Urad Apple Dessert

A creamy delicious dessert subtly fuses the flavours of apple and urad dal, baked as rose petals.

For the filling you need:

40 gm urad dal

75 gm sugar

215 ml milk

25 gm butter

1tsp corn flour

1 tsp lemon rind

Method:

Wash and soak the dal for 4 hours. Rinse and cook with minimum water possible in a pressure cooker. After the first whistle lower the heat to its minimum and cook the dal for 1 ½ minutes. Switch off the heat and allow it to cool.

Grind the dal with milk to a fine mixture. Add corn flour and sugar during grinding.

Heat a pan over medium heat and add the butter. Pour the dal mixture into the pan. Cook till it begins to thicken and boils. Add the lemon rind and remove it from the heat.

For the base you need:

2 slices of bread

1 Tbsp butter

2 small removable base flan cases (base 3 cm diameter)

Method:

Take the measurement of the base of the flan case on a piece paper. Make the round 1 cm wider and cut out the circle.

Take a slice of bread and flatten with the rolling pin. Place the paper circle on it, and cut out a bread circle.

Butter the flan case and the bread. Place the bread at the base and press it evenly into the case. Do the same for the other case as well.

Spoon the prepared filling into the cases to the top.

For the topping you need:

1 green apple

1 tsp icing sugar.

Method:

Wash and cut the apple into halves and then into quarter.
Cut out the core of the apple from each piece.

3. With a potato peeler or a sharp knife slice the apple vertically as thin as possible and arrange them as the petals of a rose as shown in the picture. Repeat the same for the other case.