Badam Burfi Recipe

Badam Burfi / Almond Candy Recipe

Ingredients

1 cup - Whole Almonds (Badam).

3/4 Cup - Sugar.

1/3 cup - milk.

Pinch of Cardamom powder.

2 tbsp - ghee or butter.

Preparation:

1. Put almonds in a microwave-safe container, Soak in water, Cook for 6-8 minutes.

2. Peel skin off of the almonds.

3. Grind the peeled almonds in blender with sugar, milk to get a smooth paste.

4. Take a frying pan or wide pan and heat ghee or butter (melt butter to form ghee).

5. Ghee or butter melts, add the above paste and cook on medium heat, stirring continuously until it starts to thicker.

6. Add cardamom powder, keep stirring until it becomes very think and leaves the side of the pan.

7. Take a wide plate and apply some ghee.

8. Pour the above onto it, smoothen surface of the mixtute and let it cool for 15 - 20 min.

9. Cut into square pieces or any shape which you like.

Jalebi Sweet Recipe

Jalebi Sweet Recipe

Ingredients

Jalebi batter

1 cup all purpose flour (maida)

1/3 cup of corn starch

1 tbsp basen powder

sufficient curd

1 tbsp sugar

Pinch of food color

Oil for deep fry

Syrup:

2 cups sugar

1 cup water

1/4 tbsp Cardamom powder

1 tbsp lemon juice

Preparation:

Jalebi batter

1. Mix yogurt, all purpose flour, corn starch, basen powder, sugar to a paste. Keep it overnight to ferment.

2. After fermentation add pinch of food color, pinch of baking soda and mix well.

Syrup

3. Take a bowl 1 cup water add 2 cups sugar, lemon juice mix well. Heat to a boil on medium heat. Keep cooking, you should get a single thread consistency sugar syrup. Add Cardamom powder to syrup.

4. Heat oil on wide pan for deep frying.

5. Take a ketchup bottle or polythene ziplock bag, cut the corner. Put jalebi batter in the bottle/bag. Gradually swirl the batter outward in a circular motion about 2" to 3" round.

6. Deep fry them both sides until they are golden and crisp all over but not brown.

7. Take out from fryer and keep on kitchen paper/towel to remove excess oil.

8. Place Jalebi in the warm syrup 2 or 3 min on both sides.

9. Server on hot.

Palli Patti (or) Peanut Jaggery Candy

Palli Patti (or) Peanut Jaggery Candy/Sweet Recipe

Ingredients:
1 Cup - Peanuts
1 Cup - Jaggery
1/2 Cup - cashews
2 tbsp - Sesame seeds
1 tbsp - Ghee
1 Pinch - Cardamom powder

Preparation:
1. Roast the peanuts, cool, crush the peanuts and keep aside.

2. Roast the sesame seeds, cool and keep aside

3. Take a bowl, Crush Jaggery.

4. Take about 1/2 cup water (50% of water the amount of jaggery) add to jaggery and mix well.

5. Boil the liquid to make thick. Test by taking a drop of this into a bowl of cold water. The drop should solidify immediately. Add the cardamom powder and mix well.

6. Take one big plate and apply ghee.

7. Once the liquid is ready, mix roasted peanuts, cashews, roasted sesame seeds and mix well.

8. Pour the above mixture into the the ghee coated plate. And quickly roll it. Cut into the pieces before it gets stiff. if you want to make laddu/balls, wet hand and prepare before it gets stiff.

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