Shrikhand

This Shrikhand is prepared long before but did not find time to edit and post. Since this is my 250th post, I thought this will be apt time to post this. Due to time constraint, could not do a special recipe this moment.

Here goes the recipe...

Ingredients

• Thick Curd - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1/2 cup (can increase according to taste)
• Saffron - a pinch
• Milk - 2 tsp
• Pistachios - few

Method

• Filter the thick curd in a muslin cloth.

• Hung it for 3 to 4 hrs. Overnight would be better.
• Soak saffron in milk for 1/2 hour.

• Now add the hung curd and mix with sugar and grind well.
• Now add the saffron added milk, and again grind to a smooth paste.

• Transfer to a bowl and garnish with pistachios and saffron and serve. 

Mango Rice / Mangai Saatham

I want to prepare this mango rice for a long time and now only got the time. My mom used to prepare this when she gets a chance. She add turmeric to the rice and it becomes light yellowish rice. But here, I have not added, since i wanted it to be with the natural colour itself. 

Ingredients

• Cooked rice - 2 cups
• Raw Mango - 1
• Onion - 1
• Mustard seeds - 2 pinch
• Urud dal/black gram - 1/2 tsp
• Chana dal/Bengal gram - 1 tsp
• Green Chillies - 2 (chopped finely)
• Curry leaves - few (10 to 15)
• Cashew nuts - 10 to 12
• Ghee - 1/2 tsp
• Oil - 1 tsp

Method

• Grate the raw mango.

• Cut onion lengthwise.
• In a kadai/wok, add oil and when hot add mustard seeds, urud dal, chana dal and fry till light brown colour.

• Add the curry leaves and onion and green chillies.
• Fry till onion becomes translucent.
• Now add the grated mango and fry for another 2 min.

• Add the cooked rice and mix well.
• In another small pan, add ghee and cashews and fry till it becomes slight brown colour.

• Now transfer the fried cashews with ghee to the mango rice and mix well and serve.

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Mango Halwa

Some of my blogger friends might think, why I am posting all mango recipes. The reason is simple as my father and uncle family came from India and brought lots of raw and ripe mangoes. Before they get wasted, I want to use them all. So, I request my friends to kindly bare with me with some more mango recipes to come...

Ingredients

• Ripe Mango - 2
• Sugar - 3/4th cup (if mango is more sweet, reduce the sugar by 1/2 cup)
• Ghee - 3 tsp
• Nuts - Cashews - 10 n  Pistachios - 15

Method

• Make mango puree by grinding in mixie.

• In a flat bottomed pan or kadai, add puree and sugar and star mixing.

• When it is reduced to half its quantity, add 2 tsp ghee.

• In another small pan, add 1 tsp ghee and the nuts and fry for few minutes or until it becomes golden colour.
• Add the fried nuts to the manga halwa.

• Keep on stirring until the ghee, separates out from the mixture and it becomes to the thick texture as shown below.

• Pour the halwa to the greased plate and leave it for 2 to 3 hour or until it cools down completely.

• Cut into squares and serve.

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Mango Icecream

Since I have bought many mangoes, I prepared mango ice-cream and mango milkshake. We will see the easy mango ice-cream today and mango milkshake soon in the coming posts.

Ingredients

• Ripe Mango - 2
• Condensed Milk - 1 can
• Milk - 1/2 litre
• Corn starch - 1 tsp
• Sugar - if needed

Method

• Wash and cut the ripe mangoes.

• Make it a mango puree by grinding it smoothly.

• In a big pan, add the milk and condensed milk and mix well.

• To this add the mango puree.

• If sugar is needed, add it as required.
• Mix the corn starch with 2 tsp water and add to the boiling mixture.
• After adding the corn starch, the mixture starts thickening.

• Switch off and allow to cool.

• Pour the mixture in a big tray and keep in freezer.

• After  1 hr, take the tray and again mix the mixture and keep it again in freezer and repeat this process 3 to 4 time every 1 hr interval.
• Then leave it overnight.
• Next day delicious mango icecream is ready to be served.

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Mango Mania 99

Lets cook - Kids Secial

Only Mango by pari and Anu

Mango Pickle - Instant / Mangai Urukai

When anybody say pickle, the first thing I will ask is, whether it is Mango Pickle... Because I love it so much. My Mom does not used to prepare only this easy one whenever I ask for pickles. This is very easy and tastes great always. But whenever I prepare this, it will not last long, as I will finish it, in 2 days maximum....

Ingredients

• Raw Mango - 2
• Chilli powder - 1 tsp
• Salt - 1/2 tsp
• Fenugreek seeds - 1/2 tsp
• Mustard seeds - 2 pinch
• Urud dal/Black gram - 1 tsp
• Oil- 3 tsp
• Asafoetida - 2 pinch
• Curry leaves - few

Method

• Wash the raw mango.

• Cut the mango into small small pieces, as shown in the picture.

• Keep it in sun for 20 to 30 mts or in a dry place in order to dry it for 1 hr.

• Add the Chilli powder and salt and mix well.

• Mean while, dry roast the fenugreek seeds and powder it.
• In a small pan, add oil, mustard seeds, when it splutters add, urud dal, fenugreek powder and asafoetida and curry leaves.

• Add this mixture to the mango pieces.

• Mix well and store it in a air tight container or start eating as I do. 

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