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Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Milk Halwa | Paal Halwa | Indian Desert Recipes

Milk Halwa or Paal Halwa Recipe - This Milk halwa is my hubby favorite dessert. During my early marriage days, he used to ask me whether I know to prepare Milk Halwa.. That time cooking is a nightmare for me. Also as I am not fond of any milk desserts I didn't show much interest in learning this Milk Halwa recipe.

After I came Singapore, One day, my father brought this Halwa from India and I loved the taste. From then on, I wanted to prepare the halwa, but somehow kept postponing. So finally last week took the recipe from here n tried to celebrate my blogs anniversary month (6th year) and it came out good. Kept for 3 days and finished it. Let's check on the Preparation of Milk Halwa.

You can check out other desserts below -

Chocolate Burfi

Almond sweet

Kaju Katli

Rasgulla

Rasmalai

Bread Gulab Jamun

Milk Halwa Recipe

Preparation time: 0 min | Cook Time: 60 min (+ or -) | Serves: 4

Recipe Category: Dessert | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients

Milk - 2 litres

Rava - 3 tbsp

Sugar - 1/2 cup ( + or - as per your taste)

Ghee - 8 - 10 tbsp

Cardamom - 1/5 tsp

Saffron - a pinch (optional)

Lemon juice - few drops

Method to Prepare Milk Halwa

1. Fry the rava till light brown and keep it aside. Now start boiling the milk.

2. Keep stirring the milk and do this process until the milk comes to 1/3rd of its quantity.

3. Add the fried rava. Stir it. After 5 minutes add the sugar and mix well.

4. Now add the ghee. Then add lemon juice. Keep stirring till the milk comes to a consistency shown in below.

5. Now add the cardamom powder and mix well. Now hold the handle tightly and mix as the milk halwa becomes very thick.

6. At a stage, you may notice the ghee start oozing out from the halwa. This is the correct stage to switch off the stove.

7. Remove the Milk Halwa from the stove and serve hot. You can also store this halwa for 3 to 4 days when refrigerated.

Yummy Milk Halwa is ready. Do you want it??? 😊😊..

Notes:

1. Try to use non stick pan as it would be easy to stir.

2. Always use a thick and flat bottomed pan for making this halwa, so that milk thickens faster.

3. If you like, you can add your favorite nuts as toppings and serve it.

Tags: Milk Halwa Recipe, Paal Halwa Recipe, how to make Milk Halwa Recipe, Indian Dessert, Festival Recipe

Saturday, April 30, 2016

Mango Kalakhand Recipe

Kalakhand that too Mango Kalakhand, the name itself makes me drooling as I am big fan of Kalakhand recipe. I already have regular version of Kalakhand recipe and as I had remaining mangoes after preparing the mango raita, I decided to prepare Mango Kalakand. Also I am happy to share that this is my 500th post. I didn't prepare particularly for this. Just it came as a coincidence. 😊

Here are some other sweet recipes for you to check

Chocolate Burfi

Badam Halwa

Mango Halwa

Kalakhand

Paneer Jalebi

Mango Kalakhand

Preparation time: 5 min | Cook Time: 40 min | Serves: 9

Recipe Category: Dessert | Recipe Cuisine: North Indian

Ingredients
Mango Puree - 3/4 cup
Paneer / Cottage cheese - 3/4 cup
Koya - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup (adjust the sugar according to the sweetness of the mango)
Cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp
Ghee - 2 tsp + 1 tsp
Nuts of your choice - as your wish (like Cashews, pistachios, almonds, melon seeds)
Saffron for garnishing

Method

1. Keep all your ingredients ready. In a pan add the sugar and the mango puree.

2. When the sugar got dissolved well, check on the single string consistency. Add the crushed koya.

3. Koya also gets dissolved. Keep on stirring. When the koya slightly thickens, add the crumbled paneer.

4. The mixture starts to thicken to half the quantity. Add 2 tsp ghee at this stage and keep stirring. Add the cardamom powder.

5. Add the crushed nuts and keep stirring. It might take another 8 to 10 minutes in medium flame or check if the kalakhand is not sticking on the sides and ghee separates.

6. Keep mixing for another 5 minutes in slow flame. Meanwhile, take another vessel and spread 1 tsp of ghee and keep it ready. Now switch off the stove and transfer it to the ghee sprayed vessel.

7. Flatten it slightly and garnish with some more nuts and saffron.

8. Again flatten by pressing it using a butter paper for even surface. Let it rest for 1 hr. Remove the butter paper and cut into squares.

9. Serve the yummy Mango Kalakhand.

Tasty Mango Kalakhand is ready.

Notes:
1. My mangoes are not that much sweet so added more sugar. So check the sweetness of the mangoes and add sugar accordingly. If you have added more also, you can adjust by increasing the paneer or koya.
2. In 3rd and 4th step, while the mixture is boiling, it may get splashed on you. So be careful while stirring.
3. You need to keep on stirring to avoid the mixture get burnt.
4. I added only almonds. You can add any nuts of your choice.
5. If mango puree is not enough to dissolve the sugar, you can add little water.

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Monday, March 28, 2016

Bread Gulab Jamun | Gulab Jamun Recipe

I have not tried the Bread Gulab Jamun before and never expected this to be such an easy alternative to the original Gulab Jamun recipe. Even my mom is new to this and she also surprised by the result. I can definitely say, if you are a Gulab jamun fan, then this Bread Gulab Jamun is also a must try one.

Some other Sweet Recipes for you to check

Chocolate Burfi

Makkan Peda

Rava Kesari

Mango Halwa
Badam Halwa

Bread Gulab Jamun

Preparation time: 20 min | Cook Time: 20 min | Serves: 5

Recipe Category: Dessert | Recipe Cuisine: Indian

Ingredients

Bread - 8 pieces

Milk powder - 2 tbsp

Water - as needed

Baking Soda - a pinch

Oil for frying

For Sugar Syrup

Sugar - 1.5cups

Water - 2.5cups

Cardamom powder - 2 pinch

Saffron - few strands

Ghee - 1tbsp

Method to prepare Bread Gulab Jamun

1. Remove the sides of the bread and make them to small pieces.

2. Grind them nicely to a powder form and add the milk powder and the baking soda.

3. Add little amount of water and smash it to form a soft dough. Make them into equal sized balls ( small lemon size ). Let it rest for sometime.

4. Meanwhile, add sugar in a vessel and add water. When sugar starts to dissolve, add the saffron, cardamom powder and the ghee.

5. Now heat the oil and add the balls one by one. Keep the flame in low and Keep rotating the balls for smooth browning on all sides. When they become light brown colour. Remove from oil.

6. Place them in the hot sugar syrup and leave it for 15min for the balls to absorb sugar syrup.

7. Tasty and delicious Bread Gulab Jamuns are ready to be served.

So who wants this easy to prepare and yummy Bread Gulab Jamun

Notes:

1. I used milk bread for this. You can use any bread, but try to use unsalted one.
2. Roll the balls smoothly and not too tight. Because, while frying, the inner part might not cook properly, if you roll them tightly.
3. Keep the flame in low, while frying the balls for even cooking and keep rolling the balls.
4. Adding milk powder and cooking soda are purely optional.

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Friday, May 23, 2014

Chocolate burfi using khoya | How to make chocolate burfi using khoya | Chocolate khoya burfi | Diwali Sweets | Festival Sweets | Easy Indian Sweets

It's time for a celebration. Yes, I prepared this Chocolate burfi as my 400th Post. I was so happy. There are many fellow bloggers who blogs so frequently with great recipes. Though I could not post that frequently, I love my cooking, blogging and posting recipes, whenever I get time. I could not have achieved this without your support and appreciation. A big thank you for my family, all the fellow bloggers, my readers.

Actually this burfi I tried long before using this recipe here, and used home made khoya. But it didn't turn out well. So again I tried using store bought khoya and followed the same recipe but did not add milk, as my mom told, it might reduce the self life and the result was awesome and I was so happy. Will again try with homemade khoya some other time. Let's go to the recipe Chocolate Burfi using Khoya.

Chocolate Burfi using Khoya

Preparation time: 05 min | Cook Time: 30 min
Total Time: 35 min | Serves: 6

Recipe Category: Dessert | Recipe Cuisine: South Indian

Ingredients
Khoya - 250 gms (when crushed came to 2 1/4 cups)
Sugar - 1.5 cups
Ghee - 1/2 tsp (for greasing)
Cocoa powder - 1.5 tbsp
Crushed cardamom - 2 pinch ( optional )
Few Saffron and nuts for garnishing

Method

1. Grease a plate with 1/2 tsp ghee and keep it ready. Crush the khoya and divide half the portion and keep it aside. Add first portion to the medium hot pan. Add half of the sugar. Keep stirring. Sugar and khoya leaves out water and tend to stick to the pan so keep on stirring.

2. Add the cardamom powder mix well. Dont allow the mawa to turn brown. Just cook till it thickens and when it attains the thick consistency, transfer it to the greased plate and flatten it.

3. To the same pan, add the remaining portion of khoya, sugar and keep stirring. When it loosens, add the cocoa powder and mix well till it thickens.

4. Spread this content above the white layered khoya. Flatten it immediately. You can use any butter paper or baking sheet for this to get smooth top layer. I just used the spoon to do it. So mine is not that much smooth.

5. Allow to cool completely and using a pizza cutter or a knife, draw squares and cut into pieces.

6. Remove them carefully and serve them.

Yummy and tasty Chocolate Burfi is ready

Notes:

1. For richer taste, you can add 1/4 cup milk to the burfi, but it reduces its self life, also takes longer time to get the thick consistency.

2. This burfi can be stored for 3 days outside and 2 weeks in fridge.

3. Adding cardamom is purely optional. You can add a drop of vanilla essence also.

4. You can adjust the sugar level as per your sweet tooth.

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Monday, June 27, 2011

Celebrate Sweets - Stuffed Sweets - Round Up

Hi Friends,

First sorry for not posting for a long time that too, while conducting the event. Especially i want to ask sorry to Nivedita as i guest hosted her event and delayed in posting the round up. I was so busy, that i could not even sit in net. I had so many issues to get resolved in both personally and officially. Also, my second kid (1 and half yr), not allowing me to sit in net. So from morning 4, i worked to post the round up. so here comes the round up for Celebrate Sweets - Stuffed Sweets (which is also my 200th post)...

I want to thank all who have participated and also for giving support and encouragement without which i would have not reached this....