Sunday, 4 November 2012

doodh peda


Ingredients

  • Milk Powder: 1 1/2 cups
  • Condensed milk: 1 can (400 g OR 300 ml)
  • Butter: 8 tbsps
  • Cardamom: 4 (peel and crush the seeds in a mortal and pestle)
  • Nuts: Almonds OR Pistachios OR Cashew nuts OR Raisins.          
  •  Method  
  • Melt the butter in a heavy bottomed vessel.
  • Add the condensed milk and milk powder and mix well. Cook on low to medium flame, stirring constantly, till it becomes a thick paste.
  • Add cardamom powder and mix well.
  • Turn off heat and allow to cool till you can handle the mixture with your hand.
  • Lightly grease your fingers and palm, shape the milk powder mixture into small balls and flatten them slightly.
  • You can decorate the doodh pedas with any nuts of your choice.
  • Store the pedas in an air tight container and place in the fridge. Remove the pedas from the fridge an hour before serving.

kaju burfi


Ingredients:
• 3 cups Raw Cashew Nuts • 2 cups Water • 2 cups Sugar • Silver foil
How to make Kaju Burfi:
Grind the cashews to make a fine powder.
Next prepare a sugar syrup by combining water and sugar together in a pot and heating them.
Stir continuously until it has a 2-thread consistency.
Turn off the flame.
Dissolve cashew powder in the syrup. Make the solution thick.
Spread the solution on a greased plate and put silver foil on it.
Allow to cool and then cut it into pieces.
Kaju Burfi is ready.

Friday, 26 October 2012

Pazham Pori





Ingredients 

  1. 5 ripe plantains
  2. 1 cup plain flour (maida)
  3. 1/2 cup sugar
  4. 1/4 tsp turmeric powder
  5. A pinch of salt
  6. 2 1/2 cups oil    

    Method 

    • Peel plantains,slit lengthwise and cut into halves.
    • Mix flour with 1/2 cup water to make a smooth batter.Mix in sugar,turmeric and salt.
    • Heat oil in a kadhai,dip plantain slices in batter and deep fry till golden brown.Drain and serve hot.

unniyappam




Ingredients

Rice Flour (Raw) 2 cup
Jaggery 1/2 cup
Banana(Palayamkodan) 2 Nos
Cardamom Powder 1/4 tsp
Coconut Pieces 2 tsp
Sesame Seeds 2 tsp
Salt To taste
Oil/Ghee To fry
Method
Heat jaggery with half glass water to make its juice.Strain it and keep aside.Mash the bananas with your hand or a hand blender.Fry the coconut light brown in a teaspoon of ghee.To the rice flour add all the ingredients and mix well.Add required quantity of water to make the batter to idly consistency.Keep aside for 45 mins to 1 hr.Heat the unniyappam mould and add oil or ghee upto 3/4th.Pour one laddle of the batter to the mould.Reduce heat and cook.When one side is cooked turn to the other side.Cook both sides till golden brown.

Motichoor Laddu Recipe







Ingredients

 
Ingredients to make Boondi Batter :-
 
1 1/2 cups Bengal gram flour (besan)
 
1 1/2 tbsps semolina (rawa)
 
Ingredients for Sugar Syrup :-
 
1 1/4 cups (250 grams) sugar
 
1 tbsp. milk
 
A few drops saffron food color
 
Other Ingrdients that are needed :-
 
A few saffron strands
 
2 tbsps almonds, chopped
 
2 tbsps pistachios, chopped
 
2 tbsps cashewnuts chopped
 
1 tsp. cardamom powder
 
2 tsp. rose water
 
Ghee or butter for deep-frying
 
Edible silver sheets, for garnishing (optional)

Directions

FOR THE BOONDI BATTER :- 

Combine the gram flour, semolina and approx. 3/4 cup of water and mix well to make a smooth batter and keep it aside.
FOR MAKING SUGAR SYRUP :-
Combine the sugar and milk with 1 1/2 cups of water in a bowl and heat
while stirring continuously till the sugar gets dissolves. Now add the
saffron food colour to the syrup and make a syrup of one string consistency. Keep it warm.
TO MAKE BOONDI :-
Heat ghee or butter in a pan. When hot, hold a perforated spoon (boondi
jhara) over the hot ghee and pour a little boondi batter at a time using a ladle over the perforated spoon.
Spread the batter with the back of a spoon so that the boondi falls into
the ghee. Fry the boondis over a high flame to a light golden color,
taking care to ensure that they are not very crisp.
Now add the boondi's to the warm sugar syrup and mix well so that the
boondi's soak in the syrup well. Wash and dry the perforated spoon
(boondi jhara) every time you pour the boondi batter through it.
Proceed making the boondis with the remaining batter and immerse them in the sugar syrup immediately after frying. Allow the mixture to cool completely.Add 2 tbsps of hot water, saffron, chopped almonds, chopped pistachios,powdered cardamom, rose water and mix them well.
Shape the mixture to make laddus and garnish with edible silver sheets.
Motichoor laddu is ready to be served.



               Sweetness is one of the five basic tastes and is almost universally regarded as a pleasurable         experience.