Strawberry-Grapes Jam With Honey

Ingredients

Strawberry: 700gms

Black Grapes: 500gms

Honey: 2 cups or more if needed as per the sweetness of the fruit

Lemon Juice: 6tbsp

Water: ½ cup

Method Of Preparation

In a pressure cooker add the grapes and chopped strawberries and add water to it.

Pressurecook for 3-4 whistles and switch off the flame. Let the pressure release.

Open the lid and switch on the flame.  Mash well with the back of the lid.

Add in honey and lemon juice.

Put in low flame and stir occasionally. It will take about 15min- half an hour to get it thicken.

Switch off the flame when you get the consistency of jam. (To check the consistency, take the cold saucer out of the freezer, put a little jam on it, and put it back in to cool for a minute. If it wrinkles when you push it with your finger, then it's done.)

When cooled, store in a clean air tight container.

Grapes Juice

Ingredients

Grapes: 500gms (preferably seedless)

Sugar: ¼ cup (as needed)

Chilled Water: 2glass

Lemon juice: 1 lemon

Method Of Preparation

In a blender add grapes, sugar, chilled water and lemon juice.

Blend well.

Strain and serve chilled.

Easy No Bake Cheese Cake

Ingredients

Digestive Biscuits crushed: 2 cups

Melted Butter: ¼ cup

Sugar: 3tbsp

Condense Milk: 1 tin

Cream Cheese: 300gms

China Grass: 10gms

Water: ¾ cup

Grape Syrup: needed

Fresh Grapes: few

Method of Preparation

In a bowl add crushed biscuits, butter and sugar. Mix well with hand.

Take a spring form pan, add the biscuit mix to it, and spread to the sides too. Press well with hand.

Keep this in a refrigerator for 20-30 minutes.

In ¾ cup water add the china grass and bring to boil, keep in low flame till the china grass is well dissolved. Switch off the flame when it is completely dissolved and let it cool.

Mean time in a blender or with an electric mixture mix cheese and condense milk.

When dissolved china grass is cooled add it to the cheese mix. (while mixing china grass, both the china grass temperature and the cheese mix temperature should be the same otherwise it will not set properly)

Mix well. Pour this above the biscuit mix in to the spring form pan.

Keep refrigerated to about 3-4 hours or till it sets completely.

Take out from the refrigerated and remove the cake from the spring form pan.

Slice and top it with grape syrup and grapes.

Note: You can top with canned cherry instead of grape syrup.

Grape Squash/Grape Syrup

Ingredients

Purple Grapes: 500gms

Sugar: 500gms

Lemon Juice: 2 big lemon/ ¼ cup

Cloves: 2 (optional)

Method of Preparation

In a pressure cooker add grapes, cloves and 2 ½ cups water.

Pressure cook for 3 whistles and switch off the flame.

Open the lid after the pressure releases.

Add this to the blender when slightly cooled and blend it well and sieve with a strainer.

Add this sieved juice again to a pan add sugar and lemon juice and keep on flame.

When it boils, low the flame. Stir occasionally.

When it becomes slightly thick and get slight one string consistency switch off the flame. (Don’t wait the squash to be thicker while on stove, as it becomes thicker while cooling, so switch off the flame when it is slightly thick)

Cool and transfer to a clean and dry bottle.

Keep refrigerated.

To make juice from it, take 3tbsp squash to 1 glass cold water, stir well and serve. If necessary or according to your taste you can add 1tsp lemon juice to it.

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Black Grapes Jam

Ingredients

Black/Red Grapes: 1kg (seedless Grapes)

Sugar: 1 ¾ cups

Lemon Juice: 2tbsp

Method of Preparation

In a pressure cooker add the grapes (no need to peel) and add 1 cup water to it.

Pressure cook for 3 whistles and switch off the flame. Let the pressure release.

Open the lid and switch on the flame.  Mash well with the back of the lid.

Add in the sugar and lemon juice.

Put in low flame and stir occasionally. It will take about half an hour to get it thicken.

Switch off the flame when you get the consistency of jam. (To check the consistency, take the cold saucer out of the freezer, put a little jam on it, and put it back in to cool for a minute. If it wrinkles when you push it with your finger, then it's done.)

When cooled, store in a clean air tight container.

I can tell it is the best jam that I ever made.

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Grape Pudding Salad

What about a salad with pudding, it was really very tasty, my kids luvd it a lot and was asking for more. So try this, here goes the recipe.
Ingredients

Grape Pudding Chopped: 1 cup

Apple chopped: ¾ cup

Orange Chopped: ½ cup

Grapes Chopped: ¼ cup

Pineapple Jam: 2tbsp (optional)

Sugar: 1tbsp (optional)

Method of Preparation

Take bowl mix everything except jam.

Top with jam, sprinkle sugar and serve chilled.

Tips: Pudding should be firm enough to make the salad. So increase 1gm of china grass from the said quantity.

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Milk- Grape Layered Pudding

Ingredients

Grapes Pudding

Grapes: 1 kg (seedless)

Sugar: ½ cup (or as per taste)

China Grass: 7gms

Lime Juice: 4tbsp

Milk Pudding

Milk: 2 ½ cups

Condense Milk: 1 tin

Sugar: 4tbsp (adjust according to your taste)

China grass: 10gms (approx.)

Layering

Apple Chopped: ¼ cup (or as needed) (optional)

Method of Preparation

Grapes Pudding

Blend Grapes in a blender without adding water. Strain it with a strainer to get a thick grape juice. (If needed, add bit water while straining so as to extract full juice from it)

Add sugar and lime juice to it and keep on stove and stir till sugar melts and keep in low flame.

Meanwhile boil some water and add china grass to it and keep in low flame until it melts well.

Switch off both the grape juice and china grass flame.

Add Melted china grass to the grape juice.

Milk Pudding

In ½ cup boiling water, add the china grass and switch off the flame when it melts completely. Keep aside.

Meanwhile in a bowl add milk and sugar, bring it to boil.

When it boils low the flame and stir frequently. When sugar dissolves completely add condense milk.

Stir frequently and after 3-4 minutes add melted china grass to it and when it comes to boil switch off the flame.

Layering

Divide the milk pudding into two portions (can make to two equal portions or ¾ and ¼)

Take the bowl in which you are going to set the pudding, Add chopped apples in to the bowl and add one portion of slightly cooled milk pudding and keep in freezer for 10 minutes.

After 10 minutes add the cooled grape pudding on it and keep in freezer for other 10minutes.

After that, add the other half milk pudding over the grapes pudding.

Keep this in refrigerator for 4-5 hours or till it sets.
Serve Chilled.

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Grape Pudding

Ingredients

Grapes: 1 kg (seedless)

Sugar: ½ cup (or as per taste)

China Grass: 7gms

Lime Juice: 4tbsp

Method of Preparation

Blend Grapes in a blender without adding water. Strain it with a strainer to get a thick grape juice. (If needed, add bit water while straining so as to extract full juice from it)

Add sugar and lime juice to it and keep on stove and stir till sugar melts and keep in low flame.

Meanwhile boil some water and add china grass to it and keep in low flame until it melts well.

Switch off both the grape juice and china grass flame.

Add Melted china grass to the grape juice.

Transfer to the bowl in which you are going to set the pudding.

When it comes to room temperature, place in refrigerator for 2-3 hours or till it sets.

Serve Chilled.

Note: Both China Grass and Grape Juice should be in same temperature while mixing it up.

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