Mayonnaise

Ingredients

• Eggs – 2 yolks
• Lemon Juice  - 1.5 tbsp
• Dijon Mustard – 1 tsp
• Whole grain mustard paste – 1 tsp 
• Vegetable oil – 300ml
• Salt  - as per taste 
• Pepper –as per taste 
• Powder sugar – Half tsp 

Method 

1. Put the egg yolks in to the bowl; add lemon juice, Dijon mustard, whole grain mustard paste, salt, sugar, pepper. 
2. Then whisk vigorously to fully combine in to creamy consistency.
3. The most important part starts now.  Add oil slowly, little by little and keep whisking the mixture. Please ensure that the ingredients mixes with oil well before fresh oil is added
4. Once all the oil has been poured and whisked, the mixture will thicken and will resist further beating / whisking.  Then you know your mayonnaise is ready to be served.

Note:  You can refrigerate this mayonnaise and it must be consumed within 3 days.

Malpua

Any Festival is incomplete without great food. As Holi, the festival of colors draws near sharing an Indian dessert recipe Malpua. 

Ingredients:

• Flour/Maida – 1 cup

• Suji – ½ cup

• Sugar  - ¼ cup 

• Cardamoms powder – ½ tsp

• Baking soda – ½ tsp

• Mil powder or khoya – 3 tbsp or 50 grams 

• Curd – 4 tbsp

• Oil or ghee – for frying 

• Almonds or pistachios – 1 tbsp 

For sugar syrup

• Sugar – ½ cup

• Water – ¼ cup

• Kesar – 1 pinch 

Methods 

1. In a mixing bowl take all purpose flour, cardamom powder, Suji, baking powder, sugar and milk powder or khoya. (In this recipe I used milk powder). You can also use khoya instead of milk powder .Mix all the dry ingredients well.

2. Now add curd and water and begin to stir to a thick flowing batter without lumps. Allow the batter to rest for 30 minutes.

Method (Sugar syrup)

1. Take ½ cup sugar and ¼ cup water. Now boil this mixture on low flame. To melt the sugar, stir well.

1. You need to have a ½ inch (1 string) consistency in sugar syrup. If you are unable to get this consistency, then just make sticky syrup. Keep it aside.

2. Take a pan and pour some ghee or white oil. Heat in low flame .Take 2 to 3 tsp of the batter and gently pour it on the hot ghee /oil. 

3. Now deep fry on a low to medium heat till crisp and golden.

4. Drain oil on paper towels and immediately place them in the warm sugar syrup. Gently coat the Malpua with the sugar syrup with a spoon.

5. Once soaked in sugar syrup, remove them and place on a serving plate. Follow the procedure for all Malpua this way. 

6. Garnish with chopped almonds or pistachios. Serve the Malpua with hot rabdi. You can also just serve the Malpua coated with the sugar syrup, garnished with the nuts.

Wish you a very happy holi

Chocolate Ice cream

Ingredients
• Dark chocolate – 1 cup (grated)
• Full Cream Milk  – 2 ½ cups
• Corn flour – 1tbsp 
• Sugar – 1/3 cup
• Fresh cream – ½ cup 
• Vanilla essence – few drops

Method 
1. Take some chocolates and grate that. Keep that aside.
2. Take a non stick pan, half cup of milk into it and heat it. . Keep the heating at medium temperature, add grated chocolate. Now keep stirring till the mixture becomes smooth.
3. Boil the remaining milk with sugar in another non stick pan.
4. Mix corn flour in 3 tbsp of water, add to the milk and simmer for it for 2-3 mins. Now, add chocolate mixture and mix well. After sometime, remove the pan from the oven and let it cool completely. 
5. Take the fresh cream, vanilla essence and pour it into the above mixture. Now mix it well. 
6. Pour the entire mixture into a container and let it settle. Blend in a blender to make it smooth
7. You can now use the same container or transfer into a separate the container for freezing.  Cover the container and put it inside the freezer.  Take it out when it is set and serve.