Traditional Sweets and Easy to Make Sweets

Rava laddu with sugar syrup

Ingredients


Ravai/Sooji/Semolina - 1 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Water - 1/2 cup
Ghee - 1 tbsp
Cashews - 1 tsp
Raisins - 1 tsp
Cardamom - 2


First heat the pan with ghee, add the cashews & raisins, roast till cashews becomes golden brown and raisins slightly puff up.

Now add rava in it and roast the rava till you get a nice aroma.

Now remove the rava from the heat and transfer into another plate,let it cool.

In the same pan, add sugar & water.

Allow the sugar to dissolve in the water and then bring the sugar syrup to boil.

At this stage, add the rava.

Mix well with sugar syrup and switch off the flame.

Add the crushed cardamom and cover it with lid for 15 mins.

At this stage the rava mixture is slightly watery,but dont worry after 15 mins, the rava absorbs all the water and become a thick mass.

After 15 mins, mix well and transfer the rava mixture into a plate.

Allow the rava mixture to cool.

Once it becomes cool, try to mix it with your hand.

It should be hand bearable temperature.

Now, lightly grease your hands with ghee and make ladoos.

Allow to cool completely and store in air tight container.


Note:We can keep these ladoos for a week in room temperature.
If you want, you can increase the sugar up to 1 cup. But dont add more water, other wise it becomes watery.This ladoos will be pale in color when it's hot, but once it's cooled, the color becomes white.

 

have you tried this Anupama?

 

Sev Nokkal.

Sugar Nokkal is nothinga but sugar coated sev. We used to to this in Cashew nut also. Usually its stuffed "Paruppu Thengai "which is must in our south indian weddings.

For this recipe 2 string syrup consistency is perfect. (You can use jaggery also for Paruppu Thengai )

Ingredients :

Besan / Kadalai Maavu - 1 cup
Rice flour / Arisi Maavu -1/8 cup
Cooking Soda -a pinch
Butter -2 tsp (At room temperature)
Salt -a pinch
Oil - For fry
Sugar - 1 1/2 cup
Water -1/4 cup
Milk - 1/8 cup

Method

*In a bowl mix the Besan,Rice flour,Salt ,Butter and Cooking soda.

*Mix well and little water to make a soft and pliable dough.

*Heat oil in a kadai,Take a sev press OR Murukku achu with Thenkuzhal achu, fill the dough and press in hot oil in large circles.

*Fry in medium flame,cook until it turns golden brown .

*In another vessel add the sugar and water.

*Once it starts to boil and milk .Boil it a min.

*Strained it to remove the impurities.

*Then again boil the syrup ,If you swipe the syrup check between your thumb and forefingers there will be 2 string will be form OR in a small bowl of water,pour the syrup ,it will not dissolve and you can move and gather it like a pearl. That is perfect syrup.

*Switch off the flame,add the sev and mix well until syrup coated well in sev.

*Cool down completely before you stored it in air tight container.

* After 2 hours you can see white sugar coated on the sec like badusha.

* enjoy this unique sweet.

 

Cashew nut Nokkal !

Ingredients:

Whole Cashew Nuts – 1 cup (1 measure)
Sugar – 1 cup (1 measure)
Cardamom powder – ½ tsp
Ghee – 2 tsp

Method:

Just fry the cashew nuts in a kadai with little ghee.
Remove the roasted cashews and keep it aside until it has completely cooled down.

In another kadaai, heat the sugar with just enough water to immerse.
Boil the sugar until it reaches one string consistency.
This is when you take a drop of syrup in between your index finger and thumb and it forms a single thread when stretched. ok?
Now add cardamom powder and cashew nut.
Turn off the heat.
Now stir the mixture gently.
Let the sugar syrup to coat on the nuts evenly.
Now keep the sugar coated nuts on a plate and let it cool down completely.
After 2 - 3 hours you can see the white sugar coated on the cashew like badhusha.
That is all, store it an airtight container and enjoy!

 

Karachi halwa / corn flour halwa


Ingredients


1 cup corn flour

2 1/ 4 cups sugar

1 tsp cardamom powder

150 to 200 gms ghee

1 tsp lemon juice

Orange or preferred colour

Sliced cashew and almonds one table spoon


Method

First take a bowl and put corn flour in that.

Pout water in it and mix well without lumps.

Now in a deep pan or thick bottom vessel, pour this and switch on the stove.

This will become thick very quickly so keep string continuously. Don’t even leave it for a second.

Add two more cups of water in it and cook it well.

Totally you will need 2.5 to 3 cups of water for this.

Let it cook, keep string it.

When you feel it is cooked, add sugar in it.

Now add lemon juice also in it.

This will avoid crystallization of sugar.

Stir well it will start turning slightly glossy.

now you add ghee by one one teaspoon.

When you add ghee, it will become glossy and transparent in colour.

Then you can reduce the flame of the gas and stir it now and then.

Meanwhile put some ghee in a plate and spread it.

So that we can put our halwa in that.

Now you can add half of the sliced nuts and cardamom powder in halwa.

After 5 min. ghee will come out of halwa and you will feel a lump some of halwa.

At this time add food colour in it and mix well.

Then transfer it in the plate and decorate the halwa with the balance sliced nuts.

Allow it for an hour.

Then cut it and serve.

Your delicious Karachi halwa is ready to eat.

 

Sweet Sev !


To make this Sweet Sev we need :


2 cup Sev

1 cup Sugar

½ Tea spoon cardamom powder


Method:

In a pan pour ¼ cup water and add sugar.

Make sugar syrup.

Keep a small cup with water to check the condition of the sugar syrup.

We need ‘crystal ball’ syrup. That is, when you drop the sugar syrup in water, it should be like a crystal ball.

When you roll it with your hands, you will be able to do that.

So till that time just check and once you get it, sim the stove and add cardamom powder and the sev in that.

Switch off the stove and mix fast, you can see the sugar is coating on Sev.

That is all, Your Sugar Sev is ready to taste.

Children will like this very much.


Note: when you are making Sev, to make sugar sev, please add only a pinch of salt.

Another one you can make this sugar coated snack with cashews, wheat chips, kara sev and much more.