I think many people in the world love to drink coffee, including me. According to some sources, the energizing effect of coffee bean plant was discovered in the northeast region of Ethiopia and the then the cultivation of coffee first expanded in the Arab region. Nowadays there's many kind of coffee. To make a delicious coffee we must first know each type of coffee beans. Coffee beans are
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Friday, March 4, 2011
Paneer
These days the paneer quality that we are getting here isnt that great. It almost makes the paneer as my non liked item which is not the case. Ajoy and me both like paneer a lot so that is unacceptable.. Its not like i never made paneer, I had been making this for sweets regularly but didnt make it for vegetable for the good quality paneer was always available.. But since now that is not the case I decided to make this for adding it to the vegetables too. Turns out i was missing so much for last few years that I didn't make it at home.
Ingredients
2 Liter Whole Milk
3 Spoon Vinegar
Method
- Bring milk to boil.
- When it almost comes to boil add in vinegar mixed with cup of cold water and stir well.
- Milk will cuddle and separate from whey.
- Pour this into the cheese or muslin cloth and let water drain out.
- Run in cold water through it to let it come to room temperature. Tie the muslin cloth tightly.
- Fill in the cooker fully with water and keep it on top of the paneer. Let it rest overnight.
Notes
Lot of people use lemon juice but i like to use vinegar as it is easy to remove the sour taste that it brings in and paneer gets its own taste.
Don't use half and half for this, the paneer would be too creamy and wont give you the texture you need in the paneer. Whole milk or reduced fat milk would be perfect for this.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Fig Gelato
Since childhood my favourite fruit was Fig more than even mango.. With known love i share for mango it would be hard to believe but its true :) Whenever i had to choose something while playing i would always pick fig.. Then as i grew up i was introduced to Sujata's (the famous ice-cream parlour in pune) fir ice-cream... Even till date whenever I go to pune i have atleast a tub of fig ice-cream.. So now you might wonder how come i waited so long to make this ice-cream then, but the thing is it was so hard to find dried figs here that I had to get them from India :) So now that I have it I couldnt wait but make this awesome gelato..
Ingredients
1 Liter Milk
250g Dried Fig
3/4 Cup Honey
1 Spoon Lemon Juice
Method
- Soak the figs in two cup of milk. Keep aside for atleast two hours
- In a mixie grind the soaked fig to paste, keeping aside 4-5 figs.
- Add in lemon juice and honey and blend again.
- Add this paste to remaning milk and stir well.
- Set the ice-cream as per ice-cream maker instructions.
- Dice the remaining figs and mix it in the set ice-cream.
Notes
I dont like to wait after i start making ice-cream, so I use chilled milk. Also while soaking figs, i keep them in fridge that way they chill too and i dont need to wait for the mixture to chill before i put it in ice-cream maker.
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