I’d give all my life earnings for a meal at the Great Hall of Hogwarts. Two problems with that: firstly, I’ve already spent all my earnings. Secondly, there is a slight chance that Hogwarts might not be real. A very slight chance though. If you’ve read or watched Harry Potter, you wouldn’t have missed the amazing food mentioned and seen in this magical series. Delicious and fascinating food that we’ve all dreamt of eating one day. Sure, we can’t apparate into the world of Harry Potter for their culinary feast, but we can make our own magical feast sans the magical elements!
As stated in Five Principal Exceptions to Gamp’s Law of Elemental Transfiguration, I can’t conjure food out of thin air. But there is no rule against dishing out some delicious recipes for DIY Harry Potter inspired dishes! Here are 5 recipes inspired by the series. You can thank me later by sending over a crate of Butterbeer!
Butterbeer
We all came to know about Butterbeer first in ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ and ever since then we’ve all wanted to get our hands on this delicious drink that every wizard and witch swears by! You don’t need to go to the Leaky Cauldron or The three broomsticks for a cold glass of Butterbeer, here is how you can make your own!
Ingredients
- 1-litre cream soda (If you can’t find cream soda, you can make your own. Just look it up on this thing called internet)
- ⅓ cup butterscotch syrup
- 1-litre vanilla ice cream
Recipe
- Keep the serving glasses in the freezer for about 20-30 minutes.
- Blend the ice cream, cream soda, and butterscotch syrup together.
- Pour them into the chilled glasses.
- Add whipped cream on top if you want the famous ‘Butterbeer moustache’!
Hagrid’s rock cakes
Hagrid’s infamous rock cakes almost broke Ron and Harry’s teeth but we can blame that on Hagrid’s cooking. The real rock cakes aren’t half bad and cause no damage to your teeth. Here is how you can make a softer version of Hagrid’s rock cakes:
Ingredients
- 200 grams all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 egg
- 1 ½ baking powder
- ½ teaspoon sugar
- 6 teaspoon unsalted butter
- 1 cup raisins
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Recipe
- Before you begin, preheat the oven to 375F
- Mix the flour, baking powder, sugar and salt in a bowl.
- Mix the butter slowly into the mixture with your hands until it reaches a breadcrumb consistency.
- Add the raisins and mix well.
- Crack a whole egg into the mixture and add the vanilla extract. Mix well until it reaches a dough consistency.
- If the mixture isn’t holding together, add a spoon of milk to the mix.
- Mould the dough into small balls and place them on the baking sheet.
- Bake for 20 minutes. Let them cool and serve them with some hot cocoa.
Sorting hat samosas
You don’t need to be a Harry Potter fan to know of the sorting hat. This sentient hat at Hogwarts decides which Hogwarts house the students belong to. But with this sorting hat samosa, the eater decides which chutney the samosa hat goes into! This is more of a cooking trick than a recipe, but it’s just as fun!
How to:
- Follow the steps of making a regular samosa up until the filling is in the dough. Once you’ve filled the samosa and sealed the edges, twirl the top a bit to look like the tip of the sorting hat and with a toothpick, make two eyes and a nose resembling the sorting hat. Fry it normally and you have your sorting hat samosas!
**You can also make four chutneys in the colours of Hogwarts 4 houses to truly make it a Harry Potter-inspired dish!
Acid pops
Remember Honeydukes? Yea, bit of a stupid question, ain’t it? Honeydukes, the sweetshop in Hogsmeade was popular for its unconventional and fascinating collection of chocolates and candies. Acid pops were one among the popular candies there. Even though it looked like a regular lollipop, these could burn a hole in your tongue. We don’t want any of your tongues to be burnt, so here is a recipe for a milder version of these pops:
Ingredients
- Lollipops of your choice
- Honey and lemon
- Pop rocks (Magic pops in India)
Recipe
- Warm the honey until it has thinned down. Mix honey and lemon in a bowl.
- Transfer the pop rocks into another bowl.
- Unwrap the lollipops and dip them in the honey and lemon mix.
- Immediately roll them in pop rocks.
- Once they are fully covered, place them on a wax sheet.
- Serve them once they are dry and wait for the fireworks to go off in everyone’s mouths!
Onion soup
The first time onion soup made its appearance in Harry Potter was when Mrs Weasley prepared Harry a steaming bowl of it on his first night at The Burrow. The second time was when Kreacher (the reformed version) prepared a nice bowl of French onion soup for the trio when they were staying at the Dursley’s family house in ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’. We are sure both versions were incredibly delicious, here is our take on it:
Ingredients
- 2 onion
- 1 tbsp plain flour
- 1 tbsp butter
- Pinch of salt
- 1 bay leaf
- Pinch of black pepper
- 2 ½ cup vegetable stock
- 1 tsp thyme
- Pinch of sugar
- Sliced garlic bread for croutons
Recipe
- Peel the onions and slice them into thin strips.
- Melt butter in a pan on medium heat. Sautee the onions in the butter until they are golden. Add salt, sugar, and pepper.
- Sprinkle the flour and add the vegetable stock.
- Add the thyme and bay leaf and reduce the heat.
- Cook for 30 minutes.
- Serve with garlic bread or add the garlic bread to the soup like croutons.
Which one of these DIY Harry Potter inspired dishes are you going to try first? Do you have any Harry-Potter inspired dishes? Let us know in the comments below!
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This brings back so many memories! Awesome.