A Few Recipes to Make with Madagascar Vanilla Beans

1. A Few Recipes to Make with Madagascar Vanilla Beans When it comes to vanilla beans, Madagascan vanilla beans are considered the best. That is because when it comes to flavour and smell, the beans for this tiny little island are far superior to any other place. So here are two recipes that will reach a new dimension if you use vanilla beans from Madagascar in them. Vanilla Cake with a coat of vanilla bean browned butter Vanilla cake is the simplest cake recipe that any level of baker can make. This one also has a vanilla- infused glaze.

2. Ingredients Cake All-purpose flour: 1 cup Granulated sugar or castor sugar: ¾ cup Sour cream: 1/3 cup Buttermilk: ½ cup 1 large egg Baking powder: 2 teaspoon Madagascan vanilla essence: 2 teaspoon Vegetable oil or canola oil: 3 tablespoon A pinch of salt A well-buttered 8 by 8-inch cake tin Glaze Unsalted butter: ¼ cup Vanilla paste: 1 teaspoon (you can make it at home with Madagascan vanilla pods for best result) Confectioner’s sugar or icing sugar: 1 cup Cream or milk: ¼ cup A pinch of salt Preparation Let’s first make the cake. The oven should be preheated to 180 degrees Celsius. In a cake bowl, mix your wet ingredients until well blended. Shift the dry ingredients and slowly fold them into the wet ones. Don’t overbeat or overmix your cake batter. Slowly pour in the prepared tin and bake for about half an hour. In the meantime, you can start making the glaze. For that, first put the butter in a heavy-duty saucepan and hit it till brown in colour. Take it off from heat and pour it into a mixing bowl. All the remaining

3. products and mixed vigorously. You can use a hand mixer for the best result. It should be of pouring consistency; so add milk or cream if it becomes too thick. Add sugar if it is too liquidy. Once the cake is done, take it out of the oven and pour the glaze immediately. Cool for 2 hours before serving. Chicken in Chinese Master Sauce Who said you can use vanilla pods only for making desserts? Here is a chicken recipe that uses vanilla as one of the main seasonings. Ingredients 1 whole chicken weighing about 1.8 to 2 KG Soy sauce: 1 cup Water: 6 1/3 cup Yellow rock sugar (or brown sugar if can’t find it): 150 gms Shaoshing wine or Chinese cooking wine (can be substituted with white or red wine, but add 1 more cup of water in that case): 1 cup Star Anise: 4 Ginger: A large knob Vanilla pod: 1 slit down from the middle Garlic cloves: 4 Preparation First, prepare the chicken. Wash it well and pat dry with a towel. Trim any fat and clean the inside of the chicken well. Place everything else in a large soup pot, big enough to hold the whole chicken, and bring to a boil. Once it boils, let it simmer for 15 minutes in reduced heat. Place the whole chicken, increase the heat, bring the broth back to a boil, and let the chicken cook in it. Reduce heat after 5 min and continue to cook for 15 more minutes. After that, turn the chicken over, and cook for 20 more minutes. Once done, take the chicken out and filter the broth. You can use a part of it to

4. make a sauce to drizzle over the chicken or keep it for later use. The chicken can be served separately as desired. So, if you have some Madagascan vanilla beans in your pantry, use them to make these recipes and enjoy the taste of it to its fullest. To explore more visit: www.neugininaturals.com.au