Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Pineapple Souffle

Indulge yourself with this popular souffle!



Ingredients

1.Condensed milk 1 tin
2.Tinned pineapple-2 tins
3.China Grass(Agar Agar)-20gms
4.Lemon juice -6 tsps
5.Cream 450 ml
6. Pinapple essence -3 tsp
7. Few drops of yellow colour
8. Few cherries for decoration
9. Sugar -1/2 cup



Preparation


1)Beat the condensed milk till light.

2)Chop all the pinapple pieces.

3)Take 2 cups of pinapple syrup from the tin and and add 1 cup water to it(Add some sugar to the syrup if it is very sour). Boil this mixture on low heat and keep this covered .

4)Put china grass in a pan and add 21/2 cups of water to it and keep aside for 5 minutes.Heat it on low flame stirring well till it dissloves.


5)Add the hot china grass solution to the hot pineapple syrup and stir well.

6)Now add the condensed milk ,pineapple pieces and lemon juice to the above mixture , mix well and keep aside till it cools down to room temperature.

7)Beat 400 gms cream well alongwith the sugar till it becomes slightly thick.Add this cream to the condensed milk mixture.

8)Add essence and colour and mix well.

9)Pour in a serving dish and refrigerate for six hours.

10)Whip the remaining 50 gms of cream till soft peaks are formed.Use this to decorate the souffle alongwith cherries.

Variations


Instead of using the china grass you can use gelatine in the same proportion.

Gotchas


The China Grass mixture should always be added to a warm dessert mixture else it will set as tiny rubber like pieces and will not blend well with the dessert mixture and hence the dessert will not set properly