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Old 22nd October 2008, 10:21 AM
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Default Dessert Gulkhand: - srrve hot with chilled sweetened cream or ice cream!

I learnt this from a Chef in a 5 star hotel, where I had gone to see a cookery demonstration.
If you buy special gulkhand bought from NI shops, 250 gms will do. What I used was T S R & co – Gokul gulkhand.

White pumpkin - 2 kgs

Shop-bought gulkhand - 400 gms

Sweetened khoa - 200gms

Remove skin & seeds from pumpkin & grate.

Take in a heavy kadai & cook till the water dries up completely & it becomes a thick mass.

Add gulkand & khoa & stir very well.

Add just 1-2 tbsp ghee to prevent sticking.

Cook on a medium flame till thick.
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Default Nut-Khoa Burfi - a very rich, exotic burfi, without ghee!

Khoya - 1 cup (grated)

Grated or coarsely powdered nuts - 1 cup

Sugar - 1 ½ cups

Cardamom powder - 1 tsp

Stir fry khoa on a low fire till golden brown.
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Mix sugar & water.

Boil to make a thick, one string syrup.

Add khoya & nuts.

Go on stirring on a low fire, till it becomes very thick.
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Remove & stir for a few mts.

Empty on a greased plate and cut when cold..
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It can be made like a halwa also.
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Default Madurai Thengai Thiratipal - in some houses, customarily made for deepavali!

Either this or Ukkarai is a must in Madurai. I am giving MW ukkarai in the MW thread.
MW Ukkarai
Already ukkarai is given in Old is Gold
Ukkarai

Freshly gratedcoconut - 2 heaped cups (only white portion)

Moong dhal - 1/3 cup

Jaggery crushed - 1 ½ cups (a little more or less to taste)

Ghee - 3 tbsp

Cardamom powder - 1 tsp

Dry roast moong dhal on a kadai till medium brown.

Powder that in the mixie and add the coconut.

Give a run to get a smooth mixture.

Powder the jaggery & mix well.

In a kadai, heat 2 tbsp ghee & add the mixture.

Cook on medium heat till the mixture starts thickening – this will be quick.

Add rest of the ghee & cardamom powder.

Remove.
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Default Special Milk Chocolate - announcing my GD’s wedding!!

Butter - 200 gms

Milk powder - 2 ½ cups

Cocoa - 50 gms

Sugar - ½ kg

Sieve milk powder & cocoa ogether.

Add 2 cups of water to sugar.

Simmer it to boil, stirring.

Boil to one string consistency.

Remove from fire.

Add butter & stir till it melts.

Then add milk powder-cocoa mixture & beat vigorously with a wooden spoon.

Pour in a greased tray & cut.
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I use chocolate moulds and make shapes.
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If preferred, add chopped nuts, before pouring into the greased plate.

This makes 60-70 chocolates.
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Default Golden Balls - a variation of appam!

Very ripe bananas, medium size - 4

Rava - 1 cup

Sugar - ½ cup

Cardamom powder - 1 tsp

I used the FP. One can mix by hand also, by beating well.

First mix rava, sugar & cardamom powder.

Add grated banana & beat till you get idli dough consistency.

Mix everything well & rest for 1 hour.

Make balls & shallow- fry in paniyaram chatti or appakaral.

Cook on a low fire to prevent browning fast.
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Default Spoon Halwa - Famous in a Madurai Restaurant!

This is served hot with breakfast, in small amounts along with idli, vadai & pongal.

Bombay rava - 1 cup

Water - 2 cups

Sugar 2 ½ cups (+enough water to immerse the sugar)

Ghee - ½ cup

Cardamom powder - ½ tsp

Saffron - a pinch

Chopped nuts - to garnish

Roast rava dry on a low flame till pink.

Cool & soak in 2 cups of water.

After an hour grind to a paste using that water & keep ready.

Heat sugar syrup on a low fire, stirring well.

Boil till it reaches 1 string.

Remove & add the rava paste with one hand, whisking fast simultaneously with the other hand to prevent lump formation.

(If lumps are there, pass the handblender trough it to break them – but if you do the above step correctly, there will not be a single lump!).

Put back on fire & cook adding ghee little by little at a time.

When it becomes a mass & leaves the sides of the vessel, add cardamom powder & saffron.
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Remove, garnish with nuts & serve hot.
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Default Walnut Halwa - a less common, delicious halwa!

Walnuts ( shelled) - 250 gms

Milk - 1 ½ litres

Sweetened condensed milk - 400 gms tin

Ghee - 2 tbsp

Powder walnuts in the mixie.

Boil milk, add walnut powder & condensed milk.

Blend thoroughly & cook till it solidifies.

Add ghee at the end & mix.
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Default Chettinad Ukra - a traditional Nagarathar sweet.

Moong dhal - ½ cup

Bombay rava - ¼ cup

Rice flour - ¼ cup

Freshly grated coconut - 1 tbsp

Ghee - 3-4 tbsp

Jaggery - 1 cup (or more to taste)

Chopped cashews - 1-2 tbsp

Cardamom powder - 1 tsp

Fry moon g dhal in 2 tsp ghee till light brown.

Boil till just soft in 1 cup of water.

Strain & keep.

Boil jaggery with 1 cup of water, strain & keep ready.

Heat ghee & fry rava on low fire till well fried.

Add rice flour, coconut & cashews & simmer.

Fry on a low fire, till cashews turn golden.

Add boiled dhal & jaggery syrup.

Simmer & cooktill the entire mass is cooked & halwa consistency is reached.

Add cardamom powder & remove.

Keeps in the fridge for 3, 4 days & outside for 2 days.
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