Sabudana Kheer (Topioca pudding)

In India we have wide variety of recipes for fasting, One of them is sabudana kheer.
Ingredients:
5 cup milk
1 cup sabudana
1 tsp ghee
some nuts(slivered)
1/4 cup sugar or according to your taste
2-3 cardamom (powdered)
some raisins
pinch of saffronRecipe:

• Soak  sabudana for (15 mins If small size, 4-5 hour If big size)
• Heat the ghee in a Pan, add raisins and slivered nuts, shallow fry them in ghee.
• Pour in milk and let it boil for 10-15 mins
• Add sabudana and let it cook till it can be pressed with fingers Add sugar and mix till dissolves completely

Add  cardamom powder

Garnish with pinch of saffron .

Sweet sabudana kheer is ready to serve.. It tastes good with rajgira Paratha..Enjoy yummy fasting.

surti ghari

Ingredients:

Filling:

1 1/2 cup ricotta cheese

1/2 cup sugar

2 tbsp ghee

1/4 cup sooji(fine semolina)

3/4 cup ground almonds and pistachios

8-10 strands saffron(soaked in 1 tbsp milk)

8-10 cardamom powdered

For puri:

1 cup all purpose flour(meda)

1 tbsp ghee

milk for binding

For garnishing:

1 cup ghee

1/3 cup powdered sugar

almonds and pistachios, slivered

Recipe:

(for filling)

1. heat the ghee in a nonstick pan , add ricotta cheese and stir constantly over medium heat till water is absorbed. let it cool
2. Now in a separate pan roast the sooji for about 3-4 min on medium heat.
3. Mix sooji, almond , pistachios, cardamom powder , saffron and sugar to the ricotta cheese.
4. make balls of equal size from the above mixture. (approx 1 " diameter)

(for Puri)

Add ghee to the all purpose flour, Now bind it with milk and make soft yet firm dough.Now make small balls and roll out to puris of apprx 3" diameter.

Preparing Ghari:

1. Place a ball into each puri
2. pull up the sides to completely wrap the ball
3. carefully remove the excess dough from top and press the dough to seal
4. slightly press the top of the ball to make it flat
5. Heat the ghee in a frying pan on low heat
6. fry the puris on both side till light golden in colour
7. set aside for 3-4 hours to cool

Garnishing the ghari:

with clean hand whip the ghee and sugar until light and fluffy.Dip the gharis and place on waxed paper lined cookie sheet. place the slivers of pistachios and almonds on top centre. set aside for the ghee to be firm.. Ghari is now ready to serve.

Note: Ghee for garnishing should be firm.

Oats Dosa

• Ingredients:
  
  1 cup oats (soak in water for 20 mins)
  1/2 cup soji
  curd
  salt
  onion
  cilantro
  Green chili, Ginger
  Recipe:
• Grind all together soaked oats, rava , curd , rice powder , salt, green chili and ginger..keep it for half n hour
  
• Make smooth batter for dosa, add onion, cilantro and make dosa.
  
  This is very healthy and low calorie recipe.. I read about this recipe in my orkut community IHM, And tried it.. It's now one of our fav. healthy, instant and tasty breakfast recipe

mawa laddu stuffed with dryfruits

Ingredients:


Ricotta cheese 200 gm
Sugar 1/4 cup
Anjeer 3-4 (cut )
Almonds 1/4 cup ( shredded)
cardamom 5-6 ( powdered)
Saffron little bit soaked in 1/4 cup milk

Recipe:


Take a cooking Pan and add the ricotta cheese ,Stir it continuously for 10-15 mins and Make mawa (khoya) from it.

• Let the mawa cool down.
  
• Add sugar, powdered cardamom to the mawa..
• again heat it for 2-3 mins and mix well. let it cool down .
• make equal size of balls from the mawa..
• take each ball in hand and make it small katori shape, stuff it with anjeer and almond pieces.. carefully close it and press with fingers in the centre of each ball...
• Take the saffron soaked in milk, garnish each laddu with saffron colour ..

U can garnish with pista as well as almond pieces. Refrigerate it for 2-3 hours before serving..

Sweet laddu stuffed with Anjeer and badam is ready to serve..