Last weekend, it was raining so heavy till we are both stranded at home, nothing to do the whole noon as all house work are done.
Mr L has a football match and me, gets into the kitchen and decide to bake some mixed fruit tarts for dinner later at my in-law house and Gnocchi al pesto for the next day’s lunch.
I find all available ingredients in our fridge and make the tarts and gnocchi to satisfy our taste buds.
Gnocchi is an alternative to pasta which is made up potato and flour, my MIL has made once for lunch and she briefly teach me how to do it. Based on my expertise, haha, I decided to try it out on weekends since those are the only days I can take a breath.
Here are the recipes :
Gnocchi al pesto (Serve 2)
Ingredients:
3 medium size potato
60g of plain flour
40g of grated Parmesan cheese
Salt & Pepper to taste
Ready Made Pesto
½ tsp of dried oregano
Olive oil
Cream for cooking
Method:
1) Boil the potato till cook. Mash and set aside in a bowl
2) Add flour, salt, pepper, oregano to form a dough. Add more flour till it is not sticky.
3) Roll out into strips and form small balls.
4) Put a pot of water to boil, add some salt. Put in the gnocchi balls and cook.
5) When they start to float, mean they are cooked. Strain out and set aside.
6) To the gnocchi, add a bit of olive oil, pesto paste and cream, a bit of water in which the gnocchi were boiled and stir evenly.
3 medium size potato
60g of plain flour
40g of grated Parmesan cheese
Salt & Pepper to taste
Ready Made Pesto
½ tsp of dried oregano
Olive oil
Cream for cooking
Method:
1) Boil the potato till cook. Mash and set aside in a bowl
2) Add flour, salt, pepper, oregano to form a dough. Add more flour till it is not sticky.
3) Roll out into strips and form small balls.
4) Put a pot of water to boil, add some salt. Put in the gnocchi balls and cook.
5) When they start to float, mean they are cooked. Strain out and set aside.
6) To the gnocchi, add a bit of olive oil, pesto paste and cream, a bit of water in which the gnocchi were boiled and stir evenly.
7) Serve hot.
1) Boil the potatoes till soft.
2) Roll out them into small balls. Coat them with some flour
3) Boil the gnocchi into a pot of boiling salt (little) water till floats.
4) Mix with the pesto sauce and serve hot
Mixed Fruit tarts (Makes 12 tarts)
Ingredients:
250g of ready made short crust pastry
Assortment of Fruits as u wish
60g flour
150g of sugar
500ml milk
6 egg yolks
tsp of Vanilla powder / essence
25g butter (Cut into cubes)
100ml cream, whipped (un sweetened)
Method:
1) Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
2) Roll out the pastry and cut into pieces to fit the mini tarts tins
3) Prick each pastry crust with a fork all over to prevent the pastry from rising.
4) Bake empty for 20 - 25 mins or golden brown.
5) In the meantime, in a bowl combine the egg yolks, sugar and flour then pour in
half the milk and mix thoroughly.
6) In a saucepan, pour in the balance milk and add in the vanilla powder. Heat it till almost boiling.
7) Pour some of the hot milk in the bowl of egg mixture and whisk lightly till combine.
8) Then pour all these back into the saucepan and stir continuously till it thickens. Stir thoroughly so the bottom dont stick. Once thick, remove from heat.
9) Add a few cubes of butter and whisk, then add the remaining butter and whisk till well combine.
10) Pour out the cream into a bowl and place a cling film over and push it down to cover the cream. This will prevent a skin from forming. Leave to chill for 2-3 hours.
11) When pastry is golden brown, remove and leave to cool on a rack.
12) Take the cream out, peel off the film, stir briefly and add in the whipped cream and stir you have a smooth mixture.
13) Spread the cream onto each crust, smooth it over with a spatula.
14) Arrange the fruits to your desire.
1) Tarts baking in the oven
2) Tarts leave to cool.
3) End product!!
BUON APPETITO !!!!
1 comment:
oooh..... these look simply delectable! Reminds me of the fruit tarts at Deli France... not sure if Sing got or not!
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