Soulful Creations

This is a very simple yet super delicious dessert. I saw the recipe here and immediately found a calling, I made it the same day. I thought I would submit to No croutons required edition of Berry soups but somehow did not manage to post it! Ingredients 1/4 cup tapioca (sabu dana) 1 cup water 4 tbsp sugar (2 tbsp add along with tapioca and reserve 2 tbsp to be added with the milk) 2 cups diced fruit (I used berries and mangoes) 2 cups coconut milk 1 tsp rose water Garnish- mandarin orange sections (but for the photo, I forgot to add them!) Method: Boil the tapioca stirring constantly until the pearls are translucent (this takes a while and make sure it is translucent!) . Remove from heat and stir in sugar. Bring back to the boil. Remove from heat immediately. Let the tapioca cool. I also just warmed the coconut milk, added the sugar in to ensure that the sugar dissolved Prepare your fruit- slice strawberries but leave other berries whole, dice other fruit...

I love Thai sticky rice with mangoes and I make sure I order it every time I am in one of the Thai restaurants. Finally I decided to make it my way and the inspiration or I guess the impetus was finally removed by the IAVW: Thai event hosted by Priya of Akshayapatram. The "Its a vegan world" was introduced by Vaishali of Holy Cow (love her blog!). Here is my contribution to this event Ingredients 1 mango, sweet not too fibrous preferably! 1 cup sticky rice (I used unsweetened sushi rice) 1 1/2 cups water 1/2 cup unrefined sugar, reserve 2 tbsp 3 tbsp molasses 2 cardomom pods, crushed 1 cup coconut milk, reserve about 2 tbsp for garnish 1 tsp vanilla extract Whipped cream and toasted seasame seeds for garnish Method I took a lazy approach 1. Soak the rice in cooking water for about 10 min. To the rice add the cardomom, sugar and molasses. Cook the rice in a pressure cooker (If you don't have one, you can cook the rice in a cooking pot with a tight fitting lid), l...