Scrumptious Chocolate Fudge

Author: arwa manasawala
Ingredients:
400 gms. condensed milk
300 gms. dark brown chocolate (grated)
100 gms. fresh mawa/ khoya
50 gms. salted butter
about 3/4 cup chopped walnuts or almonds
about 1/2 tsp. orange essence
Method:

• Take the condensed milk in a non-stick pan and simmer.
• When warm add the grated chocolate and stir slowly till all the chocolate melts.
• Add the mawa and keep stirring till combined.
• Add butter and keep stirring slowly till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan. This will take some time.
• Add the dry fruits and the essence and mix well.
• Remove from flame and pour into a greased dish and let cool to room temperature.
• Place in the fridge for an hour to set.
• Chop into chunks and relish.
• Store in clean, dry container at room temp.

Do not add essence or add less if making fudge for kids. Also, add more dry fruits if you want.
Garnish with some chocolate vermecelli (optional) and chopped dry fruits before the fudge sets.
Serve hot with chilled vanilla ice cream.
Vanilla Ice Cream
This ice cream is made in 2 parts; first the basic is made (which does not have any flavour) and then the second part is made with the flavouring.
Plain Basic:
Ingredients:
½ litre raw (unboiled) milk
G.M.S. pdr. (softener) –all 4 spoonfuls of the measuring spoon set
C.M.C. pdr. – about 1 pinch
cornflour – all 4 measuring spoonfuls
sugar – 7 ½ tbsp.
Method:

• Add all the above ingredients to the milk in a thick bottomed vessel and stir with a ladle to combine everything.
• Heat this on a medium flame stirring continuously till it reaches boiling point.
• Now lower the flame and let it simmer. Keep stirring continuously.
• When it reaches boiling point again and rises upto the brim of the vessel shut the gas.
• Let this cool down to room temperature.
• Fill this in a dry, airtight plastic container and place in the freezer for 16 hrs. for it to completely set.
• Place it in a way that the container touches the base of the compartment and turn the control of the freezer to the maximum.
• Avoid opening the container and even the freezer as far as possible till the base is set.

Using this base you can make flavoured ice creams by adding essence and colours as per the flovours of your choice.
(Flavoured) ice cream using the plain basic:
Vanilla ice cream
Basic ice cream made of ½ litre milk
2 tsp. vanilla essence
½ cup fresh cream/ malai
an electric double beater
a bowlful of ice cubes
timer to check the exact time
Method:

• Remove the basic from the freezer and let it become soft.
• Randomly cut it into pieces with a butter knife and place it into a steel vessel kept on the ice
• Add the essence and the cream.
• Now place the beater such that it touché the base of your vessel and beat it in this position for 6 mins.
• Then without shutting the beater raise the beater and place it mid way and beat like this for 4 mins.
• Now pour this into the plastic container and freeze it in the same manner for 6 hrs.

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