happiness special

The mood-enhancing recipe

INGREDIENTS: For salad: Tomatoes, 2; smoked mozarella, 50 gm; rocket leaves, 20 gm; Spanish chillies, 2; kalamata olives, 5; sea salt, black pepper, to taste; walnuts, 15 gm; almonds, 15 gm For pesto: Basil leaves, 10; pine nuts, 5 gm; parmesan grated, 5 gm; garlic, 2 cloves; olive oil, 15 ml; salt and pepper, to taste METHOD: For basil pesto: Blend all the ingredients to a grainy consistency. For salad: Arrange slices of tomato and smoked mozarella, making a circle in a bakeable pan. Season with sea salt and black pepper. Heat the sliced tomato and cheese at 180 degrees in the oven. Drizzle some pesto, top up with rocket leaves, toasted walnuts and almonds. Arrange pickled Spanish or home made chilles and kalamata olives and serve hot.

The business of happiness

Fitness & Slimming: Growing 25% per annum, expected to become `60,000 crore in 2012 Wellness services: Spas, wellness guidance, medical resorts, day spas etc are now a `11,000 crore industry, expanding 35% a year. Herbal products: Foods, plants and weeds repackaged into cosmetics and drugs. Annual market size is `7,500 crore per annum. Nutraceuticals: Health boosters
such as flax, tea, wine, chocolates, fish oils, coral extracts, natural minerals are a `1,200 crore industry.

TRIBHUVAN TIWARI

WINTER CAPRESE by Chef Saby, Executive Chef, Olive Bar & Kitchen, Delhi

The dessert recipe

INGREDIENTS: For tart dough: Sugar, 175 gm; flour, 2.5 cups; orange, 1, zest only; butter, 250 gm, cold, cut into small pieces; egg yolks, 4, lightly beaten For tart filling: Egg, 1 whole; egg yolk, 2; sugar, 20 gm; dark chocolate, 150 gm; butter, 90 gm; water, 20 gm METHOD: For tart shell: Mix together

WARM CHOCOLATE TART by Alex Sanchez, Head Chef, The Table, Mumbai

the sugar, flour, and orange zest. Add the pieces of butter and rub it into the flour until it forms pea-sized lumps. Add the beaten egg yolks and mix till the dough comes together. Refrigerate for minimum one hour or overnight. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surfaced to 1/8 inch thickness and carefully transfer to 4-inch tart moulds. Using a fork, poke a few holes into the dough to prevent it from

Recipes for happine ss

puffing up. Bake the tart shells for 8 to 10 minutes until dark blonde to light brown in color. For tart filling: Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Whisk together the egg, egg yolks, and sugar until pale yellow in color and has nearly doubled in volume. Melt the chocolate and butter together, over a double boiler or microwave. Allow the melted chocolate to come to room temperature, then gently fold in the egg and sugar mixture with a spatula. Add the water, folding it in. Fill the tart shells with the chocolate filling and bake for 4 minutes, rotate, and bake another 4 minutes. Serve immediately with vanilla ice cream!
AMIT HARALKAR

Spirituality: Indians spent more

than `2,000 crore this year on spiritual gurus.

Yoga: Market
size unknown, but instruction CDs, books, etc are top sellers, second only to Bollywood music sales.

Hair/beauty saloons: A booming `7,000 cr industry, growing 35% annually. Adventure sport:
No estimates, but the industry offering unusual getaways and sports is growing at 500% in the last two years.

Self-help books
are approximately 30% of the shelf space in any bookstoremost of them are motivational.

Compiled by Neha Bhatt and Pragya Singh

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