Banana and cottage cheese pudding

Banana and cottage cheese pudding

Being a North Indian, I don’t feel satisfied if there is no dessert after meals. Years gone, this has been a ritual that I need atleast one sweet post my dinner.Following recipe is my innovation, in the sense, that it is less calorie enriched compared to the original one. I have fortified it with protein. Isn’t it good, a dessert packed with protein as well. 

Here it goes:

Digestive biscuits 1pack

Condensed milk 50ml

Cottage cheese 200gms

Dark chocolate (melted in double boiler) 200gms

One banana : sliced

In a bowl, crumble the cottage cheese and mix it with half the amount of chocolate (melted in double boiler). In another glass bowl, put a layer of digestive biscuits (crumbled to powdered form in a mixer). Apply gently the thick layer of condensed milk (make sure the layers do not merge). Gently make a layer of crumbled cottage cheese mixed with molten chocolate. Pour the rest of molten (cold) chocolate syrup on the cottage cheese layer. Garnish the top layer with banana slices.

I use banana, as it goes well with chocolate and condensed milk. Any fruit can be used.

Keep it in refrigerator for an hour to set in layers.

My notes:

This recipe looks good when set in layers. (Make sure you set the layers gently)

Gajar ka halwa

GAZAR KA HALWA

Winters are about to say good bye, in a way that those colourful fresh vegetables won’t be  available in the market soon.  I went to my regular grocery this fine Sunday morning and got tempted by red carrots across the counter. I thought of yummy Gajar ka Halwa. Although it’s a very common Indian dish and my generous colleagues usually offer me a portion of their Halwa, that I dint think of cooking it this winters.

But the charm of my recipe is that it’s a quick 15minutes recipe. Especially for the people like us who don’t have the time to go through proper traditional recipe where the carrot is cooked in milk for hours.

The innovation in my recipe is that I used condensed milk instead of whole milk and mava ( khoya).  I have actually replaced khoya in my kitchen with condensed milk (milkmaid, mithai maid) because the market these days is flooded with adulterated khoya.

Here is the recipe

You need

Carrots  250gms (should be red, enriched with Vitamin E,A)

Milk 10ml (yes just ten ml.)

Condensed milk (50gms)

Cardamom powder a pinch

Shredded almonds, coconut and dry fruits.

Blanch  the carrots in hot water. (YESSS! I blanch them first. It saves the milk quantity, hance calories. And the blanched carrot is easy to shred as well) Grate them.

In a pan take milk. Add carrots, cardamom powder and condensed milk.  Heat till the milk reduces.

Garnish with dry fruits.

Trust me:

The recipe is quick and easy

Calorie count is reduced. Since we are using sweetened condensed milk, no extra sugar is needed.

Adulterated khoya (mava) is avoided.

It tastes almost same, except that u miss the flavour of Desi Ghee. Which can be added.