Sweets - Halwa - Papaya Halwa

Papaya Halwa

Ingredients Quantity Papaya pulp 2 Cup Plain Kova 1 Cup Honey 1/4 Cup Cashews Few Elachi Powder 1/2 tsp Ghee 2 Tbsp

Serving 3 Preparation Time 10 mins Cooking Time 15 mins

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1. Peel the papaya and remove the seeds. Cut into small cubes and grind it in a blender without adding water. Heat 1 tsp of ghee in a pan and fry the cashews and keep it aside. In the same pan heat 1 tablespoon of ghee and add 1 cup of papaya puree and fry for a couple of minutes.
2. Add milk and close the pan and let it cook for 10 minutes in medium flame or until most of the moisture is absorbed.
3. Now add kova and honey and cook till the halwa will turn little more dark. Add ghee little by little and keep stirring continously in medium flame.In another 10 -15 minutes the halwa will thicken and comes of the sides of the pan. If you touch the halwa it will be little sticky.Add cardomom powder and mix well and switch off the flame. Garnish with fried cashews.

1. You can substitute honey with the sugar.
2. Try more Recipes with Papaya.
3. Check more Halwa Recipes.

Sweets - Gulab Jamun - Oats Kova Gulab Jamun

Oats Kova Gulab Jamun

Ingredients Quantity Oats,Ghee roasted 1 Cup Maida 1 Cup Plain Kova 1 Cup Sugar 1 Cup Milk 1 Tsp Ghee/Oil To Deep Fry Cardomon Powder 1 tsp Saffron Pinch

Serving 8 Preparation Time 10 mins Cooking Time 20 mins

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1. Heat a pan. Melt Ghee. TPlace Bread slices on the pan, apply ghee all over the slices and turn them upside down. After a min apply on the other side too. Do the same for all breads. Once they are cook blend them into small crumbs/powder.
2. Heat ghee/oil in a kadai for deep fry. Keep the flame in medium always.
3. Now take sugar and in other bowl and add water,cardamom powder..boil this til the syrup formed. It should be one string consistency.keep this aside.It should be warm not hot.
4. Knead the dough again once and make well round shaped balls without giving any cracks. Take gooseberry size dough ball and keep it in between your two palms and press first then start rolling slowly to get round shape.
5. Add in balls into the oil and put the flame in low. Start frying evenly by rolling them.
6. Drain the balls and soon add in prepared syrup. Soak for at least 2 hrs or overnight.Serve warm or chilled.

1. Knead the dough with fingers very well before adding milk.After adding milk it should be very hard or too soft too.So,be careful while adding milk.
2. Deep frying is the most important in making jamuns.Keep flame always in medium..If the oil is too hot,off the flame for a minute then add dough balls again on flame after a half minute.Sugar syrup is not to be very thin....And it should be warm also.Finally the most important tip is soak for some time.
3. Try more Gulab Jamun Recipes.
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Sweets - Milk - KovaBurfi

Kova Burfi

Ingredients Quantity Plain Kova 1 Cup Sugar 3/4 Cup Eelachi Powder 1/4 tsp Dry Fruits Powder 1 Tbsp Kesar 5-6 Pista Few

Method :

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1. Take the pan away from the stove and add Kova and mix well. Allow it to gradually cool till the entire mass becomes thick simultaneously stirring. Keep on stirring till it is almost luke warm.
2. To make the hot sugar syrup add mix the sugar and water. Add 4-5 cardamom pods, slightly crushed and a few strands of "Kesar". Mix with a spoon and then heat at medium heat for 5-10 minutes until sugar is all dissolved in water. Do not overheat, that will caramelize the sugar. Add few drops of lemon this will ensure that once syrup cools down it does not solidify.
3. Add dry nut powder and cardamom powder. Mix well and heat gently at the same time stirring continuously with out interruption till the entire mass becomes thick and sticks to the sides of the Pan.
4. Smear ghee on to a flat plate . Transfer the entire mass on to the plate and roll it with the help of a balon (Chapati roller) uniformly. When cool cut into Diamond shaped burfies.

Tips :

1. Instead of nuts powder, you can use the soked dry nut paste. Soak dry almonds in boiling water (Do not boil water with almonds). Pour boiling water into a vessel containing the Almonds. Allow it to be in water for 8-10 mins. Then, peel the Almonds skin. When the entire quantity has been peeled off , dry grind the entire quantity to powder form. After this take small quantities of the powdered almonds and grind to thick paste by adding very small quanty of milk. Grind the entire quantity to thick paste, -Thick consistency.
2. Store it in air tight container and enjoy eating for 15 days.

Sweets - Milk - Mal Kova

Mal Kova

Ingredients Quantity Condensed Milk/Milk Maid 1 Cup Plain Kova 1 Cup Maida 1 Cup Milk Powder 1 Cup Sugar 1 Cup Milk 1 Cup Cashew Few Oil To Fry

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1. Mix all in a large mixing bowl. Whisk together to aerate the flour. Slowly add Milk little at a time while mixing until a smooth batter is formed.
2. Heat an oil pan on low/medium flame. Pour approx 1/4 cup of batter (depending on the size you want) into the pan. Wait for 1 to 2 minutes until bubbles appear over the top of the mal kova. Using a spatula, flip pancake over and allow the other side to cook until light golden brown (approx 1 minute).
3. To make the hot sugar syrup add mix the sugar and water. Add 4-5 cardamom pods, slightly crushed and a few strands of "Kesar". Mix with a spoon and then heat at medium heat for 5-10 minutes until sugar is all dissolved in water. Do not overheat, that will caramelize the sugar. Add few drops of lemon this will ensure that once syrup cools down it does not solidify.Transfer this hot syrup into a serving dish. Keep it warm on stove. Add the fried mal kovas directly into the warm syrup. Leave them in sugar syrup over 10 mins. They can be served warm or at room temperature.

Tips :

1. Diabetic people can have plain mal kovas with out dropping them into syrup.
2. These can be stored for a week.

Sweets - Other Sweets - Double Ka Meeta

Double Ka Meeta

Ingredients Quantity Bread 3 Sugar 1/4 Cup Cashew Few Almonds Few Sweet Kova 1/2 Cup Cardamom Powder/Elachi Pinch

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1. Fry the bread slices in the ghee till they turn into golden color.
2. In a pan add 1/4 cup of water and sugar. Stir it till the sugar dissolves into it. Let the syrup becomes to light consistency. Switch off the flame and add cardomom powder.
3. In a separate pan spread the bread slices into a layer. Pour half of the syrup little by little on the top of slices. Put kova and sliced nuts on the top of each slice.
4. Take remaining slices and cover them on the top of the earlier slices. Now pour remaining syrup on the new slices. Close the lid and let it absorb the syrup by the slices.

Tips :

1. You can even crush the bread slices into crumbs and add to the syrup.

Sweets - Halwa - GreenPeas Halwa

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Ingredients Quantity Green Peas 1 Cup Cashew Few Almonds Few Sweet Kova 1/2 Cup Sugar 1/4 Cup Ghee 1/2 Cup

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1. Boil the peas and make a fine paste out of it.
2. In a pan add 2 Tbsp of ghee fry cachews and almonds.
3. In the same pan add remaining ghee. When the ghee melts add green peas puree. Cook this for 15 mins or till the raw smell goes off.
4. After add sugar and kova, mix till the sugar is dissloved. Let it cook for 5 mins.

Tips :

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