Strawberry Shots

I love strawberries! When it comes to choosing an ice cream or milk shake or any desserts, I always go for strawberry flavor  After having the dessert shots at café coffee day, I so wanted to try them out myself. But they serve only mango and choc, so I was eagerly waiting for the strawberry season to approach so I could try out the strawberry version of the same.

Now this recipe is not exactly the same as the CCD version. But I’m sure you won’t regret these!

Ingredients:

Marie Biscuits – 4

Fresh strawberries – ½ cup

Butter – 3 tsp (melted)

Thick curd – ½ cup

Fresh cream – ½ cup

Sugar – 4 tbsp (add more/less according to the sourness of the strawberries)

China grass – ½ tbsp (i used strawberry flavored but you can use the plain version too)

Water – 2 tbsp

Note: In case you don’t find thick curd, take 1.5 cups of the normal curd, put it in a muslin cloth and hang it somewhere for an hour so that all the water drips off and you are left with ½ cup of thick curd.

Method:

Crush biscuits roughly and powder to a semi fine mixture. Then add melted butter to the powdered biscuits and mix well so that the mixture becomes moist. Fill this up as a base layer in your dessert bowl/glass and press firmly with the back of a spoon or fingertips. Leave this in the refrigerator while the other layers are getting ready.

Chop strawberries roughly and puree it with sugar. Set aside. In a mixing bowl, add curd and fresh cream, mix until they combine well.

Add strawberry puree (reserve 1/4 cup for later) to the above mixture and mix well. At this point check for sweetness and adjust according to your preference. If adding sugar, beat well until sugar is dissolved completely. Set aside. In a small heat resistant cup, add the china grass and water. Boil water in a pan and place the cup in the boiling water. Allow it to boil until you see a clear liquid when the china grass is dissolved completely.

Now add the china grass water mixture to the curd-cream-puree mixture, give a quick stir. Fill it up immediately in your dessert bowl/glass as a second layer reserving little space at the top. Chill it for 4-5 hrs or even overnight for best results. Then add the remaining strawberry puree as a third layer and serve chilled.

Yeah I know I have a pretty crappy pic of the dessert :( Will take a proper pretty pic of the same and upload it someday.