Caramel Flan

Sugar 1/2 cup

Egg - 3

Condensed Milk - 1/4 cup

Milk - 1 cup

Cinnamon powder - 1/4 tsp

To make Caramel, heat Sugar with 2 tbsp. Water in a saucepan over medium-high heat until it melts. When you get a nice Caramel color, remove the pan from heat and pour the Caramel into pudding bowl. Tilt the bowl to cover all sides of the bottom.

In a large bowl, beat the Eggs, warm Milk, Condensed Milk and Cinnamon powder until combined. Make sure no lumps are formed. Pour the mixture over caramelized Sugar.

Cover the bowl with aluminum foil and place it inside a pan with boiling water. Cover the pan with lid and cook for 20 minutes over medium heat.

Insert a fork/knife near the center of pudding and check if it comes out clean.

Remove the pan from heat and let cool down t0 room temperature.

Refrigerate for 2 hours and gently transfer to a plate.

Enjoy!

Bakewell Tart

Dough

• 1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour (about 7 1/8ounces)

• 1/3 cup powdered sugar

• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes, plus more for greasing

• 1 large egg yolk

• 1 tablespoon cold water

Filling

• 1 1/4 cups super finely ground blanched almond flour (about 4 1/3 ounces)

• 1/2 cup granulated sugar

• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour (about 1 1/2ounces)

• 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cubed, at room temperature

• 1/2 teaspoon almond extract

• 1 large egg, at room temperature

• 1/3 cup seedless raspberry jam

• Sliced blanched almonds (optional)

• Powdered sugar

Make the dough

Place flour, powdered sugar, and salt in bowl of a food processor, and pulse twice to combine. Add butter, and pulse until butter is a mixture of pea-sized and smaller pieces. Whisk together egg yolk and water in a small bowl; slowly add to processor bowl through food chute, pulsing until just combined, about 34 pulses. (Mixture will not come together in 1 mass. Stop pulsing when dough is crumbly but holds together when squeezed.)

Evenly press dough on bottom and up sides of a 9-inch fluted round tart pan with a removable bottom. Prick dough using a fork; chill in freezer for at least 30 minutes or up to 12 hours. (Cover chilled dough once firm if freezing overnight.)

When ready to bake, preheat oven to 375°F. Remove tart pan from freezer; lightly grease 1 side of a sheet of aluminum foil with butter. Carefully line tart pan using aluminum foil, butter side down touching dough, and fill with pie weights; place tart pan on a rimmed baking sheet.

Bake the dough for 20 minutes; remove from oven, and remove foil and pie weights. Continue baking the crust until golden brown, 10 to 20 minutes. (If crust bubbles up while baking, carefully redock and deflate using a fork.) Let crust cool in tart pan on a wire rack until room temperature, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Meanwhile, reduce oven temperature to 350°F.

Make the filling

Place almond flour, granulated sugar, all-purpose flour, and salt in bowl of food processor (no need to clean it first); pulse until combined, about 4 pulses. Add butter, almond extract, and egg; pulse until just combined, about 6 pulses, stopping to scrape down sides of bowl as needed.

To assemble, evenly spread jam over bottom of cooled crust placed on same rimmed baking sheet; spoon almond flour mixture evenly over top and spread into an even layer. Sprinkle with almonds (if using).

Bake the tart until the filling is puffed and golden brown, and a cake tester inserted into center  of tart comes out clean, about 40 minutes, rotating tart pan 180 degrees halfway through baking time and tenting using aluminum foil if edges of crust are overbrowning.

Let cool in tart pan on a wire rack until room temperature, 1 hour, 30 minutes to 2 hours. Remove tart from pan, and transfer to a platter. Dust with powdered sugar before serving.

Adai

Idly Rice – 1 cup

Thuvar Dhal – 1/4 cup

Channa Dhal – 1/4 cup

Urad Dhal – 1/4 cup

Moong Dhal - 1/8 cup

Red Chilli – 5

Fennel - 1 tsp

Ginger - a small pc.

Onion – 1, chopped

Coconut – ¼ cup, grated

Curry Leaves - chopped

Drumstick Leaves / Spinach - 1 cup, chopped (optional)

Asafetida – 1 tsp

Salt

Gingelly Oil

In a medium bowl add Idly Rice, Thuvar Dhal, Channa Dhal, Urad Dhal and Moong Dhal. Wash the Rice and Dhal well until the water runs clear; then let soak in Water along with Red Chillies for at least 4 hours.

Grind the soaked Rice and Dhal to a fine paste along with Fennel seeds and a small piece of Ginger.

Transfer the Batter to a bowl and add Onion, Coconut gratings, Curry Leaves, Drumstick leaves, Asafetida and required Salt. Mix well.

Heat Dosa Tawa in medium heat. Grease with Oil. Pour a big ladle of Batter in the tawa and spread evenly. Pour Gingelly Oil around the corners of the Adai. Turn over and cook other side also.

Serve warm with Aviyal, Butter and Jaggery or any other South Indian Chutneys.