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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Apple Ricotta Pastry Butterflies

Delicious, yet so easy to make. Anyone can do these classic apple pastries! Apples baked in flaky pastry with cinnamon and brown sugar with ricotta are irresistible.

Ingredients:
1/3 recipe of Pastry Puff Dough
5 large apples (I used Fuji)
1/2 cup brown sugar
3 tbs butter
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 to 1 cup ricotta (optional)

1 egg for brushing the pastries

Peel apples and grate em.

Melt butter add apples. Saute for few min.

Add brown sugar and cinnamon.

Saute few more min. Then let it cool down. Add ricotta.

Whisk the egg with a fork. Dust the table with flour. Roll the dough into large sheet.

Cut into squares. I made really small bite size pastries for a baby shower. About 1 1/2 inch to 2 inches squares. Put apple filling in the middle and pinch 2 ends.

Brush with eggs.

Bake on 400F for 20 min.

Enjoy!!!

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Ricotta Savory Muffins for Breakfast

This is the yummiest breakfast ever. Very healthy too.

Ingredients:
3 eggs
3 tbs whipping cream
2 cups ricotta (tvorog)
1 cup Alex meat bologna or Oscar Meyers wieners
3/4 cup green onion
Colby Jack for topping

Cut meat into small cubes.

Put eggs into a bowl add salt.

Add whipping cream. Mix.

Add ricotta.

Add meat.

Add green onion.

Put in muffin baking dish.

Bake on 350F for 25-30 min.

Or use ramekins.
Enjoy!!!

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Rasmalai Using Ricotta Cheese

Rasmalai is one of popular sweet in North India (Orissa, West Bengal). It consists of sugary, white cream or yellow colored balls (or flatten balls) soaked in malai and flavored with cardamom. The milk is flavored with pistachios, saffron or rosewater.

I learnt this recipe from my friends. Prepared by using Ricotta Cheese which makes the recipe simpler and the taste is very close to the original.

I usually make this sweet when we have guests. And also it is one of my favorite sweet.

Ingredients:

Whole Milk Ricotta Cheese – 15 oz

Sugar – 1 cup

Saffron – a pinch

Cardamom Powder – ¼ tsp

Whole Milk – 4 – 5 cups

Almonds/Pistachio chopped

Preparation

Rasmalai Syrup

To make syrup take a pan and on low flame simmer whole milk, ¾ cup sugar, cardamom powder, saffron. Heat for few mintues and let it cool.

Rasmalai

In a bowl take ¼ cup sugar, with Ricotta cheese and mix well.
Preheat Oven to 350 degrees
Take oven safe dish. I used muffin pan and add 2 spoons of above cheese mixture in each cup.
Bake them for 40-45 mins or until it turns light brown. Or insert a tooth pick into the cheese and if it comes clean then remove from the oven.

Remove from oven and allow them to cool.
Remove them from dish safely using spoon or hand and place them into a bowl
Add the rasmalai to above syrup and garnish with almonds and pistachios.
Keep them in the refrigerator for 6 hours before serving. Serve Chilled.

Sending to Flavors of Bengal hosted by priya originally started by Nayna.

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