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Showing posts with label Sweets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sweets. Show all posts

August 16, 2009

PuriLaddu


Ingredients:
Wheat flour - 1 kg
Sugar - 3 cups
Ghee - 2 cups
Cardamom - 6 or 7
Cashewnuts - handful

Preparation:
1.Make puri dough with water and wheat flour.
2.Prepare very thin puris or else it will not be crispy
3.Fry these puris in oil till golden brown and crispy.
4.Crush these puris with hand as far as possible.
5.Grind the crushed puris in a blender into very fine powder.
6.Grind sugar into fine powder along with cardamom.
7.In a large pan add ghee and fry cashew nuts till golden brown.
8.Now mix very well puri powder, sugar and ghee with cashew nuts and proceed making laddus.
9.Stays fresh for a week or so when refrigerated

August 07, 2009

Carrot Halwa







Ingredients:
Carrot grated – 2 cups
Ghee - 2-3 tbs
Sugar – 1-1/2 cups
Cardamom – 2 no.s
Milk – 2 cups
Cashewnuts – 10 no.s
Raisins – 8 no.s

Preparation:
1.Heat ghee in a pan. Add sugar, cardamom. Keep stirring it until sugar melts.
2.Once sugar gets melted , add grated carrot.
3.Stir well for about 5 min then add Milk.
4.Let it cook for 20 min on low flame.
6.Garnish with fried (in ghee) cashew nuts, raisins.
7.Serve this hot or cold.

July 25, 2009

Gavvalu (South Indian Delicious Sweet)


Ingredients:
Maida - 1/2 Kg
Ghee - 4 tbsp
Cardamon Powder - 1 tsp
Jaggery or Sugar as required (According to your taste)
Oil for frying

Preparation:
1. Add the ghee to the maida Mix well with warm water to make soft dough.
2. Now take small balls of the dough and spread it on gavvala peeta or a fork and turn it. Once, they all are done fry them in oil until golden brown.
3. Put the water and jaggery/sugar and make syrup add cardamom powder to it.
4. Let the syrup become thick (boil for 20 minutes) , Once it is thick add the gavvalu to it , remove from stove and cool.