A delicious, creamy, no-churn Mango flavoured ice-cream, that can be whipped up in minutes and served in 3-4 hours. A great dessert when you want something quick and simple but really tasty. Ingredients – serves 6 500ml double cream 200ml sweetened condensed milk 300ml Mango Pulp or the flesh from 3 mango’s 1 tsp cardomom…
Category: The Sweet Stuff
Saffron & Cardamom Yogurt Dessert
With Tims Dairy Delicious, creamy whipped Tims Dairy Greek Style Vanilla Yogurt laced with cardamom and saffron and served topped with chopped pistachio nuts. So easy – but so tasty…..see how below Ingredients – serves 4 450g tub of Tims Dairy Greek Style Vanilla Yogurt 6-8 strands of saffron – soaked in 3 tablespoons of…
Mango Kheer
Mango flavoured Indian rice pudding My mum loved Kheer and always made it when there was a special occasion as a ‘Sagan or Shagun’ – it was a good omen to make something sweet on an auspicious day. It was made on every birthday and she would make it the traditional way, adding raisins and…
Elaichi and Pista Ice-cream
Cardamom & Pistachio no churn ice-cream Many people love Ras Malai which is a dessert made from Indian cottage cheese which has been shaped into little dumplings, sweetened and then soaked in reduced milk, laced with saffron, cardamom and, with chopped pistachios for the garnish. Gulab Jamun being little fried dough balls dunked in a…
Gulab Jamun
Deep fried dough balls in a sweet syrup My mum loved Gulab Jamun – making them and eating them – so I am going to keep this post short and go straight to her recipe. I’ve used measuring cups to measure the ingredients…. Ingredients – Makes up to 30 1½ cups of unsweetened milk powder…
Ras Malai
Paneer dumplings soaked in sweetened, thickened milk, delicately laced with saffron, cardamom & garnished with nuts. Click the ‘Go to Recipe” button below for my Ras Malai recipe. Ingredients- Serves 5 people For the dumplings 1 muslin cloth 4 pints of full fat milk (whole milk) 3 tablespoons of lemon juice or white vinegar 4 cups…
Panjiri
A nutritional and healthy pick me up Panjiri is a wonderful snack that is so full of energy. Many Indians make this during the start of the winter months in large quantities, and it is eaten in the mornings to keep away colds and other ailments and to give their immunity a boost. It is also good for…
Gajrela
Carrot, milk and pistachio dessert Gajar is the Punjabi word for carrot and this is a beautiful dessert made with the sweetness of carrots and pistachios coupled with the fragrance of cardamom. My version of it is very quick and easy. In Punjab it is know as Gajrela and Gajar Ka Halwa in India generally….