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Recipe: Tiranga Cheesecake

August 11, 2023 12:23 IST

Independence Day pe kuch meetha ho jaye... But don't plan for one dessert when you can have three in one.

Chef Rajesh Paramashivan's Tiranga Cheesecake combines the scrumptiousness of Philadelphia cheesecake with motichoor barfi, with which it is served.

If you wish for the motichoor barfi to be more indulgent, fry the boondi in ghee. It will elevate the taste and leave your guests asking for several plates more.

Chef Rajesh, who earned his diploma from Sathaye College, Mumbai, spends his working hours dabbling with all things sweet.

 

Tiranga Cheesecake

Serves: 2-3

Ingredients

For the mousse cake

For the motichoor barfi

For the sugar syrup

For the chocolate slabs

To assemble

Method

For the mousse cake

For the motichoor barfi

For the sugar syrup

For the chocolate slabs

To assemble

Editor's Note: A one-thread syrup is sugar syrup viscous enough to pass the one-thread test.

It is important to keep testing for consistency while the sugar syrup is boiling.

The test for this is: Dip a spatula, preferably wooden, into the boiling sugar syrup and take out. Some syrup would have coated the spatula.
Let it cool a little. Touch the cooled syrup with your forefinger. Some syrup will come onto your finger.
Touch that with your thumb and separate thumb from forefinger.
When one little continuous delicate thread is formed by the syrup, when the coated forefinger is pulled away from your thumb, you have one-thread consistency sugar syrup.

Chef Rajesh Paramashivan

Chef Rajesh Paramashivan is the pastry chef at Novotel Mumbai Juhu Beach.

RAJESH PARAMASHIVAN