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Oct1

Banana Sheera Recipe / Rava Sheera Recipe / Sooji Halwa with Banana with Sprig Gourmet

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Sheera is a Marathi word for Halwa. Sheera is a must to have dish during festivals in North India. It is a rich dessert that is prepared by cooking sooji and banana along with toasted nuts and ghee / clarified butter. Banana sheera can be prepared by using both milk or water.

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Banana Sheera Recipe / Rava Sheera Recipe / Sooji Halwa with Banana

I have infused coconut palm sugar instead of sugar, which gives more flavor and being a best natural sweetener. I have used Coconut Palm Sugar (mingles with A Quartet of Brown spices) from sprig, CLICK HERE for the product. Coconut Palm Sugar from sprig gives good flavor with beautiful color to the dish and delicious taste.

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Banana Sheera Recipe / Rava Sheera Recipe / Sooji Halwa with Banana

Also, I have infused more banana for the perfect halwa texture and taste of banana. You can use variant of banana, but use only the ripen once. Let me share the recipe…

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Ingredients:

  • Banana – 3 nos
  • Rava / Sooji / Semolina – 1 cup (1 cup=160 ml)
  • Water – 3 cups
  • Coconut palm sugar – ½ cup
  • Cardamom – 3 nos
  • Ghee / Clarified butter – 5 tbsp
  • Cashew nuts – 10 nos
  • Almonds / Badam – 10 nos
  • Saffron – few strands
Thinly sliced nuts getting toasted in ghee/clarified butter
Raosting rava/sooji/semolina
Rava to the boiling water
Rava getting cooked to mashing consistency
With ghee/clarified butter
With mashed banana
With mashed banana
Getting cooked
With sprig gourmet coconut palm sugar
With coconut palm sugar
Getting mixed
With roasted nuts
Getting cooked in medium flame
With crushed cardamom
Getting cooked, oil about to ooze out
Banana Sheera Recipe / Rava Sheera Recipe / Sooji Halwa with Banana
Banana Sheera Recipe / Rava Sheera Recipe / Sooji Halwa with Banana

Preparation:

  • Thinly slice cashew nuts and almonds/badam, keep it aside.
  • Peel the banana’s and mash them well as no lumps are left.
  • Heat ½ tsp of ghee/clarified butter in a kadai, add rava/semolina and toast it until it turns turn golden brown in color.
  • Transfer it to plate, spread it well and let it rest until it reaches room temperature.
  • Pour 1 ½ tbsp of ghee/clarified butter in a kadai, add thinly sliced cashew nuts and almonds, roast it until it turns golden brown in color.
  • Pour 3 cups of water in a kadai/long bottomed vessel, wait until it boils.
  • Once it starts boiling, add the roasted rava/sooji little by little and stir it well, make sure no lumps are formed.
  • Wait until gets cooked well, add the mashed banana mix it well.
  • Pour a tbsp of ghee/clairifed butter, mix it well.
  • Cook in low flame for almost 10 mins, pour in the leftover ghee/clarified butter along with the roasted nuts.
  • Mix it well and stir it, until it reaches rolling consistency and remove it from fire, once the ghee/clarified butter starts oozing out.
  • Sprinkle saffron strands, give a mix and transfer it to a bowl.

Serve hot.

Sep25

Rajgira Kheer Recipe / Amaranth Seeds Recipe / Mulakeerai Vithai Payasam recipe

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Rajgira is nothing but Amaranth seeds / முலக்கீரை விதை, usually payasam/kheer is prepared with this in North India for Navratri. Commonly it is prepared during Vrat time, as its highly nutritious and very rich in protein.

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Rajgira Kheer Recipe / Amaranth Seeds Recipe / Mulakeerai Vithai Payasam recipe

Very first time tried this Rajgira Kheer using products from Ekgaon, an online platform that connects farmers all over India. I have been using Ekgaon products for few months long and the products are high quality and I am very happy with the result. Give a try to both the recipe and the products from Ekgaon…

Making of Rajgira Kheer / Amaranth seeds payasam recipe –

Rajgira kheer / Payasam is a perfect dish during the time of vrat or Navratri, because of the health benefits in the Amaranth seeds / Rajgira. Also, I have substituted sugar with Dates Palm Sugar / Panangarkandu in tamil, which helps in relieving cold and sore throat. Give a try…

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Ingredients:

  • Rajgira / Amaranth seeds / Mulakeerai vithai – 1 cup
  • Palm Dates Sugar / Sugar – ¾ cup
  • Cardamom – 3 nos
  • Milk – ½ litre
  • Cashew nuts – 10 nos
  • Badam / Almonds – 10 nos
  • Saffron strands / Kungumapoo – few strands
Rajgira seeds / Amaranth seeds getting rinsed in water
Rinsed seeds to pressure cooker
Rajgira with water
About to get pressure-cooked
Milk getting boiled
With cardamom seeds
With pressure-cooked rajgira seeds / amaranth seeds
Getting thicken with miik
Thickened and nearer to kheer texture
With palm dates sugar
With saffron strands
With thinly sliced almonds / badam
With thinly sliced cashew nuts
Getting cooked
Rajgira Kheer Recipe / Amaranth Seeds Recipe / Mulakeerai Vithai Payasam recipe is ready
Rajgira Kheer Recipe / Amaranth Seeds Recipe / Mulakeerai Vithai Payasam recipe

Preparation:

  • Take the rajgira / amaranth seeds in a strainer and rinse it well in running water.
  • Drain the water completely, transfer it to pressure cooker, for 1 cup of rajgira, pour 1 ½ cups of water and pressure cook for 3 whistles in medium flame.
  • Meanwhile boil the milk in a pan, crush the cardamom, add cardamom once the milk is boiled and cook in low flame, until the milk reduces to half the quantity.
  • Remove the lid from the pressure cooker, once the pressure is completely released.
  • Pour the pressure-cooked rajgira to the boiling milk, mix it well and cook for few mins.
  • Once it starts thickening, thinly slice the cashew nuts and almonds, add it to the kheer, mix it well and cook for a min.
  • Add the Palm dates sugar / panangarkandu to the kheer, mix it well, cook for a min or until the sugar is dissolved.
  • Sprinkle the saffron strands, remove it from fire.

Serve hot or chillied. You serve it along with poori for breakfast or serve it as dessert in meals.

 

 

Sep18

Instant Bread Gulab Jamun Recipe / How to make Gulab Jamun with Bread / Gulab Jamun Recipe

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Gulab Jamun and Rasgulla being my all-time favorite sweet right from childhood, recently when I came across this Bread Gulab Jamun from my friend, wanted to try it immediately. Luckily had 7 to 8 bread slices leftover from our breakfast, so tried out immediately.

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Instant Bread Jamun recipe / How to make Gulab jamun with Bread / Gulab Jamun recipe

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Bread Gulab Jamun is an easy, simple and instant sweet recipe that can be prepared easily and perfect by beginners. I have also shared out a video recipe for Instant Bread Gulab Jamun in my you tube, refer video for perfect texture. Let me share the recipe…

Making of Instant Bread Gulab Jamun / Bread Gulab Jamun Video –

Ingredients:

  • Bread slices – 7 nos
  • Sugar – 1 cup
  • Water for sugar syrup – ¾ cup
  • Rose white essence – 2 drops
  • Milk powder – 4 tbsp
  • Milk – 3 to 4 tbsp
  • Full cream – 2 tbsp
  • Cardamom – 2 nos
  • Lemon juice – 1 tbsp
  • Ghee / Oil – 1 cup (for frying)
Slice the corners of the bread
Roughly slice the bread into pieces
Bread pieces about to ground
Coarsely ground bread pieces
With milk powder
With fresh cream
Crumble with fingers
Sprinkle milk little by little and knead it gently
Kneading gently
Bread jamun dough ready
Dough rolled out to small balls
Getting deep fried
Drain the oil and remove it from fire
Sugar, water, crushed cardamom
Sugar syrup ready
Into sugar syrup
Into sugar syrup
Instant Bread Jamun recipe / How to make Gulab jamun with Bread / Gulab Jamun recipe

Preparation:

  • Cut the corners of the bread, chop them into medium pieces, grind them to coarse powder.
  • Add milk powder, full cream, crumble it well.
  • Sprinkle milk little by little, and knead it gently and roll it to a dough.
  • Divide the dough into small portions, roll it to small balls and keep it aside.
  • Meanwhile add sugar, pour water in a heavy bottomed vessel, cook in medium flame until it reaches slight syrup consistency.
  • Crush the cardamom, add it to the sugar syrup along with the lemon juice (to avoid the syrup from crystallizing).
  • Heat oil / ghee in a vessel, gently drop the rolled-out bread balls and deep fry it in medium flame until it turns golden brown.
  • Drain the oil and remove it from fire.
  • Transfer it to the sugar syrup, once its ready, let it rest for 3 hours.

Serve it. You can serve it along with ice cream.