Category: Sweets

Faral Sweets

(51) Rajgira Sheera

Farali Sheero

Ingredients:

1 cup Rajgira (Amaranths) flour.
¾ cup melted ghee.
3 cups milk.
2 tbsp. Almond slices.(optional)
2 pinch of Cardamom powder.
20 pieces of Raisins(kismis).

Method:

Heat non-stick pan and add ghee. Side by side put another pan with milk on slow flame.
Once ghee heat up add Rajgira flour and stir continuously on slow flame till it changes colour and is aromatic. It will take 9-10 mins.
Now you can see ghee seperates from flour, at this moment add raisins and stir continuously. Immediately you can see all raisins swells .All this process under slow flame only.
Add hot milk in flour, turn flame fast and stir continuously .
After 2 mins. all milk evaporate and again slowly flour starts separating from ghee(kadhai looks clean with lump of flour).
Add sugar and mix thoroughly while continous stirring.
Again you will get clean kadhai with lump of flour in center. It means sheera is ready. Switch off flame.
Add Cardamom powder and dry fruits ,mix well and serves warm.

Flour is roasted and ready for adding raisins.

Raisins swells in perfectly roasted flour.

Roasted flour with milk.

All milk evaporated and time for sugar.

Kadhai is clean with lump of sheera in center.

Rajgira sheera

Sweets

(49) Rava Ladoo

Makes 14 Ladoo.

Ingredients:

1 cup Rava(suji).
1 cup Sugar powder.
½ cup ghee ( ⅛ cup optional use as needed).
2 pinch of Cardamom powder.

Method:

In one frying pan add ghee and heat up on slow flame.
Add rava in hot ghee and roast.
Stir continuously for 10-12 mins. Rava turns aromatic , light and crunchy.
Turn off the flame but stir continuously.
After 5 mins .you can feel it warm( not hot) add powdered sugar ,Cardamom powder and mix with hand .Take small portion of the mix and press down tightly in your fist to shape Ladoo( round ball).
If it doesn’t bind then heat up ⅛ cup ghee or more as you needed. I used ½ +⅛ cup ghee.
You can store rava ladoo for one month in air tight container at room temperature.

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Sweets Winter tonic food

(46) Golpapdi

Sukhadi

Ingredients:

1 cup tightly filled wheat flour
¾ cup melted ghee.
½ cup finely chopped jaggery.
1 tbsp white sesame seeds.
Ghee for greasing plate.

Method:

Grease the 9 inches plate well with ghee to set the golpapdi.
Heat non-stick kadhai or thick sauce pan with ghee on slow flame.
Once ghee slightly hot,add flour and mix with spatula. It will be like thick lumpy paste.
Roast flour on slow flame till it becomes airy and light with two shade darker then flour and aromatic.
As soon as flour is roasted ,turn off the flame and add sesame seeds and jaggery .
It will melt , quickly mix it and pour into greased plate.
Spread quickly and even out the surface by gliding movement with the help of small steel dish .
Let it cool down slightly,While it is still warm slice into desire shape ( square or dimond) and size.
Remove each piece very gently and serves either warm or cold.

Golpapdi

In winter for making simplest winter tonic food add 1 tbsp.dry ginger powder and 1 cup mixed dryfruit powder like Almond, Cashew, Pistachio and walnut. Add ½ cup extra finely chopped Jaggery and ¼ cup melted ghee or as required. At the time of mixing jaggery after swich off flame add all above ingredients.