American whisked sponge cake

My daughter's boyfriend loves Victoria Sponge cake. I can understand his fascination but personally I prefer not so heavy version: American whisked sponge cake.
















"American whisked sponge cake"

- 100g flour
- 100g sugar
-3 eggs
- vanilla extract
- 200 ml double cream
- 150g fresh strawberries

Preheat the oven to 180 C.

Whisk the egg whites and add egg yolks and sugar. Gently add flour and vanilla extract. Pour the mixture into one big/you must cut cake on two pieces later on/ or two small tins. Bake about 25-30 minutes. Leave to cool.

Whip the cream. Chop all but 2 strawberries. Sandwich the cake together with the whipped cream and chopped strawberries. Decorate with icing sugar and 2 left strawberries.

Potato cutlets with mint chutney

Of course I visited slums! With a guide. We went into the private houses and places where people worked. On a street I felt smell of different dishes. The most delicious smell came from potatoes with mint sauce.

"Potato cutlets with mint chutney"

Chutney:

- 250g mint leaves

- 1 chopped onion

- 3 green chillis

- juice of 3 lemons

- salt, pepper

The cutlets:

- 2 kg potatoes boiled and mashed

- 1 tb spoon cumin seeds

- 1 tsp black pepper, freshly ground

- 3 tsp vegetable oil

- salt

Whizz the ingredients for the mint chutney in the blender and mix.

Combine the mashed potatoes with other ingredients. Shape the mixture into small cutlets. Heat oil on a pan and place potatoes into the pan. Cook from the both sides.

Serve with the chutney.

Baked sour fish

I was in Mumbai for a few days. I loved to feel the warmth of the sun on my face. I know, I know. It is not healthy and I will be old very soon. So what? I enjoyed the smell of the spices and I tried them in different dishes. For ex. mango powder...

"Baked sour fish"

- 6-8 portions of any white fish, boneless

- chopped garlic

- chopped ginger

- 1 teaspoon chilli powder

- 1 teaspoon tandoori masala

- 1 teaspoon mango powder

- 3 tablespoon dried breadcrumbs

- salt

-oil

Put fish into mixed chilli powder, garlic, ginger and masala.

Mix the mango powder with breadcrumbs.

Arrange the fish on a greased baking tray. Put breadcrumbs on it and drizzle the oil over.

Bake about 20 min at 180 st C.