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Cheer up your children with these snacks to munch on during the holidays.
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SHORT EATS: This array is bound to keep the little ones happy. - Photo: K. Ramesh Babu
MAKING LIGHT snacks is an ordeal for most mothers especially in the holidays when children are always hungry. The next time they come clamouring for something to eat, surprise them with these goodies.
Banana and chocolate sandwich
Ingredients:
Brown bread - 4 slices
Butter - 25 gms
Ripe bananas - 2
Grated milk or dark chocolate - 75 gms
Method: Spread the bread with butter. Slice the banana and keep back four slices for decoration. Lay the rest neatly over two slices of bread. Carefully scatter a thick layer of chocolate over the banana. Place the other two slices of bread on top and press firmly. Trim off the crusts, cut into triangles and arrange neatly on individual plates. Decorate each sandwich with one of the reserved slices of banana.
Sandwich kebab
Ingredients:
Whole wheat bread - 2 slices
Marmite: 1/2 tsp
Butter - 50 gms
Cottage cheese - 35 gms
Mayonnaise - 1 tsp
Salt to taste
Freshly ground black pepper - 5 gms
Kebab sticks - 4
Pineapple cubes
Cucumber - 4 slices
Carrot - 4 slices
Method: Spread the bread with butter. On one slice of whole wheat bread, spread the marmite and then place the cottage cheese slice on top of it and sprinkle salt and pepper. Press the other slice of whole wheat bread on top and trim off the crusts and cut into four squares.
On to each kebab stick, thread one cube of pineapple, one cheese and marmite sandwich, one slice of cucumber, another slice of cheese and marmite sandwich, one slice of carrot and another piece of pineapple. Lay the kebab on the serving plate and serve.
Party burgers
Ingredients:
Oil - 30 ml
Sliced onion rings - 2
Baked beans - 150 gms
Sesame buns - 4
Grated cheese: 100 gms
Method: Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry onion rings over gentle heat until soft and slightly brown. Remove from the pan and dab on a paper towel. Keep hot in an oven in an ovenproof dish. Heat the baked beans in a small pan. Slice each slice of the bun into half across the middle. On the bottom of each bun place a spoonful of baked beans and handful of grated cheese. Top with onion rings. Place the other half on top and serve immediately
Cat's whiskers
Ingredients:
For cake base
Margarine to grease the tin - 5 ml
Eggs - 4
Caster sugar - 100 gms
Plain flour - 75 gms
Butter - 50 gms
For icing and decoration:
Butter - 30 gms
Icing sugar - 75 gms
Water - 10 ml
Pink food colouring - few drops
Method: Heat the oven to 350F/180C and grease and line a shallow tin.
Beat the eggs and sugar together in a bowl. Set over a saucepan of simmering water. Beat until the mixture is thick and pale yellow, and leaves a trail when the beater is lifted. Remove the bowl from the heat and continue beating until cold. Using a metal spoon, gently fold in two-thirds of the flour. Then, fold in the melted butter and the remaining flour.
Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 25-30 min until firm to touch and light golden. Remove from the oven and turn over so that the under side is upper most.
For icing, cream butter, icing sugar and hot water together until light and fluffy. Add enough pink colouring to give delicate pink. Keep back 15 ml of the icing and use the rest to spread all over the cake. Trim the edges with a sharp knife and mark a patter all over the icing with the prongs of a fork. Take a piping bag with a size 12 nozzle. Put the remaining icing inside. And carefully pipe it into a neat pattern.
Fruit Sundae
Ingredients:
Double cream - 150 ml
Vanilla or raspberry ice cream - 575 ml
Fresh fruit of choice, peeled, cored and pitted - 450 gms
Candied or fresh fruit or pistachio nuts - to decorate
Method: Whip the cream until stiff and put it in a piping bag. Place a scoop of ice cream in four individual sundae glasses. Next, spoon in a layer of fruit, crushed if using strawberry, sliced if using peaches, banana, mango or pineapple.
Spoon another scoop of ice cream on top. Then pipe cream over the top and decorate each sundae with a piece of fruit and/or nuts.
O.P. KHANTWAL
The writer is Executive chef at ITC Kakatiya Sheraton Hotel and Towers.
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