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Chunky Sweet ‘n Salty Cookies

Sarmila — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:27:44 +0000

Sweet + Salty = Perfect Cookies? Heck yes! Of course they do! Goldfish, cranberries, chocolate chips, left over granola, and every other cereal I found in my pantry went into these cookies. Gross, you think? Well not really! They looked kinda weird, (the gold fish were stickin out) but they were [...]

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Sweet Potato Kheer

Sarmila — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:18:36 +0000

Ingredients: 1 litre milk 1 medium sweet potato 1/3 cup sugar 1/4 tsp. cardamom powder 1 tbsp. fine vermicelli 1 tsp ghee 1 tsp. raisins 1 tsp. almonds slivered thinly 1 tsp. pistachios slivered thinly Method: Pressure cook sweet potato for 3-4 whistles till tender. The skin will come off easily now, so peel neatly. Chop into tiny pieces, or grate coarsely. Heat ghee in a heavy pan, [...]

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Choco Balls

Sarmila — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:04:25 +0000

Ingredients: Marie biscuits, -1Pkt ½ Cup Sweetened Condensed milk 3 tbsp cocoa powder 4 tbsp Butter 1-2 tsp Milk, if required(i used) ½ Cup Desiccated coconut Cadbury Gems- 1pkt Method: Crush biscuits finely to make a fine powder using mixe. Sieve and keep aside. Cream butter in a medium bowl. Add the fine biscuit powder, [...]

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Jeleabi

Sarmila — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:13:36 +0000

Ingredients: This Recipe is very much traditional south Indian recipe, mostly this recipe prepared by all south Indian families on festivals and also special occasions like marriage. 2 Cups Urad dhal 1/2 teaspoon Yellow Kesari colour 3 Cups Sugar 2 Cups Peanut Oil 6 Cardamom pods Method: Soak Urad dhal in water for 4 hours. [...]

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Wheat Kesari

Sarmila — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 07:30:43 +0000

Ingredients: Wheat Rava – 200gms Sugar 300gms color powder(optional) – 1/2 spoon Ghee – 1/4 cup Cardamom powder 1/2 spoon Cashew and raisins – a handful Method: Heat a spoon of ghee and fry rava till good aroma comes out from that. Take 2.5 cups of water and when it is boiled add rava and allow it to boil well. Then add Sugar. I [...]

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Rasagolla

Sarmila — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:21:18 +0000

Ingredients: Milk – 1/2 liter Sugar – 250 gm Water Maida (All purpose flour) – 1 tsp Rose water – 2 drops Lime juice – 1 tsp Baking powder – a pinch Method: Boil milk and add lime juice to it. Strain in a muslin cloth after 2-3 minutes. After all the whey is strained, add maida and baking powder to cottage cheese. Knead properly to make [...]

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Homemade Donut

Sarmila — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:01:53 +0000

Ingredients: 1 1/3 cups warm milk 1 packet active dry yeast (2 1/4 teaspoons) 2 tablespoons butter 2/3 cup sugar 2 eggs 5 cups all-purpose flour A pinch or two of nutmeg, freshly grated 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted 1 1/2 cups sugar 1 tablespoon cinnamon Method: Sift together flour, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking pdr and sugar. Mix it with melted butter. Add beaten egg [...]

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Garlic Cookie

Sarmila — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:14:04 +0000

Ingredients: 260 g all purpose flour 6 g baking powder 5 g salt 5 g white pepper powder 170 g unsalted butter, room temperature 125 g sugar 1 egg 4 kaffir lime leaves, thinly sliced 50 g cashew nuts, chopped 20 g dried shrimp, chopped 1 garlic clove, chopped 1 lemongrass, thinly sliced 2 dried red [...]

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Carrot Halwa

Sarmila — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:43:49 +0000

Ingredients: Carrots – 3 nos. Milk – 1 cup. Sugar – 1 cup. Ghee – 3 tsp. Cashew nuts for garnishing. Raisins for garnishing. Method: Peel the carrots and grate them. Soak the grated carrots in the milk and pressure cook. Heat sugar and ghee in a non stick pan. Add the pressure cooked carrots and milk. Stir well. Keep the lid closed in between stirrings, as [...]

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Fruit Halwa

Sarmila — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:39:50 +0000

Ingredients: Ripe mango pulp 1 cup Pineapple peeled and chopped finely 1 cup Green grapes seedless and finely chopped 1 cup Banana ripe finely chopped 1 Sugar 1-1/2 cup Ghee 1/4 cup Method: Cook all the fruits together on low heat till very soft and pulpy. Add sugar and ghee continue to cook till it begins to leave the sides. Let it cook.Ready Serve. Related [...]

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