No Bake Oreo Ice Cream Cheese Cake

I saw this on youtube and it looked super easy and of course, one could never go wrong with  oreos whipped cream and cream cheese . Best part.... IT'S NO BAKE !!! YAY !!!

What you need to get started:


Whole cookies - 12-15   (crush them to powder form, I used the white part and the cream part and  
                                        crushed them in a food processor)
Melted Butter  - 2 table spoon
Whipping cream  - 250 ml
Cream Cheese - 100 grams
Vanilla extract - 1/4 table spoon
Oreo Bits - 4-5( broken to small bits, not crushed)
Confectioner's sugar - 3 table spoon.


Method:

1) Crush the Oreo cookies , 7-8

 2) Add 2 table spoons of melted butter and mix well.

 3) Pat the mixture onto the bottom of a 5" spring form pan

4) Beat the whipping cream well , 3-5 minutes, till you get a creamy consistency, you get the whipped cream.
Before you start working with the whipping cream to make the whipped cream, make sure the whipping cream is really cold, makes it easier to work with and I left the bowl in the freezer. Just to make it easier to work with.

 5) Mix the cream cheese, vanilla extract and confectioners' sugar well in another bowl and add bits of oreo cookies to the mixture and stir with a spatula.

 6) Mix the Whipped cream and the cream cheese mixture

 7) Spread it evenly on top of the crushed oreos in the spring pan.

 8) Arrange pieces of oreo cookies on the mixture.

Freeze to get an ice cream consistency or refrigerate to get a cheese cake consistency.

This recipe is definitely a keeper. Made it for the first time the day before yesterday, made two of it, passed on one of it to a friend of mine and she told me her son wanted it even for breakfast !

 I'm definitely making more again... my  kids loved them... and of course I couldn't resist too. Every time I make some high calorie stuff yummy stuff and  feel guilty to make it again, because I know most of it will go to mommy, I  come out of guilt thinking , after all its for the kids I'm making it :-) What a nice mom I am  !

Kheema Rice

Another simple recipe here. You don't always have to make cutlets or plain kheema when you have some ground meat at home. You can make this wonderful kheema rice.

Approximate measurements below.

Cooked rice  - 3 cups
Roughly around 1 lb ground meat ( chicken/beef/lamb/turkey)
Frozen peas and carrot - 1 cup
Onion - 1 large
Tomato - 1 medium
ginger paster - 1 tsp
garlic paste - 1 tsp
garam masala powder - 1 tsp
Chopped mint - 1/2 cup
Chopped coriander leaves - 1/2 cup
Fried Onions - Optional - 1 large
Green Chillies - 6-7 ( adjust according to your taste )
Salt
Oil - 2-3 tablespoons

Method:

1) Cook the rice with some salt and keep aside.
2) Add oil, when its hot, add sliced onions and sauté well. Then add chopped green chillies and ginger garlic paste and continue sautéing .
3) Add chopped tomatoes.
4) Add the ground meat and stir fry till the meat turns brown.
5) Add salt.
6) Add the chopped mint and coriander leaves.
7) Once you check the salt  and the meat is cooked. Switch off and mix well with the cooked rice.

Enjoy it hot with some papadom, raita and pickle. You know you don't always have to make biriyani right ;) . This will satisfy your biriyani craving in 15 minutes.