Madhus' recipe: Chocolate burfi

I thought of making some sweet for diwali.. I tried making this Chocolate burfi and turned out to be sooo tasty. Hence im posting its recipe.. Its quick and easy to make..Here goes the recipe.

Ingredients

1.condensed milk (carnation or milkmaid) -1 tin
2. powder
3. 1/2 cup
4. butter – 1 stick or 50 gms
5. chopped & roasted nuts 100 gms
6. sugar 3/4 cup

Method:

1. Pour the condensed milk into a thick pan, add butter, sugar, cocoa powder and nuts to
the pan.
2. Stir constantly on low to medium heat till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan (say 15
mins)
3. Pour evenly into a buttered dish.
4. Allow to cool and set. Cut to pieces and serve.
5. Refrigerate if you like.

Hema's recipe: "Boondi ladoo"

Ingredients:

1) Gram flour - 1 cup
2) Sugar - 1.5 cups
3) Water - 1 cup
4) Cloves - 3 nos.
5) Cashews - a few
6) Oil to deep fry

Acessories:

skillet/strainer that has small holes.

Method:

1)Put the water, cloves and the sugar in pan and bring it to a boil and comes to a single thread consistency. This is the sugar syrup.

2)In a bowl, mix gram flour with water to make a smooth batter slightly thicker than dosa batter.

3)Heat oil in a kadai. Hold the skillet/strainer in one hand and the batter on the other hand.

4)Pour some of this batter onto the skillet so that the batter falls through the holes into the oil like small peppercorns.

5)Fry them till they are light golden colour.

6) Take the boondi out in a paper towel to remove excess oil and in a minute or two put them in the warm sugar syrup and mix gently.

7) Repeat the same process for the remaining batter and soak the boondi in the sugar syrup.

8)Let it be there for 10 mins so that it gets soaked well.

9)Now drain excess sugar syrup.

10)Please see that the boondi is warm and and do not let them cool.

11)Add the cashews fried in ghee to this boondi.

12)Now make small balls with ur palms from these boondi.

13)AS you finish a ladoo, put it on a plate one by one. As it cools, it will get firm.

14)Ladoos are ready to serve.

15)Store the ladoos in an air-tight container.

Hema's recipe: Chakka Pradhaman/jackfruit payasam

Chakka pradhaman is a traditional keralite recipe. It is usually done by keralites on Vishu.

The main highlight of this recipe is jaggery and coconut milk. It tastes so delicious and the aroma from these 3 ingredients i.e. jackfruit, jaggery and coconut milk is just great.

I learnt this recipe from my mother-in-law. Coming from a kerala origin, she does it so well that I grabbed it from her.


INGREDIENTS:

1) Jackfruit pieces - 10
2) Jaggery - 1/2 cup (add according to the jackfruit paste)
3) Coconut milk - 1/4 cup
4) Cardamom powder - 1 tbsp
5) Cashews - a few
6) Raisins - a few
7) Ghee - 1 tbsp

METHOD:

1) Take the Jackfruit pieces, cut each of them into small pieces and grind them into a fine paste.

2) In a thick bottomed vessel, add required amount of water and when it comes to a boil, put the grated jaggery and let it melt.

3) Now add the grounded jackfruit paste and let it cook till the raw smell goes off.

4) When it starts to bubble, add the coconut milk.

5) Cook for couple of minutes and switch off the flame.

6) Meanwhile, heat the pan with 1 tbsp ghee and fry cashews and raisins & keep it aside.

7) Add cardamom powder, cashews and raisins.

8) Serve hot.

Hema's recipe: Semiya Payasam

Semiya payasam is a traditional south Indian dessert made on all special occasions. It is very easy and simple to make. It is prepared with milk and vermicilli.

This is my most favourite payasam.

INGREDIENTS:

1) Semiya/vermicilli - 1 cup
2) Milk - 1 cup
3) sugar - 1 cup
4) Cashews - few nos.
5) Raisins - 1 tbsp
6) Cardamom powder - 1 tsp.
6) Ghee for frying

METHOD:

1)Take a pan heat ghee and fry cashews & raisins until golden brown and keep it aside.
2)In the same pan add semiya and fry until golden brown.
3)Take a vessel and boil little water and add this fried semiya. Let it boil for sometime. Stir well with spoon. To know whether it is boiled or not take 1 piece and see. If it breaks into two then it is cooked.
4)Add sugar and stir well. Adjust sugar according to your taste.
4)Now add milk and keep for 5 mins.
5)Finally add cashews, raisins & cardamom powder and serve.