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Bombay Halwa Preparation Time: 15 minutes, Cooking Time: 30
minutes, Serves / Makes: 12
Ingredients: Sabudana 1/3 cup White Flour 1/3 cup Corn flour
2/3 cup Sugar 4 cups Ghee 1 cup Lemon 1 med Cardamom powder
2 tea spoons Color green, lemon or red
Method: Wash & soak Sabudana in 2 cups of water for 8 hrs &
liquidize. Soak white flour & corn flour, in 2 cups of water for 8
hrs.Dissolve sugar in 1 ˝ cups water & bring to a boil. As soon as the
sugar melts completely, add both the mixtures & start stirring. When the
mixture starts thickening, add ghee 1-tea spoons at a time till ˝ cup is used
up. Add the color, mixed in limejuice & cardamom powder.Now add remaining
ghee as before.When the mixture becomes a frothy thick & starts sticking to
the sides of the pot. Remove from stove.Pour into a greased plate, cool &
cut when still soft.When completely cooled wrap each piece separately in wax
paper or butter paper.
Carrot Halwa Preparation Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 15
minutes Serves / Makes: 6
Ingredients: Carrots finely grated 1 lb. Ghee 4 tablespoon
Sugar 3/4 cup Sweetened khoya 200 gm Chopped cashew 2 tablespoon
Cardamom powder- 1 teaspoon
Method: In a casserole, Microwave at high temp
carrot, covered for 5 minutes. Then add all ingredients except cardamom powder.
Stir well and Microwave, uncovered for 10 minutes. Stir at least twice during
this process. Sprinkle cardamom powder on top. Serve hot.
Milk Khoya
burfi Preparation Time: 10 mins Cooking Time: 30 mins Serves / Makes:
4
Ingredients: 1 litre whole milk 3 gm citric acid 100gm
sugar 50gm ghee 100g khoya (mava) 5gm pistachios sliced 5gm
almond sliced 3gm cardamom powder
Method: Bring the milk to boil and sprinkle citric acid. The milk will
curd. Continue cooking till all the water evaporates. Add sugar and ghee to the
curdle milk. Stir and cook till almost dry. Add khoya and keep string for
five mins. Add few pistachios and almonds slices and cardamom powder. Keep
stirring till the mixture reaches granular consistency. Remove and pour onto
a greased tray and allow it to cool. Decorated with remaining pistachios and
almonds slice.
Mohanthal
Preparation Time : 30 mins Cooking Time :
1hr Serves / makes: 1 small tray
Ingredients: 400 gms of sweetened condensed milk. 3 cups gram
flour[besan] Chopped almonds and pistachios for decorating. Few
saffron strands. 1cup ghee or butter. 2 tablespoons milk.
Method: Mix the milk and flour well, keep for about half an hour. Heat ghee
in a pan and roast the besan on slow heat for 12 mins.
Add the sweet milk and
cook with constant stirring for 15 min till the mixture thickens, mix in
saffron. Remove from stove and place in a greased plate, garnish with almonds.
Leave it to dry and cut in desired shapes.
Rasgullas Preparation Time: 1hr Cooking Time: 45mins Serves / Makes:
10
Ingredients: 5 cups milk Juice of one lemon 21\4 cups
sugar 21\2 cups water 2-tea spoons all-purpose flour
Method: Boil milk and add lemon to curdle, the milk will separate into
curds. Put the curds in the muslin cloth to drain completely. Boil sugar, and
water, add rose essence.
With the palm of your hand, mash the curds for 5 - 6
mins to break up texture. Sprinkle flour, little at a time and mix well, mashing
with your palm. Make balls of even size. Put few at a time in boiling syrup and
boil for 10- 12 mins. When all rasgullas are done take out in a bowl and pour
syrup on them.
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