DatesKheer

Dates Kheer:

Kheer is nothing but payasa, sweet which is made either of semolina or of any other ingredient with milk. It can be made instantly and ingredients are also too short. I just added dates to it.

On account of yesterday holiday and tomorrow holiday I am on leave today also. J Hence made dates milk shake, but as I had to take Aditya to doctor due to some allergy plan got changed. Suddenly it flashed, I can just do kheer in the afternoon adding dates milk shake. Yummy, it gave me very good company in my children lunch today.

Ingredients:

• Semolina – 1 cup
• Sugar – 1 cup
• Milk – 2 cups
• Dates – 5 to 6 nos (used fruit not the dried ones)
• Ghee – 2 tsp

Method:

• Soak dates in water for an hour
• Add milk, sugar and dates and blend it together to get a milk shake
• Add ghee in a thick bottomed vessel
• Roast semolina and keep it aside
• Add dates milk shake and allow it to boil
• Add roasted semolina and allow it to become soft/cooked
• Serve it

Submitting this to:Blogging Marathon @ Spice your Life by Srivalli

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 12

This also makes an entry to

Kid's Delight - Something Sweet at Edible Entertainment by Kavitha Iyengar and this series were started by Srivalli in her blog.

New "U" event hosted by Vardhini.

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UradDhalHalwa

Urad Dhal Halwa:

I came across this sweet in Nayna Kanbar's blog (simply.food) I had bookmarked this sweet for a longer time. When I had paired with Nayna during Blog Hop Wednesday ver 2.0 started by Radhika on her blog (tickling palates) for Jan 2012.

Only modification I did to this is the shape, rest all remains the same.

Ingredients:

Wet Halwa

• Urad  Dhal - 1cup
• Chopped Coconut - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1cup
• Cardamom Powder - 2 tsp
• Saffron - 3 num
• Milk - a little
• Ghee - 4 tsp

Method:

Fry urad dhal till reddish brown and allow it cool

Add roasted urad dhal, chopped coconut and sugar and blend it

Add ghee in a kadai when it melts add the ground powder

Urad Dhal Halwa

Roast it well so that we can get nice aroma

Add milk to it and put it on a greased plate

Once its warm cut it into pieces

Put it in an airtight container and eat it

Preparation Time: 10 mins

Cooking Time: 20 mins

Yielded: 20 pieces

Submitting this to:Blogging Marathon @ Spice your Life by Srivalli

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 12

This also makes an entry to

Kid's Delight - Something Sweet at Edible Entertainment by Kavitha Iyengar and this series were started by Srivalli in her blog.

New "U" event hosted by Vardhini.

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Dark Chocolate Milk Shake

Dark Chocolate Milk Shake:

I planned to prepare puriundai (might be my next recipe) but ended up preparing dark chocolate milk shake in office. :(.

Great thing I did yesterday is, I informed my hubby somehow stating that I like my blog which motivates me to cook/make/bake new things and asked him to cooperate my work. Reason is, my little son has become a nightmare for me, he doesn't sleep nor he lets anybody sleep (including my older son). As my mom-in-law would have cooked something in the afternoon and very rarely I  get a chance to cook something, great thing I do is cook rice in the evening which will hardly take 5 minutes. I need to put this guy to sleep and then prepare whatever I would have planned.

In the early morning, once I got up, my little son also got up and as it was just dosa chutney had to be done. Good my mom-in-law did a new chutney and the recipe will be out shortly.

In the office today I was supposed to have some training and instead of keeping my blog readers wait i just thought a dark chocolate milk shake can also serve as a sweet as we had sugar to it. Please pass your valuable comments if it can be considered under sweet or not.

This is going to be my 3rd day in Blogging Marathon under 2nd week event. As you are aware my group is "Kid's Delight - Something Sweets" for this week.

Ingredients:

B&W Photo

• Dark Chocolate - 4 pieces (one chocolate will have 8 pieces)
• Butter - 1 tsp
• Milk - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1
• Fruits of your taste (just to make you have a good breakfast)

Method:

• Melt butter in microwave
• Add dark chocolate to them and melt them in oven
• Add milk, sugar and heat it for a  moment so that chocolate mixes well with milk
• Take a bowl for fruits add your desired fruits. I have added musk melon and pineapple.
• Click a pic and have the milk shake with fruits. :)
• Post it after tasting the milk shake.

Submitting this to:Blogging Marathon @ Spice your Life by Srivalli

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 12

This also makes an entry to

Kid's Delight - Something Sweet at Edible Entertainment by Kavitha Iyengar and this series were started by Srivalli in her blog.

Bake Fest @ Pumpkinfarmfood by Pradnya started @ Zesty Palette by Vardhini.

New "U" event hosted by Vardhini.

MEC series by Kalyani started by Srivalli on Cooking4allseasons. 









Breakfast Club Jan'12 series hosted Aimée @ Food, Je t'Aimée which was started by Helen
 

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AlmondBreadGolls

AlmondBreadGolls:

It gives me immense pleasure to treat my blog readers who are making me successful in a very short time from the time I restarted my blog.

Golls or balls made out of almond and cashewnut powder and kept inside bread and baked for 2 minutes in microwave oven.

Ingredients:

• Wheat Bread Slice - 4
• Maida Bread Slice - 1
• Almond - 4
• Cashewnut - 2
• Sugar - 4 tsp
• Ghee / Clarified butter - 2 tsp
• Spraying Oil (to spray on the bread so that it doesn't get burnt)

Method:

• Blend almond, cashewnut to a coarse powder 
• Cut the sides of a bread (bread crumbs) and put little ghee on both sides of it
• Keep the ghee in microwave for 1 minute so that it would become thin 

• Add blended powder, sugar to ghee and mix and keep it for 1 minute so that it gets mixed well

• Now take the bread as a cup shape and put the mixture on to it

• Nicely cover the bread with little water or with ghee and spray some oil on the bread
• Keep it in oven again for 2 more minutes so that the bread gets roasted. 

• Take it out from the oven and allow it to cool
• Take the bread crumbs into a glass, add some milk and sugar

• Serve both the dishes almond bread golls and bread crumbs mixture

Submitting this to:Blogging Marathon @ Spice your Life by Srivalli

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 12

Submitting this also to:

Bake Fest @ Pumpkinfarmfood by Pradnya started @ Zesty Palette by Vardhini.

New "U" event hosted by Vardhini.

MEC series by Kalyani started by our BM preacher Srivalli on Cooking4allseasons.

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Rasayana-Sekarni

Rasayana/Banana Sekarni:

It gives me immense pleasure to participate in this week of BM also. It’s my second week of blogging marathon. And my group is and this time my group is “Seven different sweets”. Chey, that was the name given by me, but the group name is "Kid's Delight - Something Sweet". Why only kids will sweets is it, not me :), I mean elders.
 

When it comes to sweet, I am mad of all sweets but my hubby doesn’t eat so I prepare it only at times. L But as blogging marathon is giving a new shape to my blog and its posts. I thought let me take up this challenge. And this time I don’t want to miss any day including Saturday and Sunday.

Ingredients:

• Ripped Bananas (chopped) – 2
• Coconut (grated) – 1/2
• Sugar – 3 tbsp
• Cardamom Powder – 1 tsp
• Honey – 1 tsp
• Milk – 50 ml (optional) or according to your taste

Method:

• Chop the bananas and put it in a bowl
• Grate the coconut and add it to bananas along with sugar, cardamom powder, honey
• Pour milk and mix them nicely
• Leave it for atleast half an hour, so that it would nicely mixed and tastes better
• Serve it with puris/chappatis or eat directly

Additional Info:

• This sekarni can be made it of mangoes also. Add little custard powder and one more taste is ready.

NOTE: Sweets are healthy when it is prepared with Jaggery, as it is unrefined one, Sugar is a refined one, and it should be less used in sweets. 

Submitting this to:Blogging Marathon @ Spice your Life by Srivalli

Check out the Blogging Marathon page for the other Blogging Marathoners doing BM# 12

This is also submitted to:

Kid's Delight - Something Sweet at Edible Entertainment by Kavitha Iyengar and this series were started by again our BM heroine - Srivalli in her spiceyourlife blog.







Banana Event @ Easy to Cook Recipes by Dr.Sameena Prathap. 

Cook, Eat Delicious - Desserts @ Veggie Platter; this series was started by Raven.

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MoongDal-Balls

Sweet made out of Moong Dal. This is my recipe for BM 12 6th day.

After a long research on internet on Moong Dal Sweet I got this recipe.

Ingredients:

• Moong Dal - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Cardmom Powder - 2 tsp
• Milk - 3 tsp (i have used more and it has become halwa :))
• Ghee - 1/2 cup
• Nuts (almond, cashewnuts) - roasted few

Method:

• Roast the nuts and keep it aside

Add moong dal, sugar and cardamom powder fry them for sometime in medium flame

Add ghee to the mixture

Fry for some more time, add nuts and little milk to get the consistency

Once you feel ghee coming out from sides put it on to the greased plate

Cut once it is cool

Info: After adding milk wait till it becomes thick, else it would turn out to be halwa instead of balls.

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Kheer-SugarSyrup&Awards

Kheer is nothing but Payasam with Semolina. Very simple and easy to cook.

Ingredients:

Semiya Payasa

Semolina - 100 gms

Milk - 1 glass

Water - 1 glass

Cashewnut - few

Dry Grapes - few

Ghee - 1 tbsp

Sugar Syrup - 4 tbsp (which was more sweet)

Method:

Heat some ghee and add semolina, fry them till they get roasted and keep them aside

Heat some more ghee and add cashewnut, grapes fry them and keep them aside

Add milk and water slowly to the same kadai and leave them to boil

Add semolina to milk and water, let it get cooked properly

Add all this mixture to the sugar syrup and garnish with cashewnut and dry grapes

Serve it hot

Award Time:

I am pleased to pass my self created award for 5 of my friends.

• Kalyn - Kalyn's Kitchen. Successfully hosted and running out 3rd year Weekend Herb Blogging with her friends. Thanks Kalyn.
• Prathibha - The Chef and Her Kitchen.  She hosts 'Family Food Friday' where one of her family member cooks and sends it to her. Great to unite them at times to visit what we do. Thanks Prathibha.
• Salsa - Veggie Belly. I am inspired by her sweet smile same as her food. Thanks Salsa.
• Abraham Chacko - Chacko's Kitchen. One of my initial friends who inspired me to write my blog. Thanks Abraham.
• Archana - The Mad Scientist's Kitchen. I was impressed by the theme of her contest Back to Roots. Thanks Archana.

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SweetPongal

SweetPongal:

A perfect lunch should have atleast one sweet (diabetes patient try the same with  sugar free ingredient).

Ingredients:

• Rice - 1 cup
• Channa Dhal - 1 handful
• Jaggery - 1/2 cup
• Cardmom Powder - 1 tsp
• Dry grapes / kismis - 1 handful (quantity can vary as per your taste)
• Cashewnuts - 5 to 6
• Ghee - 2 tbsp
• Poppy Seeds - 2 tsp
• Coconut - 1/2

Method:

Sweet Pongal/Chakra Pongal

1. Cook rice and channa dhal (kadale bele) for 4 whistles
2. Add 1 tsp ghee into a kadai, heat them fry cashewnuts and dry grapes, keep them aside
3. Add remaining ghee and heat them, put poppy seeds, cardmom powder, coconut and fry for sometime
4. Add the cooked rice and dhal and fry for some more time, so that all the ingredients get mixed.
5. Add jaggery in the end and leave it for sometime, let them get mixed well
6. Serve hot.

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BadamDatesBalls

BadamDatesBalls:

I am very eager to post this today itself, which I prepared yesterday night within 20 minutes. I wonder how could a person who was not knowing how to cook sweets, could do it in 20 minutes?

Coincidence is, I checked madscientist'skitchen today written by  Archana and she has also prepared DatesLaddoos from her partner blog, Radhika, author of Ticklingpalatea. I am also sending my post to Blog Hop Wednesday - Week #9.

Ingredients:

• Badam - 100 gms
• Dates - 100 gms
• Sugar - 100 gms
• Cardmom Powder - 1 tsp
• Ghee - 2 tbsp for frying and 1 tsp to grease on the plate
• Milk - 2 tsp to make small balls

Method:

1. Powder Badam, Dates and sugar separately and mix it together
2. Heat ghee in a kadai and add the mixture
3. Roast them in ghee till you get a nice aroma
4. Pour milk and stir the mixture well
5. Grease a plate with ghee
6. When the mixture is warm, make small balls
7. Garnish with copra pieces on top of it

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SugarSyrup

I used to think all the while, that this is really difficult, but thanks to my sister-in-law she showed me once with jaggery.

Sugar - as per the requirement to make the sweet

Water - 1/2 cup (small one)

Water to be added just to ensure that sugar doesn't get burnt off before it starts melting

1. Mix Sugar and Water and heat them in a kadai
2. Stir them occasionally
3. Check as and when the syrup has become thick (when you touch the syrup in hand a sticky thread should be formed)
4. Can add cardamom powder for taste

Once the thread is obtained, the syrup is ready for the sweet to be made.

Note: Instead of Sugar if Jaggery is used then Jaggery Syrup would be ready.

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CopraPak

I was delighted to cook Coprapak on this Sunday evening. Thanks to my mother-in-law to teach me how it should be made.

This post is sent to My Diwali My Way Event announced by Kushi.

Ingredients:

• Coconuts - 2 Nos
• Sugar - 750g
• Poppy Seeds - 2 tbsp
• Cashewnuts - 100 gms
• Ghee for frying - 2 tbsp
• Ghee for grease - 2 tsp (depending on the plate size)
• Cardamom powder (optional) - for taste - 2 tbsp
• Baking Soda (optional) - 1 tbsp

Method:

1. Grate the coconut
2. Prepare the Sugar Syrup
3. Fry poppy seeds and keep it aside
4. Fry Cashewnuts and keep it aside
5. Once the sugar syrup is ready, add coconut, poppy seeds and cashewnuts and stir continuously till all of them mix well into sugar syrup and it becomes thicker
6. Grease a plate with ghee
7. Pour the mixture and leave it to cool for sometime
8. When the mixture is warm cut into desired shapes

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GunPowder (Sweet) Unde

GunPowder (Sweet) Unde:

GunPowder Unde

Instant Sweet which can be consumed as snack also.Its very easy to prepare.

Ingredients:

• Fried Gram Dhal - 1 cup
• Jaggery - 1/2 cup
• Copra / Dry Coconut - 1/2 cup
• Milk (as required)

Method:

1. Grind fried gram dhal, jaggery and copra into powder
2. Add little milk and make small balls
3. Serve, relax and eat them

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Banana Smoothie

Sunday, June 20th was my father-in-law's birthday. I don't know to make sweets and was not interested in making same Kheer, so thought of making this dish. Today, I searched names to name this dish. 

Ingredients:
a. Banana - 5
b. Sugar - 6 tsp
c. Milk - 4 tbsp
d. Cashewnut - 4
e. Kismis - 4
f. Badam - 4
g. Ghee - 4 tsp

Method:
a. Chop banana, add sugar, milk and blend the mixture
b. Slice cashewnut and badam
c. Heat the ghee and add sliced cashewnut, badam, kismis

Serve to eat.

Serves: 2 to 3 people.

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V for Vanilla Custard

Vanilla Custard:

Ingredients:

300 ml milk
1 tbsp custard powder
1/2 tbsp sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla essence


Method:
Mix custard powder with 1/4 cup of milk and form into a smooth paste
Boil remaining milk
Add paste to heated milk and stir until thick
Remove from heat
Add vanilla essence
Serve custard alone or pour over cake, fruit etc.

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Gollbhai

For the first time I am paired with Sara's corner and created a recipe from my partner's blog.

Saraswathi is my cousin and is a housewife. She comes up with one or the other recipe every two days once, i selected one of her dish hallbhai and tweaked a little and prepared it on this saturday, Oct 24th 2009.

Ingredients:

• Rice - 1 cup
• Jaggery - 2 cups
• Cinnamon Powder (Elaichi) - 1/2 tspn
• Clove - 1
• Poppy Seeds - 2 tspn
• Fresh Grated Coconut - 1 1/2 cups
• Ghee - 1 tsp for greasing & 3 tsps for mixing
• Milk - 2 tbsp
• Cashew and Badam - 5 to 6 - (cut into small pieces)

Method:

• Soak the rice for 4 hours.
• Add cinnamon powder, clove, poppy seeds with rice and grind for 3 rounds.
• Add grated coconut to the grinded mixture and finely grind them.
• Add jaggery to the grinded mixture and grind again.
• Heat 1 tsp of ghee
• Fry the cashews and badam till golden brown separately in hot ghee. (Kindly note badam will take more time to get fried than cashews). Keep it aside.
• Pour the grinded mixture and keep stirring it continuously by adding the milk and ghee without allowing them to form loops in low flamed heat
• Put the fried cashews and badam
• Grease a plate with ghee
• Pour the mixture onto the plate and leave it for half an hour or till it gets cooled
• Cut the mixture into the desired shape.

I have cut into square and then rolled them into small balls so that it will be more in quantity and I can distribute to many.

Just for a change, I named this as gollbhai (sister of hallbhai). It is also called as "Amruth Palam" in Telugu.

Greatest thing of this dish is it could make my husband remember his childhood days and his grandmother. Infact, my mother-in-law could remember this sweet after 15 to 20 years.

Thanks to Saraswathi and her hallbhai which brought back the sweet memories.

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Raisin Muffins

Ingredients: 

• 1 cup plain flour
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1/4 tsp. soda bi-carbonate
• 1/4 cup raisins
• 1 tbsp. orange squash
• 1/3 cup cream
• 1/3 cup castor sugar
• 1/2 cup condensed milk
• 1 tsp. orange rind, grated (optional)

Method:

1. Sieve the flour, with the soda and keep aside
2. Mix the butter, orange squash, orange rind and sugar till smooth
3. Add the condensed milk, raisins, cream and flour and mix well
4. Put the mixture into 10 greased and dusted muffin moulds.
5. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree Celsius (or 360 degree Fahrenheit) for 15 to 20 minutes or till muffin comes out clean.

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