Valentine’s day is around the corner and if you are thinking about how to impress your loved one with some special gestures and gestures, we might just have the best recommendations for that. there is probably no better gift than the gift of food, that too cooking all by yourself. Here are some special recipes to celebrate the day of love and cook for your bae with loads of love and warmth!
5 Valentine’s Special Recipes To Surprise Your Special Someone
1. Butternut Squash Risotto With Applewood Smoked Chicken & Pan-Seared Vegetables
The Valentine’s Day recipe is by Hotel Sahara Star.
Ingredients:
- Applewood- 10 gm
- Beetroot- 2 pieces
- Butter
- Butternut Squash- 200 gm
- Carrot- 1 pc
- Chicken
- Cream
- Garlic- 5 gm
- Green zucchini- 1 pc
- Oil
- Onion- 10 gm
- Parmesan
- Pepper
- Risotto- 1/2 cup
- Rosemary
- Salt
- Thyme
- Yellow zucchini- 1 pc
Recipe:
- Start by making the beetroot puree. Boil one beetroot with a rosemary sprig in it.
- After the beetroot boils and softens, drain it and make a puree out of it.
- To make the butternut squash puree, you need to vacuum pack the butternut. Also, put 2 thyme sprigs into it and blanch everything for some time.
- Then make a puree out of it.
- Now cut all the vegetables and blanch them.
- Take a pan, heat it, and temper all the cut vegetables with butter. Also, add some garlic and thyme to the veggies.
- Marinate the chicken with garlic, onion, oil, and thyme for about 15 minutes.
- Take another pan and add oil to it. After the pan gets heated up, keep on adding butternut squash, celery, garlic, onion, and thyme.
- Then add the risotto and vegetable stock to it.
- Cook everything well till the risotto gets cooked well.
- Lastly, add some cream and the butternut puree with some butter and seasoning.
- After completing all these steps, grill the marinated chicken. Use the applewood to smoke it.
And with all these steps, you are done with the delish recipe.
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2. Red Velvet Cake
Ingredients:
- Red velvet sponge mix – 100gms
- Whipped cream – 75gms
- Cheese mascarpone – 15gms
- Cream cheese – 20gms
- Icing sugar – 15gms
- Sugar syrup – 15ml
- White chocolate compound – 30gms
- Cardamom powder – 1 gm
Recipe:
- Start by making the sponge cake. Take a bowl and add 100gms of red velvet pre-mix, oil, and water to form a batter with no lumps.
- Take a cake mould and grease it with a thin layer of melted unsalted butter.
- Meanwhile. preheat the microwave oven for 5 minutes at 180 degrees.
- Pour the batter into the mould and put it into the oven.
- For the frosting, add 15gms of cheese mascarpone, 20gms of
cream cheese, 75 gm of whipped cream, 1 gm of cardamom powder, and 15gms of icing sugar nicely. - Once the sponge cake is baked and cooled, take it out of the butter paper and cut it into a cute heart shape.
- Add the frosting and garnish the cake with some cake and white chocolate crumbles on each side of the cake.
- You can even add some white edible pearl chocolate!
3. Valentine’s Day Special Heart-Shaped Pizza
Who doesn’t love to eat pizza? And when it is a cute heart-shaped pizza for valentine’s day, it looks more appetising.
4. Pancakes
Pancakes are the best and easiest breakfast option. And waking up to a delish bed and breakfast on valentine’s day will surely be appreciated by your bae! Here’s a recipe for you!
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5. Virgin Guava Martini
To enjoy delish drinks, you don’t need to drink alcohol. There are hundreds and thousands of recipes of yummy mocktails and 2 glasses of Virgin Guava Martini will add the perfect vibe to your date night.
Which of these dishes are you cooking for your valentine this valentine’s day?
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