Rice Pudding (Kheer)

Rice pudding or Kheer as it is called, is very famous Indian sweet prepared on many auspicious days of festivals in India. You can also have it as a dessert dish. Since it contains sugar and rice it is not advisable for people having diabetes but you can use sweetener instead of sugar. I love kheer so much and you will like it for sure. Enjoy and have fun !!!


Ingredients:
Rice - 1/4 cup
Milk - 5 cups
Sugar - 1/3 cup or to taste
Almonds & Pistachios - 2 tbsp sliced
Cardamom (Elaichi) powder - 1/4 tsp or to taste
Few strands of Saffron (Kesar)
Ghee (clarified butter) - 1 tsp

Method:
Wash the rice thoroughly and keep it aside. Melt the ghee in a pan on medium heat then add rice and saute it for 2 mins. Add the milk and cook until the milk reduces to half & creamy and rice is tender. Stir often to make sure the milk does not burn at bottom and also rice does not stick in the bottom of the pan. Now add sugar, saffron, cardamom powder and half of the almonds & pistachios slices. Let it simmer for 10 mins at low heat. Switch-off the heat and let it cool. Garnish with remaining almonds & pistachios slices.

You can serve warm Kheer as a side dish with meal. You can also serve chilled Kheer as a dessert. Enjoy!!!

Tip:- Use non-stick pan to avoid stickiness of the Rice at the bottom.

Jaggery Laddoo

Gur ke laddoo is most famous and favourite sweet item in India. This item even favourite of Lord Ganesha. Though it is sweet, normal diabetic patients can have it as it contains jaggerry instead of sugar. It is easy to digest because it contains wheat and its considered light sweet. So Enjoy this delicious item and provide me your opinion about it, chao.





Ingredients:
Wheat flour - 1 cup
Oil - 1 tbsp
Jaggery - 1/2 cup Shredded OR thinly sliced
Ghee - 3/4 cup
Cardamom powder - 1 tsp
Nutmeg powder - 1/2 tsp (optional)
Poppy seeds (Khus-khus) - 1 tbsp (optional)
Oil OR Ghee for frying

Method:

Take the flour and 1 tbsp oil and use warm water to knead a very hard dough. Then use your palms to form first-sized koftas/rolls from the dough. It should be very hard, if you drop them they should not break or crumble. Now take a oil OR ghee and fry these balls on medium flame till they turn a little more than light brown in colour. Set them aside to cool.

Once the fried rolls come down to room temperature, crust them in a dry grinder to form a coarse powder. Do not grind it too smooth. Now take this powder in a dish with edge. Add the cardamom and nutmeg powder to the mixture and mix it well.

Warm the ghee to make it liquid, now add the jaggery and mix it well until the jaggery evenly mixes with the ghee but make sure jaggery is not over cook. Now add this mixture in the flour and mix it well. Once you feel the mixture is reasonably soft, take a small portion and roll it into a medium sized Laddoo. Remove the poppy seeds in a dish and rollover each laddoo in this.

Laddoo is now ready to eat, Enjoy it !!!!

Sukhdi (Gor Papdi)

This item is sweet by its name. It is very popular Gujrati non-milk sweet. In Gujrat every single home has this sweet. You will just love it, Yummy Yummy...

Gor Papdi

Ingredients:
Wheat Flour - 2 cup
Grated Jaggery - 1 cup
Ghee - 1 cup
Poppy seeds - 1 tbsp (optional for garnish)

Method:
Heat the ghee in pan then add wheat flour on medium heat, mix well and roast until it becomes pinkish brown. Tame on the flame and jaggery to it. Mix this mixture quickly and throughly & pour it in a plate. Spread very well and sprinkle the poppy seeds and cut it into pieces.

Isn't that simple and easy ? :-) Whenever you want a sweet taste in your mouth grab one and place in your mouth, you will feel good.