Guest Post by Vimitha Anand: Grilled Honey Pineapple in Chocolate Sauce

It seems like the year 2013 was just born but it's already the 3rd day, today will be the final day of celebration with Guest post from my fellow blogger sisters. To end it I have invited our lovely Vimitha Anand again to a guest post for me, she's not someone new to my space. Her first guest post for me was Sabudana Vada on 23rd October 2012, she shared a lot of wonderful recipes in her blog My Culinary Trial Room. Now let us see what she have prepared for us;

Like all the food bloggers out there, I wanted to end 2012 with a recap, a thankyou note and a wish. But then the kid never allows me to sit in front of the laptop these days. So giving up on the replay post, I moved on to other thoughts. A whole lot of ideas have been going through my mind on what to post on new year's eve. Orange curd tartlets or a chocolate mudcake.. why not butterscotch blondies (..oh the blondies have been in my to-do list for a long time) or nutella brownie bites. Ideas seem to come pouring. But I just couldn't bring myself together to bake something. And just like a booster, came by the FB msg from Karthi. She wanted another guest post for her beautiful blog and the theme was Xmas and new year. Since I had already posted a Christmas fruit cake for this year, I took up the theme of New Year. Not wanting to do an elaborate bake, I wanted to keep it simple and when I saw a fully riped pineapple sitting on my kitchen counter, I knew what the recipe was going to be. Its a simple but elegant dish and is best served hot, topped with a dollop of ice cream and drenched in chocolate sauce.

WISHING YOU ALL A HAPPY AND SAFE YEAR AHEAD

~*What U Need*~ For the chocolate sauce/gravy Butter - 2 tbsp Unsweetened cocoa powder - 1 tbsp Flour - 1 tbsp Sugar - 2 tbsp Milk - 1/2 cup Vanilla - 1/2 tsp How How I Made it: Chocolate Sauce: Heat butter in skillet. Stir in flour, cocoa powder and sugar and continue to cook over low heat for 2-3 minutes. Add the milk slowly say 1 tbsp at a time, whisking till incorporated. Cook for another 2 minutes, until thick. Add vanilla and remove from flame.

Store in air tight containers...

~*What U Need*~ For the Grilled Honey Pineapple Pineapple slices - 4, fresh or drained Honey - 2 tbsp Butter - 2 tbsp How I Made it: Grilled Honey Pineapple: Heat butter in a grill or griddle. Place the pineapple once the grill is hot, drizzle honey around the sides and cook for 3-4 mins till nice and caramelized. Flip, drizzle more honey and cook again. Once caramelized remove from pan.

Serve hot, with a dollop of ice cream (..which I missed) and drizzled with chocolate sauce.

** My Notes: ** Use fresh pineapple or canned ones. If using canned drain the juices fully. ** Using a grill gives the beautiful lines, but since I didn't have one, I used a griddle. But I highly recommend using a grill. ** You can also add 1 tsp of lime juice and 1/4 tsp of cinnamon. ** I used Cadbury's cocoa powder and hence skipped the vanilla. ** Cook till forms a thick custard and if it is too thick, dilute using milk to the desired consistency ** The sauce can be stored and used within 2 days. Serve as a dip for fruit bites or breads. So that's it Folks... 

With Love, Signs off!!!

Malaysian Style Pineapple Tart

This s very famous cookie in Malaysia, almost everyone would have tasted at least once. I have got order for this cookie also, it's delicious Pineapple Tart. Let me introduce star of the show;

Let us check how I made this cookie, its quite tedious but fun making it...

Ingredients:

Crust (150pieces)
2 1/2 cups of all purpose flour
2 1/2 tbsp of custard flour
2 tbsp of corn flour
1 tsp of vanila extract
1 tbsp of sugar
1 cup of butter
1 tbsp of ghee
1 egg yolk (beaten for egg wash)

Pineapple Jam
1 whole pineapple grated
2 cups of sugar (reduce if pineapple is sweet)
1 screw-pine leaf

Cook over low heat all the ingredients for jam, it takes about 3- 4 hours to get thick jam. Cool it while making the dough for crust.

This is a very simple crust making method, mix all the dry ingredients 

to the wet ingredients and knead well until soft, leave aside

Using a cookie press, squeeze out dough like above

Roll out small amount of pineapple jam and place it on one side of the dough, you 

may ask why I have two jam rolls, I just wanted to make everything fast because 

it do take a long time to complete the whole process

Roll out the end of dough where we have placed the jam and roll to a complete cylinder

See how to roll it?

Arrange the tarts on a baking tray 

Apply egg wash on one side of the cookie and bake at 150 degree for 15- 20 minutes, 

make sure you heat the oven 5 minutes earlier before baking

Our Pineapple Tart now is ready to be served

Do try and let me know how it was!

I'm sending this recipe to Love2Cook Malaysia's Event Deepavali Delights 2012

Pineapple, Cucumber Pachadi

Ingredients:

1 cup pineapple chopped
1 cup cucumber sliced
1/2 cup of sliced onion
1 tbsp of plain yogurt
A pinch of salt

Mix all the ingredients above, chill and ready to serve. Such a simple method of making pachadi, you can replace plain yogurt with mayonnaise. This pachadi is so tasty when served with Briyani, Ghee Rice or Pilaf.

Do try out this recipe and let me know how was it.