MITHAIS FOR DIWALI
by bharathi[ Edit ] 2010-11-02 11:11:00
1)KHEER
For serving 4 to 5 people
Ingredients:
Milk 1 litre
Rice 200 grams (soaked for ½ an hour before cooking)
Sugar to taste
Cashew nuts - a few (finely chopped)
Cardamom 4 to 5 pieces (peeled off seeds only)
Raisins - a few (soaked few minutes before adding)
Method: Put the milk on a pan and let it boil for a few minutes, keeping the flame at low. Stir continuously when the milk becomes a little thick. Put sugar into the milk and stir constantly until the sugar melts. When the entire content is ready, put the rice in it and, stirring at intervals, let it boil for a while. When the rice is cooked, garnish it with the chopped cashew nuts, cardamoms and the raisins into it and serve it hot.
2)MITHA KHAJA
For serving 3 to 4 people
Ingredients:
Flour 1½ cup
Jaggery ½ cup
1 cup of water
Cardamom powder 1/4 tablespoon
Ghee 1 tablespoon
Method: First, heat the water and jaggery until it dissolves in the water. Strain and cool it and add cardamom powder and ghee in the flour and knead the flour with jaggery water till the dough becomes stiff. Breaking it into 24-25 parts, knead and roll it into 4'' rounds. Then keep it aside so as to make it a bit dry and fry it in hot ghee until its colour becomes golden. Then drain and cool it till the khajas becomes crisper. Serve it or keep it in an airtight container.
3)KHARIPUDI
For serving 4 to 5 people
Ingredients:
Wheat Flour 2 cup
Rice Flour 1/2 cup
1/2 tbsp of omam seeds
1/2 tsp. of turmeric powder
Ghee 2 tablespoon
Some dry flour for dusting
Method: Mix plain flour and 1/4 cup rice flour together. Add asafoetida, onam seeds, turmeric, oil and mix it properly so as to make the dough more softer. Apply ghee and roll it like a large chapati. Sprinkling some rice flour, roll it into tight Swiss roll and cut into thick slices and keep it aside. Then heat the oil in a pan and fry the pudis till it becomes golden colour. Now drain and keep it aside and its ready to serve.
4)LAPSEE
For serving 3 to 4 people
Ingredients:
1 cup of wheat gram (Dalia)
1- 1/2 of cup sugar
1 cup of ghee
1 tbsp. of chopped almonds & pistachios with 1/2 tsp. Cardamom powder.
Method: Warm ghee in a pan by adding wheat gram. Stir and cook till gram turns golden in colour and aroma is exuded. Melt sugar in 1 cup water and keep aside. Boil and add remaining water to roasted wheat gram. Stir gently now, and cook till the grain of the gram is soft on pressing. Cook till ghee separates along the sides. Now its ready to serve.
Wish You A Sweet Diwali!
