Cuisine Chez Manique

Ingredients To make Ambul Thiyal paste 1/4 cup Tamarind paste/Goraka paste 1 tbsp crushed Black Pepper 1 1/2 tsp Salt 1 tsp red Chili Powder 1/4 tsp Garlic Powder  1/4 cup water, can add more You will also need 680g Tuna fish 3 sprigs curry leaves about 10 cinnamon pieces Method To make the paste you can either put tamarind or goraka in water to soak and keep for sometime and then squeeze out the paste and strain it. I used ready made Tamar

Ingredients ½ cup water ½ cup granulated sugar ½ Tbsp vanilla bean paste   Method Take a small or medium saucepan, whisk together water and sugar over medium-high heat. Bring to a simmer, stirring occasionally until sugar is completely dissolved. The liquid should be clear. Remove from heat. Ingredients for Simple Syrup Sugar kept to melt clear sugar syrup  Then stir in the vanilla bean paste to ensure it retains the flavour!  Allow to cool or use immediately. Store in an air

Ingredients Salty Crackers (I used Crisco) Pretzels 120 g white granulated Sugar 85 g butter 1/2 cup heavy cream dark chocolate Method Take a tray, add a piece of aluminum foil and then lay out the Crisco crackers and on top of that lay out the pretzels. Make the caramel, in a heavy bottomed saucepan add the sugar and enough water to look like wet sand and stir until the sugar dissolves completely. Stop stirring once the sugar has dissolved. Turn up the heat to a rolling boil