Shahi Tukra

Ingredients:

Milk - 1 litre

Bread slices - 4-6

Condensed Milk - 2-3 tbsps

Heavy cream - 1/4th of a cup

Sugar - 1/2 cup

Jaggery - 1/2 cup

Ghee - 4 tbsps

Cardamon powder - 2 tsps

Saffron - 1 tsp

Vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp

Raisins - to garnish

Almonds - to garnish

Cashews - to garnish

Method:

* Combine milk, condensed milk, sugar and jaggery. Bring it to boil and reduce heat to medium.
* Keep simmering until the milk gets thickened. This might take close to 30 minutes.
* In the mean time, tava roast the bread slices with ghee on both sides. Take care not to burn.
* Reserve a table spoon of ghee and use the rest to fry the almonds, raisins and cashews.
* Add cardomon to the milk mixture and let it cool.
* Layer the bread at the bottom of a flat pan. Pour some milk to immerse it completely.
* Repeat the process until all the bread and milk are used up.
* Garnish with the roasted almonds mixture
* Cool in refrigerator for atleast 30 minutes before serving.

Jalebi recipe

Ingredients:

2 cups All purpose flour (maida)

11/2 tbsp fine grained semolina or rice flour

1/4th tsp baking powder

2 tbsp curd (plain yogurt)

11/4th cups warm water

1/2 tsp saffron threads, slowly dry-roasted and powdered

3 cups sugar

2 2/3rd cups water

1/2 tsp green cardamom seeds powder

11/2 tbsp kewra water or rose water

Ghee or vegetable oil for frying

Method:

Mix the flour, semolina or rice flour, baking powder, curd and 3/4th cup of the water in a bowl (preferably a ceramic bowl). Mix well with a whisk.
Mix well and then add remaining water and 1/8th tsp. of saffron powder, and whisk until smooth.
Set aside for about 2 hours to ferment.
Whisk thoroughly before use.
Prepare one string syrup by dissolving sugar in the water. Just before the syrup is ready add saffron and cardamom powder.
Heat oil in a kadhai. Pour the batter in a steady stream ( or coconut shell with a hole) into the kadhai to form coils. Make a few at a time.
Deep fry them until they are golden and crisp all over but not brown.
Remove from the kadhai and drain on kitchen paper and immerse in the syrup.
Leave for at least 4-5 minutes so that they soak the syrup.
Take the jalebi out of syrup and serve hot.

Rasgulla

Ingredients:

Milk - 1/2 litre
Refined flour (maida) - 2 tsp
Citric acid dissolved in water or lemon juice - 1/4 tsp dissolved in 1/2 cup water or lemon juice 2-3 tbsp.
Sugar- 1 cup
Water- 1 cup
Rose essence or cardamom powder - 2-3 drops or 1/4 tsp

Method:-

Heat milk in a pan and bring it to boil. Remove from heat.
Add citric acid or lemon juice.
Stir slowly and gently until white curd forms on the surface and separates from whey.
On straining this milk, the curd that is obtained is called "chenna". Wash chenna well under cold running water and twist the cloth that was used for straining to extract water.
Knead chenna to make a smooth dough. Add flour and knead again.
Make small balls of equal size (6-7) of the dough and keep aside.
Next make sugar syrup. Mix sugar and water in a saucepan and bring it to boil.
Add chenna balls to the syrup and cook for 15 minutes with lid partially covered. Chenna dumplings will puff up.
On cooling, add rose essence.
Refrigerate and serve chilled.

Rasmalai

Ingredients

1 cup sugar

lemon juice

3 cups of water

saffron, cardamom, pista, almonds

4 - 4 1/2 tbsp. sugar for Ras

3 measuring cup milk for Ras

4 Measuring cup milk for channa (2% milk)

Method:-

First keep the 3 cups of milk for ras to boil until it remains 1 3/4 cup.
Bring 4 cups of milk to boil. Now to curdle the milk add lemon juice to it stirring continuously.
Then drain it in a thin muslin cloth or handkerchief.
Hold it covered with cloth in the running water. Drain the excess water by pressing the cloth there must not be water remaining.
In a pressure cooker take 3 cups of water and 1 cup of sugar.
Take the channa out of the cloth in a dish, mash it and make around 15 small size of balls out of it
Toss that balls in the pressure cooker and bring two whistles.
In the mean time see the milk for ras may be ready.
Add the sugar for ras to it and add cardamom, pista, almond and saffron to it. Let it cool aside
As the pressure cooker is warm now open it take out the balls of channa with the spoon in a dish and let the water drain by pressing it little and let it cook. When the milk is cool add channa balls to it.
Refrigerate it. And it is ready to serve.

Fruit Rabri

Ingredients:

2 Cardamom

2 tbsp of Sugar

1½ litres of Milk

1 tsp Rose Water

½ cup slit Grapes

½ cup Pomegranate

Almonds, finely sliced

Chopped Pistachio to garnish

Method:

1. Heat ghee in a non stick pan.
2. Add milk. Condense the milk to less than one-fourth quantity.
3. Add the sugar and boil for a couple of minutes more and turn off the heat.
4. Sprinkle the powdered cardamom.
5. When at room temperature, mix in the rose water and add the almonds and chill.
6. Add the fruits just before serving otherwise it tends to leave water.
7. Garnish with pistachios