Wednesday, 30 November 2011

SOANPAPDI


Ingredients:
  • Gram flour – 1 cup
  • Plain flour (Maida) – 1 cup
  • Ghee – 250 gms
  • Sugar – 2 cups
  • Water – 1 cup
  • Milk – 2 tbsp
  • Cardamom seeds (crushed coarsely) –1 tsp
  • Almonds, Pumpkin seeds, Cantaloupe Seeds and Water melon seeds (4 seed mix) – 2 tsp.
Method:
  • First sift both flours together and heat ghee in a heavy saucepan.
  • Now add flour mixture and roast still light golden color.
  • Keep aside to cool.
  • Simultaneously prepare syrup.
  • We make syrup out of sugar, water and milk by bringing it to 2 ½ thread consistency.
  • Pour at once into the flour mixture.
  • Beat well with a large fork until the mixture forms threadlike flakes.
  • Pour onto a greased surface and roll to 1″ thickness lightly.
  • Sprinkle the 4 seed mix and crushed cardamom seeds and gently press with palm.
  • After cooling, cut into 1″ squares.
  • Then ready to eat.

Thursday, 24 November 2011

CHOCOLATE BURFI

                                
Ingredients: 
  • Cocoa owder 250g
    •  1 cup powdered jaggery
    •  3-4 big spoons of ghee
    •  1 cup upma rava ( roasted)
    •  1/2 cup milk (skimmed)
    •  1 cup fresh coconut(grated)
    •  1/2 cup cashews and almonds

    Method: 
    •  Blend cocoa powder with milk.
    •  In a pan, add cocoa milk mixture, rava, coconut, jaggery, ghee, cardamom and stir until the paste gets thick.
    •  Spread the mixture on the greased plate and leave it aside to cool.
    •  Cut the burfi into squares and arrange the nuts.
    •  Tasty Chocolate burfi ready to serve.

    Wednesday, 23 November 2011

    JALEBI

     
                         
    Ingredients:
    • 2 cups self raising flour
    • 1/2 tsp baking powder
    • 1 cup yogurt
    • Vegetable/canola/sunflower cooking oil for deep frying
    • 1 cup sugar
    • Few strands saffron
    • 1/4 tsp cardamom powder
    • 2 drops orange food colour
    • 2 tbsps rose water
    Method:
    • Mix the flour, semolina or rice flour, baking powder, curd and 3/4th cup of the water in a bowl (preferably a ceramic bowl). Mix well with a whisk.
    • Mix well and then add remaining water and 1/8th tsp. of saffron powder, and whisk until smooth.
    • Set aside for about 2 hours to ferment.
    • Whisk thoroughly before use.
    • Prepare one string syrup by dissolving sugar in the water. Just before the syrup is ready add saffron and cardamom powder.
    • Heat oil in a kadhai. Pour the batter in a steady stream ( or coconut shell with a hole) into the kadhai to form coils. Make a few at a time.
    • Deep fry them until they are golden and crisp all over but not brown.
    • Remove from the kadhai and drain on kitchen paper and immerse in the syrup.
    • Leave for at least 4-5 minutes so that they soak the syrup.
    • Take the jalebi out of syrup. 
    • Then serve hot.

    Tuesday, 22 November 2011

    JANGIRI

                        


    Ingredients:
    • Urad dhal: 3/4 cup  
    • Salt: a pinch
    • Kesar color: as desired
    • Sugar: 3/4 cup
    • Water:1/2 cup
    • Cardomom powder: 1/4 tsp
    • Lime juice: 1 tsp
    Method:
    • Soak Urad dhal in enough water for 2 hrs and grind it as a smooth paste.The consistency should be like that of a butter
    • Add salt and kesar color and mix well
    • Prepare sugar syrup by boiling sugar and water.When one string consistency is reached, add lime juice.This is to avoid the syrup getting caramelized. Add the cardomom powder as well 
    • Heat oil in a kadai and pipe the jangiris in medium heat. Fry them and drain in paper towel. Do not over fry
    • Dip the jangiris in sugar syrup for one or 2 minutes and arrange them.Let it stand for half an hour before serving

    Tuesday, 15 November 2011

    APPAM RECEIPES


    Ingredients:
    • Raw rice soaked for 4-5 hours - 2 cup(s)
    • Coconut shavings - 4 cups
    • Cooked rice -1 cup
    • Salt and sugar to taste
    • A pinch of yeast granules dissolved in some coconut water or little hot water
    Method:
    • Drain the soaked rice and grind it along with the coconut shavings
    • Cook the grinded mixture rice to a fine thick paste. Do not add too much water.
    • Add the yeast and mix lightly. Also add salt and sugar to taste.
    • Allow to ferment at room temperature for at least 6 hours. Heat a small non-stick wok. Pour approximately half a cup of grinded mixture and gently swirl the pan around such that only a thin layer of the grinded mixture covers the sides and a thick layer collects at the bottom.
    • Cover with a lid on medium heat for about 3 minute(s) or till the edges have become golden crisp and the centre is soft and spongy.

    POLI RECEIPES

                                         

                                          


    Ingredients:
    • Maida-2 cups
    • Chiroti rava(fine rava)-11/2 cup
    • Ghee or vanaspathi-2 tblsps
    • Salt-a pinch
    • Refined oil -for frying

    Method:

    • Mix together maida and chiroti rava in a bowl,add salt and ghee rub well,till everything blends
    • Sprinkle water and knead like a thick "chappathi" dough
    • Roll out into 1/4 inch thick chappathi,and cut into small diamonds
    • Deep fry in hot oil till crisp and golden

    ADHIRASAM RECEIPES



    Ingredients:
    • Raw rice- 1 kg
    • Jaggery- 1/2 kg
    • sugar- 3/4th cup
    We uses sugar in making adhirasam. But many people do not use it.It is optional to use sugar. u can use jaggery alone too. if so use 3/4 kg of jaggery.
    • Cardamom powder- 1 tsp
    • khus khus- 3 tsp
    • Dry ginger(sukku)- 1/2 tsp powdered
    • Oil for deep frying

    Method:

    Soak the rice in water for 2 hours. Drain the rice and spread it in a clean cloth in a shady area. when it is 3/4 th dried powder it. In india they machinegrind it in a mill. U can also grind it in a mixie and sieve it to get a fine rice powder.
    Add 1/4 cup of water in a thick bottom pan and add the jaggery and sugar to it. When the jaggery melts completely filter it in a strainer to get rid of the dirt. keep stirring the filtered jaggery in low heat. When it is thick, check the consistency by pouring a drop of syrup in a cup of water. The syrup should not melt in water and when touched by finger it should roll into a soft ball. It should not be hard. This is the right consistency.
    Remove from fire and add cardomom powder ,dry ginger powder and khus khus. Stir well and add the rice flour to it . Mix well so that no lumps are formed and till u get a chappathi dough like consistency.Leave it outside overnight.
    Heat oil in a pan and make small balls of the dough . Place the balls in a pastic sheet and using little oil shape it to form small patties. Deep fry in hot oil only one at a time until golden brown on both sides and press well with a flat ladle.

    MYSOREPAK


    Ingredients:
    • 1 cup bengal gram flour
    • 1 cup sugar
    • 2 1/2 cups ghee
    • 1 cup water
    • 1/2 tsp cardomom powder
    Method:
    • Sieve the bengal gram flour (besan).
    • Roast it on a hot griddle/ tava for 2-3 minutes stirring constantly. Set aside.
    • Heat half the ghee (clarified butter) (1 1/4 cup) in a pan.
    • Put the sugar in another pan and add 1 cup of water to it. Cook till it becomes sticky syrup. It should not become stringy.
    • Add the roasted flour to the sugar syrup stirring constantly. Take off the flame for a second while you get the melted ghee ready.
    • Pour the ghee in a steady stream into the flour and sugar mixture while stirring. You need an extra hand here.
    • Add the rest of the ghee and stir in. Cook till the mixture turns light brown and becomes porous and spongy like bread.
    • Sprinkle the cardamom powder over the mixture and turn out immediately into a 9" shallow cake pan or a thali.
    • The mixture sets within a minute.
    • With a sharp knife cut into 1 1/2 inch squares at immediately.

    BADHUSHA

                                            
     Ingredients:

    •  2 cups maidha
    •  1/2 cup ghee
    •  2 cups sugar
    •  2 cups water
    •  2tsp of baking soda
    •  Oil for deep frying
    •  Sliced pista and almonds
    •  Grated dry coconuts
     Method:

    •  Heat little ghee in a pan.
    •  Add pista and almonds. Fry until light golden colour.
    •  Fry maidha and  ghee into the flour.
    •  Add soda and little water. Make soft dough.
    •  Cover it with a wet cloth for 30 minutes.
    •  Take water and sugar in a saucepan and boil it to make thick syrup.
    •  If the syrup becomes thick, add water and heat it again.
    •  Divide the dough and make small  sized balls.
    •  Flatten slightly and make a hole in the center.
    •  Prepare all the badhushas.
    •  Heat oil over medium flame.
    •  Deep fry the badhushas until golden brown.
    •  Put them immediately into the sugar syrup for about 10 minutes.
    •  Place them on a plate.
    •  Sprinkle fried nuts and grated dry coconut.

    RAVA LADDU

                               

    Ingredients :
    • Rava - 2 cups
    • Grated coconut - 1 cup
    • Ghee - 3/4 cup
    • Sugar - 2 cups
    • Milk - 1/4 cup
    • Cashews(halved) - 15 nos
    • Raisins( munthiri) - 15 nos
    • Elachy - 4  (powdered finely)
    • Cloves(Grambu) - 4  (powdered finely)
    Method:

     

    • Heat 3 tbsp of ghee in a nonstick pan.
    • Add rava and stir till the rava is light brown.
    • Allow it to cool.
    • Fry cashews and raisins separately in ghee and keep them aside.
    • Powder rava and sugar in a mixie so that it blends easily. Keep this aside.
    • Powder the dessicated coconut.
    • Add cardamom and cloves along with this coconut to the cool rava mix and mix well.
    • Sprinkle milk over the mix.
    • Make small balls by pouring ghee slowly.
    • When the consistency is little loose, make balls off it.
    • Place one cashew/raisin to each ball.
    • The Rava Ladoo balls will become firm when kept for 15 min.
    • Then ready to eat.

    RASAGULLA

                                                                  

    Ingredients:

    • water 1.5 liter
    • 1 kg cottage cheese
    • 2 tablespoon samolina
    • 1 liter sugar
    • 4 tablespoon ghee/oil
    • 2 tablespoon all purpose flour
    • Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp
    *Sugar Syrup

    •  For sugar syrup add the water and the sugar in pan and boil them together for 20 to 25 min. and let them thicken

    Method:
     
    • Add the cottage cheese, ghee,/oil ,cardamom powder semolina and flour in a big bowl.
    • make a soft dough bymixing the mixture gently .
    • Knead the doughevenly until and unless your palms become oily.
    • Now create small balls of about 1 inch diameter.
    • keep aside for about 10 minutes.
    • Put these balls in sugar syrup .and
    • let them get cooked on slow flamein boiling sugar syrup for about 20 minutes.
    • This will convert balls spongy.Remove pan from heat and cool it down you
    • can later place it in refrigerator .
    • Then serve.

    COCONUTLADDU


    Ingredients:
    • 2 cups desiccated coconut
    • 1 cup sweet cond
    • 1/2 tbs cardamom powder

    Method:

    • Add both the ingredients to a thick bottomed pan after the pan is warm.
    • Then add cardamom powder.
    • Blend the ingredients well, in low heat for about a minute.
    • Remove from heat and make small laddus and roll them over dry desiccated coconut to make it look pretty and to avoid stickiness from condensed milk.
    • Than ready to eat.

    COCONUTBURFI

                              

     Ingredients:

    • Grated coconut - 1 cup
    • Sugar - 1 cup
    • Ghee - 2 tsp
    • Cardamom powder - 1 tsp

     Method:

    • Mix together grated coconut and sugar and leave aside for 5 minutes.
    • Heat this in a pan, stirring continuously while keeping the stove on a low flame.
    • When it`s about to get over, add 2 spoons of ghee and stir well.
    • Add cardamom powder to this and mix.
    • Take a large plate and rinse its surface with ghee.
    • Pour the cooked mixture over the ghee-rinsed plate and allow it to cool for about 3 minutes until the mixture becomes semi-solid. 
    • Then cut it into square pieces and serve.

    GULAB JAMUN


    Ingredients:
    • 1 cup carnation Milk Powder
    • 1/2 cup all purpose flour
    • 1/2 tsp baking soda
    • 2 tablespoons butter -melted
    • Whole milk just enough to make the dough
    For the Sugar Syrup
    • 2 cups Sugar
    • 1 cup water
    • Oil for frying

    Method:
    • Make the dough by combining the milk powder, Bisquick, butter. Add just enough whole milk to make a medium-hard dough. Divide the dough into 18-20 portions. Make balls by gently rolling each portion between your palms into a smooth ball. Place the balls on a plate. Cover with a damp yet dry kitchen towel.
    • Heat the oil on high and then lower the heat to medium. Slip in the balls into the hot oil from the side of the pan, one by one. They will sink to the bottom of the pan, but do not try to move them. Instead, gently shake the pan to keep the balls from browning on just one side. After about 5 mins, the balls will rise to the surface. The Gulab Jamuns should rise slowly to the top if the temperature is just right. Now they must be gently and constantly agitated to ensure even browning on all sides.
    • If the temperature of the oil is too high then the gulab jamuns will tend to break. So adjust the temperature to ensure that the gulab jamuns do not break or cook too quickly.
    • The balls must be fried very slowly under medium temperatures. This will ensure complete cooking from inside and even browning.
    Sugar Syrup
    • The syrup should be made earlier and kept warm. To make the hot sugar syrup add mix the 2 cups of sugar to 1 cup of water. Add 4-5 cardamom pods, slightly crushed and a few strands of "Kesar". Mix with a spoon and then heat at medium heat for 5-10 minutes until sugar is all dissolved in water. Do not overheat, that will caramelize the sugar.
    • Transfer this hot syrup into a serving dish. Keep warm on stove. Add the fried gulab jamuns directly into the warm syrup. Leave gulab jamun balls in sugar syrup overnight for best results. They can be served warm or at room temperature.
    •  Then ready to eat.

    RAVA KESARI

                                             
                                                             
                                                                  
     Ingredients:                         

    • Rava  - 1/2 cup
    • Sugar - 1 cup
    • Water - 1.5 cup
    • Ghee - 1/4 cup
    • Cashew nuts - 10
    • Saffron - few strands
    • Milk  - 1 tsp
    • Cardomom powder - 1 tsp
    • Food color - a pinch
    Method:


    • Take 1 tsp of ghee and roast the cahewnuts. 
    • Heat 1 tsp of ghee in a pan and roast the rava until it turns pink in low  medium flame (This usually takes about 4 min) and switch off the flame.
    • Boil 1.5 cups of water and slowly pour it over the roasted rava. Constantly stir the rava as well so that no lumps are formed.
    •  Add food color and mix well and leave it for 5 minut . 
    • The rava would be now cooked in the hot water.
    •  Switch on the flame and add sugar,remaining ghee, cardomom powder and stir constantly until he kesari comes off the sides. 
    • Note that the consistency will get thicker after some time.
    • So switch off the flame just before the required consistency is reached.
    • Garnish with fried cashew nuts.
    • Then serve hot.  

    PUMPKIN HALWA

    Ingredients:
    • Grated Pumpkin - 2 1/2 cups
    • Milk -1/2 cup
    • Sugar - 1/2 cup
    • Honey -1 cup
    • Cardamom - 3
    • Cashew nuts - 8
    • Ghee - 1/4 cup
    Method:
    • Roast the cashews in ghee until it becomes golden brown.
    • Heat 1 tsp ghee, add the grated pumpkin to it and stir well in low flame till the raw flavor is gone.
    • Add milk and cook till the pumpkin is tender. To this add sugar, honey, stir constantly in low flame.
    • Add the roasted cashews and grounded cardamom mix well and leave it for 5 minutes.
    • Add 3 tsp ghee to it and stir well, put in low flame till the ghee floats.
    • Then searve hot

    LADDU HALWA

    Ingredients:

    • Laddu : 1
    • Gram flour : ¼ cup
    • Water : 1 cup
    • Sugar : ¼ cup
    • Cashew : as needed
    • Ghee : as needed
    • Ilachi : 2
      
    Method:
    • Heat ghee in a frying pan.
    • Add gram flour and fry till smell arises.
    • Add water, sugar, crumbled laddu, cashew and stir well.
    • Cook the contents on a low flame till the halwa thickens.
    • Transfer the contents to greased plate
    • .Add ilachi powder to smell
    • When cool, cut into pieces.

    BEETROOT HALWA


     Ingredients:
    • 1/2  kg beetroot
    • 1  litre milk
    • 400 gm sugar
    • Elaichi powder (2)
    • Faffron few flakes
    • 1 tbsp ghee

    Method:

    • Peel and grate beetroot.
    • Put milk in Nonstik pan.Further till thickens. Add ghee, elaichi, saffron and colour.
    • Boil till thick, stirring occassionally.
    • Once it starts thickening, stir continuously.
    • Add sugar and cook
    • Stir on low heat till the mixture collects in a soft ball or the ghee.
    • Then ready to eat.

    THIRUNELVELI HALWA

                                              
                       
    Ingredients:

    •  Quality wheat — 200 gm.
    • 
 Sugar — 300gm.
    •  
Ghee — 200gm.
    • 
 Cardamom powder — 1 tsp
    •   Cashewnut pieces — 1 tbsp
    Method: 
    • Wash and soak the wheat for four to five hours. 
    • Grind the wheat well in a grmixer by adding water frequently.
    • The soaked water need not be wasted and used for this purpose.
    • Now squeeze the milk from the ground wheat (as you do for coconut). 
    • You will find initially the wheat milk will be thick and becomes thinner for the second  time. 
    • Use a sieve to filter out the clean milk and store in a vessel for 10 minutes.
    • Now you will notice that the watery portion of the milk is on top.
    • Take out the thin milk and pour the thick one in a heavy-bottomed pan and boil. 
    • Once it thickens add sugar and keep mixing for 15 minutes.
    • Sugar melts and again the whole mixture thickens.
    • Now add in the ghee little by little and keep mixing again for 10 minutes.
    • Once the halwa starts leaving the sides of the pan.
    •   Then ready to eat.

    RICE HALWA

                
      Ingredients:
    • Rice-1/2 kg
    • Coconuts-2
    • Ghee-50 gms
    • Cashews-100 gms
    • Cardamoms-5
    • Sugar-1/2 kg


    Method:

    • Soak the rice well and then grind it.
    • Take out the coconut milk from coconut and keep aside.
    • After taking out the coconut milk, grind the coconut scraped  with the grinded rice.
    • After grinding it smooth , add the grinded mixture in the kadai and keep on stirring.
    • Keep on stirring till it comes out easily without sticking to the kadai.
    • Then add the coconut milk and continue stirring.
    • Then add the sugar and add the ghee little by little. And again continue stirring.
    • Then take it out from fire till it reaches halwa consistency [ without sticking to the kadai].
    • Grease the plate with ghee and add the above mixture. Decorate cashewnuts.

    BADAM HALWA


    Ingredients:
    • Badam  paste       - 1 cup
    •  Sugar                   - 3 cups
    •  Water                   - 2. 1/2 cups
    •  Ghee                     - 2 cups
    •  Milk                     - 1/2 cup
    •  Badam Flavour     - 2 tsp
    •  Saffron                 - Few Strands
    •  Orange food color - Few drops
    •  Chironji Nuts         - 2tbsp
    Method:
    •  Soak badam nuts in 2 cups of hot water for one hour and remove the skin. Now grind the nuts using half cup milk to form a coarse paste.
    •  Melt the sugar using half cup water in a thick bottomed saucepan.
    •  Now add the badam paste to the sugar mixture and stir continuously on a low flame till the mixture thickens.
    •  Keep adding ghee to the mixture while stirring to avoid the mixture from sticking to the pan.
    • Now add the food colour and saffron mixed in little milk to the mixture.
    •  The mixture will turn slightly glossy with a jam like consistency.
    • Remove the saucepan from the flame and now add the Badam Flavor to the mixture.
    • Then serve hot or cold.

    PAPAYA HALWA

    Ingredients:
    • Papaya fruit - 2 cup
    • Sugar - 1  cup
    • Milk - 3/4 cup
    • Cashewnut - 8
    • Cardamom - 2
    • Saffron - a pinch
    Method:
    • Scrap  papaya using a scraper.
    • Heat 1 tbl. sp. pf ghee and fry  papaya scrapings.
    • Turn well and fry for 5 minutes.
    • Add ghee if necessary.
    • Now add 3/4 cup of milk and 1/4 cup of water.
    • Cook well.
    • When the scrapings get cooked, add sugar, ghee, cardamom powder, saffron and kesari powder.
    • When the mixture leaves the sides, fry the cashewnuts in ghee and add.
    • Remove from the fire.
    • Then ready to eat hot

    Monday, 14 November 2011

    CARROT HALWA

                                                     
    Ingredients:

    • Carrots - 4 (small size)
    •  Milk - 1 cup
    •  Sugar - 1 cup
    •  Ghee - 3 tsp
    •  Cashew nuts for garnishing
    •  Raisins(Dry grapes/ munthiri) for garnishing
    Method:
    •  Peel the carrots and grate them.
    •  Soak the grated carrots in the milk and pressure cookr.
    •  Heat sugar and ghee in a non stick pan.
    •  Add the pressure cooked carrots and milk. 
    •  Keep the lid closed in between stirrings, as there maybe some splashes, when the milk and ghee boil .
    •  When the milk condenses and the halwa begins to thicken, remove from flame.
    • Garnish with cashews and raisins roasted in ghee.
    • Then ready to eat.

    RAGI HALWA


    Ingredients:

    •  Ragi -1 cup
    •  Grated coconut – 1 cup
    •  Jaggery (veelam) – 1 cup
    • Cardamom powder – 1/2 Teaspoon
    •  Water approximately – 3 cups
    •  Pure ghee – 5 Teaspoons
    •  Grated dry fruit – A jhandful

    Method:

    •  Clean and wash ragi  and keep aside. Grate coconut, jaggery  as well. Peal cardamom and powder it also.
    • Mix both ragi, grated coconut and grind it in the mixer to a fine consistency adding water in steps.
    •  Strain it through a clean muslin cloth and the extract of both ragi and coconut mix is as below.
    •  Add chopped jaggery and cardamom powder from step 1 to the extract and is as shown in the image below.
    •  Transfer the above mix to a broad based bowl adding 2 teaspoons of pure ghee and grated dry fruits (Cashews and pista etc.) and heat it on medium-low flame
    •  Keep stiring with a wooden spatula till it thickens and make sure it doesn’t attach the bottom of the bowl.
    •  Grease a cup with a little ghee and pour the above mix.
    • Then serve  hot, & cool.

    PINEAPPLE HALWA


    Ingredients:

    • Pineapple juice - 2 cups
    • Maize - 2 cups
    • Pineapple slice pieces - 2 cups
    • Ghee - 2 cups
    • Sugar - 2 cups
    • Kesari powder - 1 pinch
    • Cashews - 8
    • Almond - 10
    • Elachi -5 pods
    • Cherrzy - 5

    Method: 
    •  Heat 1 cup of water, add maize, pineapple juice, sugar.
    •  Stir continously in slim heat.
    •  When it gets thick add pineapple pieces, ghee little by little and stir continously.
    •  When it all mixes well a add kesari powder and stir well.
    •   Take a plate and spread evenly one spoon of ghee on that.
    •  Spread halwa on that plate.
    •  Slice cashews,almond,cherry of your choice and powder elachi.
    •  Decorate all the above on top of halwa and cut into pieces when it is warm.
    •  Spread halwa on that plate.

    MAIDA HALWA


    Ingredients:
    • Maida:  1 cup Sugar:  1 ½ Cups
    • Ghee: 1 Cup
    • Water: 1 ½  Cups
    • Roasted cashews: 1/4 Cup
    • Raisins: 1/4 Cup
    • Cardamom powder:1tpl spoon
    • Food color: 1 pinch red
    Method:

    • Mix maida and water in a bowl evenly.
    • Fry the cashews and raisins in a pan and keep aside.
    • Add one tablespoon ghee in a frying pan and add the maida mixture.
    • Stir on a low flame avoiding lumps.
    • When the mixture becomes smooth, add sugar and food color.
    • On high flame, add more ghee, cardamom and the fried cashews and raisins.
    • Remove from heat at the right consistency and add to a ghee-greased tray.  
    • Then ready to eat cool. 

    BANANA HALWA

    Ingredients: 

    • Bananas - 2 cups
    • Milk - 3/4 cup
    • Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
    • Coconut(grated) - 1 cup
    • Ghee - 1/2 cup

    Method: 
     
    • Peel off and mash the bananas.
    • Heat ghee in a heavy pan.
    • Add bananas and cook over low heat, stirring it continuously to prevent the mixture from sticking.
    • Cook until the bananas are brown in colour. Add more ghee if required.
    • Add sugar after a few minutes and continue stirring until dissolved.
    • Add cardamom powder and remove from heat.
    • Keep stirring till the mixture becomes thick.
    • Spread the mixture on a flat plate and decorate it with ghee roasted cashewnut.
    • Allow it to cool and cut into squares.
    • Then ready to eat.

    Thursday, 10 November 2011

    BABYCORN HALWA

     

    Ingredients:

    • Baby Corn cubes – 2 cups
    • Milk – 2 Cups
    • Khova – 1/2gms
    • Sugar – 2gms
    • Ghee – 50gms
    • Cashew nuts – 8
    • Kismis – 2tbsp
    • Elaichi Powder – 1/2 tsp

    Method:

    • Boil the sweet corn cubes and grind them.
    • Take a 1 inch pan, and heat it.
    • Now add the corn paste to it.
    • Add milk to it.
    • Stir the mixture well until it gets thick.
    • Now add ghee to it and stir well.
    • Next add khova and sugar to it and stir well again for about  5 minutes.
    • Next garnish it with elaichi powder, cashew nuts and kismis to it. 
    • Then serve hot & cool.

    POTATO HALWA

                                                        

    Ingredients:
    • Potato    -   3 (big size)
    • Sugar      -   1 cup
    • Cardamom -  2   
    • Cashewnuts- 8  
    • Ghee    - 50 gm 
    Method:

    • Heat ghee in a frying pan.
    • Powder cardamom.
    • Add cashewnuts, fry and set aside.
    • Cook potato, peel the skin and mash.
    • Mix sugar with water and prepare syrup of one string consistency. 
    • Add mashed potato,  cardamom powder, cashew, ghee and sir well.
    • When the ghee separates from the contents, remove from the stove.
    • then searve hot.

    DRYFRUITE HALWA




    Ingredients: 

    • Raisins – 1 cip
    • Walnuts – 1 cup
    • Badam – 1 cup
    • Cashews – 1 cup
    • Dates-1cup
    • Sugar – 2 cups
    • Bread crumbs – 2 cups
    • Ghee – 1 cup
    • Elatchi – 3
    • Water - 1littr
    Method:
    • Roast the bread crumbs in ghee and keep aside.
    • Wash, peel and cut the dry fruits and nuts as required.
    • Walnuts will need extra soaking to be peeled.
    • Add everything to 3 cups of water and boil over medium flame making semi-thick paste.
    • Add the fried crumbs to make it thick and then the sugar to make it completely dry.
    • Mix in more ghee and elatchi, cook till ghee separates.
    • Then ready to eat.

    SWEETPOTATO HALWA


    Ingrediens:

    • Sweet potato ( cooked ) - 1 cup
    • Sugar - 1/2 cup
    • Ghee - 1 1/2 cups
    • Milk - 1 cup
    • Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
    • Cashewnuts - 10
    Method:

    • Heat a little ghee in a frying pan..
    •  Add cashewnuts, fry and set aside.
    •  Mash sweet potato with milk and cook in a thick bottomed pan.
    •  When contents start boiling, add ghee and stir well.
    •  When contents thicken, add sugar and stir.
    •  When contents start leaving the sides of the vessel, add cardamom, cashew, mix well and remove pan from stove
    • Then searve hot.