Carrot Halwa

                  A WONDERFUL HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR CUTE CHELLAM

                         Today is a very special, wonderful day for me and  for my family.
                                           Ya, its our cute little darling's birthday.
I was too busy from the starting of this new year itself. Me and my hubby selected our kid's most favourite things,dresses.,toys...etc.,etc..., and she herself selected the chocolates for her friends.She is very eager to celebrate her birthday in school.Throughout the holidays she asked about how she will give chocolates for her school friends on her b'day.This is the first b'day she is going to celebrate in  the school.Thats y she is very eager n exciting.My hubby and me were planned to give lots of  loving surprises for her and eager to watch her tiny cute eyes shining and broading with her happy shouts and hugs.

          I PRAY TO GOD TO SHOWER THE BLESSES OF HEALTHY,WEALTHY
                      PROSPEROUS AND PEACEFUL LONG LIFE FOR HER.

                       HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY DEAR  KUTTY CHELLAM.

To celebrate this sweet occasion i planned to post a sweet on my sweety's b'day. Carrot Halwa is the beautiful sweet which can b prepared easily by anyone who is not an expert in cooking.  Thats y i too prepared this sweet and it becoms a great hit among my family members.Lets see the recipe....

                                                                           

INGREDIENTS;
                          Carrot shreded   -- 1 bowl
                          Sugar                  -- 1/2  bowl
                          Milk [thick]         --  1/2 bowl
                          Ghee                  -- 3 to 4 tsp
                          Cashews            --  6 to 8
                           Almonds             -- 5  
                           Salt                     -- one or 2 granules
PREPARATION;
                            Wash and skinned the carrots and then sherded.
                             Place a pan over the stove,pour 2 tsp ghee.
                             Heat it, and roasted the cashews  n almonds.
                             Take it out set aside,then add the carrot shreds to the ghee.
                             Saute well for 5 min in low flame till it raw smell goes out.
                             Then add the milk,the carrot should b fully drowned in milk.
                             Often mix it well till the milk is fully absorbed by carrot.
                             Then add the sugar,it melts and give a liquid consistency.
                             It started to bcoms thick,add 2 more tsp of ghee.
                             With the help of laddle,avoid sticking.
                             The halwa started to roll without sticking in our hands
                               Thats it,thats the perfect consistency.
                             Now switch off the stove,
                                 and enjoy the aromatic,delicious halwa.
                          
             
                                                

Gulab Jamun

                    HAPPY DEEPAVALLI TO ALL MY BLOG FRIENDS

                                                      

''Deepavalli'' celebrations are started,everyone of us were engaged in a busy schedule.Preparing sweets n snacks,packing sweets for our friends....etc.I am not an expert in making sweets,thats y i simply go with this gulab jamuns.But i can prepare this jamuns like an expert...every one in my family love my gulab jamuns,bcos of its perfect shape n softness....Actually my inlaws were surprised abt my sweet and ask me...why ur jamuns weren't broken r collapsed.It purely depends upon the heat of oil while fry the jamuns.
Lets here my simple recipe....
INGREDIENTS;
                         Gulab jamun powder pack -- 1
                         [i used 'priya' pack]
                          Sugar                              -- 600 gms
                          Cardamom                       -- 3 nos
                          Water                              -- as needed.
                          Oil                                   -- for deep frying.

                                             
METHOD;
                Take a large pan,mix the sugar with equal amount of water in the ratio 1:1.
                 Allow it boil well for 10 min,add the spilted cardamom r powdered cardamom.
                 Turn off the stove n set aside.
                 Put the instant powder in bowl,add the water, mix it softly.
                 With out lumps make it as a soft dough.[1/3 of water needed  for a cup of flour.]
                 Don't knead the dough.
                 Pour the oil in a pan,heat it,make the dough as small balls.
                 Fry it the in the oil till golden brown.
                 Take it out and put it in the sugar syrub.
                 After 1/2 hour serve it.
TIPS;
       If the jamuns were fried in low heat,it will collapsed.
       If the jamuns were fried in too heat it bcoms black n won't cook well.
       So always check with a small ball,if it comes above the oil very fastly,
        reduce the flame.If the ball won't raise from the surface heat the oil well. 
 
          ENJOY THIS SWEET DIWALI WITH THIS SIMPLE DELICIOUS SWEET.

I am sending this sweet to sravs '' CC FESTIVE  FOOD''.

                                                 
                                                 











 
   

Nei Urundai - Ghee Ladoo

Due to Diwali every blogger rushes to post the some sweet items.But according to me making sweets is a big task,i never tried it before except kesari.Usually my amma make number of varieties for diwali,thats y i never take a turn towards the kitchen except for eating those items.Now,the scene totally changed,i am in a situation that i myself prepare some items for diwali [toughest job].So i made a call to my amma n ask her,which sweet is soo easy to prepare.My amma suggest me to make my most favourite, nei urundai.My first attempt itself a successful one.Only little amount of  ghee only used to make this.In our home,my amma uses the whole green gram which is to b powdered in the mill.But i used moong dhal instead of green gram. Lets see the recipe to make the delicious nei urundai.Really its very delicious sweet.

                                                        
 INGREDIENTS;
                          Moong dhal   -- 1 cup [100 gms]
                          Sugar             -- 1 cup
                          Ghee              -- 2 to 3 tsp
                          Cardamom     -- 4 nos
                          Cashews         -- 5 nos
METHOD;
                In a pan roast the moong dhal slightly,the colour shouldn't change.
                Till the raw smell goes out roast it and cool.
                Put it the mixie,make it as very nice powder.Set aside
                Grind the sugar,cardamom n cashews together as a nice powder.
                Put the moong dhal powder n sugar powder together in a bowl.
                Mix well together.
                Heat the ghee,add the ghee little by little to the ground mix.
                Make the mix as small balls with the help of ghee.
                Add the ghee while in hot,few drops is enough to make a ball.
                If u add more ghee  u can't  make it as ladoos,so add the ghee
                little by little.
                Now, the delicious nei urundai is ready.
                ENJOY DIWALI WITH THIS SIMPLE DELICIOUS SWEET.
TIPS;
        Make the dhal n sugar as a fine powder.then only we can make it as ladoos.
        Usually it is soo soft,we must hold it tightly while making as balls.
        The ladoos can b easily collapsed,but no problem,again we can make it as
         ladoos with hot ghee.
I am sending this sweet to

                Gayathri's ''Only sweets and desserts'' which was started by pari.
                                                       and
                Sravs ''CC-FESTIVE FOOD''