Puchka Fillings

A must try dessert!

Here go the ingredients in my recipe of puchka fillings:

• 10-15 pani puris / puchkas / gol gappas ( easily available in Indian stores)

• Dark or Light chocolate slabs (your choice) (melted either using double boiler or microwave)
• ½ ltr milk
• Few pistachios, almonds, kesar (saffron) strands
• 2-3 tbsp sugar
• Any fruit of your choice (strawberries, kiwis, mango, anything!)
• Mint leaves (for decoration)
• Chocolate sauce (for decoration)

Let’s make this yummy dessert:

1. Make a hole in the centre of the puchkas. Coat the outer layer of the puchkas with chocolate. Refrigerate till the chocolate layer hardens.
2. Make rabdi from the milk: Keep boiling the milk in a pan till it thickens, gently stirring continuously.
3. Ensure that you keep stirring so that milk does not stick at the bottom and end up burning.
4. Add almonds, pistachios, saffron strands. When thick, add the sugar.
5. Switch of the gas. When cool, refrigerate.
6. At the time of serving, fill the rabdi in the puchkas. Top it up with fruit pieces. Here I used kiwis in one and mangoes in the other.
7. Decorate with mint leaves and chocolate sauce.

Mixed Fruit Punch

Ingredients:

• 2 oranges (or 2 tbsp tang juice or orange crush)
• 2 sweet lime (or 2 tbsp sweet lime crush)
• 1 lemon
• 1 inch piece ginger juice
• Sugar syrup ( take ¼ cup sugar and ½ cup water and keep it on flame till it becomes a syrup)
• 2-3 drops orange fruit essence
• 2 tbsp apple or pineapple or banana (finely chopped)
• 10-12 mint leaves (finely chopped)
• Crushed ice
• Vanilla ice-cream (optional)

Directions:

1. Extract all juices and mix them together. Pour a scoop of vanilla ice-cream over it. Garnish with mint leaves and apple.

Tips and tricks:

Make sure the fruit punch is made in a glass. Citric fruits in steel vessels can turn sour.