Burger Cheese Melt

You just have to try this - for all those who love Burgers

Ingredients

Burger Patty - recipe given below

8 slices bread of choice

16 slices cheese of choice

2 onions sliced and sauteed.

Barbeque Sauce

Butter

First make the burger patty.

• 500 gms mince meat
• 1 small onion chopped
• 1 bunch of corriander leaves chopped
• 1 small green chilly chopped finely
• 1 tbsp worchestershire sauce
• 1 tsp corriander powder
• 1 tsp red chilly
• salt to taste

Mix all above and keep aside for 1/2 hour for the flavours to meld together.

Heat 2 tbsp oil in a frying pan.

Make patty with wet hands and cook on high flame to seal the meat.

Turn only when done on one side, co.ooking the second side on medium flame

Cook till done

Place a slice of bread on a butter grill pan, top with a slice of cheese.

Then layer with the onions and top with a burger patty

Spread some barbeque sauce over the patty and top with another slice of cheese.

Finally top with a slice of bread, buttered on the outside.

Cook in the grill pan - if you don't have a press down grill, place something heavy on the top slice of bread to keep it down.

Serve with fries and a salad

Spicy Crinkle Chocolate Cupcakes

Christmas is round the corner.  The mood was for baking something with spice.  So here is my version of Crinkle cookies in a cupcake

Ingredients

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1 cup castor sugar

1/4 cup vegetable oil

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

1 cup flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 /2 tsp cinnamon powder

1/2 tsp nutmeg powder

pinch of salt

Confectioner Sugar

Mix the cocoa powder, castor sugar and oil till it all comes together in one lump.  This can be done with a spoon.

Beat in the eggs, one at a time, alongwith the vanilla extract

Sift in the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg powders and mix just to bring together.  Do not beat

Keep in a cool place for 4-6 hours.

Preheat oven to 180 C.  Take some of the chilled dough and roll it in your hands.

Roll in the confectioner Sugar till fully coated.

Bake in a muffin tray - I used a mini size - for 10-12 min.

Apple Pie Cheesecake

What happens when you cross an Apple Pie with a Cheesecake ?? You get a slice of heaven.  My two favourite desserts in one go. 

Crust:
1 1/2 cups digestive cookie crumbs
3 tablespoons castor sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/3 cup butter, melted

Apple Layer
4 apples (peeled, cored, sliced very thin)
5 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon

Cheesecake Layer
8 oz. cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 cup sugar
  

• Preheat oven to 180 Degrees C

• In a bowl, combine the biscuit crumbs, sugar, cinnamon and melted butter. Mix well and press into a 10-inch pie plate and up the sides. Bake for 6 to 8 minutes until golden in color. Remove pie shell from oven and cool completely.  Refrigerate pie shell while making apple filling.

• In a saucepan, over medium heat, melt butter and add brown sugar, salt and cinnamon. Stir with a wooden spoon. Add apples and stir. Cook over medium to medium-high heat for 15 to 20 minutes until apples are softened and tender. Let cool for 10 minutes and pour into pie shell.  

• In a clean bowl, combine cream cheese and sugar for about 1 minute until smooth. Add egg, lemon juice and vanilla and beat for 1 minute or until fully blended. Pour over apple filling in pie shell. 

• Bake for 30 minutes until an inserted knife comes out clean. Remove pie from oven and let cool. Refrigerate for 4 hours. Let stand outside the refrigerator for 30 minutes.