Vermicelli Pudding / kheer / Sevaiya

Vermicelli Pudding is a special dessert cooked during Eid festival. Its taste and easy cooking recipe has inspired to be a favourite dish among the major festival season across india. I tried to make it different by adding rasgullas (bengali sweet) . Below is the recipe :

Ingredients :-

250 gms Vermicelli

2litre milk

1cup condensed milk

Sugar - as per taste

2tbs cardamom powder

2 cooking spoon ghee

Dryfruits to garnish

4 piece of rasgulla

Preparation :-

1. Heat ghee in pan and roast vermicelli till it turns brown.
2. Boil milk at low flame and add the roasted vermicelli along with the condensed milk.
3. Stir it well and let it cook for 10 min.
4. Again add sugar as per taste and the cardmom powder.
5. Keep stirring at low flame till it becomes little thick.
6. Add small piece of rasgullas to it and cook for 2-3min.
7. Garnish it with dryfruits 

Sevaiya is ready to serve. It can be served hot and chilled.

Rice Pudding / Kheer

Dear Readers,


In India Kheer is very famous for all occasions. Among different varieties of Kheer / Pudding am sharing recipe of rice pudding . In the month of may i posted the recipe of sabudana kheer, rice kheer is also of similar recipe. The recipe is simple and tasty. I prefer to serve chilled as desert. Below is the recipe.


Ingredients :-


Rice - 1 cup
Milk - 1 litre
Sugar - 3 cooking spoon
Condensed milk - 1 cup
Cardamom powder - 1tbs
Dry fruits - to garnish


How to:-

1. First heat the milk at low flame and add rice to it. Keep on stirring and let the rice cook in milk.
2. Secondly add condensed milk and sugar as per taste and keep stirring. Kindly stir continously and see that rice is cooked properly.
3. Add the cardamom powder to it and stir till it becomes a bit thick.
4. Now crush gently the pudding with hand blender or in food processor so that the rice are bit broken.
5. Garnish with dry fruits.

Tip - Please do not crush the pudding too much just a gentle crush is needed. One can serve it at room temperature or chilled. I prefer chilled.

Tomato Soup

Tomato soup is very easy to cook and simple recipe to serve as good appetizer.  Best to be served during dinner as its easy to digest. Below is the recipe.

                                                           Serves 4 to 5 person

Ingredients:-

8 tomatoes

1 potato

1 onion

1 tbs salt

1 tbs black pepper

2 tbs sugar

Preparation:-

Boil tomatoes , potato and onion together.  Now crush them and strain the puree. Add 2 cup water and cook for 5min. Add salt, black pepper and sugar to it and cook for 3 min. For thickness i have added potato and onion enhances the taste. As per taste requirement add salt and sugar.

Serve it hot.

Mix fruit halwa

I was motivated to experiment more new recipes on halwa as a result of good ginger halwa recipe. As offerings to Lord Krishna on festival of Janmastami I tried mix fruit halwa on the availability of the fruit at home. One can use fruit of thier own choice, only to be careful on its selection for example i preferred sweet taste fruits like chickoo, apple and banana. It is best choice of dessert and also good for children as its made up of natural fruits. 

Ingredients :-


5 chickoo
2 banana
2 apple
1 cup khoya
1/1/2  cup milk
2tbs cardamom powder
5tbs sugar
1tbs ghee


How to :-

• Take pulp of chickoo and apple and banana and grind in food processor to prepare paste.
• Heat ghee in pan and stir the pulp paste for 10 min.
• Add khoya and cardamom powder and mix well.
• Add milk and sugar and heat it for next 15 min and keep stirring till it becomes thick.

Serve it hot and garnish with cashew nuts. 

Ginger halwa

Its always been exiting to experiment cooking new recipes . Ginger halwa was an experiment as had purchased more of ginger. I wanted to use it as fast and in better way and thought of making ginger halwa. Basically its a boon when having cough or cold. Moreover its also healthy option of sweet dish for those having diabeties. The recipe is as below.






Ingredients:-

                                                                     
1kg grated ginger
1 bowl seedless dates
1 bowl grated coconut
1 bowl sugar syrup (2 tar) / honey
1tbs cardamom powder
1 cooking spoon ghee








How to:-

• Heat ghee in pan and add grated ginger to it.
• Stir it well till turns light brown and then remove it to another plate.
• Add coconut to the same pan and heat it till it turns light pink if required add ghee.
• Now mix ginger, seedless dates, grated coconut and mix well. 
• Later on add bowl of honey or sugar syrup along with cardamom powder.
• Make a thick paste and garnish with pistachio and serve it hot.

Store in refrigerator and before consuming heat it in microwave or else it tasted good when chilled. Enjoy this new recipe.