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Thursday, November 16, 2006

BADUSHA


INGREDIENTS :

Maida - 1 cup
Salt - 1 pinch
Baking Soda - 1 Pinch
Ghee - 3 tbsp
Curd - 2 Tsp
Cardamom - 2
Oil - for Frying
Crushed nuts - any variety of your choice.

METHOD :

1) Mix Maida and baking soda well.Add ghee and curds to the mix and kneed well with hands or put everything together in blender and blend well.Take it out from the blender and kneed with hands for few mins.make it the dough in to 2-3 balls.

2) Make a very thin chapathi from the balls.Now you should roll it like a mat with ghee and maida spread on it.Apply ghee on top most area from where u start to roll.On ghee sprinkle some maida flour.Roll it.Repeat the same till u finish rolling.Pree a bit and cut it in to desired length and start rolling it inside like a spiral roll.Make a Small dip at the center.Repeat it for the rest.Cover the with a wet tissue and keep in fridge for at least 15 mins.

3) prepare sugar syrup with water just to the level of sugar and make a thick syrup.

4) Heat Oil in a kadai,fry the badushas in a very low flame.Fry till golden brown,keep aside and poke it with a fork and put them in to the syrup till the next one is ready to go in to the syrup.let it get a good coating of the syrup and before drying take it out and garnish it with crushed nuts.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

BREAD JAMUN



INGREDIENTS :

Bread slices - 3
Sugar - 1/2 cup
cardamom - 2
Ghee - For toasting
Crushed nuts(Any of ur choice)

METHOD :

1) Prepare sugar syrup and add cardamom powder to it.The syrup should not be very thick.Like we do for usual jamun and keep aside.

2) Cut out the edges of the bread slices.Slice each bread slices in to 4-6 pieces.Put some ghee in a pan and toast the bread pieces nicely in ghee till golden colour on both sides.For health reasons,i applied ghee lightly on each side and toasted it.

3) As soon as the bread pieces are done,put directly in sugar syrup.Leave for few mins.Its optional that u keep the syrup while serving or not.I preferred not to use the syrup.I left for few mins to absorb the syrup well and removed from the syrup.U can sprinkle some crushed nuts on it.Thats it,bread jamun is ready.A simple instant sweet dish.