Date, Orange, Walnut & Banana Semolina Halava Pudding
Ingredients: • Water – 2½ cups • Raw sugar or sugar plus some honey (not 100% honey – too wet) – 1¼ cups • California dates, chopped, or any dried fruit – 3/4 cup • Zest from 2 oranges, lemons or any citrus • Unsalted butter, or ghee (1 ounce = 28.35 grams) – 140 gram • Coarse-grained semolina (farina) –...
Sweet Spice Pumpkin Bites
. 1 medium pumpkin (any pumpkin of your choice) . 2 cups jaggery or brown sugar . 1 medium orange or tangerine . 2-3 cinnamon sticks . 4 cups water . 1 tbsp ghee Preparation 1) First begin by slicing the orange or tangerine into thin half moon shapes. Then place the sliced oranges, jaggery, cinnamon sticks and water into a large heavy bottomed pot. Begin cooking on medium high heat. 2) While the jaggery...
Laddu
Ingredients • Unsalted butter – 3/4 cup • Chickpea flour, Sift after measuring – 2 cups • Chopped walnuts – 2 tbsp • Ground nutmeg – 1/4 tsp • Icing sugar, sifted after measuring – 1 cup Preparation 1. Melt the butter in a heavy-based frying pan or small saucepan over a low heat. Add the sifted chickpea flour, walnut pieces, and...
Channar Payesh with Milkmaid
Ingredients • Chena (fresh, not pressed, cottage cheese) – 550 gms • Baking powder – ½ teaspoon • Water – 6 ½ cups • Sugar – 2 ½ cup • Refined flour (Maida) – 3 ½ tbsp • Milk – 6 cups For garnish • Cardamom – ½ tsp • Pistachio – 4 tsp • Saffron – ½ tsp Preparation 1. Squeeze out water from...
Almond Toffee Fudge
Ingredients: • Good quality unsalted butter (I prefer Danish style) – 250g • Raw sugar – 1 1/2 cups • Pouring consistency pure cream – 1 cup • Whole unblanched almonds, oven-roasted or fried, and very coarsely chopped – 1 cup • Full cream powdered milk – 3 1/2 cups • Extra toasted, crushed, slivered, flaked or...
Thin Til ki Chikki
Ingredients . 1/2 cup roasted sesame seeds with skin or unroasted polished white seeds . 1/2 cup sugar . 1 tsp ghee or clarified butter . cardamom powder as per taste 1/2-1tsp Preparation 1. Grease the kitchens marble surface. 2. In a pan melt Ghee on medium heat. Add sugar. Do not stir very often or else it will crystalize soon. Melt till all the sugar dissolves completely and no lumps are...