Hot Garlic Sauce

Ingredients

1.Garlic (Chopped) - 100 gm
   Onion (Chopped) - 50 gm
   Celery  (Chopped) -30 gm

2.Tomato Sauce - 4 tsp
    Red Chili Paste - 1 tsp
    Salt & Sugar - To Taste
    Water - 1/4 cup
    Oil -  1 tbs

Preparation

Heat oil in pan

Add all the 1st ingredients and saute well

Once the onion turns to golden color

Add the 2nd  ingredients and toss to combine all ingredients well.

This sauce suites with snacks and starters.

Vegetable Spring Rolls

Ingredients

• Spring Roll Wrapper (Out Sourced) - 10 sheets
• Garlic Chopped - 30 gm
• Carrot (Long thin slices) - 50 gm
• Cabbage (Long thin slices) -60 gm
• Capsicum ((Long thin slices) -60 gm
• Bean Sprout  or Beans (Long thin slices)- 50 gm
• Spring Onion (Long thin slices)- 50 gm
• Soya Sauce - 2 tbs
• Oyster Sauce - 1 tsp
• Sugar -1/2 tbs
• Salt & Pepper - to taste
• Oil - For Frying
• All Purpose Flour- Dissolved in water for wrapping

Preparation

Heat the oil in a large pan .


Add garlic and saute very well.


Add all vegetables and saute till half done


Add the soya,oyster sauce ,sugar ,pepper and salt  and toss to combine all ingredients well


Once the vegetables are almost cooked ,removed from heat and place in a strainer to remove excess moisture


Unfold spring roll sheet one at a time during the process of wrapping

Place the sheet flat on the table ,place sufficient cooked vegetables in the center more towards the back end,fold from either sides,and make the roll firmly.


To keep the rolls intact and not open out while frying,seal the ends
with the dissolved flour.


Make as many as you like ,Left overs rolls can be frozen for future use


Heat the oil in very high flame,once the oil is hot and boiling ,lowed flame to medium heat and fry the rolls.


Serve with  HOT GARLIC SAUCE : http://smartmaa.blogspot.com/2012/05/hot-garlic-sauce.html
     Or         Green Chutney : http://smartmaa.blogspot.com/2011/10/green-chutney.html

Mango Duet Popsicle (Mango Ice Cream)

Ingredients

• Ready Made Mango Juice  - 2 cup
• Sugar  - 1/3 cup
• Water  - 1 cup
• Heavy Whipping cream - 1/2 cup
• Sugar (powdered) - 3 tbs
• Popsicle Molds

Preparation

Cook 1/3 cup sugar and 1 cup water in a sauce pan on medium heat stirring until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture is clear.Stop stirring and simmer on low heat without a lid,for 12-15 min till it becomes 1/2 cup.

Carefully pour the sugar mixture into a cup.It should measure 1/2 cup( If you have too much liquid ,cook it for a bit longer.If you have too little,add enough water to make 1/2 cup).

Whisk mango juice with the cooled sugar syrup.

Beat the whipping cream with powdered sugar

Put cream into a bowl.Add 1/2 cup of the mango - syrup mixture to the cream.

Keep the remaining mango mixture in another bowl.

Pour the cream - mango mixture into the molds filling them up to 3/4 cup part of the mold.Freeze them for 2 hours or until the pops set partially.

Pour the other mango mix into the molds on top to fill.return the pops to the freezer overnight so they are frozen solid.

Mango Mousse Cake

Ingredients

1. Sponge cake
2. Sugar Syrup
3. Mango Mousse
4. Mango Piece for Decoration

1 .Sponge Cake

Ingredients

• Egg - 4, separated

• Sugar -1/2 cup

• All purpose flour -1 cup

• Vanilla Essence - 1 teaspoon

• Baking Powder – ¾ tsp

• Soda Bicarbonate – ¼ tsp

Method

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Grease and flour the baking dish

Sift all purpose flour with baking powder and bicarbonate of soda .

Beat butter and powdered sugar in a bowl ,when it becomes very soft add egg yolks one by one and beat well.

Then add sifted all purpose flour and vanilla essence ,then mix properly.

Beat the egg whites until stiff, and then add to the flour mix with a wooden spatula


Then pour the batter to the greased baking dish

Then bake the cake in a preheated oven for 20 – 25 min (dependent upon the size), until an inserted wooden pick comes out clean.

(We can prepare either a big cake or two separate cakes. If it is big make splits 2 or 3 layer for mango mousse filling) 

2.For the Syrup:

Ingredients

• Sugar- 1 cup
• Water- 1 cup
• Orange essence – 1tsp
• Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

Method

Bring the sugar and water to a boil, and boil for 2 minutes.

Remove from heat and let cool briefly. Add both the essence

Generously brush the bottom and inside walls of the spring form pan with melted butter. Place one circle of cake in the bottom of the pan, trimming to fit if necessary. Brush cake generously with syrup.

Brush the plain sides of the bands of cake with syrup, and place them in the pan so that the visible stripes face outward and are pressed against the sides of the pan. Trim them so that they fit tightly into the pan, completely lining the sides.

3.For the Mango Mousse:

Ingredients

• Egg whites -2
•  Sugar- 3/4 cup
• Water -1/4 cup
• Fresh mango – 2 (Chopped)
• Lime juice – from 2 lemon
• Whipping cream -1 1/2 cup
• Gelatin- 1tbs

Method

 Puree the mango with the lime juice until smooth. Strain and set aside.

In a bowl, sprinkle the gelatin over 1/4 cup of water and let rest for 5 minutes. Place the bowl over a pot of simmering water (do not let bowl touch the water) and stir until gelatin is dissolved. Stir the mango puree into the gelatin until well mixed. Strain once more. Set aside.

Bring the 3/4 cup of sugar and 1/4 cup water to boil in a small saucepan.

In a bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff. Leave the mixer on the lowest speed until the sugar syrup reaches 120 degrees Celsius. Remove from heat and slowly pour the sugar into the egg whites while beating them.

When the egg whites are stiff and shiny (meringue),

Stir 1/4 cup of the egg whites into the mango purée. Fold this mixture back into the meringue.

Beat the whipping cream until soft peaks form. Gently fold the whipping cream into the egg white/mango mixture.

4.Fill the cake with  mango mousse

Fill cake halfway with the mousse mixture. 

Spread some Mango pieces

Place the other circle of cake on top. Brush generously with the rest of the syrup.

Fill the spring form pan to the top with the mousse, and use a long spatula or the flat side of a knife to smooth across the top, level with top of the pan.

Place cake in freezer for 2-3 hours.

Remove cake and place on serving platter. Using a hairdryer, gently warm the outside of the spring form pan. Carefully open the band of the pan slightly, and lift the sides up and off the cake.

Decorate top of cake with fresh mango slices . Chill cake until ready to serve

Mutton Fry

Ingredients

• Mutton - 500 gm
• Cinnamon- 3-4 sticks
• Cloves - 6 nos
• Chilly powder - 2 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Pepper - 1 tsp
• Ginger - 2" piece
• Garlic pods - 6 nos
• Shallots- 8 nos
• Coriander powder - 1 tsp
• Coconut oil - 2 tsp
• Salt -to taste

For seasoning:

• Onion(big) - 1 nos
• Green chilly - 4 nos

 Preparation

Grind all the ingredients into a paste (except mutton).

Add salt.

Mix this paste with mutton and place it in a pressure cooker.

Add coconut oil and little water ,then  pressure cook for 3 or 4 whistles to come.

Open the lid and cook on low flame for 8 to 10 mins till dry.

Fry the mutton pieces in oil.

Saute onions and green chilies in another pan, till dark brown in colour.

Add the above mixture to the fried mutton.

Paneer Apple Pie

Ingredients  for Short Crust Pastry (Base)

• All Purpose flour - 2 cup
• Butter - 125 gm
• Powdered Sugar - 2 tbs
• Salt - 1 pinch
• Cold Water - 3 tbs

Ingredients for Filling

• Apple - 4 nos (Peeled and Sliced)
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Paneer - 200 gm
• Milk -1/4 cup
• Bread Crumbs - 1/2 cup
• Cinnamon - 1 piece
• Mixed Fruit Jam - 2 tbs
• Water - 1 cup
• Egg White - 1 nos

Preparation

Place the flour in a bowl and rub in the butter and salt  until the mixture resembles fine bread crumbs.Then add powdered sugar and bind to a stiff dough with cold water.

Preheat the oven to convection 190 degree Celsius for 10 min.

Meanwhile,take 3/4 part of the dough and  roll out pastry to line the pie tray.Prick the base of the pastry.

Bake this pastry for 15 min.

Cook Apple with 1 cup water and powdered cinnamon,

Then add 1/2 cup sugar and boil for 5 min

Then add Bread crumbs and mix , then turn off the flame

Grind to make a paste of  Paneer with milk and sugar

Now fill the apple mix to the baked pastry crust

Then fill the next layer of paneer paste

Last spread the jam

Take the remaining portion of  dough and prepare the second crust and cut it into long slices

Place each slices of the crust on the top of pie filling.

Seal the edges of the crust with a fork or by hand

Then brush the egg white over the pie top

Bake it for 30 min or till gets the golden brown colour.

We can serve Paneer Apple pie  with Vanila ice cream or as it is...