Diwali Special Sweetmeats - Pinni

Posted by All Recipes Blog on 10th October 2006
pinni.jpgIngredients:

  • 225 gms Sugar
  • 500 gms Khoya
  • 100 gms Dry fruits
  • 400 gms Urad Daal
  • 200 gms Desi Ghee
Method:
  1. Soak the dal for 4-6 hours. Wash, drain and grind it to a thick fine paste using as little water as possible.
  2. Heat ghee in a wok. Add the dal paste and cook on medium flame, stirring frequently.
  3. When the paste dries up, get light brown and the ghee separates remove it from fire. Spread on a plate.
  4. Roast khoya.
  5. Mix together the dal, khoya, sugar, dry fruits. Sprinkle over little milk, lub the mixture and make pinnis by parsing a fist full of mixture tightly together.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats - Kalakand

Posted by All Recipes Blog on 10th October 2006
kalakand1.jpgIngredients:

  • 5 kg Milk
  • 300 gms Sugar
  • 2-3 drops Lemon Juice
  • Pistachios for garnishing
  • 200 gms Cardamom Powder
Method:
  1. Boil milk in a pan, add sugar and few drops of lemon juice and simmer till thick.
  2. Add cardamom powder and keep aside for cooling.
  3. After 2-3 hours spread the thickened milk on a tray.
  4. Let it set and cut into squares.
  5. Garnish with pistachios.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats - Anjeer Burfi

Posted by All Recipes Blog on 10th October 2006
anjeerburfi.jpgIngredients:

  • 1 kg Anjeer
  • 600 gms Sugar
  • 150 gms Almonds
  • 100 gms Pistachios
  • 200 gms Desi Ghee
  • 200 gms Cashewnuts
Method:
  1. Mix all the ingredients and heat in a pan until a paste is formed.
  2. Pour into a tray, let it cool and settle down.
  3. After it cools down cut into pieces and serve.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats - Kancha Gola

Posted by All Recipes Blog on 10th October 2006
kanchagola.jpgIngredients:

  • 2 ltr Milk
  • Cardamon Powder
  • 200 gms Cornflour
  • 1600 gms Sugar Powder
Method:
  1. Boil the milk; add citric acid powder and simmer.
  2. When the milk curdles take the pan off the heat and separate the whey from the curdled residue.
  3. Hang it in a muslin cloth and let it drip and make cottage cheese from it.
  4. Cut the cottage cheese into small pieces.
  5. Mix the sugar powder, cornflour and the cheese and heat in a pan until it binds.
  6. Take out the mixture from a pan and make small ladoos of it after it cool down.
  7. Sprinkle some cardamom powder over it before serving

Diwali Special Sweetmeats - Chenna Murgi

Posted by All Recipes Blog on 10th October 2006
chennamurgi.jpgIngredients:

  • Sugar Syrup
  • Rose Essence
  • 2 ltr Cow Milk
Method:
  1. Boil the milk; add citric acid powder and simmer.
  2. When the milk curdles, take the pan off the flame and separate the whey, from the curdled residue.
  3. Hang it in a muslin cloth and let it drip and make cottage cheese from it.
  4. Cut the cottage cheese into small pieces.
  5. Heat the sugar syrup in a pan and dip these pieces in it for around 15 minutes.
  6. Keep it heating and slowly pour 4 ltr of water into it.
  7. Take the pieces out of the pan and dip again in cold rose essence sugar syrup.
  8. Now take it out and garnish it with pista and all.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats - Besan Burfi

Posted by All Recipes Blog on 10th October 2006
besanburfi.jpgIngredients:

  • 250 gms Besan
  • 300 ml Desi Ghee
  • 250 gms Powdered Sugar
Method:
  1. Heat oil in a heavy bottom wok and add gram Flour.
  2. Cook on slow fire stirring constantly till besan changes colour and you can smell the fragrance of roasted besan.
  3. Add sugar and pour over greased tray.
  4. Allow to set.
  5. Cut into diamond shapes.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats - Moong Daal Burfi

Posted by All Recipes Blog on 10th October 2006
moongdaalburfi.jpgIngredients:

  • 250 ml Milk
  • 250 gms Sugar
  • 2 Silver Sheets
  • 200 gms Desi Ghee
  • Chopped Dry fruits
  • 250 gms Moong daal
Method:
  1. Soak the daal overnight.
  2. Rub and wash it, removing the outer green skin.
  3. Drain the daal and grind it to a thick paste using little water.
  4. Heat ghee in wok. Add the paste and fry it on a medium flame.
  5. When the moisture dries, the daal turns light pink and the fat separates, add the sugar.
  6. Stir and keep sprinkling milk over.
  7. When the sugar dissolves and the mixture becomes thick and semi solid remove it from the fire.
  8. Spread down evenly on a greased metal tray. Decorate with dry fruits and silver sheets.
  9. Cut into desired shapes.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats - Petha

Posted by All Recipes Blog on 10th October 2006
petha.jpgIngredients:

  • 800 gms Sugar
  • 1 tsp Rose Water
  • ½ tsp Alum powder
  • 1 kg White Pumpkin
  • 3-4 drops Kewda essence
  • 2 tsp Kitchen Lime (chuna)
Method:
  1. Dissolve alum in half cup water and keep aside.
  2. Dissolve lime in 1 litre water, strain with a clean cloth, twice if required.
  3. Peel pumpkin, discard seeds, mushy centre and cut into pieces/squares.
  4. Prick all over with a metal skewer or fork.
  5. Put pieces in lime water. Soak for 2-3 hrs.
  6. Drain, wash under clean running water for 2-3 minutes.
  7. Put in a bowl, sprinkle alum water, shake to coat all pieces evenly.
  8. Boil some fresh water. Add the pieces to boiling water until they are kind of transparent.
  9. Make a syrup of sugar and water, till 2 1/2 thread consistency.
  10. Put transparent pumpkin pieces in syrup, boil till syrup becomes thick again.
  11. Keep covered with a mesh, overnight. Keep moving the pieces every hour.
  12. Take out the pieces and boil the chasni and again make the chasni of 2tar (do not add extra water or sugar).
  13. Add the pieces back and reboil for 3-4 minutes.
  14. Drain out excess syrup, sprinkle essence and rose water.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats - Rava Kesari

Posted by All Recipes Blog on 10th October 2006
rava_kesari.jpgIngredients:

  • ½ cup Milk
  • 4 tblsp Ghee
  • 1½ cups Water
  • 2 tbsp Sultanas
  • 1 cup Semolina
  • 1 cup Caster Sugar
  • 1 tsp ground Cardamom
  • 24 Blanched Slmonds, toasted
  • 2 tbsp Silvered Almonds, toasted
Method:
  1. Combine sugar, water, milk and cardamom in medium pan, stir over heat, without boiling, until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat.
  2. Heat ghee in another medium pan; cook semolina, stirring for 1 minute or until semolina is well coated in ghee and has just changed colour.
  3. Stir milk mixture into semolina, cook, stirring, until mixture thickens and leaves side of pan. Stir in sultanas and silvered almonds.
  4. Spread mixture into prepared pan; score top to make diamond shapes, then centre blanched almonds in each diamond. Cover, refrigerate until firm.

Diwali Special - Phirni

Posted by All Recipes Blog on 10th October 2006
phirni.jpgIngredients:

  • 50 gm Rice
  • 1 litre Milk
  • Rose Water
  • ¼ kg Sugar
  • 2 tbsp Water
  • 50 gm Kishmish
  • 2 tbsp Orange juice
  • 2 tbsp sliced Pistachio
  • 2 tbsp Blanched Almond
  • ½ tsp Cardamom powder
  • ¼ tsp Kesar, soaked in 1 tbsp water
Method:
  1. Bring milk to a boil.
  2. Soak rice in water for 30 minutes and grind to a paste.
  3. Add to milk with sugar.
  4. Whisk over a moderate flame until the mixture thickens and is well reduced.
  5. Stir in saffron and rose water.
  6. Soak kishmish in orange juice and arrange over base of serving dish.
  7. Pour the phirni over it. Chill well.
  8. Decorate with nuts before serving.