Desserts: Nan Khatai

Ingredients :
1) 2 cups all purpose flour,
2) 1 cup granulated sugar
3) 3/4 cup clarified butter/ghee (not melted)
4)cashews, pistachios, ground cardamom
5) some strands of saffron dissolved in warm milk
6) 1 tsp milk

7)Pinch of Baking Powder & Baking Soda

Method :
1) Preheat oven to 350° F/180° C.
2) In a blender (or by hand mixer or just with hands), whip together powdered sugar and clarified butter until light and fluffy.
3) Remove the mixture into a mixing bowl. Add flour in batches, mixing alternately and add baking powder and baking soda to it as well .
4) Knead the mixture well with hands for 10 minutes. (Alternatively use the hand mixer with its dough attachment for kneading.)
5) Add ground cardamom and saffron disolved in warm milk and mix properly to form a soft dough.
6) Make small balls and press each between your palms to flatten. Smoothen out the edges.
7) Arrange all the cookies onto a baking sheet. Dip nuts such as cashews, pistachios and stick one or two on top of each cookie.
8) Bake cookies for 15 minutes or until slightly golden. Nankatais are soft while hot but turn light and crisp once cool.
9) Store Nankatais in an airtight container.

Note : You can add Seamolina(Rava/Suji) to mixture for getting more crispy taste..!

Narali Bhat,Keshari Bhat,(Saffron Rice)

Ingredients:

1) 2 cups Ambemohor or Basmati Rice
2) 3 1/2 cups sugar
3) 1 cup freshly grated coconut
4) 5-6 laung (cloves)
5) 7-8 almonds sliced
6) raisins
7) 1/2 tsp cardamom powder
8) 1/4 tsp kesar (saffron threads) or few drops orange color,
9) Saffron

10) orange Food color

11) A pinch of salt for taste
12) ghee

Method:

Wash rice a and then put in cooker cook with less water than as usually we take for normal rice put aside for cool then add sugar into rice add orange food color ,saffron . Then heat some ghee in a heavy bottom pan, add cloves ,Add almond slices, raisins and let them fry on low flame for some time. Then add rice to it add salt,and grated coconut mix it well till sugar has dissolved. lastly add Cardamon powder. Then cover and cook it . When rice is fully cooked remove it in a flat plate and Serve...!

Dessert:Peanut Ladoo(Shengdana Ladu)

Ingredients:


1)1 cupGrated (coars) Peanuts (shengdanya cha Kut)
2) 1/2 cup grated Jaggery
3)1/4 tsp Velachi(Cardamon) Powder
4)1 tsp Pure Ghee


Method:

• Take a 1 cup groundnut/peanuts in a pan and roast them in a pan on medium heat till light brown

• Remove from pan. Peel off their skins when they are warm by rubbing between your hands

• After the skin is removed, grind them in a grinder to a fine or coarse powder as desired.
• Mix all the ingredients by hand and shape them to make ladoos & serv it.as a Snacks
  Tip: These Ladoos are very good for health especially in increase to Heamoglobin...
  

Desserts:Puran Poli

Puran poli-a delicacy prepared on any festive occasion in Maharashtra.



Ingredients:


1) 450 gms Chana Dal
2) 500 gms Sugar (Cheeni) or Jaggery (Gud)
3) 250 gms Wheat Flour (Gehun Ka Atta)
4) 50 gms Flour
5) 5 tsp Oil
6) 1/2 grated Nutmeg (Jaiphal)
7) 50 gms powdered Cardamom (Elaichi)
8) Pure ghee for serving

Method:

• Wash the chana daal and cook with a little or just enough water.
• Drain out the extra water.
• Then add this dal into Puran Grainder(Puran Yantra) or Grainder and make a battar of it
  
• Then add it into Kadai and add sugar /jaggary into it and cook it while it leaving the kadai by side(one more tip to know is the puran ready ॥place one spoon in the midddle of the puran if it is still striaght then it is ready )

• then place this puran to cool
• for making dove of flour :Mix the wheat flour, flour, oil and enough water knead into a smooth dough.
• Knead this dough with oily hands for 4-5 minutes till its
  elastic in consistency
• Keep it aside for an hour.
• Place the Puran ball in the centre of the rolled flour dough and close it to cover the filling completely.
• Roll out into a chapati and bake on a non stick tawa till done on both sides, adding a little ghee around.
• Fry till done.
• Serve hot with pure ghee...!

Desserts:Apple Pudding

Ingredients:

1)Apple

2)Mava(Khawa)

3)Walnut(deeped into sugar syrup)

4)Dryed Aprricots(Jardalu)soaked into water

5)ghee(or butter)

6)Cardamon Powder

7)Raisins

Method:

First take Apricots and make a paste of it into grander

Then add some ghee into pan add Mava into it ,add apricots paste.,add cardimom powder ,raisins and fry it till golden brown.

Then remove middle portion from the apple and fill it by stuffing which we made
Palce some pices of walnut on to the stuffing then place & bake it into oven at 180 0c for 8-10 min and serve it ..!