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Description: Kesari is a delicious Indian dessert made with semolina. Semiya kesari is just a variation where they use Vermicelli instead of semolina. Amma makes the typical orange color rava kesari for most of the pooja days and special occasions. Poor vermicelli usually goes into payasams! Though not that popular its still an easy dessert to make and taste as…
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Description: Rava Milk Kesari is a south Indian sweet made with semolina / cream of wheat, milk, sugar and nuts mildly flavored with crushed cardamom. One of the easiest of all sweets which can be made in a jiffy for any special occasion. Plain rava kesari is made using water and in this recipe its just milk which takes the…
Badam burfi is one popular katli variety found in most sweet shops in India. Here is simple homemade version of this item. Coming to making perfect soft and sharp katli is quite an art and needs lot of practice. Fine grounding the nuts is one key factor which is hard to do with regular mixies… so mine will look slightly coarse texture wise. Adding milk while grinding is also another trick to grind them to a paste consistency but shelf life is limited and also mostly yields halwa like chewy bufis which I personally don't like and always powder mine after drying.
Almond Joy?? don't just get carried away by the name, these are not chocolate covered candy bars but soft shortbread like cookies made with almond paste. Well, it known or called as Almond bar cookie, the original recipe from Epicurious, but played with the ingredients like a daring baker to suit my taste and convenience.
Khoya / Mawa, is a dairy product used as a base for making many sweets and gravies. Milk is boiled and reduced to semi- solid state, which looks like a thick sticky mass. Based on the consitency, khoya can be classified into 3 types.
1. Firm Khoya / Bhatti – Milk boiled and reduced to a thick paste and later molded to make it firm, used for burfis.
2. Soft Khoya / Chikna – Milk boiled annd reduced to a sticky paste, used for halwas.
My favorite sweet. Also can see that many requesting for it for long. Thus, I am posting the one I learnt from Meenakshi Ammal's Samaithu Paar .
Best of all Indian sweet treats, this milk based sweet is a classic made during festivals, mainly during diwali. (Paal Kova / Pala Kova / Doodh Peda / Milk Halwa / Pal Kova / Milk Khoa )
