White Chocolate Mousse with Pomegranates sauce

Today I am gonna make biggest declaration i have ever made

 "My Cuisines are Howard Rock's buildings of Fountain Head .. which stand for honesty :).. So you will get to see only what it is... no ornamentation... but plain sense of beauty..beauty with purpose"

Let me prove my point now... for a change we shall go in mathematical line. You remember we used to prove many theorems? Like equation for Fourier transform or derivation to find the locus of en ellipse.. I was always thinking if there any time in life where i can apply Fourier Transforms to solve my problems ;) So let me use it here to  give justice to Mr. Joseph Fourier :).

Lets take the following picture as an example ...















The picture what I have posted is chocolate mousse...

Known data:

1.White chocolate 1 cup ( Dark  chocolate will also do the job)
2.1.5 cup fresh milk ( double )
3.Sugar 1 cup(powdered)
3.Vanilla esssence (1/2 spoon)
4.Lemon zest
5.Pomegranates
6.Corn flour
7.Jelly (optional)

We need to prepare three things..

• Chocolate mix
• Jelly 
• Pomegranate sauce

How to prepare chocolate mix:

1.Melt chocolates keeping the pan in boiling water
2.Add sugar powder,vanilla essence, lemon zest and beaten fresh cream. Blend the mixture well. Keep it aside

Lets call this as step 1-------------------------------------1

How to make pomegranate sauce:
1.Grind pomograntes and sqeeze the juice removing seeds
2. Add half spoon of corn flour to 1 cup of juice nd boil it till it thickens a bit and let it cool down.

Lets call this step 2----------------------------------------2.

How to prepare Jelly
1.Melt jelly mixture available in market
2. Boil it for some minutes and let it set.

Lets call this step 3----------------------------------------3

From step 1 , 2 and 3 its clear that we have prepared three different things required for mousse.

Take  a  bowl or a cup of  your choice . Arrange them in any order you like...( you can copy the arrangement from the above picture as well ) Or you can also arrange it like sine wave or a saw tooth wave .. :) (if u still remember Fourier series)   Garnish with pomogranate sause and serve :)

Results:
Beautiful ,  Delicious Mousse is colorful as well as tastier..

                                                         Hence the proof :)

Potato Dauphinios

Me and a friend of mine got a chance to get together after a long time. We had the entire house, kitchen and all day to ourselves and we started thinking of cooking something special, all for ourselves. After much debate and deliberation we decided to cook a Potato recipe among other things. I shall be posting all the dishes we cooked that day, so that you can also taste the good food that I had the privilege to enjoy. I am generous :)

Here is the first dish we made. Have you heard of this dish "Potato Dauphinios"? This is a Creamy, Garlicky potato recipe that will make a great side dish. We loved it and you will love it too.

Let's get started...

Ingredients

· Sliced potatoes

· Fresh cream

· Butter 2 table spoon

· Garlic-7-8 cloves

· Salt

· Pepper

· Red chili-1(de seeded)

· Sweet corn-1/2 cup

· Baby corn for garnishing

· 1 Cup milk

Lets start cooking

· Slice potatoes

· Remove the seeds from a red chili and make flakes

· Smash 3-4 cloves of garlic along with it

· Blend milk, cream ,pepper, smashed  garlic ,chili  and salt.

· Grease the container with butter

· Arrange potatoes in the container and make a layer. put the mixture just prepared on it.

· Spread slices again  to make a layer and add mixture again.. repeat the process for 2-3 times.

· Add some cheese on it and spread sweet corns and baby corns on it .

· Chop the rest of garlic and spread on it

· Pre heat the oven for 5 mins at 300F. keep the container in it and cook for 40 mins till  water dries away

seeee... its ready now :)

serve hot :)

Palak Paneer

I often wonder how Palak and Paneer got together to form a dish!!! :) May be because both of them start with the letter "P". As a kid my mom used to force me to eat Palak and I used to make all kinds of excuses to escape. Those who know me well know how good or bad  I am at making excuses ;)
And another thing that my mom used to force me to take was milk. We don't have milk here but we have its cousin paneer :) .. may be a second cousin :)

So Palak and Paneer, my childhood nemesis, have come together to form a tasty dish :) and so I thought I should tell you about this and help you prepare it.

Let's get started.. Here is a program to make Palak Paneer :).

Member Variables:

Here are the member variables:

/*********** You find these classes in a single jar called FoodWorld.jar*************/

        package home.kitchen.newdish.palak;
        import nearbyFoodworld.grocery.*;
       
      public  Class PalakPaneer extends Taste implements Cleanliness,Health{

1. public final Palak   cups=3; //(no surprises here)
2. public final Tomatoes  pieces=1 ; //(you know, the round red and slippery ones)
3. public Salt spoons=null; //(initialised at  run time based on condition )
4. public final Garlic  pieces=5;
5. public final GaramMasala spoons=0.5;
6. public final CorianderPowder spoons=1.0;
7. public final CuminSeeds spoons=1.0;
8. public GreenChillies pieces=4; //(this can be incremented at run time based on the taste )
9. public FreshPaneer pieces=n;  //n=how much ever u like;)
10. public final Onions pieces=1.0;
11. public Jaggery spoons=null; //(optional)
12. public LemoJuice spoons=null; // (optional)
13. public Oil spoons=2;

          /**** methods should be implemented based on the algorithm******/
          public void bake (ingredients..){
          }
          public void grindMixture (ingredients..){
          }
          public void fry (ingredients..){
          }
          public void wash (ingredients..){
          }
}

Algorithm:

Now the Algorithm, I can promise you that this is sightly complex than bubble sort but lot easier than a heap sort :)

Please execute the steps in the right order, it can make a world of difference.

1. Bake palak in steam till it becomes soft.. ( changes color to dark green) -- keep it aside to cool it down.
2. Heat a pan and then start frying green chillies, onions and tomatoes one after the other.
3. Grind the mixture of nicely fried onion, chilies and tomatoes with cumin seeds, raw garlic, salt and little jaggery if required.
4. Add steamed palak to it and grind again.
5. Take a pan again & add a little oil
6. Transfer the ground mixture to pan after oil heats up
7. Add garam masala, coriander powder and bake it till color  slightly changes .(2-3 mins)
8. Turn off the stove and add paneer which is cut into desired shape and mix gently and put the lid on for 5 mins.

Check the Results...

Acceptance Criteria:

You should be able to eat at least 8 chapatis with 6 inch radius along with this side dish :) .. Enjoy eating my childhood nemesis.

Tambuli.. a Desi dish

Tell me, have you really heard this dish name?! Mostly no. That is good, you get to know something new
I too heard this dish name from a friend and had no clue if it mean something. Just to ensure it doesn't mean something bad  I went to http://www.dictionary.com  & searched for its meaning.:) Fortunately it means nothing. It asked me "Do you mean Tambala?" How smart ? :)

But Google was a lot smarter, the moment I searched it threw up 6380 results for "tambuli recipe".  Be assured folks, all are fake. This is the one and only original recipe :)

What does it matter where knowledge comes from? :) just take it. Besides Google is so common place and Princess Kitchen is a special place. Who wants to be in a common place when you can be with the princess in her palace. Right?! :)

The thing to remember is, this is a damn healthy and tasty dish. At least when I make it :)

The ingredients are not too uncommon. The only special thing is Vaali leaf. Look at the picture below, its so beautiful.. greeen and round :)

Start Cooking...........


Ingredients:

(For those who don't know English, the corresponding French word is in the brackets)

1. Vaali leaves( Basale soppu in Kannada) - (Feuille de Vaali)
2. Curd (Caille)
3. Chillies (Le Poivre)
4. Coconut (grated-3 spoons) - (Coco)
5. Ginger (Gingembre)
6. Cumin seeds (Graines de Cumin)
7. Mustard seeds (Graines de Moutarde)
8. Oil (1 spoon) (Huile)
9. Curry leaves (Feuille de Curry)
10. Salt (Sel)
11. Asafoetida (also known as Hing, as in "Martina Hingis" :) ) 
12. Chopped spring onions (Ciboule)

Cooking:

1. Sort the nicely washed Vaali leaves in oil till they become soft and shrink.
2. Fry chillies in a spoon of oil.
3. Grind fried chillies+ginger+grated coconut+cumin seeds. 
4. Add sorted Vaali leaves and curd at the end and grind a little
5. Take a pan & add Oil, Mustard seeds, Curry leaves and Asafoetida to it
6. Let it cool and take it in a bowl.
7. Add the ground mixture to it along with little water and salt.
8. Garnish with spring onions and serve with rice.

There you go :) You just added another feather in your handsome cooking cap.. Bravo Master Chef!! :)

Faast Food

  After a long time I thought of helping bachelors and bachelorettes with an easy dish...Tasty ofcourse (Others!!! Please don't get offended that I m being partial here ;)). With minimum ingredients and minimum time we can do miracles in kitchen.. So friends pls feel free to try out.

Ingredients:
1)Rice (cooked 2 cups- You should be able to count each grain like 1..2..3..4..)
2)Spring onions (cut into pipes of one inch length)
3)Ghee (a spoon)
4)Salt
5)Chillies 3-4 (slit each one into 2 pieces vertically)
6)Onions-2 (Slice them in sickle shape... shape matter!!!!)
7)Ginger garlic paste (2 spoons)
8)Cumin seeds (2 spoons)
9)Coriander leaves (nicely chopped)
10)Oil (3 spoons)
 

Way to go:

1)Take a pan (as usual)
2)Put 3 spoons of oil and heat
3)Add "Eid ka chand" jaise kata huva onions. and forget it...(Remember back when they turn brown and crispy. Take them out and keep aside).
4)For the same oil, with flame on, add cumin seeds, ginger-garlic paste and sort it out.
5)Add chillies and spring onions, fry till they shrink.
6)Last but not the least, add salt and ghee

Your masala is ready... take white rice which is cooked and mix the masala. serve by garnishing with nicely chopped coriander leaves.

Oooops.. wait wait... what did we do with "Eid ka Brown Chand"? they are still kept aside and forgotten???? too bad guys.. we have to add them along with coriander leaves. Better late than never ;).. So add them now and serve :)

Popular Pumpkin Paratha

   Look at the round pumpkin.. Isn't it so tempting?? Now don't get worried about getting a round tummy :). If you eat moderately I can assure you there won't be any problem. So ready to try out a wonderful dish ?! Lets get started straight away.

Ingredients
Open the cupboard, take the shopping bag, take your purse :) ... Just kidding.. Go get the following stuff from the corner shop first

• Pumpkin - Grate it nicely (Make around 3 cups)
• 3 to 4 Chillies (Chop them fine)
• 2 cups of wheat flour (Don't chop this :))
• Haldi powder (To make it look bright as Sun...!! :))
• Ginger garlic paste (Wonder how these two got paired!! :))
• Ajwain seeds (To cook not to plant)
• Mustard seeds (We eat so much seeds, we could be a field :))
• Oil (The one you like most - Rice bran seems to be the trend of trendy)
• Coriander powder
• Onion (Chop about half a cup of this)

Preparation
Let the master chef in you jump out and run away :). Just follow these instructions. Don't act too smart.. I know you are :)

1. Take a pan
2. Add 2 spoons of oil
3. Heat a bit
4. Add the following in order
1. Ajwain seeds and mustard seeds
2. Chopped chilies (or red chili powder)
3. Haldi powder (I am hoping by now you know the measure :), don't blame me)
4. Chopped onions
5. Ginger garlic paste along with it
6. Grated pumpkin
5. Sort it adding a little salt and a spoon of coriander powder.
6. Prepare a dough of wheat flour (Make it a little soft :))
7. Take the dough and press it like chapati(small rounds)
8. Stuff the prepared mixture with the wheat dough and expand it more, as large as poori
9. Take a pan
10. Add a little oil (Use ghee or butter if you wont feel guilty about it)
11. Fry it on the pan both the sides( till it gets brown dots here and there giving it a proper design)

There you go :), Your pumpkin paratha is ready to eat. Let me know how it tastes. I am totally irresponsible if you eat too much and become fat. You might :)

Ciao until next post. Hey, you did not invite me to taste any of the stuff you cooked :). I am sure its because the dish was so tasty and you did not want to share. Call it optimism :)

Shimmering Sweetcorn Salad

        I found the name board on a food shop in the food court of a nearby mall a little funny,  "Size Zero - Salad Bar". Smart move I would say, Size Zero is In, fat bodies are Out. I was thinking another addition to the billion dollar slimming industry. 


      I ordered myself a cucumber pumpkin salad. I however did the mistake of not checking the price on the menu before hand and was little shocked when the shop owner gave me a bill of 200 rupees. Well I have determined not to give him a penny more & you don't give too.


Lets start making our own salads...


     Here is the first one... Sweet Corn Salad (Its my favorite ;) ). You can replace sweet corn with others vegetables or sprouts depending on your weight.. ;)


    As  always lets get the ingredients first. If you like the salad I dont mind taking a share off your savings :).. you can send me an old fashioned Money Order 
            To, 
                    The Princess,
                     C/o The King,
                     The beautiful Castle ,
                     Princess Avenue,
                     Dream Kingdom :)

Ingredients 

• Sweet corn-2 cups
• Salt
• Butter-1 spoon
• Onion-1(smaller)
• Coriander leaves 
• Pudina + Chili chatni
• Haldiram mixture
• Grated carrot-1 cup
• Grated coconut-4 spoons
• Lemon juice-1 spoon

Preparation

• Sort sweet corns in butter(as Little as possible..... we are talking about weight loss here :P )
• Take them in a bowl
• Add nicely chopped onions
• Add grated carrots
• Add grated cocunut
• Add coriander leaves
• Add lemon 
• Add desired amount of salt
• And if you are so much behind the taste add Haldiram mixture 
• Add nicely ground pudhina and chili mixture (just a spoon based on desired hotness)
• Mix them nicely and serve

 Wasn't that easy friends. Lets go the salad way and stay desirable :)