Kalakand Recipe

Ingredients for Kalakand

Sweetened Condensed Milk – 1 tin [400gms]

Milk Powder – 2 heaped tbsp

Saffron [Kesar] few strands

Cardamom Powder— ½ tsp

Cottage Cheese – 500gms

Pista slivers

Method of Preparing Kalakand

Mash the cottage cheese coarsely and mix with milk powder and condensed milk. Heat the mixture in thick bottom pan. Cook on medium heat with constant stirring till the mixture become thick and starts leaving the sides of the pan.

Remove from the flame and spread on to a greased plate. Sprinkle cardamom powder, sprinkle Saffron soaked in water and pista slivers.

Cool and cut into squares.

                                                                                                                                                          

How to Make Bread Fruit Thoren

Ingredients for Bread Fruit Thoren

Bread Fruit -- 2 cups [cut into small pieces and boiled]

Onion – 1 [sliced]

Green Chilies – 3 [chopped]

Coconut – ½ cup [grated]

Mustard – 1 tsp

Black Gram Dal – 1 tsp

Dry Red Chilies – 2[split into two pieces]

Rice – 1 tsp

Chili Powder – ½ tsp

Salt to Taste

Oil – 2 tbsp

Method of Preparing read Fruit Thoren

Heat oil in a pan and put mustard seeds, rice, dry chilies, black gram dal, curry leaves and fry for 5 minutes. Add onion and green chilies and fry, till it becomes light brown. Add the grated coconut and stir well.

Add the boiled bread fruit and mix carefully. Add the chili powder and salt. Cook, till the thoren becomes dry. 

Rice Muruku Recipe

Ingredients for the Muruku 

 Raw [parmal] Rice – 4 cups

Urud dal [Bengal gram] – 1 cup [roasted and powdered]

Coconut Milk – ½ cup

Butter -- 100 gms
Cumin seeds – 2 tsp

Sesame seeds – 2 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying

Method of Preparing Muruku

Soak the rice in water for 2 hours.  Drain and grind in mixer grinder by adding coconut milk and enough water to make a  paste.

Add the urad dal powder,  butter,cumin seeds, sesame seeds and salt into  the  rice paste and make a soft dough.   Fill in a muruku maker and put it into the hot oil and fry until it becomes golden brown.

You can keep it in an air tight container for 1 month.

                                   

Semolina [Rawa] Muruku

Ingredients for Semolina muruku

Semolina [Rawa] – 1 cup

Urad dal – ½ cup

Chili powder – ½ tsp

Asafoetida  ¼ tsp

Butter – 2 tbsp

Cumin seeds – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil for deep frying

Method of the preparation of the muruku

Fry urad dal without oil, till it becomes light brown and soak in water for 2 hours. Grind the urad dal and make a smooth paste. Add semolina, chili powder, asafetida, butter, cumin seeds and salt to the dal paste and knead well.

Fill the mixture in the muruku mould and make muruku and deep fry till it becomes golden brown.

Karanji Recipe

Karanji

Ingredients for Karanji

Dry coconut – 1 cup [grated]

Sugar – 1 cup [powdered]

Poppy seeds – 1 tsp

Dry fruits – 2 tsp [coarsely powdered]

Semolina – 2 tsp

Maida [plain flour] – 1 cup

Ghee – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Warm milk to make dough

Oil for frying

Method of the preparation of karanji

Roast Poppy seeds, dry coconut, and semolina [rawa] and grind it in mixer grinder. Add sugar and mix well.

Add 1 tsp ghee and salt to maida and knead dough by adding milk.

 Make small ovel shaped pooris from the dough and fill the pooris with the prepared mixture and seal properly with little water and deep fry in hot oil till it becomes golden brown.

Keep in air tight container.

How to Make Jalebi

Jalebi  is a traditional dessert of  India . Learn how to prepare tasty Jalebi in this easy way

Ingredients for Jalebi

Plain flour [Maida] – 1 cup

Yogurt – 4 tbsp

Yeast—1 tsp

Water – 2 cups

Sugar – 1 cup

Saffron – a few strands

Oil for frying

Salt – 1 pinch

Method of Preparing Jellebi

Mix yeast, yogurt, saffron and little oil to maid and keep aside for 3—4 hours. Make sugar syrup by adding water and keep it warm on stove. Fill the batter in a cotton cloth and make holes in the bottom or [fill the batter into a squeeze bottle].

Squeeze rounded shapes into the hot oil and drain quickly. Dip into sugar syrup for 2 minutes and drain.

Serve hot

How to make Mal Pua

Ingredients for Mal Pua

Plain flour [Maida] – ½ kg

Milk – ½ liter

Bananas – 5

Coconut – 1 cup [grated]

Dry fruits – 20 gms

Cardamom – 5 [powdered]

Sugar – 700 gms

Oil for frying 

Method of the Preparation of Malpua

Boil the milk on low flame until it becomes thick and pink in colour. Remove from the flame and keep aside. When the milk become cool, add plain flour, sugar, dry fruits, cardamom powder, and grated coconut and mix well and make a paste.

Grind the bananas and mix to the plain flour mixture. Heat oil in pan, and make round shaped balls of the paste and fry, till it becomes golden brown.

Rawa [Semolina] Ladoo Recipe

Ingredients for Rawa [Semolina] Ladoo

Rawa [Semolina, Suji] – 1 cup

Ghee – 3 tsp

Sugar – 1 cup [powdered]

Milk – 1 cup

Cardamom Powder – ½ tsp

Cashew nuts – 5 [fried]

Raisins – 10 [fried]

Method of Preparing Rawa Ladoo

Heat oil in a pan and fry the semolina on low flame until it becomes light brown. Add sugar powder and milk and fry till the mixture becomes sticky.

 Add cashew nuts, cardamom powder and raisins, and mix well. Remove from the fire and keep aside for 10 minutes.

Make small balls and keep in air tight container.