BLUEBERRY MUFFINS

 

Ingredients:

1 cup maida(refined flour)
4 eggs
1 cup coaster sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
5-7 drops vanilla essence
1 cup or 100 gms refined oil
100 gms. blue berries

Method:

1. Sieve maida along with baking powder two to three times.
2. Switch on the oven (OTG) for preheating at 200* CG or 400* F.
3. Break the eggs in a bowl and beat them with a blender.
4. Mix oil and sugar and blend it till the sugar dissolves completely.
5. Mix beaten eggs mixture with oil sugar mixture.
6. Add one after one spoon of maida mixed with baking powder in the above mixture using cut and fold method with a wooden spoon(do not use blender now) .
7. When the batter is ready add essence and mix with light hand. Dust blue berries with some maida(flour) and add them to the prepared batter and mix .
8. Grease the muffin molds with some oil, and pour in the cake batter.
9. Bake the muffins for 5 minutes at 180*CG or 350*F and and after that for 15-20 minutes at 150* or 300* F. 10.Check it with knife if these are not baked completely then bake them for 5 more minutes.
10. Let them cool and then bring them out of the moulds and the muffins are ready to be served.   

BLUE BERRY FROSTING

 

Ingredients:

15-20 blue berries

2 tbsp sugar

1/2 lemon juice

1 cup whipping cream

Method:

1. Add sugar and lemon juice to blue berries then add 1/2 cup of water and cook for 5-10 minutes on low flame till the sugar dissolves and berries are crushed completely .
2. Let it cool completely then blend it in a blender and strain through a sieve. 
3. Whip the cream in a bow using a whisk or electric beater  till you get soft peaks then add the prepared sauce and mix well.
4. Blue berry frosting is ready to be used. 
5. You can use it to dress muffins,cakes ,waffles etc.

BLUEBERRY SHAKE / BLUEBERRY SMOOTHIE

 

Ingredients:

10-15 blue berries

2 cups milk

3 tsp sugar

1 banana (optional)

2 tbsp crushed ice

whipped cream or vanilla ice cream and mint leaves for garnishing

Method:

1. Put all the ingredients in a mixer or blender and churn well till you get a smooth texture.
2. Pour in the glasses and top with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream ,fresh blue berries and mint leaves.
3. To make blueberry smoothie replace milk with yogurt.

BEL KA SHARBAT / STONE APPLE JUICE

 

Ingredients:

1/2-1 kg bel fruit / stone apple or wood apple)
4 cups water
12 tablespoons sugar or as per taste or natural sweetness of the fruit you are using

1/2 teaspoon of roasted cumin powder (bhuna jeera powder)
1/2 tsp black salt or as per taste
1 lemon juice (optional) 

10-15 mint leaves

Method:

1. With a rolling pin (belan) hit the bel fruit all around. 
2. Outer hard shell will crack. Discard the hard shell and collect the pulp in a bowl with the help of a spoon by scooping out the soft pulp.
3. Then add 1 cup water.
4. Mash the pulp using your hand or a potato masher. Mash very well. If the pulp is hard then soak it in 1 cup water for 1/2 an hour then mash.
5. Then using a strainer, strain the mashed pulp in another bowl. Add one more glass of water to the residual pulp in the strainer mash well  and strain again till all the pulp is squeezed out.  
6. Once the mixture is strained, add sugar.Mix well.
7. Then add mint leaves,lemon juice ,roasted cumin powder and black salt.
8. Mix very well.Add ice if needed.
9. Pour in glasses and serve bel sherbet chilled. You can make the bel sherbet thin or thick by adding more or less water.