Malai Ladoo Recipe

Ingredients

1/2 cup condensed milk

250 gms. paneer (cottage cheese)

2-3 drops kewra essence

1/4 tsp. yellow colour

Method

1. Mash paneer. Add condensed milk and cook on slow flame, stirring continuously.

2. Cook till thick and sides leave. Add essence and remove from flame. Mix well.

6. Pour the mixture on plate. When the mixture cools down, make ladoos.

8. Sprinkle powdered elaichi and garnished with dry fruits.

Doodhi (lauki) Halwa Recipe

Ingredients

1 kg doodhi

1 1/2 litre milk

400-500 gm sugar

elaichi powder (cardomon)

saffron few flakes

1 tbsp ghee

Method

1. Peel and grate Dudhi.

2. Put milk and dudhi in a heavy saucepan. Boil till thick, stirring occassionally. 

3. Once it starts thickening, stir continuously. 

4. Add sugar and cook further till thickens. 

5. Add ghee, elaichi, saffron and colour. Stir on low heat till the mixture collects in a soft ball or the ghee oozes out. 

6. Serve hot, decorated with a chopped almond or pista.

How to cook phirni?

Ingredients
Coarsely ground rice – ½ cup
Green cardamom pods – 4 (crushed)
Milk – 3 ½ cup
Saffron strings – a pinch (optional)
Grated nutmeg – a pinch
Granulated sugar – 6 tbsp
Rose water – 1 tbsp
Crushed pistachio nuts and almonds to garnish – 2 tbs

Method
1. Dissolve saffron in 2 tsp of lukewarm milk and keep aside.
2. Heat 2 ½ cups of milk, ground rice and cardamom in a pan over medium flame.
3. Bring it to a boil stirring occasionally.
4. Add the remaining milk and stir over a medium flame for about 10 minutes or
5. until the rice mixture thickens to creamy consistency.
6. Stir in the sugar, nutmeg and saffron and continue to cook for a further 2 minutes.
7. Serve garnished with the nuts. You can add a few drops of rose water to give this sweet dish a divine flavor.

How to make kalakand mithai at home?

Ingredients
Sweetened condensed milk – 1 cup
Powdered Cardamom – 5
Paneer (cottage cheese) – 2 cup
Sliced almonds - 7

Method
1 Mix paneer (cottage cheese) with condensed milk.
2 Heat the above mixture in medium-low heat. Stir constantly while heating.
3 Continue until the mixture becomes thick.
4 Spread it on a greased plate.
5 Sprinkle cardamom powder and flaked almonds on the top.
6 Cool it and cut into square pieces.

How to make jalebi at home?

Jalebi

Ingredient                                                           
Refined flour – 2 cups
Sugar – 2 cups
Curd – 1 cup
Rose water – 4 tsp
Water – 3 cups
Ghee to deep fry
Green cardamom powder – 1 tsp
Saffron – 1 tsp
Baking powder – ½ tsp
Ground pistachio to garnish

Method
1 Make buttermilk by beating curd and 1 cup of water with a beater.
2 Sieve flour with baking powder 2-3 times.
3 Make a smooth batter by mixing buttermilk and the flour mixture.
4 Make sugar syrup of one thread consistency by boiling 2 cups of sugar and 2 cups of water and keep aside. Add rose water and saffron.
5 Now take a ketchup bottle with a hole on the top. Pour the batter in the bottle.
6 Heat ghee in a deep frying pan.
7 Now make jalebis by pouring the batter in the ghee. (Round, round and stop), on medium flame.
8 As soon as the jalebis are fried, dip them in the sugar syrup for 1-2 minutes.
9 Take them out one by one in a plate.
10 Serve hot garnished with cardamom powder and pistachio.

How to make rava (samolina) ladoo?

Ingredients
1 cup Rava/ Suji (samolina)
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 cup cashews
1/4 cup raisins
1/4 cup ghee
Cardamoms powder 1 tbs

Method
1. Dry roast rava for a few minutes till it is golden colour and flavour comes out. Grind the roasted rava to a smooth powder.
2. Mix the rava with powdered sugar.
3. Mix fried cashews and raisins to the rava and sugar mixture.
4. Peel cardamom skin, pound it and add it to the above mixture.
5. Pour hot ghee to the mixture and make small balls.