Ingredients Moong dal -1 cup Pure ghee- 4 tablespoons Jaggery (gud) – 1 cup Milk- 1.5 cups Water – 2 cups Roasted dry fruits – 1/4 cup ( of your choice ) Cardamom ( elaichi ) powder – 1/2 teaspoon Method Roast the moong dal in a kadhai for 3-4 minutes. Let it cool GrindContinue reading “Instant Moong dal halwa with jaggery”
Category Archives: Sweets
Banana bread
Ingredients: 1. 4 ripe bananas 2 . 1/2 cup powdered sugar 3. 2/3 cup refined oil4. 4. 1&1/2 cup wheat flour 5.1 tsp baking powder 6. 1/2 tsp baking soda 7. 1tsp vanilla essence 8. 1/2 cup of crushed walnuts Take bananas in a wide mouthed vessel & mash them well with a fork. AddContinue reading “Banana bread”
Mysore Pak
This is a sweet commonly made by South Indians either to celebrate occasions or to send to their loved ones. Ingredients: Besan/ gram flour -1 glasspure ghee – 2 glasswhite sugar-2 glassround steel plate Before switching on the gas, please keep everything ready – 1 glass of flour in a kadai/ pan, 2 glass ofContinue reading “Mysore Pak”
Agra petha
Ingredients: White pumpkin Or ash gourd 1/2 kg Sugar 1.5 cups Cardamom 4-5 Saffron threads a few (optional ) Choona or slaked lime 1 teaspoon Method: Take ripe white pumpkin where skin shows whitish powder on surface and on chopping the seeds are fully mature. Remove the seeds and skin of the pumpkin. Cut itContinue reading “Agra petha”
Pottu kadalai (chutney dal ) burfi
Ingredients : Pottu kadalai ( roasted bengal gram dal ) 1 cup Powdered jaggery 3/4 th cup Ghee 3 teaspoon Cardamom 4 ( powdered) Method : Roast the dal in a frying pan ( Kadai) for 2-3 mins to remove the raw smell . Cool it and powder it in a mixie to a fineContinue reading “Pottu kadalai (chutney dal ) burfi”
Carrot Burfi
Ingredients : 1cup grated carrot 1cup cashew nuts 1cup sugar 1/4 th cup milk 1 1/2 tablespoons ghee Method Pulse and powder the cashew nuts. Grind grated carrot with milk to a paste. Add all the ingredients to a pan with 1 tablespoon of ghee and cook on medium flame. Once the mixture starts leavingContinue reading “Carrot Burfi”
Rice Cucumber Cake
A dear friend of mine once mentioned about their traditional Mangalorean dish called Mandas . This recipe is my interpretation of that dish. Ingredients: 1 cup parboiled rice soaked overnight ( white or red rice) 1 cup jaggery 1 big cucumber 1/2 cup grated coconut 3-4 cardamoms Walnuts or almonds chopped few 1/2 tsp bakingContinue reading “Rice Cucumber Cake”
Ripe Papaya Halwa
Ingredients Ripe papaya grated or cut into small pieces, Sugar, Ghee, Food colour( Optional) For garnishing Badam cut into thin pieces, Pistachio, Cashew nuts. Method Heat ghee in a pan. Take Badam cut into pieces, ( preferably after removing skin)Pistachios cut and Cashews cut. Fry and keep aside. In the same pan add some moreContinue reading “Ripe Papaya Halwa”
Quick Kaju Katli
Ingredients: Cashew nuts Sugar Little Ghee Pulse and powder 2 cups of cashew nuts. Make 1 string sugar syrup with 1 cup sugar and half cup water. ( Cashew: sugar is 2:1) Switch of the gas and add the cashew powder and 1 spoon of ghee. Mix very well till it becomes a ball. TransferContinue reading “Quick Kaju Katli”
Rice Puttu
When Dr.Meera invited, encouraged me to be one of the guest writers, she said ” You can post Recipes Manni Paatti ( Our MIL) used to make “. Immediately Appalam, Vadam, Vathal (being the month of March, I had already made one batch of the same) and Rice Puttu, which my MIL was an expertContinue reading “Rice Puttu”
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