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Learn: Chaats
Course Content: Here is a die-hard chaat lover’s favourite. It has a wonderfully earthy taste with all the flavours as strong as each other. In this chaat, we have a combination of curried dried peas in a thick, spicy gravy, spooned over crisply fried puris and crowned with the green chutney, tamari...
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Learn: Chaats
Course Content: Here is a chaat with a more straightforward taste. The combination of flavours is less subtle and the taste is a more robust one. This snack is made with puffed rice, mashed potatoes and puris, chopped onions, tomatoes green chillies and ginger. The whole mixture is topped with the sweet a...
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Learn: Chutneys
Course Content: This is another wonderful concoction that works to enhance the spicy taste of the chaat. It combines the intense sweetness of dates with the tart taste of tamarind, offset with a tinge of chilli and cumin powder. The sweet and sour taste works wonderfully with the flavours of chaats.
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Learn: Chutneys
Course Content: This fresh and spicy chutney can add zing to any meal, but is generally served with a variety of chaats. Its basic ingredients are coriander and mint leaves, onions, ginger and green chillies, ground with lemon juice. The green chutney has a delicate flavour, enhancing the more robust tast...
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Learn: Chaats
Course Content: Just when you think you’ve seen it all, here comes a surprise! This amazing preparation combines visual pleasure with the delectable taste of chaat. Here we have a little edible container made of crisply fried wheat flour, which filled with all the chaat ingredients. The filling is a...
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Course Content: Here we have a full-bodied, delicious frankly cheesy sauce! Butter, flour and milk are cooked together over a fire till a thick smooth consistency is obtained. The richness is further enhanced by the addition of cheese, which melts and blends into the sauce, giving it a beautiful golden hu...
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Course Content: Avocados are relatively bland with just a suggestion of a creamy flavour. They lend themselves very well to a combination with other more strong tasting ingredients. The more forceful flavours of other ingredients are toned down by the presence of the avocado. The avocado dip has the flesh...
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Course Content: This sauce has a wonderfully buttery taste, imparted by the ripe avocados. The flesh of the avocado is blended with green tomatoes, red tomatoes, garlic, jalapeno peppers, cilantro and sour cream. The decidedly sour notes are tempered by the mildness of the avocados, to produce a sauce tha...
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Course Content: The “red” of the Red Sauce is derived from tomatoes which form the base of this sauce. The tomatoes are stewed and pureed , generously flavoured with garlic and herbs like basil , parsley and oregano. The mixture is then gently simmered with a splash of red wine and olive oil. ...
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Course Content: Tacos are a perennial favourite and can be prepared using either vegetarian or non-vegetarian ingredients. The vegetarian variety has refried beans in a tomato-based spicy sauce, spooned over warmed corn bread. The crispiness of the corn bread is wonderfully complemented by the sweet and s...
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Learn: Salsa
Course Content: Salsa, which is Spanish for “sauce” is an essential part of Mexican cuisine. It is made with deliciously juicy, fresh tomatoes, chopped onion, lime, salt, pepper and cilantro. Essential ingredients for salsa, are jalapeno peppers and the devilishly hot, serano chilli peppers. T...
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Course Content: Mexican food is a great favourite because it is spicy and flavourful. Nachos is a delicious combination of very lightly spiced tortilla chips heaped with a wonderful mixture of melted cheddar cheese, refried beans, sour cream, red sauce and guacamole. The salty cheese melts into the tangy ...
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Course Content: Chocolate balls are an extravagant combination of crushed biscuit, butter, cocoa, milk and nuts. The balls are roughly formed and melt in the mouth in a burst of smooth chocolate and the crunch of biscuit and nuts. The buttery richness flooding the mouth, makes this a delightful dessert.
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Learn: Marzipan Chocolate
Course Content: Marzipan chocolate is a variation on the nut-filled chocolate. Instead of the crunchiness of roughly crushed nuts, marzipan is made of finely powdered almonds and icing sugar. The mature taste of almonds is combined with the intense sweetness of icing sugar and this mixture is filled into ...
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Learn: Rum & Raisin Delight
Course Content: Rum and raisins is an eternal favourite. Pop a rum and raisin flavoured chocolate into your mouth and suddenly you are swamped with the sweetness of the chocolate and the warm mellow flavour of fine rum. Finally, the grape flavour and the slightly chewy texture of the raisin! A chocolate l...
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Course Content: Another wonderful combination is the chocolate and nuts. Chocolates have been combined with a wide variety of nuts, from the humble peanut to delicious hazel-nuts and almonds. In these chocolates, we have the salty crunchiness of the nuts, melting into the rich sweetness of the chocolate.
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Learn: White Chocolate
Course Content: In white chocolate, the cocoa flavour is the least pronounced. It is sweeter and has a more direct taste than either dark chocolate or milk chocolate. White chocolate, is more about the richness of milk rather than the subtlety of chocolate.
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Course Content: Today, chocolates are available, that combine an amazing range of flavours. We have chocolates with the tangy taste of orange, the crisp flavour of vanilla, as well as the definitely adult whisky and coffee flavoured ones. These unusually flavoured chocolates have definitely changed the pe...
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Course Content: Milk chocolate is creamy and smooth. In milk chocolate, the dense taste of cocoa is less obvious. Milk chocolate is more suited to the palate of a regular chocolate lover. Somebody looking for the satisfaction of a craving for pure unadulterated sweetness, will find this perfect.
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Learn: Dark Chocolate
Course Content: Chocolates have been created to cater to the varying taste of chocolate lovers. There is the wonderful, smoky, mysteriously rich taste of dark chocolate. Dark chocolate has a slightly bitter-sweet undertone, which would suit somebody looking for a chocolate beyond candy. Since milk is not ...
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Learn: Tempering Chocolate
Course Content: Confectioners working with chocolate, found that the low melting point and the tendency chocolate had to seize up when water was added to it, was a problem when creating desserts. That was when tempering of chocolate began, as a process by which the crystals present in the chocolate were u...
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Course Content: This is the ideal stand-by to always have in store. Any simple offering, like a sponge cake or a bowl of fruits gets a touch of instant glamour with a squish of chocolate sauce. Chocolate sauce is easy to prepare. Made with dark chocolate, sugar and butter or cream, this sauce can be given...
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Learn: Chocolate Cake
Course Content: This is a rich, fudge-like, sinfully delicious cake. It is made by melting butter and chocolate and then adding flour, eggs and sugar. Some more eggs are beaten into stiff peaks and folded into the mixture. This is then baked and served with a topping of chocolate butter and chocolate sauc...
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Course Content: This is a beautifully decorated, strongly flavoured cake, consisting of chocolate and cherries. The cake dough has a dollop of condensed milk added to it before baking , giving it a rich taste and a slightly sticky consistency. After baking, the cake is cooled and cut horizontally, into tw...
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Course Content: In this dessert we have a more subtle, fresh flavour. Pineapple slices are simmered in a mixture of sugar and vanilla. The slices are soaked in this syrup for a couple of hours. Then the cake dough is mixed and the pieces of pineapple are put in. This is then baked and served garnished wit...
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Course Content: Here we have a heavy, very sweet dessert, which may not be to everyone’s taste. Darsaan is made by kneading maida, ghee and salt into a dough. This dough is rolled out, cut into thin noodle- like strips and deep-fried in oil. These crisp strips are then mixed with warm honey, till th...
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Course Content: This is an all-time favourite. There is nobody who dislikes this wholesome tasting cake. The sponge cake gets its name from its texture, which is smooth and elastic. It pretty golden colour adds to the delight. Sponge cakes are made by blending flour, sugar, butter lemon rind and vanilla a...
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Learn: Tarts
Course Content: These shells can be used as little containers for any kind of filling. They are made from a mixture of flour and butter, mixed to a smooth consistency with the gradual adding of water. This mixture is allowed to set for a while, cut into pretty shapes and then baked in an oven till golden ...
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Learn: Pies
Course Content: The beauty of this dessert surely belies the ease with which it can be prepared! This truly delicious confection of egg whites and whipped cream, chocolate and sugar, is light and airy and lives up to its name! The secret to the perfect Chocolate Chiffon Cake, lies in whipping the egg whit...
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Learn: Brownies
Course Content: A very simple dessert option, calling for ingredients that are easily available and taking hardly any time to prepare. Chocolate brownies are popular with people of all ages. An uncomplicated preparation of butter, sugar, vanilla, eggs, cocoa powder , flour and baking powder, this dessert ...
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Course Content: This dish takes a little planning. The vadas, which are made of lentils, need to be prepared in advance. For that, the lentils need to be soaked, ground and flavoured with chillies, ginger and salt. This batter is fried golden brown, removed from the fire and soaked in cold water. This is ...
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Course Content: Here we have a chaat that combines the pungent and sweet flavours usually associated with chaats, with the cooling, creamy sensation of yoghurt. In dahi batata puri, we have a lip-smacking combination of the crackly fried puris, spicy boiled and diced potatoes with a generous topping of gr...
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Course Content: This truly is a stroke of culinary genius. After tasting this Pani, you are in heaven because every flavour your taste-buds are longing for, has been masterfully combined. Basically, this pani consists of tamarind pulp combined with a rainbow of flavours like coriander, cumin, ajwain, mint...
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Course Content: This is an eternal favourite that has always held its position in the heart of the chaat lover. Pani Puri consists of three distinct ingredients, all working together to produce that unbeatable taste. The puri is a crisp savoury biscuit, small enough to be eaten in one mouthful. Second, is...
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Course Content: True to its name, here we have thick cream which has a surprise in store! Instead of the heavy, rich, milky taste we associate with cream, sour cream combines the thick consistency of heavy cream with a tartness more akin to yogurt. This surprising combination is very robust and satisfying...
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Learn: Mexican Cuisine
Course Content: This is a wholesome, tasty preparation of Rajma in a sauce of tomatoes, chilli, garlic and onions, simmered in a vegetable broth. After the beans have been cooked slowly, absorbing the flavours of spices and tomatoes, they are then roughly mashed to produce a delicately flavoured, healthy ...
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Learn: Biscuits
Course Content: Biscuit chocolate is a very simple, unpretentious preparation. However, its simplicity does not detract from its wholesome taste. Here we have a lightly flavoured, crisp biscuit encased in a covering of milk chocolate. The rich sweetness of the chocolate is tempered by the blandness and bo...
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Course Content: These are basically wraps that can be filled with anything of your choice. Crepes can be savoury, carrying a mixture of meat or vegetables or they can be sweet, with a stuffing of chocolate or even honey, dates or grated coconut and sugar. Crepes are made by spreading a mixture of flour, e...
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Course Content: It is one of the most popular street foods in India. This dish combines every taste your tongue longs for – the tingling of the chilli is soothed by the sweetness of the chutney and both melt into the wholesome taste of flavoured potatoes and peas. Ragda patties are delectable and co...
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