Mango Apple Smoothie!!!

I tried this long back and got delayed in posting. Enjoy the Mango Apple Smoothie.

Ingredients
Ripe Mango - 1 no(Medium size)
Apple - 1/2 no
Sugar - 1 tspn
Curd - 1 tspn

Preparation Method
In a mixie or blender add mango, apple without skin whip once.
Then add sugar and curd and make a fine paste.

Garnish with Pistachos and Serve chilled.

Notes - If the mango is slight big you can add 1 apple.

This recipe is going to Serve it chilled event by Denise and Krithika.

Mango Kulfi!!!

Ingredients
Milk - 1/2 litre
Condensed Milk - 1/2 tin (As per your taste)
Sugar - If required
Ripe Mango - 1cup(Pureed) (Peel skin cut into cubes and make a paste in mixie/blender)
Cardamom/Elachi powder - a pinch(Optional)
Water - Optional(I added 1 cup of water to milk)
 Preparation Method
Boil milk in a thick bottom vessel.
When its come to boiling point reduce flame and add condensed milk.
Stir well. Allow it to reduce to half the quantity.
Keep it in low flame and stir.
You will know by the colour and quantity. Once its reduced taste and check for sugar as kulfi will be on slightly sweeter side.
Add the mango puree and mix well and allow it to cool.
Once cooled pour it in the ice cream mould or jelly mould and freeze to 4-6 hours. If ice crystal are formed mix well and again freeze it.
Before serving keep the cups in water for 2mins for easy removal and Serve immediately.


Enjoy Mango Kulfi, its very refreshing.


Notes - I prepared it at nite and served next day afternoon. Too much freezing also forms ice. So just freeze it to 4-6 hours and Serve.


This recipe is going to Celebrate Sweets Icecream by Reshmi and Nivedita and to Healing Foods Mango by Revathi and Siri.

Apple Milk Dessert

Apple Milk Dessert is easy and quick dessert. I saw this recipe in one of the TV channel, I have modified slightly. My son is not eating apples because its crunchy. So tried this and he loved it and I managed to make him eat apple:-)

Serves - 2 persons
Ingredients
Grated Apple - 1/2 no
Milk - 1 cup
Water - 1/4 cup
Corn flour - 1/2 tspn
Low fat Condensed Milk -4 tspns(Can use sugar too about 4 tspns or Kova)
Cardamom powder - a pinch
Saffron - few strands
Badam for garnish


Preparation Method
In a kadai/wok, add water, cardamom powder allow it to boil. Add grated apple and cook(here you can also add 1 tspn of sugar and cook) till all water is abosorbed.
Transfer it to a bowl.
In the same kadai, add milk and boil.
Mix cornflour in milk or water with lumps, add the cornflour paste, saffron(kesari) and condensed milk. Mix well.
Let it boil in medium flame for few minutes until it becomes slightly thick.
Then add cooked apple and stir. After a minute off the stove.

Garnish with chopped Almond/Badam. Allow it to cool and chill for 1-2 hours before serving.

Apple Milk Dessert is ready to Enjoy.

This is going to Sugarless Sweets here in this blog started by Nivedita.

Food Palette White by Akeela

Gulab Jamuns

Gulab Jamun is favourite sweet for most of them. I just love the soft cake filled with sugar syrup. This was a dessert for our Singapore Bloggers Potluck Party by me. Was so excited to meet my friends in this month of Friendship Day. We had a great time and all dishes were super yummy and tasty.

It was pleasure meeting you all dearies

Here goes the recipe.
Ingredients
Jamun Mix - 1 small pkt (used MTR brand)
Water - 1 cup +
Ghee/oil - for deep frying
Sugar - 8 cups
Water - 8 cups
Rose essence - 2 tspns

Preparation Method

Sugar Syrup

Mix water and sugar in a vessel and boil for 15mins. Add Rose essence.

Jamuns

In a wide bowl, mix jamun powder with water and make soft dough.

Heat oil in a Kadai, make tiny balls with the dough. Drop them slowly in the oil and deep fry them in low flame till brown.

Remove and drop it in sugar syrup.

Let them soak for about 6 hours.

You can also store in air tight container and store in refridgerator for about a week or more.


Serve hot or chill. If you are serving hot, can serve with vanilla icecream.


This recipe is going off to

MM Party Treats by me and Meeta.

Iftar Moments by Umm

Cold Desserts by Akila

Joy from Fasting to Feasting by Lubna

Colour Your Palate - A Visual Treat by Sanyukta

Festive Food - Raksha Bandhan by Priti since my brother loves it a lot.

Kulfi

Kulfi is very tasty ice cream. I remembered we used to have in Bangalore during college days. This time I thought of giving it a try. I didn't have the ice cream candy moulds but tried in the jelly cups. It was so tasty. There are many flavours of kulfis. They serve it in claypots called Matka Kulfi in North India. My son liked a lot.

Ingredients
Milk - 1/2 litre
Condensed Milk - 1/2 tin to 3/4 tin(As per your taste)
Sugar - If required
Pistachos, Badam flakes - 2 tspns
Saffron - a pinch soaked in warm milk.
Fresh Grated coconut - 2 tspns
Cardamom/Elachi powder - a pinch
Water - Optional(I added 1 cup of water to milk)

Preparation Method
Boil milk in a thick bottom vessel.
When its come to boiling point reduce flame and add condensed milk.
Stir well. Allow it to reduce to half the quantity.
Keep it in low flame and stir.
You will know by the colour and quantity. Once its reduced taste and check for sugar as kulfi will be on slightly sweeter side.
Add rest of the ingredients and allow it to cool.
Once cooled pour it in the ice cream cups or jelly cups and freeze to 4-6 hours.

Before serving keep the cups in water for 2mins for easy removal and Serve immediately.

Garnish with Pistachos. Enjoy!!!

Tip - I prepared it at nite and served next day afternoon. Too much freezing also forms ice. So just freeze it to 4-6 hours and Serve.

This recipe is going off to Akheela's Cold Desserts Event  Party Treats by me and Kids Delight by Pari.

Oats Semiya Payasam/Kheer

Oats Semiya/Vermicilli Payasam is a sweet dish prepared with milk, semiya, sugar, oats and kesari/saffron. This is my new innovative recipe.

Saffron is very expensive ingredient which is taken by pregnant women in milk and also used to prepare sweets.

This recipe is going off to Oats Feast here in Sara's Corner and JFI Saffron hosted at Chef in you.

Ingredients
Semiya/Vermicilli - 1 cup
Oats - 2 to 3 tspns
Milk - 1/2 litre
Kesari/Saffron - a pinch (Soaked in 1/2 cup warm milk)
Sugar - 1 cup (As per your taste)
Condensed milk - 1/2 cup
Cardamom powder - a pinch
Ghee - 2 tspns
Mix of cashews n raisins - 2 tspns

Preparation Method
In a kadai, add 1 tspn ghee and dry roast the semiya till brown.
Soak oats in water.
In a thick bottom vessel, boil milk in low flame as it will overflow. When its started boiling add roasted semiya/vermicilli, sugar, condensed milk and mix well.
Once semiya is well cooked add oats and kesari/saffron.
Boil well till the milk thickens and reduces.
Garnish with cashews n raisins roasted in ghee.

Serving suggestion - Hot or cold.

Palapazham Payasam

Palapazham Payasam (Jackfruit payasam) in tamil. It is a dessert done with Jackfruit. Popular in Kerala State, India. An easy and tasty traditional dessert prepared on auspicious ocassions.

Ingredients
Jackfruit - 10 pieces
Jaggery - 2 cups(powdered)
Grated Coconut - 1 cup
Cardamom - 1/2 tspn(powdered)
Coconut piece - 2 tspns
Cashews and raisins - 2 tspns(optional) for garnishing



Preparation Method
Take jackfruit and remove seeds. Chop them into small pieces.
In a bowl, put chopped jackfruit and add little water to cook.
In a Kadai or thick bottom vessel put jaggery and little water. Once it dissolves filter it to remove mud particles .
Once jackfruit is cooked well add jaggery to it. Mix well and allow it to boil in medium-low flame.
In mixie grind grated coconut and add it to this mixture. Add cardomom powder and boil well.
Chop coconut into thin and small pieces and fry it in 2 tspns of ghee till brown and garnish it.

Once its boiled a very tasty palapazha payasam is ready to serve.

Carrot Halwa

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This is a very easy and tasty sweet dish done with carrot....

Ingredients

Carrot - 3 nos (grated)

Sugar - 1 1/2 cup

Condensed milk  - 1 cup

Milk - 1/2 cup

Ghee - 2 tspns

Cashew, raisins - 2 tspns

Preparation Method

In a pan put grated carrot with milk and allow it to cook.

Once its half cooked add condensed milk and sugar.

Keep stirring.

When its fully cooked and dry.

Fry in ghee cashews and raisins for a minute and then garnish it.

Carrot Halwa is ready for serving. It can be served with ice cream as dessert.