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...
Gajar Ka Halwa
Ingredients • Carrots – 1 kg • Milk – 1.5 litre • Cardamom seeds powdered (optional) – 1 tsp • Ghee for frying the Cashews – ½ tsp • Dry fruits (Sliced Badam, Pista, Kaju) – 2-3 tbsp • Raisins soaked in water for half an hour • Sugar – 450 grams • Whole dried milk (mawa) or Milk Cream (Malai) Preparation 1. Wash the carrots, peel and grate them....
Choorma
Ingredients : •Atta/Wheat flour – 2 cups •Desi Ghee – 3-5 tablespoons •Sugar – 4-5 tablespoons (adjust according to taste) •Almonds (sliced) – to garnish Preparation: 1. Heat desi ghee in a pan. 2. Add wheat flour to hot desi ghee. 3. Mix them well. 4. Turn the flame to low and allow wheat to get cooked well. 5. Keep stirring continuously otherwise wheat flour will get stuck to the bottom of the pan. 6. After...
Halava
Ingredients • Water – 2½ cups • Raw sugar – 1¼ cups • Unsalted butter, or ghee (1 ounce = 28.35 grams) – 140 g • Coarse-grained semolina (farina) – the more coarse the better – 1¼ cups • Walnut pieces, or any nuts, or none at all – 1/3 cup • A splash of pure rosewater • Firm...
Sindhi Loli Biscuit (Sweet and Salty Variation)
Ingredients: 1. Wheat Flour- 2 cups 2. Sugar/Jaggery-1/2 cup (60 gms) 3. Oil- 2 tbsp 4. Water to make firm dough. 5. Green Cardamons (choti elaichi)4-5 ( peeled and crushed) 6. Milk- 1tbsp. Method: 1. In a saucepan boil about a cup of water, add sugar and cardamons (peeled or crushed). 2. Let the sugar dissolve properly. 3. Alternatively some of sugar can be substituted with jaggery, so in that case boil jaggery and sugar together,...