Friday, 9 December 2011

BOONDI LADDU


Ingredients:
  • 1 cup Besan
  • 1 pinch Kesari
  • 1 pinch Cardamom powder
  • 1 tbsp Rice flour
  • 1 pinch Baking Powder
  • 1 tbsp Melon seeds
  • 1 tbsp Broken Cashew nut
  • 2 cups Oil Sugar
  • 1 cup Water
Method:
  • Mix the flour, rice flour, baking powder and colour.
  • Make a smooth thick batter. Heat the oil. Take the batter and pour it over a sieve with round holes.
  • Tap it gently with a spoon so that small balls of dough fall into the oil. Make the balls and keep aside. Heat the sugar and water till reaches 1/2 thread consistency.
  • Mix in the kesari melon seed and cardamom powder and fried boondies. When the mixture is still warm make into balls. Bondi Ladoo are ready to be served
  • If the mixture cools balls cannot be made as the sugar crystallizes.
  • Then ready to eat.

Thursday, 1 December 2011

RASMALAI

Ingredients:
  • Paneer made from 1 liter of milk
  • 1 liter full cream/ whole milk
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cardamom powder
  • 4 cups water
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup thinly sliced almonds
Method:
  • Mix the water and 1 cup of sugar in a pan and boil till all the sugar is dissolved. Turn off the fire and keep syrup aside.
  • Knead the Paneer  in a platter till very smooth. Make into balls slightly smaller than the size of a walnut and flatten slightly in the center.
  • When the Paneer balls are made, reheat the syrup to boiling, then simmer and gently drop in the Paneer balls. Cook for 10 minutes. Turn off fire.
  • In another pan boil the 1 litre of full cream milk with the 1/2 cup of sugar, till reduced/thickened to 75 per cent of its original volume. Turn off the fire, add the cardamom powder and mix well.
  • Add the syrup soaked Paneer balls (after draining) to the milk mixture and chill for a few hours.
  • Then ready to serve cool.