Thanksgiving 2022: 4 mouth-watering traditional recipes you must try

Without a doubt, Thanksgiving is the best dining day of the year. It’s all about preparing food, eating it, sharing it with others, and enjoying it while remembering old family stories and recipes and savouring some flavours that we only get to experience once a year. The classic Thanksgiving meal, complete with turkey, stuffing, all the potatoes, and enough gravy to top it all off. And don’t forget to leave space for several pies as dessert. With this collection of our favourite grandmother-made Thanksgiving recipes, you may relive your childhood memories. (Also read: Thanksgiving 2022: Unique dinner ideas that’ll hit all the right taste buds )

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Chef Sandip Hazari, Pastry Chef, Conrad Pune, shared some delicious traditional Thanksgiving recipes that you must try.

1. Parisian Flan

Serves: 8 pieces

Ingredients:

Parisian Flan Mix

Milk 750 ml

Sugar 250 gm

Vanilla bean 1 gm

Corn starch 90 gm

Cream 250 ml

Yolk 4

Whole egg 1

Sweet paste

Butter 250 gm

Flour 365 gm

Icing Sugar 125 gm

Egg 2

Salt 1 gm

Vanilla Bean 1 gm

Method:

Parisian Flan Mix

1. Put all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl and mix them well.

2. Pour the mixture into the desired flan mould, lined with sweet paste, and bake at 200 C for 40 minutes.

Sweet Paste

1. Cream butter and icing sugar.

2. Now add egg and vanilla bean with the egg and sugar mixture.

3. Mix the flour into it.

4. Keep in the fridge for at least 2 hours, and then line over flan mould.

2. Brioche pudding, Brandy sauce

Serves: 8 pieces

Ingredients:

Brioche bread

Milk 25 ml

Yeast 20 gm

Eggs 5

Salt 10 gm

Sugar 50 gm

Gluten 5 gm

Flour 500 gm

Soft butter 250 gm

Vanilla bean 1

Soaked Raisins 170 gm

Custard Mixture

Milk 100 ml

Sugar 1 gm

Egg 5

Vanilla bean 8 gm

Brandy Sauce

Egg yolk 2

Dairy cream 150 ml

Breakfast Sugar 35 gm

Brandy 30 ml

Method:

Brioche Bread

1. Make a brioche dough by mixing all the above ingredients and keep the dough on the table for 30 minutes.

2. Now cut the dough and shape it, and then put it in the bread mould.

3. Let the bread proving for another 35 minutes and put it for baking.

4. Bake at 180 C for 25 minutes, and keep the bread on a cooling rack.

Brioche Pudding

5. Slice the bread and line over desired food pan.

6. Soak the bread slice with the above custard.

7. Bake at 180 C for 25 to 30 minutes over a double boiler.

Brandy sauce

8. Boil cream and half of the sugar, and mix half of the sugar with the egg yolk.

9. Now add the egg yolk and sugar mixture with the above mixture and cook until the cream gets thick in consistency, and mix the brandy when the mixture gets cold.

10. Pour the brandy sauce over the pudding and serve.

3. Mince Pie

Serves: 8 pieces

Ingredients:

Minced Pie Mixture

Chopper Apple 500 gm

Cinnamon Powder 1 gm

Ginger powder 1 gm

Cashew nut 100 gm

Raisins 100 gm

Black currant 100 gm

Dried cranberries 50 gm

Prune 50 gm

Almond slice 100 gm

Dried apricot 50 gm

Alcohol 300 ml

Sweet Paste

Butter 250 gm

Flour 365 gm

Icing Sugar 125 gm

Egg 2

Salt 1 gm

Vanilla Bean 1 gm

Method:

Sweet Paste

1. Cream butter and icing sugar.

2. Now add egg and vanilla bean with the egg and sugar mixture.

3. Mix the flour into it.

4. Keep in the fridge for at least 2 hours, and line over a tart mould.

Minced Pie mixture

5. Cut all the dry fruits and soak them in alcohol overnight.

6. Now add peeled chopped apple and spice powder along with the alcohol-soaked fruits.

7. Put the mixture in a sweet paste-lined tart mould.

8. Bake at 180 C for 25 minutes.

4. Honey Pecan Nut Tart

Serves: 8 pieces

Ingredients:

Tart Mix

Honey 130 ml

Melted Butter 180 gm

Brown Sugar 225 gm

Eggs 2

Sponge Crumb 160 gm

Pecan Nuts 375 gm

Fresh Cream 130 ml

Pecan Nut for garnish 100 gm

Ginger powder 1 gm

Sweet Paste

Butter 250 gm

Flour 365 gm

Icing Sugar 125 gm

Egg 2

Salt 1 gm

Vanilla Bean 1 gm

Method:

Sweet Paste

1. Cream butter and icing sugar.

2. Now add egg and vanilla bean with the egg and sugar mixture. Mix the flour into it.

3. Keep in fridge for at least 2 hours, and then line over a tart mould.

Honey Ginger tart Mixture

4. Put Honey, melted butter, brown sugar, eggs, and fresh cream together in a mixing bowl and mix well and add the pecan nuts.

5. Pour the mixture into a sweet paste-lined tart mould.

6. Arrange the Pecan nut over the tart mixture and bake at 180 C for 25 minutes.

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