Double Ka Meetha

Ingredients:

• Bread Slices - About 6 to 7
• Sugar - 3/4 th Cup
• Milk - 3 Cups
• Condensed Milk (Milkmaid) - 2 to 3 Table spoons
• Water - 1 1/4 Cup
• Cardamom powder - 1/2 Tea spoon
• Safron - Few strands
• Toasted nuts (Cashewnuts, pistachios, almonds, etc.,, of your choice) - Fry them in little ghee
• Ghee - Required to toast the bread pieces

Procedure:

• Cut the bread into quarters (could be viewed in the picture)
• Add some ghee to the pan, toast the bread slices. Don't burn them. Toast till they turn golden brown on both the sides. Now arrange them in a deep container and keep aside.
•  Prepare sugar syrup by adding sugar and water. Once the syrup thickens, remove from heat and add cardamom powder.
• Boil the milk in a skillet and once after a boil, add condensed milk, safron strands and stir well.
• Now take the  container in which the bread slices have been arranged.
• First add sugar syrup over them and later on pour the milk mixture on top of sugar syrup.
• Garnish with toasted nuts.
• This can be served warm or chilled, based on your choice.

Mango - Rava Kesari

Ingredients:

• Bombay Rava - 1 cup
• Water - 3 cups
• Mango pulp - 1 cup
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Ghee - 2 Table spoons
• Dry fruits (badam, cashew, raisins, pistachio nuts of your choice)

Procedure:

• Heat 2 table spoons of ghee in a pan.
• Add the dry fruits of your choice and fry them for a while. Once done, take the dry fruits aside leaving the ghee in pan.
• In the same pan, add Bombay rava and fry it for a while till it turns light brown.
• Later on add water and stir the mixture without any lumps and allow rava to cook.
• Finally add sugar, mango pulp and stir the whole mixture for 2 minutes.
• Once you feel the consistency is reached, switch off the stove and garnish with dry fruits.

Fruit Custard

Ingredients:

• Milk - 1 Litre
• Custard Powder (Vanilla Flavor) - 50 Gm 
• Sugar - Based on taste - Minimum of 5 table spoons
• Bananas - 4
• Green Apple - 1
• Apple - 1
• Green seedless Grapes - 1 cup (optional)
• Pineapple - 1 cup (optional)
• Cashew nuts - As desired - chopped
• Pistachio nuts - As desired - chopped
• Raisins - As desired
• Badams - As desired - Chopped
• Tuity fruity - red and green - As desired

* Fruits can be added based on your choice and availability.

Procedure:

• Take 50gms of custard powder, mix it with 1 cup of water and keep it aside.
• Place a thick bottomed vessel on the stove, add 1 litre milk and allow it to boil.
• Once milk reaches to it's boiling point, add custard (which has been already mixed in water and kept aside) and stir the whole mixture without any lumps.
• Finally add sugar, stir the whole mixture well and switch off the stove and allow it to cool for sometime.
• Later on add all the chopped fruits, nuts and tuity fruity to the custard mixture and mix well.
• Refrigerate for 5 to 6 hours and serve.

* If desired, honey can be substituted to sugar.

Beet root Halwa

Ingredients:

• Beet root - 2 cups - Grated
• Boiled milk - 1 1/2 cups
• Ghee - 3 Table spoons
• Cashew nuts - For garnishing
• Raisins - For garnishing
• Badams - For garnishing
• Sugar - 1 cup
• Elaichi powder - For flavor

Procedure:

• Heat 1 table spoon of ghee in a pan and fry the dry fruits (cashew nuts, raisins, badams) till light brown.
• Once done take the dry fruits aside leaving the ghee in pan.
• Now add the remaining ghee to the pan and add the grated beet root and fry for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Once the grated beet root turns little soft, pour the milk and stir for 2 to 3 minutes. Leave the mixture till the beetroot gets completely cooked.
• Now add sugar and stir fry the mixture until it leaves the borders of the pan. 
• Once  the mixture reaches the desired consistency, finally add elachi powder and switch off the stove.
• Garnish with dry fruits and serve warm.

Apple - Musk melon N Pineapple Salad

Ingredients:

• Apple - 1 cup sliced
• Musk melon - 1 cup mashed
• Pineapple - 1 cup sliced
• Sugar - Based on taste
• Dry Fruits - Based on taste

Procedure:

• Take a bowl, add muskmelon pieces and mash them.
• Now add apple pieces, pineapple pieces, dry fruits, sugar and mix them well.
• Keep the content in the refrigerator and serve cool.

* Very healthy.
* Can be served as a snack as well as a mid-day meal.
* Honey can be used instead of sugar for the people who are in diet.

Fruit Chat

Ingredients:

• Apple - Sliced
• Pineapple - Sliced 
• Grapes - As required
• Banana - Sliced
• Cashewnuts - Sliced
• Badams - Sliced
• Pista - Sliced
• Dry grapes - As required
• Dates - Sliced
• Oats - As required (Minimum of 2 tea spoons)
• Corn Flakes - As required (minimum of 2 tea spoons)

Method:

• Take all the ingredients in a bowl and mix them well.
• Various fruits can be used based on your taste and as per the season.
• Serve it instantly, so that the chat will be crunchy.

* Very healthy snack. Can also be taken as a mid-day meal.
* Great snack for children and also to the people who are in diet.

Carrot Laddu

Ingredients:

• Carrots - 1/4 Kg
• Bombay Rava - 1/4 Kg
• Cashewnuts - 25 gm
• Badams - 25 gm
• Pista Nuts - 25 gm
• Coconut - 1
• Ghee - 4 Table spoons
• Sugar - 1/4 Kg - If required more based on your taste

Procedure:

• First of all wash and peel off carrots. Now grate them.
• In the same way, grate one full coconut.
• Heat pan and fry cashewnuts, badams and pista nuts without oil. Now grind them well into fine powder.
• Heat another pan with 4 table spoons of ghee and slightly fry bombay rava.
• Now take a bowl. Add grated carrot, grated coconut, slightly fried bombay rava, finely grounded nut powder and sugar. Mix all the ingredients well. Now make laddus with the mixture.

* Serve them once they get dried for sometime.
* Easy to prepare and very good and healthy snack for children.

Wheat Rava Payasam

Ingredients:

• Wheat Rava - 1 cup  (We can readily get it in super markets)
• Milk - 2 cups
• Water - 1 1/2 cup
• Sugar - 1 cup (if required more or less than 1 cup based on your taste)
• Elachi Powder - As required
• Dry grapes - As required
• Cashewnuts - As required
• Badams - As required
• Pistachio nuts - As required (Optional)
• Ghee - 3 Table spoons

Procedure:

• Heat 2 table spoons of ghee in a pan and fry 1 cup of wheat rava, till the color changes to light brown.
• Heat a vessel on the other side, pour milk and water (for 1 cup of wheat rava, we are taking 2 cups of milk and 1 1/2 cup of water) and boil them.
• After 1 boil, add wheat rava which has been already fried by continuously stirring with out any lumps. Leave the mixture to boil till rava turns soft. If required, little water can be added in the middle of the process.
• Once Rava gets boiled, add sugar ( for 1 cup of rava - 1 cup of sugar can be added,) and stir the mixture till the sugar gets dissolved.
• Now switch off the stove. Add the remaining 1 table spoon of ghee before switching off the stove.
• Now fry the dry fruits in little ghee and garnish them finally.

* This will taste good when served hot.
* Wheat rava is very healthy compared to processed bombay rava. Wheat Rava will reduce the cholesterol levels in the body.
* Regular usage of Bombay rava is not recommended. Occasionally its ok. Slowly make a habit of using wheat rava for making upma, kesari etc.,,

Paneer Jilebi

Ingredients:

• Paneer -           50 gm
• Maida Flour -  1 1/2 Table Spoon
• Salt -                A pinch
• Sugar Syrup - Prepare with 1 glass of water and half glass of sugar

Procedure:

• Grate the paneer and mix with maida and a pinch of salt. 
• Mix all the ingredients well and make it like a Poori dough (Should not add water). 
• Leave the mixture aside for half an hour. 
• Meanwhile prepare sugar syrup. 
• Later take a little amount of dough and prepare like jilebis. Just wind like a tortoise coil. 10 to 12 jilebis can be prepared with the whole dough. 
• Heat oil and deep fry these jilebis and put them into sugar syrup. 
• Serve them after an hour.

* Tastes better when chilled.