My Indian Recipes

Difficulty Rating 3 (Difficult prep, Special Ingredients needed) 3 Tbsp Ghee (or butter) 3 ½ cups Vermicelli 3 ¾ cups Milk ¾ cups Evaporated Milk 8 Tbsp Sugar Few Cashew nuts Raisins 1. Melt the ghee 2. Fry the vermicelli until golden (be careful it burns quickly) 3. Reduce the heat. 4. Add the milk and bring to a boil 5. Add the evaporated milk, sugar, cashews and raisins. 6. Simmer for 10 minutes until it begins to thicken. 7. Serve warm or cold.

Difficulty Rating 3 (Grinding required, Special Ingredients needed) 3 cups Grated Carrots 1 ½ C Milk 1 C Sugar 3 Tbsp. Ghee 1/2 tsp Cardamom Powder pinch Saffron Strands (optional) 2 Tbsp. Chopped Cashew nuts 1. In a heavy bottomed pan, fry the grated carrots in a tablespoon of ghee for one minute. 2. Add the milk and saffron and pressure cook for one whistle. 3. Add sugar and keep stirring on medium heat. 4. All of the moisture is absorbed, add half of the ghee. Fry for two more minutes and remove from heat. 5. Fry the cashew nuts in the remaining ghee and add it to the halva with the cardamom powder. Mix well. 6. Serve warm or at room temperature or serve warm with a dollop of Ice cream. Note: Reduce the sugar if the carrot is too sweet.

Difficulty Rating 3 (Difficult prep, Special Ingredients needed) 1 loaf bread (Choose bread which is very thick.) Butter, as needed 1:1 ratio Sugar and water ½ liter Milk 5 no. ea. Pistachios and Cardamom (crushed finely together) 100 ml Cream 1. Remove the edges of the bread and cut diagonally in two and dry it openly for 2 hrs. 2. Cook the sugar together with 2 cardamoms (crushed) on medium low for 15 mins. and keep aside. 3. Heat the milk in microwave until it becomes ¼ liter. Reserve aside the cream which forms on top. 4. Add the pistachios and cardamom to the milk and cook 1 more min. 5. Add the cream to the above milk and keep aside. 6. Smear butter on one side of the bread pieces and keep this aside. 7. Heat a pan. Toast the bread. Keep aside. When the bread is still hot pour about tsp of sugar syrup on it and wait until it seeps down add a tsp of milk mixture on top of it and sprinkle some finely sliced toasted almonds and cashews on top. Do the same for all the slices. W...