Monday, November 8, 2010

Chocolate Biscuit Balls


Ingredients:
Condensed Milk – 5 Tbsp
Cocoa Powder – 3 tsp
Marie Biscuits – 10-12
Dessicated Coconut – 4 tsp
Badam or Almond – 6-7

Method:
* Powder the Marie Biscuits in a mixer grinder until it becomes fine powder.
* Also, powder the Badam in a mixer Grinder.
* In a bowl, add Marie biscuits powder, Cocoa powder, Badam Powder, Milkmaid to prepare a soft dough.
* Prepare small balls from the dough and roll them on dessicated Coconut.
* Chocolate Biscuit Ball is now ready to serve

Churma Laddu


Ingredients:
Wheat flour- 200 g.
Ghee -- 400 g.
Khoya/Mawa - 100g.(condensed milk, pachi kova in telugu.)
Sugar -- 200g
Almonds - 50g(soaked, pealed and chopped)
Cardamom powder - 1 tea sp
cinamon - 1 inch piece (dalchina chekka, dalchini)
Milk -- 1 - 2 tab sp(when you are making laddu s sprinkle and see if you meed more milk to make balls then you can add but don't add more milk that the powder become like a paste just sprinkle 1 tab sp hold and see it you are able to make laddu then stop adding milk.For me it took 1&1/2 tbsp.

Method:--
* Melt 150g of ghee in a pan,take wheat flour in a bowl and add the melted ghee and mix well if you hold this mixture that should form in a ball like in the picture.
* Then add very little water and make a stiff dough.
* Heat rest of the ghee in a deep frying pan.

* Now make 20 small balls out of the wheat flour dough and make dippreshion with your fingers(if you fry the balls round in sahape some times there are chances the balls will blast in the oil and also they don't cook properly in side so give a impreshion in the middle.)
* Deep fry this wheat balls in hot ghee in a low flame untill they become nice golden brown in color(here you can use normal cooking oil also for deep frying this balls but they don't taste like ghee).
* Now remove from the ghee and let them cool to handle, then make small pieces out of this balls with hand ans make apowder in the grinder or coffe grinder.
* Heat 1 tab sp of ghee in a pan add cinamon and cardamon powder,mix khoya and wheat flower mixture mix well and add the to pan which we heated 1 tab sp ghee with cinamon and cardamom powder and fry it for a minute.
* Remove from heat and let it cool to handle.
* Now add chopped almonds and sugar mix well.
* If you want to make laddus then sprinkle milk and make laddus.
* It will stay for more then 1 month in powder form,if you add milk and made laddus the they will stay for 1 week because of milk.
* With out milk also you can make laddus with this powder,when it is hot add sugar and mix well and leave for few min.
* Then make balls when the mixture is warm once it is cool them you can not make balls so that you have to add little milk in this case.

Coconut Laddu


Ingredients:
Condensed milk 400 gms, sweetened
Grated coconut 4 cups, desiccated

Method
Take some 50 Gms of the grated coconut and keep aside.
Add the remaining coconut to the condensed milk and cook on slow fire.
Gently mix till the mixture leaves the sides of the pan.
Cool and roll into small laddoos with greased palms.
Roll the laddoos in the coconut powder set aside and serve.
This makes around 20 medium sized laddo

Till Laddu


Ingredients:
Nuvulu 2 cups
Sugar 1 cup
Milk 2 tsp
Method:
Grind the above ingredients excuding milk.
Make laddus from grinded mixture just sprinkling little milk.
Nuvulu laddu is ready to eat.
We make this laddu on nagula chavithi day.

Seasame Laddu


Ingredients:
Sesame Seeds - 150 gms, roasted
Jaggery - 150 gms, grated
Ghee - 1 tblsp

Method:1. Melt ghee.
2. Add jaggery and fry for 5 minutes.
3. Add sesame seeds. Mix well.
4. Wet the palm of your hand.
5. Take a tablespoon of the mixture in hand and give it the shape of a laddoo.
6. Keep aside. Repeat for rest of the mixture.
7. Store in an airtight container.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Rava Laddu


Ingredients
Fine Rava/Sooji - 2 cups
Unsalted Butter - ½ stick
Shredded Dry Coconut - 1 ½ cups
Sugar - 2 cups or 1 ½ cups if you want it less sweet
Evaporated Milk - 1 5oz can
Cardamom Powder - ½ tsp
Saffron - 1 pinch, powdered (optional)
Edible Camphor - 1 pinch, powdered (optional)
Raisins – ¼ cup, roasted in a little butter
Cashew/Almond/Pistachio - ¼ cup, coarsely chopped and roasted in a little butter

Method
Melt Butter in a non-stick pan on medium heat.
Add Rava/Sooji and fry until you get the nice roasted Rava aroma.
Add Shredded Coconut and Sugar and mix well on low heat for few seconds.
Add Raisins, Nuts, Saffron, Cardamom Powder, and Edible Camphor – Mix well.
Add Evaporated Milk and turn off the stove. Keep mixing for few minutes until the Evaporated Milk is well incorporated.
Remove pan from stove.
Dip your hands in cold water, take small amount of the mixture (golf ball size) and roll it into balls.
Makes approx. 35 to 40 ladoos depending on the size you make.

Paneer Laddu


Ingredients
1/2 cup condensed milk
250 gms. paneer (cottage cheese)
2-3 drops kewra essence
1/4 tsp. yellow colou

Method
Mash paneer.
Add condensed milk and cook on slow flame, stirring continously.
Cook till thick and sides leave.
Add essence and remove from flame.
Mix well. Pour on plate. Cool. Make ladoos.
Sprinkle powdered elaichi and decorate.