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Eggless Mango Mousse Recipe

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After that delicious ice cream, I have another easy dessert made with the season's best fruit, Mango! Mangoes hit our market from the last weeks of April and is available throughout May and June. While it's been a different story during my childhood, after marriage, I have eaten only Banganapalle variety. When I was with parents, the season used to be demarked with specific mango variety coming on the table as it is cropped. However now I have struck to Banganapalle and nothing else. In fact, I will go and claim nothing tastes as good as Banganapalle. Every year my MIL will get the best ones specially handpicked and packed with care and the box reaches us during Konda's birthday. That's when we have both my SILs visiting us and I am so busy that I hardly ever get to taste these fruits.  Same happened this year too and when a just handful of mangoes left out, I decided I better make the desserts I have planned on making. I quickly got these tucked off and ...

No Churn Ice Cream With Dark Chocolate Ganache and Chocolate Chips

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Yes, I know that's quite a mouthful and the dessert lived up to its name. We are starting the third week of BM#64, this week I will be sharing some 3 delicious Summer Coolers. With the climate roaring so high, it's hot all the time. I don't know if it was this worse last year, I somehow feel it is horrible right now! With kids being home, I know how tough it must be for them. We had a long weekend on account of polling on Monday. Remembering that, I had planned on making all of this weeks post during this weekend. It was so hot to manage anything! I wanted to make some Ice creams and thought of making these Chocolate Cups as I know my kids missed those Chocolate Truffles that I made last week. I ensured I called in Konda to help make the cups. She was over the moon seeing how cute those chocolate cups looked after set. They couldn't wait to have those cups and were pestering me non-stop . I told them that it was their lunch dessert and have to wait for th...

How to make Chocolate Cups ~ Step by Step Pictures

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With kids at home, I have to plan on some interesting snacks for them. So I have some ice creams and chocolates coming up. To make the ice cream more interesting, I decided to make some chocolate cups. I have previously made with mini tart moulds. This time, I used Silicon Muffin Moulds. These make such an attractive moulds to serve ice creams, mousse, tart etc. It's so easy to make that all you need is to melt the chocolate for 30 secs and coat the moulds. How to make Chocolate Cups Dark Chocolate Compound - 1 cup Chop the Dark Chocolate into tiny pieces and MW for 30 secs. Whisk well to melt it. Take the silicon moulds and pour a teaspoon of melted chocolate and coat the moulds well. Freeze for 2 hours or until firm. Unmould and use as required.

3-Ingredient Dark Chocolate Almond Truffle

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It's been a while since I have been obsessed with these 2 ingredients, 3 ingredients and yes 4 and 5 too. The idea was to explore how one can make delicious dishes with a just handful of ingredients on hand, especially on those days one is challenged to russle up some quick snacks. It didn't mean one has to do chocolates alone! Well, that sermon was for me and not others who have done some good varieties during their week 1. Ever since I thought of having this theme again, I was thinking I will pick up different dishes, savories, snacks and so on.  Guess what I ended up with? Only chocolates. By the way, Veena and I finally went shopping and you can blame that for the chocolate dishes that are going to be featured now on. I stocked up enough for many months to come.  The whole of Sunday was spent cooking some special dishes for my niece and nephew. I don't think I mentioned before about their visit. They have come down for Konda's Birthday and left on...

Raw Banana Oats Tikki

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I have one of my favorite snack items to serve, the Tikkis. You may ask how on earth I decided these were suitable for Brunch ideas. Well, I mostly make some tikkis, serve with toasted bread or burger buns and I even go all the way to stuff in a cheese slice between these tikkis and bread. So there you got your filling dish for a late Brunch. You may ask why the bread is not visible, the fact is Konda clicked it without the bread as I wasn't around when these were eaten. We enjoy making pan fried Tikkis with a various combination. Some stuffed tikkis bread sandwiches that were already done  Sending  this to Priya Srinivasan who is hosting my Kid's Delight, themed on Brunch Ideas for Kids. You could also serve these Rose Shaped Stuffed Rolls for Brunch. Raw Banana Oats Tikki Ingredients Needed: Raw Banana - 1 big Oats - 1 cup Rava / Semolina - 1/2 cup Red Chili powder - 1 tsp Green Chilies - 2 nos Coriander powder - 1 tsp Cumin powder -...

Pizza Paratha

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I felt nothing meets the nod more than these Pizza Parathas. This is your typical fusion dish that one ends up making having kids at home. They end up demanding always for interesting dishes. Nothing of the regular ever interests them and you have to be constantly on your toes to think of something interesting. With my kids especially, anything that is C interests them, in no pressing order it is cheese, chocolate, cakes. Depending on which one was given more, their choice changes. So the Cheese topped Pizzas are their favorite too! So when I was thinking of what else would interest my kids on a Saturday brunch, I felt these Pizza parathas will be a classic one.  I have a  chapati based pizza  done long back with leftover chapatis, this time, I wanted to do something different with paneer. The idea was inspired by  this  and I used my own to suit my kids' taste. You can do different shapes like calzones, I used two layers to stuff and making the...