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Coconut Burfi-Easy Deepavali sweets

Ingredients:

  • Grated Coconut  – 1 cup
  • Sugar-2 cup
  • Ghee- 1/2 cup
  • Fried cashews – 5 no- broken into smaller pieces
  • Powdered cardamom – 2 pinches

Procedure:

  1. Take sugar in a kadai, add only enough water to cover the sugar, heat in medium flame to get 2-string consistency of sugar syrup.
  2. Add grated coconut and stir continually, add  the ghee and mix well.
  3. Continue heating till it leaves the pan without sticking. Sprinkle cardamom powder and  fried cashews and remove from heat.
  4. Spread the mix evenly on a greased tray/plate and cut them into diamond pieces.

Badar Bheni – Sirotti- Easy Deepavali Sweets

Ingredients:

  • Maida – 1 cup
  • Sugar-1 cup
  • Rice flour-2 tbs
  • Ghee- 2 tbs
  • Cardamom – 1 no

Procedure:

  1. Sieve maida, add 1 tbs ghee and mix well.
  2. Add adequate water and knead it into a thick paste to make 2 mm thick rotis and leave it for 10 minutes.
  3. Heat 1 tbs ghee in a kadai till it melts and remove from heat.
  4. Add rice flour to the hot ghee and mix well.
  5. Make 6″-diameter maida rotis.
  6. Spread rice flour paste thinly and evenly on the top of one roti.
  7. Place another roti on it and spred rice flour paste on the top side.
  8.  Place the third roti on it and spred rice flour paste on the top side.
  9. Roll the three-layered roti smoothly,but tightly,  into a long rod.
  10. Cut the roll across into 1″ pieces.
  11. Place each small roll in a slanting position and press the roll smoothly into a long 2 mm poori.
  12. Heat oil in a kadai and fry the pooris till golden brown and place them over tissue paper/cloth to drain the excess oil. Spread the pooris  onto a plate.
  13. Grind sugar and cardamom into fine powder and sprinkle it over the pooris. Turn over the pooris and sprinkle the sugar powder again.

Badam Halwa/Cake-Easy Deepavali Sweet

Ingredients:

  • Badam-100 g
  • Sugar-100 g
  • Milk-1 cup
  • Ghee-1/4 cup
  • Saffron-1 pinch

Procedure:

  1. Soak badam in warm water for 6 hr, remove the skin, and blot out water with a paper/towel.
  2. Grind into a thick coarse paste with adequate quantity of milk.
  3. Heat milk in a kadai, add sugar and stir well till it dissolves.
  4. Add badam paste and stir continually till you get the desired consistency.
  5. Reduce heat, add saffron and ghee and mix well.
  6. When done transfer it to a plate coated with ghee and flatten the badam mix.
  7. Use as halwa. Or, if hardened, cut into diamond shaped cakes.