I hardly post any recipe posts on my blog, but this I couldn't resist. Being moved to Bangalore in March, I have been lucky to have my terrace kitchen garden and a neighbour who grows almost every fruit, veggies, spices, herbs. I will definitely take a tour of her and my gardens in one of my posts, but this post is for breakfast jars. She gave me few avocados, passion fruits and pomegranate, me been obsessed with parfaits off late, tried few of the recipes with them. So here are the parfaits I tried over the month for my daughter's snack tiffin,
Avocado Oreo Parfait
It was my first try with avocados and tried initially having with sugar, but non of us at home liked it. So thought of making avocado cream, which just turned to be superb. And that got added to my parfait list.
Avocado cream:
Ingredient: Avocado, Vanilla ice cream, honey, milk
Method: Blend all the ingredients together, if you opt for a Smoothie use more milk, else just a little milk to blend all the ingredients and your avocado cream is ready.
Dry fruit Crunches:
Ingredient: Dry fruit, jaggery
Method: Melt jaggery in a non stick pan, add a spoon of water, to avoid jaggery from burning. Add chopped dry fruits. Roast for 2-3mins, take out on a plate immediately and let cool, I leave it overnight to get the better crunchiness.
Parfait Method:
Layer the jar with avocado cream, crushed oreo biscuits and top it with dry fruit crunches and you are done.
Ingredients: Vermicelli, sugar, strawberry syrup, basil seeds, fresh fruit and dry fruit of your choice, custard, milk, sprinkles.
Method:
Prepare Vermicelli by cooking it in milk and sugar and keep aside.
Soak basil seeds for 15mins
Prepare custard milk with milk and sugar(as instructed on the pack)
Line your jar with strawberry syrup, layer it with vermicelli, basil seeds, fresh fruits, dry fruits, custard milk and top it with sprinkles.
Mango Passion Fruit Parfait
Its still the season of king of fruits, mango and the passion fruits are growing in glory, so here it is Mango Passion Fruit Parfait.
Ingredients: Passion Fruit, Mango Puree, Mango cubes, Hung curd(you can use Greek Yogurt as well, but I chose to keep it home made without preservatives), honey, granola, choco-chips and apricots.
Method:
Mix hung curd, passion fruit and honey as per your taste.
Layer the jar with curd mixture, mango cubes, mango puree, granola and top it with choco chips and apricots, and you are done.
Banana Choco Peanut Butter Parfait
Ingredients: Banana, Plain Greek Yogurt, Coco Powder, Peanut Butter, honey, granola, roasted peanut and choco chips
Method:
Mix Greek Yogurt, coco powder(you can have enough coco powder to make it dark, mine turned out to be little), peanut butter and honey.
Layer your jar with Yogurt mixture, chopped banana, granola and top it with roasted peanuts and choco chips.
Peanut Butter recipe: Dry roast peanut, allow it to cool for 5mins and blend it, blend till it turns buttery. It doesn't need any extra oil, peanut has enough oil content. And your home made peanut butter is done.
Sprout Salad Jar
Ingredients: Sprouted green gram, grated carrots, chopped cucumber, pomegranate, salt, lemon, pepper powder
Mix sprout and the veggies, dress it with salt, pepper powder and lemon.
