Category: Dessert

This dessert is a different take on a custard pudding instead of fruit we are using the OG biscuits ‘Parle G’

Ingredients

• 3-4 packets – Parle G biscuits
• Half teaspoon  – Coffee
• Half cup – Hot water
• One third cup – Condensed milk
• Two tablespoon – Custard powder
• Two glasses – Milk
• Two cups – Heavy whipping cream

Method

• Beat the cream until peaks form
• To make custard mix the custard powder in half cup cold milk and put the remaining milk to boil in a pan
• Add the custard slurry in the rest of the milk
• When the custard starts to thicken up,add the condensed milk and keep stirring. Take off the gas
• Once the custard has cooled strain it through a sieve so that the custard has no lumps and has a smooth consistency 
• Mix the cream and custard together in a cut n fold method 
• To prepare the coffee mixture,mix coffee in hot water
• Dip the biscuits in the coffee and start layering them in a dish
• Put a thick layer of the cream and custard mixture over the layer of biscuit
• Keep layering until you’re done with the mixture
• Decorate the top with fruits,crushed up biscuits or anything you want to 
• Refrigerate for a new hours
• Enjoy chilled!!

Variation: You can add an additional layer of fruits in between the cream and biscuits to make it healthier!!

Crepes are a sort of thin pancake which can either be served with a sweet or savory filling.You can add your own innovations to customize your crepe how ever you  like

Ingredients

• Half cup –  Milk 
• Two-third cup – Water 
• One – fourth cup – Butter (melted)
• Two tablespoon –  Vanilla extract
• One cup – Flour 
• One tablespoon – Sugar 
• A pinch of salt 
• One tablespoon –  Vegetable oil

NOTE

• You can also use half cup of flour and half cup of whole wheat flour to make it healthier.
• You can also add sprinkles or chocochips to make it more colorful

Method

• Mix together all the dry ingredients together until well combined
• In a another bowl mix water,milk,vanilla till well combined
• Mix the dry in the wet until there are no lumps and add the rest of the ingredients(make sure you add the butter after the mixture is made otherwise the milk and butter will clump up and essentially ruin the batter)
• On a medium flame pour some batter on a non-stick pan and spread the mixture thin and even.
•  Flip once the crepe starts to bubble
• Make sure the crepe is well done so your not eating anything raw (it should have brown spots and it should not look white in the center,it means that the crepe is raw)
• You can serve with chocolate syrup,whipped cream,ice cream.The list is endless
• Eat it while it’s still hot!!

 NOTE

• You can also use half cup of flour and half cup of whole wheat flour to make it healthier.
• You can also add sprinkles or chocochips to make it more colorful

You and your kids and do it as a fun activity to see which one comes up with the most innovative crepe recipe.And remember you can make your sweet or savory…whatever your stomach says…go for it!!

This is one of the simplest recipes when you want to eat an Indian sweet and don’t want to spend time in the kitchen for too long. This typically would take 10-15 min to make. I have always made on Rakhi (Indian festival where brother sister bond is celebrated)  and if I have sudden guests over. My daughter loves to makes it shapes in the end and decorate

Do give it a try simple sweet recipe

INGREDIENTS

• Paneer- 100 grams 
• Cardamom powder – 1 pinch 
• Cashews – 8 
• Milk – 40ml 
• Milk maid – 100 ml 
• Cream ( fresh ) – 40 ml 
• Milk powder – ½ cup 
• Ghee – 1 tablespoon
• Dry fruits for garnish

METHOD

1.  Grind everything in a grinder to form a smooth paste, except milk powder and ghee.

2.  Then mix the milk powder and the paster evenly in a non-stick pan.

3.  Cook it for 2-3 minutes and then add one tablespoon of ghee and keep stirring to avoid any lumps. 

4. Cook till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan. 

5. Take it out on a food paper and give it a more smooth texture by ploughing/ kneading. 

6. Let it cool and make it in your desired shape.

7.  Decorate it with your desired garnish of dry fruits.

8. You can chill it little before serving  

NOTES

• This recipe makes about 15-20 small size pedas. 
• U can make it like a barfi in square shape
• My daughter once put chocolate inside it

It is a simple one which I had seen a year back in one of the kids TV shows of fireless cooking and asked my daughter to make . This is now our family favorite. Easy for anyone to make and it is fool proof. You can can change the ingredients quantity as per your taste as we keep tasting it as we go along the way

 INGREDIENTS

• 1 mangoes, chopped

•  1/2 cups fresh cream or whipping cream

• ¼ cup condensed milk

•  ¼  cup milk powder 

 METHOD

 

• Throw all the ingredients in the blender

•  Blend it into a smooth paste

•  Put it into a airtight container and leave overnight

• Scoop it up and enjoy the mango ice-cream 

As promised last time, here is the post on Pista Kulfi. Truly summer season is here and kulfi and ice-cream are on a roll. 

Ingredients

• ½ litre milk
• 7 ½ Tablespoon Sugar
• 2 tablespoon Cornflour
• 100 gms mava (you can even use some burfi or home made mava left after making ghee)
• 1/8^th tsp green colour
• 1/8^th tsp pista essence
• ½ tsp elachi powder or cardamom powder
• 3 tbsp  chopped pista

Method

1. Blend Sugar and cornflour in milk and keep on gas stirring continuously
2. After 3 -4 min switch off the gas , add mawa and let it cool completely
3. Add essence, colour , elachi powder, pista pieces and blend well with beater
4. Fill moulds or steel container and let it set in freezer

You can do variation with Badam instead of pista. Just drop the colour and replace pista with badam or use both.

Summer season is here and one cannot resist making things out of mango. My house hold has been having lot of mango being used like mango rice, mango shake, aam panna …list is endless. When you get amazingly sweet mangoes from your favorite organic Earthy Tales so you try Mango kulfi without any delay.. So here it goes.

Ingredients

• ½ litre milk (preferably full cream)
• 1 Tablespoon Cornflour
• ½ cup Milkmaid
• ½ cup mango pulp (preferably Alphonso)
• ¼ tsp vanilla essence
• Few drops mango emulsion (optional)
• 1/8 tsp orange colour (optional)

Method

1. Mix cornflour and milk and put on gas and boil for 2 min or so
2. Add milkmaid and mango pulp and cook for sometime
3. Let it cool completely
4. Add essence, colour beat till frothy
5. Freeze in small portions otherwise a steel container for 4-5 hours
6. Serve it with fresh mangoes

In my version and I just added little vanilla essence as my Mangoes were too sweet and flavourful. You could also use ready made pulp instead of mangoes.

Watch out for the next article on Pista kulfi

It is two years since I started my blog and what better way to say thank you to god on Basant panchmi. Made this special sweet rice for the prasad today. This also has a special significance today and connection to my mom. It happens to be my parents anniversary as per Hindu Calendar and my mom used to make it every year.

Ingredients

• Long grain rice- 1 cup soaked for 30 min
• Sugar – 1 cup
• Green Cardamom – 2 nos
• Dry fruits- cashews and raisins
• Water- 2 cups
• Turmeric- 1/2 tsp
• Ghee- 1tsp

Method

• Take pressure pan , add ghee and dry roast the dry fruits
• Add cardamom, rice and turmeric and saute for some time
• Add sugar and water
• Pressure cook for 1 whistle and on low sim for 10 min. You could also do it in open pan and cook till water dries.

That’s it!! It’s a simple recipe, so enjoy the lovely sweet rice.

Navratri–or the nine sacred days–mark the most auspicious days of the lunar calendar according to Hinduism. Celebrated with fervour and festivity all over north India, and every Hindu community the world over, these nine days are dedicated solely to Maa Durga (goddess Durga) and her nine avatars. People fast during this and eat very restricted items of Kuttu Atta (buck wheat flour) , Potato, Singhara (water Chestnut Flour)..

This is simple recipe of Singhara Flour Barfi with basic ingredients. It can be made in advance and stored to have it during this period. Most of our familiy loves the same

Ingredients

• 1 cup atta
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup ghee
• 4 cup water
• One plate or try to spread the mixture

Method

1) Dry roast the flour till brown in a pan

2) Add ghee and roast little more

3) Switch off the gas ( this step is done to ensure no lumps are formed). Let the atta cool a little

4) In another pan dissolve sugar with water and add it to the flour

5) Cook the same till everything comes together without lumps

6) Quickly spread it on the greased tray and put lines like a diamond cut on batter till it is warm

7) once the Barfi/Panjiri is set you can remove it and store in airtight container

If you feel you want to add dryfruits or garnish it with silver paper. Pl do the same. I do not do so as everyone loves it this way.

In case you want to have it like halwa then reduce water and add milk to it and then it can be served as halwa.

Bottle Gourd (Lauki) is not a very popular vegetable in our household. But my hubby likes to order it more than the required quantity. Not too sure why does it happen every time : to irritate me; or to give me hints I need to eat it to reduce weight; or challenging my culinary skills on what different things I can make with it!! So this time I’m sharing a simple desert (halwa) variation with Lauki & Milkmaid. It is very simple and does not require too much effort.

Ingredients:

1. Bottle Gourd – 3 Cups grated
2. Ghee – 1/4th cup
3. Milk – 3/4 cup
4. Sugar – 2-3 tbl sp
5. Milk maid – 200 gm
6. Nuts for garnishing
7. Green color – 2-3 drops (optional)

Method : 

• Take a non stick wok and saute the grated lauki for 2 mins.
• Add milk to the wok and let it boil till lauki cooks. It will take about 10min or so.
• Add sugar after some time and let it dissolve and then add ghee
• Add Milkmaid and roast the same for 10min. You can colour if u want at this stage or leave it. I have not added any colour in my dish.
• Roast till the ghee separates. It will take max 10 min or so

It is very yummy and when i first made it, I did not tell the kids that it is lauki and it was polished off. Try making for this Rakhi as a surprise.