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For a twist on standard hot chocolate, you can add in other flavors like peanut butter.

With the winter hitting hard, after such a sunny HOT!! Summer. Every one wants to stay home and get all warmed up. Lets put the calorie counting aside for a while and enjoy a hot cup of creamy tasty hot chocolate with peanut butter.

Peanut butter hot chocolate

Ingredients:

• 1 cup powder chocolate milk mix or powder cocoa mix           

• 3/4 cup chocolate syrup               

• 1/4 cup peanut butter                   

• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla                     

Method:

1. Pour cocoa mix in 3-4 quart slow cooker.

2. Carefully stir in hot water.

3. Stir in chocolate syrup.

4. Cover and cook on medium to high heat for 3 to 4 minutes.

5. Whisk in peanut butter and vanilla until smooth.

6. Ladle cocoa into mugs

Check out the hit chocolate peanut butter method tutorial
http://youtu.be/9Ex6D2IXblc

Béchamel sauce!! Let's sweeten it with some sweet potatoes and pure vanilla.

Finding a vegetable that could be turned into a sweet delicious, creamy dessert gives you the excuse to munch on it as much as you want!! You always have the answer, sweet potato is a vegetable THUMBS UP ..

Sweet Potatoes with Béchamel

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kilo of sweet potatoes                    

• 1 table spoon of flour                         

• 1 vanilla                                           

• 1 liter of full fat milk                                

• 200 grams of sugar                                

Béchamel Method:

Heat the a liter of milk in a deep pan, mix the other half of liter of milk with 1 table spoon of flour, when the milk is warm, start adding the milk and the flour mixture and keep steering in the same direction nonstop till the mixture thickens, now add a pinch of vanilla powder.

Note: Cook the mixture on very low heat.

Method:

1. Cut the sweet potatoes into small cubes, now add them in a deep pan, add the sugar, add 1 table spoon of vanilla powder, and leave them to cook on low to medium heat for about 20 to 30 minutes.

2. After the sweet potatoes have softened and mixed we with the sugar start mashing them with a potato masher.

3. Now get a Pyrex tray and pour the sweet potatoes mixture in it and then our over the sweet potatoes the béchamel sauce, put it in the oven on medium heat for about 10 to 15 minutes till the top part turns golden brown. 

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Let’s give your taste buds a tasty creamy, buttery Indian curry experience!!

Living in Kuwait give you the chance ti meet different nationalities where you get exposed to different kitchens and cousins, such as the great Indian kitchen. Ill never forget my friends mother preparing that amazing creamy, tasty, chili butter chicken dish. I decided today why not live a nostalgic moment with a delicious butter chicken dish on dinner.

Indian Butter Chicken

Ingredients:

• 20 boneless chicken cubes                      

• 2 minced onions                                    

• 1 table spoon of pureed tomatoes                

• 1 table spoon of tomato paste                   

• 1 table spoon of minced ginger                  

• 1 table spoon of minced garlic                  

• 1 table spoon of butter, ghee or oil             

• 2 table spoon of coriander powder              

• 1 table spoon of chili powder                    

• 1 table spoon of masala                            

• 1 large pinch of fenugreek leaves               

• 3 table spoon of cashew paste                   

• 2 table spoon of salt                        

• 1/4 table spoon of turmeric powder

• 1 cup of milk                         

• 1 small bunch of cilantro                

Method:

1. First we will start by preheating the pan on medium to high heat, after the pan is hot enough start adding the butter, bring the heat to medium, and start adding the following ingredients:
• Onions (till it turns brown)
• Add the ginger
• Add the garlic
• Add the coriander
• Add the chili powder
• Add the turmeric
• Add the salt

Note: After adding all these ingredients together keep steering for about a minute or two just to bring all the flavors together.

2. Now after all the flavors have combined together, start adding the purred tomatoes and the tomato paste. Let them cook for about 3 to 4 minutes.

3. After cooking the pureed tomatoes, start adding the fenugreek leaves, the milk, and the chicken cubes. Leave them all to cook on low to medium heat for about 8 to 10 minutes.

Note: Add some water as soon as the sauce starts thickening, about half a cup of water.

4. Now start adding the masala, cashew paste, give it a good steer, add some salt and finally the coriander on the top.

TRY IT!

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