Gajar Halwa Truffles

Had enough of the same cakes and cookies  for Christmas, try something new and easy and loved by everyone. 

Make the way you make gajar ka halwa, once its cool down, make small balls and dip them in  melted dark chocolate and voila, you have carrot halwa truffles. 

You can make halwa as    Vegan - Pressure cook - Gajar Halwa (Carrot Porridge) or Carrot Halwa Roulade, final result will be awesome as it is.

Once its done, dip them in and cool it in freezer for 30 minutes and then enjoy.

Ingredients for melting chocolate

1/2 stick of butter

1/4 cup chocolate wafers or chocolate chips ( I used milk chocolate, you can what ever you like)

Method

Make small balls of cold carrot halwa. 

Using the double boiler, add butter and chocolate chips in bowl, when its melted, with the help of fork, dip one ball in chocolate and coat from all sides and take it out on parchment paper.

Finish will all and then put the balls in freezer for 30 minutes.

Take it out and enjoy.

Easy Pretzel Bites

My kids love Pretzel bites, one like salty and one like sweet one. So was looking for it to make it at home and feed them so I don't have to spend money outside and I can control sugar and salt both. 

Found this two ingredients dough recipe and things you can make with it its so awesome. Already made bagel, bread, naan and now this. 

I didn't have pretzel salt so I used pink Himalayan salt but if you have it , use it by all means. 

This are very easy to make and you can double the quantities as you needed. If you have self rising flour then you just need that and yogurt , if you don't have self rising flour then follow my recipe

Ingredients : 

1 cup AP flour

1 cup plain yogurt

1/8 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

1 tbsp. Salt to sprinkle on top

1/4 cup mixture of cinnamon sugar

1/2 cup boiling water

1 tbsp. Baking soda

Method : 

Put 1 cup and 2 tbsp of AP flour, salt and baking powder and yogurt in blender .

You can do it by hand also but dough will be sticky so its best to use blender. 

Mix till it forms the dough , if you think its too sticky add few more tablespoon of flour.

But dont add more, keep it in fridge for half an hour and then work on it if its too sticky.

Sprinkle dry dough on kitchen counter and take the dough out.

Knead the dough few times and form into a ball. 

Cut the ball into four parts. 

Roll each piece of dough into a long rope and cut each one small segments. Size is your preference but don't make it too big. 

By this time pre heat up the oven at 425 F. 

Dissolve baking soda in boiling water. 

dip the small dough segments into the baking soda mixture with the help of fork. Just make sure it cover from all side in that water and take it out, no need to keep it inside. 

Place it on baking dish or parchment covered baking dish. 

Bake it for 7-10 minutes or until its golden brown. 

Take it out and brush bites with melted butter first and depend upon your choice of sweet or salty, sprinkle salt or roll it in cinnamon sugar mixture. 

I did half and half for both. 

Enjoy as it is warm. 

adopted from Two Ingredient Dough Pretzel Bites - The Gunny Sack

Frozen Yogurt Fruit Cups

When its hot and humid outside, everyone wants something cold to eat or drink. How much ice cream or shakes you can make? Here , a new and a healthy way to beat the heat. Its called frozen yogurt cups, This is a basic recipe, just vanilla Greek yogurt , some fruits and freeze it and its ready. For variation, you can add granola first, then yogurt and then fruits or Granola, yogurt and peanut butter and fruits. If you dont have Greek yogurt, you can hang the curd, add honey and vanilla essence  and use it.



Ingredients for 6 cups

1 cup Greek  Vanilla yogurt
1 tsp Honey
Few Blue berries, strawberries
2 tbsp melted peanut butter

Method :

In a bowl, take yogurt and honey and mix it.

Take a muffin pan, add the muffin wrap in it.

Put 3 tablespoons of the mixtures in 6 muffin tins.

Add as per your desire, peanut butter and fruits.

Freeze for at-least two hours

Take it out , removed the wrapper and enjoy

You can make it in Popsicle molds also.

Easy 3 ingredients Strawberry Mousse

I am always looking for easy dessert recipes since I like to eat and not wait. This is easy, delicious and good for any party where you have to feed lot of people. You don't have to bake this mousse so its perfect for hot summer days. Just need strawberries, whipped cream and sugar and done. First make puree of strawberries with some sugar, add half the puree in whipped cream and half on the cup and chill it and enjoy it. I made this on Valentine's day for our dessert. And it was a hit, kids loved it since now a days strawberries are in full season, kids love to eat it with Nutella anyways so I just added in whipped cream and its done.



Ingredients : 

16 Strawberries
Sugar as per taste
1 tub of whipped cream 8 oz.
Extra strawberries for toppings

Method : 

Take 14 strawberries and washed them and cut the top green part and put it in blender with sugar in it.

Make a fine puree.





Remove half a cup of puree and leave it aside.

You can use bowls or tall glass, I used bowls.

Mix whipped cream and puree nicely.




Divide that leftover 1/2 cup leftover puree in your serving bowl.

and then top it off with whipped cream mixture.

Chill it for 2 hours and before serving cut the fresh strawberries and put it on top and enjoy.

I have made 8 bowls of mousse from this recipe.

Easy Crepe Batter

I had this thought that Crepe is very serious and hard cooking and not a chance in the world I can make it. When my kids used to tell me that one of our babysitter used to make crepe for their breakfast, I was thinking did I had those ingredients in the house? Since I nerve looked up the ingredients for the crepe, I was being hard on myself and thinking kids had fun with her and I suck since I can not fulfill their desire to have crepes for breakfast. So one day I look it up and I was what that's it? I can do it since I know how to make dosa, this is nothing. So Just whip the ingredients in a blender, heat up the pan and had the ladle full of batter in it and voila in less than 30 seconds, the first crepe is out and the joy on my daughter's face is worth it since then she makes a point to have crepe once a day in weekdays. It's not that hard and anybody can do it. I just make this in the morning for breakfast so just spread Nutella and peanut butter but if you want to make it fancy for dessert, have some strawberry cream and sprinkle some powder sugar and make it nice. I don't have time to do all this in the morning so just sharing it basic recipe and leaving fancy ideas for you all.  This recipe is perfect for 6 crepes with one spoonful of batter.



Ingredients : 

1 cup Whole Milk
1 Large Egg
1 tbsp granulated sugar
1/2 cup AP flour
1/8 tsp Salt
2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted

Method : 

Take all the ingredients in a blender and blend it for 30 seconds. Leave it for 5 minutes.

Heat a nonstick pan and put it on slow to medium flame, you don't want your pan very hot otherwise it will burn very quickly, so slow is the key.

Add one full ladle batter in the pan, and tilt the surface of the pan so it spread evenly on the pan.

Cook the crepe on the first side until it easily released when you run a spatula around all of the edges. Loosen the entire crepe with the spatula before attempting to flip.

Flip the crepe and you can use the spatula to smooth it incase it wrinkled while flipping. Continue to cook on the second side until golden brown spots from.

This will be done in less than 30 seconds so you don't have to move anywhere, just stand in front of it.

Once its done, put it on a cooling rack for a minute and then apply Nutella or peanut butter or anything you like. 

Repeat for the rest of the batter and if you have leftovers you can store it in an airtight container in the fridge and when you want it just heat it up in the toaster oven or pan and enjoy it again.