Sooji halwa/ Sheera Recipe.......!!!!!!

                                                            Sooji Halwa / Sheera.....!!!!!!!

The all time favorite sweet dish recipe prepared during festivals and any other auspicious occasion.where it usually served as 'prasad' (offering to the Gods) Sheera is prepared from roasted semolina or rava . The sooji is roasted in ghee and then cooked with sugar and water till soft and garnished with dry fruits.

Ingredients:
1/2 Cup - Semolina (Rawa)
3/4 Cup Sugar
1/2 tsp Green Cardamom powder
2 tbsp Clarified Butter (Ghee)
1 tbsp Raisins
1 cup Milk
3/4 cup Water
few Almond Flakes
Saffron color


Method:
- Boil milk and water for couple of minutes. Turn off the flame and keep it aside.

- Put 1&1/2 tbsp of clarified butter (ghee) into a frying pan and add semolina. Stir well on low flame and roast it till golden brown for 5 - 7 Minutes.

- Add hot milk & water. Boil this till the water dries out completely.

- Add sugar. Stir well

- When the sheera is thick, add green cardamom powder, saffron food  color, almond flakes and
raisins.

- Mix well till it stops sticking to the walls of the frying pan. Add clarified butter or ghee (Optional)

- Plate this on a serving plate
- Garnish it with few almond flakes

Rice Kheer Recipe.....!!!!!!!!!!

Rice Kheer Recipe.....!!!!! 

 Indian Rice kheer (one of the most popular Indian dessert ) made using milk. rice, condensed milk and green cardamom  powder 

INGREDIENTS-
1/2 l tr. milk
4 tbsp. condensed milk
3 tbsp. rice (soaked in water for 1 hour)
1 tbsp. raisins
pistachio flakes
almond flakes
1 tsp. cardamom powder
1 tbsp. ghee

METHOD-
- Grind the rice & water in the mixer into a smooth paste.

- Pour milk into a round bottom pan. Bring it to a boil.

- Add the rice paste. Stir well.

- Keep cooking till the milk reduces almost to half. Avoid lumps.

- add ghee

- Add condensed milk. Mix well.

Ras Malai Recipe.....!!!!!

 Ras Malai, cotton soft cheese in a creamy milk sauce, is a delectable Indian dessert. Find out how easy it is to make and impress your family and friends. Ras Malai is a delicious and perfect end to any Indian meal. Make it for your next party or holiday celebration!

Ingredients:

Whole Milk – 8 cups (divided)
Lemon Juice – 2 Tbsp
1/4 tbsp. maida/ cornflour
pinch of baking powder
Water – 5 cups
Sugar – 1 cup
Saffron – pinch
Cardamom Powder – 1/4 tsp
Pistachios & Almonds – 2 Tbsp, roughly chopped
Sugar for taste
Method:-
1. Boil 4 cups milk in a steel pan and boil the remaining 4 cups milk in a non-stick pan (The milk in the non-stick pan needs to be reduced to half the quantity so once it comes to a boil, keep the flame low and keep cooking while stirring occasionally. Add saffron, cardamom powder to the milk while boiling)

2. Once the milk in the steel pan comes to a rolling boil, slowly add lemon juice.
3. When the milk curdles (paneer), switch off the stove and strain the paneer in a cheese cloth.
4. Pour a little cold water over the paneer and hang the cheese cloth on the tap for approx 30 minutes to remove all of the liquid.
5. Remove the paneer from the cheese cloth and cornflour, maida and small pinch of baking powder and mix it everything together.

6. In a pan add 1 cup sugar to the water to make the sweet syrup by stirring continuously till the sugar dissolves completely.

7. Meanwhile make tight round balls of the paneer dough

8. Add paneer balls in the sugar syrup cook for high flame for the 15 mins. After 15 mins turn off the flame.

9. Remove the cooked paneer with a slotted spoon into a bowl and allow it to cool.
10. Meanwhile, the milk in the non-stick pan should have reduced to half. Add sugar to taste and nuts.

11. Once the paneer is cool enough to handle with your hands, gently squeeze out the sugar syrup and add the prepared reduced milk and cook for 6 mins. Switch off the stove and cool down the Ras Malai
12. Ras Malai chill in the Refrigerator.
Serve the chilled Ras malai Garnish with pistachios......enjoy