Caramelised onion mushrooms bruschetta

Ingredients:

1 baguette 

1 cup mushrooms 

1/3 cup chopped onions 

1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar 

Salt

Basil leaved

1 tablespoon mozzarella cheese 

1 slice cheddar 

2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic 

Recipe:

Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a steel wok and add chopped onions and garlic and fry till onions start to caramelised. Now add chopped mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes. Add salt and vinegar and let it cook for 2 more minutes.

Slice baguette bread and arrange on a baking tray. Brush olive oil on top and place shredded cheese slice on top of each piece. Put mushrooms mixture and top with basil leave and mozzarella evenly each slice. 

Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes at 180C

Blueberry coconut milk icecream

Well with my recent success at various recipes or rather attempts with coconut milk, I am very excited to continue exploring more what this super tasty and rich non dairy milk has to offer. It's just awesome to be used for any icecream and after making mango and chocolate icecream this time I tried blueberries one. With limited set of ingredients and healthier yummier icecreams these recipes with coconut milk are must try and you can always make ahead and keep all flavors ready in your freezer for those sweet cravings to indulge in without being too guilty. 

Stay tuned as I continue this journey to try my hands at various desserts with coconut milk! 

Ingredients:

1 cup coconut milk

2 tablespoon sweetened condensed milk

1/2 cup frozen blueberries 

Recipe: 

Blend thawed and strained blueberries in a food processor. Whip together all ingredients till everything is mixed well. Pour in a bowl and freeze. Take out from freezer every half an hour and churn with a spoon. Do this a couple of times till icecream is set. Do not let over freeze to prevent crystals to form.

Ragi chocolate banana date bread

Well it has been a really long time since I baked anything with ragi flour. I did make a couple of recipes for cake and breads not recently. So when I got bored of all other kinds of breads and cakes I decided to again go back and try using ragi for a change. It was so long back I made ragi cake that I had to revisit my blog for checking out the recipe. But this time I brought a twist and completely removed sugar substituting with ripe bananas and date sugar. The flour proportions remain same as 2:1:1 for ragi, wholewheat and wheat flours. I also added cocoa powder and some chocolate chips to hide in the ragi and date flavor only to make it even more disguising and appeasing for chocolate lover kids who can not even think of what  actually goes in there is ragi, dates and bananas! And you can't tell it either so try it out yourself to be pleasantly surprised. And yes did I mention I put this all together in 10 minutes with two bowls , baking pan and whisks without any preparations or electric mixer. So it's completely thumbs up recipe with low on effort, time and calories but high on chocolate and taste. 

Ingredients:

1 cup ragi flour

1/2 cup wholewheat flour

1/2 cup white flour

1/2 cup date syrup 

1 egg

2 tablespoon chocolate chip 

1/3 cup cocoa powder 

1/2 cup oil

2 ripe bananas 

1/2 tablespoon baking powder 

1/2 tablespoon baking soda 

1 tablespoon vanilla extract 

Recipe:

Take a bowl and mix all wet ingredients- egg, oil, date syrup, vanilla extract and mashed bananas using a whisk till everything is well combined. In another bowl mix all dry ingredients together- ragi, white and wholewheat flours, baking powder, soda , cocoa powder. 

Gently fold in dry mix into wet one stirring gradually to mix. Stir in chocolate mix. Do not over stir. Pour in baking tray lined with parchment paper and bake in preheated oven at 180C for 40 minutes. 

No bake, eggless caramel bread pudding

Well it was long back that I made caramel custard which was recipe with eggs and to be cooked in oven for around an hour. But as I started removing eggs from my diet as much as possible except for cakes, I stopped making caramel custard too. Recently I came across this recipe for making caramel pudding without eggs and actually I wasnt too sure about how well bread would go in here but I was surprised by the results and this recipe is little simpler too. I had some stale multigrain bread , 3 slices to be precise and I just went ahead and used them for the recipe. I removed corners as they had flaxseeds and would come on way of getting silky texture for pudding. So here is one recipe which needs no baking or eggs but still keeps up the silky smooth texture and caramel vanilla flavor for caramel custard. 

Ingredients:

3 bread slice- multigrain bread with corner removed

3/4 cup milk

1 tablespoon condensed milk

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

3 tablespoon sugar

2 tablespoon water

Recipe:

Tear bread into small pieces. Take milk in a bowl and soak bread pieces in it. Add vanilla extract and condensed milk. Let it stand soaked for few minutes, meanwhile prepare the caramel. Take water and sugar in a pan and cook on low flame. Keep stirring as it changes color and form. Sugar will tend to crystallize into dry lumps, but keep stirring throughout. Now it will melt again and turn golden. Switch off the gas and pour into a mould  . Spread evenly with a spoon, it will turn hard within seconds so you got to be quick and ready here. Now mash thr bread milk mixture using spoon to remove any chunks. Pour it over the mould with caramel and cover with foil. Prick some holes on top to let steam pass through. Steam cook for 20 minutes in a covered pan or idli maker. Once ot cools down refridgerate for 4-5 

hours.

Coconut milk, chocolate chip , roasted almonds icecream with chia seeds

I can never stop raving about the humble fruit coconut which is used from core to shell and all stages of ripening for so many things. And I could never imagine making icecream using coconut milk without any icecream maker or mixes and yet with so much flavor and creamy rich texture. This is my second attempt with coconut icecream after trying mango one last week and couldn't wait any longer to try one more this time. I have used only condensed milk for sweetness and also threw in some chia seeds to make a little more healthier but you can skip it completely. The trick to make smooth icecream without any icecream maker is to keep churning it every half an hour for a couple of times while we set it to freeze so that water crystals aren't formed. Later to store it an airtight container and freeze. Best is to have after its set after churning, mine was done in 2 hours but depends on your freezer. 

This might not be a vegan or completely guilt free recipe but it definitely as closer it can get without compromising with taste and texture. 

Ingredients:

200 ml coconut milk

2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk

2 tablespoon chocolate chips

2 tablespoon almonds(broken)

1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract 

1 tablespoon chia seeds

1 tablespoon cocoa powder

Recipe:

Refrigerate the coconut milk to chill it. Whip it with a food processor or gamd blender for couple of minutes in a bowl. Roast crushed almonds in a pan on stove . Throw in all ingredients and mix well. Pour in a flat bowl and keep in freezer. Churn it with a spoon every half an hour until it sets. After its firm, transfer to another air tight container and freeze