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Churros & Estadi Olimpic

13 Jun

Churros is a Spanish light sweet Savoury dish available in Spanish cafe’s.  It is usually served during breakfast or dinner. There can be quite a few variations  made in this dish, although the shape of the Churros maintained like ridges.  The variations can be  from  selection of flour( either All purpose flour or Wheat flour) to which oil is used to fry. Finally the savoury can be sprinkled with sugar or served with hot chocolate sauce.

Churros are also available in other countries like Cuba, Brazil ,peru, Chile ,Mexico ,Argentina with slight variations as it filled with caramel, chocolate and vanilla. (Wikipedia)

I used All purpose flour, Canola oil and Sugar for sprinkling. Tastes like doughnut. Soft and slight crispy, should be served warm.

Here is the Recipe

Ingredients:

  1. All purpose flour – 1 cup
  2. Boiling hot water – 1,  3/4 cup
  3. Salt – 1/4 tsp
  4. Baking powder – 1/2 tsp (optional)
  5. Canola Oil – 200 ml
  6. Sugar – 5 Tbs

Method:

1. Mix the Flour, salt and boiling water in a bowl with the help of spatula to make a dough which is sticky.

2. In a small pan heat the oil. Fill the dough in a pastry bag and using star shaped nostril pipe the dough slowly in to the oil.

3. Fry for approx 5 min by turning to other side or until it becomes golden brown color.

4. Once it is done, sprinkle sugar on top of the Churros as it settles on the ridges.

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Estadi Olimpic — Olympic Stadium.

In last few posts, I have been covering the some of the Barcelona attractions. Today’s post is about Barcelona Olympic stadium. For me, the moment I hear or talk about about Barcelona, the first thing that strikes to my mind is this Olympic stadium and the year 1992.  This was during my school days, we used to sit together and watch the games with my family.


The Olympic Torch of Barcelona Olympic Stadium

The Olympic stadium Barcelona


Olympic ring structure in Barcelona city. Behind the ring, you can see the ships waiting in the harbour.


 
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(Spanish Flan – Caramel Egg Custard ) & Sagrada Familia

09 Jun

Flan is one of the popular Spanish Dessert . It is spread over entire europe , Unites States and other countries. I have googled to know the ingredients and used my own way and measurement to prepare this. It came out well and the taste was also excellent.

Ingredients :

  1. Egg – 4
  2. Milk – 200ml , warm
  3. Condensed milk – 100 ml
  4. Sugar – 1 cup
  5. Sugar – 3 Tbs
  6. Vanilla Essence  a little
  7. Cherries for decorating.

 

 

 

 

 

Method:

1. Add the sugar in a bowl and slightly wet it with few sprinkles of water. Now allow it to caramalise in a medium heat. It takes approx 10 – 15  min.

2. Once the sugar is medium brown in color carefully pour it to the Oven safe bowl and do a quick swirl to make a coat of caramel in the bowl.

3. Beat the eggs slowly without making too much of air into it. Add the warm milk and condensed milk  and vanilla essence and give a quick mix.  Add the 3 Tbs sugar crystals which gives a small air holes in the final product.  Looks like emmentaler cheese.

4. cover this bowl with a silver foil and let in a sit in a another dish filled with hot water.

5. Preheat the oven and cook for 30 min at 180 C.  Heating time and temp depends upon the thickness of the custard. I used a flat bowl, so it took less time and temperature. Insert a knife to check whether the custard is cooked properly so the knife comes out clean.

6. When it is done allow it to cool for couple of hours and rest in the fridge for 2 more hours and it is ready to serve. ( I didn’t refrigerate it, after it was done the custard got separated automatically and so i flipped the custard in a serving plate along with the caramel.)

Over to Spain Attractions…

Sagrada Familia is a famous church in Barcelona, one of the Gaudi’s most popular work. Gaudi is a architect from spain whose works are just amazing and has a vast difference compared to other architectures. He has done other  projects as well which are popular too. The construction of this church started during 1882 and it is expected to finish by 2026, according to wikipedia. One of the longest construction work ever done before. This massive structure is one of the top tourist attraction. So never miss it when you are in Barcelona.

Now they are focusing on roofing and construction of 6 towers.

Some of the pictures …


 
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Tower of fresh cream and fruit salad + Cards

27 May

Dessert is one of the most interesting part of a meal. That too, when it is tasty and simple to make……..

Ingredients:

  1. Fresh whipping cream – 200 ml
  2. Sugar – 4 Tbs
  3. Vanilla Essence – little
  4. Strawberry – 5 large,
  5. Mandarines – 1

Method:

1. Whip the fresh cream with 2 Tbs sugar and vanilla essence. ( do whipping when the fresh cream is cold from the fridge)

2. Coarsely grind the strawberries with 2 Tbs sugar. Peel the madarines and remove any thin skin and include only the pulp part.

3. Arrange..One layer of strawberries, fresh cream , madarines and fresh cream on top…

CARD


I would like to sincerely thank love2cook for the beautiful Sunshine card she passed to me…

 
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Swiss Meringues

24 May

Meringues is named after the Swiss village Meringen and was invented by an Italian chef  Gasparini (Wikipedia). It is crispy airy sweet dish and children would simply love it.  In my home, as soon as Meringues was ready, it got over in no time. Planning to make the second batch soon with different colors and shapes.

Ingredients:

  1. Eggs – 2, only the whites ( use the yellow for other recipes)
  2. Sugar – 100 gms
  3. Corn starch – 2 tbs
  4. Vanilla Essence – few drops
  5. Sugar sprinkles – 2 tbs

Method:

1. Add the egg whites to a bowl and whisk it using  electric whisker. Gradually add the sugar and continue whisking for till the mixture becomes frothy and a airy dough .

2.  Add vanilla essence. Corn starch should be included if the dough is little loose. The right consistency would be if you take it in a spoon the dough shouldn’t fall itself until you drop it.

3. Preheat the oven to 100 c and spoon the dough in to the tray. I used a piping bag to pipe the dough to tray. Sprinkle sugar colors on top.

4. Bake it for 40 minutes.

Tip:

1.  Mix with food colors to make different colors. Use piping bag to make some beautiful shapes.

2. Use the egg yellow to make some cookies .

 
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Chinese Seasame Balls (Deep fried chewy balls)

30 Apr

Ingredients:

  1. Seasame seeds – 50 gms
  2. Glutinous Rice flour – 2 1/2 cups
  3. Rice flour – 1/2 cup
  4. Hot Water – 1  1/4 cup
  5. Sugar – 1/2 cup
  6. Oil – 300gms

Method:

1. Mix two types of rice flour , sugar and hot water in a bowl and mix it with a spatula to make a dough.

2. Make golf size balls and roll in seasame seeds.( If the seeds did not stick to the ball, dip the ball to cold water a second, and then roll in seasame seeds)(Use extra rice flour to dust your hands while making balls)

3. Heat the oil in wok and drop the balls in batches. The oil should be in medium heat. Fry for 5 min approximately till the balls turn slight golden brown color. Chewy sesame rice balls is ready to eat now.

Tip : you can stuff some chocolate nugget cream inside or stuffing of your own choice.

 
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