Friday 9 September 2016

Spinach-Pineapple-Pomo smoothie

Ingredients

Spinach - 1/2 Cup
Ginger - A tea spoon, grated
PineApple - 1/2 Cup
Banana - 2
Soaked Oats - 1/2 cup
Dates - 4
Pomogranate seeds - 1 cup
Thick Yogurt chilled - 2 cups

Prepare 3 different layers of thick smoothie by blending seperately:

1. Spinach, Ginger, PineApple & Yogurt
2. Banana, Oats, Dates and Yogurt
3. Pomo seeds, Yogurt and optional Beetroot

In a tall glass, layer each of the smoothie in any combination that you like. Serve chilled.

Tuesday 6 September 2016

Churros Pancake with Spicy Chocolate sauce

Here is the Recipe for a guaranteed delicious Pancake:

Ingredients:

For the pancake batter:

1 cup white flour and 1 cup wheat flour
1/4 cup sugar
1.5 teaspoon cinnamon powder
1.5 tablespoon baking powder
2 large eggs
1/2 cup sugar
1 tablespoon butter
2 cups of milk

In a large bowl, whisk together all the wet ingredients - 2 eggs, butter and milk. Set aside. In another bowl, mix all the dry ingredients and mix them so they uniformly combine. Fold in the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and bring it to the consistency of a light batter. NOT RUNNY, but light.

For the Chocolate sauce:

Ingredients:
1.5 cups of chocolate chip cookies
3/4 cup of heavy cream
1 table spoon butter
1.5 table spoon cinnamon powder
1 table spoon cayenne powder

In a medium sized sauce pan, heat water and bring it to boil. Place the chocolate chips on a small vessel container and keep it over the boiling water. The Vessel should be above the water and should not touch it. Melt the chocolate chips, stirring it in high speed, once it is completely melted, add the heavy cream and butter.  Finally add cinnamon and pepper. Mix thoroughly and take off the heat. let it cool.

Prepare the Pancakes. Pour small quantities of batter over butter on a TAWA and cook on both sides till golden crispy and fluffy.

Using a piping bag, drizzle chocolate mix over the pancakes according to your design. Alternately, one can also mix castor sugar and cinnamon and spread over the pancakes before drizzling chocolate.