Monday, June 2, 2008

Bread Halwa easy recipe( Easy Indian sweet with white bread)

ingredients: (serves 12)

20 slices bread

5 table spoon clarified butter(ghee) (75ml)

milk 5 cups (1200 ml)

sugar 3/4 cup (175 ml)

cardamom 4 no.

procedure: (preparation time 30-40 minutes)

1. Remove all the edges of bread.Cut bread intlo small pieces.

2.Fry these pieces with 3 table spoon clarified butter and keep aside.I fried in three batches with one table spoon butter at a time for about 8 minutes each time.

3.While u fry, boil milk in another vessel and add sugar. wait till the sugar is dissolved.

4.Now add the fried bread pieces and 2 table spoon clarified butter into this milk and close the lid with low flame.Let it cook for 10 minutes.

5.Now add cardamom powder.(if you grind it to smooth powder 3 cardamom would be enough.) and smash the bread using a spatula.if u want the halwa to be fine paste, use a hand mixer at this point. I just used a spatula, as i like to have some small lumps here and there.

6.Again close the lid and let it cook for 5 minutes.

7. Garnish with cashews.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Clustered beans(gori chikkudikaaya, mattinkaaya) with moong daal(pesarapappu)

Ingredients(serves 6)

1.cut beans - 1 cup(230 ml)
2.moong daal(pesarapappu) -3/4 cup
3.Turmeric -1/4 tea spoon
4.Red chilli powder -1 tea spoon(5 ml)


(for seasoning)

Onion medium - 1/2
Dry red chilli - 3
Cumin seeds - 1/4 tea spoon
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tea spoon
Curry leaves -5
Oil - 1 table spoon(15 ml)
procedure:

1. Boil beans with one cup water for 10 minutes and drain the excess water and keep aside.
2. Wash daal once or twice and fry moong daal without oil for 5 minutes and keep aside.
3. Do the seasoning. You need not fry onion till brown.just fry the onion in the seasoning

for 3 minutes.
4.Add 3 cups of water to this seasoning and add boiled beans and moong daal.Close the

lid and put it on high flame. After 5 minutes add salt and dry chilli powder.


Your curry will be ready in 15 minutes.I made
this a little dry.You can allow some water to retain
in the curry to make it gravy.

Serve it hot with rice or roll it in a poori/chapathi.
I was able to make 4.5 cups of curry with these

ingredients. moong daal becomes 4 times when boiled.