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Lauki ki Kheer (bottle gourd pudding)

sneh — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 17:54:48 +0000

Lauki ki Kheer (bottle gourd pudding) is a tasty dessert popular in North India. It is often made during navratri or festivals in India when people keep fast. Bottle gourd or Lauki also called dudhi is very low in calories, has very high water content and is fiber rich which makes it very good for our digestive system. If you want to make it vegan friendly, you can use almond milk instead of regular milk.

Try making this as a warm dessert on a cold winter night or refrigerate and eat it as a cold dessert on a summer afternoon.

Hope you will enjoy this Lauki ki Kheer (bottlegourd pudding), here is the recipe for this easy and healthy dessert.

Ingredients

Bottle gourd (Lauki) – 1 cup(grated)
Sugar – 3 tbsp -(adjust to taste)
Milk – 3 – 4 cups
Mixed dry fruits – 1 tbsp (chopped)
Ghee – 1 to 2 tsp
Cardamom powder – 1/2 tsp
Few saffron threads(kesar)

Instructions-

Heat ghee in a pan and add grated bottle gourd(lauki)
Stir for few seconds and add milk
Boil the mixture on medium low flame until it reduces to your desired thickness and blended well
Keep stirring so that it doesn’t stick to the bottom
Add Sugar, dry fruits, cardamom powder and kesar
Boil for another minute
Serve hot or cold

If you like bottle gourd, you should try this tasty lauki ki sabzi(bottle gourd curry)

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Quick and Simple No Egg Tiramisu Dessert Cups

sneh — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 05:10:00 +0000

Tiramisu is a popular Italian dessert made with coffee dipped ladyfinger (crisp sugary
biscuits) layered with mascarpone cheese and flavored with cocoa powder. The classic Tiramisu recipes use raw eggs and alcohol but I like to make this simple version without using
eggs and alcohol. It still tastes pretty authentic and also is super easy to make.

Try to use crispy ladyfingers and not the soft ones as they tend to get soggy.
Also the ladyfingers turn soft very quickly so don’t soak them into coffee mixture for long.

Prep time- 15-20 Minutes

Yield – 6 to 10 small dessert cups

Ingredients

Mascarpone cheese- 3/4th cup
Whipping heavy cream-1/2 cup
Instant coffee – 1 cup –
Sugar – 2 1/2 tbsp
Ladyfingers – 12
Unsweetened cocoa powder to sprinkle
Shredded chocolate- 2- 3 tbsp to garnish

Instructions-

In a bowl add heavy whipping cream, mascarpone cheese and sugar. mix together with the help of electric mixture (I used egg beater) until the peaks are formed.
Make a cup of strong coffee and let it cool to room temperature.
Now cut the lady finger into three parts, quickly dip in the coffee and arrange a layer at the bottom of the dessert cup.
Spread a layer of cheese, cream mixture on top and repeat till the top.
Sprinkle cocoa powder on top and garnish with shredded chocolate
Refrigerate for 5 to 6 hours
Serve cold.

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Crispy and Gooey Dessert Quesadillas Recipe

sneh — Fri, 01 Aug 2014 02:37:00 +0000

I love quesadillas, they are so versatile, can be filled with anything of your choice.
These crispy sweet, gooey, chocolatey dessert quesadillas are surely going to win your kids heart and yours.
I used sunflower seed spread which tastes very much like peanut butter and is nut free but you can use peanut butter or nutella.

Prep time- 5 Minutes

Cook Time- 8 Minutes

Serves- 1 to 2

Ingredients

Flour tortilla- 1
Banana- 1 – cut into round slices
Sunflower seed spread
Butter – As needed
Semi sweet chocolate chips
Honey- to drizzle

Instructions-

Spread the sunflower seed butter on half of the tortilla
Put a layer of banana on top
Drizzle some honey
Sprinkle chocolate chips
Melt some butter in a skillet or griddle
Fold the tortilla in half and place it on the skillet
Flip it and roast until brown and crisp from both sides.

Note – Sunflower seed butter is a nutritious nut free alternative to peanut butter. Can be used in kids’ school tiffins as a spread.

Recipe adapted from Paula Deen’s Dessert Quesadilla.

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Eggless Microwave Chocolate Cake Recipe Under 2 Minutes

sneh — Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:11:00 +0000

Yes- this is egg-less, cooked in microwave, in just 1 minutes 20 sec!! What more can we ask for.
This is moist and delicious. I first came to know that a cake can be made in microwave through a magazine in library. Googled and tried few recipes. First 2 were disasters- got burnt and hard.
Third time I changed the microwave power to seventy percent. Full power of my microwave is 900 watts. Adjusted sugar, milk and baking powder and that’s it. It was perfect in 1 minutes 20 seconds.

So I guess its important to know your microwave and do the adjustments accordingly.
You may not get the brown crust when you cook cake in the microwave but it is still yummy and you can eat it right now!

I am going to try a healthier version with wheat flour and will post the recipe soon. Till then enjoy!

Prep time- 2 minutes
Cook time- under 2 minutes
Serves- 2 to 4

Ingredients-

All purpose flour- 4 tablespoons
Sugar – 2 tablespoons (adjust to your taste)
Unsweetened Cocoa- 1 tablespoon
Milk – 3 1/2 tablespoons
Oil- 2 tablespoons
Baking powder- 1 teaspoon
Grates nuts- for garnish

Instructions–

Add all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well
Grease a microwave safe dish and pour the mixture in it
Microwave for 1 minutes 20 seconds
Add your favorite topping, I used whipped cream and chocolate syrup.

Serve!

Notes –

Don’t mix and cook in the same bowl, use different bowls for mixing and cooking.
This recipe and timing works for me very well, you may need to adjust your microwave settings. So try a few times and you will get it.

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Fruit and Yogurt Dessert – Quick and Healthy

sneh — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 17:57:00 +0000

Sometimes simple things in life are the best. This cute cup of fruits and yogurt is a fun quick fix dessert that my kids love and can have it anytime. They enjoy every fruit I put in it, even the ones they otherwise wouldn’t eat (like plums in this recipe).

I kept it simple with just fruits, yogurt and honey but you can always add some variety by adding nuts, chocolate chips, crushed, cookies, granola etc.

Try different fruits and syrups like , strawberry syrup, chocolate syrup etc.

you can be really creative with this!

Prep time- 5 minutes

Cook Time- 5 minutes
Yield – 4 dessert cups

Ingredients-

Yogurt- 1 cup (plain greek or vanilla)
Honey – 2 tablespoons (optional)
Mango- 1 cup
Blueberries- 2 tablespoons
Plums- chopped- 1/2 cup

Instructions–

Add 1/4 cup of yogurt in a dessert cup- (I used plain yogurt)
Top with some mangoes, blueberries and plums
Drizzle with some honey

Enjoy!

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Easy homemade Baklava recipe

sneh — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:51:00 +0000

I know I have not been doing justice to my blog but I got really busy and was not making many new dishes lately. Well, here i am again and the credit goes to our potluck lunch that we(a group of friends) have once in a while. So I had to make dessert this time and I made Baklava which apparently turned out great. Since everyone liked it and it was damn easy to make, thought my blog deserves a post on this too!

Inspired by Sandra lee’s Baklava Roll-ups, I made these rolls with some variations of my own. Hope you will like it too.

Ingredients

Phyllo sheets – 14 (thawed as per the directions on the packet)
Melted unsalted Butter – 1 cup (or you can use butter spray)
Pistachio – to garnish.

For the filling

Walnuts- finely chopped – 1/2 cup
Almonds- 1/2 cup finely chopped
Sesame seeds- 1/3 cup (roasted and chopped) – optional
Sugar- 1 tablespoon
Cardamom powder- 1/2 teaspoon

(You can use food processor to chop the nuts and sesame seeds)

For the Syrup

Water- 1 cup
Sugar – 1 Cup
Honey- 1 tablespoon
Vanilla extract- 1 teaspoon

Method

For the Syrup

Boil water and sugar in a pan for about 10 minutes
Add honey and boil for 5 more minutes
Add vanilla extract and let it cool.

For the Baklava

Mix all the ingredients for the filling and keep aside
Take two phyllo sheets at a time and lay on a flat surface one on top of the other, make sure to cover the rest of the sheets with damp cloth to prevent drying as they dry out very fast.
Brush or spray the butter on the entire surface of the top sheet
Spread the filling all over the surface and start rolling from one side.
Make sure to keep brushing the butter as much as you can while rolling
Grease the baking pan lightly with butter and put the rolls in the pan
14 sheets will make around 7 such roll
Bake these for 45 minutes at 350 degrees. Don’t forget to preheat the oven!
Keep checking after abt 30 minutes to make sure they are brown and don’t burn
Take them out and cut into pieces (you may also consider cutting before baking, i did after baking but I will try cutting it before baking next time)
Spread the syrup all over the hot baklava specially into the cuts so that it is absorbed nicely.
Garnish with chopped pistachio.

TIPS

Serve at room temperature and keep uncovered, they get soggy if kept covered.
Make sure to make sugar syrup before they are baked because you need to put warm or room temperature syrup over hot Baklava.
You can use any nuts of your choice for the filling.

Enjoy!

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