Roast Beef Dosai
Intro
So I've reused a few themes and ideas from previous post below - there's a mystery prize for the first person to spot them all. As a hint read my other posts (& click on the adds) if you want to work out which.
The idea here was to take the basic ingredients for a Sunday lunch and make something a little different. So roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, potato, cauliflower and brussel sprouts with horseradish and mustard was the starting point.
Description
So the most contrived logic here is the inclusion of the dosai, but it made sense to me at the time. Basically Yorkshire pudding is made with pancake batter, as are pancakes, but then dosai are (fermented) rice based pancakes so Yorkshire pudding = Dosai. That's science.
The actual method is simple. I had some left over roast beef (from a more conventional meal) which I cut up. Then I 'overcooked' the veg. Next pureed the veg. Finally mixed the puree with appropriately coloured sources. Cauliflower with horseradish, (sweet) potato with mustard and Green Chilli sauce with the brussel's. I'll point out the that so conceptually mint sauce might have worked better but I wanted a stronger flavour to work with the horseradish and mustard.
Finally attempt to cook the dosai following the instructions given on the packet (I actually got scared that they weren't working and added too much batter here, so ended up with less Dosai, so more in each one so don't try to follow my pictures too closely). Finally artistically load up the food, fold over and you're done.
Conclusions
This was actually pretty nice. Although a major word of caution- don't add two tea spoons of each of the flavourings as it's a little (extremely) too much. I think it'd have been better to have fewer fillings, maybe by using more Dosai with different combinations of meat and veg would work better. If there's on;y one thing I'd take way from this meal its that I'll be buying more Dosai mix and I'd recommend making these as thin and crispy as possible.
Banana Un-split
So my thought was banana split would work as a dessert to go with roast beef. So with roast beef Dosai I though it'd be sensible to put the banana back together. It also make a good name/pun.
Ingredients are banana, white chocolate and evaporated milk. I also had some yellow food colouring.
Finely chop up the chocolate, mash up the banana and mix in some of the evaporated milk, plush enough food colouring to get the desired comic book banana colour. Now here come the (what was meant to be) the clever bit. Wrap the used banana skin in cling film to form a water tight mold and pour the banana mix in. Put in the freezer.After a few hours you should have a partially frozen, vaguely banana shaped yellowish mush.
Server this
So how did this go. It turns out that a banana skin is a very good insulator and that I don't have that much patience, although I'm not sure that this would have every turned into a solid 'banana'. The taste was alright, although I think it would have been better to follow a proper banana ice cream recipe, although I think this is actually fairly low fat/health compared to 'proper-ice cream'.
Finally instead of the banana skin sticking the mix in a proper banana shaped mold (do these exist?) would probably have resulted in a better outcome.