Strawberry Cheese Cake Recipe - Ingredients
- Biscuits (Digestive Marie) - 4
- Fresh Strawberries - 1/2 cup packed
- Melted butter - 2 to 3 tsp
- Hung curd - 1/2 cup
- Fresh cream - 1/2 cup
- Sugar - 3 tbsp (adjust according to the sweet / sour taste of strawberry)
- China Grass (Agar agar) - 1/2 tbsp
- Water - 2 tbsp
NOTE: Hang around 1.5 cups of curd for an hour to get 1/2 cup. Add more qunatity of curd if its watery to get the desired 1/2 cup.
Method :
1.Hang curd in a cloth for an hour to drain water completely to get 1/2 cup of hung curd. Set aside. Then crush biscuits roughly and powder to a semi fine mixture.
2.Then add melted butter to the powdered biscuits and mix well such that the mixture becomes moist. Spoon and fill it up as a base layer in each glass and press firmly with the back of a spoon or fingertips. Leave this in the refrigerator while the other layers are getting ready.
3. Chop strawberries roughly and puree it with sugar. Heat the puree in a pan until a single boil, I did that though that step is purely optional. Set aside. In a mixing bowl, mix hung curd and cream well.
4. Add strawberry puree(reserve 1/4 cup for the top layer) and mix well. At this point check for sugar and adjust according to your preference. If adding sugar, beat well until sugar is dissolved completely. Set aside. In a pan add water allow it to boil, keep a small heat resistant cup containing china grass(agar agar) with water. Allow it to boil until you see a clear liquid when the china grass is dissolved completely.
5. Now add the china grass water mixture to the hung curd cream mixture, give a quick stir. Fill it up immediately in cups as a second layer reserving little space at the top. Chill it for 4-5 hrs or even overnight for best results. Then add the remaining strawberry puree as a third layer and serve chilled.
If you add china grass with the strawberry sauce(as mentioned in 'my notes') then after pouring the 3rd sauce layer, set it for an hour and serve chilled. Easy yummy no bake version of strawberry cheese is ready. 
For those who are like me using china grass for the first time, here is how it looks. I have seen that it comes as powder too but what I got looked like this. I tried to give a swirl pattern after setting it for one hour(it was not set fully) and this was the outcome. So after giving 4 hours of setting time just poured the puree which looked better for pics so chose that :)
