Fried Ice-cream

Fried ice-cream

(A unique far-eastern desert of deep-fried ice-cream balls in a light crispy shell)
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PrepTime : Serves : Cook Time
120Min 3 480Min

Ingredients :

2 medium tubs (6 scoops) vanilla ice-cream
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
2 cups cookie crumbs
1 cup fine dry bread crumbs
1/4 cup coconut, desiccated
1 egg, beaten
Oil for deep frying

Cooking Instructions :

Scoop and roll ice-cream into 6 balls. Freeze for 2 hours. Meanwhile, mix cookie crumbs, vanilla essence and egg. In a separate bowl mix bread crumbs and coconut powder. Dip the ice-cream balls in 1st mixture & then roll them in the coconut-crumb mixture. Again, deep-freeze for 8-10 hours. Heat oil for deep frying. Fry ice-cream balls, one at a time till golden brown. Serve with ice-cream sauce of your choice

Traditional Goan Batk or Semolina Cake

Goan Batk or Semolina Cake

(A Goan rich semolina cake in my mom's version with easy-to-rem ingredient quantities )
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PrepTime : Serves : Cook Time
15Min 6 60Min

Ingredients :

1 cup sugar
1 cup suji/ rawa
1 cup butter
1 cup maida
1 cup dessicated coconut
1 cup eggs (abt 4-5)
(SEE HOW EASY IT IS SO FAR!! - 1 CUP EACH)

1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking pwd
1/2 tsp almond/vanilla essence
1/2 tsp cardamom pwd
1/2 tsp cinnamon pwd
(AGAIN, SO EASY - ALL 1/2 tsp!!)

Cooking Instructions :

Grind all the ingredients to a smooth cake batter - add a little milk if required but the batter should be thick - not too liquid n flowy or creamy. Let it stand for 15mins. Pour the batter into an 9" X 9" X 3" greased and floured cake tin - Tap the tin gently few times on a flat surface to remove air bubbles. Bake in a moderate oven, (350 F) for about 1 hour, or till done. Cool & cut into diamond shape pieces.