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Milky milky milkelicious ..Milchreis!!!

Desserts, Rice, Sweets, veg | March 1, 2015 | By

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Are you a rice fanatic? I like rice but not to an extend where I would choose it over  breads and chapathies….may be that would be the routine of my mom avoiding rice for dinners as my dad was a person who would least prefer rice when it comes to dinner time.But my rice stories have no connections to me having in puddings..Cooking at home my sons are always head over heels over the white payasams/kerealan milk puddings.Me and hus crave for  the jaggery one so its more of a weird face that he would put up when i choose the “white ” one.

Now todays post is of a German pudding which was passed on to me by Julian Kloos & Kathrin…which was an equal hit with my hus and kids.The pudding is told to be the best thing to bribe your kids on …:P you have to have your tricks and trades,well thats what I have learnt with my sons..:D

Rice puddings are famous all around the world. Milchreis , the traditional rice pudding from Germany is a very famous pudding. Made with cinnamon , milk and rice it’s a simple recipe that tastes heavenly.The word “Milchreis” basically means Milkrice. This is a pudding basically served to children .It can be topped with any fruit compote. Here I have a recipe with apple compote.

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Milchreis
1224 calories
188 g
172 g
48 g
20 g
29 g
2014 g
328 g
164 g
0 g
16 g
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
2014g
Amount Per Serving
Calories 1224
Calories from Fat 420
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 48g
73%
Saturated Fat 29g
147%
Trans Fat 0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
Monounsaturated Fat 14g
Cholesterol 172mg
57%
Sodium 328mg
14%
Total Carbohydrates 188g
63%
Dietary Fiber 15g
58%
Sugars 164g
Protein 20g
Vitamin A
49%
Vitamin C
51%
Calcium
79%
Iron
8%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Ingredients
  1. 200gms of white short grain rice
  2. 2 cups of milk
  3. 1 cup of water
  4. ½ cup of fresh cream
  5. 70gms of brown sugar
  6. 1 tsp of vanilla essence
  7. For the Apple Compote
  8. 2 apples peeled cored and cut in small cubes
  9. 2 cups of water
  10. 1 tsp of lemon juice
  11. ½ tsp of vanilla essence
  12. 1/3 cup of brown sugar
Instructions
  1.  In a heavy bottomed pot cook pour in the milk and water.
  2.  Wash and add in the rice, brown sugar and vanilla essence.
  3.  Cook the rice in the milk on low flame stirring it constantly till it is well cooked and stir
  4. in the fresh cream.
  5. For the Apple Compote
  6.  In a sauce pan combine sugar, vanilla essence, water and bring it to boil.
  7.  Add the apples, lower the heat and cover and cook.
  8.  Stir occasionally.
  9.  When the apples are soft add in the lemon juice and let the mixture thicken.
  10.  Remove from heat and cool.
  11.  Serve the milchreis pudding in bowls topped with the apple compote.
  12.  Sprinkle cinnamon powder over it before serving.
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calories
1224
fat
48g
protein
20g
carbs
188g
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Made with love , for the celebration of love..velvety delight!!

Baking, cakes, Desserts, Sweets | February 14, 2015 | By

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The celebration of Valentine’s day gets popular with every passing day .A day dedicated to your loved ones..that’s how its been captioned ..so dedicating this post to my family and my dearest ones ..with loads of love 🙂

The best recipe to try out on Valentine’s day are the Red Velvet cupcakes. Red velvet cupcakes are super moist cupcakes which are mostly dark red, bright red or red-brown in color. The red color is often with adding beetroots or food color.

 

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Red Velvet Cupcakes
5433 calories
666 g
700 g
295 g
49 g
115 g
1399 g
2254 g
512 g
5 g
156 g
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
1399g
Amount Per Serving
Calories 5433
Calories from Fat 2595
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 295g
453%
Saturated Fat 115g
575%
Trans Fat 5g
Polyunsaturated Fat 28g
Monounsaturated Fat 128g
Cholesterol 700mg
233%
Sodium 2254mg
94%
Total Carbohydrates 666g
222%
Dietary Fiber 7g
27%
Sugars 512g
Protein 49g
Vitamin A
127%
Vitamin C
5%
Calcium
59%
Iron
28%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Ingredients
  1. 1 ½ cup flour
  2. 1 cup sugar
  3. 1 tbsp cocoa powder
  4. ¼ tsp salt
  5. 1 large egg
  6. ½ cup oil
  7. ½ tsp baking soda
  8. ½ tsp vinegar
  9. ¾ cup buttermilk
  10. 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
  11. 1 tsp of red food colour
  12. Cream Cheese Frosting
  13. 1 cup cream cheese
  14. ½ cup butter
  15. 2 ½ cup icing sugar, sifted
  16. 1 tsp of vanilla essence
Instructions
  1.  Preheat oven to 180 degree C.
  2.  Line pans with cupcake liners.
  3.  Whisk flour, sugar, cocoa and salt set aside.
  4.  In a mixing bowl beat egg, oil, buttermilk , red food colour and vanilla essence.
  5.  Fold in the flour mix without any lumps.
  6.  In a small bowl mix baking soda and vinegar till the mix is bubbling, add it to batter
  7. and mix.
  8.  Pour the batter into cupcake liners bake for 15 mins or till a skewer inserted comes
  9. out clean.
  10.  Let it cool and top the cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.
  11. Cream Cheese Frosting
  12.  In a medium bowl add with electric mixer combine cream cheese and butter till
  13. creamy.
  14.  Mix vanilla &powdered sugar.
  15.  Mix till everything is combined.
  16.  Use frosting to frost the cupcakes.
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calories
5433
fat
295g
protein
49g
carbs
666g
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Sago Gulu Melaka..the easy peasy pudding!!

Desserts, Sweets, veg | February 9, 2015 | By

 

Off with all the birthday celebrations of my munchkins..both happy to have their birthdays celebrated with their friends…the best part is making time for their wishes and never-ending menus…the twinkle of happiness that their eyes have is so very mystical. They can be the most naughtiest, the best friends worst enemies when stubborn..he he ..its all in the game ..I was the same 😉

Today’s recipes credit goes to Khairul from Malaysia who is a foodie and blogger. I remember the day he had whatsapped me on the availability of classes. It was when he had dropped in with his friends for the class that I knew that he had been for long a follower of my blog…an avid and very much talented foodie! The first time I read about the pudding was long back …it was one afternoon that it struck me that Khairul would have more info on this dessert…

“Sago Gulu Melaka” a local Malaysian dessert. This is a really quick and easy recipe for dessert with just 4 main ingredients. The pandan leaf is known as the vanilla of the east because of its unique aroma. These leaves are used in Indonesian, Singaporean, Filipino, Malaysian, Thai, Bangladeshi, Vietnamese, Chinese, Sri Lankan, Khmer, and Burmese foods, especially rice dishes, cakes, and desserts.

 

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Sago Gulu Melaka
1068 calories
186 g
0 g
36 g
3 g
32 g
363 g
25 g
181 g
0 g
2 g
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
363g
Amount Per Serving
Calories 1068
Calories from Fat 303
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 36g
56%
Saturated Fat 32g
160%
Trans Fat 0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 0g
Monounsaturated Fat 2g
Cholesterol 0mg
0%
Sodium 25mg
1%
Total Carbohydrates 186g
62%
Dietary Fiber 0g
0%
Sugars 181g
Protein 3g
Vitamin A
0%
Vitamin C
3%
Calcium
3%
Iron
32%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Ingredients
  1. 300 GMS of Sago (Sabudana)
  2. 100 GMS of Sugar
  3. 80 GMS of Palm Sugar (Gulu Melaka)
  4. 1 tbsp of Vanilla Essence / 1 pandan leaf
  5. 3/4 cup of Coconut Milk
Instructions
  1.  Boil 2 litre of water with sago until the sago cooks well.
  2.  Strain the sago in a sieve and lightly wash off the starch under cold running water.
  3.  Place the sago in small bowls, level the top and freeze for about 30 minutes.
  4.  In a saucepan heat the coconut milk till it starts boiling and keeps aside.
  5.  In another saucepan cook palm sugar with sugar and the ¾ cup of water till the sugar
  6. dissolves with the vanilla essence / pandan leaf and makes syrup.
  7.  While serving separate the sago shapes on to plates and pour coconut milk and
  8. sugar syrup over it.
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calories
1068
fat
36g
protein
3g
carbs
186g
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Basbousa -the Mediterranean delish!!

cakes, Desserts, Snacks, Sweets | January 28, 2015 | By

 

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Born and brought up in Abudhabi ..I have always had my flair for the Mediterranean cuisine .I still remember how I craved for my Dads parcel of special packed food during the month of Ramadan during his night shifts.This time round when I went  to a shopping mall in Cochin I pointed out to my husband the “Basbousa” telling him all stories of what it was.Back home and how could resist myself from baking it..these are some hardcore facts of being a foodie..

Basbousa is a very popular and tasty Mediterranean sweet cake. Cooked with semolina and soaked in simple sugar syrup this cake has different regional names ..in Arabic its Basbousa/Harisa , Turkey  its Revani/Ravani, Lebanon its Nammoura , Armenian its Shemali … the roots or the origin of this cake is told to be Turkey .

Basbousa -the Mediterranean delish!!
7599 calories
1254 g
576 g
252 g
102 g
53 g
2368 g
3269 g
832 g
1 g
185 g
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
2368g
Amount Per Serving
Calories 7599
Calories from Fat 2239
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 252g
387%
Saturated Fat 53g
263%
Trans Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 51g
Monounsaturated Fat 134g
Cholesterol 576mg
192%
Sodium 3269mg
136%
Total Carbohydrates 1254g
418%
Dietary Fiber 22g
86%
Sugars 832g
Protein 102g
Vitamin A
25%
Vitamin C
5%
Calcium
174%
Iron
119%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Ingredients
  1. For the Syrup
  2. 1 ½ cup of sugar
  3. 1 ½ cup of water
  4. 1 tsp of rosewater
  5. Juice of ½ lemon
  6. For the cake batter
  7. 1 cup of semolina
  8. 1 cup of flour
  9. 1 cup of sugar
  10. 2 tsp of baking powder
  11. 2 tsp of vanilla essence
  12. 1 cup of yoghurt
  13. 3 eggs
  14. ½ cup of scraped coconut
  15. ½ cup of oil
  16. Almonds for garnish
Instructions
  1.  In a saucepan boil the water to make the syrup, add in the sugar and stir till it
  2. dissolves completely.
  3.  Mix in the lemon juice and rosewater and let it cool.
  4.  Preheat oven at 180 degree Celsius.
  5.  In a bowl, beat egg and sugar.
  6.  Add in the yoghurt, oil and sieve in the flour.
  7.  Mix in baking powder, vanilla essence and coconut.
  8.  Transfer to a greased baking dish and bake till the cake is done or for about 30
  9. minutes.
  10.  Garnish with almonds.
  11.  Pour the sugar syrup over the cake when the cake is still hot.
  12.  Serve when cold.
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calories
7599
fat
252g
protein
102g
carbs
1254g
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Celebrate this Diwali.. relish on Papaya Halwa &Khascha !

Snacks, Sweets, veg | October 22, 2014 | By

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Diwali/ Deepawali the festival of lights is all set for celebration . The festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair. The best part of Diwali is the wide variety of sweets that one can devour! After my post has pretty much lagged out and the reason was that my cam was under service. It was as if I had actually gone handicapped. There was no other choice but to rely on  my iphone for my snaps…to tell you the truth that’s when you really feel if you had your cam with u.Its not the pics but my mind that could never as such be content with the pics.

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This is my post after the Onam celebration . There was something more that came up during the onam holidays. I was invited over to Mumbai for the 160th Sree Narayana  Guru Jayanthi celebrations organized by the Sree Narayana Mandira Samithi  at The Sree Narayana Group of Institutions, Chembur during which I was to be felicitated..It was my first time to Mumbai ..an experience in itself. A trip with my inlaws, hus and kids….during the function I was pretty much overwhelmed to meet some of the most wonderful people who really cared for the society!

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As its Diwali and its all about sweet things..I have two recipes one is Papaya Halwa and Khascha a sweet snack from UttarPradesh.For the Khascha recipe a big thanks to Pooja ,my home science student at school for sharing their traditional sweets!

 

Papaya Halwa
936 calories
140 g
107 g
40 g
12 g
24 g
669 g
165 g
133 g
0 g
14 g
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
669g
Amount Per Serving
Calories 936
Calories from Fat 352
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 40g
62%
Saturated Fat 24g
120%
Trans Fat 0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
Monounsaturated Fat 12g
Cholesterol 107mg
36%
Sodium 165mg
7%
Total Carbohydrates 140g
47%
Dietary Fiber 4g
17%
Sugars 133g
Protein 12g
Vitamin A
74%
Vitamin C
229%
Calcium
43%
Iron
4%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Ingredients
  1. 225 gms of ripe papaya fruit deskinned, deseeded & cubed
  2. 300ml of milk
  3. ½ cup of sugar
  4. 2-3 tsps of ghee
  5. 1 tsp of almonds & 1tsp of raisins roasted in ghee
  6. 4-5 strands of saffron
Instructions
  1. Blend the papaya with milk to make a smooth paste.
  2.  Heat and keep stirring the papaya milk mix, add in the sugar, saffron strands and
  3. keep stirring on medium flame till the mix starts thickening up.
  4.  Add ghee on the sides of pan and continue mixing.
  5.  Once the halwa starts thickening add in the raisins and almonds and remove from
  6. flame.
  7.  If u wants to make your halwa sweeter, add in two tablespoons of sugar while
  8. cooking. Relish on your Papaya Halwa!
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calories
936
fat
40g
protein
12g
carbs
140g
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Khascha
2796 calories
424 g
268 g
107 g
39 g
64 g
748 g
81 g
208 g
0 g
36 g
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
748g
Amount Per Serving
Calories 2796
Calories from Fat 939
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 107g
164%
Saturated Fat 64g
322%
Trans Fat 0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 5g
Monounsaturated Fat 31g
Cholesterol 268mg
89%
Sodium 81mg
3%
Total Carbohydrates 424g
141%
Dietary Fiber 10g
40%
Sugars 208g
Protein 39g
Vitamin A
67%
Vitamin C
1%
Calcium
24%
Iron
20%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Ingredients
  1. 1 cup of Semolina
  2. 1 cup of all purpose flour
  3. 1 cup of sugar
  4. 100g ghee
  5. 150 ml milk
  6. 2-3 cardamom seeds
  7. Oil for frying
Instructions
  1. Mix in the semolina, flour, cardamom and sugar.
  2.  Slowly pour in the milk and knead into dough.
  3.  Make small balls out of the dough or roll the dough into discs and cut desired shapes.
  4.  Sprinkle flour while rolling as it might quite sticky.
  5.  Fry the shapes out in oil till it is golden in color.
  6. Munch on these wonderful Khaschas this Diwali!
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calories
2796
fat
107g
protein
39g
carbs
424g
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May the divine light of diwali spread into your Life with peace, prosperity, happiness and good health.Wishing all my friends a wonderful Diwali!

Celebrating with Badam Halwa!

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How should I start off? I am head over heels in happiness that my hard work is paying out as fruits..Ok so I am back in Munnar after a week’s spree tour and happenings in Beijing. The best news that I have to share is that my book has bagged the third place as for the “Best Local Cuisine book in the world.”Gourmand World Cookbook Awards also known as the Oscars of Gastronomy was founded by Edouard Cointreau .To be a part of it was really an awesome experience. Getting to meet the top personalities in person, learning and sharing insights on each other’s books….. It was an experience that I could have not even dreamt of.

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I had travelled with my family to Shanghai on the 16th of May and then on the 19th of May to Beijing and our stay was at the Daxing Hotel where the Beijing International Cookbook fair was held. I was very much impressed by the hospitality of the Gourmand staff and the hard work that they had put into the arrangements. As it calls for celebration I thought of sharing a sweet recipe to with my sweet news..so heres the recipe for Badam Halwa…ba3

Badam Halwa
2554 calories
235 g
272 g
176 g
33 g
71 g
681 g
70 g
213 g
0 g
97 g
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
681g
Amount Per Serving
Calories 2554
Calories from Fat 1519
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 176g
271%
Saturated Fat 71g
353%
Trans Fat 0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 22g
Monounsaturated Fat 75g
Cholesterol 272mg
91%
Sodium 70mg
3%
Total Carbohydrates 235g
78%
Dietary Fiber 15g
60%
Sugars 213g
Protein 33g
Vitamin A
68%
Vitamin C
0%
Calcium
52%
Iron
30%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Ingredients
  1. 1cup of Almonds (soaked in water and blanched)
  2. ½ cup of milk
  3. 1cup of sugar
  4. ½ cup of ghee
  5. 1/2 cup of water
  6. 8-10 strands of saffron soaked in 1 tsp of milk
Instructions
  1. Grind the almonds with milk to a smooth paste.
  2.  In a saucepan boil water and mix in the sugar till it dissolves and keep aside.
  3.  Heat ghee till it melts and add in the sugar syrup on low flame and mix in the almond
  4. paste without any lumps.
  5.  Add in the saffron and keep stirring on low flame till the almond paste becomes thick
  6. and flaky.
  7.  Turn off the flame and mix in a teaspoon of ghee.
  8.  Devour on your badam halwa!
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calories
2554
fat
176g
protein
33g
carbs
235g
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Ready for a creamy rice punch with Phirni!

Sweets, veg | December 16, 2013 | By

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Its half way through the month of December the festive moods are up and in Munnar its getting pretty cold with misty mornings.This post as usual was to be posted pretty early during the Diwali time but the time and tide for this post is only up now.”Phirni”  this North Indian dessert served in earthen pots is best served cold if you are craving for a creamy dessert.The happenings in between my posts were that an article on me was in print in one of the leading Womens magazine of Kerala “Grihalakshmi”(November 1st edition) with some of my recipes..

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Its been fun with my classes on Kerala cuisine in full swing …meeting new people and learning a lot more from them from food to lifestyle..and treasuring a bond of friendship. Hanny Abdullah a blogger from Malaysia had booked for my classes and it was fun to have them over.A big thanks to Hanny for writing about me and my classes on her blog..

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Phirni

4 cups of full cream milk

1 cup of sugar powdered

3 tbsp of rice soaked in water for 1 hr , drained & ground into paste

1/2 tsp of cardamom powder

5-10 raisins

1 tbsp of rosewater

a big pinch of saffron soaked in 2tbsp of warm water.

20 almonds blanched , skinned &silvered

10 pistachios blanched, skinned & silvered

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Boil milk in a heavy bottomed pot, add rice paste .Stir constantly with whisk, so that there are no lumps .When it is thick and creamy add the sugar and cardamom powder.Add raisins , rosewater and saffron mixture;mix well.Pour into earthen bowls (shakoras) or silver bowls .serve sprinkled with almonds and  pistachios.These are best served cold 🙂

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Creamy custard with creamy news :)

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For the past two weeks have been wanting to pen down my events in life and as usual have not been able to do much.:P Hmm… where should I start …ok one day I was at school and get a mail with a notification with an invite to participate for an Indian Women Entrepreneurs Expo organised by Times of India.I speak to the people in charge and there goes a zing in my mind to participate for the event.Three days of fun at Abadplaza , Cochin.. totally new experience meeting many talented women in different areas of business.On the last day of the expo I was among the Best Ten Women Entrepreneurs of 2013..:)

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I wanted to put up a creamy custardy recipe to give all the creamy effect that the event brought into my life.I was mentioned in writeups in Times of India ,Mathrubhumi and Deshabimani (a Malayalam newspaper) and was interviewed on All India Radio Cochin FM.So for all the good news up I thought of putting up a rich sweet and custardy Parsi recipe bookmarked from Goodfood.

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Lagan nu Custard

4 cups of milk

150gms of sugar

6 eggs

400ml cream

1/2 cup of rosewater

50g of raisins

50 gms of almonds

1/2 tsp of cardamom powder

Butter to grease

Boil milk with sugar till it is reduced to 1/3rd of its original quantity.This takes about 20-30 minutes.Cool and keep aside.Preheat oven to180 degree celsius.Whisk eggs briskly and add all other ingredients except raisins to the reduced milk.Stir this into eggs and transfer to a greased baking pan.Bake in the oven for about 50-60 minutes or till a skewer inserted comes out clean and it is cooked.Leave to cool and refrigerate a couple of hours before serving.Cut into desired shapes and serve chilled.The raisins are to be added when baking is half done.

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Enjoy your custardy treat 🙂

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Sweeten your taste buds with Milk Peda!

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Monsoons in Munnar have been quite hectic this time.Its been about two years since we had such heavy rainfalls.The river was half way to being flooded.Its time to laze out a bit from my hectic schedule as school has closed for the monsoon vacation for a month for us.Yesterday  its my bro’s bday  …as he’s in Moscow ..here’s mouth melting sweeties wishing u a wonderful birthday!

Malai Peda or Milk peda is a fav with my little one and me.I really love making them at home .These mouthwatering beauties are a fav among my culinary science students at school. Shazia and Shwetha…here’s the long awaited recipe…a treat for holidays!

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Milk Peda

2 cups of milk powder

1 tin of condensed milk

3 tbsps of ghee

1/4 tsp of cardamom powder

 

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Heat  ghee in a heavy bottomed pan on medium flame,pour in the condensed milk.Stir in the milk powder and cardamom powder with a wooden spatula mixing  without lumps.Keep the flame very low as milk burns very fast and stir till it thickens.Let it cool down and shape  them into desired shapes.It is also optional to decorate these milk delicacies with pistachios/cashews/almonds.

 

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Cashew Ladoos -memoir of Diwali!

Indian recipes, Sweets, veg | November 19, 2012 | By

Diwali -the festival of lights was a last week.Celebration of Diwali is all about firecrackers and sweets..this diwali I wanted to type in one of my most  cherished sweets…Cashew Ladoos/Kaju ladoos.This  is a very rich sweet made out of cashews.

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1/4 cup of water

1 1/4 cups sugar

3tbsp milk

1/2 kg cashew nuts

4 tsps of ghee

5-6 strands of saffron

Slightly roast the cashews in a pan and finely powder them in a mixer.Boil water and sugar in a saucepan  stirring continuously till the sugar dissolves on low flame.When the syrup starts becoming thick, remove from flame and add in the ghee along with the milk and saffron.Stir it and add in the powdered cashew slowly mixing well.Once the powder is well combined with the syrup ,cook the mix on medium flame stirring till the ghee comes out.Let the mix cool down  a little and make small  balls out of the mix.

My little ones were gobbling up these ladoos as I made them.Guess after all cashew is an all time fav for all 😉

“Ram! The light of lights, the self-luminous inner light of the Self is ever shining steadily in the chamber of your heart. Sit quietly. Close your eyes. Withdraw the senses. Fix the mind on this supreme light and enjoy the real Deepavali, by attaining illumination of the soul.”

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