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Moong dhal payasam

Payasam or kheer is a dessert variety and you would simply love this payasam as it involves minimal steps and can be made in say 20 minutes. Do try this recipe at your home and it is a bachelor's recipe as it calls for less number of ingredients and hardly few steps from the start to finish. Here are few other sweet recipes if you wanna try at your kitchen.  Kaaju katli Coconut Burfi Bombay halwa Rava Laddu Paalkova Baklava Upside Down Apple Sundae Casatta Ice Cream Chocolate dipped Strawberries Carrot Halwa Kashi halwa Steamed caramel Custard Ingredients: 100 gms of split moong dhal 200 ml of water 75 gms of jaggery 1 tbsp ghee a pinch of cardamom powder (optional) handful of chopped nuts (cashew or pistachios) How to make moong dhal payasam: 1. Take moong dhal onto a pressure pan. Wash it twice or thrice till the water runs clear. Add 200 ml of water and pressure cook for about 5 whistles. Once cooked, let the pressure release by itself. The dhal cooks nicely with 5 whistles. Bes...

Paneer Gulab Jamun

It's the festival season here and i have started making gulab jamun a week prior to the festival just because i'm crazy about this particular sweet. I wanted to make it something special out of the ordinary so i went to make paneer gulab jamun. Though there were so many tempting ads going around in the TV for instant gulab jamun mix, i specifically ignored it all! Here it is guys! - tried and tested recipe of paneer gulab jamum. I have used home made paneer - recipe can be found at this link . Pulse the paneer in a mixer jar for 2-3 times and knead it along with milk powder, all purpose flour/wheat flour. I have used wheat flour in today's recipe. The dough is ready and make your favorite shapes for frying in oil. Then soak fried jamun's in warm sugar syrup. Tada! paneer jamun - a savior for our sweet tooth any time. Happy Cooking guys ! Ingredients: 250 gms of crumbled paneer 3 tbsp milk powder 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup water few spoons of milk few saffron st...

Thin Semiya Kheer

Semiya kheer is a dessert which we enjoy during every other festival be it ganesh chaturthi, makarsankranti, diwali, ayudha pooja. My mom usually makes it with sabudhana (sago) and chironji seeds. In today's recipe, i will share the easiest version of semiya payasam. I happened to buy few chunks of thin vermicelli last month and it's been lying around and was in a dilemma whether to make kesari out of it or just a kheer. Finally locked it up for kheer. Just look at these beauties. Long strands of thin vermicelli simply being folded around to form round shaped chunks. Aren't they cute! These long strands need to be broken while roasting, you can do the preparation while the raisins and cashews, almonds are being roasted in ghee. Let's see the step wise pictures and details of how to make the kheer/payasam. Ingredients: 1/2 cup thin semiya, broken 1/2 cup sugar 1.5 cups of full cream milk 1 tsp cardamom powder 1 tbsp chopped dry fruits and nuts ( ra...

Bread Halwa

Bread Halwa is a quick fix for your sweet cravings on any given day. Bread is easily available in the stores. It does not consume much time in cooking like any other halwa as the bread is already in baked form we do not cook it more in the process of halwa making. Ingredients: 6 slices of white bread 3/4 cup of sugar (250 ml cup) 1.5 cups of water(250 ml cup) dry fruits like cashews, pistachios, almonds and walnuts 1/4 cup ghee Steps: 1. Toast white bread slices by removing the edges, on a tawa or a non-stick pan. 2. Flip the bread slices, drizzle some ghee. 3. Toast on both sides and keep aside. 4. Onto the same pan, add sugar and water. 5. Bring it to boil. 6. Add bread slices. 7.  Stir gently so that the bread gets mixed in sugar syrup. 8. In a blender, add dry fruits. 9. Grind it to a coarse powder. 10. Let the bread dissolve completely and form into a mass. 11. Add dry fruit powder. Mix it once and switch off t...