Rasbhara

Hi everyone!
The festive season with Saraswati Puja kept me busy and hence was not able to post new recipes.  Now I am back with another interesting recipe for a dessert. This sweet is ideal for prasad for puja at home or it could also help those away from home to satisfy the cravings of homemade sweets!

Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 30 mins

Serves: 7-8 people (15-20 pieces)

Ingredients:

• Sweet potato - 2-3 medium to large sized
• White Flour - 2 tablespoon
• Sugar - 2 cups
• Cardamoms - 3-4 pieces
• Water - 3 cups
• White oil - 1 cup

 Instruction:

• Boil the peeled sweet potatoes
• In a flat pan mix the sugar and water and boil it until sugar melts and syrup is ready.
• Add ground cardamoms and let the syrup cools down.
• Mash the boiled potatoes with white flour.
• Make medium sized balls (roughly 1 inch in diameter)
• Heat the oil in deep non-stick kadai.
• Fry the balls in boiling oil in high flame.
• Lower the flame once the balls turn light brown.
• Once the balls turn deep brown, turn off the heat.
• Immerse the fried balls in sugar syrup

Delicious sweet is ready to eat!

Please try it out and share your feedback!

Chinese Rohu

Hi friends,
Hope all are fine and liked my last fish recipe. Its time again for another interesting recipe using fish.

Chinese Rohu 

Prepataion time: 20 mins

Cooking time: 10 mins

Serves : 3-4 

Ingrediants:

• Rohu/Catla Fish - 3-4 pieces
• Garlic cloves - 4-5 pieces chopped
• Onion - 1 small sliced
• Capsicum - 1 small cubes
• Tomato - 1 big puree
• Onion Seeds (Kalojeera/ Kalonji) - 1 teaspoon
• Celery Seeds (Radhuni) - 1/2 teaspoon
• Green Chilli- 1 chopped
• Tumeric powder - 1 teaspoon
• Red chilli powder - 1 teaspoon
• Tomato Ketchup/Sugar - 2 teaspoons
• Salt as per taste
• Oil - 2 tablespoons

Instruction:

• Marinate the fish with salt and turmeric powder keep for 5 mins.
• Fry the marinated fish in oil and keep aside.
• In a pan add oil and celery seeds and then add onion seeds.
• Add garlic fry it little and then add green chillies, onion and capsicum and slightly fry it.
• Add all masalas and stir it.
• Add tomato puree and stir till oil seperates.
• Add tomato ketchup, sugar and water as required for gravy.
• Add salt as required.

Serve this lovely Chinese fish Rice/ Fried rice.

Enjoy it! Please give your valuable feedback.

Kesari Shahi Tukra

Happy New Year! Hope all of you have great 2018 ahead. I thought of sharing some sweetness in the air in the new year. So its time for some desserts.

 

Kesari Shahi Tukra

Preparation time: 10 mins

Cooking time: 30 mins

Serves: 3-4 people

Ingredients: 

• Bread (white or brown) - 4 slices
• Milk - 1/2 litre
• Condensed milk - 100 g
• Khoa/Mawa - 50 g
• Kesar - 1 pinch
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Water- 1/2cup
• Ghee - 2 tablespoon
• Tutty Fruity - in various colours for decoration

Instructions:

• Boil the milk and reduce half and keep stirring.
• Add kesar and milk will trun little yellowish in colour.
• Add condensed milk.
• Add Khoa or Mawa in it.
• Add 4 - 6 teaspoon sugar to make it sweeter taste.
• After milk become thick (like Kheer) then turn off the gas.
• In a pan add sugar and water and boil till turns to syrup.
• Spread ghee on the both sides of bread.
• Fry the slice till it turns light brown in colour.
• Dip the fried slice in the sweet syrup and keep in a bowl.
• Spread the kheer above the fried slice.
• Decorate it some tutty fruity.

Serve it slightly hot !! Enjoy this desert at home and definitely you all like it.

Please try this out with your home ingrediants and give feedback.