Cheesecake (the easy lazy way)

You need:

A microwave oven

A flat glass pie dish (about 8" dia and 2" deep)

1/3 cup butter

450 gms cream cheese/paneer

2 hundred gm packets of cream crackers

3 eggs

3/4 cup sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

A nice slosh of dark rum

What to do:

Melt the butter in the pie dish. Do not let it cook, just heat it til it starts to get runny.

Now blend in the cracker crumbs til you have a mouldable dough. You should be able to shape it easily. Pack this evenly along the sides and bottom of the pan, making a shell.

Place the cream cheese in a microwave safe bowl and heat just until it softens. Beat it until its smooth. It helps to use a mixie with a blending blade but you can also use a fork.

Mix in the eggs, sugar, vanilla and rum and blend them in well.

Pour into the cracker shell and place in the centre of the microwave oven.

Cook for 8 mins rotating the dish a half turn manually every 2 mins if your microwave doesn't have a self rotating tray.

The centre will still be soft when you remove the pie. Let it set and refrigerate.

Serve with slices of mango.

:)

P.S. Serves about 8 decent sized slices. If you halve the recipie, do not halve the crackers and butter as the pie shell will still need to be the same depending on the dish.