Banana custard - episode 5

hi guys, 

This is another episode by Aradhana. This was made by her for mother’s day. Thanks for your likes and comments.

Today’s recipe is banana custard. Hope you all like it.

Badusha/ Balushahi

Happy Diwali my dear friends. I wanted to make badusha for a very Long time. But today is the day, with all the enthusiasm I made it. When all others like jamun, ladoo ,etc, I love badusha from my childhood. Most memorable one. I was the one to grab badusha from the asssorted sweet box, there will be no demand for this humble sweet. So since my hubby and kid likes badusha as week, tried my hands on it. Yet to taste it , posting hot as soon as I made.

Ingredients:

• Maida flour - 1 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 1 tsp
• Salt - 1/2 tsp
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Butter - 2 tbsp
• Curd - 2 tbsp
• Water - little
• Oil
• Sugar - 1 cup for syrup
• Water - 1/2 cup
• Saffron strands - few
• Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp7
• Lemon juice - 1 tsp

Method :

• In a vessel, take the melted butter or ghee, add the sugar, salt and baking powder.
• Mix nicely using your fingers until frothy.
• Add the maida, curd and mix them until the grainy texture is formed.
• Add water little by little and make it into a soft dough. It will have pores and coarse surface which will help the dough for forming layers.

• Do not knead it to a tight dough. Let it rest for sometime.
• For sugar syrup, add the sugar and water. Let it dissolve and stir the syrup up to a single line consistency.

• Once it is ready, add the lemon juice, saffron and cardamom powder. Mix it.
• For making badusha, heat oil in pan.
• Meanwhile knead the dough a little bit and now take small balls out of it and make roundels.

• Give it a small press and put a small hole in between.
• Repeat the process for the rest. 
• Now fry these badushas in hot oil in medium flame. Dip in the sugar syrup for 10 mins.

Yummilicious sweet ready for Diwali.

Kesar badam complan burfi

Hello all, every year I try to innovate new sweets and savouries in my kitchen. Last year I made chocolate burfi which my family loved it. This year it's even more challenging and headbreaking to decide on a sweet to please fellows at home. Let me see, as am posting this have not got review from my family. I am posting right away after making it. So you are the one to see and review it first. This time tried the burfi with my kid's health drink ie. complan. 

I shouldn't boast as such, it came out really well. We need not stand in the kitchen for a Long time. If the ingredients are ready, the sweet is ready in 15 mins. Do try out this for your Diwali and write to me.

Ingredients:

• Milk powder - 1 cup
• Complan kesar badam - 1 cup
• Almond powder - few tsp for garnish
• Milk - 1/4 cup
• Condensed milk - 1/4 cup( adjust according to the sweetness as the complan powder contains sugar)
• Ghee - 2 tsp
• Saffron - few strands

Method:

• For almond powder, I ground fresh almonds in a mixer with skin into a semi coarse powder.
• In a pan, add the milk powder, complan powder and sauté for 2 mins.
• Add the condensed milk and keep stirring it. Check the sweetness when you pour the condensed milk. I used Low fat Milkmaid which was very sweet, so few spoons were sufficient.
• Mix nicely. Slightly sprinkle milk to mix the burfi into a dough. Add milk unless it is formed into a ball.
• Now remove the burfi dough from the stove.
• In a plate, add a tap of ghee and grease it. Add a tsp of ghee to you fingers and take the dough and spread it across the greased plate.
• Gently sprinkle the almond powder on TOP of the burfi plate and sprinkle the saffron strands as well.

• Wonderful complan burfi is ready. It's not only tasty but healthy as well. 

Cut it into desired shapes and distribute. Quick sweet in 15 mins.

Walnut mini muffins - air fryer

Hi all,

 After nearly 4 months , started writing. For the past four months have been very lazy and lethargic to even cook as my parent in laws and parents. I sited us and again I went on a vacation. Now I am back to my den. Happily relaxed and no much cooking, no work At all . 

Now it's my turn to go back to my work, so just started the blogging too today. I am motivating myself to write regularly. Please do motivate me by your encouraging comments and feedback.

Today I am sharing a simple muffin recipe. You can make any changes that you want to make. I ,add these for my kid's class party on her last day of school. Hope you all like it.

Ingredients :

All purpose flour - 115 gms

Butter - 100 gms

Sugar / powdered sugar - 115 gms

Eggs -2

Baking powder -1tsp

Salt - a pinch

Milk - if needed

Walnuts powdered or crushed - 1 cup

Vanilla Essence -2 tsp

Method :

In a mixing bowl , mix the bitter and sugar with a hand mixer until it becomes fluffy and frothy.

Add the eggs to and beat well.

Add the vanilla Essence and pulse it quickly.

Now at all the dry ingredients together. apf , baking powder, salt ,crushed walnuts.

Mix nicely until it's mixed well into a cake batter. If it's too thick sprinkle little milk and beat the batter.

Once done. Pour the batter into moulds whichever you have.

Sprinkle some crushed walnuts on TOP for crunchy feel.

I have used silicon moulds which I had.

I am using air fryer to bake. Preheat the airfryer for 5 mins at 200 degrees.

Place the cups inside the baking tray of the fryer and close it and set the temperature to 200 or even 180 deg for 10 mins. Check with a tooth pick or skewer if it's done by pricking .if nothing sticks to it , the cake is baked.

If it comes out wet, give 2 more mins standby time for it to to bake well.

Walnut mini muffins are soft and so fluffy.