Thursday, October 9, 2014

Brown Rice, RIce Pudding

  • 1 1/2 cups water
  • 3/4 cup uncooked brown rice
  • 1 1/2 cups milk
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 3/4 cup milk
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  1. Put rice and water in pan over high heat and bring to boil.
  2. Simmer for 45 minutes until tender.
  3. Mix cooked rice, 1 1/2 cups milk and sugar and cook over medium heat for 15-20 minutes until creamy.
  4. Mix egg and 3/4 cup milk and add. 
  5. Cook 5 minutes stirring all the time.
  6. Add vanilla essence and stir in.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Easy Pumpkin and Chickpea Curry

  • 3 cups diced pumpkin
  • 2 onions chopped
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tins Indian flavoured tomatoes
  • 2 cups chickpeas cooked and drained
  • 300 ml light coconut cream
  1. Cook pumpkin in microwave until just tender
  2. Fry onion lightly until tender
  3. Add pumpkin, chickpeas, tomatoes and cream
  4. Heat through
  5. Serve with rice and garnish with corriander

Chocolate Truffle Cake (huge)

  • 5 egg yolks
  • 50 grams sugar
  • 3 egg whites
  • 30 grams sugar
  • 40 grams flour
  • 15 grams cocoa powder
  • rum (optional)
  • 200 mls cream
  • 200 grams butter
  • 400 grams chocolate
  • 50 ml rum
  • 700 ml cream (whipped)
  • 150 grams chocolate
  • 120 ml cream
  • 30 grams butter
  1. Beat yolks and sugar till light and fluffy
  2. Beat whites with sugar
  3. Fold all mixtures together
  4. Bake in large oblong or square tin at 230 degrees till cooked - 5-10 minutes
  5. Brush cooled cake with run if desired
  6. Bring cream and butter to boil and add chocolate
  7. Stir till smooth
  8. Stir in run and allow to cool slightly -  to room temperature
  9. Add 1/4 of whipped cream and gently fold through.
  10. Pour back into remaining cream and amalgamate
  11. Pour onto sponge base and chill well
  12. Bring cream to boil with butter and stir in chocolate till smooth
  13. Cool slightly and pour over the truffle mix
  14. Chill well and cut with warm knife

Banoffee Ice Cream and Toffee Sauce

  • 2 cups cream
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 2 cups plain yoghurt
  • 3 large pananas sliced
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
  • 1 cup pre-made custard
  • 100 grams jersey caramels
  • additional 100 grams jersey caramels
  • 1 cups cream
  • 1/2 cup plain yoghurt
  1. Lightly whip cream and brown sugar
  2. Add yoghurt
  3. Put bananas and lemon juice in food processor and process until smooth
  4. Add custard and process till blended
  5. Stir in whipped cream
  6. Melt first measure of caramels in a microwave and stir in about half a cup of the cream mixture
  7. Add to the rest of the mixture and blend
  8. Pour into an 8-cup ring container and freeze
  9. Serve with toffee sauce
  10. To make toffee sauce - melt second measure of caramels and cream in microwave on 100% power for 1 minutes. Cool and stir in yoghurt

Golden Syrup Dumplings

  • 1 cup self-raising flour
  • 40 grams butter
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • (chocolate - optional)
  • 1 1/2 cups water
  • 2 tbsp golden syrup
  • 20 grams butter
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  1. Process flour, butter and milk until a firm dough
  2. Roll into balls (if you want you can hide a square of chocolate in each ball)
  3. Place in baking pan
  4. Bring water, golden syrup, butter and sugar to boil in a pan
  5. Bake in oven for 20-30 minutes (in the top half of the oven)
  6. Serve with ice cream or cream

Mango Cheesecake

  • 1 pkt plain biscuits crushed
  • 125 grams butter melted
  • 1 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 750 grams cream cheese
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • 2 440 grams can mango
  1. Mix biscuits, butter and nutmeg
  2. Press into bottom of a 20cm lined springform tin
  3. Chill
  4. Process cream cheese, sugar, eggs and vanilla essence
  5. Pour half of the mixture onto the crumbs
  6. Spread mango slices over
  7. Cover with remaining cream cheese mixture
  8. Bake 160 degrees for 60 minutes. Turn off over and leave for another 30 minutes
  9. Chill in refrigerator overnight. 

Courgette and Tomato Pesto Flan

  • 2 sheets pre-rolled short pastry
  • 4 summer tomatoes
  • 3 spring onions trimmed
  • 1 courgette sliced
  • 3 eggs
  • 3/4 cup cream
  • 2 tbsp pesto
  • 2 tbsp parmesan cheese
  1. Heat oven with a baking tray in (the hot baking tray helps cook the base of the flan)
  2. Roll pastry and line bottom and sides of flan dish
  3. Blanch, peel and slice tomatoes
  4. Arrange vegetables in flan dish
  5. Beat eggs, cream and pesto
  6. Season with pesto and sprinkle with cheese
  7. Bake at 200 degrees Celsius for 20-30 minutes