Sooji Halwa

Ingredients :

coarse semolina (sooji) 1 cup
warm milk 1 and 1/2 cup
warm water 1/2 cup
granulated sugar 1 cup
banana -  thick round pieces 5 to 6
saffron 4 to 5 strips
clarified butter 1/2 cup
1 T.spoon milk for adding roasted saffron
roasted dryfruits for garnish



Stepwise direction : keep pan on a medium heat. Add semolina/sooji and clarified butter together and roast it until it gets brown color. This is very important step. Then add banana pieces in it and again roast it for few seconds. Add warm water and milk.

roast saffron in a separate pan and add it in warm milk. add this colored milk in roasted semolina. stir it well. Keep lid on the pan. now turn the heat to low. cook this mixture about 3 to 4 minutes. After that take off the lid and stir it for  few seconds. Then add sugar. after adding sugar stir the mixture again for  few seconds. Now all the mixture gets little bit thin. stir it again for few seconds.

 keep the lid on a pan. After 3 minutes take off the lid and stir it well. Turn off the stove. serve it! This sooji  halwa is famous for prasad, but you can have it for breakfast. garnish it with roasted dryfruits. roast dryfruits with few drops of clarified butter. Enjoy !

Instant Shreekhand

Servings : 2 persons

Time : 15 minutes

Ingredients :

Keffir cheese (lebni) yogurt/sour cream
sugar
dry fruits
saffron
cardamom powder

Stepwise Instruction

all the above ingredients mix together. sugar 1:1 add dryfruits, littlebit cardamom powder and saffron. mix it well!

Serve with Puri

Sweet Pumpkin Cookie (Gharga)

Servings : 2 persons

Time : 30 minutes

Ingredients :

Red/Yellow pumpkin grated 1 cup
jaggery 1 cup
Rice flour 1/2 cup
semolina 1/2 cup
wheat flour 1/4 cup
clarified butter 1/2 teaspoon

Stepwise Instructions :

Mix clarified butter, grated pumpkin, jaggery and cook on medium heat for about 10 minutes. Covering the mixture with a lid helps cooking it fast. Turn off the heat. While still hot, add the rice flour, semolina and wheat flour and mix thoroughly. It will form a dough. After 30 minutes split the dough into small balls. Apply thin layer of vegetable/canola oil to a plastic paper and place the ball on it. Then press each ball with hand into a circular shape. Deep fry these cookies on medium heat till brown color.

Cookies taste better when eaten with clarified butter.

Sweet Semolina

Servings : 2 persons

Time : 15 minutes

Ingredients :

Semolina 1 cup
clarified butter 6 spoons
sugar 1 cup
little bit of jaggery
2 cup water


Stepwise Instructions :


Mix semolina and clarified butter into pan and saute on medium heat with continuous stirring untill brown. Add water and stir with large spoon. Cover it with lid for 2 minutes. After two minutes take the lid off and add sugar and jaggery and mix it well. Again cover with lid for 2 minutes and then mix it well.Use the same cup for measuring semolina, water and sugar. Alternatively use half sugar and half jaggery mixture.

serve with mango pickle and poha papad.