No Bake Oreo Cheesecake

 For the base:
Marie biscuit - 1 packets (24 nos)
Chocolate biscuit - 1 pkt 
Melted butter - 3 tblspn


For the cake:
Oreo Biscuits : 1 Big packet ( broken into chunks) 
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Hung curd - 1 cup
Fresh cream - 1 cup (used Amul cream 200ml)
Agar agar/China grass - 1 pkt (10 gm)
Water - 4 tblspn

1.I used a combination of marie biscuit and chocolate biscuits. You could use marie biscuit alone. Pulse the biscuit coarsely in the mixer along with the melted butter. Or take the biscuits in a zip lock cover and powder it coarsely with the chappathi roller. 


2.Take a round spring tin. Spread the biscuit mix on the base of the tin. The base should be firm. So press it down tight. Freeze the base for half an hour. Meanwhile prepare the cake mix.


3.Mix hung curd and cream in a bowl. To get hung curd, take almost 4 cups of fresh curd and tie it in a muslin cloth and hang it. The whey will be drained and you will be left with creamy curd.


4. Break the Oreo biscuits in big chunks. Mix in the biscuits to the curd+cream mix. Mix well so that its uniformly blended in.


5.The China grass I used were strands. I put them in warm water for 10 minutes. Then put that bowl in a pan of boiling water for the china grass to fully dissolve. Add the liquefied agar agar to the mix. Mix it well with a spatula Leave in the refrigerator for overnight, to set.


6.Once set, Open the spring tin and serve the cheesecake. You could garnish with some Oreo Biscuits, though I served it plain. 

Paneer Pudine ka Paratha

Ingredients:-

Wheat Flour - 250gms

Pudina 1 cup (chopped finely)

Panner 1-1/2 cup (grated)

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tblsp

Jeera powder - 1 tsp

Green Chillies ( finely chopped) - 3

Lemon juice- 3 tbsp

Salt as per taste

Oil/ghee

Method:-

-Combine wheat flour and salt into a smooth dough.

- Mix crumbled paneer,pudina ,salt, Jeera powder, ginger-garlic paste,green chillies & lemon juice.

-Roll out small disc, place 2tbsp of the stuffing and close the edges

-Flatten it and dust it with more flour and roll out until the stuffing is not seen

-Fry on non-stick tawa with oil.

(TIP : I put the paneer in some hot water before i crumbled it. It makes it very soft and supple.)

Homemade Quick Sreekhand...

My husband and I have this huge sweet tooth and there is usually something sweet in the fridge to bite on after dinner or lunch.. This dessert is Vinod's favorite and every time I make it he licks the bowl clean! It takes 10 minutes to assemble the ingredients and make the dish.. but you need to prepare the curd overnight to get thick cheese like hung curd.

I hope you enjoy the recipe....

Ingredients ( serves 2) :

-2 cups [400 gms] of set curd ( I used nestle set curd)
-2 Pinches of saffron
- Castor sugar ( according to taste)
- Chopped peanuts and almonds
- 3 tablespoons of warm milk.
-2 Tsp of nutmeg


Method:
1. Hang the curd overnight in a muslin cloth.. and let the water in the curd drain out so, that you are left with thick cheese like curd.

2. Throw away the drained water .Put the thick curd in a bowl & add the Castor sugar, Nutmeg,Chopped nuts,milk and saffron.

3. Whisk all the ingredients together and put it in the fridge for about 2 hours. 

4. Serve Chilled... Its yum!