Detox Water

Welcome Summers!
We welcome you with our new healthy obsession. Obsession that helps burn body fat, rids your body from harmful toxins, good for digestion, perfect for clear skin and comes with other healthy benefits. This new must-have drink in summers is Detox water, yes! Detox water is taking over instagram and twitter, every health guru posting snaps of their water bottles filled with this chilled fruity drink.
I have collected few of the best detox recipes for you to make, one's that are best in taste and benefits. You can carry them with you to your daily workout sessions or just simply drink them through the day for maintaining a healthy life style.

Here are the recipes;

For clear skin: (my favorite)

You'll need:

- Lemon (sliced)

- Cucumber (sliced)

- Crushed mint leaves

- filtered water

Directions:

Fill your water bottle with water and put all these ingredients in. Close and refrigerate overnight. Put ice if you like and drink through the day. This water also helps rid your body of toxins and cleanse it. This is my favorite detox water recipe and i drink it every day, all day, in summers. This tastes good too, it's a zero calorie water. But at times i put some sugar in it too, for better taste. When you drink up all the water you can refill your bottle and put it overnight again.

For flat tummy, add 1 table spoon of grated ginger.

Fat flush water

- 1 orange sliced

- 1 lime sliced

- 1 lemon sliced

- 1/3 cup grapes

- mint leaves crushed

- filtered water (as much as to fill one water bottle)

Directions:

Fill your bottle with water and all these ingredients, refrigerate for half an hour and enjoy drinking it throughout the day. 

Metabolism Boost

- Green tea bag

- half orange sliced

- mint leaves

- lemon sliced

- water

Directions:

Just like any other detox water recipe, you put all ingredients in your water bottle and refrigerate overnight and drink it through the day. Green tea has benefits like burning the fat and digestion. Lemons are very good for skin and helps flush out toxins.

Other recipes:

- Lime, Lemon and Orange: For digestion, Vitamin C, immune defense and heartburn. Drink at room temperature.

- Green tea, Mint, Lime: fat burning, digestion and headaches.

- Cucumber, Lime and lemon: water weight management, bloating, appetite control, hydration and digestion. 

- Strawberry and Kiwi: cardiovascular health, immune system defense, blood sugar regulation and digestion. 

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Grilled Chicken Cheese Tacos

Tacos
This traditional Mexican dish, full of flavor, come together easily making them perfect for busy nights and get-together! With caramelized onions and BBQ chicken breast, this dish is classy and easy to make. It hardly takes 60 minutes and its ready!

Ingredients:

- Chicken breasts, chopped in bite sized pieces

- Butter, room temperature

- Olive oil

- BBQ sauce (i used American Garden honey BBQ)

- 2 Tomatoes, chopped

- 1 onion, sliced

- 1 Capsicum, sliced

- ground Paprika 

- salt and pepper to taste

- El Sabor wraps tortillas 

- Cheese slices

DIRECTIONS:

Step #1:

Marinate chicken pieces by covering chicken in bbq sauce and refrigerating it for about 2 hours. 

Step #2: Meanwhile, in a pan, heat 1 tblspn butter. Throw sliced onions and cook till they are soft and caramelized.

Step #3: In a frying pan, heat oil and add marinated chicken, grill it for about 6 minutes, add tomatoes, salt and pepper, paprika and 1 tablespoon bbq sauce. Cook till chicken is ready.

Add capsicum and cover the pan for about 5 minutes.

Step#4: Heat tortillas on low heat till ready to use.

Step #5: 

Put cheese slices on tortilla.

Add chicken filling on top of the cheese covering half of the tortilla.

Top with caramelized onions. And fold tortillas.

And enjoy!

Cake Alaska

Cake Alaska with Chocolate Ganache
Some recipes are your all time favourite, and this is mine! Its my midnight treat. Cake Alaska is a must in summers, and if you haven't ever tried it, well then, you're missing a lot. I'm not completely following the traditional recipe of flaming Alaska cake or baking ice cream filled chocolate cake at 300degrees, my recipe is very simple yet classic. I skipped the meringue and added ganache to the recipe, so here's it.

Ingredients:

- 2 cups plus 2 tablespoons sugar (icing sugar for best results)

- 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour

- 3/4 plus 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt

- 2 large eggs

- 1 cup milk

- 1/2 cup vegetable oil

- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

- 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons boiling water

DIRECTIONS:

Step #1: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Step #2: Whisk all the dry ingredients of the cake, in a large bowl. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla and beat with an electric mixture on low speed for about 2 minutes, and on high speed for about 3 minutes.

Step #3: Whisk in the boiling water. Batter must be very thin and runny so do not worry. That's exactly what it's suppose to be like.

Step #4: pour in two equal sized round cake pans and bake for about 45 minutes, or more if needed.

Step#5: When baked, take the cake out and leave to cool for about 5 minutes. Take the cake out of the pans and on two cake plates. Let cool.

Step #6: Cut out a smaller circle from the middle of one cake, you can use a round cookie shape to cut the cake out.

Step #7: fill the empty round space with ice cream, vanilla. 

Step #8: Layer this cake with the other one and cover your cake with Chocolate ganache.

Step #9: You can make your ganache with heating one cup heavy cream over low heat and melting 400 grams of chocolate (milk or dark) in it till the mixture is smooth and shiny. Put it in the refrigerator till its cool and thick enough. You can beat the ganache on max speed to get the desired thickness.

Cover the cake with ganache, i like to keep my ganache messy and more like an old fashioned home made style. My ganache is not really thick, its shiny and smooth. You can use Chocolate Buttercream instead of the ganache, but i prefer ganache, it give more luxury feel to the cake. 

Enjoy!

Easy Chocolate Hazelnut Mousse

Mother Mousse
Jo Brand once said "Anything is good if its made of chocolate". Okay, chocolate is fine, i love chocolate, but what if it's chocolate mousse? oh better yet, chocolate hazelnut mousse. Oh shit, i'm going to be cheating on my diet, haha! Just kidding, i need calories, i mean look at me, i'm all bones.

Ingredients: 

1-3/4 cups cold milk

1 package (3.9 ounces) instant chocolate pudding

1/2 cup Nutella

1-3/4 cup whipped cream

Additional whipped cream

Directions: 

1. Whisk milk and pudding mix in a large bowl for 2 minutes. Let stand for 2 minutes or until soft set.

2. Whisk in Nutella until smooth.

3. Fold in whipped topping

4. Spoon into small dessert dishes. Chill until serving. Garnish servings with additional whipped topping.

Marshmallow Fondant

This Marshmallow Fondant recipe that i'm sharing with you is easy-to-make, very delicious, and great to work with. This homemade recipe produces smooth, sweet rolled fondant that is great on cakes, cupcakes and cookies. It can be molded in any shapes at all. I'v used this recipe for a long time now and it is worlds better than any prepackaged fondant you can buy.

Ingredients:
- 150g white mini marshmallows
- 300 gms Icing sugar (more if needed)
- water
- food colour
- oil
- food wrap

Put marshmallows in oven-safe bowl and microwave for 30 seconds.

Open microwave, add 2 table spoons water and microwave again for 30 seconds.

Keep repeating this till the marshmallows are all melted and smooth.

I used white and pink coloured marshmallows because i wanted my fondant red, so it wont really matter if i melted pink marshmallows. 

Add food color to the hot melted marshmallow mixture and stir. 

In a large bowl, put the icing sugar and make a well in the middle. Pour the melted marshmallow mixture in the icing sugar well and grease your hands with oil before you start to knead. 

 It usually take me about 10 minutes to get a firm smooth elastic ball that will not tear when applying to the cake. It is best if you let it sit, double wrap, overnight. 

I keep my fondant wrapped, in air-tight container. If your fondant is too hard or tears while applying to the cake, you can add a little water and knead till its smooth and soft again.

Some fondant cakes I'v made using this recipe.