Dark Chocolate Mousse

Chocolate Mousse with Dark chocolate bitter sweet chocolate from Italy

My cousins Italy visit, got me Dark chocolate  with 70P Coco happily made this Dark chocolate & Milk chocolate Mousse

For just chocolate mousse: Recipe Silky Chocolate mousse

Ingredients

1 cup of Dark Chocolate, chopped
1/2cup Milk chocolate
2 Tbsp of Unsalted Butter
3 Egg Yolk
1 whole Egg
½ tsp of Vanilla Extract
2 Tbsp of Sugar
1 cup of Fresh Cream

Method
1) In a bowl, whisk the cream & keep aside

2) In a small bowl, whisk the egg yolk 4 and sugar for 2 to 3 minutes or until it becomes thick and pale in color and the sugar dissolves, set aside.
3) In a small saucepan, add about an inch of water and bring it to a simmer. Place a small bowl over the saucepan and add the chocolate and butter and over very low heat, cook everything together just until the chocolate melts.

4) Spoon ¼ of the chocolate into the egg yolk mixture and mix it just enough to combine. Pour the egg yolk mixture back into the small bowl over the simmering water in the saucepan with the remaining chocolate mixture, add the vanilla extract and stirring constantly, add cream & cook over low heat for a couple minutes or until the mixture thickens. Let it cool for a few minutes stirring frequently.

5) In a small bowl, whisk the egg white until it forms stiff peaks. Fold the egg white in the cooled chocolate mixture.

6)  Pour the mixture into cups and refrigerate for a minimum of 4 to 6 hours. Enjoy!

Sea food Meals

Goan Fish curry with Fish tikka

Goa cusine has a huge influence in Spicy Fish curry. Goan curries use a lot of coconut, curry leaves while chili peppers, spices and vinegar are also used. Fish curry and rice forms the staple food of the community, I have grown up feasting on this cuisine, Spicy curry being favourite along with Fish fry

The traditional coconut curry is a curry made with coconut juice is quite popular. The Goan fish curries and prawn curry are known for their taste and renowned in the whole of coastal India while fried fish dishin their style is well known.This spicy Fish curry is a  coconut and kokum curry which is also very popular

Fish Curry for Fish fillets cleaned 4-5 steaks

Ingredients
Coconut grated: 3/4th cup
Red chilies: 4-5
Tamarind/ Amsol: 2sps
Onion: 1/2
Turmeric: 1pinch
Coriender: 2sps

Method:

Gind All the Ingredients with 1 cup water & make a fine masala
In a Deep dish(kadai) add this masala & little water(to make curry consistency 1 cup water)
Bring to boil then add salt to taste
Add fish fillets & cook covered for 10 min
In between check the fish if cooked just remove from heat

Serve this Fish curry with Hot Rice & Fish Tikka & Squid fries

Fish Tikka

Spiced Fish grilled,  tasty & healthy Fish Tikka

Boneless or with bone it tastes good with Fish meals

I Have cooked this fish tikka on the bone, Marinate the fish so that it gets tender & juicy

I love Fish thali combination of Fish tikka & fish curry is awesome try this Sea food Meal

I have used Sweet sea fish called Palu, you can even use River fish of your choice or any other fish like seer or pomfret

Ingredients Fish Tikka 

Fish cubed: 5-6 PCs

Lemon juice: 1

Redchili powder: 2sps

Rice flour: 1tsp

Salt o taste

Turmeric 1 pinch

Method for fish tikka 

• Marinate: fish steaks: apply salt to taste & 1/2 lemon juice keep for 5 min
• Mix together chili powder Turmeric lillte, 1/2 Lemon juice & riceflour with little water to form a paste.
• Squeze the fish remove excess water & apply this paste leave to marinate for 1/2 hr to 1 hr
• In a preheated Oven grill the fish @ 120 * for 10-15 min after fisrt 10 min check if cooked....Fish tikka  ready to be served with Fish curry

Butter Muruku (Instant Chakli)

Butter Muruku also known as bene murruku are Rice sticks crispies made with Rice flour & butter spiced up used for Spicy evening snacks

These crunchy bites are addictive you tend to keep on munching these, so these are made typically on festivals or special occasions

Diwali snacks presenting third savory snacks for this diwali Instant Butter/Bene muruku for crunchy crispy snacks with an easy method to follow

Try this Butter/Bene Muruku Ingredients:

Rice Flour: 1 cup
Fried gram(Poppu): 1/4 cup
Chili powder: 2 tsp
Butter: 4 tsps
Sesame seeds: 2tbsps
Salt to taste
Jaggery/ Sugar: 2tsps
Oil for deep frying

For larger quantities Double up all the ingredients

Method to follow for Instant Butter Muruku:

Dry roast Fried gram(Hurkadale/Poppu) & make fine powder
Take Rice flour add all other ingredients & mix well
Add little by little water & form a dough
This dough should not be too hard it must resemble like chapati dough

Keep this to rest for 5 min
In meanwhile grease the Muruku maker add the Star slot plate to it
Keep the Oil for heat in a deep dish

Take a portion of dough & keep it in the Muruku maker
Close & Press it on a surface or directly in hot Oil
Fry these muruku on medium heat just till it starts to change  color slightly
Dont wait till it changes color completly as it cooks even after taking out
Drain on an absorbent Paper & leave it to cool down
Crispy Muruku are ready to munch....Repeat the process with rest of dough
Once fully cooled transfer to airtight containers

Note: Dont put too many murukus at a time in oil, this will make the temperature of Oil to drop down & bubbles will form in oil, so always fry in small batches

Rava Ladoo Instant

This Diwali make Rava ladoo easy way Instant Rava ladoo for sweets 
Diwali is  a festival of sounds and sights with fireworks and rangoli designs; the festival is a major celebration of flavors with feasts and numerous mithai (sweets, desserts)& crunchy snacks, Its a festival of emotions as well where Diwali ritually brings family and friends together every year. Make these Traditional  Rava ladoo for your family & enjoy Diwali

Ingredients :



Rava/Semolina: 1 cup
Sugar: 3/4 th cup
Cardamon powder.
5-6 tbsp ghee.
1+1/2 cup milk
Dry fruits: Cashew & Raisins

Method of preparing Instant ladoo:

1.Roast the rava dry for some time on slow flame ,then add ghee and keep  roasting continuously on low flame.
2.Don't let the rava get burnt .Roast it till changes color
3.Divide it in two portion, remove half of it keep aside
   For the rest half  add half cup milk & cook

   
4.Let it bubble.add half of sugar & cardamom mix, remove from heat & let it cool down
5.Till this cools you can repeat the same process with rest of the Rava
6.On the other hand the first mix should be cooled now .Add dry fruits & start to give it shape

7. Add little little milk if its too dry & shape to ladoos
8. After this make ladoos of rest of mixture will be still luke warm now roll ladoos.
9. If you fell the mixture is dry, Dont panic add a bit milk & Apply ghee to hands to roll ladoo 
 It will set hard after few hrs...Can keep these Ladoos for 4-5 days

Note: Instead of dividing the mix You can make this whole at once, but in that case your mix will get cooled down by the time you make 10-15 ladoo so reheat the rest mix & then proceed, it should be warm when you roll the ladoo, mix very little little milk, not too much

7 Cup Burfi Diwali sweets

Diwali sweets, 7 cup burfi with dry coconut & besan this delightful sweet is easy to make & tasty
Tastes like coconut burfi & besan adds to its taste
Ingredients are very simple and easy to remember as the Name states its 7 cup all ingredients measured to 7 cups easy to remember

Diwali is round the corner so try making these simple sweets, Cashew Burfi, Rava Ladoo, Besan Laddo  & Snacks cannot be forgotten popular diwali snacks: Ribbon crispy, Rice Murruku

Very Simple and Easy Ingredients:

Besan: 1 cup
Ghee:  1 cup
Milk:   1 cup
Sugar: 3 cups
Copra: 1 cup(grated)

Total 7 cups so the Name 7 Cup Burfi:

Preparation:

Greese a plate or tray with ghee & keep aside
In a Deep Dish Add Ghee &  heat then add besan & fry
Once it slightly changes color fry on low heat little more 
Add milk & bring to one boil add sugar mix
Keep stirring till sugar dissolves completely
Add grated copra & mix keep stirring continuously till it starts leaving sides

Remove on a greased plate & spread it out
Dont make it too thin, use roling pin & make it even
After few min start making marks from knife 
For diamond shape make Straight lines, then Cross lines

Once its cools down the Burfi will set completely
Enjoy 7 cup Burfi with your family this diwali

Store it in Airtight Containers Happy Diwali

Ribbon Crispy Diwali snacks

Diwali celebration of flavors with feasts sweets & snacks, sharing popular crispy snacks Crunchy Rice Ribbon crispy are fritters tasty mildly spiced, perfect for Kid's snacks

Diwali or Deepavali, the "festival of lights" is  festival celebrated in autumn every year. Diwali is the biggest and the brightest festival in India Diwali is a five-day festival in many regions of India, with Diwali night centering on the new moon – the darkest night The festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness. Diwali falls between mid-October and mid-November.
The darkest night of autumn lit with diyas, candles and lanterns, makes the festival of lights particularly memorable. 


Diwali is also a festival of sounds and sights with fireworks and rangoli designs; the festival is a major celebration of flavors with feasts and numerous mithai (sweets, desserts)& crunchy snacks,Its a festival of emotions as well where Diwali ritually brings family and friends together every year.

First in line this diwali sharing popular crispy snacks Crunchy Rice Ribbon crispy are fritters tasty mildly spiced, perfect for Kid's snacks

With very few Ingredients, You can make this Instant snacks

Ingredients Needed
Riceflour: 1 cup
Besan(chickpea flour): 1 cup
Red chili powder: 1 tbsp
(or Pepper powder)
Ajwain(Om pudi): 1/2 tsp
Salt to taste
Ghee : 1tbsp
Oil: 1sp
Water to form dough
Oil for deep frying

Procedure:
Mix together Rice flour & besan
Add salt , chili powder/ pepper powder mix
Add Ajwain Add ghee & oil mix to form crumbly texture
Slowly add little little water mix to form stiff dough
Rest it for 5 min, dough is same as any Murruku dough

Use Murruku maker with Flat hole/Ribbon sloted plate, 
Heat Oil for deep frying in a deep dish
Grease the murruku mould with oil placing the Ribbon sloted plate in it

Take a portion of the dough & put it in mould

Press & form round/ long Ribbon in a dish
Once oil is hot, slowly take this formed Rounds/ strips drop in hot oil(You can even make this murruku directly pressing dropping in oil)

Fry till light brown both sides, once it starts changing color, remove on absorbent paper & let the excess oil drain

Leave it to cool down to room temperature
It will be crispy & crunchy
Fill it up in air tight container...

Crispy crunchy Rice Ribbon crispy ready for munching.