Insalata Caprese

This is an easy to prepare salad, no cooking and it's ready in less than 15 minutes! A lovely combination of mozzarella, tomatoes, and plenty of fresh basil leaves.... Simply stunning and delicious! 

Ingredients :

350 g Mozzarella Bocconcini Cheese (mini)

300 g Mixed Tomato (any variety), halved or whole

2 Handful Basil Leaves, torn

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Sea Salt to taste

Freshly Ground Black Pepper

Method :

Arrange the cheese, tomatoes, basil and season with olive oil, sea salt and some black pepper. Serve immediately.

Mango Sorbet

Ingredients

 2 Large, Ripe Mangoes (2 lbs, 1 kg), peeled and pitted

2/3 Cup (130 g) Sugar

2/3 Cup (160 ml) Water

4 tsp Freshly Squeezed Lime Juice, plus more to taste

1 Tbsp Dark Rum, plus more to taste

Pinch of Salt

Method

Cut the mangoes into chunks and put them in a blender with the sugar, water, lime juice, rum, and salt. Squeeze the mango pits hard over the blender to extract as much of the pulp and juice as possible.

Puree the mixture until smooth. Taste, then add more lime juice or rum if desired. Allow the mixture to chill thoroughly, then freeze it in an ice cream maker. 

Bakewell Slice Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup plain flour
• 90 g butter
• 1 tbsp caster sugar
• 1 tbsp water
• 1/2 cup raspberry jelly
• 1/4 cup almonds, flaked
• 185 g butter, extra
• 3/4 cup caster sugar, extra
• 3 eggs, lightly beaten
• 1 cup ground almonds
• 3/4 cup plain flour, extra

Methodes:

1. Preheat oven to 210C. Brush a shallow cake tin with oil. Cover base with paper, extending over two sides, grease paper.
2. Place sifted flour, butter and sugar into a food processor and blend for 10 seconds until mixture is fine and crumbly. Add water, process 5 seconds until mixture is smooth.
3. Turn mixture into tin, press evenly over base using lightly floured hands. Bake for 5 minutes and allow to cool.
4. Using electric beaters, beat extra butter and sugar in large mixing bowl until light and creamy. Add eggs gradually, beating thoroughly after each addition. Add almonds and extra flour. Using a wooden spoon, stir until just combined.
5. Spread pastry base evenly with jam. Spread evenly with topping, sprinkle with flaked almonds. Bake for 30 minutes or until lightly golden, cool in tin. Cut into fingers when cold. Read More >>
   

Bakewell Slice Recipe (Bake Well Slice)

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Bakewell is a traditional British baked dessert which consists of a short crust pastry shell, spread with jam and covered with a sponge-like filling enriched with ground almonds. This famous British tart made in the picturesque town of Bakewell in the Derbyshire Peak District. It is a delicious dessert.

Crust Ingredients:

• 1 cup of flour
• 6 tbsp of cold butter
• 1 tbsp of sugar
• Topping Ingredients:
• 6 tbsp of butter
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 cup of ground almonds
• 3/4 cup of flour
• 1/2 cup of raspberry jam.
• 1/4 slice of almonds

Methodes:

1. Pre-heat oven at 375 degree Fahrenheit. Line and lightly greased a 8" x 8" square baking pan with parchment paper, overhang on both side
2. Process all the crust ingredients using the pulse action until fine and crumbly in a food processor
3. Press it evenly to the base of the baking pan, then bake it for about 10 minutes, remove it from oven and let it until cool
4. Make topping, beat sugar, butter and eggs until light and creamy, then add in flour and ground almonds, mix until well combined
5. Spread the raspberry jam to the crust, spread the topping over the jam and sprinkle the almond slices to the top
6. Bake for about 25 to 30 minutes, until golden brown
7. Cool it completely before cut to serve

Cendol Recipe From West java

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Original/Traditional Cooking/Drinking of Indonesia from West Java

SUBSTANCE :

• 30 sheet of leaf suji (Pleomele angustifolia n.e.brown), boxed with together
• 5 sheet of leaf [of] screw pine till become 150 ml irrigate the leaf suji
• 2 green colour drip
• 100 gram hunkue
• 1 Tbs of whitewash sirih (Piper betle L.)
• 1 / 2 tsp salt
• 2 sheet of screw pine leaf (Pandanus amaryllifolius Roxb.)
• Ice water to soak

COCONUT MINK GRAVY :

• 1 litre [of] coconut milk from 1 coconut item
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 sheet of screw pine leaf

SYRUP SUBSTANCE :

• 300 gram demerara sugar (In Indonesia calling red sugar), fine foothed comb
• 300 ml water
• 2 sheet of screw pine leaf
• 10 eye fruit-tree (Artocarpus Integrifolia), cut to pieces

WAY OF MAKING :

1. Swirl the water, water the leaf suji, green colour drip, hunkue, whitewash sirih, and salt. Braise [is] at the same time poked at jell and to explode.
2. Including into printing; mould cendol. Depress the dough till fall into water contain the ice water.
3. Braise the substance of gravy [of] coconut milk [is] at the same time swirled till boil, lift [is] then made cool.
4. Braise the syrup substance jell, lift then filter.
5. Present the cendol with the sugar and coconut mink gravy. Spreading matured cutting a fruit-tree.
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Easy Vanilla Frosting Recipe

Ingredients :

• 1 cup (1/2 lb.) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  
• 4 cups (1 lb.) powdered sugar, sifted
  
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
  
• 2 tablespoons milk
  
• 2 teaspoons vanilla

Methode :

In a bowl, with a mixer (preferably fitted with whisk attachment) on low speed, beat butter, 2 cups powdered sugar, and the salt until blended. Add milk and vanilla; beat until blended. Add remaining powdered sugar, 1 cup at a time, beating until incorporated. Turn mixer to high speed and beat frosting until fluffy and smooth.

Coffee frosting: Replace milk and vanilla with 4 teaspoons instant espresso powder dissolved in 3 tablespoons hot water, then cooled.

Lemon frosting: Replace milk with 2 tablespoons lemon juice, and vanilla with 2 teaspoons grated lemon peel.

Mint frosting: Replace vanilla with 4 teaspoons crème de menthe or 1 teaspoon mint extract and 2 or 3 drops green food coloring, if desired.

Orange frosting: Replace milk with 2 tablespoons orange juice, and vanilla with 2 teaspoons grated orange peel.

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Vanilla Frosting Recipes

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Ingredients :

1 1/3 c. of milk
1 tbsp. of vanilla extract
1 c. of sugar
1 c. of softened butter
1/2 c. of all-purpose flour

How to Make Vanilla Frosting ?

First you wan to take a pan over medium flame and combine sugar and flour whisking
Now whisk in milk until creamy
Then you want to cook this over medium flame letting boil
Next you want to reduce to low flame letting to cook approx. 2 min
You are going to want to remove from heat and let cool
Next you need to take a bowl on medium and blend butter until creamy
Now add in the milk mix and and in the vanilla, blending several more min

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Cendol Recipe (Indonesian Cendol)

(sample of the ladle)

Cendol is a common and familiar desert for Indonesian. Cendol can be served in cool or warm. I remember my childhood and my school hood when I get a bowl of cendol. It is nice memory when we take a bowl of cendol together with my classmate in a small village in Sumatera.
For whose ever visit Indonesia, cendol must be a familiar desert. Do you know that cendol is not difficult to make? It is actually easy to make and great to consume.

Ingredients 1:

1. 75 gr of hunkue flour
2. 5 oz of rice flour
3. 3 cups of water (you can blend with pandan leaves to get nice flavour and colour)
4. ½ tsp of pandan paste (optional, can be changed by other paste, like mocca or banana)
5. 1 tsp of salt

Ingredients 2:

1. 1 liter of thick coconut milk
2. ½ tsp of salt
3. a piece of pandan leaf, cut into small pieces

Ingredients 3 :

1. 250 g brown sugar
2. 75 g of granulated sugar
3. 150 ml of water

How to make cendol easily by your self ?

• Mix all of above ingredients 1 until well combined
• Cook over low heat until thick.
• Prepare a large bowl with some cold water and ice cube
• Place a ladle over the bowl and pour the cooked cendol mixture over the ladle, press lightly with a big spoon until the mixture went through
• Make sure the water is really cold so these little green droplets don't stick to each other
• Boil all of the ingredients 2 over medium heat until bubble up
• Boil all of the ingredients 3 in other pan over medium heat until bubble up
• Mix all of the mixture in a bowl or glass
• You can also add ice cube and sliced fruit for serving