Showing posts with label orange. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orange. Show all posts

Thursday 29 October 2009

Pumpking Mousse with Pan Roasted Pumpkin Seeds - Halloween



Ingredients: (enough for 4-5 ramekins)
  • 1 thick pumpkin slice (pealed and chopped into little pieces)
  • 1 orange (juice and pulp)
  • 2 soup spoons of sugar
  • 250mls whipping cream (to whip into Chantilly)
  • 1 one heaped tea spoon of icing sugar
  • 1 hand full of pumpkin seeds




Preparation:

Easy, put a frying pan on the stove medium heat, place the seeds of pumpkin inside and keep stirring the frying pan (as if you were doing popcorn), once hot the seeds start to pop when these to stop popping they are ready. Put them on a plate and let them cool.

Meantime in a small pan put the chopped pumpkin plus the sugar and the juice (pulp) of the orange, let it come to boiling point and reduce the heat to minimum leaving it to cook for around 20 minutes stirring occasionally. once the pumpkin is semitransparent, then crush it (for example with a fork. masher) adds two or three tablespoons of water and keep it boiling for a further 10-15 minutes, until being like a moist compote , withdraw of the heat and leave to cool completely.

In a bowl whip the cream and halfway to becoming whipped cream add the powdered sugar in and beat the rest until quite firm, then add the compote of pumpkin and and most of the pumpkin seeds (pre-crushing these with your hands, and reserve a few to decorate the top of the sweets), once done refrigerate for at least 1 hour and eat it with pleasure.

It will have amazing textures and flavours the textures are, the crunchiness of the pumpkin seeds and the puking itself has a stringy but soft texture and the velvety smooth texture of the cream are a perfect combo here, as to the flavours pumpkin and orange what a blast and bursting smooth and zingy taste smoothed out by the cream WoW..you must make these they are great will make 6 ramekins.


Thursday 9 July 2009

Fruit Salad with Port Wine




Recipe Ingredients:
  • 1 Round Melon (cut into two halves, flesh removed and cut into pieces)
  • 3 Fleshy Oranges (segments removed without skin, pip's or membranes)
  • 1 bunch of grapes seedless (cut in halves)
  • 1 banana (cut in slices)
  • 1 Red apple (cut in quarters and then slice with the skin)
  • 1 tin of pineapple (or half of fresh pineapple) (cubed)
  • 1 Ripe peach (cut into little pieces)
  • 1/2 fresh orange juice
  • 1/2 pineapple juice
  • juice of a whole lemon
  • 2 shots of Port wine
  • pinch of cinnamon
  • a couple of scrapes of nutmeg
  • 1 soup spoon full of denmerra sugar


The preparation is simple, just mix all the chopped up fruit in a ceramic bowl, the melon skins should be immediately refrigerated after the flesh is scooped out. Then mix into the fruit all the liquids and condiments. and leave these to mature and ferment for a minimum of two hours (I prefer leaving them overnight) in the fridge.

Then you present the salad in the chilled melon halves, or in small ramekins etc, you you'd like to indulge you can also place a spoon of clotted cream on each serving on top and a mint leave.


Saturday 20 June 2009

Orange Cake "Large" for Slicing



Recipe Ingredients: (was enough to cut 70 rectangular slices)
  • 300grs of butter (or baking margarine)
  • 300grs of sugar
  • 4 oranges (2 cut in slices and 2 "whole" blitzed into creamy pulp)
  • 6 eggs
  • 300grs of flour
  • 2 soup spoon of baking powder
  • 2 teas spoons of orange essence
  • a little of dememera sugar



Couldn't be easier... Beat the sugar with the butter, until you obtain a light and whitish cream, once that is done put the eggs (pre-mixed) in, a little at the time keeping the beating of the cream, this way attaining even a more creamy and full of air dough.

Once that is done, add the two oranges in pulp + the orange essence, (mix the pulp in well with a wooden spoon in a folding gentle action to try not to release any of the air contained in the dough), lastly add the flour, a little at the time as well, again folding action and gentle, until all is incorporated in the dough.

Then place the dough in a large tray previously greased and floured, I also used a Teflon baking sheet to avoid the cake sticking to the pan (worked a treat). On top of the dough lay the orange slices and cover the top of each slice with some dememera sugar, to allow them to crystallize and not burn as that would leave a bitter taste, (also if you think the taste of the orange skin may be too strong for you, you can always peals the slicing oranges prior to slicing).

The whole thing goes in a preheated oven at 180ÂșC for around 20-25 minutes, once done remove the cake from the oven, and let it cool a little before attempting to remove it from the container, this is where the Teflon came in handy as I just picked the four corners of it to remove the cake from the container to a cooling rack.

Optionally at the end, you can also squeeze a further two oranges and boil the juice with some sugar to make a liquid syrup to pour over the cake and get it even more moist, as this is a moist cake already, and very spongy and light. Then let it cool completely and slice it into rectangles.

Saturday 11 April 2009

Easter Duck & Orange with Carrot Rice



Everyone knows duck and orange really combine well, but add some garlic and some carrot rice, and the plate explodes with colour and taste.



Recipe Ingredients: (enough for 2, "x 2 for 4 people")
  • 250grs basmati rice
  • 2 duck legs (with skin and bones)
  • 2 large garlic cloves (1 finely sliced, 1 minced)
  • 1 large carrot (grated)
  • 1/2 onion
  • 3 oranges (pealed and sliced)
  • salt and pepper + some olive oil.



Another way too easy recipe to make, put a frying pan on the stove with a little olive oil, once hot add the sliced garlic and a little salt and pepper, and the duck legs which you previously scored (a few cuts through the skin, which helps release the duck fat), brown the legs on both sides also as soon as the garlic starts to brown remove it to a little dish.

Now use two sliced oranges, and lay on the bottom of a small pyrex with a drizzle of olive oil, season them and place the duck over them and juice one of the slices over the duck also add the browned garlic, cover with a little foil and place in the oven @ 180c for 40 minutes and then remove foil increase heat to 200c for a further 10 minutes, during which you can make the rice.

For the rice put a pan with boiling water on the stove, and season it salt and pepper and it will be done in 10-12 minutes, while that is doing let's make the carrot sauce. on the same frying pan where you browned the duck use this fat still and heat it, once hot add the minced garlic and onion, let these brown and once browned add the carrot grated, stir occasionally and as it get dry add a little water, fry a little more it gets a little dry add a little water, you repeat the process around three times, on the third and last time don't let it dry as it needs to be moist. Drain the rice and while draining it pass also some boiling water through it, and once completely drained add it to the sauce, season it and stir-fry it, once well combined and hot, arrange in on the plate with the duck and add the last sliced orange which serves both as decoration as well as a palate cleanser., also the orange coked in the pyrex mash it with a fork as it will combine with the garlic and some of the duck fat it is delicious when you eat it with the rice. Have fun, this is a delicious dish for Easter.


Sunday 5 April 2009

Light Orange Loaf Cake



Recipe Ingredients:
  • 300grs self raising flour
  • 200grs sugar
  • 100grs butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 small oranges (set aside the zest of 2, and the juice of the same 2, the 3rd one thinly slice it)



In a large bowl, put the sugar and the (soft) butter, beat it until is a whitish cream, then add the juice of one orange, and continue to beat for a further 2 minutes, then add the two eggs and beat it further 2 minutes more, the remaining orange juice and the zest of the 2 oranges and beat a further 2 minutes.

Finally add bit by bit the self raising flour, while still beating the dough, until it is all incorporated, at this stage stop and you can now place half on the dough in a loaf tin (previously greased and floured) on the top of the half of dough place half of the sliced orange, put the remaining dough on top and cover it with the remaining orange slices (see picture) and on top of each orange slice cover that with a little sugar, that will caramelize once cooked giving it an extra delicious taste.

Now it will take 25-30 minutes in medium oven 180c. and is ready to eat, so lovely with some green tea, as is very fluffy and light, if you prefer heavier add 2 more eggs at the egg stage.


I was inspired by Mary blog moist orange and lemon cake.

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