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    Tricolour on your platter

    This Independence Day if you want to get soaked in the patriotic spirit, play around with colours of the national flag and take the celebrations to a whole new level. Here are two recipes to try out.

    Tricolour on your platter
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    Chennai

    Macroons

    Ingredients

    Egg white: 200 gms 

    Icing sugar: 300 gms 

    Almond powder: 300 gms 

    Gel food colour(orange, green): two drops each

    For Italian meringue

    Water: 100 gms 

    Sugar: 330 gms 

    Egg white: 100 gms

    Method

    Combine almond flour, powdered sugar and sift into a bowl. Add the egg whites and mix until even. Keep aside. 

    Make the Italian meringue. Boil the sugar and water to soft ball stage. Beat the egg whites, sugar syrup to a bowl and whip with a hand mixer until stiff peaks form and quickly fold the almond mixture in to the egg white Separate the mixture into two batches. Add green food colour in one and orange food colour in the other. Add the mixture to a piping bag fitted with circular nozzle and pipe of both colours onto a baking tray lined with parchment paper. 

    Bake for 10-15 mins in an oven preheated to 160-1700C. Then turn the tray around, lower the temperature down to 1400C and bake for 8-10 mins. Cool on the baking tray. Gently peel them away from the parchment paper. Pair the orange macaroon shells with  the green macaroon shells and sandwich together with vanilla beans and butter cream.

    Recipe: Chef Kartik The Park Chennai

    Dosa

    Batter one: For the white Dosa

    Ingredients 

    Raw rice: 500 gm 

    Boiled rice: 500 gm 

    Urad dal: 250 gm 

    Channa dal: 50 gm 

    Fenugreek: 25 gm

    Method

    Soak all the ingredients overnight.  

    Grind everything to a smooth dosa batter.

    Batter two: For the saffrom Dosa

    Ingredients

    Raw rice: 500 gm 

    Boiled rice: 500 gm 

    Urad dal: 250 gm 

    Channa dal: 50 gm 

    Fenugreek: 25 gm 

    Carrot puree: 30 gm

    Method

    Soak all the ingredients overnight. 

    Grind everything to a smooth dosa batter except the carrot puree. 

    Add the carrot puree to give it the taste and colour. 

    To make carrot puree, blanch the carrot and make a fine paste of it.

    Batter for the green Dosa

    Ingredients 

    Raw rice: 500gm 

    Boiled rice: 500gm 

    Urad dal: 250gm 

    Channa dal: 50gm 

    Fenugreek: 25gm 

    Spinach puree: 30gm

    Method 

    Soak all the ingredients overnight. 

    Grind everything to a smooth dosa batter except the spinach puree.

    Add the spinach puree to give it green colour. To make spinach puree, blanch the spinach and make the fine paste of it.

    To make the Dosa  

    Heat a pan and pour one ladle of white batter in the middle of the pan. 

    On either sides, pour a ladle each of carrot puree batter and spinach puree batter, making one big tri colour dosa. 

    Serve hot with chutneys like coconut, tomato and coriander.

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