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Pimientos de Padrón - Peppers as starters or Tapas
Ingredients Green chillies peppers (Padrón peppers) Olive oil Salt Fresh garlic Method It is easy to prepare. Wash and drain the peppers....

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 16, 20241 min read


Frozen Brownie Sundae
Ingredients Brownie layer: Vegetable oil cooking spray 2 tablespoons water 1/4 cup vegetable oil 1 large egg, at room temperature 1 3/4...

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 16, 20242 min read


Potato and Leek bake
Ingredients 2-3 leeks Salt a little butter pepper and salt 1 kg Potatoes 350ml Cream 1 cup milk Salt Black pepper 1 tsp (Suduru) Cumin...

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 7, 20241 min read


Cherry & Strawberry Tiramisu
Inspiration on seeing my niece Hemanthi Nicholas's Dessert!! Ingredients 1/3 cup Cherry Jam/Strawberry jam or Cherry compote (Juice only) 1/4 cup water 1/2 tsp lemon juice 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream 1 cup/240g mascarpone cheese 1/2 cup icing sugar 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 2 cups sliced strawberries 1 cup cherries cut in half 24 lady finger biscuits Method In a bowl of an electric mixer, combine mascarpone cheese, cream, icing sugar, and vanilla extract and beat on medium-hig

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 6, 20241 min read


Baked Vegetables
great to eat with Roast Chicken and Baguette Ingredients 5 large Potatoes 4 large Carrots handful of Radish 2 stalks of Celery 3 Coloured...

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 1, 20241 min read


Baked one tray Salmon
Ingredients 3 or 4 slices of Salmon Cherry Tomatoes Asparagus olive oil salt pepper for Marinade 1 tsp Lemon Zest 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice 1...

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 1, 20241 min read


How to make a truck cake
Items required 5 sheet cakes made sponge cakes and chocolate cakes butter cream icing Coloured fondant Template for truck Oreo cookies Method I baked 2 sets of sponge cakes coloured 2 blue and kept 2 plain. I also made 1 chocolate cake . I had a total of 5 sheet cakes. I printed out a template of a truck for a rough idea what it should look like. I also made butter cream icing according to this recipe, using the 2nd recipe using 340g butter. This was enough to cover the fu

Manique Abayasekara
Jun 1, 20242 min read


Dhal & Chicken Vade - savoury fried snack
Ingredients 1/2 cup Red Lentil (Mysoor) or Chickpea (Chana) Dhal 3-4 Chicken thighs 1 tsp Ginger/Garlic paste 1/4 tsp Saffron 1 tsp Chili...

Manique Abayasekara
May 24, 20241 min read


Spicy Pickled Fresh Vegetable
Ingredients For the mustard paste 100 g mustard seeds 1 piece of ginger 2 cloves garlic apple cider vinegar 1 tsp red chili powder 1 tsp salt 1 Tbsp sugar For the vegetables 2 Carrots handful of Beans 4 to 5 Dates about 4 Green chilies 250 g Red onions Method First wash and dry mustard seeds. Add the dried mustard seeds into the blender then add all the ingredients and cover with apple cider vinegar about an inch above the mustard seeds. Mix through till well blended and fine

Manique Abayasekara
May 20, 20242 min read


Mustard Paste
This mustard paste recipe was given to me by my older sister Anita Dassanayake. Ingredients For the mustard paste 100 g mustard seeds 1 piece of ginger 2 cloves garlic apple cider vinegar 1 tsp red chili powder 1 tsp salt 1 Tbsp sugar Method First wash and dry mustard seeds. Add the dried mustard seeds into the blender then add all the ingredients and cover with apple cider vinegar about an inch or two above the mustard seeds. Mix through till well blended and finely grounded

Manique Abayasekara
May 20, 20241 min read


Fresh Apricot Cake
Apricots over ripe or going to waste?? Ingredients 550 g fresh Apricots (its ok if it is less) 1 Tbsp lemon juice 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 4 large eggs 2 cups all-purpose flour 3 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 1 tsp cinnamon Method Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a 9" springform pan. Keep aside till needed. Wash, cut into half and pit the Apricots. Using a food processor/blender, puree half of the apricots with the lemon juice and set aside. Take the

Manique Abayasekara
May 17, 20241 min read


HOW TO CAKES
Get same size to layer cakes Cake Marked for slicing, measure from top with a ruler and put in a toothpick at the same height. Now run a bread knife staring from one tooth pick,both layers will be the same height. HOW TO CRUMB COAT A CAKE Take a cooled cake, rub a thick layer of buttercream icing and see that all the cake crumbs are locked in. To cover the cake then smoothen out the icing with a spatula. Once this is smoothed out and no crumbs are visible you could cover with

Manique Abayasekara
May 9, 20241 min read


Cookie Fudge in Microwave
Cookie fudge takes 5 minutes to make, it’s the perfect cookies and cream fudge. Ingredients 1 small sweetened condensed milk, 14 oz 480g white chocolate chips 10 Chocolate cookies with white cream/Olo or Oreo cookies ⅛ tsp salt ½ tsp vanilla extract Method Line a square 8 inch dish with aluminum foil. Make sure the foil goes up the sides of the pan so its easy to remove. Set aside till needed. In a glass microwave safe bowl, combine the sweetened condensed milk and white choc

Manique Abayasekara
Apr 17, 20241 min read


Chicken in Airfryer
Ingredients Chicken Pieces Worcestershire sauce Chili sauce 1 Egg Savoury biscuits/Bread crumbs Method I preheat the airfryer at 180° for...

Manique Abayasekara
Apr 4, 20241 min read


Oven Dried Strawberries
Ingredients Strawberries Baking tray Oil paper Method Preheat oven to 350° F. Then wash and remove the tops of your strawberries. Then thinly slice your strawberries and place them on a parchment/oil paper on a baking tray. When you are ready to place your strawberries in the oven, immediately reduce the heat to 200°F. This should be done before baking. After about half hour and the strawberries have not dried out yet keep the oven at the lowest setting. Bake until the to

Manique Abayasekara
Apr 4, 20241 min read


Easy Banana cake – for those very ripe bananas – serves 10
Ingredients 125g butter 150g caster sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 egg, beaten 2 very ripe bananas, mashed 190g self-raising flour...

Manique Abayasekara
Apr 2, 20241 min read


Chocolate Passion Dessert
Ingredients 250 g cooking chocolate 400 ml heavy cream 400 ml passion fruit juice concentrate 1 Tin small condensed milk 12g colourless gelatine Method Melt the chocolate in a microwave at 30 second intervals till melted. Then pour or rub this into a silicon mould, tip and tap and keep in fridge to set. Put a second layer and keep in fridge. Take a small saucepan, keep on stove and add a little bit of the passion fruit concentrate. To this add the gelatine which was stirred

Manique Abayasekara
Apr 2, 20241 min read


Fruit cake
Ingredients 180g Butter 150g Sugar 1/4 tsp Salt 3 Eggs 180g Sultanas 75g orange peel 75g Lemon peel 75g candied cherries 40g dried...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 26, 20241 min read


Dhal/Dal (Lentil) Rice
"Parippu bath" Ingredients 2 cups Basmathi Rice 1 Cup red Lentil/dhal 1 tsp Turmeric salt to taste or you can use a soup cube instead a...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 17, 20241 min read


Brownie with Chocolate mousse
Ingredients for the Brownie layer 1/2 cup/120g unsalted butter 1 cup sugar 2 large eggs 1 tsp vanilla essence 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 17, 20242 min read


Olive Pickle - (Veralu Achcharu)
Ingredients Unripe Olives 1 pinch of Saffron Water 1 tsp Chili powder 1 tsp pepper powder 1 tsp sugar 1 Tbsp Ground Mustard paste 1 Tbsp Vinegar salt to taste If you like it more spicy add more chili powder!! Method Take a saucepan, add the unripe olives, the saffron and water to cover the olives and boil on a slow fire. Do not add salt whilst boiling as it will take a long time to boil. Once the olives have split drain the water, and mash the olives with a spoon or by hand.

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 9, 20241 min read


Sponge cake for Swiss Roll
Ingredients 5 large eggs 100 g sugar 20 g milk 20 g vegetable oil 100g cake flour or all purpose flour Method Pre-heat the oven to 180...

Manique Abayasekara
Mar 7, 20241 min read
