Sweet Recipes - Page 4
Mava Burfi Recipe
Ingredients
1. Khoya or mava (500gms)
2. powdered sugar (300gms)
3. edible silver foil (2sheets)
4. cardamom powder (1tsp)
Method of preparation:-
1. Take a bowl, mash the khoya in it and add sugar in the khoya. Mix it well. Take a heavy sauce pan, put the mixture of khoya and sugar in the pan.
2. Place the pan on slow flame and cook it by stirring continuously. Cook it until the mixture gets the soft lump. Now take off the pan from the heat and place the mixture on the working board and then roll with the rolling pin to ½ inch thickness.
3. Keep it to cool a little and then spread the silver foil very carefully on the working board. Now cut it in the desired size and shape with a knife. Usually the burfi is cut into 1 ½ inch squares. Sprinkle cardamom powder over it.
Makes – 25 pieces
Time required 1/2hour.
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Pedhas Recipe
Ingredients
1. Khoya (500gms)
2. sliced pista (8-10)
3. sugar (300gms)
4. cardamom powder (1/2tsp)
5. color as required (3drops)
6. cookie mould
Method of preparation:-
1. Take Khoya, grate it in a bowl. Take a frying pan, put the grated khoya and the powdered sugar in the pan and then mix together. Now cook on the low flame, stirring continuously.
2. Cook it until the mixture gets thicken. It should make a very soft lump. Keep it to cool about 10 minutes. Add cardamom powder and color in the mixture. Mix it properly.
3. Take some mixture in your fist and then make the small ball of this mixture. Take the cookie moulds and place the ball of khoya in it. Press it to give the shape.
4. Now take out the khoya from the mould very carefully and then press the 2-3 slices of pista on the centre of the khoya. Make more pedhas of the remaining mixture in the same way.
Makes – 36 pedhas
Time required – 1/2hour
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Coconut Burfi Recipe
Ingredients
1. Finely grated coconut (250gms)
2. water (150ml)
3. sugar (250gms)
4. ghee for greasing the plate
5. cardamom powder (for sprinkling)
Method of preparation:-
1. First make the syrup. Take a sauce pan, place it over heat. Add water and sugar in it and keep it for boiling until the syrup gets 2 ½ thread consistency.
2. Take a heavy sauce pan, warm the grated coconut in it and then pour the syrup in the pan. Stir it well and cook it until the soft lumps are formed.
3. Take a plate, grease it with oil and then spread the cooked coconut in the plate. Keep it to cool. Sprinkle the cardamom powder over the coconut according to your desire. When it gets cool then cut it into square shapes and then store in the airtight container.
Makes – 20- 25 pieces
Making time – 30 minutes
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Besan Burfi Recipe
Ingredients
1. Besan or gram flour (1c)
2. sugar (1c)
3. shortening (1c)
4. cardamom powder (1/2tsp)
5. nuts (optional)
Method of preparation:-
1. Take a pan, place it over heat. Put the shortening in the pan to melt it. When the shortening gets melted then reduce the heat to low and then add the cardamom and besan in the pan.
2. Fry the besan by stirring it constantly to avoid the besan from the burning. Fry the besan until it has changed its color to brown and the smell of frying the besan comes out. Now turn off the heat and then mix the sugar in it. Mix the besan and the sugar properly.
3. Take a flat dish or a platter and then spread the fried besan about ½ inch thick on the platter. Keep it to cool. Cut it into diamond shaped pieces after it has cooled out.
4. Now decorate the pieces with the chopped nuts. Arrange the pieces of besan burfi in a serving dish and then serve them.
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Double Ka Meetha (Bread Pudding) Recipe
Ingredients
1. Loaf bread (1small)
2. powdered cardamom (5)
3. milk (1lt)
4. saffron (10gm)
5. sugar (500gms)
6. soaked and finely chopped almonds (100gms)
7. double cream (250gms)
8. chopped and roasted cahew nuts (100gms)
9. clarified butter (250gms)
Method of preparation:-
1. Take bread slices and cut each bread slices into four pieces. Fry them in the ghee or clarified butter until turns golden brown.
2. Make the sugar syrup by boiling water with sugar for about 15 minutes. Add the saffron and the powdered cardamom dissolved in the milk to the sugar syrup. Boil the milk until it gets thickened.
3. Take a flat tray, place the fried pieces of bread on it and then sprinkle the chopped nuts on them. Pour the sugar syrup, double cream and milk one by one over the bread pieces while they are hot. Cool it and then place it in the refrigerator. Serve the bread pudding as a dessert.
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Raabdi Recipe
Ingredients
1. Whole flour or wheat flour (1c)
2. ghee or unsalted butter (4tbsp)
3. sugar (6-7 tbsp)
4. milk (4c)
5. chopped pistachio nuts (1tbsp)
6. raisins (1tbsp)
7. chopped almonds (1tbsp)
Method of preparation:-
1. Take a pan, place it over heat. Then take unsalted butter and melt it in the pan on mild flame for about few minutes or until to prepare ghee from the butter.
2. Take 1 cup of sieved wheat flour and put it in the pan of ghee or melted butter. Stir the flour continuously until it turns very light brown in color. You can smell the aroma around while roasting the flour in the ghee.
3. Now add milk to the wheat flour and then add the sugar to the mixture. Stir the mixture continuously and cook it for about 10 -15 minutes on mild flame until it just becomes little bit thick.
4. Be careful about the mixture it should not be too thick. When it gets ready then garnish it with the chopped pistachios, raisins and almonds. Serve it in the serving dish.
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Cheesy Sweet Jamuns Recipe
Ingredients
1. Puffed rice, washed and soaked in water for 2 hours (150gms)
2. oil for frying
3. baking powder (1/4tsp)
4. mava (60gms)
For stuffing:-
1. Grated amul cheese (90gms)
2. sugar (100gms)
3. grated coconut (2tsp)
4. mava (90gms)
5. chopped cashew nuts (1tbsp)
6. chopped chironji (1tsp)
7. chopped raisins (1tbsp)
For syrup:-
1. Sugar (200gms)
2. rose essence (2tsp)
3. water (3c)
4. cardamom powder (1/2tsp)
5. milk (1tbsp)
6. silver foil for the decoration
Method of preparation:-
1. First make the syrup boiling water with the sugar. Add milk in it to remove the scum from its surface. When the syrup gets ready then take off the pan from the heat and flavor it with essence and cardamom powder. Keep it aside.
2. Take a frying pan, place it over heat. Cook the mava in it for stuffing in it until it turns golden brown. Add the other ingredients and mix them well and then make the small balls of this mixture. Keep them aside.
3. Drain out the puffed rice from the water and mix with the ingredients for jamuns except oil. Knead the mixture properly and then make the balls of this mixture. Flatten out the puffed rice balls and place the mava ball on it. Fold over and close the sides.
4. Put them in hot oil for deep frying until turn’s dark brown. Drain them and dip them in warm syrup for an hour. Decorate them with silver foil and serve them warm.
Make about – 24 jamuns
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Motichoor Ladoo Recipe
Ingredients
For boondi:-
1. Gram flour (21/2c)
2. ghee for deep frying (3c)
3. milk (500ml)
4. cardamom powder (1/2ts)
5. a fine holed shallow strainer spoon
For syrup:-
1. Water (31/2c)
2. sugar (21s/2c)
3. milk (2tbsp)
4. few drops of saffron (kesri) color
Method of preparation:-
1. First make the syrup by boiling water and sugar in a vessel. When the sugar gets dissolve then adds milk in it. Boil it for 5 minutes until the scum forms on the top.
2. Strain it and again place it on fire, add saffron color and boil it until it becomes sticky. Add the cardamom powder and mix it and then keep it aside. Now take a bowl, mix flour and milk in it to make a smooth batter.
3. Take a heavy frying pan, place it over heat. Heat the ghee in it. Take a strainer; hold it on the top with one hand. With the other hand pour some batter all over the holes. Tap the strainer gently until all the batter has fallen into the ghee. Fry them and take out from the Kadhai when they turn golden.
4. Drain them and keep them aside. Make more boondis in the same way. Then immerse the boondis in the syrup and then drain the excess syrup.
5. Place them in a plate and sprinkle few teaspoon of hot water over the boondis. Cover them and keep them for 5 minutes and then shape them in laddoos. Cool them before storing in the container.
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Jalebi Recipe
Ingredients
1. Refined flour (300gms)
2. sugar (500gms)
3. green cardamom powder (1/2tsp)
4. soda bi-carb (1tsp)
5. curd or yogurt (optional)
6. color (opt.)
7. ghee for frying
Method of preparation:-
1. Take a bowl, mix flour, yogurt and soda in it. Add some water in it to make a batter. Cover the bowl and leave the batter for overnight to ferment. Neat day mix the batter and add water if required to make the batter in the pouring consistency.
2. Take a pan, place it over heat and make the sugar syrup in it with the equal quantity of sugar and water. Add green cardamom in it and cook it for about 20 -25 minutes. Add food color in it.
3. Take a kadhai, place it over heat. Heat the ghee in it for frying.Take a jalebi cloth or a stiff cloth with a whole in it, pour the batter into the cloth and then pour it into the hot ghee giving the jalebi shapes.
4. Fry them from both sides and drain them and then keep them in the sugar syrup for about 5 minutes before the serving.
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Mango Shrikhand Recipe
Mango Shrikhand
Ingredients
1. Home made curd or plain unflavored yogurt (1 container or 16 oz)
2. mixed dry fruits (1/2tbsp)
3. sugar (1/2c)
4. sliced pistachios (1tsp)
5. mango pulp (8oz)
6. cardamom powder (1/2tsp)
Method of preparation:-
1. Take a bowl, put yogurt and sugar in it. Whip it until it gets smooth and creamy. Take a piece of clean muslin cloth then strain the mixture of yogurt and sugar through it to remove all liquid.
2. Now take the mango pulp and strain it in the same way through the muslin cloth to remove the most of the liquid. Now mix the cardamom powder in the strained mango pulp.
3. Take a large container, pour the strained mango pulp into it and then chill it in the refrigerator for about 3-4 hours. When it gets chilled then serve it in dessert bowl. Garnish it with pistachios and dry fruits.
Number of servings – 2
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