Kiwi Yogurt Whip#AlphabetChallenge

There are times when I have a mild sweet craving, but, you want to have something that's healthy and not sugary. Then this fresh fruit kiwi whip is a great thick dessert which is not very sweet, yet packed with fresh fruit, and satisfying - perfect to satisfy that sweet tooth craving.

Ingredients
1 Cup Fresh Yogurt
1 Kiwi - washed & peeled
1 Banana - peeled

Method

Cube the peeled Kiwi and chop the banana.
Place with yogurt in a blender. Give it a good whiz. The fruit should be pureed and blended into the yogurt.
Pour into glasses or bowls, and pop into the freezer for a couple of minutes.

Remove from the freezer and serve chilled.
Enjoy!!
Labels: Glass Verrines, Juices, Healthy, Alphabet Challenge Kiwi, Banana

Let's take a look at the recipes being shared today with Alphabet "Y" 

Jolene’s Recipe Journal: Gingerbread Cinnamon Rolls 

Food Lust People Love: Yemma Aouïcha – Eggplant with Chickpeas 

Karen’s Kitchen Stories: Japanese Milk Bread with Yudane (Shokupan) 

Culinary Cam: Garlicky Yogurt Topped with Çılbır, Turkish Poached Eggs 

Blogghetti: Fresh Fruit Yogurt Parfaits  

Sneha’s Recipe: Kiwi Yogurt Whip 

A Day in the Life on the Farm: Tzatziki 

Mayuri’s Jikoni: Thandai Baked Yogurt 

A Messy Kitchen: Yuzu Pie 

Magical Ingredients: Yuca Paratha 

Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice: Jalapeño Yellow Cornmeal Brown Sugar Cookies

Mahalabia#SundayFunday

Mahalabia, also known as Mahalabi or Muhellabia , is a Middle Eastern dessert / pudding / custard made with milk, sweetened and flavored with rose or orange blossom water. Delcious and you will love it and takes just 10 minutes from start to finish. So easy and quick. While the dessert is called Muhallebi in Turkey and Iraq, the Egyptian variant is called Mahalabia.

Serves Two 
Ingredients
250 ML Full Cream Milk
50 Grams Sugar
2 Tablespoon Water
1 Tablespoon Level Corn Flour
100 ML Fresh Cream
1 Tablespoon Level Rose Water
Pistachios for garnishing as required

Method

Combine milk and sugar together in a saucepan; bring to a boil, let it boil till sugar dissolves.
Mix water and corn flour together in a bowl until smooth; stir into boiling milk. Cook milk mixture over medium heat until thickened to the consistency of a thick pudding, for 2 -3 minutes, add the rose water and give it a quick stir.. Remove saucepan from heat and add the fresh cream mix it well and keep stirring it till it cools / comes to room temperature or else a scum will form on the top. Pour into into two pudding glasses garnish with silvered pistachios. Refrigerate the pudding to chill. 

Serve this pudding chilled. Yum and delicious. 
Labels: Sweets & Desserts, Pudding, No Bake Desserts, Milk, Corn Flour, Fresh Cream, Middle Eastern, Glass Verrines, Vegetarian, Egypt  

We are sharing Egyptian recipes for this week's Sunday Funday.

• Culinary Cam: Hawawshi and Other Egyptian-Inspired Dishes 
• Amy’s Cooking Adventures: Egyptian Borek (Cheese Filled Hand Pies) 
• Palatable Pastime: Baked Chicken with Baharat 
• A Day in the Life on the Farm: Salata Baladi 
• Sneha’s Recipe: Mahalabia
• Karen's Kitchen Stories: Egyptian Sweet Rolls
• Pandemonium Noshery: Molokhia
• Mayuri's Jikoni: Egyptian Cookies

Easy Citrus& Chocolate Pudding Trifle#Improv

In this recipe you can use whatever fruits you want, any flavor leftover cake, this recipe is so adjustable to ingredients you have in your pantry.  

Makes 6 Short Glasses
Ingredients
1 Cup Chocolate Pudding
1 Chickoo - chopped
1 Pear - chopped
1 Orange - cut into segments
Chocolate Cake - as required
Whipped Cream as required

Method

Press a layer of crumbled cake into short glasses

then top it with a layer of chopped fruits, then again chocolate pudding. Pipe the whipped cream on top and garnish with crumbled cake crumbs. 

Chill it and then Enjoy!!

Labels : Chocolate Pudding, Chocolate Cake, Leftover series, Glass Verrines, Sweets & Desserts, No Bake Desserts, Party pleasers, Improv Cooking Challenge  

Check out what the other bloggers have made!

Improv Cooking Challenge: December 2020

Ingredients: Chocolate and Citrus 

Check out what the other bloggers have made!

Improv Cooking Challenge: December 2020

Ingredients: Chocolate and Citrus

• Chocolate Orange Cake by Making Miracles
• Cranberry Pistachio lime and white chocolate bark by Magical Ingredients
• Almond Orange Brownies by Cookaholic Wife
• Oblaten Lebkuchen by Pandemonium Noshery
• Easy Citrus & Chocolate Pudding Trifle by Sneha’s Recipe 

Grilled Pineapple & Kiwi With Fresh Fruit Vanilla Pudding#Improv

Have you ever heard of  grilled kiwi and pineapple in a dessert? Then you should try this exotic pudding with fresh fruit and ice cream too! It's simply divine.

So colorful that you will not be able to take your eyes off it. It has taste of sweet, sour and grilled fruit in rum sauce a dessert you will love.
Serves 2
Ingredients 
For the Sauce 
2 Tablespoons Butter
2 Tablespoons Brown sugar
2 Tablespoons Dark rum
For the Pudding 
1/4 Cup Homemade Ready Vanilla Pudding Mix
250 Ml Milk
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla essence
To Grill the Fruits 
2 Ripe Kiwi - peeled and cut into two
2 Big Slices Pineapple
Other Ingredients 
2 Scoops Vanilla Ice cream
As required Fresh fruit (black grapes, raspberries, strawberries or blueberries)
80 Ml  Milk
1 Tablespoons Sabja seeds / Tuk Malanga
Method

 In half cup of milk soak the sabja seeds and keep aside in the refrigerator to cool.
Let's prepare the sauce 
Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add brown sugar and rum in the saucepan.
Stir it and continue stirring until the sugar dissolves and the mixture thickens, for almost about 5 to 6 minutes. Keep this aside
To Grill the Pineapple & Kiwi 

Slightly spray the grill pan with non-stick spray or butter and place the pineapple & kiwi cut-side-down on the grill grates. 

Grill for about 2 minutes and brush the top frequently with glaze and Flip and grill this side 1-2 minutes, brushing frequently with the prepared sauce. 

Take grilled fruits on to a cutting board and slice them individual size piece. Keep this aside.
Now let's prepare the pudding

In a saucepan whisk the milk and pudding mix till it form a smooth mix. Place it on medium low flame and stirring continuously, cook it till it becomes thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Keep this aside.
To assemble 

In a glass, arrange the girlled kiwi as show in the pic

 Spoon in half of the milk & sabja mix, then top it  the pudding and top it with grilled pineapple wedges 

then a scoop of ice cream, , top it with grilled pineapple wedges, black grapes and strawberry slices. 

Chill this in the refrigerator and enjoy.

This dessert is layered with richness of strawberry, kiwi and black grape.

Dish is ready to serve, so enjoy the treat.
Labels : Sweets & Desserts, No Bake Desserts, Glass Verrines, Homemade ,Vanilla Pudding Mix, Improv Cooking Challenge, Pineapple, Kiwi, Rum

Kiwi & Pineapple
Improv Cooking Challenge
Kiwi Pineapple Dream Cocktail by Cookaholic Wife
Grilled Pineapple & Kiwi With Fresh Fruit Vanilla Pudding by Sneha's Recipe
Kiwi Pineapple Mojito by Our Good Life
Grilled Mahi Mahi with Kiwi Pineapple Salsa by A Day in the Life on the Farm