Khaja
Ingredients • Maida/All purpose flour – 1.5 cups • Ghee – ¼ cup • Oil – 1 tbsp • Sugar – ½ tsp • Curd – 1.5 tsp • Eno /fruit salt – ½ tsp (OR any leavening agent like 2 pinches soda bicarbonate or ¼ teaspoon baking powder.) • Water – ¼ cup • Oil for deep frying For Syrup: • Sugar – ½ cup • Water – ½ cup • Cardamom powder – ¼ tsp • A squeeze of Lemon Juice Preparation 1. In a...
Aate Ka Halwa
Ingredients • Whole Wheat Flour – 1 cup • Sugar – 1 cup • Ghee (clarified butter) – 1/3 cup • Chopped almonds – 3 tbsp • Small cardamom – 1 Preparation 1. Chop almonds coarsely lengthwise and keep aside. 2. Crush cardamom to a fine powder and keep aside. 3. Boil 3 ½ cups of water on high flame and add sugar to it. 4. Let the sugar dissolve completely in water. 5. As soon as the water starts boiling turn...
Dalia Rava Laddu
Ingredients • Dalia – 1 cup • Rava (semolina) – ½ cup • Refined sugar – 2 cups • Hot melted ghee (clarified butter) – ½ cup • Cashew nut – as needed • Cardamom powder – 1 tsp Preparation 1. Powder the Dalia and sugar in mixer and sieve. 2. Dry roast the rava. 3. Chop the cashew nuts into small bits and roast it in ghee till golden brown. 4. Mix well all the ingredients except ghee with a ladle. 5....
Candied Cassava Root
Ingredients • Cassava Roots – 1 kg • Sugar – 600 gm • Water – 4 Cups • Coconut Cream (Optional) – ½ Cup • Salt (Optional) – ¼ tsp Preparation 1. Peel the Cassava Roots and cut them into pieces about 7cm long. 2. Wash and then dry the Cassava pieces. 3. Use large saucepans add the water and the sugar and bring to the boil over a medium heat until all the sugar dissolves. 4. Add the Cassava root pieces and...
Pumpkin Fudge
Ingredients • 3 C peeled and grated pumpkin • ½ C butter • 3 Tbsp cashews/almonds • 3 green cardamoms • ½ C milk powder • 1 C sugar • 2/3 C water Preparation 1. Combine the water and sugar in a saucepan. Bring to a boil and simmer and cook for 15 minutes until thickened. Keep the syrup warm. 2. In another heavy bottomed saucepan, slowly melt the butter over low heat. Add the...
Pala Kova
Ingredients • Whole milk – 3.79 liters • Sugar – 1 ½ cups Preparation 1. In a big sturdy pan, bring milk to a boil. 2. Keep it on medium high heat and boil milk for about 2 hours, stirring 3-4 times in between. 3. After the end of two hours, the milk will be reduced to half and it becomes thick and also turns it color from white to gandham (sandal wood) paste. 4. Add sugar to that thickened milk. 5....