Showing posts with label sweets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sweets. Show all posts

Friday, August 7, 2009

GULAB JAMUN RECIPE:-

Ingredients for Gulab Jamun:

  • Wheat Flour: 1 cup
  • Dry Milk: 1 cup
  • Flour: 1/4 cup (all purpose flour)
  • Ghee: 3 tbs
  • Baking soda: 2 pinches
  • Sugar: 1 cup (brown)
  • Milk: 4 tbs
  • Cardamom pods: 7
  • Water: 3 cup
  • Vanilla essence: 1 tsp
  • Oil: 2 cup

Method of preparation in Gulab Jamun Recipe:
Take a large bowl and mix flour, dry milk powder, ghee and baking soda. Mix the mixture well with both the hands. Now mix the milk and make dough out of mixture. Knead the mixture for 5 minutes. Roll the dough into small bolls. For making sugar syrup, mix the brown sugar with 3 cups of water. Heat it in a saucepan for half hour in medium heat. Fry the small balls in oil till they turn brown. Fry all the balls.

Heat the sugar syrup once again. Add cardamom to the syrup. As syrup starts boiling, add the balls in it and heat it at simmer for 12-15 minutes. Turn off the heat once balls absorb sugar syrup. Remove the balls from the syrup. Add essence in the syrup and stir it to mix it well. While serving, pour the mixture over the balls. Serve it hot or cold whichever way you like.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Thandai

Ingredients:-

Milk-2 glasses

Almonds-1 tbsp.

Pistachios-1 tbsp.

Charoli-1 tbsp.

Poppy seeds-1 tbsp.

Cashewnuts-6 nos.

Glazed cherries-As required

Honey-As required

Powdered mixture of(cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, anise seeds)-1 tsp.

MADE THANDAI IN THis MANNER:-

Make a fine paste of all the nuts and the poppy seeds. Mix this paste with the other spices into the milk and stir well. Strain this mixture and then mix the honey and allow it to chill.