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Some recipes which you can try this Valentine’s Day

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If you haven’t made the reservations for a romantic dinner, it is time to get into the kitchen and cook up a special meal for your loved one.

Here are some recipes which you can try:

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* Chicken chai kebab by French chef Gregory Bazire from Taj Mahal Tea House

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Ingredients –

Chicken keema: 150 grams

Garam masala powder: According to taste

Green chilli: 3 or according to taste

Pickled tea Leaves S/R: According to taste

Grated cheese: 4 to 5 cubes

Dry Raita S/R: According to taste

Peas shoot: 3 to 4

Spearmint leaves: 2 to 3

Tomato confit: According to taste

Onion: 1

Ginger: 1 tbs

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Egg yolk: 2 to 3 depending on consistency

Method: Combine all the ingredients and cook. Once cooled down add bread and egg for binding and prepare tikkis by adding tea pickle and processed cheese in the centre and coat with mix of dry seeds and deep fry till golden brown and serve with hung curd and mint raita.

End the meal on a sweet note and pamper your significant other by recreating dessert from Dubai’s The Hide. Chef Brian Voelzin from The Hide, Dubai, shares the recipe:

* Smores sundae

Ingredients

Chocolate ice cream: 2 scoop

Vanilla ice cream: 1 scoop

Marshmallow frosting: 50 gm

Chocolate ganache: 40 gm

Peanut crunch: 30 gm

Peanut brittle: 20 gm

Peanut butter cookies: 50 gm

Honeycomb: 30 gm

Dolce de leche: 35 gm

Icing sugar: 5 gmIngredients for making chocolate ganache

Butter: 100 gm

Honey: 100 gm

Cream: 200 ml

Chocolate: 300 gm

Method: Cream honey and butter to boil and add chocolate slowly.

Ingredients for making honeycomb

Sugar: 708 gm

Honey: 108 gm

Glucose: 270 gm

Water: 132 ml

Baking soda: 30 gm

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Method: Grease and line an oven tray with baking paper. Combine sugar, honey, water and golden syrup in a medium saucepan. Place over low heat and cook, stirring, occasionally brushing down side of the pan and spoon with a pastry brush dipped in water to remove any sugar crystals, for 5-7 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Increase heat to high and bring to the boil. Cook, without stirring, for 5-7 minutes or until the syrup reaches crack stage (154°C) on a sugar thermometer.

Remove from heat and set aside for bubbles to subside. Add the bicarbonate of soda and quickly stir with a wooden spoon until combined (mixture will bubble and foam). Pour onto the tray and set aside to cool completely.

Ingredients for making peanut butter cookies

Butter: 170 gm

Sugar: 300 gm

Glucose: 100 ml

Peanut butter: 260 gm

Baking soda: 1 gm

Baking powder: 2 gm

Salt: 9 gm

Refined flour: 225 gm

Egg: 100 gm

Vanilla extract: 5 gm

Method: Sift the flour and baking powder in a large mixing bowl, add the egg, glucose, peanut butter, peanuts and salt and mix together. In an electric mixer or with a hand mixer beat the butter, vanilla essence and sugars until creamy and add this to the flour mixture and mix until incorporated. After resting in the fridge for an hour or so, roll into desired balls and arrange on a greased baking sheet and press down lightly with a fork or fingers. Bake for 15 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius, checking that it doesn’t go too dark closer to the end of cooking.

Ingredients for making Peanut butter crunch

Peanut butter: 195 gm

Peanut brittle (sugar100gm +peanut 50gm): 80 gm

Feuilletine: 120 gm

Icing sugar: 120 gm

Sea salt: 2 gm

Method: Combine the peanut butter brittle feuilletine, icing sugar and salt in the bowl of a free standing electric mixer fitted with the paddle or flat beater attachment and paddle on medium low heat about 1 min. The crunch can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for 5 days or in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.

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Casino Days Reveal Internal Data on Most Popular Smartphones

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International online casino Casino Days has published a report sharing their internal data on what types and brands of devices are used to play on the platform by users from the South Asian region.

Such aggregate data analyses allow the operator to optimise their website for the brands and models of devices people are actually using.

The insights gained through the research also help Casino Days tailor their services based on the better understanding of their clients and their needs.

Desktops and Tablets Lose the Battle vs Mobile

The primary data samples analysed by Casino Days reveal that mobile connections dominate the market in South Asia and are responsible for a whopping 96.6% of gaming sessions, while computers and tablets have negligible shares of 2.9% and 0.5% respectively.

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The authors of the study point out that historically, playing online casino was exclusively done on computers, and attribute thе major shift to mobile that has unfolded over time to the wide spread of cheaper smartphones and mobile data plans in South Asia.

“Some of the reasons behind this massive difference in device type are affordability, technical advantages, as well as cheaper and more obtainable internet plans for mobiles than those for computers,” the researchers comment.

Xiaomi and Vivo Outperform Samsung, Apple Way Down in Rankings

Chinese brands Xiaomi and Vivo were used by 21.9% and 20.79% of Casino Days players from South Asia respectively, and together with the positioned in third place with a 18.1% share South Korean brand Samsung dominate the market among real money gamers in the region.

 

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Cupertino, California-based Apple is way down in seventh with a user share of just 2.29%, overshadowed by Chinese brands Realme (11.43%), OPPO (11.23%), and OnePlus (4.07%).

Huawei is at the very bottom of the chart with a tiny share just below the single percent mark, trailing behind mobile devices by Motorola, Google, and Infinix.

The data on actual phone usage provided by Casino Days, even though limited to the gaming parts of the population of South Asia, paints a different picture from global statistics on smartphone shipments by vendors.

Apple and Samsung have been sharing the worldwide lead for over a decade, while current regional leader Xiaomi secured their third position globally just a couple of years ago.

Striking Android Dominance among South Asian Real Money Gaming Communities

The shifted market share patterns of the world’s top smartphone brands in South Asia observed by the Casino Days research paper reveal a striking dominance of Android devices at the expense of iOS-powered phones.

On the global level, Android enjoys a comfortable lead with a sizable 68.79% share which grows to nearly 79% when we look at the whole continent of Asia. The data on South Asian real money gaming communities suggests that Android’s dominance grows even higher and is north of the 90% mark.

Among the major factors behind these figures, the authors of the study point to the relative affordability of and greater availability of Android devices in the region, especially when manufactured locally in countries like India and Vietnam.

“And, with influencers and tech reviews putting emphasis on Android devices, the choice of mobile phone brand and OS becomes easy; Android has a much wider range of products and caters to the Asian online casino market in ways that Apple can’t due to technical limitations,” the researchers add.

The far better integration achieved by Google Pay compared to its counterpart Apple Pay has also played a crucial role in shaping the existing smartphone market trends.

 

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