Honey Fried Noodles with Ice cream

I am a regular visitor of Mainland China, not coz I am crazy about the place...its just that my family refuses to eat elsewhere ...we are such regular customers that each time we visit Mainland China,they are so happy to see us that they give us complimentary Honey fried noodles for dessert......according to their menu card  they charge 170 Rs for one single portion.....and they give that free....can you believe it......I felt so special......little did I know then that the actual price would roughly come up to Rs 25(including ice cream).....and I also got to know that almost all the customers get complimentary Honey fried noodles....I do not feel special anymore.

Honey fried noodles is my dads favorite dessert and you can make it in less than 15 minutes..... definitely a must try simple recipe. and spring roll sheets work best (Thank you Nalini aunty for the tip),you can also use fried noodles.


Ingredients (for one portion of honey fried noodles)
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• 5 Spring roll sheets
• 3 tbsp Sugar
• 2 tsp water
• 3 tbsp honey
• 1 tsp Sesame seeds , lightly toasted or toasted Almonds
• Oil to deep fry
• Vanilla Ice cream

Method

1. Thaw the frozen spring roll sheets for 15 minutes and cut into medium thin strips.
2. Deep fry the spring roll strips in hot oil till it turns light golden brown.Remove from oil and place on kitchen towel to remove excess oil.keep this aside.(you can fry the strips ahead of serving time and store in airtight container)
3. Prepare the honey syrup few minutes before serving.Place a small saucepan on medium flame,add sugar and water and cook till the sugar melts.Now add honey and mix.Take off the flame and keep the syrup warm.
4. Just before serving toss the fried noodles in required amount of honey syrup.Transfer onto a serving plate and sprinkle toasted sesame seeds on the honey fried noodles and serve with vanilla ice cream.

Hide & Seek ice cream sandwich

This started of as homemade chocolate,which led to a disaster and ended up with hide seek ice cream sandwich.

Recently I came across a super cool blog 'prema's thaligai' ,where I saw recipe for homemade chocolate,and it looked soooo much like Cadbury nutties,my favorite chocolate, I had to try it out.Something went wrong and I just could not get it right, the chocolate tasted very good and I just did not want to waste it,and in spilt second I came up with idea of making an ice cream sandwich.

Do not be generous while serving this coz its very rich.

Ingredients
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• chocolate paste (recipe given below)
• 1 litre butterscotch or vanilla icecream (softened by keeping out in room temp. for 15 minutes)
• 1 packet hide and seek biscuit (crushed)
• hershey's chocolate shell topping (optional)

ingredients for  chocolate paste (recipe from here )

• 4 tbsp icing sugar
• 4 tbsp drinking chocolate (I used nesquik)
• 1/2 cup milkmaid
• 2 tbsp milk powder
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder

Method for chocolate paste

1. In a bowl mix all the ingredeints , icing sugar, drinking chocolate, cocoa powder. milk powder and milkmaid. Mix well into a smooth paste. Keep this aside.

How to assemble

1. Line a 7 inch square tray with aluminium foil, pour the chocolate paste into the tray and spread evenly.
2. Add half of the crushed hide and seek bisuit into the softened ice cream and mix well. pour this ice cream biscuit mixture on to the chocolate paste and spread evenly.
3. Keep this in the freezer for 15 minutes.Remove and sprinkle remaining crushed biscuit onto the half set ice cream.
4. Let the ice cream freeze completely.
5. Cut into small pieces and top with chocolate sauce before serving.

cashew kulfi

'Kulfi' also know as the traditional Indian ice cream is one of my favorite desserts.

In Bangalore you can find the best Kulfi at 'Sreeraj Lassi',this kulfi comes close to that,the only difference is that Sreeraj Lassi kulfi's are creamier . This was good enough:) , but I still loooooooove my mango kulfi

 My mom loves kaju kulfi, this one is for her.

 Recipe source : manjulas kitchen

Ingredients
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• 4 cups milk
• 1 slice of white bread(sides removed and cut to bits)
• 1 teaspoon cornflour
• 1/4 cup sugar or more
• 1/2 teaspoon cardamom powder
• 15 cashew nuts (chopped)

Method

1. Grind bread, 1/2 cup milk and cornflour to a fine paste and keep aside.
2. Bring 3.5 cups of milk to a boil in a non stick frying pan on medium high heat.Stir in between to avoid the milk from sticking to the bottom.Scrape the sides.
3. Once the milk comes to boil,let the milk boil for another 12 minutes.The milk should reduce from 3.5 cups to 2.5 cups.
4. Add bread-milk-cornflour  mixture to the milk and cook for 4 minutes.Reduce the heat to medium.
5. Add sugar and cashew to the milk and cook for 2 more minutes.
6. Take off flame and add cardamom powder.Cool the milk to room temperature before pouring into kulfi molds.
7. Once you pour the milk to kulfi molds place cling film on top, the cling film should touch the milk.Cover and freeze for 6 to 8 hours.
8. To remove the kulfi from molds, place under running water for few seconds and tap  on a hard surface till the kulfi pops out.
9. Serve as dessert.

Note :bread and cornflour is used to reduce crystallization during the freezing process.