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.

Veg spring roll

Today it's a all time Favourite snack loved by all of us and the kids too. I generally load it with veggies. It's a Chinese starter, but mine is a Indochina she version. We can make the same recipe by adding minced chicken or mutton for non veg version. I made this last year for my kid's birthday party. All my friends loved it. It's easy to make once the veggies are ready and I have used spring roll sheets.

Ingredients: 

• Carrot - 1 minced
• Cabbage - 200 gms minced or finely chopped
• Capsicum - 100 gms - chopped finely
• Spring onions - half a bunch finely chopped or minced
• Garlic cloves - 10 minced
• Salt
• Soya sauce - 1 or 1/2 tsp
• Pepper powder - 1 tsp
• MSG - optional
• Spring roll sheets
• Cooking oil 
• Maida - for making paste
• Water

Method : 

• For the filling, heat oil in a pan, add the finely chopped garlic. Once its fried, add the chopped onions.

• Add all the veggies, soya sauce, salt and pepper powder.

• Add the spring onions and msg. Stir well.

• Switch off once all the veggies are boiled and cooked.
• For the rolls preparation, take a spring roll sheet( readymade) place it on a flat surface. Take a spoon of filling and place it in middle.

• Fold the sheet from side wards and cover the TOP. Seal it using the maida paste. 

• For Maida paste, in a bowl, add maida, water and little salt and mix it into a smooth paste.
• Repeat the procedure for rest of the spring rolls and keep it ready.

• Heat oil in a pan, place the prepared rolls in the oil, fry them on all sides till crispy.

Wonderful spring rolls ready for kitty party.

Banana kesari / vazhaipazha kesari

Welcoming post with a sweet. I have been too busy nd lazy in blogging for a Long time. I will Ensure myself to blog continuously. Today's recipe is a simple sweet, everybody's Favourite is the humble kesari, I have added banana to the normal kesari which gives a a really good taste to the kesari from the usual one.

Diwali preparations would have started in all your houses. I am yet to decide on the savouries and sweets.

Ingredients:

• Ghee - 1/2 cup
• Banana - 1 or 2 smashed
• White Rava - 1 cup
• Sugar - 11/4 cups
• Water - 3 cups
• Fried nuts - 2 tsp( Optional)
• Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
• Orange food color - a pinch

Method:

• Dry Roast Rava.
• Boil water. Add the banana pulp and the food color to it .Stir well.
• Add sugar. Mix well. Let it dissolve.
• Add the rava and allow it to boil.
• After the rava is cooked well ,add Ghee. Cook till ghee comes out.
• Add the cardamom powder and fried nuts. Mix well.

Wonderful mouthwatering banana kesari is ready.

Aubergine fritters / kathrikkai bajji

Hi all , starting the day with a yummilicious starter for all the veggie lovers. This fritter is made with the aubergine which is the big eggplant or the brinjal. generally, we used to make bajji with brinjal by using besan flour. This fritter has a twist in the mixture and I love the taste of it so much. I am not sure though, how many of you would like this taste. Do give it a try. My Mom and grand Mom used to make this in ordinary brinjal. Once I had this fritter in a restaurant. I fell in love with this. Of course I found the batter that they used as a foodie, it's all in the game. Going to the recipe now.

 

Ingredients:

Aubergine ( big eggplant ) - 1

Dosa batter ( sour one will give better taste)- 1 cup

Besan flour - 3-4 tsp

Salt

Oil

Chilly powder - one tsp

Method :

Cut the Aubergine into small wedges.

In a bowl, take the dosa batter, add chilly powder, besan flour, salt( add little for the vegetable , since the batter will have salt) and mix nicely. Do not add water, the consistency will become watery.

Heat oil in a pan, once it is hot. Start to fry the fritters.

Take the pieces of wedges and dip in the batter and fry it until crisp.

It will be very crispy as we have added besan flour also.

 

Crispy and crunchy aubergine fritters ready!

Mutton sukka

One of the most Favourite dish by all the non veg lovers is mutton sukka. That too with hot rice, rasam the combo will be yum.. I have already shared my chicken chukka recipe earlier. This is a different version . Mutton sukka can be had with rice, as sides. It can also be had as a starter. This is not the generally made pepper fry. The same way. Hi ken chukka can also be made. This recipe can be made in mushrooms, prawns and also babycorn for veg version. Try making out this simple recipe and post your comments.

 

Ingredients :

Mutton - 500 kg

Onions - 2 big sized finely chopped

Curry leaves

Cumin seeds - 2 tsp

Red chilly -4-5

Pepper corns - 1 tsp

Coriander seeds - 2 tsp

Fennel seeds - 1 tsp ( optional)

Salt

Oil

Water

Turmeric powder - 1 tsp

Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp

Red chilly -1

Green chilly -1

Method :

Wash the mutton nicely and chop it into small pieces.

In a vessel add the washed mutton, salt and turmeric powder . Cook for 7-8 whistles.

Heat a pan, add 100 gms of oil, splutter curry leaves, red chilly and green chilly.

Add the chopped onions and fry them nicely until it becomes brown.

Add the ginger garlic paste and fry for 2 more mins.

Meanwhile, in a mixer grind the cumin seeds, red chillies,  coriander seeds , fennel seeds and pepper corns into a medium coarse powder. Do not the roast the ingredients. Grind it raw.

Once the ginger garlic paste raw smell vanishes, add the cooked mutton, the ground powder and salt and allow it cook once the masala is cooked well and nicely coated on mutton.

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Garnish with curry leaves and serve hot with rice! 

Palakkottai fry / Jackfruit seeds fry

A very tasty vegetarian side dish.. Many people like jackfruit seeds. I am not a big fan though, but my hubby loves it. Made Thia yummy and crunchy palakkottai fry. Hope you all like its garlicky flavour. 

Ingredients:

Jackfruit seeds - 15

Garlic pods - 5

Mustard seeds - 1 tsp

Chilly powder - 1 tsp

Curry leaves

Oil

Salt

 

Method:

Pressure cook or boil the jackfruit up to 4 whistles.

Peel off the outer cover and chop the seeds into smaller pieces.

Heat a pan, add oil and splutter mustard seeds and curry leaves.

Add the crushed garlic no fry it.

Add the chopped jackfruit seeds, chilly powder, salt.

Close and cook for 5-7 mins.

 

Yummy seeds fry is ready to eat with sambar rice and curd rice !!!

 

Prawns ghee roast

Off late I have been very busy as well as lethargy to write up a post.. I have a lot of dishes still pending in my system. All my friends and relatives started asking if I have stopped blogging.. Nooo I have not stopped , just that getting too busy these days with house chores.

Today I am posting a yummilicious prawns ghee roast recipe. The taste will linger in your mouth. Simple, authentic recipe with freshly ground masala powder.

 

Ingredients: 

Prawns - 1 kg deveined 

Curd - 2 tbsp

Salt

Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp

Ghee - one cup

Garlic -5 cloves

Ginger -1"

Onion - 2 finely chopped

Curry leaves

To grind: 

Red chillies - 5-6

Kashmiri Chilli -4

Cumin seeds - 2tsp

Pepper corns -2 tsp

Fennel seeds - 2 tsp

Coriander seeds -2 tsp

 

Method :

Take a pan, add the washed and deveined  prawns.

Add turmeric powder and sauté the prawns until the prawns is cooked well.

Take the prawns separately in a plate and discard the excess water oozed out from prawns.

Heat another pan, dry roast the ingredients in to grind list.

Grind it to a fine powder along with garlic and ginger.

Heat a pan, add the ghee . Add the chopped onions and curry leaves. 

Once it's fried ,add the ground masala, curd and mix nicely.

Keep stirring until the excess ghee comes out and the masala is cooked nicely.

Add the boiled prawns and keep stirring until the masala is nicely coated on the prawns and it gets roasted well.

Cook for 5 mins in Sim.

 

Flavourful prawns ghee roast is ready to eat as starter or with sambar rice, rasam or you can also mix it up with rice and have just like that! 

Yum yum yum!