Fruit Payasam

Ingredients:

Apple - 1/2

Banana - 1

Orange-1

Grapes - 1/2 cup\

Guava -1

Cashew nut - 6

Kismis - 1 tsp

Milk - 5 cups

Vanilla custard powder - 2 tsp

Sugar - 1 1/2 cup

Method:

Take 5 cup of milk and boil 4 cup of  milk.

Add vanilla custard powder into another cup of milk.

And Mix with boiling milk.then add sugar.

After boiled well switch off the stove.

Keep it cool.

Remove the skins of all fruits and cut into small pieces.

And cut the cashew nut in small pieces

MIx the pieces of fruits and cashew nuts in the cooled milk.

Add serve it cool.

  

Bread Gulab jamun

Ingredients:

6 milk/sweet bread slices

1/2 cup milk

1/2 tsp cardamom powder

3/4 cup sugar

1 cup water

Oil/Ghee to fry

Method:

Dip the bread slices in milk and squeeze it out completely. You can either cut out the corners of the bread or let it remain. Knead it into a dough and make balls of it. Add milk if required to make the dough. I opted for the less fat version by frying it in the paniyaram pan with few drops of oil. If you are not calorie conscious you can deep fry the balls in oil/ghee.

                        Heat the sugar and water to a sticky consistency. Add cardamom powder to the syrup and soak the bread balls in it for about 1/2 hr. Serve

                         

Butter Badushah

Ingredients:

1.5 cups of all purpose flour

1/4 cup unsalted butter at room temperature

2 tbsp beaten curd

1 tsp sugar

1.5 tbsp oil

1/2 tsp cooking soda

1/2 cup sugar

Cardamom powder for flavour

3/4 cup water

Bit of lemon juice

Water as required

Oil to fry

Method:

Mix the butter, oil, sugar, curd and soda well. Slowly add in the flour and keep mixing it well. Finally add water as required to get a soft dough. Keep aside for 10 minutes and prepare the sugar syrup by that time.

Heat the sugar and water to get a single string consistency. Add in the lemon juice and cardamom powder and keep aside. Make small balls of the dough and flatten them slightly. To make the corners decorative, have a look at the videos at Sharmis blog or Raks kitchen. 

Heat oil in medium flame. Put a small piece of the flour to check the heat. If it pops up immediately, put in a few pieces of the badushah and switch off the stove. Dont disturb it and let it cook in the oil. When the bubbles settle down, switch on the stove again and cook on medium flame till golden brown. Drain excess oil in a tissue paper and dip in the sugar syrup. Let it stay soaked for 2-3 minutes and then transfer to a greased plate. Repeat for rest of the dough.

Although it takes a reasonable time to prepare these, the end results are just fantastic. Garnish with cardamom powder or saffron strands.

Coconut- milk powder burfi

Ingredients:

1 cup finely grated coconut

1/2 cup milk powder

1 cup sugar

1 tsp cardamom powder

2 tbsp ghee.

Method:

Mix coconut and milk powder together. Make a sugar syrup with little water to get sticky consistency. Add the coconut milk powder mixture and cardamom powder. Also add ghee and keep stirring well till the mixture starts leaving the sides of the vessel.

Transfer to a greased plate and cut into desired pieces when a little cool.