Cookbook Of The Calendar Month July 2018: The Cardamom Trail.

Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu!
In the Name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful
Another month, another cookbook!

This month, I've been cooking together with baking my agency through Chetna Makan's The Cardamom Trail. I exclusively bought this mass every bit it was at a reduced cost on Amazon final year. But honestly, it's turned out to locomote a existent gem. Don't you lot honey it when that happens? The recipes are a mix of sweetness together with savoury alongside many dissimilar spices together with their uses highlighted throughout the book. Even though I cooked i dish from each chapter, in that place are even hence so many recipes that I didn't larn to travail out. Things similar gulab jamun doughnuts (!!), chicken naan, masala chai baklava, together with dal kachori. So excited to give all of them a become every bit presently every bit I'm able!
Here's what I did make:
Cakes - Lychee Cake: This is a cake that when flicking through the mass truly intrigued me. I retrieve eating fresh lychees every bit a tyke but haven't truly eaten them inwards a long time. Time to purchase some!

The recipe used tinned lychees together with it used both the fruit together with the syrup.

I made 2 20cm circular cakes. The sponges had chopped lychees running through them along alongside ground almonds to assistance soak upward whatever extra moisture. I used gluten-free self-raising flour for these cakes.

Whilst the cakes cooled, I whisked upward double cream together with also made a quick caramel sauce. Some of the sauce was whisked into the cream too.

Here nosotros are laid upward to assemble. There are the cooled lychee cakes, lychees, caramel sauce, reduced lychee syrup, together with whipped caramel cream.

Both cakes were brushed alongside the lychee syrup before being sandwiched alongside the whipped cream.

On top, I drizzled over the remaining caramel sauce together with stuck on the leftover lychees.

Sliced together with approved past times all peculiarly the youngest! The cake was truly fragile together with paired good alongside the whipped cream. The lychee season comes through a fleck but non that much. It's to locomote expected truly considering what a fragile season they have.

Pies together with Tarts - Degi Mirch Chicken Pie: We honey a practiced pie together with nosotros honey a practiced chicken curry hence this recipe was a must-make.

It's filled alongside a chicken curry filling spiced alongside whole spices, soil spices, together with the degi mirch. Degi mirch is a blend of chillies. I didn't convey whatever inwards the household hence used a Kashmiri chilli pulverization instead.

The pie was topped with a shortcrust pastry spiced alongside turmeric together with dried fenugreek. It was prissy plenty together with made a alter from the commons weeknight meals.
Pies together with Tarts - Curry Onion Tart: This is the final recipe I cooked from the book. I had all the ingredients inwards the household together with this spiced twist on a quiche seemed similar the perfect repast for a Summer evening.

I started the recipe past times blind-baking the smoked paprika shortcrust pastry case.

In went a filling of golden onions, fresh coriander, dark mustard seeds, curry leaves, together with dried ruby chillies.

Finally, a mixture of cream, eggs, together with egg yolks.

Ready to bake!

Baked! The tart was truly delicious except for i matter that was my ain fault. I set inwards likewise much salt! 😒
Sweet Things - Mango together with Praline Eclairs: I truly baked these eclairs on the twenty-four hours of the World Cup Final. My alternative of French eclairs went downward quite good every bit French Republic won!

I started past times making a lime choux pastry together with pipage it out onto baking trays.

Baked together with laid upward to cool! I usually convey the worst fourth dimension alongside choux pastry but I was hence pleased that these eclair shells turned out well. For me, the substitution is to add together the eggs to the pastry inwards stages - non all at once!

Next, I made a hazelnut praline. Guys, this was hence addictive. We could non stop snacking on it!

To create sum the eclairs, I whisked upward a filling of double cream, mascarpone cheese, sugar, and mango puree. I also stirred inwards a few tablespoons of the praline.

The pastry shells were sliced inwards one-half together with filled alongside the mango praline cream.

And, together with hence things went wrong! My chocolate glaze had chocolate-brown saccharide inwards it together with it wasn't fully dissolved.  Other than that, these eclairs were pretty good. They were my root ones always that had a dissimilar season inwards them.
Savoury Small Bites - Spinach Pakoras: I had a handbag of spinach inwards the refrigerator together with decided to brand these pakoras for luncheon i day. So glad I did because these were amazing!

Here's the batter laid upward to fry. It's spinach, onion, fresh coriander, light-green chillies, ginger, salt, gram flour, together with cornflour (the recipe used rice flour but I ran out). I added inwards H2O together with mixed until I had a thick batter.

The pakoras were crispy, real addictive, together with I honey that the spinach was the star of the show!

Breads - Garlic Naan alongside Aloo Sabji: I'm currently looking for a practiced garlic naan recipe hence idea I would give this i a go.

The recipe was really practiced together with had me grill the naan under a hot grill. Our grill is pretty powerful but I suppose if yours isn't, you lot could brand these naans inwards a hot pan too.

On top, nigella seeds, fresh coriander, garlic, together with light-green chillies. The dough was brushed alongside H2O together with hence the toppings stuck to it. Later, later the naans were cooked I brushed them alongside butter.

To serve alongside the naan, a uncomplicated aloo sabji. I've never truly cooked a curry alongside only Irish Gaelic patato earlier but this was pretty good. We ate it alongside the naan together with the cucumber raita below.

Accompaniments - Cucumber Raita: This cooling raita was what nosotros ate alongside the naan together with Irish Gaelic patato curry above. It went truly alongside them!

All you lot do is stir together yoghurt, salt, chilli powder, ground cumin, chopped mint, together with grated cucumber. Perfect for Summer!

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Assalamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu!