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Special Valentine’s Day recipes

Special Valentine's Day recipesNew Delhi, Feb 14 (IANS) If you haven't made the reservations for a romantic dinner, it is time to get into the kitchen and cook up a special meal for your loved one.

Here are some recipes which you can try:

  • Chicken chai kebab by French chef Gregory Bazire from Taj Mahal Tea House

    Ingredients -

     

    Chicken keema: 150 grams

    Garam masala powder: According to taste

    Green chilli: 3 or according to taste

    Pickled tea Leaves S/R: According to taste

    Grated cheese: 4 to 5 cubes

    Dry Raita S/R: According to taste

    Peas shoot: 3 to 4

    Spearmint leaves: 2 to 3

    Tomato confit: According to taste

    Onion: 1

    Ginger: 1 tbs

    Egg yolk: 2 to 3 depending on consistency

    Method: Combine all the ingredients and cook. Once cooled down add bread and egg for binding and prepare tikkis by adding tea pickle and processed cheese in the centre and coat with mix of dry seeds and deep fry till golden brown and serve with hung curd and mint raita.

    End the meal on a sweet note and pamper your significant other by recreating dessert from Dubai's The Hide. Chef Brian Voelzin from The Hide, Dubai, shares the recipe:

  • Smores sundae

    Ingredients

    Chocolate ice cream: 2 scoop

    Vanilla ice cream: 1 scoop

    Marshmallow frosting: 50 gm

    Chocolate ganache: 40 gm

    Peanut crunch: 30 gm

    Peanut brittle: 20 gm

    Peanut butter cookies: 50 gm

    Honeycomb: 30 gm

    Dolce de leche: 35 gm

    Icing sugar: 5 gm

    Ingredients for making chocolate ganache

    Butter: 100 gm

    Honey: 100 gm

    Cream: 200 ml

    Chocolate: 300 gm

    Method: Cream honey and butter to boil and add chocolate slowly.

    Ingredients for making honeycomb

    Sugar: 708 gm

    Honey: 108 gm

    Glucose: 270 gm

    Water: 132 ml

    Baking soda: 30 gm

    Method: Grease and line an oven tray with baking paper. Combine sugar, honey, water and golden syrup in a medium saucepan. Place over low heat and cook, stirring, occasionally brushing down side of the pan and spoon with a pastry brush dipped in water to remove any sugar crystals, for 5-7 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and bring to the boil. Cook, without stirring, for 5-7 minutes or until the syrup reaches crack stage (154?C) on a sugar thermometer. Remove from heat and set aside for bubbles to subside. Add the bicarbonate of soda and quickly stir with a wooden spoon until combined (mixture will bubble and foam). Pour onto the tray and set aside to cool completely.

    Ingredients for making peanut butter cookies

    Butter: 170 gm

    Sugar: 300 gm

    Glucose: 100 ml

    Peanut butter: 260 gm

    Baking soda: 1 gm

    Baking powder: 2 gm

    Salt: 9 gm

    Refined flour: 225 gm

    Egg: 100 gm

    Vanilla extract: 5 gm

    Method: Sift the flour and baking powder in a large mixing bowl, add the egg, glucose, peanut butter, peanuts and salt and mix together. In an electric mixer or with a hand mixer beat the butter, vanilla essence and sugars until creamy and add this to the flour mixture and mix until incorporated. After resting in the fridge for an hour or so, roll into desired balls and arrange on a greased baking sheet and press down lightly with a fork or fingers. Bake for 15 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius, checking that it doesn't go too dark closer to the end of cooking.

    Ingredients for making Peanut butter crunch

    Peanut butter: 195 gm

    Peanut brittle (sugar100gm +peanut 50gm): 80 gm

    Feuilletine: 120 gm

    Icing sugar: 120 gm

    Sea salt: 2 gm

    Method: Combine the peanut butter brittle feuilletine, icing sugar and salt in the bowl of a free standing electric mixer fitted with the paddle or flat beater attachment and paddle on medium low heat about 1 min. The crunch can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for 5 days or in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.

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