Passion Fruit Ice-Cream

     Ingredients

3Cups Passion Fruit Juice (sweetened)

½ Cup whipped cream

1Cup Sugar

7-8tbspn Butter

1cup Walnuts

1ltr Vanilla Ice-Cream

Method

1.      Pour the Passion Fruit Juice into an ice tray or another vessel and put in freezer.

2.      For the Caramel; Heat sugar on a medium flame.

3.      Keep stirring continuously in order to prevent the sugar from burning.

4.      Add the butter to the pan when the sugar begins to melt.

5.      Once the butter has melted, take the pan off the heat and slowly add the cream in order to avoid lumps.

6.      Stir till it turns to a smooth sauce. Set it aside to cool.

7.      Cut walnuts into thin strips and add it to the caramel.

8.      Spread the caramel on a thali and break into uneven small pieces (something like a chikki). Leave aside some triangular pieces for decoration.

9.      The passion fruit juice should be frozen or semi frozen in ice trays.

10.   Crush the frozen passion fruit into flakes, add the small pieces of chikki to it and top it with a scoop of vanilla ice-cream.

11.   Decorate with the triangular pieces of chikki by just sticking them across the bowl.

Note: you can add some water to the boiling sugar to prevent it from burning, but then make sure to burn all the water before you add the butter.

Hint: you can also use mosambi juice instead of passion fruit juice.

Hint: 

Ras Malai

Ingredients

1 Cup Milk Powder

1 Egg

1 Tbspn Maida

1 Tspn Baking Powder

1 Tspn Ghee

5 Cups Milk

2 Cups Sugar

½ Tspn Elaichi Powder

6-7 Pistachios

6-7 Almonds

A pinch saffron

Method

1.      In a vessel mix milk and sugar and boil it for 10 mins.

2.      Add elaichi powder and saffron. Let it boil on a slow flame.

3.      Mix milk powder, maida and baking powder well. Add one lightly beaten egg and ghee and knead it into a dough.

4.      Make 20-22 small balls of it. Put these balls into the boiling milk. Cook  for 10-12mins.

5.      Remove from heat.

6.      Garnish it with finely chopped almonds and pistachios. Serve it cool.

Apricot-Walnut Ice-Cream

    Ingredients

      2 Cups Dry Apricots

½ Cup Walnuts

¼ Cup Orange Juice

1ltr Vanilla Ice-Cream

Method:

1.      Soak the dry apricots for 3hrs.

2.      Remove the seeds.

3.      Slightly boil the apricots in the same water in which they were soaked.

4.      Puree the apricots in a food processor leaving it a little grainy. Let it cool.

5.      In a bowl line the apricots and add the orange juice.

6.      Mix it and sprinkle walnuts. Leave some walnuts for decoration.

7.      Top it with vanilla ice-cream and sprinkle the remaining walnuts.

8.      Enjoy your apricot-walnut ice-cream.

Colourful Pudding

Ingredients

20 - 25 grapes

2 chikoos

2 peaches

4 strawberries

1 apple

1 slice pineapple

10 pistas cut into slices

2 cups Fresh curd

1 ltr vanilla ice-cream

3/4^th cup Condensed milk

Sugar to taste

Method

1.      Take the fresh curd and drain the water by hanging it over night or 4-5 hrs.

2.      Beat the hung curd with vanilla ice-cream, condensed milk and sugar.

3.      Refrigerate this mixture for 2-3 hrs.

4.      Cut the fruits in small pieces.

5.      In a bowl layer all the cut  fruits and fold in the curd which will be very creamy.

6.      Decorate the pudding with pistas and a few cut pieces of any fruit.

7.      Enjoy your colourful pudding.

Hint: you can use all  the fruits available at home.