Traditional Sweets and Easy to Make Sweets

Carrot Halwa with Condensed Milk


Ingredients:

Condensed milk 300 gms
Carrot 1/2 kg
Ghee 1/3 cup
Corn flour 2 tea sp (optional)
Water 1/2 cup
Cashews 1 tab sp crushed


Method:

Cook the carrots in ½ cup of water till tender.
Add the condensed milk, ghee and corn flour.
Cook this mixture till it leaves the sides of the pan.
Addfried cashew nuts.
Remove form fire and spread over a greased pan.
Serve 'carrot halwa' hot or cold. Or
Cool and cut it into squares and garnish with the cashews.

Note: Instead of carrot you can use beet root or chow chow or white pumpkin or 'luki'/bottle guard.

 

Fig Halwa

Ingredients

Condensed milk 200 gms
Dry Figs / Anjeer 250gms chopped
Milk 1/2 lt
Ghee 2 tablespoons

Soak the figs in the milk for one-hour.
Grind it into a paste.
Heat the ghee in a pan and add the condensed milk and the fig paste and stir continuously till it leaves the sides of the pan.
Serve hot garnished with cashews.

Note: you can add 'tutty fruity' in this halwa. Children will like this very much.

 

Rava Kesari

Ingredients:

Condensed milk 250gms
Suji / semolina 1 cup
Ghee2 tab sp
Kesari powder or yellow color 1/2 sp
Cashews 1 tab. Sp crushed
raisins 10 – 12 wash and clean
Saffron strings 10 -12


Method:

Heat the ghee and fry the cashews and raisins and keep aside.
Fry the semolina in the ghee.
Add the kesari powder to the 2 cups water and add to the semolina.
Keep stirring so that no lumps are formed.
Add saffron stings, mix well.
Then add the condensed milk and keep stirring till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan.
Add fried cashewnuts and kis mis and mix well.
Serve hot or cold 'rava kesari'.

 

Dear Lakshmi,
Happy Ugadi to you and your family. And thank you for your feed back.

 

Hi Cutie,

Happy to see your feed back. But which recipe you tried? can you tell that?:coffee

 

Mango Kesari


Now it is Mango season so prepare kesari with mango and enjoy.:crazy

Ingredients:

Fully riped Mango - 1 No or 2 ( the pulp should be 1 1/2 cups)
Bombay Rawa - 3/4 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Ghee - 1/2 cup
Cashewnuts - few
Cardamom powder - 1/2 teaspoon

Method:

Remove the skin from Mango and cut it into pieces.

Put it in a mixie and grind to a fine paste. T
he paste should be one to one and half cups. The above ingredients are for 1 1/2 cup mango pulp.
In a kadai put the rawa and dry fry well.

Cool it and grind to a fine powder.

Also grind the sugar into a fine powder.
( this will reduce your cooking time)
In a thick bottomed vessel, put a tablelspoon of ghee and fry the cashew nuts.

Remove and keep it separately.

Same vessel add the mango pulp and fry for one to two minutes on low flame.

Then add ground rawa and sugar and mix thoroughly.

Add ghee little by little and stir continuously till it is thick like halwa and leaves the sides of the vessel.

Add fried cashew nuts and cardamom powder.

Mix it well and transfer it to a greased plate and level it or you can serve as it is.

 

Hi Jai,

I am pure vegetrain. so dont want to see the link. sorry. you better give this link in Non Veg. thread. so I am removing the link. sorry ya

(You gave this in sweets thread. Rantyou would have posted this in comments and quries thread.)