Exploring Tastebuds

Its summertime! AND everyone loves mango as well as something icy cold to have. So I thought of making a mango sorbet! Well to a basic mango sorbet recipe I added quite a few flavours myself which make the sorbet taste a little better and brings out the flavour of the mango too. Few steps and few hours of waiting and you will end up with a scoop creamy mango sorbet for dessert! Ingredients: 2 large mangoes 1/2 cup sugar 1 1/4 cup water 1 egg white 4-5 mint leaves Juice of half a lemon Pinch of salt Method: In a sauce pan add sugar and water and simmer water until sugar dissolves in it. Bring water to boil once sugar gets dissolved and boil for 5 minutes (do not stir). Remove from heat and let it cool. Puree mango flesh in a food processor. Add sugar syrup, chopped mint leaves ,juice of half a lemon and pinch of salt and pulse the puree twice or thrice in the processor.Transfer to a square dish , cover with plastic wrap and s...

For a long time now,for my love of coffee and chocolate I  have been  thinking of making something with both the flavours. So, tarts were the basis of my idea and their fillings were combination of chocolate ganache done two ways - baked and chilled - and coffee caramel sauce which I made by adding coffee to the basic caramel sauce recipe. So even though to arrive at the very dish there are a few components you have to make and assemble but they are pretty simple and assembling them and coming to cherishing their taste wont take much time either. So try your hand this and I am sure you will love it :D Ingredients: For Short Crust Pastry: 100gm flour 50gm chilled butter, cut into cubes 30gm powdered sugar 1 egg For Baked chocolate filling: 50gm chocolate compound 30ml fresh cream 25gm butter 1 egg For Chocolate ganache: 100gm chocolate compound 75ml fresh cream 50gm butter For Coffee caramel sauce: 3/4th cup granulated...