Diwali Special Sweetmeats – Sohan Papdi

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sohanpapdi.jpgIngredients:

  • 1¼ cup Besan
  • 2 tbsp Milk
  • ¼ kg Ghee
  • 1¼ cup Maida
  • 2½ cups Sugar
  • 1½ cups Water
  • ½ tsp Cardamom seeds
Method:
  1. Sift both flours together. Then heat Ghee in a pan.
  2. Add flour mixture and roast on low heat till light golden. Keep aside to cool a little, stirring occasionally.
  3. Make syrup out of sugar. Pour at once into the flour mixture.
  4. Beat well with a large fork till the mixture forms thread like flakes. Pour onto a greased surface or thali and roll to 1″ thickness lightly.
  5. Sprinkle the cardamom seeds and gently press down with palm.
  6. Cool, cut into squares, Store in airtight container.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats – Kaju Katli

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kajukatli.jpgIngredients:

  • Silver leaf
  • 1 tsp Cornflour
  • 1/3 tsp Rose essence
  • 100 gms Cashewnuts
  • 80 gm Sugar, powdered
Method:
  1. Soak cashewnuts in water, for 1-2 hours. Drain and grind them to a fine paste on a grinding stone, using as little water as possible.
  2. Mix together the sugar and cashew paste. Cook in a kadai on medium flame, for about 8-10 minutes.
  3. When the mixture thickens, reduce the flame and keep stirring. Sprinkle cornflour, stir well, and remove from fire.
  4. Immediately, mix in the rose essence and quickly turn on to a greased marble or wooden surface.
  5. Roll it thin with a greased roller. Spread the silver sheet over and cut into diamond shaped katlis.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats – Mysore Pak

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mysorepak.jpgIngredients:

  • 2 cups Ghee
  • 1 cup Besan
  • 2 cups Sugar
Method:
  1. Grease a plate evenly with ghee and set aside.
  2. Heat 1 cup of ghee, add besan, stir well and keep aside.
  3. Heat sugar on a low flame, add sufficient water and boil to make a syrup of one-string consistency. Strain syrup to remove scum.
  4. Add the besan-ghee mixture to the sugar syrup and keep stirring on low flame to remove lumps, if any.
  5. Heat the remaining cup of ghee. Gradually add the ghee to the sugar syrup mixture and keep stirring till the ghee separates and floats on top.
  6. When done, pour quickly into the greased plate and shake the plate gently to spread the mixture.
  7. Let it cool for a few minutes and cut into pieces with a sharp greased knife.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats – Sohan Halwa

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sohanhalwa.jpgIngredients:

  • 1 cup Milk
  • 1 kg Sugar
  • 1 tsp Kesar
  • 2 litre Water
  • 500 gm Ghee
  • 100 gm Pistachio
  • 250 gm Almonds
  • 50 gm Cardamom
  • 500 gm Cornflour or Maida
Method:
  1. Heat half of the water, add sugar and boil for 5 minutes.
  2. Add 1 cup milk and boil for 5 minutes. Strain it through a muslin bag or thin cloth.
  3. Dissolve the cornflour/maida in a little water. Add the remaining water and sugar syrup.
  4. Dissolve 1 tsp kesar in warm water. Add to the cornflour mixture and cook over low flame.
  5. When cornflour becomes thick , add 1 tbsp ghee. Continue adding Ghee slowly during cooking to prevent it from sticking to the pan. Stir it well.
  6. As Ghee separates from the mixture. Add almonds, pistachio & cardamoms.
  7. Grease a pan or tray with oil. Spread Halwa in it.
  8. Garnish with almonds, pistachio and cardamoms. As it cools down, cut it into pieces and serve.
  9. Serves 6

Diwali Special Sweetmeats – Balushahi

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balushahi.jpgIngredients:

  • 250 gm Curd
  • 500 gm Ghee
  • 500 ml Water
  • 500 gm Sugar
  • 500 gm Maida
  • Pinch of Baking powder
  • 4 tbsp chopped Pistachio
Method:
  1. Mix maida with curd and 3 tbsp of ghee. Knead it soft.
  2. Make small portions of the mixture (round) and flatten it with thumb impression in the center.
  3. Heat ghee in a pan and fry the small portions untill they turn medium brown.
  4. Prepare sugar syrup by boiling the sugar in water till it becomes a syrup of one thread consistency.
  5. Dip the Balushahi in the syrup and immediately remove it in a plate.
  6. Garnish it with chopped pistachios.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats – Rasgullas

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rasgulla.jpgIngredients:

  • ½ litre Milk
  • Rose Water
  • 2 tsp Maida
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • Lemon juice
  • 1 cup Water
Method:
  1. Heat milk in a pan and bring it to boil. Remove from heat.
  2. Add lemon juice.
  3. Stir slowly and gently until white curd forms on the surface and separates from whey.
  4. Strain this milk and you will get chenna(curd like).
  5. Wash chenna well under cold running water and twist the cloth that was used for straining to extract water.
  6. Knead chenna to make a smooth dough. Add flour and knead again.
  7. Make small balls of equal size (6-7) of the dough and keep aside.
  8. Mix sugar and water in a saucepan and bring it to boil till it becomes a syrup of one thread consistency.
  9. Add chenna balls to the syrup and cook for 15 minutes with lid partially covered. Chenna dumplings will puff up.
  10. On cooling, add rose water. Refrigerate and serve chilled.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats – Gulab Jamuns

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gulabjamun.jpgIngredients:

  • 1 cup Milk
  • Rose Water
  • 2 tbsp Ghee
  • ½ cup Maida
  • 250 gm Sugar
  • 1½ cup Water
  • 250 gm Khoya
  • Oil for deep frying
  • A pinch of Baking powder
Method:
  1. Mix melted ghee with maida using finger tips to blend evenly.
  2. Now mix baking powder with little milk.
  3. Crumble khoya and mix with maida. Knead like a thick chapatti dough, sprinkling just required milk. Mix well so that the dough doesn”t break while making balls.
  4. Make small balls and keep under a wet cloth.
  5. Mix sugar, water and heat till sugar melts, stirring constantly. Boil till syrup becomes sticky.
  6. Add rose water after removing from fire.
  7. Heat oil in a karahi (wok) till it becomes moderately hot. Deep fry few balls at a time till dark brown.
  8. Dip these fried balls in warm sugar syrup.

Diwali Special Sweetmeats – Pinni

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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

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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

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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.