Easy but posh puddings for after curry

downshifted

I am making Meera Sodha's chicken curry and daily dahl and a curried cauliflower for friends tomorrow and need a light, easy but impressive pudding to follow. I can't get my ice cream maker churn in the freezer as it is so full - what else can I do?

bizzybee

I've done lemon syllabub loads of times either with or without alcohol, never had an empty serving bowl yet!

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4406/lemon-syllabub

pollypenny

I would do a summer pudding. It's light and refreshing after a curry.

sparrer

My version of Eton Mess, much lighter and less calorific and of course no cooking. I use raspberries as not keen on strawberries, 1/2 fat free plain or Greek yogurt and 1/2 reduced fat cream.

A spoon of raspberry coulis in the bottom of the dish, the cream/yogurt mixture with lightly crushed meringue and a few raspberries stirred through. decorate with raspberries and a drizzle of coulis. can be made a couple of hours before and kept in the fridge.

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Beautiful and easy is fresh really ripe strawberries half dipped in dark chocolate and left to set. Make some liqueur flavoured whipped double cream and serve each diner with a small individual bowl of the cream to dip the strawberries in and serve with a glass of prosecco or similar fizz, luzurious and no work at all!

Sagz_2

I was going to say Arctic roll.... but that might be too posh

PasturesNew

downshifted wrote: »

I can't get my ice cream maker churn in the freezer as it is so full - what else can I do?

I've never seen/had/used an ice cream maker....can't you decant the contents into smaller boxes?

allybee101

Similar to the Eton Mess idea, you could whip up some cream/creme fraiche and fold some fruit through - raspberries mashed with a fork works well. Sandwich cream between two mini meringues. If you want to make it even more posh you can dip the bases of the meringues in melted chocolate and leave to set before sandwiching.

Brandy snap baskets or tubes filled with fruit and cream or icecream.

downshifted

All lovely ideas thank you. My standby is usually chocolate mousse with rum or brandy in it, but I thought something lighter would be better. Maybe not Arctic Roll ;-)

I'll let you know which I make

downshifted

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never seen/had/used an ice cream maker....can't you decant the contents into smaller boxes?

Mine is one of the cheaper ones - you have to freeze down quite a large bowl before you start, and it is inside this that the ice cream maker churns the cream.....I just can't fit it in at present

RicardaRacoon

What about a strawberry-crumble dessert?

I made it on Easter Sunday as dessert for a brunch and every crumb of it was gone afterwards.

Just make a crumble with some desiccated coconut in it (mine was 100 g sugar, 100 g butter, 115 g flour and 55 g coconut), a cream from 1/2 wiped cream, 2/3 plain yoghurt, some sugar and lemon zest to taste and then layer straberries, the cream and the crumble on top.