Tasty And Easy Saffron Pudding Recipe

Saffron Pudding is a tasty and easy dessert recipe. It is one of my favorite dessert. We have a Catholic friend in our neighbor. Every year they make awesome dishes in Christmas and offer it to us. This time I decided to surprise them by making saffron pudding. I knew that they had some guests at their home so I made it a little more. Just as I thought they were very glad when I offered it to them. Seeing them even I felt very happy.

In the evening when I met my friend she told me they all loved it very much. She and her guests were asking for the recipe I was so pleased with it. I got this pudding recipe from my sister-in-law.

How To Make Tasty And Easy Saffron Pudding?

Ingredient

Milk - 500 ml
Corn Flour - 3 Tbsp
Sugar - 7 Tsp (Or As Per Your Taste)
Saffron - 12 to 15 Strands
Cardamom Powder - 1/2 Tsp
Almond - 5
Cashew Nut - 5
Pistachio - 5

Instruction

In a bowl take 1/4 cup of milk, add corn flour and mix well. There should not be any lumps left.

Heat a pan and add remaining milk. When the milk gets warm remove 2 Tbsp of milk in a small bowl and add saffron strands. Mix well and keep it aside.

Cook the remaining milk in the pan till it comes to boil.

Now add cornflour mixture and mix well. Keep stirring to prevent the milk from getting burnt.

Now add saffron mixture, sugar and cardamom powder. Cook till it gets thickened. Switch off the flame and let it cool down.

Transfer the pudding to serving bowl and refrigerate it for 2 - 3 hours.

Before serving garnish it with chopped almonds, cashew nuts and pistachios.

Your Saffron pudding is ready to serve.

Coconut Ladoo Recipe

After a long break I am back again. I was quite busy for last few weeks as my mom was hospitalized. Those were really very stressful weeks. Well she is back home and I am feeling great. Today I am sharing with you my favorite Coconut Ladoo, which I had made on Ganesh Chaturthi but couldn't post it on blog due to my busy schedule.

It is very easy and quick to make. You can even call it as instant coconut ladoo. With just 2 ingredients you can make these tasty ladoos. You can offer this as a prasadam or have it as a dessert.

So lets begin with the recipe...

How To Make Coconut Ladoo ?

Ingredients

Desiccated Coconut - 250 Gms
Condensed Milk - 1 Cup

Instruction

Heat a non stick pan or kadai and roast desiccated coconut till it slightly changes color. Keep the flame on low.

Now add condensed milk to the pan. Mix well. Switch off the flame.

Let it cool down a bit or till you can handle the heat.

Now take a spoonful of coconut mixture on you palm and make a ball shape. Take some desiccated coconut in a plate for coating and roll the ball in it. Transfer it to a plate.

Continue the same procedure with rest of the mixture.

Your Coconut Ladoo is ready to serve.

Note:

• You can add in some cardamom powder or nuts if you wish.
• You can even use fresh coconut instead of desiccated coconut.

Eggless Doughnut Recipe

Doughnut is one of my and my niece favorite snacks. Whenever there is a doughnut in front of me I just forget everything else and I can never stop at one. First time I had doughnut with my sister and niece at a doughnut shop 'Mad Over Donut'. It was so tasty that I started searching for the recipe on net. I found lot of recipes and decided to make eggless version.

Now I often make this dish at home. You can have it as a snack or as a dessert, its all up to you. Do give it a try and I bet even you can't stop at one.

How To Make Eggless Doughnut?

Ingredient

All Purpose Flour - 2 Cup
Unsalted Butter - 4 Tbsp
Milk - 3/4 Cup
Sugar - 3 Tbsp
Dry Active Yeast - 1 Tbsp
Salt - 1/4 Tsp (If using salted butter then skip salt)
Oil - For Deep Frying
Dark Chocolate - 100 Gram
Milk Chocolate - 100 Gram

Instruction

In a bowl mix all purpose flour, butter, sugar, yeast and salt. Now add milk little at a time and knead it. Make a soft dough. Now cover the dough with a cling wrap or with a clean cloth and set it aside to rise.

Now knead it again and dust the rolling board with some flour and roll the dough. Keep it 1/2 inch thick.

Now cut it with a doughnut cutter. If you don't have a cutter you can use glass and a small lid of any bottle.

Place the doughnut on a baking tray or any plate and brush it with little oil. Keep it in a warm place to rise.

Now heat a pan and add oil for deep frying. Once the oil is hot drop the doughnuts in the pan. Deep fry it on both the side till it turns  golden brown in color.

Transfer it to a tissue paper.

Now melt the dark chocolate and milk chocolate in a separate bowl in microwave or you can heat a sauce pan, add 1 cup of water and bring it to simmer. Now place the chocolate bowl on sauce pan and melt the chocolate.

Let the chocolate cool down a bit. Dip the doughnut in melted chocolate only on one side till well coated.

Your Eggless Doughnut is ready to serve.

Basundi Recipe With Condensed Milk

Basundi is a rich and creamy dessert. Traditionally it is prepared by boiling full fat milk till it reduces to half of the quantity of original amount and then adding sugar, cardamom powder and nuts and cooking it again for some time. This procedure takes a lot of time, almost 1-1/2 hours to 2 hours but its worth trying it.

Today I have made this dish using condensed milk as it takes less time. You can have this dish all alone or can also be paired with jalebi or puri. It is a perfect dessert for parties or festivals. It can be served hot or chilled, I prefer chilled one.

How To Make Basundi?

Ingredient

Full Fat Milk - 6 Cups (1.5 Ltrs)
Condense Milk - 400 Gms
Cashew Nut - 10
Pistachio - 10
Almond - 10
Cardamom Powder - 1/4 Tsp

Instruction

Heat a wide and thick pan. Add milk and bring it to boil. Meanwhile chop all the nuts and keep aside.

Once boiled add condense milk and mix well. Cook on low flame and keep stirring often. Cook till milk starts thickening.

Scrape the side of pan and collect the milk solid and fold it back to milk.

Now add the cardamom and nuts to the milk and cook for 5 min more.

Your Basundi is ready to serve.

Serve hot or chilled.

Moong Dal Halwa Recipe

Moong Dal Halwa is a very popular North Indian sweet dish. It is made mostly during festivals, some occasions or parties. Well it takes lots of effort as well as time to make this dish but its worth all your time and effort. It is very tasty dish.

The first time I had it in Nagpur. It was so tasty that I fell in love with it. I asked for recipe from some of my friends. First time when I made this dish it was really a very bad experience. I tried it for atleast 2 to 3 times and then finally learnt to make a perfect halwa.

How To Make Moong Dal Halwa?

Ingrendient 

Split Yellow Moong Dal - 1 Cup
Sugar - 1 Cup
Milk - 2 Cup
Ghee - 10 Tbsp
Cardamom Powder - 1/4 Tsp

Instruction

Soak split yellow moong dal for 3 to 4 hours. Then drain the water and grind yellow moong dal by adding very little water into smooth paste.

Heat a pan and add ghee on it. Once the ghee is hot add yellow moong dal paste. Keep stirring continuously. Cook this on low flame till the raw smell of yellow moong dal goes away completely. It will become lumpy and will change the colour slightly. 

Meanwhile in another pan boil milk.

Now add milk and sugar to yellow moong dal pan and keep stirring continously. Cook till the milk is absorbed completely.

Add cardamom powder and mix well.

Your Moong Dal Halwa is ready to serve.

Garnish it with almond or pistachios.

Chum Chum, Bengali Sweet Recipe

Chum Chum is a popular Bengali sweet dish. It is prepared with cottage cheese. It is made in various colors. It can be served plain or by garnishing with dessicated coconut, fresh sweetened cream or condensed milk.

I love this dish a lot, in fact I love almost all the Bengali sweet dishes like Rasgulla, Rasmalai, Malai Sandwich, Sandesh, etc.

How To Make Chum Chum?

Ingredient

Milk - 1 Ltr
Lemon Juice - 1 Tbsp
Sugar - 1 Cup
Water - 3 Cup

Instruction

Heat a pan, add milk and bring it to boil. Switch of the stove and add lemon juice to the milk. Mix it well. Let it curdle.

Now strain the curdled milk in a muslin cloth. Now pour in some cold water and rinse it well. Cover the cloth and squeeze it well to remove any excess water. Paneer or cottage cheese is ready.

Now transfer it in a plate and knead it well for 5 min to make a soft dough.

Now make a oval shaped ball or any shape that you want from the dough.

Heat a wide sauce pan, add water and sugar to it. Bring it to boil.

Now drop cottage cheese balls to the boiling sugar syrup. Cover it with a lid and cook it for 20 min.

After 20 min you will notice that the cottage cheese ball has doubled in size. Now switch off the stove and let it cool down.

Transfer the chum chum to a plate.

Your Chum Chum is ready to serve.

Garnish it with dessicated coconut, condensed milk, fresh sweetened cream / malai or nuts.

No Churn Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe

Chocolate Ice Cream is my niece's and sister-in-law's favorite ice cream flavor. This recipe doesn't require ice cream maker. It is rich in taste.

This recipe is adapted from Chocolate, Chocolate and More. I have made a very slight change in the ingredient. It took me just 15 mins and my ice cream was all set to freeze.

How To Make Chocolate Ice Cream?

Ingredients

Whipped Cream - 2 Cup
Sweetened Condensed Milk - 1 Can
Unsweetened Cocoa Powder - 2 Tbsp
Vanilla Extract - 1 Tsp

Instruction 

In a bowl add condensed milk, cocoa powder and vanilla extract. Mix it well.

Now in another bowl add whipped cream and whip it till stiff peaks form.

Now fold in condensed milk mixture to whipped cream. Transfer it in a air tight container or any container and cover it with cling wrapper. Freeze it for 6 to 7 hours.

Your Chocolate Ice Cream is ready to serve.

Chocolate Mousse Recipe

Chocolate Mousse is a very tasty dessert. I made this dish specially for my sister-in-law who is a chocoholic. She loves chocolate a lot and especially Mousse. This dish is very tasty with airy, smooth and silky texture.

I adapted this recipe from my favorite baking and dessert site Joy of Baking. I am a biggest fan of Stephanie Jaworski. I love her recipes and the way she explains it.

How To Make Chocolate Mousse?

Ingredients

Bittersweet Chocolate - 120 Gms
Unsalted Butter - 2 Tbsp
Eggs - 2 (Yolk And White Separated)
Sugar - 4 Tbsp
Tartar - 1/8 Tsp
Vanilla Extract - 1/2 Tsp 
Whipping Cream - 1/2 Cup

Instruction

Heat a saucepan, fill it with 1/3rd of water and bring it to boil then reduce the heat. Now, in a small pan or a heatproof bowl add chocolate and butter. Keep it on the saucepan over the water and melt chocolate and butter. Remove it and let it cool down to room temperature. Once cool down add two egg yolks and whisk it. Cover the bowl with cling wrap and refrigerate it.

Now in another bowl add two egg whites and tartar. Beat it with a hand mixer or stand mixer till foamy. Now add 2 tbsp of sugar and beat it again till stiff peaks form. Keep it aside.

In another bowl add whipping cream, remaining 2 tbsp of sugar and vanilla extract. Beat it till a soft peaks form.

Now its time to remove your chocolate mixture from refrigerator. Add 2 to 3 spoon of beaten egg whites to chocolate mixture and mix it well. Now gently fold the rest of beaten egg whites to chocolate mixture.

Now fold the whipping cream in the chocolate mixture.

Transfer it into a glasses or dishes and refrigerate for 2 to 3 hrs.

Your Chocolate Mousse is ready to serve.

 Serve it chilled with a topping of chocolate sprinkles or whipping cream.