APPLE& RASBERRIES PIE
"When baking for someone with a wheat allergy, the safest
replacement
is:
6 cups rice flour
2 cups potato starch
1 cup tapioca flour(big size saago or sabudana)
Mix together
and use, 1 for 1, as a replacement for all purpose
flour in cakes and breads.(This information has taken from one baking
recipe book.)
Nice to serve as dessert or with coffee.
Pie for 12 pieces.
Temp:180*c time(total):1hour.
middle frame.
Allpurpose flour
500gm
Oats 200gm
Suagr
3tbsp
Cinnamon powder tsp
Melted butter/liquid margarine 70gms
Kessela
60gms(sour cream)
water 5tbsp
For filling:
Apples 8(approx
medium)
Water
2tbsp
Sugar
100gm
Cinnamon powder
tsp
Fresh or thawed rasberries 200gms
Almonds(chopped)
2tbsp
Egg(beaten)
1
method:-
Mix the dough in the food processor.
Add all ingredients except water.
Drive for few minutes till it becomes dough stage,add water and
drive for few seconds until it mixed evenly.
Make 2 balls(one should be bigger than the other) and keep
in two salofen covers and keep in the refregerator for 30 minutes.
Start oven at 180*c.
Peel all apples and discord the seeds and hard part of inside.
Cut intoi thin slices.Boil water along with apple slices in a
skillet.
Keep the lid and let it boil for 3-4 minutes till apple turn
to tender.
Remove the water and place the slices on a kitchen paper to dry.
Remove from the paper and add sugar,cinnamon powder and lemon
juice,stir.
Take a pie mould 20-25 cm in diameter.
Roll out that big ball(dough),bigger than the pie mould.
Place it on the mould,so the rolled roti will be hang over the
mould.
Spread out almonds chopping and place the apple slices around
the
pie mould clockwise.Adjust all slices in a fine way.fill the
pie mould with apple,spread rasberries over them.
Roll out the small ball and overlap on the rasberries fruits.
Trim the edges(the dough should cover whole fruits.)
Brush the pie with beaten egg and make one or two
small holes
in the middle.
Bake it in the middle frame for 30 minutes.
Serving suggestion:Serve warm with cold vanilla sauce or vanilla
icecream.
SUGGESTION
& TIPS
Can be baked yummy pies with fruits&vegetables,like...
red berries,black
berries,greenapples,pears,mango,rasberries,strawberries many
fruits like kiwi,Rhaubarb,mandarines,fresh plums,Peaches,papaya fruit,Sweet orange,spinach,broccoli,onion,mixed vegetables,yellow
pumpkin etc...
KAALAJAMOON(2)
Mawa
350gms
Paneer(home made cheese
200gms(fresh)
Allpurposeflour
60-65 gms
Sugar for syrup 550gms
Water
4-4½cups
cardamom powder
Milk
For dough if needs
ghee
Method:-
Make 1 string syrup of sugar and water.
crumble khoya and paneer together mash finely without any lumps.
Mix the ilaichi powder and knead well. The dough should
be soft & smooth.
If necessary mix little milk,
Make small pingpang size
ballswith the whole dough,make them oval shape balls.
Stuff one piece of pista inside of each ball and roll nicely.
Heat the ghee (not burning) and remove from the fire,and
add 4-5 balls and fry them slowly to golden.
The syrup should be warm all the time (on other stove),drop them
direct from the pan to the syrup.
Allow them to soak for 20 minutes,serve warm or cold.
Sprinkle saffron strands over.
Suggestions:-It is a nice desert dish when parties or on special
ocassions.
Insert almonds crush along with cardamom crush in the jamoons.For
functions it seems nice to serve little fantasy,am i right?
GREENPEAS KHEER
Fresh milk 250ml
sweetened
condensed milk
100ml
sugar 100gms
cardamom seeds
Green peas
1cup
Ghee/butter 3tbsp
All
type chopped nuts 1/4cup
Silver foil varaq
Method:
Soak peas overnight and grind coarsely.
Boil
milk and add condensed milk, stirring constantly, till the milk get thicken.
Heat ghee in a nonstick skillet & add groundpaste and
cook until fine aroma smell releases.
Add the milk, sugar, cardamom seeds, nuts and cook till the
peas turn translucent.
Pour in a bowl and press with silver foil(varaq) and serve hot.
Note:-Serve chill kheer when the weather is hot,it tastes good too!!
SAGOO KHEER
Sagoo(sabudana)
1cup(small)
Cardamoms
5pods(seeds)
Water 3cups
Milk
2-3 cups
Almonds flakes
Cashewnuts
Kissmiss
Saffron
Threads1tsp
Method:-Wash and boil sagoo in water,let it boil over low heat till
sagoo are cooked,(becomes double size).
Add3/4 th milk and bring to boil.
Add sugar and boil till it gets thicken.
Roast nuts&kissmiss in a pan adding tsp ghee.
Add them to the sagoo kheer.
Sprinkle cardamom seeds and saffron threads,serve hot!
VERMICELLI KHEER
Fine vermicelli
100gms
Milk
3ooml
Cardamom seeds
10
Cashewnuts.
,kissmiss,almonds flakes
Ghee
2tsp
Mehtod:-Roast vermicelli in a tsp ghee for one minute.Should not burn.
In a nonstick vessel lightly roast the nuts,keep aside,
Boil milk and add sugar,simmer.
After dissolving the sugar ,add vermicelli and cook until it turns soft
&tender.
Add nuts and kissmiss,cardamoms,Remove from heat.
Serve hot or chill.
BADAM KHEER
Almonds
1cup
sugar
25gms
elachi(cardamoms)
saffron
Pistachioes flakes
Ice cubes
Thick milk
1½cup
Milk
1cup
Method:-Blanch alonds and peel.grind them along with milk to a fine thick
paste.
Cook along with milk until it turns kheer thick
consistancy.
Remove from heat and cool it.
Serve chill with decorating flakes &saffron!
CARROT KHEER
Fresh&fine carrots
Milk
2cups
sugar
1 cup
Ghee
2 tsp
Cashewnut&Almonds
cardamomseeds
Method:
Peel the carrots& boil them.
Grind carrots into a fine paste.
Boil the milk for about 10 mts. and add the carrot paste and cardamom
grains to the milk.
Add sugar keep stirring the on a lowheat.(otherwise it burns).
Roast the nuts in tsp ghee &add to the sweet.
Remove fromthe heat,cool and refregerate it atleast for 2 hours,serve
chill!
RICEFLAKES KHEER
Riceflakes are called as poha,aval,chiwida,flatten
rice,pressed rice etc.. .
Riceflakes
50gms
kissmiss
2tsp
Cashewnuts
1tbsp
Saffron threads
cardamomseeds
Milk 500ml
Method:-Clean &drain riceflakes.
On low heat boil; the milk.
Add cardamom powder.
Simmer,add drained riceflakes..
Allow to boil for 4-5 minutes(till the liqiud turns semi solid.
Add sugar and stir well.
Mix nuts,raisins and pour serving bowls or glasses,garnish with saffron threads
and serve hot!
PUMPKIN LADDOOS(white)
Grated white pumpkin
2cups
Carrot
1
Ghee
1/4cup
Cardamom pods
For syrup:
sugar
1cup
Water 1/2cup
Roasted nuts
11/2cups
Method:-Heat 2tsp ghee and roast lightly grated pumpkin&carrot.
Remove from the ghee and keep aside.
Roast all nuts in the same hot ghee.
Powder the cardamoms.
Prepare sugar syrup to one thread consistancy,
Mix roasted mixture,simmer.
Stir all the time until the mixture turns to a solid mass or the ghee leaves
the edges.
Place the crushed nuts on a plate,make balls with above
mixture and rotate them on nuts powder.
Roll the balls between palms without any breaks.
Shell life:one week .
CARROT JAMOONS
Red coloured carrots;
1/4kg
sugar;
1/4kg
Plain Khoya
1cup
gulabjamoon khoya
1/2cup
cornflour
1/2cup
pistachios
sugar crystals;
1tbsp
water
11/2cup
cardamom powder;
Ghee +oil for frying.
Method:
Peel and grate the carrots.boil them in a pressure cooker wihtout using weight
until they become soft(approx.15min.)
Takeout extra water.
Mash and grind to pulp.
Crumble and mix both khoyas and add to the pulp and corn flour.
Mix thoroughly and knead to smooth dough.
Make out of the dough 30-35 round balls without any breakes.
Place in each ball one sugar crystal and pista bit,roll as usual,cover with a
damp cloth.
Make a one light sticky syrup with sugar water.Add cardamom powder
to it.
Heat ghee mixed oil moderately,and deep fry them slowly to golden brown.
Add directly to the syrup and soak them till 11/2 -2 hours before
you serve!
Check the jamoons are absorbed properly,otherwise
allow them to stay for 1/2 hour more.
SEMIYA&SAGOO KHEER
Semia
½cup
Ghee/butter 1tbsp
Cashewnuts 1tbsp
Kissmiss 2tsp
Cardamoms
1tsp
Sagoo(indian) 1tbsp
Water
4-5 cups
Milk 5cups
saffron strands 2tsp
Method:-
In a nonstick pan heat 1tsp ghee and roast nuts & kissmiss.
Remove slowly from the ghee,and add semiya fry to golden,remove.
Fry sagoo for 1 minutin thehot ghee and remove.
Crush thecardamoms.
Boil water,and addd sagoo continue to boil till sagoo cooked 3/4th.
Then add the semiya,boil 2-3 min.
Add milk (keep 1 cupaside),nuts and every thing except saffron.
Boil until the sugar dissolves,simmer.
Remove from the heat after 2 min. and serve after garnishing saffron strands.
DATES KHEER
Milk
2litres
sugar;
300gms
dry dates;
250gms
coriander coarsely ground 1tsp
poppy seeds ground powde
11/2cup
cardamoms, 10
powdered;
cardamom, 1
powdered;
Almonds
1cup
pistachios, 1tbsp
chopped fine;
Ghee
350gms
Method:
Take milk in a well bottomed nonstick skillet,bring to boil.Deseed the dates and chop legnthwise,add them into the milk,simmer.Let them boil along with milk on stirring
constantly.
After 25 min add the coarsed coriander powder and allow them to boil some more
time.
Add poppy seeds powder,cardamoms and black cardamom powder,keep boiling on low
heat,until the mixture gets almost dry.
Add sugar now,and 150gms ghee and nuts and cook until the sugar absorbs to
a fine mass.
Add the rest of ghee ,keep stirring for sometime and remove.
Note:-Can be stored in the refregerator (for freshly)for one week to 10days.
Microwave warm before you serve.
VARIETY JAMOONS
This sweet i have tasted at one of my friends party.
It is variety and tasty.
Even we can make jamoons in the same way with cashewnuts and almonds too!!
Groundnuts
100gms
sugar
2cups
sour curd 1cup
Gram flour
2 tsp
cardamom powder
Rose essence
Ghee
2 cups
Method:
Wash the ground nuts and soak them for 4-5 hours,grind the into fine thick paste.
Add 7-8 cups warm water to it and extract 8-10 cups milk.
Boil it and add icup sour curd to curdle the milk.
Cool it,strain it slowly.
Remove the groundnuts paneer and add the 2tsp bengalgram flour and knead well.
Make them medium sized balls,and steam cook them for 4-5 min.
Allow to cool,heat ghee and deep fry them on slow heat to golden brown.Keep them
aside.
Make the sugar syrup for 15 min.timeadd cardamoms powder.Add the fried jamoons,add
rose essence,and serve!
RASAGOLLA
2½ litres milk (thick)
200 gms curd Or yogurt
100 gms cottage cheese
For syrup:-
800 gms sugar
1 litre water
For flavour:-
Rose essence Or
Vanilla essence
1 tsp ghee
1 tsp semolina
METHOD:-
Boil milk on a high
flame in abig thick bottomed vessel.
When it bubbles,add
yogurt or curd to it.
Then the milk curdles,
(turn to low heat) allow to boil for 2 more minutes.
Remove from the
flame,and let it stay without stirring for 10 minutes.
Keep a lid.Let the
paneer(chenna) settle.
Drain it and wash
the paneer over running(tap) cold water.
Drain again till
whole water will drainoff.Or use hands to get rid off the
Remaing water. Keep aside.
Crush the (mashed) cottage cheese to the paneer and make a fine dough.
Add the semolina
to the above paneer and rub thoroughly for 5 minutes.
Or use a rolling
pin for 3-4 minutes.Make walnut size balls without any splits(Apply ghee to the
palms.
Cover them with
a damp cloth.Keep aside.
Now Take a big thick
bottomed skillet,fill with 1/3 of water and boil.
When it give bubbles,
add the paneer balls to it.and cotinue to boil on high flame
With a tight fitting
lid (or use pressure-cooker without whistle)for 40 minutes.
The balls should 3 times bigger than before!.Turnoff the stove.
Meanwahile prepare
syrup with given ingredients.
The syrup should
be more thicker than gulab jamoons syrup!.
Now transfer all
paneer balls to the syrup, (using a spoon) with extra care.
Now boil the balls again in the syrup for 20 more minutes.
Cool it and add
the essence.
Chill and serve.
Suggestion:-It can
be prepared without cottage cheese also, but the measurements and method is same as above.
INSTANT RASMALAI
Milkpowder
1cup
Bakingpowder 1tsp
Ghee
1/2tsp
Sugar
3/4cup
Milk
1litre
Egg
lightly beaten
Saffron
pinch
Pista crush
1tbsp
Cardamoms coarselyground
Method:-Boil milk,sugar&saffron.
Make a softdough with milk powder,ghee,baking powder,and
lightly beaten egg.
make balls and flatten them and add to the boiled
milk,boil further,and flip over them ,cook for 5 minutes.
Cool and add chopped pista,cardamom powder.
Chill for 3 hours in the refregerator.
Aval payasam
Calledas pressed rice,flattend rice,aval, rice flakes,flaked rice,poha etc..
whole cream milk
1 ltr
Poha (beaten rice) 1/4 cup
Sugar
1 cup
Almonds
5
Cardamom powder
2tsp
Cashew nuts
4
Raisins
15
Pistachios sliveredthinly5
Method
Wash beaten rice, drain and keep aside for 10 minutes.
Let
the rice become loosen with a fork(each should be separated)
Boil milk in a large deep skillet.
When
itis boiling well, add poha, stir gently to resume boiling.
Simmer.
stirring occasionally, let it boil until it reduce its original volume.
Add sugar,cardamom, stir.
Add cashews, raisins, boil for 2 more minutes.
Garnish with chopped pistachios and almonds.
Serve hot.
Mango Payasam
Milk 1/2 litre
Sago two tablespoon
Cashwenuts 100 gms
Cardamoms
Fine Mango Puree 1 cu
Ghee 2 tablespoons
Sugar
Method:
Heat Ghee and fry the cashewnuts in it.
Put Sago and milk and allow it to boil.
Add sugar to taste and powdered cardamom.
Simmer till milk thickens.
Add the mango pulp and remove from fire.
Serve hot or chill.
POppyseeds PayasaM
Pooppyseeds
5 tsp
Ghee
1 tsp
Fresh grated coconut 4 cups
Jaggery
1 cup
Can be used sugar also!
Milk
1/2 cup
Cardamom
tsp
Method:
Fry the poppyseeds to light brown color with ghee
Grind fried kashkash, coconut.
Mix jaggery with water and boil the mixture.
Filter the boiled mixture if necessary.
Take the juice of the ground mixture and mix both mixtures and heat
it .
Add milk and cardamom powder to the boiling mixture and stir it well. Serve
hot.
Mango
Payasam
Milk 1/2 litre
Sago two tablespoon
Cashwenuts 100 gms
Cardamoms
Fine Mango Puree 1 cu
Ghee
2 tbsp
Sugar
Method:
Heat Ghee and fry the cashewnuts in it.
Put Sago and milk and allow it to boil.
Add sugar to taste and powdered cardamom.
Simmer till milk thickens.
Add the mango pulp and remove from fire.
Serve hot or chill.
poppyseeds payasam-1
Pooppyseeds 5 tsp
Ghee 1 tsp
Fresh grated coconut 4 cups
Jaggery 1 cup
Milk 1/2 cup
Cardamom
1/2 tsp
Method:
Fry the kashkash to light brown color with ghee
Grind fried kashkash, coconut.
Mix jaggery with water and boil the mixture. Filter the boiled mixture if necessary.
Take the juice of the ground mixture and mix both mixtures and heat it until it boils.
Add milk and cardamom powder to the boiling mixture and stir it well. Your gasagase payasa is ready
to serve or drink.
Bottlegourd Payasam
1 Bottlegourd (sorakaya)
Sugar
Whole
Milk 3 - 4 cups( milk-maid tin preferred )
Cardamom 2-3
Raisins
Cashew
Ghee
method:
Grate
the bottlegourd,sqeeze extra water,fry for 2 minutes in tbsp ghee.
Boil milk until thickens,add grated
bottle gourd,boil for 8-10 minutes,add sugar,cardamoms powder and roasted cashew,raisins.
Coconut-jaggery Payasam
Jaggery grated 1cup
Ghee tbsp
Greengram husked 1cup
Green
cardamoms
coconut milk 450 ml
Water to cook
For garnishing
Freshly grated coconut 2 tbsps
cashew nuts 1/8cup
Almonds
1/8Heaped
pistachios 1/8cup
Method
meltthe jaggery with some water. it. Keep aside.
Fryhusked greengram in little ghee,cook it,along with coconut milk and cardamoms
Cook for 10 minutes on low heat. Add jaggery water.
Can be tasty weather chill/ hot!
Garnish with given ingredients.chill it before serve.
Chill the payasam (kheer) and then serve with sprinkle nuts over!
Poppyseeds Payasam
Fry the poppyseeds to light brown
color with ghee
Grind fried poppyseeds, coconut.
Mix jaggery with water and boil the mixture. Filter
the boiled mixture if necessary.
Take the juice of the ground mixture and mix
both mixtures and heat it until it boils.
Add milk and cardamom powder to the boiling mixture and stir it well. Your gasagase payasa is ready to serve or drink.
- Sorakaya Payasam
Bottlegourd
1fresh &young
Sugar
milk-maid 400gms tin
Cardamom
5
Raisins
Cashew
Ghee
1 tbsp
Method:
Peel the bottle gourd,discard the seeds and fiber.
chop into small bits and pressure cook for 8 min.OR until
done.
Smash the cut pieces to smooth mass(or blend it in a blender)
Measure the bottlegourd with a cup.
Take equal quantity of sugar in a bowl, add 1/2 quantity water
and boil.
Add the cooked vegetable to the sugar syrup and boil.
Add milk and boil on a low flame, until the milk get
thickened.
Milk tends to stick at the bottom of the pan.Remove from heat.
Heat ghee and saute' the cashew,raisins.
Add the cashew and raisins.
Crush the cardamom and add to the payasam.
Note:
If youlike to use milkmaid sugar should be half the quantity of the Bottle Gourd.
(Milk-Maid is sweetened.)
BENGAL PANEER SWEET
The paneer should be home made & fresh,to get delicious
sweet.
Fresh home-made paneer 250gms
Sugar
250gms-300gms
Raisins
Almonds blanched and sliced
10
Coarselycrushed cardamoms
Fresh cream 1tbsp
coarsely powdered sugar
tbsp
Allpurpose flour ½tbsp
cardamom powder
saffron strands
Milk
1/4tsp
Method:-
Dissolve saffron in tsp milk and add to the cream.
Mix well the remaining ingredients, except paneer.
Knead paneer and flour till smooth dough.
Divide it into walnutsized balls. Press to a small puris and
place a spoon of the prepared filling in it and close thoroughly..
Flatten them slightly.
Boil3/4 litrewater to the sugar,and boil.
When thewater gets thicken(light syrup,)add slowly these paneer balls.
Allow them to boil for 12 minutes over low flame,they become double in size.
Remove from heat and keep aside.
For Ras:-
milk
750ml
Sugar
1½cups
Khoya
50gms(crumbled)
pistachios 10
sliced
Method:-
Boil the milk over low heat until it reduces to ½ liter.
Add sugar and crumbled mawa,Stir well.Boil
&remove from heat.Cool.
Drop the cooked malai chops in a deep serving plate
along with syrup and pour the cold thickened milk over it.
Garnish with chopped pista bits,
serve chill!
Rasmalai
2 containers Ricotta cheese
sugar
1 1/2 cups
milk powder 2½tbsp
cardamoms
6
Almondslices 2½tbsp
half-and-half 1 cup
(½ part normal milk+½part cream milk)
Method:-
Preheat oven to 175*c.
Set aside 3 tbsp of the sugar.
Grind cardamoms to powder.
Mix cheese, sugar, milk powder and tsp cardamom,mix well .
Spread the mixture into the glass pan and bake for 30
minutes.
Takeout from oven.
Sprinkle almonds on top and let cool for one hour.
Mix half-and-half with the 3 tablespoons sugar and cardamom powder.
Pour it on top of baked cake.
Dash with saffron strands.
Chill in the refrigerator before serving.
KALAKAND-3
Makes about 16 pieces.
Homemade cheese(paneer) 75gms
Wholemilkpowder 100gms
Sugar 50gms
Cream milk 50ml
Cardamomseeds
Almonds slivered
Silver warak
Method:-Take a nonstick pan and mix all ingredients.
On a medium heat cook the mixture till it gets thicken,
stir all the time till it leaves the sides.
Transfer into a flattray or plate,Garnish with almond flakes
&press thesilver warak.
cool and cut into desired shapes.
8 minutes kalakand
Sweetened condensed milk 1tin(app.400ml)
Yoghurt 1tbsp
Drymilkpowder
1tbsp
Ghee
1tbsp
Cardamoms seeds 1tsp
Mwthod:-
It varies with oven to oven.Buthere i amgiving 1000watt.
Mix all ingredients in a wide,big microwave resistable bowl.
Stir well,and microwave for 3minutes on high.
Takeout and stir,keep it back andcook for 2 more minutes on low Check again.
It should not burn.Cook further 2 more minutes till you feel the right consistancy.'
Think it will be set even it shows little thin
also!
Pour on a wide plate and press the silver waraq and decorate with dry roast cashewnuts on each.
Cut into square pieces/diamond bits,when it is warm according to your taste.
Mango Rabri
Milk 6 cups Sugar 1 cup Mango Pulp 1 cup
Method: Put milk in a pan.
Boil and simmer till it acquires a granular consistency(takes 1hour).
Remove and add sugar and stir until it disolves.
Add the mango pulp when the rabri has cooled down.
Serve chill.
MANGO SHRIKAND
Mango pulp small cup
Curd/yogurt 3cups
Mixed nuts chopped
Cardamom 1tsp
Sugar tbsp
Method:-
Whip sugar ,curd to a creamy substance.Strain well
Through a musline cloth.
Strain the mango pulp also.(to remove most of the liquid)
Powder cardamoms.
Mix the powder to mango.
Mix everything together.
Pour into a large bowl and chill it.
Sprinkle the nuts before you serve!
VARIETIES OF HALWAS
FIGS HALWA(atti pandu)
This fruit is Called as Anjeer (hindi),attipandu (in telugu).
sweetened condensed milk 1/2tin(200ml)
figs / anjeer 1/2kg
Milk 500ml
Ghee / butter 1tbsp
Nuts Mixed (any)
Silver waraq
Method:
Boil the milk.
Soak the figs in the milk for 2 hours.
Dry roast the nuts,keep aside.
Blend it into a smooth paste.
Heat the ghee in a non-stick pan and add the condensed milk,
fig mixture.
Cook on stirring till the ghee leaves sides of the pan.
Add the roasted nuts,stir well.
Serve hot garnished with silver leaf.
DATES HALWA
200 gm Dates
1 tsp Wheat flour
4 tsp Brown Sugar
Pinch of Cardamom
Ghee
Cashewnuts
Method:
Deseed the dates,and soak them in water for 60 minutes.
Blend into smooth paste, with a little water.
Fry 1 tsp of wheat flour till light brown, add this paste along with 3 tsp milk.
Keep the lid and add 4 tsp of sugar,stir well.
Stir all the time on cooking(app.12 min)
Add warm ghee while it is cooking,stir and remove whrn it reaches to a thick paste consistancy.
Fry the cashewnuts,pistachios and cardamom in the ghee and add to halwa.
Pour into a greased plate,and cut squares
when it set properly.
Shell life:- can be stored in the refrigerator for 8-10 days.
BURFI WITH VERMICELLI/ SEMIYA
Sweetened condensed milk 1tin(400ml)
Vermicelli
2 cups
Scraped Coconut
1 cup
Almonds/cashew powdered 1 cup
saffron
Milk 1tsp
Method:-
Slightly roast vermicelli .
Boil water,add vermicelli to tender.
In a skillet,add condensed milk,roasted vermicelli,almond/cashew powder and scraped coconut.
Cook on stirring for 4-5 minutes
In milk add saffron strands to dissolve.
Add the saffron milk to the above mixture.
Takeoff the heat,and transfer into a plate,cut into pieces when it is warm.
Note:-Need not add sugar,bcoz the condesed milk is sweet,if requires more sweet,add sugar.
APRICOT HALWA/BALLS
Dry(not sweet)Apricots 450gms
Sugar 1cup
Pistachioes 1/2cup(garnishing
Method:-
Place the apricot in a food processor and blend them to a smooth paste, adding a very little wate.r
Grease
them with a little oil.
Place a small amount of apricot paste in the centre of your palm and shape into a walnut-sized ball.
Roll
them in sugar and press a pistachio on the top of each ball.
Indent the center of each apricot ball with your thumb and
press a little of the chopped pistachio into it.
Fold the sides and reshape into a smooth ball, then roll in sugar.
BURFI WITH NUTS
Cashewnuts,Pista,almonds 1tea cup
Cardamoms 8
sugar 1tcup
ghee small cup
milk powder 1/2 cup
Crushed pista 1tbsp
Silver waraq
Method:
Blend all nuts along with cardamoms into powder.
Make sugar syrup to one thread consistency.
Hold the ghee warm all the time.
Add the nut powder slowly into the syrup,mix well.
Keep on stirring,and add little by little warm ghee.
Remove the heat, and add the milk powder and mix well.
Transfer into a greased plate,and cut into desired pieces when it is warm.
Press silver waraq and sprinkle pista crush over.
BURFI WITH CARROT
Grated carrot 1
cup
Sugar
1 1/cup
Scraped coconut 1cup
Milk
1/2litre
Ghee
41/2tbsp
cashew nuts 2tbsp
Method:-
Boil the milk till it becomes half quantity, add sugar, keep aside.
Dry roast the carrot and coconut separately.
Add the carrot and coconut and keep on stirring until it turns into a thick consistancy.
Cook until it leaves the pan sides.
Add cashewnuts and stir well.
Pour into a greased plate and cut into diamond bits when it settled.
Sprinkle saffron strands.
BURFI WITH COCOPOWDER
Allpurpose flour 75gms
sugar 41/2 cups
milk powder 3 cups
cashew nuts 3tbsp chopped
coco powder 3 tsps
ghee 6 tsps
Ghee 200gms
Method
Heat ghee,and add flour & cocoa powder.Fry them.
Combine suagr and 100 ml water boil till below one string consistency,add the above mixture.
Keep on stirring without burning/sticking to the bottom.
When the mixture thickens and starts to leave the sides, add the cashew nuts.
When the mixture starts frothing,it is time to transfer into a plate. Remove and press the cashew bits,cut
when it is warm.
COCO-GRAMFLOUR BURFI
Bengal gram flour 1glass
Coconut
1glass
Sugar 21/2glass
Ghee
2glass
milk
1glass
Method:
Combine all ingredients together.
Heat a skillet and pour all above and cook on medium.
Keep stirring continuously.
When it leaves the sides and turn to a big lump,putoff the heat and transfer into a pre-greased plate,cut
into squares when it set properly.
HANDY TIPS:-
Can be made with..
!)Almond powder & bengal flour
2)Cashewpowder & bengal flour
3)Mawa & bengal flour
4)affpurpose flour& bengal flour
5)Husked greengramFlour&bengal flour
6)Bengalflour&coconut&Apple crush
FIGS BURFI(ANJEER)
sweetened condensed milk 200 gms/1/2tin
chopped fig / anjeer 250 gms
milk 1/2 litre boiled
ghee/butter
2 tbsp
Method:
Soak the figs in the milk for 1 hour. Grind it into a paste. Keep aside.
Heat the ghee in a pan and add the condensed milk, fig paste and stir continuously till it leaves
the sides of the pan.
Serve hot garnished with silver leaf and cashews.
DATES BURFI
sweetened condensed milk 1tin/400gms
de-seeded dates chopped 500 gms
Ghee 2 tbsp
water 1/2 cup
Flour 2 tbsp
silver waraq
Method:
In a pan heat the ghee, add the allpurpose flour and fry for a minute.
Add the water mixing well and allow it to boil.
Add the dates, condensed milk and cook well, till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan.
Remove from fire and cool and cut into squares.
Serve garnished with silver waraq.
TOMATO HALWA/BURFI
RED,RIPED tomatoes 400gms
corn flour 75gms
Sugar 300gms
Ghee/butter 75gms
Roasted cashew nuts
Almonds roasted
cardamom powder
Method:-
Cut the tomatoes into small pieces and blend them to a fine puree. Sieve through a fine cloth and separate
from the pulp.
To the tomato puree, add 1 glass of water and corn flour.
Mix well and set aside.
Boil 1 cup of water & sugar,while boiling add tomato mixture and cook until it thickens.
Add ghee and stir for few minutes.
Add cashew nuts, almonds, cardamom powder and mix well.
Pour the mixture over a greased plate and set aside. cut into pieces.
BURFI WITH GROUNDNUT/PEANUT
Rosted groundnuts 2cups
Scraped fresh coconut 1/2cup
Ghee
1tsp
Essence
Sugar
11/2 cups
Colour optional
Method:-
Takeout the groundnuts/peanuts skins.
Blend them coarsely, scrap the coconut. Mix together.
In a thick bottomed skillet,add water & sugar,make a one string consistency.
Add the essence.Remove from the heat and add the nuts powder mixture.
Pour into a pregreased plate,press evenly.
Cool and cut into desired bits.
BISCUITS& NUTS BURFI
Easy to prepare and tasty to serve.
Can be used Mariebiscuits or parle biscuits.
Vanilla Wafers
Walnut powder: 1 Cup
Condensed Milk 1/2 Cup
Nutmeg
Cardamom Powder
Method:
Mix all ingredients to a fine dough.
Pour into a tray,and keep into the refregerator for 15-18 minutes to set well.
Roast walnuts and press over the cake,cut into desired bits,serve chill.
MANGO BURFI
Goes well with fresh mango pulp/ tin.
Mango pulp 41/2 cups
- Milkpowder 11/2cup
- Sugar 2cups
- Ghee ¾ cup -1 cup
- Cardamom powder 4tsp
- Cashewnuts roasted 2tbsp
- Mash the mango pulp & milk powder.Keep it on the stove and stir well.
- When it starts boil,add sugar and boil,add nuts and ghee.
- Put the lid and cook on medium heat.
- Cook until it thickens,add cardamom powder.
- Keep stirring and pouring ghee slowly into the halwa.
- When it leaves from sides,takeout and transfer into a pregreased plate.
- Cut when it cool properly.
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BOTTLEGOURD HALWA
Called as “kaddu”,”sorakaya”,Lauki”,”Aanapakaya” etc..
Milk liter
Thick milk
Bottlegourd (Only the green portion) 2 cups grated
Mawa /Khoya 1glass
Sugar 1 cup
Green color optional)
Grounded cardamoms
Cashewnuts Roasted 3tbsp
Method
Keep milk to boil, mean while grate the bottle gourd.
Add the grated B.gourd to the boiling milk.
When the milk reduces to 50% add mawa, sugar and color(if like to add)
Cook until it turns to a creamy substance and leaves the skillet sides.
Add cardamom powder and mix well,remove and pour into a greased tray and press the roasted cashew nuts
Cut into desired pieces.
MAWA BURFI
Gratedkhoya 1/2kg
powdered sugar 260gm
cardamom powder
For
garnishing:
1/3 tsp cardamom powder
2 tsp chopped pista
silver waraq
Method
Mix grated khoya to the sugar and cook on a slow fire till the
mixture is semi-solid.
Remove from the fire.
When cold, mix in the cardamom powder and spread the mixture
evenly on a greased tray.
Sprinkle cardamom powder and chopped pista all over and
presssilver sheets on the mixture.
Cut into medium sized squares when set.
BURFI WITH CHEESE(PANEER)
Can be used fresh paneer or substitute ricotta cheese.
Ricotta cheese 200gms
sweetened
condensed milk 400ML
Ghee/butter 125gms
Nuts 1/2cup
Method :
- Melt butter,add paneer/ricotta cheese.
- Cook for 3 minuts on stirring. Add condensed milk.
- Cook the mixture on stirring for 20-25 minutes,add roasted nuts and cardamoms.
- When it turns to a thick paste consistancy,transfer into a greased plate,cut into square
pieces.
CASHEWNUT BURFI
powdered cashewnuts 1glass
sugar powder
1/2 glass
Tsp milk
1/2 tsp
kewra essense
Few drops
Silver waraq
optional
Method:
Combine the two powders.
- Mix milk wiht the essence.
- Combine together powders & liquids above.
- Place it in the baking sheet and roll it,decorate with silver waraq.
Cut into diamond bits.
BENGALGRAM BURFI
Bengal gram 250gms
Fresh grated
coconut 1
Ghee/butter
125g/1/4kg
milk
1 litre
sugar
500g/1/2kg
cardamom powder 1/2 silver waraq
Method:
Soak the gram in water overnight.
Drain and grind it to a thick fine paste using little water.
Roast the grated coconut to a pink color and keep aside.
Heat ghee in a pan and fry the gram paste on a medium flame till all the moisture dries up.
When the mixture separates from the ghee, add sugar, milk and roasted coconut.
Stir well and cook till the mixture is thick and leaves the sides of the pan.
Turn on to a greased plate and spread evenly.
Decorate with cardamom powder and silver sheets. Cut into desired shapes.
By the same procedure, instead of Bengal gram take green gram to make moong dal burfi.
Bombay rawaHalwa (Semolina pudding)
Semolina ½cup
Sugar 3/4-1cup(as yourtaste)
Ghee 1/4 cup
Cardamomsseeds tbsp
Cashewnuts 7-8(optional)
Yellow food color optional
Hot water 1cup
Method:-
Heat ghee,let it warm.
In a non stick skillet dry roast rawa
without changing colour.
Dissolve (if use)colour in atsp milk.
Fry cashew in a tsp ghee.keep aside.
Crush cardamomscoarsely,keep aside.
After boiling water ,reduce the heat,and slowly pour the dryroasted
semolina,on stirring continuously.Coverandcooktilldone.
Check without burning.
Now add slowly the sugar to the cooked rawa without any lumps.
Add more ghee,and cardamom powder,stir & cook till the sugar&semolina
gets to a fine thick lump.Add the colour,too.
Remove and add cashewnuts,serve with puri.
CHUMCHUM (Bengali)
The method of chumchum is almost like rasgulla,
If you want rich look &festive type,
Make chumchums filling with little crushed pista,small sugar candy inside.
Garnish with coloured cocnut scrapings and press a little silver/gold waraq over.(on the top!)
Can be used vinegar/lemon juice for curdle milk instead of Alum.
Milk 4liters
Sugar 1kg
Alum(patika) 1tbsp(10gm)
Saffron strands 10
Almonds 12
Pistachioes 12
Essense Kewra/Vanilla
Mehtod:-
Heat the milk on high until boiling point.
Add the alum powder to curdle(or can be used vinegar).
Drain it on a muslin cloth, immediately.
Press it and allow to sit for some hours.
Add saffron powder to the paneer ,mix well,and make trianglar
Chum chum.
Boil 21/2 cups of water with sugar and make syrup (one string)
And drop the chum chum ,and cook them over low flame for 45 minutes.
In a tray place chum chum cream whirl circles in their center.
Sprinkle pistachioes and essence over,serve it.
RAJBHOG
Use always fresh chenna(paneer)to get good and tasty rajbhog.
Paneer /chenna 1/4kg
Mawa/khoya/sugarless kova 31/2tbsp
Plain flour tsp
Semolina(rawa/suji) tsp
Saffron strands 7-8
Rose syrup/essence 11/2tbsp
Soaked pista/almonds 1tbsp(together)
Cardamoms powder 1/4tbsp
Sugar 5 cups
METHOD
Knead the fresh paneer to a smooth dough.
Add semolina&flour knead again (not so rough).
Divide into 13 balls,
Drain the nuts from soaked water and peel them,crush them.
Mix rose syrup/essence.cardamom powder to grated mawa.
Knead it into a dough.
Mix in the roughly chopped pistachio nuts & almonds and divideinto13balls.
Stuff a portion of
mawa balls into each portion of cottage cheese ball and form them into marble-sized balls.
Combine sugar with 1/2litre water. Bring to a boil and make thin sugar syrup.
Bring sugar syrup to a boil in wide-mouthed pan
and add saffron.
Gently slide in stuffed cottage cheese balls and cook for five to six minutes on high heat.
Sprinkle about quarter cup hot water and continue to cook on high heat till they are
almost double in size.
Remove and keep in sufficient quantity of sugar syrup.
Refregerate and chill to serve.
WALNUTS HALWA
Called as akhrot fruit, looks like a human heart.Tastes as little bitter & sweet.Good for health and have more fat
(good fat if takes in limited quantity
It has Omega-3).
Ghee/clarified butter 1cup
Cardamoms powder
Fullcream) Milk powder 2cups
Eggs 4
(Beaten lightly)
Sweetend condensed milk 1tin(400ml)
Walnuts (chopped into two) 2cups
Method:-
Heat ghee,add milk powder along with cardamoms powder on low heat to light brown.Stir constantly to avoid burning.
Beat the eggs lightly and add ,cook for 6-7 minutes till the mixture gets dark brown.
Now add condensed milk and cook for 2-3 minutes on stirring till the mixture leaves sides.
Add nuts and stir fry for a while.Putoff the heat.
Transfer the mixture into a gresed plate and press the walnuts,cut them into squares and serve!
BREAD SWEET (DOUBLE MEETA KA BREAD)
Bread 12 slices
ghee 1 cup (clarified butter)
milk 1 litre
Sugar 2 cups
saffron
warm milk 2tbsp(to dissolve saffron)
cardamom powder
double /heavy cream 1 cup
cashew nuts 3tbsp
Almonds 3tbsp
Raisins 2tbsp
Method:
Soak almonds and chop them.
Roast cashew nuts,Powder cardamoms.
Cut each bread slice into four triangles. Heat ghee in a skillet and fry them in clarified butter till golden brown(you
can heat 4 tablespoons of ghee for 12-16 triangles).
Boil the 1 litre milk until it is thickened and reduced to bout 1/4 th of its quantity.
Soak saffron in 2 tablespoons of warm milk.
Make a sugar syrup by adding half a litre(2 cups) of water to the sugar and boil it for 15 minutes. Add the powdered cardamom
and the saffron dissolved in milk to the sugar syrup. Remove from heat.
Arrange the fried bread pieces on a flat tray and sprinkle the chopped nuts on them. Pour the sugar syrup, double cream
and milk alternately over the bread pieces while they are still hot. Refrigerate and serve.
Qubani Ka Meetha
This dessert can be served either with fresh cream, Custard or even Vanilla ice cream. Ingredients : 200 gms. Apricots
dried (Whole) (Qubani) Sugar 60gms Fresh Cream (whipped) 50ml Water 300ml
Method: Wash and soak the apricots in hot water for 15mts. Mash and stone the apricots. Break open the stone and remove
the nuts. Heat the mixture of apricot and nuts until it starts thickening. Add sugar and cook for another 2 minutes. Allow
the mixture to chill. Serve it with fresh cream, plain custard
or Vanilla Ice-cream.
An immensely popular Hyderabadi sweet dish, specially favoured during the Ramzan festive season.
QUBANI KA MEETA-2
250 grm apricots (qubaani) 1/2 litre milk 125 grm sugar edible food color - red (optional) 1 tbsp clarified butter Method
Soak apricots in just enough warm water for 6-7 hours or overnight. Using a knife separate fruit and nut. Keep the nuts
aside. Using the same water blend the fruit pulp into a coarse paste. Pour this paste in a thick bottomed pan, add milk and
cook on a medium flame till it thickens. Keep stirring the mix. Add sugar and reduce the flame, and keep stirring. Cook for
10 more minutes till it thickens and switch off the flame. Add color if using. Crackle the nuts and carefully remove all the
seeds. Soak them in hot water for a while and peel the skin.
Split them and add these to the sweet.
Finally add clarified butter and stir well.
Sweet Puri
powderedcashewnuts 1cup
sieved
icing sugar ½cup
cardamoms 3powdered
saffron
milk
3 tbsp
Almond essence
Method:
Combine the cashewnuts, sugar and cardamom powder.
Warm the saffron and dissolve in 1tsp of milk.
Add
the saffron, essence and enough milk to make a dough.
Divide the dough into 10 parts.
Take two small sheets of polyethylene
and a disk of 2" diameter.
Put one sheet and the disk on a board.
Keep one part of the dough inside
the disk, cover with the other sheet and roll to the shape of the disk.
Repeat the same with the remaining dough.
Place
on a banking dish and bake in a moderate oven at 175*c for 15 to 20 minutes.
Cool and store.
FRUIT SALAD
Whipped Cream Dressing
1 can
(16 1/2 ounce) pitted sweet cherries drained, 2 cans (15 1/4
ounces each) pineapple chunks in juice and drained
but 2 Tbsp.
juice saved, 3 oranges cut into small chunks or 2 cans (11
ounces each) mandarin orange segments drained,
1 Cup minature
marshmallows.
DIRECTIONS: Prepare Whipped Cream Dressing. GENTLY toss
dressing and remaining
ingredients in a large glass or plastic
bowl. Cover and refrigerate for at least 12 hours to blend
flavors BUT no
longer than 24 hours. Cover and refrigerate
any remaining salad.
**WHIPPED CREAM DRESSING
eggs beaten
1
sugar 2tbsp
Lemon juice 2tbsp
Reserved pineapple juice
2tbsp
Butter
1tbsp
Dash of salt
Heavy whipping cream 3/4 Cup
DIRECTIONS:
Heat all ingredients except whipping cream to boiling in 1 -quart saucepan over medium heat stirring constantly
and
let cool.
Beat whipping cream in chilled, medium bowl with electric mixer on high speed until stiff.
Fold in egg mixture. Serve.
Date Bars
crushed pineapple
2 cups
chopped dates 2chops
oats
3 cups
coconut
1 cup
chopped walnut tbsp
salt
orange
juice 1-1/4 cup
oil
1/4 cup
methop:-
Combine pineapple and dates in a saucepan.
Cook on medium heat until thickened. Stir frequently.
In a large bowl, mix oats,coconut, walnuts, and salt.
Stir in juice and oil.
Press half of the oat mixture in a greased 9 x 13-inch pan.
Spread the pine-apple mixture on top,
and then sprinkle on the rest of the oat mixture.
Press down lightly. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool.Cut into squares
DIABETIC RECIPES
Here some of the recipes for diabetic persons,may be they helps.
SUGARLESS CAKE
Chopped dates 1cup
Prunes chopped 1cup
Cold water 1cup
Raisines 1cup
Melted margarine 1stick
Eggs 2
Bakingsoda tsp
salt pinch
Cinnamon tsp
Nutmeg tsp
Chopped nuts 1cup
Vanilla tsp
Plain flour 1cup
Method:-
Boil dates and
prunes in the one cup of water for 3 minutes
Add margarine and raisins and let cool.
Mix flour, soda, salt, eggs, nuts, spices and vanilla.
Add to fruit mixture.
Stir to blend.
Pour into baking dish. Bake at 175*c degrees for 25 to 30 minutes
FRUIT CAKE WITHOUT BAKING
Allpurpose flour cup
Baking soda tsp
water 1cup
Dates, chopped cup
Apples, peeled & chopped 1 cup
Raisins 1/4cup
Margarine 1/2cup
Quick oats 1/2cup
Beaten eggs 2
vanilla 1tsp
chopped pecans 2tbsp
Method:-
Melt above and add cracker crumbs. 3/4 c. grated raisins 1 tsp. coconut flavoring 1/2 c. dried apricots 1/2 c. raw cranberries
3/4 c. dates, cut up
Add to first mixture and mix well.
Pat mixture in 6"x13"x2" pan lined with plastic wrap. Chill.