sweets

Ingredients:


6 red carrots, grated
½ cup full fat milk
½ cup sugar
¼ tsp elaichi powder
a few saffron strands
2 tbsp cream
3 tsp ghee
For garnishing:
2 tbsp slivered almonds

Method:


Heat the ghee in a broad non-stick pan and fry the carrots for 2 to 3 minutes.
Put the milk and stir till it evaporates.
Then put the sugar and continue to stir until the mixture becomes slightly thick.
Put the cardamom powder, saffron dissolved in a little milk and cream and mix
properly.
Decorate with the slivered almonds.
Ready to serve -

Grand Ma's opinion: This halwa with a hot glass of milk is said to be good for you

Ingredients:


For the Mohanthaal:
1 cup ghee
2 cups coarsely ground besan
1 tsp elaichi powder

For Khoya (mava):
1 litre full fat milk
For the Sugar Syrup:
1½ cups sugar
1 cup water
2 tbsp milk
For garnishing:
4 tbsp chopped
almonds and pistachios

Method:


Put the besan in a bowl.
Heat the ghee and pour half of it over the besan.
Rub the ghee into the besan till the mixture resembles bread crumbs.
Put the remaining hot ghee in a kadhai, add the besan mixture and cook till
the mixture turns golden brown and continue to stir.
Put the grated khoya and elaichi powder and mix for 5 to 7 minutes.
Take out from the heat and keep it to cool till it becomes warm.
For the Sugar Syrup:
Combine the sugar with water in a pan. Allow it to boil for 10 minutes.
Put the milk to the boiling sugar syrup.
The impurities will form a grey layer. Take out this layer gently using a slotted
spoon.
Boil this till syrup is of 1 string consistency keep the syrup hot.
How to Proceed:
Pour the hot sugar syrup over the cooked besan mixture and stir well.
Pour into a greased 225 mm. (9") diameter thali with 25 mm. (1") high
sides.
Sprinkle chopped almonds and pistachios on top and allow to set for 4 to 5 hours.

Cut into 25 mm. (1") squares.

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Ingredients:



1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 can evaporated milk
½ cup rice cooked
¼ cup cashews
2 to 3 tsp golden raisins
2 elaichi


Method:



Mash the cooked rice. Mix condensed milk and evaporated milk and boil this
with the mashed rice.
Fry cashews and raisins in little ghee and add this to the boiling payasam.
Pound elaichis and add this to the payasam.

Ingredients:


1 cup rava
1 cup sugar
½ cup ghee
Cashews less than ¼ cup
Golden raisins less than ¼ cup
2 elaichi
Edible camphor (optional)


Method:


Roast rava with ¼ cup of ghee in a pan for 5 minutes.
Add 1½ cups of water to the above, and keep on stirring until the rava
is cooked. Now put sugar and mix everything well.
Lastly, add the remaining ghee and simmer the stove and keep stirring until
everything mixes well.
Fry cashews, raisins and cloves in little ghee and add this to above.
Pound elaichis, and edible camphor, and add this to above.

Namaste,

Today enjoy Khoya burfi.

Khoya Burfi
Ingredients
1 Lt. Milk
75 gms sugar
50 grams naryal chura (coconut powder)
20 grams pistachios, chopped
20 grams almonds, chopped

Method
Boil milk reduce heat and let it simmer for 45-minutes to one hour till thick paste like. Keep stirring in between. Add sugar and coconut powder and stir till sugar dissolces. Grease a thali and pour the batter. Garnish with pistachios and almonds. Let it cool and cut into square or rhomboid pieces.

hi,
i will give you a easy method to make mysore pak in 10 mins.....

Ingredients:

Ghee - 2 cups
sugar - 2 cups
besan flour - 2 cups

Method:
1. melt ghee a little and add the besan flour to it and mix well. this will give you a liquid mixture.(do this after removing ghee from fire....in case ghee is alredy molten no need to melt it...mixing besan flour and ghee well is only required)
2.keep pan in fire and add the sugar and just sprinkle water and melt it to 1 string consistency.
3.when in 1 string consistency add the besa ghee mixture and mix everything well and stir till a froth kind of appearence comes and mixture leaves edges.
4.pour in plate greased with ghee and let it cool.
5.mysore pak is ready in 10 mins.
6'it will taste like the one given in Sri krishna sweets...chennai ladies will know

Hi Kavinarayan,

Nice post in 10 mins Mysore pak.

Will definetly try this weekend.

Regards
Prachi

Thanks for sharing

me too will try this weekend.

wow easy will try but 2 cup ghee......

Hi kavi,

Mysore pak is my favourite sweet. Thanks a lot for your 10 min receipe.