Saturday, June 19, 2010

Puffed Rice Ladoo


Ingredients required

Puffed Rice - 2 litres
Powdered Jaggary - 500 gms
Rice Flour - a fistful
Dry Coconut - Half
Roasted peanuts - 150 gms
Cardamom powder - 150 gms

How to prepare Puffed Rice Ladoo

Take powdered jaggery in a vessel, add two litres of water to it and place on oven. Add
cardamom powder, grated coconut and roasted peanuts. Mix all the contents well and lower from fire. Add the puffed rice. When the mixture cools a little, smear your palms with a little rice flour and shape the mixture balls.

Tasty Puffed Rice Ladoo is ready to serve

Friday, June 18, 2010

Wheat Halwa

Ingredients required

Wheat - 1 kg
Sugar - 1 kg
Almonds - 100 gms
Cardamon - 5 gms
Raisins - 50 gms
Ghee - 200 gms
Milk - 1 litre
Saffron - a few strands

How to prepare Wheat Halwa

Wash the wheat and soak it in a vessel full of water for half a day. The next day, grind the wheat. In a sieve, separate the wheat chaff from the wheat milk. Pour the wheat milk into a vessel. Add to it, the saffron strands [soaked in milk], sugar, milk, ghee, cardamom powder and let it cook on a low flame. Blanch the almonds in hot water and make a paste. Add this paste to the wheat mixture. Keep stirring so that the sweet does not stick to the pan. When the mixture chickens, add roasted raisins and cashews and keep down from the oven.

Wheat Halwa is ready to serve

Badam [Almond] Halwa

Ingredients required

Almonds - 200 gms
Sugar - 200 gms
Ghee - 200 gms
Saffron - 1 spoon
Cardamon - 5 gms
Milk - 250 gms

How to prepare Badam [Almond] Halwa

Take some water in a vessel. Put in the almonds and bring to boil. Drain the water and pound the almonds to a paste in a pestle. Put the almond paste into the pan, add sugar and put it on the oven. After a while, add the saffron strands [soaked in milk] to it. Keep stirring till the mixture attains the consistency of dosa batter. Add hot ghee to it and then add cardamom powder and roasted raisins and cashews nuts. Lower from flame after the mixture thickens.

Tasty and delicious Badam [Almond] Halwa is ready to eat.

White Pumpkin Halwa

Ingredients required

White Pumpkin - 2 kgs
Sugar - 1 kg
Milk - 1 litre
Ghee - 250 gms
Raisins & Cashew Nuts - 100 gms
Cardamon - 5 gms

How to prepare White Pumpkin Halwa

Peel the outer layer of the pumpkin. Grate the inner tender portion. Keep the milk in a vessel on oven. Add the grated pumpkin when the milk is about to boil. When the pumpkin is cooked and becomes tender, add sugar, cardamon powder, roasted raisins and cashew nuts. Next add the saffron colour and remove from the oven.

White Pumpkin Halwa is ready to eat.

Rice Kesari Bhath

Ingredients required

Rice - Half kg
Sugar - 250 gms
Ghee - 100 gms
Cardamom powder - 1 tea spoon
Kesari, Kesari colour - 1 tea spoon
Raisins & Cashew nuts - 50 gms

How to prepare Rice Kesari Bhath

Wash the rice. Pour enough water for the rice to cook and place on the oven. When the rice is partially cooked, add ghee and sugar to it. After a while, add saffron [Kesari] colour. Add roasted raisins and cashew nuts and cardamom powder and mix well. Remove from the oven when the rice has been cooked well. This Rice Kesari Bhath has to be slightly we tery as rice tends to thicken fast when cooled.

Rice Kesari Bhath is ready to eat.

Kesari Bhath

Ingredients required

Chirotti Rava [Soji] - 250 gms
Sugar - 100 gms
Rasins & Cashew nuts - 25 gms
Saffrom Strands - 1 tea spoon
Cardamom - 8 nos.

How to prepare Kesari Bhath

Fry the rava in a little chee. Take enough water in a pan for the rava to cook. Pour rava when water starts boiling. After the rava is cooked, add sugar, roasted raisins and cashe nuts, saffrom colour and cardamon powder. Mix them well and remove from fire.

Kesari Bhath is ready to eat.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

Carrot Halwa

Ingredients required

Carrot - 500 gms
Sugar - 250 gms
Milk - Half litre
Ghee - 100 gms
Raisins & Cashew nuts - 25 gms
Saffron strands - 1 teaspoon
Cardamon - 8 nos.

How to prepare Carrot Halwa

Wash the carrots. Peel and grate them. Put the grated carrot in half litre milk and place the vessel on a oven. When the carrot becomes tender, add ghee, sugar and raisins and cashews already roasted in ghee, cardamom powder and mix well. When it attains a semi-solid consistency, remove from the oven.

Carrot Halwa is ready to eat

Rava [Soji] Halwa

Ingredients required:
Chirotti [fine] Rava - 100 gms
Sugar - 100 gms
Ghee - 2 tea spoons
Raisins & Cashew nuts - 25 gms
Cardamon - 8 nos.

How to prepare Rava [Soji] Halwa

Heat 2 spoons of ghee in a frying pan, add rava to it and fry. Add just enough water for rava to cook and keep stirring. When the rava is cooked, add sugar and cardamon powder, remove from flame. Dress it with the raisins and cashews roasted in ghee.

Rava [Soji] Halwa is ready to eat.