Aata Halwa / Wheat Flour Halwa

Time 15 min

Ingredients

Wheat flour /aata 1/2 cup

Cardamom powder 1/4 tsp

Sugar 1/4 cup

Hot water 1.5 cups

Ghee 3 tbsp  

Salt one pinch

Almond, pistachio slices 1 tbsp

Method

Heat non stick pan. Add aata and pinch of salt, dry roast for 7-8 min on low flame till it changes colour i.e. brown. Then add ghee and cardamom powder again roast continuously for 5-6 min till it becomes dark brown colour. Then add 1.5 cup hot water then sugar, now stir continuously till water is observed by aata. Now press aata with spoon so that no knots are remained. Cook till oil comes out on edges around 3-4 min. Turn off the flame and garnish with dry fruit slices, serve hot.

Lal Bhoplyachi Upvas Kheer / Red Pumpkin Kheer

Time 10 min

Ingredients

Peeled grated red pumpkin/lal bhopla 1 cup

Cardamom powder 1/4 tsp

Sugar 1/4 cup or more as per your taste

Warm full fat milk 2-3 cups

Ghee 1 tbsp  

Almond and Pista sliced  1 tbsp

Method

Heat ghee in thick bottom pan. Add grated pumpkin. Stir well. Then add warm milk. Mix well. Cook for 7-8 min. Then add sugar, cardamom powder and dry fruits. Mix well. Cook for other 4-5 min. Serve hot. 

Mango Burfi

 Time 30 min  
Ingredients
Chickpeas flour /besan 1 cup
Mango pulp 2 cups
Sugar 3/4 cup
Ghee 1/4 cup 
Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp

Method

Blend in blender mango pulp and sugar. Pour this pulp into thick bottom pan, stir continuously atfer 5-6 min, water of mango will go away and it will become condensed. Allow it to cool. Keep it aside.

Grease the plate with ghee. Keep it aside.

Take thick bottom pan, dry roast besan for 5-6 min. Then add ghee and roast continuously ( low flame throughout the procedure). Roast around 6-7 min till it turns light brown and spreads nice aroma. To this add mango pulp & Cardamom powder. Mix well. stir for 6-7 min, till it becomes like halwa. 

Pour this mixture on greased plate sprinkle sliced almond and pistacho. Allow it to cool. Cut into pieces. 

Mango Condensed Pulp

Time 10 min  
Ingredients
Mango pulp 2 cups
Sugar 1/2 cup

Method

Blend in blender mango pulp and sugar. Pour this pulp into thick bottom pan, stir continuously after 5-6 min, water of mango will go away and it will become thick/condensed. Allow it to cool. Store in air tight container.

You can keep this in refrigerator for 4-5 months. Use this for making amrakhand, mango icecream etc.

Dudhi Kheer

Time 10 min

Ingredients

Peeled grated doodhi/Bottlegourd 1 cup

Cardamom powder 1/4 tsp

Sugar 1/4 cup or more as per your taste

Warm full fat milk 2-3 cups

Ghee 1 tbsp  

Almond and Pista sliced  1 tbsp

Method

Heat ghee in thick bottom pan. Add dudhi. Dudhi will leave water. Continuously stir till it turns translucent.  Then add warm milk. Mix well. Cook for 7-8 min. Then add sugar, cardamom powder and dry fruits. Mix well. Cook for another 4-5 min.. Serve hot. 

Lal Bhoplyacha Halwa / Red Pumpkin Halwa

Time 15 min

Ingredients

Peeled grated red pumpkin/lal bhopla 1 cup

Cardamom powder 1/4 tsp

Sugar 1/4 cup or more as per your taste

Warm full fat milk 1 cup

Ghee 1 tbsp  

Almond and Pista sliced  1 tbsp

Khoya 1 tbsp (optional)

Method

Heat ghee in thick bottom pan. Add grated pumpkin and 1 tbsp water. Stir well. Cover with lid and cook for 5 min. Then add warm milk sugar and cardamom powder, (Khoya) and dry fruits. Mix well. Cook for another 4-5 min till it gets thickened like halwa. Serve hot. 

Kairi Panhe

Time 15 min
Ingredients
Raw mango 2 medium size
Sugar/jaggery 1 cup (or little more it depend on how sour is the mango)
Salt to taste
Cardamom powder 1/2 tsp

Method
Pressure cook raw mangoes with 1 cup of water for 2 -3 whistles. Allow it to cool. Take out pulp and remove skin and seeds. It will be approximately 1 cup. 
Add jaggery/sugar and little salt to pulp and boil on low flame for 7-8 min till jaggery is melt and pulp gets thickened. Allow it to cool. Taken 4-5 tsp of this pulp add to 1 glass of water and serve chill.
You can store this for 2 months in refrigerator.

Mango Lassi / Mango Yoghurt Smoothie

Time 5 min

Ingredients

Ripe mango pulp 1/2 cup

Thick curd 2 cups 

Sugar 2-3 tbsp

Cardamom powder 3-4 pinch

Method

Blend in blender first mango pulp and curd. Then add sugar and cardamom powder blend again. Then add 3-4 ice cubes blend again. Serve chill.

Sakhar Bhat / Sweet Rice

Time 20 min

Ingredients

Mogra Basmati Rice 1 cup

Suar 3/4 cup

Cashewnuts and kismis 1 tbsp

Ghee 1 tbsp

Water 2 cup or more (it depends on how old is your rice)

Method

Wash rice and keep it aside.

In a small pressure cooker around 1.5 or 2 liter, heat ghee, add cardamom. Then add rice and water pressure cook for 2-3 whistles. Immediately remove lid so that it will not be sticky. In separate vessel add sugar with 1/4 cup of water. Make ektari sugar syrup. Then add to rice. Also add cardamom powder, cashewnuts and kismis. Cook for 4-5 min till rice absorb syrup. It tastes yummy. 

Kolhapuri Special Gavachi Kheer

Time 40 min

Ingredients

Full fat milk 1 lit

Sugar 1 cup or jaggery 1 cup as per ur taste

Cardamom / Velchi powder 1/2 tsp

Broken Wheat 1/2 cup (It is called Khapli Gahoo in Kolhapur which you will able to get in maket in Ganapati Festival))

Basmati rice 2 - 3  tbsp 

Dry fruits (Cashewnuts, Almond, Pista, Kismis) 1 cup

Kharik big pieces (Dry khajoor) 1/4 cup

Ghee 2 tbsp

Fresh coconut paste 1 cup

Kesar soaked in milk 1 tsp

Water 2 cup

Pinch of salt

Method

Wash the wheat. Then in 2 cups of water let it soak overnight. Then pressure cook wheat and rice along with same water and 1/4 tsp salt for 4-5 whistles. Let it dry for 10-15 min. Then blend it in mixer to make coarse powder. Now add water 1-1.1/2 cup, cook in cooker for 2-3 whistles. Allow it to cool. Keep it aside.

Heat the vessel add ghee, add cooked wheat and rice, freshly grounded coconut and dry fruits. Mix well. Add 2 cups of water and Let it cook by covering lid for 15-20 min. (Pl stir meanwhile to check water level if required add water) Then add velchi powder, milk. jaggery, kesar. Mix well. Cook for about 10-15 min on low flame. U can add more milk as per the consistency of kheer you want, means thick or thin. Allow it to cool. Keep it in refrigerator. Serve chill.

Tip

If you dont get khapli gahoo then you can use regular wheat. Wash wheat with water. Then keep it for 2 hrs. Then blend in blender till it is half broken. Use this one for kheer.

Soaked wheat and rice 

Cooked wheat and rice

Dink Ladoo

Time 30 min  
Ingredients
Dry coconut powder 100 gm
Dry kharik powder 100 gm
Dink 50 gms
Almonds 50 gms
Pista 50 gms
Cashew nuts 50 gms
Kismis 50 gms
Roasted poppy seeds 1 tbsp
Ghee 1 cup
Cardamom powder 1 tsp
For Syrup: Sugar 2 cup + water 1/2 cup

Method
Take thick bottom pan, heat 1 tbsp ghee, dry roast kharik powder for 3-4 min on low flame. Repeat the procedure for coconut, almond, pista, cashew nuts  Keep it aside. In kadai heat 1/2 cup ghee, fry dink. Take out dink and keep it aside. Now in blender make coarse powder of almond and pista. Keep it aside. Now in mixing bowl, mix all ingredients kharik powder, coconut powder, coarse powder of almond pista, kismis, cashew nuts, roasted poppy seeds, cardamom powder.  Keep it aside.

Now make sugar syrup. For that put the water and sugar in a saucepan and bring to a boil keeping medium-high flame. When the syrup comes to a boil, turn the heat down to medium and stir to dissolve the sugar completely. Let it simmer until the syrup turns ektari syrup. Pour this syrup in the mixing bowl. Mix well. Take a spoonful of mixture in hand and make laddos.

Tip
I keep separately one cup of mixture aside and then i add syrup. Sometimes syrup becomes less that makes ladoos dry.  

Fruit Custard

Time 10 min
Ingredients
Very small pieces of Apple, Chikku, Grape, Pear, Orange, Strawberries 2 cups
Custard powder 3 tsp
Milk 2 cups
Dry fruits 1 tbsp
Sugar 3 - 4 tsp

Method
Heat milk. In a separate bowl, dissolve custard powder in 1/2 cup hot milk. Heat remaining milk, then add dissolved custard powder in the milk and stir continuously, till custard thickens. Switch off the flame, allow it to cool then add fruits, dry fruits mix well, refrigerate it. Serve chill.

Sabudana with Curd

Time 2 min

Ingredients

Sabudana 1/2 cup

Thick curd 1 cup

Sugar 3 tsp

Method

Soak sabudana overnight by adding 1 tbsp more water than required. so that sabudana becomes very soft.
Mix dahi with sugar, add soaked sabudana refrigerate it for 1/2 hr and thne serve.