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chomchom bengali sweet

INGREDIENTS :

  1. Milk : 1 litre
  2. Lemon juice : 3-4 table spoon
  3. Suji : 1 table spoon
  4. Baking powder : 1 pinch
  5. Sugar : 1 cup
  6. Water : 2.5 cup

PROCEDURE :

  1. First make chena from milk using lemon juice ( procedure you can get in my steamed sandesh recipe).
  2. Strain the solid chena through a strainer and wash it with plain water to make sure there is no lemon juice flavour .
  3. Add suji and a pinch of baking powder into it and knead for atleast 8-10 mins so that the chomchom will be very soft.
  4. Make small portions from the dough and roll them on your palm and give a oval shape.
  5. Put 1 cup sugar with 2.5 cup water into a pressure cooker and let it boil.
  6. When boiling starts put the chomchom one by one. Dont put all sweets at a time else there will be crack in the sweets .
  7. Let them boil for another 10 mins in high flame and after that put the lid and let it cook in very low flame for 45 mins to one hour.Make sure no whitsle comes.
  8. Open the lid add crushed cardamoms and close the lid and let it cool for another 1.5 hours.
  9. Perfect chomchom is ready .

Enjoy this delicious yummy sweet with your loved ones and share your experience in comment box.

Bengali steamed sandesh


INGREDIENTS

  1. Milk : 2 litre
  2. Lemon : 2 medium size
  3. Sugar : 5-6 spoon ( powdered)

PROCEDURE

First of all make chena from the fresh milk using the lemon juice. For making chena you need to boil the milk first and then add the lemon juice slowly and suddenly the milk solid will start to seperate. Now drain all the water with a drainer and keep the chena in a cotton mushlin cloth and wash it in running water for removing the lemon flavour from chena.Now hang the chena for atleast one hour. Now add the chena in mixer grinder with powdered sugar and milk and grind them all one by one . Ma ke a semi liquid paste of chena . Now take a mould and greeze with ghee and pour the chena batter into it. Add kesar from top.Pre boil water in a big pan with cover and place a stand into it.Now add the mould inside the boiling water and cover it. Now let it steam for 20-25 mins. Take out the mould and let it cool down outside.Now keep it inside refrigerator to let it set properly. Once it set keep the mould on gas oven just for few seconds so that the ghee melts from bottom inside the mould.Now place the whole sandesh into a plate and give your choiceable size. Its a very very yummy dessert what you can make very easily at home. Enjoy this delicious recipe with your loved ones and share your experience with me in comment box.

Raw Papaya Chatney:

INGREDIENTS :

  1. Raw papaya : 400 gms
  2. Sugar : 1/3 cup
  3. Cashew : 7-8 piecese
  4. Raisins : 7-8 pieces
  5. Cinnamon powder : a pinch
  6. Cardamom : 2 pieces
  7. Lemon juice : 1/2 tea spoon
  8. Ghee : 1 tea spoon

PROCEDURE

First of all grate the papaya with the thick peelar.Now add ghee into the pan fry for some time.When it becomes soft add sugar (i used haldiram sweet tin ras,as i had it at home)and mix them well and let it boil.Now add salt very less , add two cardamom and a pinch of cinnamon powder, 3-4 cashew into small pieces and few raisins. At the end add half tea spoon lemon juice and again ghee on top and mix well.serve cold..

sweet bonde

INGREDIENTS :

  1. Boondi : Haldiram plain packet boondi (200gms)
  2. Sugar : 2 cup
  3. Cardamom : 4-5 pieces into powder

PROCEDURE

First of all make sugar syrup and for that take a deep pan , add 2 cup sugar into it and add 2 cup water . Let them boil until your two fingers makes a thred in between with the syrup. Now in the boiling syrup add readymade boondi and cardamom powder.Mix them well and turn off the gas. Put a lead on top of the pan for some time. All boondi will soak into the syrup. Your sweet boondi is ready. Its a super easy and less time consuming sweet. Enjoy this delicious dishnwith your love ones and share your feelingd with me in the comment box.

Eggless cake and without oven

INGREDIENTS:

  1. Baking flour : 6 table spoon
  2. Baking soda : 1 tea spoon
  3. Baking powder : 2 tea spoon
  4. White oil : 1/2 tea cup
  5. Curd : one table spoon
  6. Powdered Sugar : 1/2 cup
  7. Vanilla essence : 1 table spoon
  8. Almonds : 8-10
  9. Milk : 3-4 table spoon

PROCEDURE:

First of all take a big boul and pour all the oil into it. Add powdered sugar and curd into the oil and mix three of them with a hand mixer until they are not separated from the bowl. Now take a sheiver and add the flour , baking soda and baking powder and sheive them nicely into the oil mixture. Again mix very well in a clock wise direction for some time and add milk into it and mix again thoroughly . Now greeze a mould and spread ghee into it and put a parchment paper and again apply ghee . Now pour the batter into it and garnish with almonds on top of it.

Inspite of oven we will use pressure cooker. First of all take out the whistle and the sealing ring. Add 500 gms salt into it and put the lid from top to pre heat the cooker. Place a stand inside the cooker and place the mould on the stand. Put the lid tightly and in low flame let it bake for 50-60 mins. Once you open the cooker check with a toothpick inside the cake, if it comes clear its done or if its not much clear then bake it for another 10 mins. Let it cool down in room temperature and take out from the mould into a plate. Enjoy this yummy spongy eggless cake with your loved ones and share your experience with me in comment box.

coconut jaggery laddoo

INGREDIENTS:

  1. Coconut : 2 piece
  2. Jaggery :500 grams
  3. Cardamoms :4-5 pieces

PROCEDURE:

First of all finely grate both of the coconuts. Now take a non-stick kadai and addall the grated coconut into it. Dry roast for few minutes when it becomes lightly golden brown then add jaggery. After this mix well. Cook for another 10-12 minutes in low flame. When you find it become sticky then crush all the cardamoms and add into it. Late it cool down and give it a laddoo shape with your palm. Its delicious and possibly the easiest way of making coconut laddoo at home.

Pineapple Chatney

INGREDIENTS :

  1. Pineapple
  2. Sugar
  3. Salt
  4. Ghee
  5. Raisins
  6. Black pepper powder
  7. Cashew

PROCEDURE:

First of all, clean and cut the pineapple into pieces without any black spot. Now use a fork to mince the pieces or grate them. Take a pan and let the pineapple pulp heat for few minutes. In a while, you will find water coming out and the pulp becoming tender. At this point, add sugar and very less salt. Again let it boil for another 10 minutes. Add few raisins, sprinkle some black pepper powder and a spoon full of ghee at the end. Mix well. This is the easiest way of making tasty pineapple chatney. Must try!!!