Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Chocolate Truffles

Ingredients:
  • 250gr Dark Chocolate
  • 1 Large Egg Yolk
  • 125gr Butter/Margerine
  • 4 tblspoon Rum/Brandy
  • cookie cups (small)
Cocoa Powder or Vermicelli
Method:
  • Melt chopped chocolate over low heat in a double boiler
  • Beat egg yolk and butter until soft and creamy.
  • Allow melted chocolate to cool a little then add a little at a time to butter mixure
  • Add the alcohol
  • Put mixture in fridge to harden
  • When set take a teaspoon at a time roll into shape by hand and dip in cocoa/vermicelli coating
  • Place Truffles in individual cookie cups.
  • Put in a container, cover and refrigerate to set.
Makes approx 25 truffles
after a couple of hours prepare to indulge.

Crumbed Chicken or Meat a nice alternative way

Ok so the most common way is to buy bread crumbs from your supermarket, but here is a very tasty and easy alternative.
I buy a large packet of Crisps (your favourite flavour) and a transfer those into a plastic bag, take a rolling pin and I crush them into crumbs (normally I do a third of a packet at a time so as not to over fill the plastic bag.)
I then use melted butter or oil  and dip my chicken or meat or brush it on, then i roll my food in the crumbed crisps.