GINGERBREAD BROWNIES

Ingredients:

• 250g unsalted butter, chopped
• 300g dark chocolate, chopped
• 4 eggs
• 1 1/3 firmly packed cups (330g) brown sugar
• 1 1/3 cups (200g) plain flour, sifted
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp ground ginger
• 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1/3 cup (35g) cocoa, sifted
• Icing sugar, to dust

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 170C. Grease and line a 20cm square cake pan.
• Melt butter and 200g chocolate in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water (don’t let the bowl touch the water), stirring until smooth. Set aside to cool slightly.
• Add eggs, 1 at a time, to the chocolate mixture, beating well after each addition until combined. Add sugar, flour, baking powder and spices, then fold in the cocoa. Spread batter into the pan and bake for 25 minutes or until just set. Cool in the pan, then turn out and cut into squares.
• Meanwhile, melt the remaining 100g chocolate and allow to cool slightly.
• To serve, dust brownies with icing sugar, then drizzle over melted chocolate.

Chocolate Samosa

Ingredients:

•  1 Cup grated dark chocolate
• 1½ cups refined flour
• 4 tbsps + 1 tsp castor sugar
• 2 tbsps ghee
• 1 tbsps pistachio slivers
• 1Cup sugar for Sugar syrup
• Oil for deep-frying

Method:

Sahi Tukra

Ingredients :

• Bread slice - 4
• Sugar - 1 cup (200 grams ) (For sugar syrup)
• Milk - 500 ml
• Sugar - 1 tbsp (for rabdi)
• Saffron - 20 to 25 threads
• Green cardamom - 4 (peel and ground coarsely)
• Chironji - 1 tbsp
• Almonds - 4 (thinly sliced)
• Pistachios  - 8 to 10 (thinly sliced)
• Desi ghee - 1/2 cup (100 grams)

Method:

Prepare Sugar Syrup:

Bread Gulab Jamun I Gulab Jamun using Bread

Gulab jamuns prepared with bread and milk are as delicious as gulab jamuns prepared with mawa

Ingredients :

• White bread slices - 12
• Sugar - 1.5 cup (300 grams)
• Thickened full cream milk - 1 cup(take 2 cups of milk in a wok and cook until its reduced to one cup)
• Ghee - 1 tsp
• Almonds - 7 to 8
• Cashews - 7 to 8
• Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
• Ghee - for frying

Method:

Lauki ki Barfi

Ingredients:

• Bottle gourd / Lauki, grated- 3 cups
• Full cream milk- 3 cups
• Desi Ghee- 3 tspn
• Khova (mawa)- 200 gms
• Sugar - 3/4 cup (as per taste)
• Cardamom powder- 1 tspn
• Chopped dry fruits- 1/2 cup
• Few drops of rose water/essence (Optional)
• A pinch of saffron soaked in 2 tablespoon of milk

Method:

Basundi (Gujarati Dessert)

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 ltrs full fat milk
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp cardamom (elaichi) powder

For Garnish

• a few almond and pistachio slivers
• a few saffron (kesar) strands

Method