Cheese Cake with Pomegranate compote
Cheese Cake with Pomegranate compote

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Cheese Cake with Pomegranate compote is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Cheese Cake with Pomegranate compote is something which I have loved my whole life.

Look for a pomegranate that is dark red in color; the darker and deeper the color, the sweeter the seeds will be. Once cooked down with red wine (or pomegranate juice), sugar, orange slices and lemon juice, these seeds will create a rich, decadent compote. By spooning fresh compote over the bars we add brightness, color and textural contrast. Bring to boiling, stirring to dissolve sugar.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have cheese cake with pomegranate compote using 24 ingredients and 25 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Cheese Cake with Pomegranate compote:
  1. Make ready For the crust
  2. Prepare 250 gm digestive/marie biscuits
  3. Get 140 gm unsalted butter, melted
  4. Take For the filling
  5. Take 400 gm cream cheese at room temperature
  6. Take 3/4 cup sugar
  7. Prepare 2 tablespoon all-purpose flour
  8. Get 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  9. Take 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  10. Make ready 1 tsp grated lemon zest
  11. Prepare 2 large eggs
  12. Get 300 gm sour cream(you can use hung card also)
  13. Prepare For Pomegranate compote
  14. Prepare 1 big pomegranates(arils only)
  15. Take 1 tablespoon grated orange zest
  16. Take 1/4 cup orange(juice only)
  17. Take 1 teaspoon dry ginger powder
  18. Make ready 2 tablespoon regular sugar
  19. Take 1 tablespoon honey
  20. Get 2-3 frozen raspberries (optional)
  21. Make ready For garnishing
  22. Prepare as needed Icing sugar
  23. Take handful Pistachios
  24. Prepare as needed mint leaves

It was just packed with flavour and the sweet an juicy pear compote was the perfect foil to balance things out. In a saucepan, add the pomegranate seeds, water, sugar and lemon zest. Once the sugar has boiled down and the mixture gets a little sticky, let it cool. Once cool, the consistency will thicken further into a thick syrup.

Instructions to make Cheese Cake with Pomegranate compote:
  1. Grease and line the base of a 20cm springform pan. Also grease the sides.
  2. Process biscuits in a food processor until finely crushed.
  3. Melt butter in a microwave or in a pan.
  4. Add the melted butter to biscuit crumbs and process until well combined.
  5. Spoon into prepared pan.
  6. Use your hand or a back of a glass to spread and press over the base - and sides.
  7. Place in fridae for 30 mine to chill.
  8. Use an electric mixer to beat cream cheese and sugar in a bowl until smooth.
  9. Add flour, vanilla, lemon zest and lemon juice. Beat until combined.
  10. Add sour cream. Beat again to mix nicely. You can add hung curd also in place of sour cream.
  11. Add the eggs. Beat until just combined.
  12. Pour into the chilled base. With the back of a spoon smooth the top and tap 3-4 times to set the chesse mixture.
  13. Preheat oven at 150 degree C for 10 minutes.
  14. Place pan on a baking tray. Bake for 1 hour or until light golden brown. Turn oven off. Cool in oven, with door little open, for an hour. I like my cheese cake slight golden brown from top, if you like white top then bake the cake at 140 degree and after 30 minutes of baking switch off the top rod of the oven.My cake is light golden brown from the top but white from inside.
  15. Keep the cake in the refrigerator to chill.
  16. In the meantime make the compote.For that take out the pomegranate arils from the pomogranate.
  17. Mix all the ingredients of pomogranate compote like orange zest, honey, sugar and orange juice.
  18. Cook slowly for 6-7 minutes or until sugar dissolves completely and the mixture becomes thick and shiny. I added 2 raspberries to my compote to enhance the colour and taste. It's just optional.
  19. Let the compote cool in the refrigerator before using.
  20. Take out the chill cheesecake from the refrigerator.
  21. Dust some icing Sugar and demould the cake. Scrap the sides of the cake with a spatula to ease demoulding process.
  22. Now top with pomegranate compote on the sides of the cake as shown in the picture.
  23. Dust some more icing sugar at the centre.
  24. Place some more compote at the centre.Garnish with some pistachios and mint leaves.
  25. Chill for 2 hours before serving.

Once the sugar has boiled down and the mixture gets a little sticky, let it cool. Once cool, the consistency will thicken further into a thick syrup. A perfect dinner party dessert with pretty fruit decorative topping and cream cheese on a buttery biscuit base. Mixture will thicken as it cooks, and will thicken more as it cools. Cool in a jar or bowl in the fridge.

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