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My rice puddings


Kiwi, rice pudding & short bread
Kiwi, rice pudding & short bread

There are many ways to make rice pudding more  and enjoyable. Just find your preferred ingredients around the house and create until you find the best way you like your pudding.

Ingredients for 2 portions:

  • 120g Ambrosia rice pudding
  • 3 Kiwis
  • 3 short bread biscuits or ginger biscuits
  • Jam or Marmalade
  • Plain pumpkin seeds
Liquidised Kiwi, sliced kiwi, chopped seeds, shortbread and rice pudding

The option below has: liquidised kiwi, rice pudding topped with short crushed shortbread.

Rice pudding and kiwi

This next one was simply served in a wine glace with marmalade and poppy seeds. Any jam will do, but  like the contrast between the bitterness of the marmalade and the soft sweetness of the rice pudding.

Rice pudding & Marmalade
Rice pudding & Marmalade

The next one  was simply layered in the following order: Rice pudding, diced kiwi, chopped seeds.

Rice pudding, kiwi & pumpkin seeds
Rice pudding, kiwi & pumpkin seeds

You can also top your rice pudding with cooked berries and red fruits jams. Just have to find your own combo… Have fun.

Download the booklet to find out facts about ingredients in the did you know section.

Did you know? Pumpkin seeds are a very popular ingredient in Mexican and West African cuisine? In Cameroon for example, the seeds are dried then, turned into a flour that will be used to cook a savoury loaf in the style of a meat loaf. The seeds can be used also to make dumplings in some sauces. These seeds are very, very high in Iron.

 

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Homemade biscuits


Homemade biscuits - gift
Homemade biscuits – gift

Find the downloadable book on the about page.

Ingredients:
 400g self raising flour
 2 tablespoons powdered milk
 1 egg
 50g butter
 1 lemon zest
 50g sugar
 Pinch of salt (not if you are using salted butter)
 Dark chocolate
 White chocolate
 Vegetable oil

Method:
Preheat the oven at 180C and place the butter in it for 3 minutes to melt.

Biscuit dough
Biscuit dough 1

Dissolve the milk in 50ml of water, then, beat together the melted butter, milk, salt, sugar and whole egg.
Beat them until the sugar granules are completely dissolved. Now sieve into the mix the flour.
Add the lemon zest and work the dough with your hands until it becomes a soft non-stick ball.

Wrap the dough in cling film and leave it to rest for about 10 minutes while you tidy up and create a space to roll and shape the biscuits.

Biscuits dough 2
Biscuits dough 2

Using a rolling pin or a clean full size wine bottle, flatten a portion of the dough on a surface dusted with flour. The thinner the dough, the crunchier will the biscuits be. After flattening the dough, slice it and create shapes. If there are children about, this is the time to let them loose. Let them shape the biscuits.

Biscuit shaping 1
Biscuit shaping 1

Once they are all shaped, place them on the oven tray and put it in the oven for 15-20 minutes at 180C depending on how thin the biscuits are. If your oven tray is scratch free, there is no need to butter or grease it before hand as the biscuits are dry enough not to stick.

Biscuit shaping 2
Biscuit shaping 2

Once all the biscuits have been in the oven, it is time to decorate them. Make a chocolate sauce like the one made for the sponge cake, divide the biscuits.

Read to decorate
Read to decorate

For some of them, just lay them flat on a dish and drizzle chocolate over them in patterns.

Chocolate drizzled biskits
Chocolate drizzled biskits

For the other set, dip one side in the chocolate then, dust with white chocolate shavings and for the other set, just leave it plain.

Dipped, drizzled, plain, dusted... Biscuits
Dipped, drizzled, plain, dusted… Biscuits

That’s it.

All four options
All four options

Offer them gift wrapped and they look expensive and beautiful.

Homemade biscuits
Homemade biscuits

Let me know how yours tasted. 
HJ

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Homemade biscuits
Homemade biscuits

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Be blessed.

Hortense