Healthy Dry Fruit Barfi (Panjiri)

This super amazing tasty dry fruit barfi is a treat to health as well as taste buds. Dry fruits gives you instant energy supply during busy days. These provide nourishment during chilling winters. So this recipe is a must to try this winters:

Ingredients:

1.  Grated coconut- 200 grams
2. Poppy seeds(post k dane in hindi)- 100 grams
3. Fox Nuts(Makhane)- 100 grams
4. Edible gum(gond) - 100 grams
5. Dry raisins(Kishmish) - 100 grams
6. Almonds- 250 grams
7. Dry Dates( Chuhara) - 100 grams
8. Kamarkas- 50 grma
9. Watermelon seeds(Magaj) - 50 grams
10. Ghee- 250 grams
11. Dried whole milk (khoya) - 500 grams
12. Sugar- 500 grams
13. Water- as per requirement

First of all roast watermelon seeds and poppy seeds. Keep them aside. Now heat ghee in a sauce pan and add all dry fruits except grated coconut, raisins, watermelon seeds and poppy seeds. Fry and let it cool down. Now coarsely grind all fried dry fruits. When we fry dry fruits its aroma and taste gets instantly enhanced and give the recipe a very rich taste.

Now heat khoya in a separate vessel. Once it starts releasing oil remove it from the flame and let it cool. All the ingredients are now ready to put together.

Grease a plate with oil and keep it aside.

Now put pan n heat and add 250 ml of water, once water starts boiling add sugar to it. Stir frequently. Check the consistency of the syrup. Once the syrups starts getting thick add all other ingredients and mix them well quickly.

Now pour this mixture in greased plate. Let it cool for three to four hours. Cut it in diamond shape.

Note: Remember that kamarkas needs to washed before using, as it may contain dirt particles.

Dry Fruit Barfi (panjiri)

Tasty and healthy Almond-Milk Delight

 Almond-Milk Delight 

Milk and Almonds...mmm sounds tasty. We all know about almond milk available at market, but this is something different. There is no doubt about the goodness of milk and almond. Where milk provides strength to bones, glowing skin, strong teeth, almond supplements for healthy fat and reduces bad cholesterol. In all this is a great combo.


Here is the power pack healthy recipe of hot steamy ALMOND-MILK DELIGHT:

Ingredients(for two persons):

• Milk with cream - 1 lt
• Almonds- 100 grams
• Black pepper powder- 2 table spoon
• Sugar- 2 big spoons
• Butter - 2 big spoon

Recipe:

Soak almonds over night. Peel and grind it to smooth paste. Now pour milk in pan and put it over flame. Let the milk boil. Lower the flame and keep stirring.
Heat a separate pan with butter. Now add black pepper powder to the butter and stir well. After a few seconds add almond paste and sugar to it.
Let it cook for 1-2 minutes and then add milk.

Once the level of milk reduces to its half, turn off the flame and serve hot.

Due to almonds and milk this recipe is very very tasty. And let me tell you that black pepper adds to health and well as taste to the recipe. Try this and tell us about your experience.

Secret to tasty recipe

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In every recipe we use certain spices. These spices are the key factors that gives that yum taste to the dish. But we often become reluctant to extract complete goodness of these spices. Here we have some of the basic things that can add taste to your dish:

1. Get to know the right quantity of spices that are to be used in your recipe.

2. Add the spices at the correct time, means according to the recipe.

3. Saute the spices properly. This is really very important. Well roasted spices imparts rich taste as well as color to your dish.

4.Whenever you wish to thicken the gravy of any dish, add 1 small table spoon of gram flour just after roasting the spices. But remember to roast it well too, else it may give raw taste.




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