Strawberry trifle pudding

Trifle pudding a dessert generally made with sponge cake and custard. Instead here, i substituted with sweet bread and marie biscuit. Instead of the regular sugar, i added palm sugar(organic) , layered it with sliced strawberry and when chilled and served makes for a perfect summer noon time dessert.

Ingredients:

Bread - 4 slices

marie biscuit - 1 packet

custard powder - 2 table spoon

milk - 1/2 litre of which 2 table spoons can be set aside

sugar - according to taste ( minimum - 3/4 cup)

strawberry - 15- 20.

Preparation:

Slice the strawberries and keep aside.

For custard: heat milk, dissolve sugar  and keep aside. Take two table spoons of warm milk and mix in the custard to make a paste. Dissolve the custard paste in the hot milk and bring it to a boil. Keep stirring.

Method:

In a flat dish ( like a baking dish) ,Place the bread slices, place a few strawberry slices, pour a layer of custard.

 Again place a layer of bread slices, place marie biscuits over the slices, pour the remaining custard

                                                   Top it with remaining slices of strawberry

                                     When the custard cools, place the dish in the fridge.

                                                Slice them and serve.

The soaked in marie biscuit along with the soaked bread leaves a soft sweet taste on your tongue along with the sweet sour strawberry bite.


* You can substitute sweet bread with ordinary bread also,

 Below is the picture of  palm sugar crystals ( organic)

           

choco-cashew katli ( micro-wave)

choco- cashew fudge for my son's birthday today.

Ingredients:

Cashew nuts ----- 2 cups
sugar ------------ 1 cup
water ------------ 1 cup
chocolate powder -- 2 table spoon

Method:

Grind 2 cups of cashewnuts into powder. (don't add water).
Microwave sugar and water in a bowl for 3 minutes or till the sugar dissolves in water.
Now add cashew powder and choco powder in the bowl and stir in the sugar solution to dissolve the lumps.
Micro wave for 3 minutes or till it bubbles up.
Now pour into a greased plate.
Cut them into fudges when cooled.

Pal poli

Pal poli is puri dipped in sweetened milk (pal)



The procedure for making puris is just like jeera poli.(previous post)


To make thickened milk

Milk ---1/2 litre
Sugar ---200 gms

Boil milk ,add sugar and cardamom . Boil the mixture till the sugar dissolves and the milk thickens to 1/2 the quantity. Dip the puri into the the sweetened milk. Lay them on a plate.

Jeera poli

Jeera poli are puris dipped in sugar syrup(jeera).


Ingredients: (for puri)
Rava --- 1 cup
Maida( refined flour)---- 1 ladle
A pinch of salt
oil for frying

Mix all the ingredients with water and bind them to the chappati dough consistency.
After a resting period o f ½ hour, Roll them into small puris and fry them in cooking medium.

Ingredients (for sugar syrup)

Sugar --- 3 cups
Water ---1 cup

Add 3 cups of sugar to 1 cup of water , boil them to make sugar syrup. Flavour the syrup with cardamom powder/ any food essence (like rose)of your choice.

Now dip the fried puri into the sugar syrup till it coats both the sides of the puri.

Lay out the dipped puris on a plate. Store them in containers once it is cooled.