diwali sweets

ROSE SURYAKALA (WITH ROSE PETALS)

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I’m happy and excited to share this recipe with you as, this is my own innovation!

It’s very.. yummy ( don’t mind the shape of the crinkles in the photo as it was a rush job) .

My rose plants are in full bloom these days,and the paneer pinky rose was bowing down

to it’s weight .

So this is how I got the idea from. Trust me,when I get an idea I have to do it

immediately,and I picked these flowers in the rain.

Well, all the pain up to the terrace was paid , the sweet was awesome.

So, do try this and let me know your comments and suggestions!

The sweet got it’s name SURYAKALA as it was shaped like the sun .

The outer cover is made with all purpose flour and ghee, and the filling is usually made

with Khova/ mawa with a generous amount of nuts ,fried and dipped in sugar syrup.

My version of change was the filling.

So let’s get into the recipe now

INGREDIENTS

For the dough

250 gm flour

1/4 tsp baking powder

75 gm-100 gm ghee / butter

A pinch of salt

a pinch of kesari color (optional)

1/2 cup water

Oil for frying

For the filling

125 gm khova/ mawa

1 cup sugar or to your taste

1/2 tsp rose water

A handful of rose petals

Cashewnuts, walnuts, nuts of your choice chopped

A little cardamom powder

METHOD

First make a firm dough with all the ingredients listed. Cover and set aside for few

minutes.

Divide portions in a way that two circles make one sweet. The top and bottom layer.

 

For the filling

Mix all the ingredients listed together.

For the syrup

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup water

A pinch of dry ginger powder

Kesari color

Heat all together to get a 1 string consistency syrup

Final combining

Roll out each portion into tiny circles.

Keep the filling on one circle , and cover with another rolled dough.

Seal the edges , and pinch to make designs.

Fry in oil till light brown and add to sugar syrup . Remove immediately and allow to dry .

Sprinkle with nuts or silver vark.

( featured image shows a sweet cut in half to view the filling )

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BESAN LADOO

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As the countdown begins for Diwali,the recipes of sweets will be dominant in all medias.

Today, I would like to share with you an all time favourite and an easy

sweet if done with care ,turns out to be awesome and healthy.

Besan flour known to be chick pea flour,kadala maavu,or Bengal gram dal flour is loaded with proteins .

I used kalkandu powdered instead of sugar .Kalkandu or candy sugar is unrefined

sugar ,and it is healthy to use that instead of the normal refined sugar.

There is another option of using the boora sugar ( boiled and powdered sugar)

Well,I always recommend to use sulphur free sugar when making sweets and cakes .As

technology grows,the rate of diseases do too,so we have to contribute towards

prevention of the same in all possible ways.Sulphur free sugar has the same taste in

comparison to the white refined sugar,so when the recipe calls for white sugar please

use sulphur free,or candy sugar.

Moving on to the recipe now..

INGREDIENTS

2 cups gram dal flour

1 cup ghee

1.5 cups sugar

a pinch of salt

1/2 tsp.cardamon powder

1/4 cup mixture of sliced almonds and cashewnuts

2 tblsp rawa or semolina

25 gm mawa or khoya ( optional)

1 tblsp.water

METHOD

Heat 3/4 of ghee in a thick bottomed pan.

Once heated remove from fire,and mix in the gram flour,semolina and return to heat.

Keep roasting the flour till it gives out a nice aroma on medium flame.

While roasting,add the remaining ghee and keep stirring.

Add 1 tblsp water,and mix (you will see the mixture bubbling.

Mix for another 2 minutes and remove from fire .

Allow it to cool ,mix in all other ingredients except the sugar ( otherwise it will turn liquidy).

Once it is warm ( able to touch) add in the powdered sugar and mix well.

Make ladoos and decorate with nuts like pistachios,almonds or cashews.

VARIATION: The same can be made with wheat flour,ragi flour (kurakkan flour)

CASHEW KATLI ROLL (with date and almond)

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Diwali in the air,thought i’d upload this recipe to meet the season’s search for a sweet healthy and undoubtedly a delight for many,and bet  you can’t stop at one!

Festivals and sweets like this defeat your stand of dieting.Yup ..its  an undeniable fact…Hope you agree with me.

Well for the recipe.

Ingredients

1.5 cups fine cashewnut powder

3/4 cup fine sugar

1/8 cup milk

1 tblsp. milk powder( optional)

1/2 tsp ghee

a pinch of salt

a tiny drop of  yellow color(optional)

Heat all these ingredients in a thick bottomed pan,until it reaches a soft dough stage.

Transfer to another bowl .whilst warm roll between two sheets of oil paper,or polythene

wrap ,into a rectangle shape.Spread the date filling and roll .Cut into  desired portions.

This sweet can be stored in the fridge for a month.

For the date filling

1/2 cup dates

1/2 cup almonds

a drop of rose essence

Blend all the ingredients coarsely.spread on cashew mixture,and roll.