Monday, July 16, 2012

Mango Cheese Cake

Ingredients
Cream cheese - 250gm, Philadelphia Cream Cheese
Cream - 170 gm
Sugar - Half a cup
Mango puree - 3/4 of a cup
Gelatine - 1 Tbsp
Hot Water - 1/4 cup
Graham cracker crumbs - 1.5 to 2 cups
Unsalted butter, melted - about 1/3 of a cup


To Make Mango Cheese cake
  • Grind graham crackers coarsely.  Add melted butter and whiz again until the mixture comes together.
  • Press into the bottom individual glasses. Refrigerate while preparing the rest of the cheesecake.
  • Mix the cream cheese, cream, and sugar in a bowl until well combined. You can do it by hand. An electric beater is optional.
  • Add the gelatine to the hot water and stir till it completely dissolves. 
  • Add the mango puree and stir well. 
  • Keep half of this mixture aside and add the rest to the cream cheese mixture. 
  • Stir gently until well combined.
  • Pour on top of the graham cracker base. Return to fridge for another 10-30 mins.
  • Pour the mango mixture as the third layer. Do this gently so that the layers don't combine. 
  • Refrigerate overnight and get ready to surprise your guests with an awesome dessert. 
Note: in this measurement can serve to 6 to 7 members

Vatral Kozhambu

Ingredients

Oil - 1 Big spn
Mangai vathal - 4
Kathiri vathal - 4
Sunda vathal - 2 tspn
Tamarind - lemon size
Perungayam powder - 1/2 tspn
Toor dal  - 1 tspn
Red chili  - 4
Red chilli powder - 1 1/2 tspn
Salt - 1/2 tspn
Jaggery - 1/4 tspn

To Make Vatral Kuzhambu
  • Soak the tamarind and salt together
  • Heat the oil in kadai add red chili,  asafoetida powder, mustard seeds, urud dal, toor dal
  • Add curry leaves and all vathal fry it for 5 minutes
  • Add red chili powder and tamarind water, salt
  • Add 1 or 1 1/2 cup of water 
  • Let cook on the medium flame for 10 minutes until oil separates from gravy
  • And add jaggery finally and switch it off
  • Serve hot with steamed rice.   

Vegetable Pongal

Ingredients

Jasmine Rice (pacha arisi) - 1 cup
Water - 3 cup
Moong daal - 1/2 cup (paasi paruppu)
Ginger - 1/2 inch ( chopped)
Green chilli - 3 small size
Tomato - 1 mediem size
Onion - 1 medium size
Potato - 1 mediem size
Carrot - 1
Jeera - 1/2 tsp
Crushed Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves - little

To Make Vegetable Pongal
  • Wash the rice and daal together
  • Heat the water and add rice in water
  • Once start boiling add potato, carrot, ginger, tomato, Onion
  • Add salt and close it with Lid
  • Leave it for 1 vessel keep the flame in slow
  • Switch it off after 10 minutes  
  • Heat  2tsp ghee in kadai add cashew, jeera, pepper, curry leaves, coriander leaves 
  • Fry it for 1second
  • Mix it well with Pongal
  • And serve it hot with coconut chutney, drumstick sambar 

Rava Laddu

Ingredients

Rava -2 cups
Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
Shreded Coconut - 3/4
Badam - 10 chopped
Dry grapes - 1 tsp chopped
Cardamom - 3 chopped
Ghee - to fry
Warm Milk - 1/4 cup

To Make Rava laddu
  • Heat a 1tsp ghee in kadai add chopped badam, dry grapes, cardamom fry it for 1minute
  • Fry the shreded coconut for 2 seconds in 1 tsp ghee and keep it separate 
  • Fry the Rava in 2 tsp ghee for 1 minute and keep it separate
  • Switch it off and mix all together and finally add sugar 
  • Mix everything together in hand 
  • Add warm milk little by little mix it and make it as round shape 
Notes : In this measurement can make 25 Rava laddu's