A Few Recipes to Make with Madagascar Vanilla Beans

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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.
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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) Confectioners sugar or icing sugar
1 cup Cream or milk ¼ cup A pinch of
salt Preparation Lets 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. Dont
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
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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 cant 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
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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
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