Ras Malai

The main Dessert Ras Malai...which i made for this deepavali...with no help from anyone at home....but i made a ISD cal (can u belive it) to talk to LG and bugged her with so many questions..anyway thanks LG for ur help...

Here goes steps how i made it..hopefully will get lots of comments to impove it, but it was yummy and came out so wel.....my mil was immpressed..

Ingredients

Ras

1. 1/2lts of Milk

2. 1 cup of Sugar

3. Cardamon - 1tsp

4. Badam and pista finely chopped

Malai

1. 2lts of Milk

2. Vinegar - 2tsp

Tto cook the Malai

1. 1 cup of water

2. 1/2 cup of sugar.

METHOD:

In a pan add milk and bring to boil.

When it starts boiling add Vinegar and stir continuously until the milk curdles completely.

Let it cool and set completely. Drain using muslin or cotton cloth using as much strength.

and tie the cloth for abt 4hrs.

Note- there should be no water left else the panner balls will break when put in sugar water.

now slowly form small round balls out of the panner

Meanwhile in the pressure cooker add 1 cup of water along with 1/2 cup of sugar. When the sugar melts in the water add just 10 paneer balls keeping a good distance between each of them and pressure cook for 2 whistles. Repeat the process untill all is done adding little sugar and water as required for each batch. (If u add all the balls into it the shapes with changes , so its better to keep distance b/w each balls)

In another pan heat the evaporated milk with sugar ,saffron and Cardamon and bring it to boil.

To this add the above malai balls draining them from the sugar syrup.

Now add the finned chopped Badam and Pista

Chill for a few hours and enjoy.

Rava Ladoo

Another sweet made on Deepawali......

Here it goes

Ingredients
1. Rava 1 Cup

2. Sugar 1 Cup

3. Raisens

4. Cashews/Almonds

5. Ghee

Preparation
* Heat 1 Tbsp of ghee in a wide saucepan and roast the rava in it for a few minutes. When you start getting the pleasant aroma of the rava, switch off the heat and let the rava cool. Do not let Rava turn brown .
* Once the rava is cooled, transfer it to a blender along with the sugar and cardamom seeds. Blend them for a few minutes so as to mix the sugar and rava well. But see to it that the rava does not become too fine (I made it too fine).

*Heat 1 tbsp of ghee and roast the raisins and cashews/almonds and allow to cool.
*Now in a small kadai melt the ghee, you can reduce the heat to the minimum amount so that the ghee remains in its liquid form until u are done with the laddoos.
*Take the rava+sugar mixture in a wide vessel or plate. Add required amount of ghee to form small ladoo's. Add the Dry fruits to the mixture

Rava Ladoo is Ready...:)

I am sending this to Sudeshna's Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth event

White Pumpkin Halwa

My first try...Made this for Deepavali, This entry goes for
1) Priti's Diwali Celebration Event.
2) AFAM - Pumpkin hosted by Madhuram of Eggless Cooking
3) JFI - Festival Treat Event guest hosted by Srivalli of Cooking 4 All Seasons




Ingredients:

White Pumpkin- 2cups (grated)
sugar- 1 1/2 cups (as per taste)
ghee- 3 tbsp
cardamom- 3
milk- 1
cupcashews and raisins- 1 tbsp each


Procedure:





Peel off the outer skin from the pumpkin and grate it. Squeeze out the excess water from the gratings. Heat 1 tbsp ghee in a kadai and add the grated pumpkin and broken cardamom. Saute until any remaing water is absorbed. Add sugar and stir well. Now add milk and cook on low flame till the pumpkin is cooked soft and all the milk is absorbed. Now the halwa should be in a semi solid stage. Add ghee little by little stirring till you get the halwa continuously. Then add the fried nuts, raisins . When the halwa leaves the sides of the pan switch off the stove. Serve this warm or at room temperature. Here is a bite for you too all

Happy Deepavali with Cocunut Burfi

Hi All,

Happy Deepavali to one and all...hope everyone had a nice time

This Deepavali was fun...my son was able to say HAPPY DEEPAVALI :) Enjoyed so much with my son..

(Pranav with his Dad)

I got some Plain Diyas from the shop

Painted Diya's Up side down

Light of Joy

Time for some bakshanam on deepavali

1)COCONUT BARFI RECIPE (Nariyal Ki Burfi)

Ingredients:
1 big coconut grated

1 tsp cardamom seeds (ground)

1 tbsp ghee

1Kg sugar

1 cups water

How to make coconut burfi:
Mix water and sugar in a kadai. Prepare one-string syrup by dissolving sugar in the water. Add cardamom and mix well. Add coconut to the syrup and mix welGrease the plate with gheeSpread the prepared evenly over the plate and allow it to cool. Now with the knife, cut it into desired shapes. Nariyal ki burfi/ Coconut Burfi is ready to be served.

Entry for JFI - Festival Treat Event guest hosted by Srivalli of Cooking 4 All Seasons

and for Priti's Diwali Celebration Event.

Thank u note

I tried Srikar's Mango-Carrot Rice it was cool, yum and great...had a nice lunch today..everyone at home liked it so much..thank u Srikar's Kitchen for such a nice Recipe..

Its a nice being in this blog world..learned at lot from all..now i have lots of option to cook...thanks to one and all...in the blog world

For Mango-carrot Rice Recipe pls check here

Carrot Payasam

Carrot Payasam- Easy to make and yummy yum ...only that the color is not Red or the carrot color..i added less carrot today..

1. Carrot - 1 Cup grated

2. Sugar - as per ur taste

3. Milk - 3 cup

4. Cashchew - 10pieces

5. Cardomon

6. Badam - 3 chop into small peices or Grate it

Method

Cook the Carrot with lill water, Once the carrot is cooked, take it and grind it to a paste, then add milk , sugar and cardomon, let it boil it the qualilty becomes 1/2 i.e. it should become thick

Now take 2 tsp of ghee add, cashchew net to it fry till it becomes brown now add this to the payasam, add the garted Badam to it...

I made this just for 3 of us here at home :)

Yummy yum tasty tasty Carrot Payasam is done donna done

I am sending this to Sudeshna's Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth event

Sprouted Green Gram Salad

Very simple and very healthy full of protien
Required

Green Gram dal - 1 cup
Carrot grated- 1 cup
cucmber grated -1 cup
raw mango grated - 1/2 cup

Method
Soak the green gram dal 3 to 4 hrs, drain the water of the Green gram dal and tie it with the cloth and keep it aside for a day ,next day it will be sprouted
now mix all the above ingredients, add some lime juice , salt and peper, just before serving
Sprouted Green Gram Salad is ready

Learned this from my MIL..she is an excelent cook..will post more from her, this one goes to Divya's Diet Food Event

Quilling

My First Quilling.
I got a Quilling kit from my SIL, so tried to make some.
The best wishes card was the simple one.

Steps
1. make 6 petals i used approx 7.5cms of paper length - Eye shaped
2. 4 - 2.5cms of Green paper and rolled only on one side
3. 1 - 2.5cms of White paper to make the center of a flower
3. Arraged everything together with just a lill glue

Best Wishes card




Bunch of Roses



I learned this Roses from a tutorial which Vani had shared, if any of u need it I can send it thru email.

Masala Roti with Gobi Mutter Masala

Theplas or Masala roti - found this recepie from one of ur blog, they called it THEPLAS but it didnt turn out for me like THEPLAS...so i named it Masala Roti :)




THEPLAS
Spiced parathas.
Cooking Time : 25 to 30 min.Preparation Time : 5 min.
Makes 12 to 14 theplas.
Ingredients 2 cups whole wheat flour (gehun ka atta)
1 cup curds 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder (haldi)
1 1/2 teaspoons chilli powder
1 tablespoon coriander powder
2 tablespoons oil
salt to taste
Other ingredients oil to roast the theplas




Gobi Mutter Masala - Made this one in a different way.

Cook gobi and mutter keep it aside
Grind - 1 cup coconut, 2 tomato, 1 onion, 1 tsp garam masala, 1tsp sambar masala


Take a Pan heat oil, add cumin seeds and add one finely chopped onion, 3 to 4 green chilli's slit(based on how much spice u want), ginger and fry till the onion turn brown, add the grinded mixture to this and fry it , till the oil comes out( i still cant understand how oil comes out...my Mother in law helped me in frying this).. once done..sorry forgot to mention..pls dont forget to add salt....:)..add the cooked veggi's to it fry for another 5mins.....Hey its ready...lets have dinner
Yummy Yum

In the above picture, i dont think u can c the gobi , by the time i came to take the picture , my hubby and my MIL had almost finished there dinner ....so very sorry next time will take a better pic and show u.... have a nice day guy's

Jeera Rice with Kadi Pakora

Today's Special - Jeera Rice with Kadi Pakora

I tried the Kadi Pakora punjabi style u can get the details here

Jeera Rice - Put some ghee in a cooker, once the ghee is hot add some Cumin seeds, Lavang, Onion, Green chilli Slit into two, fry the above till the onion turns brown now add the washed Rice to the above gravy and fry , now add water to cook the rice, dont forget to add salt...hey jeera rice is ready in 10 mins...cool na

Have a look

Jeera Rice with Kadi Pakora sending over to Aartee's Sapadu Ready Event

Night Lamp - Using CAN

Sending this to: Can Art

I got inspired by Vani so much that...i used her idea and made a night lamp hehehehe

Preparation of Night Lamp

1. Clean the CAN

2. Cut open the top portion and discard it

3. Cut the CAN using Scirrors - long strip no:of strip depends on how u want it

4. i got a small blub with holder and connected it to a wire and plug

5. Ur Night Lamp is ready.

It is durable i think.. i started to use this in my room, I used a Red Blub it looks cool

Navaratri - Golu - 2008

Navarati - 2008

Finally started off with my blog. First thanks to Priyanka who asked me start.

I have seen many of ur blogs They are so nice, Thats the reason i got tempted to start off with.

Kick started with Navarati celebration.



I loved to arrage dolls when i was young...my mom had lots of collections..was lovely, when i got married my parent's gave me lots of dolls as Sri-danam(dowry hehehehehe) sorry my parent's special gift to me...

After i came to Malaysia, this is my thrid year of celebration started to collect dolls here and take look and tell me how they are.


Arraged 3 steps -
Top Step - Kuberan , Ramar Set , some guys with instruments
Middle Step - Vennai Krishnan , Marapaachi boomai, My Coke Can swam
Last step - Ele the Elephant, Ganesha My Friend , Chatiyaar and Chatiyaaramma, Chinese Grandppa and Grandmma and Kalasham

Rice Grain Kolam for Ayudha Pooja/Mahanavam

Sending this to Navaratri Festive Food Event,hosted by Lakshmi of Taste Of Mysore