Wah "Sush" kitchen

Kheer is the most loved dish in India. It is often prepared during celebrations, poojas, wedding and any other special occasion. On birthdays Preparation of kheer is compulasory in my family.
However since my husband and my son love it i like preparing it often.
I was in supermarket and found a packet of rice called as milch reis. I got that this rice is special and can be used with milk. This was small flat broad rice unlike the usual one that we use for preparing the rice. To my surprise this rice tasted awesome in milk.
I am sure you will love this kheer recipe.

Waiting for Summer, No worries its almost approaching. You might have several plans to quench your thirst. Well, i had planned for having Mango Lassi , since summer is the season of fresh ripen mango, it would be an amazing Beverage to overcome high temperature. In India summer is the time when the Mango trees are all cladded with mouth watering mangoes. So people have found out several ways to Kill heat using Mangoes. they simply BBQ the raw mango and then make a hot drink with it which to ,much of our surprise keeps the body hydrated and cool. In my next post i will share with you the raw mango drink.
Well Mango lassi is quite easy in preparation and it also helps in digestion. Here's my Recipe of Mango Lassi. Hope u like it.

Serves: 4
Preparation Time :10-15 Minutes



Ingredients:

• Mango Pulp- 500 gram
• Yogurt/Curd- 500 gram
• Sugar- As per taste
• Milk(cold)- 200ml
• Dry fruits- For garnishing

Shrikhand delight, a delicacy of Maharastra(India) is an eye soothing and mouth watering Dish. This sweet dish is prepared by incorporating so many dry fruits. Its my husband's favorite dessert. The recipe that am demonstrating here is a very simple one. You can always customize this recipe the way you wish.

Wishing everyone a very Happy and prosperous Makarsankranti and Happy Lohri. 14th of January in India is a day where whole India celebrates sankranti in inumerable ways. In Punjab people celebrate Lohri, in east India as makar sankranti , in south India as pongal and in Gujrat the whole sky is filled with kites :-).
On this very day people do eat varity of dishes made with the Sesame seed. One of the most popular dish is the Til k ladoo. In this post i will be detailing the recipe. Its sweet and mouth watering dish.


Ingredients:

• Sesame seed - 200gms
• Jaggery - 125gms
• Water- 90 ml

Preparation:

• Roast the sesame seed until they turn crispy and light brown in color.
• Once roasted cool them off.
• Heat one kadai, switch to medium flame, add water and jaggery.

• Keep on stirring until the jaggery melts and a syrup kind of solution appears.
• To check weather right consistency of syrup is achieved or not , we can do a water test. Take water in a bowl. To this add one drop of syrup with the help of spatula. if it spreads in water we have to wait for little more. Once the drops settles at the bottom, rub it between your fingers if u find it sticky and also string like ....that's it ... u have reached to the right consistency of syrup.

•  Immediately turn off the heat or take the kadai off the heat. Add the roasted sesame seed. mix well.
• Now grease your palms with water and make small rolls while the mixture is still warm or little more than warm. Be careful dont burn your hand.

Happy Deepawali to all.
Make jalebis today and celebrate this Deepawali .
Such is the power of Jalebi. watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk8Z0WbSWV0&feature=colike just love it. Finger Licking, Mouth Watering Garma Garam Jalebiyaan....Whola. As soon as i hear the name jalebi , i start Craving for it.

Coconut ladoo ,one was never enough for me. People in my area are too good in the preparation of this sweet dish. Sweetness and the taste of coconut that melts in your mouth with each bite, its a mouth watering dish. One of my Bengoli neighbor always made it awesome. I know many of you like me like this sweet , you can sometimes try it out by yourself. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:
Coconut(grated) - 2 cups
Milk - 2 cups
Sugar - 1cup
Cardamom - 3 pieces (seeds only)
Saffron - Pinch of
Pistachios - 3 to 4 crushed

Method:

• Heat one pan and add the crushed coconut to the pan
• Fry it for while
• Now add the milk to the grated coconut
• Keep on stirring in low flame
• Now add the sugar to it
• Keep on stirring unless the mixture becomes thick enough so that you can bind it into small balls.
• Once the mixture becomes dry and milk seems to disappear turn off the heat
• Allow this to cool for next 5 to 10 min
• Now add the cardamom
• Now make out small balls with the help of your palms
• Garnish each with saffron and pistachios

Hii, in this post we will learn how to make gulab jamun. This is a sweet dish and people in india love it like anything.

Ingredients:

• Milk powder- 100 gm
• Backing soda - (pinch of )  
• Paneer  (fresh paneer preferably made up of cow milk ) - 125 gms
• All purpose floor (maida) - 2 1/2 tsp
• Cardamom 

• Two cups of sugar
• Two cups of water

• oil for frying

Hii,
in this post we will learn how to make apple halwa. Its a sweet dish and can be served as desert.

Ingredients:
Apple - 2 medium size
Milk - 3 cups
Sugar - 3 tsp
Dry fruits - 1/2 cup

Methods:

• grate the apple.
• Boil the milk
• In the boiling milk add the grated apple.
• keep on stirring the mixture unless the milk thickens
• once the milk thickens and apple gets cooked add the sugar
• Now add all the dry fruits
• Turn off the heat
• Allow it to cool Or u can also serve it Hot. Choice is Yours.

By: Sushmita Pandit