Banana pudding

Banana Pudding

(Chilled dessert recipe for a trifle pudding with layers of banana, wafers & pudding.)
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PrepTime : Serves : Cook Time
15 Min 8 4.5 hrs

Ingredients:

60-70 vanilla wafers
1 cup granulated sugar
3 tbsp cornstarch
1/4 tsp salt
2 cans (12 fl.oz. each) evaporated milk
2 beaten large eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3 tbsp butter
5 ripe but firm bananas - cut into 1/4"slices
1 cup frozen whipped topping, thawed.


Cooking Instructions:

Line the bottom and sides of a 2.5 quart glass bowl with 40 wafers. Combine sugar, cornstarch & salt in a medium saucepan, Add milk & stir to dissolve cornstarch & sugar. Whisk in the eggs & add butter. Cook on medium heat & when it begins to thicken, simmer for 1 min, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, add vanilla extract & leave to cool. Pour half of this over the wafers & layer with half the bananas followed by remaining wafers. Combine the remaining pudding batter & bananas & spoon over the wafers - refrigerate for 4 hrs min. Serve chilled.

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.

Goan Banana Fritters

Goan Banana Fritters

(An Indian sweet snack from the state of Goa - basically, banana pancakes)


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PrepTime : Serves : Cook Time
5 Min 8 20Min

Ingredients :

6 bananas
2-3 cups milk
2 eggs
6-8 tbsp sugar (more if bananas aren't too ripe & sweet)
1tbsp clarified butter/ ghee
1 cup all purpose floor/ maida (or whole wheat flour for a healthy option)
oil to pan-fry the pancakes or oil-spray

Cooking Instructions:
Mix all the above ingredients (except oil) using an egg beater or with your hand, adding milk last, a little by little till the right consistency in reached - not too fluid, yet not too stiff; should flow like a thick sauce. Spray/grease your non-stick pay & heat to medium. Spread a large tablespoon full of the batter into a round pancake of about 6" diameter & repeat as many times as you can in 1 pan. Flip over after 3-4 minutes or when its done on 1 side & cook for 3-4 minutes on the other side. Toss off onto paper-towels & carry on with the next batch (batches) till the batter is over.

Tips: You can try these variations to the above recipe: Add 1/2 cup semolina/suji/rawa or 4 tbsp lightly boiled oats (very healthy) to the batter. You can even add 1/2 tsp cinnamon/ cardamom powder or even 4 tbsp sweet chocolate powder to the batter, as additional flavor options.