Category: dessert

Banana and Chocolate Pudding

Banana and Chocolate Pudding

by Shailaja Nair ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

This is a fresh take on the banana pudding which I developed as a hot desert for a dear friend who was battling cancer and felt too cold to enjoy anything that was not warm. This has less sugar but the hot chocolate powder ( I used Cadbury’s Hot Chocolate) lends a lovely smooth, chocolatey flavour. The chocolate and banana go well together along with a sublet hit of nutmeg.

Ingredients

(Serves 6)

All-purpose flour 3/4 cup

Drinking chocolate powder 3 tbsps
Butter 100 g
Sugar 1/2 cup
Nutmeg 1/4 tsp
Bananas 3 (2 mashed and 1 sliced)
Eggs 2, beaten
Milk 2 tbsps
Baking powder 1 tsp

Method

Melt the butter in a rectangular baking dish for about 30 seconds. 

Add the beaten eggs and sugar to the butter. Mix with a whisk.

Add the flour, chocolate powder, nutmeg and baking powder and whisk well.

Add the mashed bananas and milk and mix all the ingredients till well blended to form a thick batter.

Arrange the sliced bananas on top.

Microwave on high for 9 minutes.

Serve hot.

Panna Cotta with Strawberry Coulis

Panna Cotta with Strawberry Coulis

by Shailaja Nair ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

My family loved desserts, especially jelly, panna cotta and custard. This recipe I developed as a vegetarian version of our family favourite.

Ingredients

Milk 500 ml

Cream 250 ml

Agar agar 2 tsps

Sugar 1 cup

Vanilla essence 1 tsp

For the strawberry coulis:

Strawberries 10 chopped

Sugar 1/2 cup

Water 3 tbsps

Vanilla essence 1 tsp

Method

Add the sugar, agar agar powder and vanilla essence to the milk and put it to boil. Stir it every now and then.

When the milk begins to boil, reduce the heat and add the cream. Bring it to a boil, stirring all the time.

Strain into an oiled mould and refrigerate for four hours at least.

For the strawberry coulis, add the chopped berries to a saucepan. Add the sugar, water and vanilla essence.

Cook till the sugar melts and the strawberries are completely soft.

Loosen the panna cotta with a knife and overturn onto a plate. Line the edges with the strawberry coulis and serve cold.