DAARSAAN

Darsaan is a popular Chinese Dessert  with flat noddles made from flour, fried and then tossed in honey and sesame seeds and relished with vanilla ice cream or sometimes with fresh fruit puree – try with mango puree during summers. It is crunchy sweet and extremely comforting. Honey noddles with ice-cream ‘Darsaan’ as this dish is popularly known is a creative, fun sweet dish that makes up for the lack of a wide variety in chinese desserts. This is almost everybody’s favourite dessert in any Chinese Restaurant. Try this when you have guests and have very little time, and still want to serve an amazing dessert  to your guests. Serve it immediately, you definitely won’t disappoint them…!!!

INGREDIENTS:

For Noodles:

200 grams Flat Noodles or 5-6 Samosa Patti[see notes]

Oil to deep fry

For the Honey Sauce:

1 tablespoon Sugar

1 tablespoon Honey

For Serving:

Vanilla Ice cream

1 teaspoon Roasted Sesame Seeds

METHOD:

STEP 1 – Cut the samosa patti in to thin stripes.Heat oil in a wide kadai.

STEP 2 – Deep fry the noddles until golden in colour.

STEP 3 – Remove, drain excess oil and transfer them on a plate. In this process, crush the fried noodles slightly. Keep them aside.

STEP 4 – Now in a small sauce pan, add sugar and put it on the gas stove.

STEP 5 – Heat it undisturbed until the sugar melts completely and changes its colour to golden brown.

STEP 6 – When the sugar gets caramelised, add honey in it and mix it well. Switch off the flame.

STEP 7 – Add fried and crushed noodles in it and

 mix it well to coat the noodles with honey mixture.

How to serve:

STEP 1 – Put some honey glazed noodles on a serving plate.

STEP 2 – Then add 1-2 scoops of vanilla ice cream on it.

STEP 3 – Finally sprinkle some sesame seeds on the top and drizzle some honey and serve it immediately.

NOTES: *I don’t have flat noodles, so I used samosa patti for this recipe. Just put them on a flat surface and cut them into fine strips with the knife.
              *Daarsaan is to be served fresh and hot, else the sugar can thicken and form crystals on the noodles.