Macaroni Payasam

Ingredients 

• Macaroni 1 1/2 cup
• Cashew nuts 10 No.
• Raisins 10 No
• Cardamom 5 
• Milk 1cup
• Evaporated milk 1 cup
• Saffron 3 strands
• Ghee 3 Tbsp
• Condensed Milk 1/2 tin

Preparations 

• In a pan add ghee,when the ghee become hot add raisins and cashews.
• Fry it well until it become golden color.
• Now add the macaroni fry well in the ghee.
• When the macaroni color changed add the water,cook until the macaroni is half done.
• Now add the milk ,evaporated milk ,condensed milk,saffron ,cardamom  mix it well.
• Cook until the macaroni become soft and the mixture of payasam thickened well.

Milk Halwa | Doodh ka Halwa | How to make Milk Halwa using Microwave

Milk Halwa or Doodh ka Halwa is a simple and delicious Indian desert, It will take only 10 minutes to prepare it using Microwave. This is my first post for Halwa Recipes, Let us see how to make Milk Halwa using Microwave Oven.

Milk Halwa | Dood ka Halwa using Microwave - Ingredients

Preparation Time : 2 mins | Cooking Time : 8 mins |
Total Time :10 min | Yield : 5 Servings |
Recipe Category: Desert | Recipe Cuisine: Indian | Calories : 160 / serve

Ingredients :
Milk powder - 1/2 cup
Condensed Milk - 1 Tin
Butter - 40 gm
Yogurt - 3 tsp
Cardamom - 2
Ghee(Clarified butter) - 3 tsp
Sliced Pistachios - 2 tsp
Sliced Almonds - 1 tsp
Sliced Cashew nut - 2 tsp

Preparations

1. Take the Butter in a Microwave safe bowl, Melt the butter by keep it in microwave for 30 seconds.
2. With the Melted Butter add Milk powder, Condensed Milk, Cardamom and mix it Well without any lumps.
3. Place the bowl in the microwave oven for 4 minutes, for every one minute take the bowl out and give a mix to it.
4. After completing 4 minutes, take the bowl out, add Yogurt and mix well and microwave for 2 more minutes
5. After 2 minutes, add Ghee and mix it well and microwave for further 2 minutes.
6. After 2 minutes, take the bowl out and allow to cool.
7. Garnish with Sliced Almonds, Pistachios and Cashews.
8. Milk Halwa is ready to Serve.

Cooking Tips :

Don't forget to take the bowl out and give a mix to it for every one minute.
Serving Tips :
As an option you can garnish with Saffron or Raisins also.

Crunchy Diamond Cut Biscuits | Quick Kids Snack - Sweet Maida Biscuits

Crunchy Diamond Cut Biscuits or Sweet Maida Biscuits is a popular and Easy Indian Snack. which is actually Diamond shaped deep fried biscuit not oven made biscuits. This biscuits are Soft in inside and Crunchy in outside gives delicious taste, Kids love to eat this biscuits as a evening Tea time snack, Of-course I also, I remember my childhood days, I have eaten this biscuits often made by my mother.

Diamond Cut Biscuits | Sweet Maida Biscuits- Ingredients

Preparation Time : 15 mins | Cooking Time : 20 mins | Total Time :35 min | Yield : 4 Servings Recipe Category: Snacks | Recipe Cuisine: Indian Cuisine

All purpose flour (Maida) - 2 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Ghee (Clarified Butter) - 3 tbsp
Baking Soda - 1/4 tsp
Warm water (as required)
Salt - 1 pinch
Oil for Deep fry

Making process of  Diamond cut Sweet Maida Biscuits

Preparation Method:

1. In a mixing bowl add Maida, salt and sugar and mix well.
2. Melt the Ghee and add with the mixture.
3. Add the Water slowly and mix well like a chapati dough consistency
4. Knead the dough and divide into small portions.
5. Take a small ball like dough portion and Roll it flat with a rolling pin.
6. Cut into diamond shape using special shape Cutter or Pizza cutter or Knife.
7. Immerse it into the hot oil.
8. Deep fry until become golden brown.
9. Let it cool before serve.

Cooking Tips
Instead of Ghee you can use Dalda (Vegetable shortening).

Serving Tips
Store it in a air tight container and the biscuits remain fresh for a week. 
Serve as a evening Tea time snack..


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Bread halwa / Hydrabadi Double Ka Meetha

Double Ka Meetha is one of the traditional Hyderabadi desserts from Mughlai cuisine family. It is an immensely rich sweet for special occasions. It also called as Dabal Ka Meetha

Ingridents 
5 Bread Slices

Ghee

10 Almond (Badam)

1 tsp Cardamom\Yalakai Powder

1 litre Milk

1 1/2 cup Sugar
1 1/2 cup water

Pinch of Saffron 

Preparation 

• Soak almonds in warm water for some time and peel off the skin.

• Roughly chop the almonds`
  

• Remove the hard crust of the bread slices and cut them into halves diagonally.

• Heat half a tbsp of ghee in a wide pan, arrange couple of the bread slices.

• Fry for few seconds and turn on other side to let the bread slices soak all the ghee in the pan. Now fry on medium high flame till bread slices turn dark golden brown on both sides. Remove the fried bread onto a plate.

• Pour another half a tbsp of ghee in the pan and repeat the same with remaining bread slices.
  

• Bring a cup of water to boil in a sauce pot, add sugar and cardamom powder.

• Let the sugar melt and the syrup thicken a bit (around 8 minutes).

• Remove the sugar syrup from heat.

• Dip each slice of fried bread in sugar syrup and remove onto a bowl.

• Bring milk to boil in a heavy bottomed wide pan.

• Reduce the heat to medium and let the milk reduce its quantity to half.

• Stir in remaining cardamom powder, remaining saffron threads and reduce the heat to low.make a rabadi

• Arrange the bread slices in the plate pour the rabadi on the bread slices

• Garnish the prepared bread sweet with chopped pistachios and almonds.

Serve double ka meeta hot or chilled.

Banana and Semolina(Rava) Kachayam

Kachayam is a popular and traditional Tamil Nadu sweet which is having the delicious taste. Kachayam is also famous in other South Indian States. While cooking you may feel the aroma of Cardamom and Banana mix. Time less and easy cooking. 

Cooking Time :20 Min. | Servings :5 Persons

Ingredients

1 cup Maida or All purpose flour

1 cup Semolina (white Sooji/Rava)          

3 Bananas

4 Cardamom Pods

1 Cup Sugar

2 tsp grated Coconut (Optional)

1 pinch Baking soda powder

Water

Oil for deep frying

Direction

• In a bowl peel the Bananas and mash them well.
• Add Maida, Rava, Cardamoms, Grated Coconut, Baking soda and Sugar with the mashed Banana.
• Add the water with the mixture little by little and make batter like idli/dosa consistency.
• Heat the Oil in a frying pan.
• Take a small amount of mixture using small and round shaped ladle.
• Drop the dough into hot Oil and deep fry until become golden brown on both sides.
• Now the kachayam is ready to serve.
• We can serve it Hot or even store this kachayam upto 2 weeks in a cool and dry place.

Note: I am using Coconut it is optional and Instead of sugar and Maida we can use Jaggery and wheat flour which is healthier than this and using this method is called Kodumai Kachayam.

Try this recipe in your home and If you like, leave some comments which may encourage me more.

Chocolate Cashew Cake Without Oven

In India oven is not available in all houses, for them this is a good  way to prepare cake in home without Oven. I am sure that your children's will like this cake very much. try this cake and give your feedback to us. let  us see how to prepare simple Chocolate Cashew Cake Without Oven in quick period of time.

Ingredients
20-30 Marie Biscuit
1 tsp Cocoa Powder
Cashew nuts/Mundiri
Almond/Badam
5 tbsp Condensed Milk
3 tbsp Butter
2 tbsp Sugar or Icing Sugar
2 tsp Vanilla essence

Preparation
Take 20 to 30 Marie biscuits and powder the biscuits in a mixer-grinder. I choose Marie biscuit  because sweet is less. now in a bowl add Cashews and Almond which broken into small pieces with powdered biscuits then add Cocoa powder, Vanilla essence, condensed milk and  Powdered sugar. finally add slightly melted butter little by little in the dough and mix well and keep in refrigerator for 15 minutes. Divide the dough into small rounded pieces and refrigerated for an hour before serve.

Fruit Salad with Kulfi (Kids Special)

Kulfi Ice cream is very famous Ice cream in India with the rich taste of Almond. I have added Dates which is rich in Iron . Preparing this fruit salad is easy and simple
 

Ingredients:

One Banana

2no of Dates

One medium size Mango
One Piece of Pineapple
Half Apple 
2 Tsp of Mixed fruit juice or any Juice if available
One Small Cup of Kulfi Ice cream

Preparation:

Cut Mango, Apple, Banana, Dates and Pineapple into small pieces and Mix all the fruits and juice together in a bowl, before serving add the kulfi ice cream, If you like add some milk and nuts or mixed fruit jam also. and this is good for children's and for adults those who want to control their weight, avoiding Ice cream is better.

*Note :

1. you can add what are the fruits available at the time in home

2. Why I am using kulfi icecream means it contains 40 % almond and other nuts, you can make without kulfi ice cream

Bread Toast with Egg and Milk

Bread Toast with Egg and Milk is a very tasty and nutritional recipe particularly for children's; It take very less time to prepare and I'm happy to share one of my favorite recipe with you.

Ingredients

10 no. of white Bread slices
4 no. of Egg

1/2 cup of Milk

1/2 cup of Sugar

2 tsp of Ghee
2 tbsp of Oil 

Method of Preparation

In a big bowl beat the eggs, milk and sugar until the sugar gets dissolve

Dip the bread slice in the mixture until it observers the mixture.

In a normal heated pan pour some oil and put the soaked bread slice.

Pour some ghee and fry both sides until getting the golden brown color.

Bread Toast with Egg and Milk is ready.