Boondi Laddu

INGREDIENTS :

Gram Flour - 1 Cup
Sugar -1 1/2 cup
Oil - To fry
Cardomom - 5 pods
Cashews and Raisins - Desired


PREPARATION:

1 . Put the sugar and water in a pan ,boil it to make the sugar syrup.
2 . Meanwhile make the gram flour batter to make the boondis. It should be thicker than dosa batter and should be free of lumps.
3 . You can use the Skimmer /jalli karandi to make boondis.
4 . Heat the oil in the pan and now hold the skimmer few inches above the oil pan.
5 . Now pour the gram flour batter over the skimmer and the batter now drops in small round shapes into the oil,gets fried and becomes gold fried boondis.
6 . Now take the boondis out of the oil and put them into the sugar syrup directly.
7. Repeat the same process of making boondis with rest of the batter.
8. Once done with all the batter , the boondis in the syrup can now be smashed a bit and warmed now.
9. Add cardomom powder ,and fried cashews and raisins into the boondis.
10. Dont let the boondis to cool, instead when they are warm enough to handle,you can roll the boondis together and form Laddus of desired size.
11. Once the laddus becomes cool,they will become firm and in perfect shape.

The first time i made Laddu.. I wasnt able to make them into round shape/laddus... but still we enjoyed eating them as " Sweet Boondis"

I also made a part of Boondis mixed with chilli powder and salt rather than putting them in the sugar syrup...making "Kaara Boondis"

Finally to conclude .. this boondi making can result in any of the three snacks! Enjoy!

Custard Fruit Trifle

INGREDIENTS :

To make Custard :

Custard powder - 1 pack
Milk - 1 Cup
Egg - 1

To make the Trifle :

Custard - 1 Cup
Jello Jelly - 2 Cups
Apple - 1
Banana - 1
Muffin - 2
Mixed jam - 1 tsp
Raisins - to spread in the bowl of trifle
Cashews - for garnishing


PREPARATION :

1. The Custard can be prepared by adding milk and beaten egg to the powder and heating on low flame,stirring as per the pack instructions.
2.Cut the apple,banana into slices.
3. Muffin can also be cut into small pieces jus like muffin crumbs.
4. The trifle bowl has to be given a inline coating with mixed fruit jam(or any flavoured ) to add to taste.
5. Fill in the bowl with a thin layer of Custard.
6.Now fill in a layer of Jello jelly (Readymade or homemade) of any colour.
7. Sprinkle raisins over this layer and then fill it with a fruit mix (apple and banana) layer.
8. Same can be continued over again a layer of custard,jelly,fruits and garnish with cashews on top.
9. A scoop of Vanilla Ice cream over these coatings will make the trifle even more delicious.

I made this trifle for the first time 2 months back..and it was real yummy.Thanks to my sister who used to make it often and its now a favourite dish of ours:) My 2 and half years old son loves this so much..

Mysore Pak

INGREDIENTS :

Gram Flour - 1 Cup
Sugar - 2 Cups
Ghee - 2 Cups


PREPARATION :

1.Gram flour should be seived to avoid lumps during the preparation.
2. First make the sugar syrup ,out of 2 cups of sugar. The water must be a little above the sugar level to attain the exact consistency of the syrup to be made.
3.keep the Ghee ready. You can also make ghee by melting the unsalted butter or can use the readymade one.
4. once the syrup is ready ,add gram flour using a spoon little by little into it ,and meanwhile keep stirring it so that lumps are not formed.
5.When the mixture boils,add little ghee and keep stirring.
6. The gram flour and the ghee should be added alternatively as and wen u find the ghee being absorbed by the flour.
7.After adding all the flour and ghee ,keep the stove in medium flame and continue stirring the mixture until it thickens and u get to see porous consistency of the mixture.
8. Below is the picture of the exact consistency of mysore pak where you could transfer it to a greased pan.


8. You can tranfer the contents to a greased pan and allow the mixture to solidify.
9.Then after few minutes you can cut it into desired shapes .

Mysore pak i made for the first time was delicious..melts in mouth jus like Sri krishna Sweets Mysore pa:)

Give it a try..