Carrot Burfi

Carrot Burfi:  

      Carrot Burfi is also know as gajar ka burfi it is a easy sweet recipe made with simple ingredients. It tastes well and kids will sure love this burfi. Hope many mom's will be thinking how to give vegetables to the fussy eating kids. this is nice way of giving carrot to your kids, sure they will finish their plate. Here in this recipe I have added sugar, You can add natural sugar instead of adding white sugar too. 

      Now let us see how to made a delicious burfi using carrot.

Ingredients:

1. Carrot - 3 cup
2. Coconut - 1/2 cup
3. Ghee - 3 tbsp
4. Milk - 1 cup
5. Sugar - 3/4 cup
6. cardamom powder - a pinch
7. Cashew nuts - few

Method:

• Grate the carrot and coconut and keep it ready.
• Grease a plate with ghee and keep it aside.
• Dissolve sugar and make a syrup with one consistency.
  
• Now add the grated carrot and coconut and mix well.
  
  
  
  
• Add the cardamom powder and stir till it leaves the sides of the pan.
• switch off the stove and transfer it to the ghee greased plate.
  
  
  
• Sprinkle chopped pistas/almonds/cashews.
  
• Mark squares and allow it to cool.
  
• Take out from the plate and serve.

Coconut Burfi without milk /Coconut Burfi

Coconut Burfi without milk /Coconut Burfi:

Coconut Burfi is a sweet made fully with grated coconut and for making this burfi we need simple ingredients and of-course easy to make this recipe. Since it is a sweet recipe you can try this for any special occasion too. I made this sweet for this diwali and had no time to post this recipe.
   Now let us see how to make this recipe.

Ingredients:

1. Coconut - 1 cup (grated)
2. Sugar - 3/4 cup
3. Water - 1/4 cup
4. Cashew / Almonds/Pista- 1 tbsp
5. Cardamom powder - a pinch
6. Ghee - 1 tsp

Method:

• Take a pan and add sugar and water and boil it to reach one string consistency. 
• Now add the grated coconut and mix well add the cardamom powder and 1 tsp of ghee in it.
• Grease a plate with ghee and keep it ready.
• When it comes to the form of non-sticky it will leaves the side of the pan. This is the right stage to remove from  the flame. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Pour this to the ghee greased plate and level it . Sprinkle the chopped pistachios and cut into squares when it is warm itself.
  
• Take out from the plate when it completely cool down.
  
• Store it in a air tight container.

Cornflour halwa /Bombay Karachi Halwa

Cornflour Halwa:

Cornflour halwa is also known as Bombay karachi halwa. This halwa is easy to make and it tastes well.For this halwa I have used yellow food color. You can use any color of your choice but traditionally yellow, orange and red colors are used. Let us see how to make cornflour halwa recipe.

Ingredients:

1. Cornflour - 1/2 cup
2. Water - 1 and 1/2 cups
3. Orange/yellow food color - 1 pinch
4. Sugar  - 1 cup  
5. Cashew nuts / Almonds - 1/4 cup
6. Cardamom powder - 1 pinch
7. Dry Ginger powder - 1 tsp
8. Ghee - 2tbsp

Method:

• Grease a plate with ghee.
• In a pan add 1 tsp of ghee and add badam and cashews and fry it till brown.
• Add sugar in a pan and 1 cup of water and allow it to boil. Let the sugar syrup thickens, no need to bring it to the string consistency.
  
  
  
  
• Meanwhile in a mixing bowl add the cornflour and 1 and 1/2 cup of water, food color and mix well without lumps and keep aside.
  
• After the sugar syrup thickens add the cornflour mixture and mix well and make the stove in the low flame. Stir the mixture continuously ,you can see the mixture gets thickens.
  
  
  
  
• After the mixture thickens add ghee and mix well.
  
  
  
  
• Now add the fried cashews and badam , cardamom powder, dry ginger powder and mix well.
• When the mixture gets thickens , it will not stick to the pan, this is the right consistency.
  
  
  
• Pour this mixture to the ghee greased plate and keep it aside. Let it cool.
  
  
  
  
• When it cool completely cut the halwa in squares.
  

Sweet diamond cuts / Maida Biscuts/Diamond cuts

Sweet diamond cuts / Maida Biscuits:

   A traditional sweet biscuit recipe even a kid can do is our sweet diamond cuts.When is was in my mum's house i used to do this often since it is a nice snacks. It is easy to make and it consume less time for making this sweet diamond cuts. This is also called as the maida biscuits. Try this easy sweet recipe at your home and let me know how easy is this as  i said. Now let us see how to make this biscuits.

Ingredients:

1. All purpose flour/ Maida - 1 cup
2. Sugar - 1/4 cup
3. Ghee - 1 tsp
4. Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
5. Salt - a pinch
6. Oil - for deep frying

Method:

• Add sugar in the mixer and grind it to a fine powder.
  
  
  
  
• In a mixing bowl add maida, powdered sugar, ghee, baking soda, salt and mix well.
• Add water and knead it to a soft dough.
  
  
  
  
• Set it aside for at-least 15 min.
• After 15 mins knead it again and divide it to equal size balls.
  
  
  
• Dust some flour and roll it as we do for chapathi , but it should be as thin as possible then only you will get a crunchy biscuits.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Cut it using a cutter or knife will do.
• Heat oil in a pan for deep frying .
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Drop the biscuits and fry till golden brown.
  
• Now our biscuits are ready to taste!!
  

Badhusha

Badhusha:

    Badhusha is a sweet loved by most of the people. To be frank I don't  love this sweet badhusha very much. But I tried for this diwali , because i was tempted to make this sweet when i came accross the diwali sweet recipes in net. It came out well and now I started to love badhusha.. Let us see how to make this sweet.

Ingredients:

1. Maida/ All purpose flour -1 and 1/2 cup
2. Butter - 1/4 cup
3. Oil  - 1/8 cup
4. Curd - 2 tbsp
5. Cooking soda - 1/2 tsp
6. water 1/4 cup (approx)
7. Oil - For deep frying
8. Ghee - 1 tsp

Sugar Syrup:

1. Sugar - 1/2 cup
2. Water - 3/4 cup
3. Cardamom powder - a pinch
4. Saffron - few
5. Lemon juice - few drops

Method:

• Heat a pan and add the butter to it, melt the butter and switch off the stove.
  
  
  
  
• In a mixing bowl add the melted butter, curd, oil, cooking soda, sugar , and mix well using a hand whisk. 
  
  
  
  
• Now add the Maida and mix well using the hands. The texture of the mixed flour would look like bread crumbs and the consistency will be like puttu flour. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Add water to make it as a soft dough. Better wet your hands and knead, wet it often instead of adding water, since to get the right dough consistency.
• Let it be aside for atleast 15 mins.
  
• After 15 mins knead the dough again and divide it to a equal balls and make a shape in it. You can make it in regular shape.
  
• Add sugar and water in a pan and make sugar syrup to get the one string consistency. After you get the right sugar syrup consistency add cardamom powder, saffron and few drops of lemon juice(lemon juice it added to the sugar syrup to avoid crystalization).
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Heat oil in a pan for deep frying (don't heat the oil in full flame, let it be heat in low flame itself). Check the oil temperature by droping a small amount of dough in it and it should rise up immediately this is the right temp.
• Now add 2 or 3 badhushas and switch off the stove immediately.let the badhusha be cooked in the pre- heated oil. When the bubbles from the badhusha stops, switch on the stove and keep it in a low flame.
• Cook both the sides till light brown.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Drain the excess oil using tissue paper and drop the badhusha in the sugar syrup and dip both the sides well by fliping it. Let it be immersed till the next set of badhusha is ready. Then take out from the sugar syrup. 
  
• Now our badhusha is ready!!!