Rasmalai

Rasmalai is basically a Bengali Sweet. In my office almost once or twice in a week our gang used to order Rasmalai. Thatz how I got interest to know how to make that. When I gone through the recipe I felt itz pretty easy to make even though the cooking time may take 1 Hr.I am person who love to cook , eat as well as to share :) So I made it and is waiting to share and get the feedback from my colleagues. First review from my husband made me happy :)

Ingredients:

Full Fat Milk – 8 cups 

Lemon Juice – 2 Tbsp

Water – 5 cups 

Sugar – 1 cup

Saffron – pinch

Cashew Nuts-6 -8 Nos

Cardamom Powder – 1/4 tsp

Pistachios & Almonds – 2 Tbsp, roughly chopped
Method:

 Boil 4 cups milk in a steel pan and boil the remaining 4 cups   milk in a non-stick pan Once the milk in the steel pan comes to a rolling boil, slowly add lemon juice. When the milk turns to paneer  switch off the stove and strain the paneer in a cheese cloth. Pour a little cold water over the paneer and hang the cheese cloth  and strain all the liquid.

Grind the Paneer in processor to smooth dough. Make the paneer into 12 equal portions of small balls. Roll the portions in your hands until a smooth ball is formed. Lightly press the ball until it flattens out. In the pressure cooker with water, dissolve 1 cup sugar and add the flattened paneer. Close pressure cooker lid and cook until one whistle sounds.  Switch off the stove and set the timer for exactly 5 minutes.After 5 minutes, carefully take the pressure cooker to the sink and pour cold water over the lid to remove the pressure. Remove the paneer from syrup and allow to cool.

 Meantime, the milk in the non-stick pan should be boiled .When it starts boiling add powdered sugar and saffron. When milk starts getting thick add cashew nut paste , cardamom powder as well as sugar according to ur taste. Cook on low flame till the milk is reduced to half. Pour the prepared reduced milk over the paneer and chill in the refrigerator. Garnish with additional chopped nuts,saffron and pistachios.

Server it cool.

Bread Gulab Jamun

Its as simple as that to prepare a gulab jamun since the Ready mix for Gulab Jamun is available in market. But it is not necessary that we keep it in our store all the time. But here is one simple way to prepare Gulab Jamun in case you have a un expected guest or even suddenly if your kids need something sweet. This is Bread Gulab Jamun.

Ingredients

Bread Slices - 8 nos ( I used Almarai Breads since it is the best I found in super markets)

Almarai Full Fat Milk

Sugar

Cardamom

Oil

Ghee

Water

Salt

Preparation

Cut the brown edges of bread. Then add a pinch of salt some cardamom powder and milk. But don't add too much of milk .Add milk accordingly so that the dough can be made in to small balls.Then make small balls and keep aside.

Take 11/2 Glass water then half glass of sugar. Keep it on flame . Add some cardamoms to it. Stir well till the sugar syrup is ready. You can add more sugar if you need it more sweet.I add lil ghee to the syrup since I am going to fry the jamun in refined oil.

Fry the balls which we made in refined oil or ghee.I fried in refined oil. Fry till the ball turns slight brown as you see in the picture. Then take it out and transfer it to the Sugar syrup which is already made.

Easy Bread Gulab Jamun is ready. You will take hardly 20 Mins to do the complete step.

Fresh Dates Shake

Now it is summer the festive season for Dates in all GCC. Saudi dates are known to be the best dates available in the market. Dates are very tasty as well as rich in Iron. You all might have tried the dates shake which is readily available in market but don't know how many of you have tried a fresh dates shake. In GCC you can find fresh dates in almost all supermarkets.But apart from GCC it might be difficult to get fresh dates rather than the processed ones. But some how if you get fresh dates ,do try this shake. I got some best fresh dates from one of my cousin and the courtesy of the recipe also belongs to them. 

Ingredients

Fresh Dates - 15 No's

Full fat Milk - 1/2 Ltr

Sugar - Optional ( Depends on the quality of dates , I didn't use sugar in my shake since the quality of the dates I got was so!!!!  rich)

Preparation

Just Blend all the ingredients using a hand blender or normal blender. But initially blend the dates with little milk and after that add rest of the milk so that all the dates will be blended properly with out any remains.
You don't even has to filter it.

Simple but a very tasty shake.If you need it to be more rich can add some cashew nuts and even one cardamom. But with out all these also the taste is good.

Strawberry Smoothie

Strawberry Smoothie 

Ingredients

Fresh Strawberry – 6 Nos

Strawberry Ice cream – 4 scoops

Milk (Full Fat)– 2 ½ Cup

Sugar – 4 Tbspn

Strawberry Syrup – (Optional) For Garnishing

Preparation.

Initially Blend the strawberry by adding little milk so that it will become thick paste.

(If you put all the above mixture and blend there are chances that strawberry won’t be blended properly)

After blending strawberry add the above ingredients and again blend it.

Garnish According to your Aesthetic sense :)

Rava (Semolina ) Pudding

Rava (Semolina ) Pudding

For Caramelising

Sugar - 2 1/2 Table spoon

Water - 2 Table Spoon

First Step

Take a Pan in which you are going go set the pudding (Preferably some steel pan)

Put the sugar into it and add the water.

Stir it well until it becomes brown. Control the flame otherwise chances that it will get burnt.

Once done keep it aside to cool.( After some time it will get firm)


Second Ingredients for pudding.

Milk - 2 Cup

Semolina (Rava) - 2 1/2 Table Spoon

Sugar - 8 Table Spoon ( Can increase or decrease according to ur choice)

Ghee - 1 1/2 Table Spoon

Eggs - 2

Grated Coconut - 2 Table Spoon

Vanilla Essence - 2 Table Spoon


Preparation method. ( 1st Step )

Take another pan then add milk , rava(semolina) , ghee , sugar then place it on flame.

Stir well and cook it until rava(semolina) is properly cooked and it the mixture becomes thick.

After that keep it aside till the mixture comes to room temperature


Preparation method. ( 2nd Step )

Mix eggs , grated coconut and vanilla essence ( With help of a blender blend it)

Preparation method. ( 3rd Step )


Mix the First and second mixtures properly and pour it in to the caramelised vessel and close it with a lid /steel plate


Preparation ( ( 4th Step )

Take a cooker or Idly Vessel.


Take water in the vessel and put some metal like plates or small stands in it place the vessel which contains the mixture on top of the stand. (Water should not reach more than half of the vessel containing the mixture ) Make sure while boiling the water wont get inside the mixture.


If you are doing in a pressure cooker no need to put the weight.
If you are doing idly vessel u can cover it.

Cook the above mixture again for 45 minutes.

In pressure cooker once the pressure start coming u can adjust the flame to medium.

In idly vessel u can put it on hight flame also and on n off adjust flame if needed .

Once done Take a plate where you are going to arrange the pudding after removing the lid of the vessel containing the pudding keep the garnishing plate on the top of the vessel containing pudding and keep it upside down.


Then the caramelised part will be on top. Garnish it according to ur sense (
Can use cherry nuts kiss-miss(dried grapes) or even fresh fruits.


I used Milky bar white chocolate due to the non availability of the above garnishing products :)

Njoy the pudding once its cool or even u can refrigerate it