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Marshmallow Pudding
Ingredients 2 egg whites ½ cup sugar 2 tsp Gelatine powdered ½ cup warm water 2 tsp vanilla 2 types of colouring if desired Butterscotch...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 13, 20221 min read
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Pear Pudding with Chocolate Sauce
Ingredients For the pudding 2 x 415g cans pear halves in juice, drained 125g plain flour 25g cocoa powder 125g caster sugar 150g unsalted...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 13, 20221 min read
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Butter Cake - Method 2 This quantity makes 2 lb
Ingredients ½ lb flour ½ lb sugar ½ lb butter ½ lb eggs (about 4 eggs) 2 tsp baking powder 2 tsp vanilla Add a little milk for dropping...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 13, 20221 min read
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Vadai or Vade - savoury fried snack
You could use Channa/chickpea Dal or Masoor/Red lentil dal Ingredients 1 cup Masoor Dal (Red lentils) or Chickpea(Channa) Dal ¾ cups Red...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 11, 20221 min read
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Grilled Prawns
Ingredients Prawns Lemon Garlic Salt Chilli powder Olive oil Chopped parsley Method Wash and devein the prawns. Line a baking tray with...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 11, 20221 min read
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Chili Chicken
Ingredients 1 ½ cups of cashew nuts (optional) 6-10 dried chillies 1 1/2 kg chicken breasts 4 table spoons all-purpose flour Method for...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 10, 20221 min read
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Brownies (Microwave)
Ingredients 2 1/2 cups (565g) sugar 1/2 cup (115ml) water 2/3 cup (115g) chocolate 70% or so, roughly chopped 1 1/2 cups (213g)...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 10, 20221 min read
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Stir fried Noodles with Shrimp and Vegetables
Ingredients lb. raw, shrimps 3 tablespoons oil 3 cloves garlic 1 onion 1 head green cabbage 2 large carrots 1/2 leek 8 ounces Chinese...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 10, 20221 min read
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Brownies - another method
Ingredients 100 g butter 300 g dark chocolate 4 eggs 130 g sugar a pinch of salt 1 pkt vanilla sugar 100 g flour 150 pecan nuts - I used...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 9, 20221 min read
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Breudher
Ingredients For the bread dough: 350 g flour 1 tsp salt 1 egg 2 tsp sugar 2 tsp yeast 250 ml Luke warm milk For the cake part: 3 eggs 175...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 9, 20221 min read
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Chicken Skewers with Teriyaki Sauce
Ingredients Chicken breasts Soy sauce Mirin Sake Sugar Honey (optional) Skewers For the Teriyaki sauce Add equal parts soy sauce, mirin,...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 7, 20221 min read
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Christmas cakes Ideas-How to decorate
Make the Christmas cake recipe of your choice. Once the cake is ready, you add a bit of warmed jam and then add a rolled out piece of...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 7, 20222 min read
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Teriyaki King Prawns
Ingredients 24 King Prawns 2 Tablespoons butter 1 1/2 Tablespoons teriyaki sauce spring onion for decoration nb. shrimp sauce for serving ...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 7, 20221 min read
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Mixed fried rice
Ingredients Basmati Rice Water 1 egg - beaten 1-2 cloves garlic crushed Peppers 3 colours – chopped fine Coriander leaves – chopped A...

Manique Abayasekara
Nov 7, 20221 min read
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Home made Chow Chow (Chayote) - Preserve
This can be used for your Christmas cake. Ingredients 620 g Chow Chow fruit 525 g sugar 1 tsp salt 250ml water Method Peel off skin of...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 31, 20221 min read
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Raspberry Coulis
Ingredients 1/2 cup sugar 3 tablespoons water 1 lb fresh raspberries or 12 ounce bag of frozen raspberries, thawed Method Heat the sugar...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 30, 20221 min read
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Waffles - another method
I was able to make 9 waffles with this quantity Ingredients 250 g Flour 3 pkts (24g) of Vanilla Sugar 100 g butter/margarine 3 eggs 1 1/2...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 29, 20221 min read
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How to - Vanilla Sugar
Ingredients 200 g sugar 1 vanilla bean/pod 1 tsp cornflour/flour Method Cut vanilla bean/pod into pieces and add to the sugar. Then put...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 29, 20221 min read
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Chocolate mousse with Raspberry Coulis
Ingredients for Chocolate mousse 330 g bittersweet (60-68%) chocolate, finely chopped (2 milk slabs and 1 dark slab) 2 sheets (4 g) sheet...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 29, 20222 min read
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Zucchini Cutlets (Courgette)
Ingredients 4 small zucchini 1 carrot 1 potato salt 100 g cheese 3 pips garlic 2 Eggs pepper/salt/chili powder bread crumbs olive oil...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 28, 20221 min read
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Love Cake
Ingredients 250 g cashew nuts (chopped fine) 300 g sugar 250 g butter 250 g semolina (coarse) 250 g pumpkin preserve (chopped fine) 8 egg...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 12, 20221 min read
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Strawberry and Passion Fruit Jam
Ingredients 500g Strawberries 5 passion fruits 90 gm of Gelling Sugar-this contains pectin 100 gm Castor sugar 2 sterilised jars...

Manique Abayasekara
Oct 11, 20221 min read
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