Vermicelli Kunafa Recipe
Ingredients:
2 & 1/2 cup Vermicelli
1 cup Butter (melted)
1/2 cup Mozzarella cheese
1/2 Cottage cheese
1 & 1/2 cup Cream
1 & 1/2 cup Milk
2 tbsp Sugar
2 tbsp Cornstarch
1 tbsp Rose water
Ingredients of sugar syrup:
3 cups Sugar
1 & 1/2 cup Water
1/2 tsp Lemon juice
Directions:
Take vermicelli in a bowl and roughly cut them. Pour melted butter and mix well with your hands.
In a separate bowl mix milk, cream, sugar, cornstarch well.
Turn on the flame and boil the liquid, cook on low flame until gets thick.
Add rose water, mix it well and turn off the flame.
Add mozzarella cheese and cottage cheese in it and mix it well.
In a pan add water, sugar and cook until sugar gets dissolved.
Cook it until thicken and keep on stirring. When syrup is ready add lemon juice in it.
Now make a base with half of the vermicelli in a dish, press it to level the dough well.
Pour the cheese mixture on the top and level it with a spoon.
Cover it with the other half of the vermicelli and brush with a melted butter.
Put the dish in a preheated oven at 200 degree for about half an hour.
It’s ready when kunafa is golden and crunchy in the surface.
Evenly pour the syrup over the kunafa as soon as it comes out of the oven.
Garnish with chopped pistachio and your kunafa is ready to serve.
Preparation Time:20 minutes Cooking Time:30 minutes Serve:8 persons Umm Ali Recipe
Ingredients:
3 cups Milk
4 tbsp Sugar
1 cup Khoya
1 tbsp Cardamom powder
1 cup Cream
3 tbsp Rose water
1 Egg (beaten)
Puff pastry as required
Coconut crushed as required
Almonds crushed as required
Pistachio crushed as required
Raisins as required
Sugar as required
Directions:
In a pan boil milk and sugar, khoya, cardamom powder and cook for 10 to 15 minutes.
Turn off the flame and add cream. Give it a good whisk and set aside.
Preheat the oven at 200 degree. Cut puff pastry into four squares of equal sizes.
Place the puff pastry squares flat on a greased baking tray and brush with egg.
Bake at 200 degree for 15 to 18 minutes puffed and golden brown.
In a dish place baked puff pastry square and sprinkle half of coconut, sugar, pistachio, almond, raisins evenly on top.
Layer it again with baked puff pastry squares and sprinkle the rest of coconut, sugar, pistachio, almond and raisins on it.
Pour milk mixture on top and bake at 180 degree for 15 to 20 minutes.
Garnish with chopped almonds, pistachio and coconut. Can be served hot or cold.
Preparation Time:10 minutes Cooking Time:30 minutes Serve:6 persons Easy Turkish Baklava Recipe
Ingredients of dough:
1 egg
1/2 cup Vegetable oil
1 cup Milk & Water (mix)
4 cup All-purpose flour
2 & 1/2 tsp Baking powder
Salt a pinch
2 cup Butter
2 tbsp Corn starch
2 cup Flour
Ingredients of honey syrup:
1 cup Sugar
3/4 cup Water
1/2 cup Honey
4 Cloves whole
1/4 tsp Vanilla essence
2 tbsp Lemon juice
Ingredients of filling:
1 cups Walnuts (crushed)
1 cup Pistachio (crushed)
1 & 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder
Directions of dough:
In a large bowl add flour, vegetable oil, egg, salt, baking powder and knead a smooth dough with water and milk mixture. And rest it for 15 minutes.
Divide dough in to 4 portions and make balls of each portion and further divide it into 5 balls.
Cover with plastic wrap or damp cloth preventing it from drying out.
Mix cornstarch and flour together in a bowl.
Dust the workplace with cornstarch mix and the roll the ball into circle. And set aside.
Dust again with cornstarch mix and roll out 4 more dough balls.
Stack them on each other and dust each layer with cornstarch mix so they don’t stick together.
Now gently roll all five layers together until they’re paper thin for about 10-12 inches in diameter.
Directions of honey syrup:
In a pan heat water, add sugar, honey, cloves, lemon and mix well.
Boil on medium heat until sugar is dissolved and stir continuously.
Remove from heat and let it cool.
Directions of baklava:
In a bowl mix walnut, pistachio and cinnamon powder well.
In a baking pan place 10 dough sheets on one another and butter each sheet well.
Add a layer of crushed nuts, cover it with five more dough sheet and sprinkle crushed nuts on each sheet.
Now cut it into diagonal shape before baking.
Bake at 160 degree for 1 hour or until the top gets golden.
Remove from oven and immediately pour cooled honey syrup evenly over the hot baklava.
For best result let it sit for 4 to 6 hours on room temperature and serve.
Preparation Time:30 minutes Cooking Time:1 hour 15 minutes Serve:5-6 persons Banoffee Pie Recipe
Ingredients for base:
8 rolls Digestive biscuits
1 cup Butter
Ingredients for banoffee sauce:
1 cup Condensed milk
1 cup Brown sugar
3 tbsp Butter
Ingredients for assembling:
1 cup Banana slices
2 cups Whipping cream
Chocolate shaving for garnish
Directions:
In a chopper add biscuits, butter and mix until well combined.
Set it in the mold and refrigerate for 30 to 40 minutes or until completely set.
In a pan heat butter, add brown sugar and mix it very well.
Then add condensed milk and cook for 5 to 10 minutes until you reach its desired consistency.
When biscuits are set first layer it with banoffee sauce, top it with bananas and whipping cream.
Garnish it with chocolate curls, chill and serve.
Preparation Time:15 minutes Cooking Time:30 minutes Serve:3-4 persons Malai Puri Recipe
Ingredients:
2 cups All-purpose Flour
Milk as required
2 cups Sugar
1 cup Water
Saffron one pinch
1 tsp Cardamom powder
Pistachio for garnish
Almonds for garnish
Directions:
In a bowl add flour and gradually add milk until you get a normal consistency. Keep it aside for 20 minutes.
Heat water in a pan, add sugar, cardamom powder, saffron and mix it well until your sugar syrup is ready.
Heat oil in a pan, pour flour mixture with a cup to make round puri. Shallow fry them.
Dip the puris in the sugar syrup for at least 30 minutes until they are soft.
Garnish with pistachio, almonds and serve.
Preparation Time:10 minutes Cooking Time:30 minutes Serve:3-4 persons Red Velvet Brownies
Ingredients for red velvet:
120g Butter (unsalted)
180g Sugar
120g All-purpose flour
3 Eggs
1/4 tsp Vanilla extract
1 tsp Vinegar
1 tbsp Red food color
2 tbsp Cocoa powder
Ingredients for cream cheese:
250g Cream cheese
45g Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla essence
1 Egg
Directions for brownie batter:
Beat butter and sugar until dissolve and color batter’s changes. Then add eggs and mix.
Then add vanilla extract, vinegar, red food color, cocoa powder and mix with beater.
Add flour and mix it with spatula until well combined.
Directions for cream cheese:
Then in a bowl add cream cheese, sugar, vanilla extract, egg and mix well with a beater.
Directions for baking:
Take a brownie mold, add brownie batter and spread it evenly. Separate 1/4 cup of batter.
Now spread cream cheese mixture on top and spread it evenly.
Now add remaining brownie batter on top and make swirls with help of a toothpick.
Now bake on 180 degree for 20 to 25 minutes. When it’s ready let it cool down.
Put it in refrigerator for 10 to 15 minutes. When it’s cool down cut into squares and serve.
Preparation Time:15-20 minutes Cooking Time:30-35 minutes Serve:6-7 persons Layali Lubnan Recipe
Ingredients for milk & semolina pudding:
1 liter Full fat milk
1 cup Semolina
1/2 cup Caster sugar
2 tsp Sugar
15-20 Rose petals (optional)
1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
Ingredients for Astha cream:
1/2 liter Full fat milk
1/2 cup corn starch
2 tbsp Sugar
2 tsp Rose water
Pistachio for garnish
1/2 cup cottage cheese
Ingredients for sugar syrup:
1 cup Sugar
2 cup Water
1/2 tsp Rose water
1 tbsp Lemon juice
Directions for milk & semolina pudding:
In a pan, mix milk, sugar, semolina and rose water on medium heat.
Keep on mixing, add vanilla extract, mix until mixture starts to boil and thickening.
Remove from flame, then transfer the mixture in the mold and keep it in refrigerator for two hours to set.
Note: grease the pan with cooking oil and spread a butter paper on the base.
In another pan mix milk, cornstarch, sugar and rose water. Keep stirring until sugar dissolves.
Now, turn on the flame and stir continuously until it thickens.
Now turn off the flame and add cottage cheese. Stir well.
Note: you can also sieve the mixture if lumps of cheese are formed to get soft and smooth texture.
Pour over the top of semolina pudding and refrigerate for 2 to 3 hours at least.
In another pan make sugar syrup by mixing water, sugar, rose water and lemon juice.
Cook until sugar dissolves and syrup thicken. Set aside.
Garnish with pistachio, pour the sugar syrup on top and serve.
Preparation Time:20 minutes Cooking Time:50 minutes Serve:7-8 persons How To Make A Sponge | Vanilla Sponge | Chocolate Sponge
Chocolate sponge cake ingredients:
6 Eggs
130g Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla essence
120g All-purpose flour
30g Cocoa powder
1/4 tsp Baking powder
2 tbsp Oil
Salt to taste
Vanilla sponge cake ingredients:
125g All-purpose flour
125g Sugar
50g Oil
6 Eggs
1/2 tsp Baking powder
Salt to taste
Directions for vanilla cake:
In a bowl add eggs, beat until fluffy and color is changed.
Then add sugar, and beat for 1 to 2 minutes more.
Then add vanilla essence, flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt.
Fold it and immediately pour in the greased baking tray. Don’t let the mixture get down.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes at 180 degrees and your cake is ready.
Directions for chocolate cake:
In a bowl add flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, salt and whisk well. Set aside.
Now in a separate bowl add eggs, beat until fluffy and color is changed.
Then add sugar, and beat for 1 to 2 minutes more.
Now add dry ingredients and fold until well combined.
Pour mixture in a greased baking tray. Don’t let the mixture get down.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
Your sponge cakes are ready to serve.
Cooking Time:15-20 minutes Serve:3-4 persons Creamy Fruit Trifle Recipe
Ingredients:
4 slice Bread
2 cup Milk
1/4 cup Sugar
1/2 tsp Cardamom powder
1 tbsp Almonds (chopped)
1 tbsp Pistachio (chopped)
1 tbsp Cashew (chopped)
3/4 cup Jelly powder (strawberry)
3/4 cup Jelly powder (banana)
Water as required
1 & 1/2 cup Jelly (strawberry prepared)
1 ½ cup Jelly (banana prepared)
1 ½ cup Whipped cream
1 cup Banana (chopped)
1 cup Apple (diced)
1 cup Mango (diced)
1/2 cup Cherries
1 cup Cocktail
1/4 cup Sugar
Directions:
Take bread slices and remove their edges, crumble the slices finely.
Bring milk to boil in a pan, add crumbled bread slices and cook until bread absorb the milk.
Add sugar, cardamom powder and crushed nuts. Mix well and set aside.
Boil 1 1/2 cup of water in two pans and make strawberry and banana jelly. Bring it to room temperature and keep it aside to settle down.
Add heavy whipping cream in a large bowl. Beat the cream using beater until fluffy.
Add sugar and fruits in it. Fold the fruits into the whipping cream and set aside.
Take a serving tray, pour and spread a layer of bread mixture evenly.
Make the second layer with strawberry jelly.
Make the third layer of fruits whipped in cream.
Make the fourth layer of green jelly.
Strain the cocktail juice in a bowl and spread the cocktail over the top in the dish.
Decorate it with cherries.
Rest it in refrigerator until totally chilled and set.
Your fruit trifle is ready to serve.
Preparation Time:50 minutes Cooking Time:25 minutes Serve:6-8 persons

Gulab Jamnun

Ingredients for Gulab Jamnun:
500 gm Khoya
50 gm Maida
½ Egg
2 cup water
2 cup sugar
2 cardamoms
1 and half liter oil
Instructions for Gulab Jamnun:
Take a pan
Add 2 cup water
Add sugar and cook it
Now add cardamom and cook for 5-10 minutes
Now take a bowl, add khoya and mash it
Add Maida, Baking powder, ½ egg and mix it well with your hands
Now make Gulab jaman of this
Now add oil in a pan and heat it lightly, add gulab jamon in this oil
Fry these until they turn into light brown
Now garnish with cardamom and dip these gulab jamons into surag syrup for 2 hours
Your yummy gulab jamons are ready to serve

Preparation Time: 3 hours cooking Time: 30 Minutes serve: 4 people Shahi Kulfa Recipe
Ingredients:
2 liter Full Cream Milk
3/4 cup Sugar
4 tbsp. Cornflour
1/2 cup milk
1 cup Khoya
1 tsp Kewra water
1 tsp Cardamom powder
Saffron few strands
4 tbsp. condense milk
1 cup Almonds chopped
2-3 tbsp. Pistachio chopped
Directions:
Heat milk in a pan and bring it to boil. Slow down the flame.
Add sugar and let it dissolve.
Cook until reduced half.
Gradually add corn flour and cook until thickens.
Add khoya, kewra water, cardamom powder, saffron and cook until khoya dissolve.
Add condense milk, cream, almonds and pistachio. Mix it well.
Pour in air tight contain.
Keep it in freezer for 8-10 hours.
Cut it in slices and drizzle some red syrup.
Preparation Time:5 minutes Cooking Time:40-45 minutes Serve:4-5 persons