DESCRIPTION:
Kheer is a rice pudding from the cuisine of the Indian Subcontinent, made by boiling rice, broken wheat, tapioca, or vermicelli with milk and sugar; it is flavoured with cardamom, raisins, saffron, cashews, pistachios or almonds. It is typically served during a meal or as a dessert. It is also known in some regions as payesh, payasam, payasa, phirni, gil-e-firdaus and fereni.
PREPERATION
Preperation time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 45 mins
INGREDIENTS:
-1 liter full fat milk
-¼ cup rice ( any )
⅓-½ half sugar
-2 to 3 green cardamoms powdered
-¼ cup blanched and chopped badam and
pista
STEPS:
1. Wash and soak rice for about 60 - 30 mins. Drain and keep aside.
2. Blanch the nuts in hot water and peel off their skin. Chop them and keep aside.
3. Take a heavy bottom pan and add milk in it. Bring the milk to boil on medium flame.
4. Add drained rice when the milk comes to boil.
5. Keep stirring on low to medium flame to prevent burning.
6. Cook…
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Peda is a sweet from the Indian subcontinent, usually prepared in thick, semi-soft pieces. The main ingredients are khoa, sugar and traditional flavorings, including cardamom seeds, pistachio nuts and saffron. The colour varies from a creamy white to a caramel colour. The word peda is also generically used to mean a blob of any doughy substance, such as flour or khoa. Variant spellings and names for the dessert include pedha, penda (in Gujarati) and pera.
Pedas originated in the city of Mathura in present-day Uttar Pradesh. The Mathura Peda is the characteristic variety from the city.
As with laddoos, pedas are sometimes used as prasadam in religious services.
PREPERATION
Preperation time: 2 mins
Cooking time: 15 mins
INGREDIENTS:
-½ tin condensed milk
-1 ½ cups crumbled khoya/ mawa
-Fat pinch of cardamom powder
-Few strands of Saffron soaked in milk
-1 tsp. ghee or coconut oil
-Few pistachios chopped for garnish
STEPS:
1. Add khoya,…
DESCRIPTION:
Rabri is a sweet, condensed-milk-based dish made by boiling the milk on low heat for a long time until it becomes dense and changes its color to pinkish. Sugar, spices and nuts are added to it to give it flavor. It is chilled and served as dessert. Rabri is the main ingredient in several desserts, such as rasabali, chhena kheeri, and khira sagara.
Rabri is usually eaten at lunch. It is mostly made in north, central and western India. Flour of pearl millet (bajri) is mixed with buttermilk to make a thick sauce which is kept in the sun to ferment.
PREPERATION
Preperation time: 2 mins
Cooking time: 1 hr
INGREDIENTS:
-4 cups full fat milk
-3 tbsps sugar
-¼ tsp elaichi or cardamom powder
-6 to 8 strands of saffron or kesar
-¼ cup almonds and pistachios
STEPS:
1. Take a heavy bottom pot. Pour milk in it and heat it up.
2. Stick the layer of cream formed over the milk on the sides of the pot.
3. Stir the milk at the bottom to prevent the fats…
Rasgulla is a syrupy dessert popular in the Indian subcontinent and regions with South Asian diaspora. It is made from ball shaped dumplings of chhena (an Indian cottage cheese) and semolina dough, cooked in light syrup made of sugar. This is done until the syrup permeates the dumplings. The dish originated in East India; in the past the present-day states of Odisha and West Bengal have variously claimed to be the birthplace of the dish.
To prepare rasgulla, the cheese (chhena) mixture is formed into small balls. These balls are then simmered in a sugar syrup. It can also be prepared using a pressure cooker or an oven. While serving add a drop of rose water to enhance the flavor and taste.
PREPERATION
Preperation time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 15 mins
INGREDIENTS:
-1 liter whole milk
-½ cup curd / whisked yogurt
-1 liter ice cold water
-1½ cups sugar
-2¼ cups water
-¼ tsp. cardamom powder
-½ tsp. rose water
-Few saffron stands for garnishing
STEPS:
1.…
Ras malai or rossomalai is a dessert originating from the Indian subcontinent. The name ras malai comes from two words in Hindi: ras, meaning "juice", and malai, meaning "cream". It has been described as "a rich cheesecake without a crust". The sweet is of Bengali origin; according to K.C. Das Grandsons, it was invented by K.C. Das.
Ras malai consists of sugary white cream, or yellow-coloured (flattened) balls of chhana soaked in malai (clotted cream) flavoured with cardamom. It is cooked in sugar syrup and milk with saffron, pistachios and kheer as stuffing. Homemade ras malai is usually made from powdered milk, all-purpose flour, baking powder and oil, which are kneaded to form a dough, moulded into balls, and dropped into simmering milk cream.
PREPERATION
Preperation time: 2 mins
Cooking time: 10 mins
INGREDIENTS:
-12 rasgullas
-1 tin milk maid condensed milk
-2 cups milk
-⅛ Tsp. Green cardamom powder /
elaichi
-Few saffron strands
-Chopped Pistachios and…
DESCRIPTION:
Sandesh is a Bengali dessert created with milk and sugar. Some recipes of Sandesh call for the use of chhena or paneer (which is made by curdling the milk and separating the whey from it) instead of milk itself. Some people in the region of Dhaka call it pranahara (literally, heart 'stealer') which is a softer kind of sandesh, made with mawa and the essence of curd.
PREPERATION
Preperation time: 2 mins
Cooking time: 10 mins
INGREDIENTS:
-½ cup paneer( Indian cottage cheese )
-2 ½ tbsp. Powdered sugar
-Pinch of cardamom powder
-few chopped Pista for garnishing
STEPS:
1. Take a heavy bottom pot, add milk in it and bring it to boil.
2. When the milk is about to spill out of the pan add curd in it and stir. The milk will get curdled well within 2 to 3 mins. Now switch off the gas and keep it aside for 2 mins.( Add more curd if milk doesn't curdle well )
3. Pour ice cold water to stop the cheese from further cooking.
4. Let it rest for 2 to 3 mins.…
Bhelpuri is a savoury snack, and is also a type of chaat. It is made of puffed rice, vegetables and a tangy tamarind sauce. Bhel is often identified with the beaches of Mumbai, such as Girguam or Juhu. Bhelpuri is thought to have originated within the Gucafes and street food stalls of Mumbai, and the recipe has spread to most parts of India where it has been modified to suit local food availability. It is also said to be originated from Bhadang, a spicy namkeen from Western Maharashtra. Dry Bhel is made from Bhadang, The Kolkata variant of Bhelpuri is called Jhalmuri. A native Mysore variant of Bhelpuri is known as Churumuri or Churmuri in Bangalore.
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Bhelpuri is made from puffed rice and Sev mixed with potatoes, onions, Chat masala and chutney and mixture, as the base of the snack. Bhelpuri has a balance of sweet, salty, tart and spicy flavors, with different textures as well, including crispy and crunchy from the puffed rice and fried sev. Other commonly used…
Chikki is a traditional Indian sweet generally made from groundnuts and jaggery. There are several different varieties of chikki in addition to the most common groundnut chikki. Each variety of chikki is named depending upon the ingredients used, which include puffed or roasted Bengal gram, sesame, puffed rice, beaten rice, or Khobara.
PREPERATION:
The preparation of chikkis is very simple and consists of first preparing the hot jaggery syrup with a minimum of water, adding nuts to the syrup to coat them and then transferring the nuts to a wooden mould, then rolling them to a thickness of about 6–8 mm using a wooden roller/and we also place in to the any steel plate for cooling, cutting into slabs and packing. In homes, smaller quantities are hand rolled with wooden rollers.
Some chikkis are made using a combination of these ingredients. Special chikkis are made out of cashews, almonds, and pistachios. Though jaggery is the usual sweetener material, sugar is used as the base…
Panipuri is a common street snack in several regions of the Indian subcontinent. In East India, it is misidentified with Phuchhka which is very different from Panipuri. The Puchhka differs greatly in terms of content and taste. Puchkas use a mixture of boiled gram and mashed potatoes as the filling and is tangy rather than sweetish while the water is sour and spicy. Puchkas are also slightly bigger in size and the puris are darker in colour. In North India, it is called Golgappa, In madhaya pradesh It is called Fulki, In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana its is called as Pani Puri While in Odisha it is known as GupChup . It consists of a round, hollow puri, fried crisp and filled with a mixture of flavored water, tamarind chutney, chili, chaat masala, potato, onion and chickpeas.
Panipuri has various names, depending on the region. In Haryana it is called Paani ke Patashe; in Madhya Pradesh Fulki; in Uttar Pradesh Golgappa, in West Bengal, Bangladesh and Bihar Nepal, Puchka; in parts of…