Cuisine Chez Manique

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ingredients 125g butter 150g caster sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 egg, beaten 2 very ripe bananas, mashed 190g self-raising flour...

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

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

"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...

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...

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.

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...

Ingredients 125g butter 250g icing sugar 1 tsp vanilla a few tbsp of milk for dripping consistency Method Simple butter-cream icing -...

Make a rectangle cake of your choice, when cool cover with butter cream icing . Then cover with rolled out blue fondant, roll out some yellow fondant for the sleeves and collar. I looked at a Sri Lanka flag and cut out colours of fondant strips and then hand moulded the lion and 4 leaves for the four corners of the flag.

my mums famous recipe to eat your boiled sweet potatoes/Mung bean/green gram or short eats!! Ingredients Vinegar Chili powder salt sugar...

another gadget makes about 6 cups 8 stuffed waffles - savoury or sweet Ingredients 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 tsp salt 2 tbsp baking...

Thanks to my Daughter Dushinka's Christmas Present of a voucher to attend the t-Lounge by Dilmah cartoon cake making class I learnt how to do this. Needed a crumb coated cake of your choice fondant - white, pink, black, red and yellow an extruder for fondant Rolling pin mat to roll on a toothpick a border or frame cut out with board water and paint brush cornflour to roll out fondant Method To make a tall cake take a cake tin of height 16 cm and 14 cm circumference. Make an

Ingredients Seedless Grapes Strawberries Tinned Peaches Tinned Pears or any on your choice for the cream 400g condensed milk (small tin) 400g heavy cream or (400g cream cheese if you prefer) 1 yolk of an egg 1 tsp Vanilla essence for the ganache (for a harder topping) 200 g chocolate slab 200 g Heavy cream (for a softer topping) 200 g chocolate slab 200 g cream cheese Method First wash all the fruits and keep to drain. Then cut the strawberries in small pieces, cut the grape

Ingredients 120 gm granulated sugar 4 extra large eggs at room temperature (each egg should weigh approx. 70 gms) A pinch of salt 1 tsp...

Ingredients Chicken breast (dending on how many you need) 3 Potatoes half a yellow and red Pepper a few pieces of cubed ham 1/4 tsp black...

Ingredients Slabs of Chocolate milk, dark and white smarties jellies gummy bears mini marshmallows sprinkles M&Ms mini oreo cookies Items...