Recipes

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INGREDIENTS:

• 1 lit Full cream milk
• 3 gms Nutmeg
• 20 gms Almonds slivers
• Pinch Saffron as required
• 25 gms Butter
• 150 ml Fresh cream
• 5 no Green cardamom
• 5 drops Vanilla essence
• 3 nos Eggs
• 75 gms Sugar

METHOD:

1. Boil milk and sugar till the milk is reduced to the half of its actual quantity.
2. Add half of the nutmeg, some almonds and vanilla essence to the milk and mix well. Once done, keep it aside to cool down. Meanwhile, preheat the oven at 180 degrees and grease a baking tray using butter.
3. Next, take a bowl and beat the eggs. Add cream and the beaten eggs to the reduced milk mixture.
4. Pour this mixture in the greased baking tray, sprinkle the remaining nuts over it and place it in the oven for 30 minutes or till the top turns brown.
5. Use a skewer/ toothpick to check if the custard is baked properly. If it comes out clean, it means the custard is done.
6. Take out the custard from the oven and let it cool down. Transfer it to a serving plate and decorate it with the chopped nuts. Slice the custard and serve warm.

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Ingredients:   

Dough

• 500 gms   Refined flour
• 8 gms Baking powder
• 150 ml Milk
• 12 gms Instant yeast
• 12 ml Vegetable oil
• 75 gms Sugar
• 5 gms Salt
• 150 ml Water                                                         

Filling

• 400 gms Pork mince
• 50 gms Onions, chopped
• 30 gms Mushrooms, chopped
• 12 ml Fish sauce
• 10 ml Oyster sauce
• 5 gms Sugar
• 5 gms Black Pepper    
• 8 gms Salt
• 3 nos Pork sausages, thinly sliced
• 4 nos Eggs, boiled and cut into 4

For steaming

• 2 lits Water, for steaming
• 12 ml Rice wine vinegar
• 5 gms Salt

Method of preparation:

1. Make the dough: Add flour and baking powder to a bowl and mix.
2. Heat the milk until warm. Add yeast and mix. Let the mixture sit for 10 minutes until it foams. Add the vegetable oil and sugar and stir until combined.
3. Add the warm milk gradually to the flour and combine with your hands. Once all the ingredients come together, dump the dough onto a floured surface and knead for 10 minutes.
4. If the dough is poked, and it slowly springs back at you. Once done, transfer it to an oiled bowl and cover with a towel. Let it rise in a warm place for an hour.
5. While the dough is rising, prepare your other ingredients. Boil your eggs and cut into 4 pieces. Slice your sausages. Set aside.
6. Make the pork filling: Combine pork mince, chopped mushrooms, chopped onions, fish sauce, oyster sauce, salt, pepper, and sugar. Mix until just combined. Divide the pork filling into 16 equal, round pieces and set aside.
7. Once the dough is finished proofing, divide it into 16 equal pieces. Roll out each piece into a thin circle that is 4-4.5 inches in diameter. The outer edges should be thinner than the center. Make sure the center is not too thin.
8. Add 1 piece of pork filling, 1 piece of sausage, and 1 egg piece to the center of the filling. Envelop the filling with the outer edges of the dough. Fold and crimp the dough until it completely covers the filling. Place each bao on a piece of parchment paper.
9. For Cooking the buns: Prepare steamer pot. Bring water to a simmer and add a dash of salt and rice wine vinegar. Make sure to sustain a consistent simmer throughout this process.
10. Steam the banh baos for 15-17 minutes. Make sure there is at least 1 inch of space between each bao since they will expand.
11. Once the steaming is complete, take them out on to a baking tray, greased with oil, give each baos egg wash and place it in a preheated oven at 180 C. Bake for 10 mins or till the top crust turns golden brown.
12. To serve the Banh Baos: Once the baos are baked, shift them gently on to a service plate and serve it with chili garlic sauce.

 

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INGREDIENTS:

• 250 gms Refined flour
• 200 gms White chocolate chips
• 250 gms  Whipping cream
• 4 nos Egg yolks
• 60 gms Sugar
• 3 gms Salt
• 5 ml Vanilla extract
• 25 gms White chocolate curls
• 15 ml Berries compote

Method:

1. Break the eggs and separate the egg yolks into a clean bowl.
2. Heat the 100 ml of whipping cream in 2-quart saucepan over medium heat just until hot. Gradually stir at least half of the cream into egg yolk mixture, then stir back into hot cream in saucepan. Cook over low heat about 5 minutes, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens (do not boil).
3. In a medium mixing bowl, beat the balance 150 gms of whipping cream at high speed until stiff peaks form. Set the bowl aside.
4. Gently fold the whipped cream into the egg mixture and shift well.
5. Gently melt the white chocolate in a small pot over low heat stirring frequently, till it is soft.
6. Beat in the white chocolate, powdered sugar, vanilla extract and salt on medium speed until smooth and well combined.
7. Fold in the white chocolate mix into the egg mixture with a spatula. Add the chocolate chips into the mousse and gently fold into the mousse.
8. Spoon or pipe into serving dishes. Refrigerate for 1-2 hours for a firmer version. Top with berries compote and chocolate curls just before serving.

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INGREDIENTS:
500 gms Refined flour
150 gms Refined flour for dusting
12 gms Salt
25 ml Ghee for kneading
50 ml Ghee for rubbing on the dough
100 ml Ghee and oil mix for frying
100 ml Water

 

METHOD:
1. In a wide bowl, take 500 gms of flour and add 50 ml ghee, salt and crumble them together.
The ghee will make the flour into crumbly texture.
2. Now form a well in the middle of the flour and pour warm water in small quantities and mix
the flour and water to form a soft dough.
3. Once the dough is kneaded well and retains a soft texture, rub a little of the oil and ghee
mix on the dough and rest it for 30 mins.
4. Divide the dough into 8 pieces and make them into a round ball.
5. Roll the balls in the flour meant for dusting.
6. Flatten the ball by pressing between palms and spread it evenly about 4 inches.
7. Using rolling pin, roll out the dough into circular 8 inches diameter.
8. Rub the ghee oil mix evenly on the rolled dough. Dust it with flour over it.
9. Holding over the one edge with both the hands, lift and fold backwards such that it forms a
pleat over each other.
10. Make sure the pleats are formed in an even shape and they look like a stack of folded plaits.
11. Now roll the one end into a nice spiral and tuck the far end underneath the rolled paratha.
12. Dust the bottom of the rolled paratha with flour and dab the top with ghee oil mix and keep
it aside.
13. Repeat the same process for all the remaining 7 dough balls and cover them with a damp
cloth and rest for 15 mins.
14. Heat a skillet to medium hot, and grease it with oil.
15. Roll the paratha by first pressing with fore fingers evenly from the edge to the middle. And
then roll it gently till it reaches 6 inches in diameter.
16. Do not press hard while rolling, as the pleats of the paratha will get stuck to each other.
17. Place the paratha on the skillet and cook them for 1 min. Once the bubbles start forming,
flip the paratha. Cook it on the other side for another 1mins.
18. Pour ghee over the paratha and rub it evenly.
19. Using tongs, flip it onto the other side and rub ghee over the other side.
20. Once the paratha is crispy and golden brown, take it off the skillet and place on the plate.
21. Using the hands, crumple it to reveal the layers. Serve it hot with curd, or pickle.

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Ingredients

 Pomegranate juice – 60ml

7Up – Top Up

Pomegranate chilli wine – 45ml

 Pomegranate arils – 1tbs

 

Method of preparing the drink – Stir method

 Instructions

• Take a Martini glass and pre chill the glass.
• Let the glass pre chill.
• Now remove the ice cubes and water which has been used for pre chilling of the glass.
• Now add 4 cubes of ice into the glass.
• Then Pour all the ingredients over ice and stir the drink
• Top up the drink with 7 UP
• Garnish the drink with pomegranate arils and red chili

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Ingredients

• 250 gms         Unsalted butter
• 250 gms         Caster sugar
• 4 nos              Eggs
• 140 gms         Polenta
• 200 gms         Refined flour
• 08 gms           Baking powder
• 2 nos              Oranges, zest & juice

For the orange glaze

• 100 ml            Oranges juice
• 10 gms           Caster sugar

Method

1. Heat oven to 160C. Line the base and sides of a round 23cm cake tin with baking parchment.
2. Cream the butter and sugar together in a steel bowl until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time and mix thoroughly.
3. Once the mixture is combined, add all the dry ingredients and the zest and juice after you have measured off 100ml for the glaze.
4. Transfer the mixture to the tin, spread evenly, then cook for about 45 mins or until a skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
5. To make the glaze, put the juice and sugar in a medium saucepan and bring to the boil.
6. Let it simmer for 5 mins, then remove from the heat and allow to cool. Drizzle the orange glaze over the top of the cooled cake.
7. Serve with Lemon ice cream.

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INGREDIENTS:

For besan mixture:

• 400gms             Besan
• 75 gms             Ghee
• 100 ml              Milk

For roasting:

• 200 ml              Ghee
• 120 ml              Milk

 

Other ingredients:

• 250 gms            Sugar
• 100 ml              Water
• pinch                saffron/ food colour
• 125 gms            Khova 
• 5 gms               Cardamom powder
• 1 no                  silver vark for garnishing
• 50 gms             Mixed dry fruits chopped

METHOD:

To make danedar besan:

1. In a large bowl take besan, ghee and
2. Crumble and mix until the besan turns moist.
3. Keep rubbing, until the besan turns grainy texture.
4. Sieve the besan using a large hole’s sieve.
5. The besan turns grainy texture. Keep aside.

To roast besan:

1. In a large kadai heat 200 ml ghee and add besan mixture.
2. Keep roasting the besan on low flame.
3. After roasting for 20 minutes, the besan turns golden brown and ghee releases from sides.
4. Now add ½ cup milk and mix continuously.
5. The mixture turns frothy forming a grainier texture.
6. Keep cooking the besan until the milk is absorbed completely.
7. Transfer to a bowl and keep aside.

To make sugar syrup:

1. in a large kadai add sugar and  
2. boil until 1 string consistency of sugar syrup is attained.
3. add pinch saffron food colour and mix well. adding colour is optional, however, it enhances the colour of burfi.
4. further, add ½ cup khova and mix well. mix until the khova is well combined in sugar syrup.
5. now add roasted besan mixture into the sugar syrup. Continue to cook until the mixture starts to separate the pan.
6. Add cardamom powder and mix well.
7. Transfer the mixture into the tray lined with baking paper. Tap and level up forming an even top. Rest for 2 hours, or you can refrigerate to set quickly.
8. Once the burfi has set completely, unmold and decorate with silver vark.
9. Cut into the desired shape and garnish with dry fruits.

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INGREDIENTS:

• 30 ml Sherry
• 30 ml Vodka
• 3 nos Cherry tomatoes, halved
• 5 cubes Water melon
• 30 ml Pomegranate juice
• 3 ml Worcestershire sauce
• 60 ml Coconut water

 

For Garnish

• 2 gms Grated Nutmeg
• 1 sprig Mint leaves

 METHOD:

• Boil sugar and water and make simple sugar syrup. Cool it down and keep it ready.
• Add the cherry tomatoes and watermelon to a cocktail shaker and muddle until squishy.
• Add the pomegranate juice, sugar syrup, sherry and vodka, Worcestershire sauce and cracked ice and shake for 5 seconds.
• Double-stain into a Collins glass over fresh cracked ice, top with coconut water, stir gently and garnish as desired, rubbing or smacking the herbs for the garnish first to release aromatic oils.

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INGREDIENTS

For Empanadas dough:

• 700 gms Refined flour
• 200 gms Butter
• 150 gms Water
• 5 gms Salt
• 5 gms Sugar

Chicken filling:

• 500 gms Chicken breasts,
• 50 ml Oil
• 20 gms Garlic
• 5 gms Paprika powder
• 3 gms Red chili powder
• 3 sprigs Rosemary
• 5 gms Mixed herbs
• 5 gms Salt
• 5 gms Black pepper powder
• 6 gms Cumin powder
• 1 no Egg  for the egg wash

Method:

1. In the bowl of a food processor fitted with a dough blade, combine the flour, salt, and sugar. Slowly add in the melted butter, followed by enough water to create a soft and smooth dough.
2. Form the dough into a disc, wrap it with a damp cloth and refrigerate for 1 hour.
3. For the chicken filling, drizzle the oil in a large pan over medium-low heat.
4. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden and caramelized, 15-20 minutes. Add the garlic and cook until just fragrant, 30 seconds to 1 minute.
5. Stir in the shredded chicken and season with the paprika, cumin, salt, black pepper, and chili powder. Add the water, bring to a simmer, and cook, uncovered, until most of the water has evaporated, 20-30 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool to room temperature.
6. Preheat oven to 350˚F. Line two baking sheets with parchment or lightly grease.
7. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into a thin sheet. Use 4 ¾ inch circular cutter to cut out circles of dough. 
8. Place about 2 tablespoons of the cooled chicken mixture in the center of each circle. Brush the edges lightly with a little beaten egg, fold the dough over the filling, and press the edges together to seal.
9. Seal completely using the tines of a fork or create a rope appearance by pulling the edge out slightly and folding over, starting from one end and finishing at the opposite side. Repeat with remaining empanadas.
10. Place the empanadas two inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. Brush the tops with beaten egg and bake until golden, 20-25 minutes. Once the empanadas are baked, take it out of the oven and brush the top with butter and serve them.

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Ingredients

• 4 nos Chicken legs, cut into joints
• 35 ml Peanut oil
• 45 gms Pancetta bacon
• 25 gms Refined flour
• 6 gms Salt
• 5 gms Black pepper, powdered
• 150 ml Dry white wine
• 12 nos Baby potatoes, peeled
• 8 nos Cremini mushrooms, quartered
• 200 gms Frozen green peas
• 300 gms Carrots, diced into
• 12 gms Garlic, crushed
• 50 gms Pearl onions
• 300 ml Chicken stock
• 2 sprigs Fresh thyme
• 5 sprigs Fresh parsley, chopped

Method:

1. Heat oil in a Dutch oven.
2. Sauté the pancetta for about 2 minutes in the hot oil. It should be a little crispy. This will give the stew incredible flavour.
3. Add the chicken legs and sauté for 8 minutes. Turn once after 4 minutes so they get a good browning on each side.
4. Add the flour, salt, and pepper together. Sprinkle the mixture over chicken and stir well, cooking for about 1 minute.
5. Add wine and chicken stock and stir well.
6. Add the potatoes, mushrooms, pearl onions, carrots, and garlic.
7. Make a small bundle of a few pieces of fresh thyme, wrapping one piece around the bundle. Add it to the stew and gently stir so thyme is submerged. 
8. Bring stew to a full boil. Reduce heat to low and cover, cooking for 45 minutes. 
9. When you are ready to serve the stew, add the peas and cook for 2 minutes if using frozen peas or a couple of minutes longer if they are fresh.
10. Sprinkle with parsley just before serving.

Serve along with sough dough bread or on top of risotto.