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Salad Grande

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Salad Grande is my very own salad which was a big hit on one of my dinner parties. It goes great as side salad with grilled meat and meatloaf and people go crazy over this. It is like spring in a bowl ❤

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Ingredients:

  • 3 cups 4 leaf lettuce mix (coral, cos, endives, baby spinach)
  • ½ cherry tomato halves
  • 1 medium red onions (sliced into rings)
  • ½ cup pitted and halved Kalamata olives
  • 1 continental cucumber sliced into semi circles
  • 1 avocado (diced)
  • ½ cup chopped walnuts
  • 1 tbspn pine nuts (fresh)
  • 2 tbspns freshly grated Parmesan cheese
  • 1 spring onion (only green part, sliced diagonally)

FOR DRESSING

  • 4 tbspns lemon juice
  • Some freshly cracked black pepper
  • Some sea salt
  • 1 thai red chilli (finely chopped)
  • 1 big clove of garlic (minced)
  • A drizzle of extra virgin olive oil
  • 1 tspn apple cider vinegar (Optional)

Method:

  1. Wash, pat dry and cut all the vegetables as per instructions and place them in a mixing salad bowl.
  2. In a separate bowl mix all the ingredients for dressing and whisk. Drizzle this dressing over the salad. Mix and toss.
  3. Take out the salad onto the serving dish and garnish with some walnuts, pine nuts and freshly grated Parmesan cheese.
  4. Serve.

 

Triple Chocolate Caramel Brownies

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A teeni tiny piece of heaven…… decadent, chocolaty and ultimate….. Try now 😀

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Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • ¾ cup of All Purpose Flour
  • ¾ cup of Cocoa Powder
  • ½ cup of Unsalted Butter, at room temperature
  • 1 cup of Granulated Sugar
  • 3 Eggs
  • ¼ tsp of Salt
  • 2 tsp of Vanilla Extract
  • 1 cup of Chopped Walnuts
  • 1 cup of White Chocolate Chips
  • 1 cup of Semisweet Chocolate Chips
  • 2/3 cup of Caramel Sauce (Ayesha’s Kitchen recipe/ Store bought)
  • ½ tsp of Instant Espresso Powder

Procedure:

-Grease a square non-stick brownie pan and line the sides and the bottom with baking paper.

-Preheat oven to 175 degrees Celsius.

-Combine all-purpose flour, cocoa powder, salt and coffee granules in a bowl and sift it. These are your dry ingredients.

-Now in a big mixing bowl cream butter and sugar with spatula or you can use electric hand mixer to do this job for you.

-Switch to hand whisk and whisk in one egg at a time until the mixture is creamy in texture. Add vanilla and your sifted dry ingredients.

-Whisk until the mixture is combined (DO NOT OVER MIX, WE DON’T WANT BREAD DOUGH).

-Divide the mixture into two parts.

-Pour one part into the greased pan, making it even.

-Now in a separate bowl combine your chocolate chips and walnuts and spread them over the brownie batter in the pan. Pour over some caramel sauce.

-Now lay the layer of the other part of the brownie mixture on the caramel and nuts. Patiently, spread it as even as possible. Please make sure all the caramel and chocolate is covered.

-Bake for 30 – 35 minutes (depending on the oven).

-Take it out and let it cool completely for 30 – 40 minutes because we have caramel inside and if we will cut the pieces now it’s going to be a runny mess.

-Peel off the baking paper and cut it into squares. (Probably 9 squares)

-Serve as it is with tea or coffee and if you are like me (don’t drink coffee or tea), serve it with a side of your favourite ice cream, some whipped cream and strawberries or any other berries.

-Enjoy!

 

Banana Walnut Muffins with Maple Butter Glaze

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Banana Walnut Muffins …….. a warm delight in winters and spring season. Whenever it comes to banana bread or banana muffin, I like it with Cappuccino or mocha. Try this easy recipe and enjoy….

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients

  • 2 cups (250g) plain flour
  • 1 teaspoon bicarb soda
  • pinch salt
  • 115g butter
  • 115g dark brown soft sugar
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 500g (3 – 4 large bananas) mashed overripe bananas
  • 200 gms chopped walnuts

FOR MAPLE BUTTER

  • 100 gms Melted butter
  • 100 gms maple syrup

Procedure:

-Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Lightly grease and line 24 cup muffin tray.

-In a large bowl, combine flour, bicarb soda and salt.

-In a separate bowl, cream together butter and brown sugar. Stir in eggs and mashed bananas and chopped walnuts until well blended. Stir banana mixture into flour mixture; stir just to moisten. Pour mixture into prepared loaf tin.

-Bake in preheated oven for 15 – 25 minutes, until a knife inserted into the muffins comes out clean. Leave to cool in tin for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a wire cooling rack.

-For butter mix in all the ingredients given for maple butter and glaze the hot muffins with it.

Chocolate Walnut Fudge Cake

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On our 5th Nikah Anniversary …….

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Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • 4 eggs
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • ¾ cup caster sugar
  • 4 tbspns melted cooking chocolate (melted in double broiler/ chocolate syrup)
  • 1 cup self-rising flour
  • 1 tbspns cocoa powder
  • 2 tbspns melted butter + extra for greasing
  • ¾ cup chopped walnuts

FOR ICING AND DECORATION

  • Some walnut halves to decorate
  • 2 tbspns milk
  • 2 tbspns cream
  • 3 tbspns melted chocolate (melted in double broiler/ chocolate syrup)
  • 100gms butter
  • 1 cup icing sugar
  • 1 tbspn honey
  • 2 tbspns nutella spread

Procedure:

-Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius.

-Grease a spring form pan (18cm).

-Sift the flour and cocoa together.

-Melt the chocolate (75gms chopped dark cooking chocolate) in double broiler or over boiling hot water. (Make sure when you are making the cake mixture, you have everything ready and handy).

-In a mixing bowl, crack 4 eggs and add both the sugars. Beat for 10 minutes with an electric beater until the mixture is pale and fluffy and trail is left when the whisk is dragged across the surface of the mixture.

-Add sifted flour and fold into the eggs and sugar mixture with a wooden spoon or palette knife.  Fold in the melted butter, chocolate and chopped walnuts.

-Pour into the prepared spring form tin and bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes or until springy on the touch.

-Leave to cook in the tin for 5 minutes. Then transfer to a wire rack and leave too cool completely.

-To make the icing combine everything together in mixing bowl and whisk until its smooth, use electric beater for smooth icing.

-Cut the cake into two halves.

-Spread the icing on one half and sandwich it with the other one.

-Spread the icing on the top of the cake and on the sides.

-Decorate with some walnuts and refrigerate for 2 hours.

-Serve.

“LIFE IS  A PIECE OF CAKE”

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ayesha’s Kitchen