Mother's Day Surprise

If you are planning to cook a special meal for your mother on the eve of mother’s day, then work along with your siblings and friends. These simple recipes will make her smile

Chicken & mango salad in tamarind dressing    Ingredients_

Chicken and mango salad in tamarind dressing 

Chicken breast (boneless): 2 no

• Salt : To taste
• Pepper : To taste
• Mango alphonso: 2 no
• Fish sauce: To taste
• Tamarind pulp: 20 Gms
• Coriander fresh sprigs: 10 Gms
• Palm sugar : To taste
• Crushed green
• chillies: 2 no

 Method

• Heat water with some crushed ginger, garlic and coriander roots
• Leave the chicken in the water to poach gently
• Make a dressing with tamarind, fish sauce, salt, palm sugar and crushed green chillies
• After the chicken is cooked keep it on one side and chill it
• Cut the chicken and the mangoes into segments and mix the tamarind dressing
• Serve chilled

Rice and chocolate arancinni

  Ingredients_

• Basmati rice: 1 kg
• Full cream milk: 3 liters
• Sugar: to preference
• Condensed milk: half a tin of milkmaid
• Almonds: 150 gms
• Raisins: 150 gms
• Candied orange: 50 gms
• Melted chocolate : 1 kg
• Edible gold
• dust: (optional)

Method

• Cook the rice in milk.
• Once the rice is cooked then add the sugar, candied orange condensed milk, almonds and raisins.
• Reduce the rice by making sure all the milk is evaporated and you have a thick mass.
• Chill it in the refrigerator for around two hours
• Meanwhile melt the dark chocolate and make the rice dumplings and drop them in the chocolate.
• Chill the chocolate dumplings in the refrigerator and serve as a snack with coffee/tea or as a nibble after a meal
• Sprinkle the gold dust on the arancinni dumplings