Eggless Vanilla Creme Brulee

Creme Brulee is a French dessert which consist of a rich custard base topped with contrasting layer of hard caramel. Hard Caramel can be made by sprinkling sugar on top of the Custard  and using a blow torch the sugar is caramelized. Creme Brulee can be made in different  flavors such as Vanilla , Lavender , Chocolate , Cinnamon , Coffee , Hazelnut and Coconut . 

Creme Brulee was chosen for this month's challenge on Baking Eggless Group . Vimala Lakshmi of Cooking Club Suggested this recipe . Normally the members of Eggless Group have to replace eggs with some ingredient. This time we , the members have to replace eggs on custard .So i chose Corn flour instead of eggs. Brulee turned out to be perfect and Creamy .The Crust on top was the other task. Without a blow torch it was quite difficult to get a Hard Caramel. 

It took soo long for the sugar on top of the Custard to get caramelized. The sides got caramelized so quickly. So i have to find a different way to caramelize the sugar  , when i make brulee the next time .

Ingredients : 

Fresh Cream - 1 Cup

Milk - 1/2  Cup

Condense milk - 1/2 Cup

Vanilla Paste - 1 TSP

Corn Flour - 3 TBLS

Sugar - To Caramelize on Top

Instructions:

•  Mix Corn flour with milk and keep aside.
• In a pan , heat the Fresh cream , condense milk and vanilla paste in a medium flame.
• Bring the fresh cream mixture to boil. Keep stirring the mixture. 
• When it comes to boil , add the Milk-Corn flour mixture and keep stirring  . Keep the flame in low.
• In couple of minutes , the custard mixture will thicken . ( The consistency should be thicker than the white sauce ).
• When it reaches dropping consistency .Take off the heat . Strain the Custard to make sure there is no lumps. 
• Pout it in Ramekins or Baking dish.
• Preheat the oven at 200C.
• Fill a deep pan with 1/3rd of hot steaming water.
• Place the Ramekins in it .Bake it for 30 Minutes or till it sets hard.
• Once it is done allow it to cool . Cover it with a cling wrap and refrigerate it overnight .
•  Before serving , Sprinkle the sugar over the set custard and broil it , till the sugar gets Caramelized.

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Vegetable Pie

For the month of july , the Challenge on Baking eggless group was Veg version of meat pie. It was solely suggested by Gayathri from Gayathri's cookspot . I was in a guilt that i was not able to particiate in the last months challenge , so this month i finished these cute little pies before the date.These are super crispy pies vanished in minutes.

 

 

 

 

 

The change i made was in the pie crust . I used my usual pie crust recipe .

 

Recipe for the Pie Crust :

 

All Purpose Flour - 1 Cup

Baking Powder - 1/4 TSPN

Butter - 1/2 Stick = 1/4  cup( ColdTempreture )

Salt- 1/4 TSPN

Sugar - 1 TSPN

Ice Cold Milk - 3-4 TBLSN

 

Recipe for the Filling :

 

Carrots - Chopped really small

Celery - Chpped really small

Onions Chopped Really small

Garlic - Chopped really small

Pepper

Salt

Butter - 2 TSPN

 

For the white sauce:

 

Milk

All Purpose flour

Butter

Salt

pepper

 

Instrucions:

 

To make the dough:

 

1. Mix all the dry ingredients.

2. Then mix the cold butter with  the dry ingredients.

3. Once the flour is crumbly add milk and form it in to a dough.

4. Knead it for 2 minutes , cover it with a cling wrap , Rest it for 20 - 30 minutes.

 

To Make the filling :

 

1. In a pan melt the butter , add garlic and onions , allow it to cook.

2. Once it is cooked add carrots and celery sprinkle with salt and and pepper.

3. Allow it to cook .

 

THESE 4TH AND 5TH STEP SHOULD BE DONE AFTER ARRANGING THE PIE CRUST:

 

4. Once it is cooked , make the whitesauce add the cooked vegetables and cheese .

5.Give it a good mix. Make sure the filling is semi liquid.

 

( Making the white sauce at the last minute is to avoid the white sauce from getting thick .)

 

Arranging and Assembling the Pie :

 

1. Preheat the oven @ 350F

2.Greace the muffin pan.

3. Roll out the dough  , Cut it into circle to fit  into the muffin pan .

4. Once the dough is arranged in a muffin pan , using a folk prick it at the bottom of the pie.

5. Fill the pie to its 2/3rd .

6. Cover the pie in a same procedure .
7. Using a folk ,seal the edges in the pie .
8. Bake it for 20-25 minutes.