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    Kick-start your Valentine’s week with sweet delicacies

    What better way to express love than through food? Here are some recipes from culinary experts that demonstrate the use of aphrodisiacs like strawberries, pomegranate and raspberries.

    Kick-start your Valentine’s week with sweet delicacies
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    Chennai

    Almond Strawberry Cream

    Ingredients: 

    Almonds: ½ cup
    Strawberries (fresh): 12-14 pcs
    Whipping cream: 1 cup
    Holy basil leaves (Tulsi): 1 tsp
    Sugar (powdered): 3 tbsp

    Method

    • Toast the almond flakes in the oven at 180°C for 4 minutes.
    • Cut the strawberries into 1 cm dices.
    • Whip the cream along with sugar. Do not over whip it or the butter will separate.
    • Mix the almond flakes and strawberries into the cream along with hand torn holy basil.
    • Garnish with almonds and sliced strawberries.

    Textures of Raspberry

    Ingredients:

    FOR Raspberry curd

    Raspberry puree: 112gm

    Milkmaid: 96gm

    Greek yoghurt: 82gm

    Dried raspberry: 80gm

    Raspberry sphere

    Raspberry puree: 150gm

    Sugar: 10gm

    Salt: 1 pinch

    Spherification bath

    Distilled water: 1000ml

    Sodium alginate: 5gm

    Method:

    • In a mixing bowl mix raspberry puree, milkmaid and Greek yoghurt and bake at 150°C.
    • Prepare a coarse powder of dried raspberry and keep it aside. 
    • Mix raspberry puree, sugar and salt. Then set it in a desired mould and freeze it.
    • Mix distilled water and sodium alginate in a bowl and dip the frozen raspberry in the mix and keep it on a plate.
    • Pre-plate the dessert with raspberry curd, raspberry soil and raspberry spheres.

    Flapjack

    Ingredients:

    Ballentines whisky: 60ml

    Home-made cinnamon syrup: 15ml

    Maple syrup: 15ml

    Egg white: 10ml

    Garnish: Whipped cream, Chocolate chips

    Method: 

    • Add the whisky and syrups in a shaker along with the egg white. 
    • Reverse shake well. Pour it in a coupe glass (stemmed glass). 
    • Garnish with whipped cream and chocolate chips. Serve with cut strawberries. 
    • Recipe by bar executive Ashish Varma from Sheraton Grand Chennai Resort and Spa. 

    Pomegranate & Vanilla panna cotta

    Ingredients:

    Fresh cream: 350 ml
    Milk: 150ml
    Castor sugar: 100gm
    Gelatin sheets: 3
    Pomegranate juice: 300gm
    Agar agar: 3gm
    Sugar: 30gm

    Method:

    • Bring milk, cream and sugar together to a boil. Cool down to luke warm temperature. 
    • Take gelatin in separate bowl and soak with water (30 ml). Refrigerate for some time and then melt over double boiler.
    • Add gelatin to a warm mixture of cream and milk, keep it aside for 30 minutes and pour in mould or glass. 
    • Take fresh pomegranate juice and sugar, warm it and add agar agar. Bring it to a boil, cool the mixture and add on top of panna cotta. Set again in refrigerator, serve chilled.

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