Melting Moments with Orange Curd

Melting Moments with orange curd

Melting Moments cookies One  of the most famous cookies that everyone loves to eat. These cookies are named so aptly, because Cornstarch is the secret ingredient that makes them melt on your tongue along with powdery confectioners’ sugar rather than granulated sugar. . I jazzed up the traditional melting moments recipe with orange, I used both orange zest and orange juice for these cookies and what came to be was so refreshing, fragrant and absolutely delicious and  literally do melt in your mouth.I baked this recipe for my newly wedded daughter. I found this recipe from here.

Ingredients:

All purpose flour- 11/2 cups

Cornstarch-1/2 cup

IcingSugar-1/4-1/2 cup (depending on your taste, I had used 1/2 cup)

Butter- 1 cup

Vanilla extract- 1 tsp

Orange Curd:

ForFilling 

Fresh orange juice of 1 orange-1cup

Orange zest of- 2 tbsp

Powdered Sugar- 40 g

Unsalted butter-40g

Creamcheese-75gm   C

Method:

1. Put the juice and zest in a saucepan and bring to the boil, reduce by half.

2. Add the sugar and butter and let the butter melt. Stir over a low flame until the mixture thickens. Switch off the flame and let it cool completely.

3. Fold in the cheese in the last. Remove from the heat and Mixture will thicken as it cools. Curd should be stored in the fridge but will need a gentle whisk before serving.

 

Method:

1.Sieve the flour and the cornflour together.

2. In a separate bowl, beat sugar, butter and vanilla until smooth and creamy.

3. Add to the flour mixture and mix well. Combine until it forms a soft dough.

4. Preheat oven to180 degreeC.Line the baking tray with parchment paper.

5. Take a spoonful of dough and press it slightly to form round cookies.

6. Slight press with fork to get thin lines on the cookies (optional)

7. Place the cookies on baking tray such that they are at least 1 inch apart. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until the cookies turn golden brown at the edges

8.Remove from oven and leave to cool on trays for approximately 30 minutes.

 

9.While the biscuits are cooling, make the Orange curd.

10.To make the biscuits Spread the filling onto the underside of half the biscuits, dollop a small amount of orange curd and sandwich with the another base Repeat, using the remaining biscuits.

Orange peel curry / Orange peel pachadi

Orange peels are an excellent source of Vitamin C and have many medicinal properties. . So I prepared this recipe by using the skin of orange. . the main ingredient here is the peels of an orange. The unique combination of orange and tamarind gives such a nice flavor to this pachadi. The bitterness of the peels, the tanginess of the tamarind, the spiciness of the chillies and the sweetness of the jaggery gaves  unique taste.It goes well with curd rice, chapathi, idli& dosa.

Ingredients:

 Orange Peel  -1cup

 Tamarind - a lemon-sized ball

 Green chillies – 3

Red chillie– 1

Fresh ginger– 1 tsp

Hing – 1 pinch

Mustard seeds – 1/2tsp

Fenugreek seeds – 1/4 tsp

Channadal – 1 tblsp 

Salt -as per taste

Sambar powder – 1 tsps

Turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp

Jaggery – 2 to 3 tbsps

Curry leaves – a few

Seasame Oil – 2 tblsp

 

Method:

1.Soak tamarind for 10 minutes, and then extract 1 cup of juice and keep aside.

2.Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds ,Fenugreek seed and bengal gram dhal s ,allow to splutter.

3.Then Add hing, red chillies, green chillies and the ginger and fry for few seconds.

4.Now add the chopped orange peels and the curry leaves and sautéin low flame for 2 min.

5.Finally add tamarind water salt, turmeric powder, and sambar powder and cook on low heat till oranges are cooked.

6.Now add  the jaggery and mix well. Cook this till the pachadi would have thickened.

7.Remove from heat. Now Pachadi is Ready to serve.