Recipe for Cheese Cake
Recipe for No bake Eggless Cheese Cake
I am outlining the recipe with the ingredients that I used. I referred primarily to a Nita Mehta cook book for this and also referred to this blog for a few details.
FOR CRUST/BASE
10 digestive biscuits (Brittania)
1 tablespoon sugar
3 tbsp Milk or little melted butter
OTHER INGREDIENTS
Cream Cheese - Nilgiris Paneer - 200 gms
Yogurt - 500 gms of Amul Dahi (1 400 gms container + little extra)
Fruit Puree if available like Strawberries, Mango.
(I used Mala's Black Currant Crush - a fruit pulp concentrate. May be 3 tbsp)
Sugar - As needed
Gelatin - 3tsp
(Gelatin is supposed to be animal product. But what I used had the Green vegetarian symbol. So may be it is a variation. I also read that Agar-Agar can be used instead of gelatin, as it is plant based.)
Method
1) For the crust, crush biscuits in a blender to get coarse crumbs.
2) Mix the crumbs with sugar and milk/butter. Press the mixture at the bottom of a glass bowl/cake tin. Chill for 30 mts in the fridge (No freezing).
3) Hang the curd in a muslin cloth for 20 mts. Squeeze and drain out the extra water (whey water which can be used for gravies or making chappathi dough).
4) Blend the crumbled paneer, hung curd, fruit puree and sugar.
5) Add the gelatin to 1/4 cup of water and place this bowl in another bowl which has hot water (so we are directly not exposing it to heat). Stir and leave aside for 10 mts, till you get a clear liquid.
6) Add the dissolved gelatin to the puree mixture.
7) Now pour this mixture over the set biscuit crumbs in the tin. Place in the fridge for 2 to 3 hours.
The cake can be decorated with fresh fruits/dry biscuit crumbs/fruit puree etc .
Notes
1) Since most of the ingredients I used are store bought, there is nothing healthy about it ! But I think we can use home made curd or make paneer at home. I was quite lazy and skipped those steps. But all said and done, it is a very heavy dessert and I think it is quite okay to indulge in sinful desserts once in a while :-)
2) I do not have a springform tin. I used a Borosil glass bowl. I think it is easier to get the slices of cheese cake if a spring form tin is used. Here some chunks of crusts were left behind in the bowl when we tried to take the slices out.
Hi Ranjani - I posted a long comment abt cheesecake and also parenting. Did you get it or did it not get posted for some reason?! :( Hope it didn't get lost in the cyber world!
Posted by
noon |
9:59 PM
noon, wonder what happened to that comment? we did not get it.
Posted by
sathish |
10:31 PM
Noon, did not get both your comments :-(. Any chance of atleast posting a summary of what you posted ? Hate to miss long comments !
Posted by
ranjani.sathish |
9:09 AM
Too bad. I told you you have become a master chef for baking...and that you should also do some karam stuff so I can enjoy it! I am not a cheese cake fan but it looks very gourmet!
And about parenting - you voiced my exact thoughts. I feel the same guilt. Things that your namesake learns just from being around her brother - stuns me. I think she is just la di da not doing much. But somehow the second ones pick it up. I too focus more on KB than on KG. In a way I think it is an advantage for the second children. Less pressure. KB is so hard on himself that just my even being aware of what he does is enough to kind of push himself. But sometimes I too have to tell him - that if he is always playing with KG or always doing something he thinks is "fun" (agreed it is good - like he wants to write a halloween poem - he says - that is good stuff - or he wants to make Halloween craft - which is fun) - he also has to devote time to learning hard facts or get really good at Math or understand new words etc...like for ex Geography - we don't spend any time on it. Somehow it is just that way. He knows some amount from here and there but I have not devoted time to making him really learn where places are...things like that. They don't expect any of this at school but still I feel like he should be learning those too. Anyway - so sometimes first ones get the brunt of it. KG gets away with no pressure. I am so happy that Sooraj got certificates. I too feel so happy for him and that he felt good. Hugs to them both!
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noon |
11:20 PM