Til Ladoo (with Jaggery)

Til Ladoo is a traditional maharastrian sweet made using til, jaggery and ghee. This is generally served in festivals. This is very healthy sweet, loved by both adults and kids. Try it out this Ganesh Chaturthi and Enjoy!!!

Ingredients 

2 cups Til

1 cup Jaggery

2 tsp Ghee

2 tbsp Cashew nuts and Almonds (optional)

½ tsp Cardamom powder

 

Method

 

• Dry roast til in a kadai for about 5 minutes or till it start to change its colour. Once done, transfer it on to a plate.
• Grind half of the roasted til, coarsely. Keep this aside.
• In a kadai, heat ghee and add jaggery. When jaggery is completely melted, switch off the flame and let it cool down a bit.
• Add the roasted til and the cashew nuts, almonds. Mix well and transfer the mixture onto a plate.
• When the mixture is still warm, take small portions from the mixture and roll it between your palms to make ladoos.
• Enjoy or store it in an airtight container for later use.

 

 

* I usually take the quantity of the ingredients as per my taste. So you can always adjust as per your taste*


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Sheer Khurma

EID MUBARAK

Sheer Khurma is a festival vermicelli pudding made on Eid ul-Fitr in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. It is a traditional Muslim festive breakfast, and a dessert for celebrations. 'Sheer' means milk and khurma means dates. Sheer Khurma literally means Milk with Dates. This dish is traditionally made with dried dates.

It seems in every house sheer khurma is made in a different way. Traditionally, dried dates are soaked in milk overnight and then the next day, this dessert is made. Very little vermicelli will be added in it. It has a very runny texture and is not at all thick.

The recipe given below is definitely not a traditional way of making Sheer Khurma. It is my version and it can be made instantly. This dessert is more or less like a vermicelli kheer, but in this dessert, we add more nuts, dates and raisins. This is a rich dessert with all the goodness of nuts and dry fruits.

Try out this recipe and let me know how you liked it.

Ingredients

1 litre Milk
1 cup Sugar (take as per your taste)
1/2 cup Vermicelli
6 - 7 Green Cardamom
1/2 cup Milk powder
1 cup Nuts (like almond, pistachios, cashew nuts and Dates, Raisins) (chopped)
4 - 5 tbsp Coconut (freshly grated)
3 - 4 tbsp Ghee or Butter
3 - 4 tbsp Fresh Cream


Method

• Boil milk in a big pan. Once it starts boiling, keep it in low flame and add the seeds of green cardamom.
• Add dates and let it simmer for about 10 minutes. Keep stirring in between.
• In the mean time, fry vermicelli in little ghee and when it becomes golden brown colour, pour it into the boiling milk mixture.
• Let it simmer till the vermicelli is nicely cooked.
• Now add sugar. Mix well.
• Take little warm milk in a small bowl and add milk powder into it. Mix well till it is dissolved completely. 
• Pour this into the boiling milk mixture. Mix well and let it simmer for sometime.
• In the same pan in which you have fried vermicelli, put the rest of ghee and stir fry all the nuts, coconut and raisins. When it starts turning colour, turn off the heat and keep this aside.
• Later, when you see that the sheer khurma has changed its colour, turn off the heat.
• Add fresh cream into it, mix well and pour the fried nuts, coconut and raisins into it. Mix well.
• Serve it hot or chilled.

 Note:

1. Add sugar as per your taste. I did not add 1 cup of sugar as milk powder and dates imparts little bit of sweetness to this dessert.
2. I added 1/2 cup vermicelli. If you like less vermicelli, take about 1/4 cup of it.
3. Usually, dry coconut is chopped and added into this dessert. But i liked to add grated coconut in it.

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Ganesh Chaturthi

Happy Ganesh Chaturthi to all !!

Ganesh Chaturthi, the great Ganesha festival, also known as 'Vinayak Chaturthi' or 'Vinayaka Chavithi' is celebrated by Hindus around the world as the birthday of Lord Ganesha.

It was Ganesh Chaturthi yesterday and we kept Ganesha's idol in our apartment. We started doing this in the year 2009. We are continuing this ritual and this is the 4th year. Ours is a small apartment when compared to others, with 21 flats. As we don't have enough space downstairs apart from car parkings, we install it in one of our car parking's (which is ours). All the residents (tenants too) assemble together for the pooja in the evening.

We make prasadas for the offering to god. Usually i make modaka's which is Ganesha's favourite. I have posted two methods for making Modakas.

Click here to view them: http://nimmyskitchen.blogspot.in/2012/09/modak-kozhukatta-one-method.html
http://nimmyskitchen.blogspot.in/2012/09/modakkozhukkata-2nd-method.html

After pooja, we all spend time together sharing our thoughts and share prasadams too. Kids too have a good time. They play around and relish the prasadams. This is like a get together for us. The pooja continues till the day of immersion.

On the day of immersion, again we all gather together for the pooja and the idol is taken to be immersed in a lake nearby. Most of us accompany the idol in this final procession shouting "Ganapathi Bappa Morya, Purchya Varshi Laukariya" (O father Ganesha, come again early next year).

Lunch is provided on that day for all the residents. All relish the dishes, have a long chat and go to their home for the busy day ahead.


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