A Recipe From 'Active Foods' Workshop

Food Lovers Club, which is run by Kripal Amanna, publisher and editor of the popular magazine Food Lovers Bangalore, conducted a healthy foods workshop called Active Foods last Saturday (Dec 11, 2010), which ran full-house.

The workshop started with an interactive session on Weight Management (conducted by yours truly), followed by a cookery demonstration of healthy dishes (conducted by Naren Thimmiah, Executive Chef of Gateway Hotel, Bangalore) and ended with a healthy lunch prepared by the hotel chefs.

Here's a recipe from the booklet that was given to the workshop participants...

Smoked Apple and Yogurt Mousse

Serves 4 (75 calories per serving)

Ingredients -
300 g apples
100 g yogurt (make it skimmed)
5 g gelatin
100 g black grapes
20 g sugar
1 g salt

Method of Preparation -

1. Smoke the apple with wood charcoal till it is tender and then peel it.
2. Prepare a fine puree of apple and yogurt together and strain once.
3. Melt gelatin and warm the pureed mixture. Add gelatin to the warm puree, pour it into a mould of your choice.  Allow it to cool and put it into the refrigerator to set.
4. Once set, demould on a bed of lettuce and serve with grape coulis.  Garnish with sliced apples.

For the grape coulis -

1. Puree the grapes, strain and add sugar and salt.
2. Put it on a slow flame until the juice reduces to 1/3rd of the original amount.
3. Cool and store it in bottles.  Use droplets of the same on the plate to finish.