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Carrot Burfi Ingredients:

• 1 cup Carrot (grated)
• 1/2 litre Milk
• 2 tbsp Ghee
• 1 cup Coconut(grated)
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1/2 cup Broken Cashew nuts

How to make Carrot Burfi:

• Heat a heavy bottomed vessel and add the grated carrot to it.Heat it to dry, stirring continuously.
• Repeat the same with grated coconut and keep it aside.
• Now boil milk with sugar until later dissolves in a seperate pan. Keep stirring.
• Mix in the carrot and coconut and again stir until it becomes thick.
• When it is cooked well, add the cashew nut pieces.
• Apply ghee on a tray and put the mixture in it.
• When firm cut into pieces when cool.
• Carrot burfi is ready to serve.

Burfi Rawa Sheera Ingredients:

• Burfi, crushed , (kesari or kalakand)4-5 pieces
• Semolina (rawa/suji) 1 cup
• Saffron (kesar) a few strands
• Milk 1 cup
• Ghee 1/2 cup
• Almonds, slivered 5-6
• Cashewnuts, chopped 5-6
• Raisins 5-6
• Sugar 1/3 cup
• Green cardamom powder 1/2 teaspoon

How to make Burfi Rawa Sheera:

Dissolve saffron in a tablespoon of milk. Heat ghee in a kadai. Fry almonds, cashewnuts and raisins. Drain and set aside. Add rawa to the same ghee and roast till golden brown. Heat remaining milk with one cup of water. When it comes to a boil add it to the roasted rawa. Cook, stirring continuously, so that rawa separates out. Add soaked saffron, sugar and green cardamom powder. Mix well. Continue to cook till all the water has been absorbed. Add crushed burfi, stir gently and continue to cook on low heat for another three to four minutes stirring occasionally. Garnish with fried almonds, cashewnuts and raisins. Serve hot.

Boondi Laddoo Ingredients:

• 1 cup Besan
• 1 pinch Kesari
• 1 pinch Cardamom powder
• 1 tbsp Rice flour
• 1 pinch Baking Powder
• 1 tbsp Melon seeds
• 1 tbsp Broken Cashew nut
• 2 cups Oil Sugar
• 1 cup Water

How to make boondi laddu:

• Mix the flour, rice flour, baking powder and colour.
• Make a smooth thick batter. Heat the oil. Take the batter and pour it over a sieve with round holes.
• Tap it gently with a spoon so that small balls of dough fall into the oil. Make the balls and keep aside. Heat the sugar and water till reaches 1/2 thread consistency.
• Mix in the kesari melon seed and cardamom powder and fried boondies. When the mixture is still warm make into balls. Bondi Ladoo are ready to be served
• If the mixture cools balls cannot be made as the sugar crystallizes.

Bhapa Doi Ingredients:

• Pistachio nuts – 10, thinly sliced
• Almonds – 5
• Plain yogurt – 1 cup, whisked
• Raisins – 5
• Milk – 1 cup
• Sweetened condensed milk – 400 gms
• Water – 2 cups

How to make Bhapa Doi:

• Take in a bowl, milk, condensed milk and yogurt. Whip them together till they are mixed thoroughly.
• Put the raisins, almonds and pistachio nuts in it. Blend properly.
• Empty the mixture into a pudding mould. Use aluminum foil to cover the mold in a compact manner. Take care so that the mould is wrapped securely.
• Fill up half of a big bowl with water. Heat the water and bring it to a boil. Lower the heat and place the wrapped mold into the water. Make sure that the water does not splash into the mould. Cover the bowl. Steam it for about 20 minutes. Let it cool down on its own.
• Remove the cover of the bowl and take out the mould. Unwrap the cover of the mould. And refrigerate it for about 4 hours.
• Set a serving dish on top of the chilled mold and turn it upside down gently.
• Bhapa doi is ready to be tasted.

Besan Laddoo Ingredients:

• 2 cups gram flour (besan)
• 11/2 cup sugar (grinded)
• 1 cup ghee
• 1 tsp each almonds, pistachios, cashew nuts (chopped)

How to make besan ladoo:

• In a kadhai mix gram flour and ghee over a low heat.
• Keep constantly stirring to avoid lumps.
• When it releases an appetizing smell, it is ready.
• Remove from the heat and allow it to cool.
• Add sugar and nuts to the gram flour and mix thoroughly.
• Now form ping-pong size balls of the mixture.
• Besan Laddoo are ready to be served.

Besan Burfi Ingredients:

• 1 Cup besan
• 1 Cup ghee
• 1 Cup milk powder
• 1-1/2 Cup sugar
• 2 Cup Water
• 1 tsp Pista

How to make Besan Burfi:

• Melt ghee and fry besan in it till a nice smell comes out.
• Transfer the mixture in another vessel and mix with milk powder.
• Make thick sugar syrup by combining water and sugar in a pot and heating them over low flame.
• Drop the fried besan mixture in the prepared sugar syrup and stir it.
• Add chopped pista or nuts and stir properly.
• Transfer to a greased plate.
• When firm cut into diamond shaped pieces and serve.

Basoondi Ingredients:

• 1 litre Milk
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1/2 tsp Cardamom Powder
• 1/2 cup Chopped Dry Fruits

How to make Basundi:

• Bring the milk to boil in a pan and simmer it till it gets reduced to half.
• Add sugar and cook for some more time till it gets thickened.
• Now add cardamom powder and put off the flame.
• Allow it to cool. Garnish with chopped dry fruits.
• Basundi is ready. Serve chilled.

Bandaru Ladoo Ingredients:

• 250 gm `Senaga Pindi’ / Bengal Gram Flour
• 250 gm Sugar
• 1 tsp Cardamom Powder
• Oil, to fry
• 50 gms Cashew Nuts, fried in a tbsp ghee

How to make Bandaru Ladoo:

• Heat 4 tbs of oil and add it to `senaga pindi’
• Mix well with hand and knead it into dough using water
• It should not be too soft or too hard
• The consistency should be like that of poori dough
• Place the disc with medium size holes in the muruku press
• Fill it with dough leaving space to place the upper part of the press
• Heat the oil and carefully press the dough, like spirals and without overlapping, directly into the oil, keeping the bottom of the press 2 inches away from the oil
• Take proper care that the hot fumes of oil does not reach your hands
• Turn it over and remove when golden brown
• Drain the oil and repeat the procedure till the dough is over
• Powder them in a blender, measure and set aside
• Take equal measure of sugar and make light syrup / `letha paakam’
• Add the powdered spirals, cardamom powder and the cashew nuts to it and mix well.
• Turn off the flame and make big lime size balls of it by smearing ghee to your palms.
• Your delicious Bandaru ladoos are ready to serve.

Banana Halwa Ingredients:

• 4 Ripe Bananas
• 4-5 tbsp Sugar
• 2-3 tsp Ghee
• 1/4 tsp Cardamom Powder

How to make Banana Halwa:

• Peel off and mash the bananas.
• Heat ghee in a heavy pan.
• Add bananas and cook over low heat, stirring to prevent the mixture from sticking.
• Cook for 10 minutes over medium flame or until bananas have browned.
• Add more ghee as necessary.
• Add sugar after 4-5 minutes and continue stirring until dissolved.
• Add cardamom powder and remove from heat.
• Keep stirring till the mixture becomes viscous.
• Allow to cool and cut into squares.
• Banana Halwa is ready to be served.