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    Ten Minute Wheat Halwa - no compromise in taste!!

    This recipe is ideal for a beginner who wants to make Wheat Halwa for the first time!
    Use a tall vessel, so that on cooling & taking out, you can use the handblender inside the vessel & blend it when hot. it iseeasy that way.

    Mix together:

    Wheat flour - 1 cup

    Sugar - 1 cup

    Milk - 1 ½ cups

    Ghee - ½ cup

    Cashew nuts & raisins each 4 tsps, fried in 1 tbsp of above ghee

    cardamom powder - 1 tsp
    Colour - a pinch, of your choice

    Keep the mixture in a tall vessel inside the pressure cooker.

    When the first whistle comes, lower the flame & cook for 10 mtes.

    Cool & open.

    Beat the mixture with a whisk or hand blender for the texture to become smooth & uniform.

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    Kesar Chikki - famous in Rajkot

    Chopped almond+cashews - 1 cup (roast lightly on a tava to crispen)

    Brown sugar - 1 cup

    Ghee - 1 tsp

    Saffron - ¼ tsp (warm & powder)

    Add 2 tbsp water to brown sugar in a saucepan & heat.

    When the sugar becomes syrupy to honey colour, add kesar, dry fruits & switch off.

    With a greased rolling pin & board, cut rounds & make small discs in flat muffin pans.

    The entire procedure has to be done fast because it tends to harden to transfer to muffin pans. Ofcourse you can break into pieces & use. But this looks nice to present!:)

    Keeps for a month.

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    Dates – Til seeds – Jaggery Laddu - sheer delicacy!!

    This recipe uses edible gum called gond in North India. They are crystals, usually eaten in winter, after being roasted in ghee & powdered. They are very good for lactating mothers & and also helps to strengthen the backs.
    When roasted in medium flame in little ghee /oil, they puff up very well.Only then, they can be powdered
    Adding this is optional in this recipe.

    Black sesame/til seeds - ¾ cup (roat dry till it splutters)

    Chopped dates - ½ cup

    Powdered good quality jaggery - ¾ cup

    Gaund - 1 tbsp ( powder as given above)

    Dry ginger powder - 1 tsp

    Chopped almonds - 2 tbsp

    Magaz seeds (melon seeds) & khus khus - 1 tbsp each

    Oil - 2-3 tsp

    Powder til seeds in the mixi first.

    Then add dates & jaggery one by one & crush.

    Remove & mix all other ingredients to get a thick dough.

    Pinch portions & roll into balls.

    Makes 20 no:s.


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    Milk Cake - delicious & easy.

    Mix together:

    Milk - 500 ml

    Milk powder - ½ cup

    Sugar - ½ cup

    Ghee - ½ cup minus 1 tbsp

    Alum, powdered - a very tiny pinch – half of 1/8 tsp

    Make sure there are no lumps and boil the mixture in a heavy pan, stirring regularly.

    When the mixture starts leaving ghee, it is ready.

    Grease a vessel & arrange chopped nuts on it.

    Empty the mixture on it & leave it to cool completely to room temperature.

    Invert on a plate.

    You can decorate after cooling and inverting on a plate, also.

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