If you are a crazy fan of American football, baseball, basketball, hockey, or soccer, and you enjoy hosting parties for friends and family during playoffs, then add to that thrilling combination a few mouthwatering recipes.
Apart from large bowls of colorful fruits, freshly roasted peanuts, almonds or pistachios, and large pitchers of cold chocolate milk or minty lemonade that you could offer your guests, here are a few appetizing dishes that taste heavenly.
Place a large pot over medium heat. Melt four tablespoons of butter. Add one large cubed potato, a diced onion, a few cloves of garlic, salt to taste, and stir fry these for a few minutes. Add four cups of cubed farm fresh pumpkin to this pot, and after about 15 minutes when the vegetables become tender, switch off the heat and let this cool. Then blend into a smooth paste.
Heat the pot again, pour the blended mixture and bring it to a boil. Switch off the flame, garnish with a pinch each of crushed pepper, nutmeg powder, and a shot of fresh cream. Add some fresh rosemary and serve hot.
Cut a large cauliflower into bite size pieces. In a large bowl, combine two tablespoons each of chickpea/gram flour and rice flour, one teaspoon of red chili powder, a few pods crushed garlic and salt to taste. Mix these well and add a tablespoon of hot oil and enough water to get a batter like consistency.
Toss the cauliflower pieces into this batter, ensuring every piece is completely coated. Place the cauliflower pieces in a preheated oven and bake until they become crispy. Make sure you lightly turn over the florets every few minutes. Serve these hot with a yummy yogurt blue cheese dip.
In a bowl, whisk together one cup of greek yogurt, one tablespoon of lemon juice, some finely chopped scallions and fresh parsley, one-fourth cup of blue cheese and a pinch of salt and pepper. The protein and calcium rich yogurt blue cheese dip is now ready.
Heat a pan and melt 12 tablespoons of unsalted butter. Add a cup of brown sugar and stir continuously. Stir in three cups of chocolate chips and keep stirring till they melt and combine well with the butter sugar mixture. Remove it from the heat and immediately add four eggs, four teaspoons of vanilla essence, five tablespoons of flour, three tablespoons of cocoa powder, and one teaspoon of salt and mix everything thoroughly.
Pour this chocolatey mixture into a pan and slide it into an oven and bake it at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes. After the brownies are done, spread some peanut butter on them, dust a little powdered sugar on top, and let them melt in your mouth.
