder – 3/4 cup

Rasgulla ( pieces) 8-10

Orange (pieces) ½ cup

Sweet lime (pieces) ½ cup

Sugar – 2 cups

Milk – 1 cup

Butter- 1/2 cup

Chocolate -125gms

Fresh whipped cream -250 gms

Melons 8-10 pieces

Blue berry jam 300 gms

Method

Melt butter in a pan on a very low temperature.

Remove the butter from the flame and let the butter cool.

Sift Maida, cocoa powder, baking powder, cooking soda and salt together. Make sure your mixture should not be lumpy.

Grease a baking tray with little butter. Dust it with Maida and keep it aside.

In another bowl beat butter then slowly add the dry mixture while beating well in one direction. Keep beating until the entire dry mixture is fully incorporated.

Now add the milk slowly and beat for a minute.

Pour the mixture into the greased pan. You do not have to spread the mixture using a spoon, if the mixture is of the right consistency.

Place in the centre of the pre-heated oven and bake for 30 minutes. The temperature and baking time can vary from oven to oven. Hence, test the cake at around 25 minutes to see if it is done. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until a wooden tooth pick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. When it is done, let it cool for a while

Now cut the cake into 3 layers.

Chocolate scrape:

First you need to melt the chocolate in a pan.

Keep stirring constantly once chocolate begin to melt. Do not overheat chocolate as it doesn’t response very well to high temperature.

Remove the chocolate from the heat and pour chocolate on waxed sheet on top of baking sheet. Spread chocolate in a thin layer with the help of spatula.

Now gently remove sheet and allow the chocolate to sit until hardened. You can also put in a refrigerator to cool fast.

Place the cooled sheet on a steady, non-slip surface.

Now Take long knife and cut long chocolate scrape.

* If you do not want to do all this process. Then just take a bar of chocolate and grate it with the help of grater.

Assembling the cake:

Now take first layer of cake and spread whipping cream all over the layer and spread pieces of fruits and rasgullas.

Take another layer and spread the blue berry jam and fruits,

Take another layer and repeat the process of spreading whipping cream and fruits.

Finally garnish it with whipping cream and chocolate scrapes and melons.

Black Forest cake is ready!

I hope you enjoyed the recipe, try your hands on this recipe and let us know how your experience was!

Read more: Black Forest Rasgulla Cake – Masterchef India Recipe | How to Do Things in India | Indian How to Articles and Videos | HowIndia.com

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Rasgulla Cake

Ingredients:

Refined flour

Baking powder

Soda bicarb

Amul curd

Vanilla essence

Milk

Amul butter

Caster sugar

Cocoa powder

Chhena

Nutmeg

Sugar

Non-dairy cream

Ginger

Lemon

Maraschino cherries (optional)

Butter paper

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 170*C. Grease a cake tin and line it with butter paper.

2. Sift flour, baking powder, soda bicarb and cocoa powder together. Heat the milk till it is lukewarm.

3. Whisk the curd, caster sugar and butter together till smooth and frothy.

4. Fold in the flour mixture alternating with milk. Mix quickly but gently to a smooth batter.

5. Pour into the cake tin and bake on the centre rack for 20 minutes.

6. Meanwhile in a saucepan mix 5 cups of sugar with ½ cup milk and 3 cups water. Place on flame and stir till sugar dissolves. Bring the mixture to a boil.

7. While the sugar syrup is cooking, grate/crumble the chhena, mix in 1 tsp flour ¼ tsp grated nutmeg and knead till very smooth and light. Shape into small balls.

8. Check the cake. Insert a skewer or knife in the centre. If it comes out clean, remove cake from the oven and after a few seconds, demould it and leave to cool.

9. Check the sugar syrup. Clarify it by spooning off the grey layer. If syrup has come to a boil, gently add the chhena balls and poach them till done. To test whether rasgullas are cooked, drop one in a deep bowl full of water. If it sinks to the bottom, the rasgulla is cooked.

10. If rasgullas are done, remove and cool.

11.    Whip the non-dairy cream till soft peak stage. Cut the cake into three horizontal layers. Cut rasgullas in half.

12.    Arrange one layer of the cake on a presentation plate. Sprinkle over with sugar syrup. Arrange half the rasgullas and place one more layer on top. Repeat sprinkling of syrup and arrangement of rasgullas. Place the third cake layer on top.

13.    Fill half the whipped cream into a piping bag with a large star nozzle. Cover the cake with the remaining cream. Pipe stars onto the cake and chill till set.

14.    Cut ginger into juliennes and lemons into slices. Caramelize sugar and coat ginger and lemon slices. Garnish the prepared cake with candied juliennes, lemon slices and maraschino cherries.

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Vegetable pizza

                                     Vegetable pizza

For pizza dough

White flour 1 cup

Salt pinch

Yeast 1 tbsp

Sugar 1 tsp

Oil 1 tsp

Luke warm water as required

Method:

Take a bowl, put 1 cup flour, add pinch of salt, 1 tbsp yeast, 1 tsp sugar, 1 tsp oil and lukewarm as required. Mix it till its combine and leave it for rest so the dough get rise.

Pizza sauce

Fresh red tomato ½ kg

Salt & pepper as required

Oregano pinch

Garlic chopped 1 tbsp

Oil 1 tbsp

Method:

Take ½ kg tomato, peel them and mash them with hand. Take a medium cooking pan and heat 1 tbsp of oil and add 1 tbsp chopped garlic. Now add put mashed tomato and sauté it. Now put salt and pepper. In the end sprinkle the oregano form top and cook till it become thick sauce.

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Baked Macaroni with spicy vegetable and tomato sauce/lively weekends

                      Baked Macaroni with spicy vegetable and tomato sauce

Macaroni 1 cup

Salt & pepper to taste

Red chili powder ½ tsp

Crushed red chili ½ tsp

Oregano ¼ tbsp

Worchester shire sauce 1 tbsp

Fresh tomato puree 1 cup

Capsicum 1

Onion 1

Garlic chopped 1 tbsp

Green chili chopped 2

Green coriander chopped ½ bunch

Cheddar cheese grated ½ cup

Oil 2 tbsp

Carrot 1

Cauliflower 1 cup

Method:

Boil 1 cup macaroni in boiling water. Peel tomatoes and mash it with hand. Now chop onion, cut capsicum and carrot in small cubes. In a pan heat 2 tbsp oil and put 1 tbsp chopped garlic, onion and sauté it for couple of minutes. Then add carrot, capsicum, cauliflower, tomato puree, chopped green chilies, red chili crushed, Red chili powder, Pinch of oregano, salt, pepper and Worcester shire sauce. Now stir it and mix it well. Now add boiled macaroni in to vegetables and mix it. Now take a deep baking glass dish, put the macaroni mixture in it, and sprinkle cheddar cheese from top with crushed red chili crushed and oregano and bake it in oven on 150 c for 10 minutes

Gajeraila by shireen

                                           Gajeraila


      • Carrots, grated n steamed in its own water 2c

      • Milk 4 ½ c

      • Rice, soaked for 2 -3 hours n spread out n dry on a clean cloth n grind ½ c

      • Sugar ¾ c – to taste

      • Illachi powder 1tsp

      • Saffron , optional ¼ tsp

      • Pistachio, blanched n chopped 1 tbsp

      • Almonds , blanched n chopped 1tbsp

      Method:

      1. Steam the carrots in its own water as it prevents the milk from cuddling.

      2. Boil milk, when it boils add rice n cook for 5-7 mins.

      3. Now add the carrots to the milk.

      4. Check out carrots n rice when tender add sugar.

      5. Stirring continuously.

      6. When done remove from flame n add saffron n illachi pd n dish out.

      7. Decorate with pasticcio n almonds n chandi warq.

basic no bake cheese cake

                                     basic no bake cheese cake

      Ingredients:

      • Philadelphia cream cheese block: 2 x 250 gm

      • Digestive biscuits: 1 large packet

      • Butter melted: 100 gm

      • Thick Cream: 300 ml

      • Lemon juice: 2Tbsp

      • Lemon zest: 1 tsp

      • Sugar : to taste or 1 cup

      Decoration:

      • Chocolate topping sauce(Optional)

      • Chocolate chip (optional)

      • Cocoa powder (optional)

      Method

      • Grind the digestive biscuits in the food processor.

      • Add melted butter to crushed biscuits, mix well

      • Press into bottom of 9" (23 cm) spring-form pan evenly. Chill crust thoroughly in the refrigerator.

      • Beat the thick cream until soft peaks are formed & set aside.

      • Cut the cream cheese block into cubes & start beating, adding in sugar little by little, until it becomes a smooth mixture without any lumps.

      • Add in lemon juice & lemon zest (optional).

      • Add in the beaten thick cream into the cheese mixture & fold it with a metal spoon or spatula.

      • Pour the mixture on to the prepared base…

      • Dust with cocoa powder or sprinkle chocolate chip,, or with chocolate sauce

      • Refrigerate the prepared cake until it is well set or at least few hours.

      • Enjoy

      Option2. You can beat the thick cream, cream cheese & sugar together

Chicken Kachi Biryani

                                          Chicken Kachi Biryani


Ingredients

Chicken 1 kg

Yogurt 1 cup

Chili Powder 2 tsp

All spice powder 1 ½ tsp

Salt 1 ½ tsp

Ginger Garlic Paste 2 tsp

Brown Onion 1 cup

Milk ½ cup

Saffron ½ tsp

Kewra water 1 tsp

Potatoes 3

Coriander leaves chopped ½ cup

Mint leaves ½ cup

Green Chili 6

Rice ½ kg

Whole spices mixed

Salt 3 tbsp

Method

1. Soak rice for 30 minutes. Boil in water with 3 tbsp salt and whole spices till half done

2. Drain and keep aside.

3. Marinate Chicken with yogurt, ginger garlic paste, chili powder, salt all spice powder half quantity of brown onion, half quantity of oil and green chili for 1 hour.

4. In a pan spread the chicken mixture, then top with chopped coriander and mint leaves. Then top with boiled rice, remaining brown onion oil, milk and saffron and kewra. Cover and cook on low flame for 45 min