Kurmura Laddoo

Its holiday season and kids always want some snack. My daughter loves sweet and always asks for chocolate. Its really difficult to say no everytime so I prepared these laddoos....




Ingredients

1 cup Jaggery

1/2 cup water

150gms of Kurmura (puffed rice/murmura)

2tsp cardamom powder

Method

1. Grate or make small pieces of jaggery and take in a heavy bottom vessel. Add water in it and then let it boil.

2. Boil it for around 5-10 min and then when the syrup starts to become thick then take a little water in a dish and put a drop of the syrup in it. Leave for 2 seconds and then check if it forms a balls at once then the syrup is done.

3. Add cardamom powder and mix. Then add puffed rice and mix everything well.

4. Wet your palms a bit and then make balls of the mixture.

Tip: You can add roasted peanuts in the jaggery syrup to make peanut laddoo. Or even mix peanut and puffed rice in equal quantity (75gms peanuts and 75gms puffed rice) and make peanut puffed rice laddoo.

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Badam and Banana Sheera

I wanted to make Badam Sheera since a long time.... but the with my job and the routine I am hardly getting time nowadays to try new stuff... But this weekend I reserved time to do it.... it was a good snack in the afternoon....

Ingredients

Sooji/Rawa 1 cup

Badam/ Almonds 1 cup (soaked in warm water)

Sugar 1 1/2 cup (if you prefer less sweet then adjust accordingly)

Riped Bananas 2

Cardamom/elaichi powder 1 tsp

Milk 3 1/2 cups

Water 1/2 cup

Ghee 1 1/2 tbsp

Method

1. Remove the skin of the almonds and then make a paste of the almonds in a mixie.

2. In a thick bottomed vessel put the add 1/2 of the ghee and rava and roast it on medium flame until it changes its color and becomes aromatic.

3. While roasting the rava on another gas take a vessel and mix water and milk in it and keep for boiling.

4. Put the rest of the ghee in the vessel and add the almond paste to it. Roast it until it changes its colour.

5. Once the almond paste changes its colour add the rava and smashed bananas and mix all the together.

6. Then add the hot boiled milk to this above mixture. And keep stirring until they blend together.

7. Cover and let it cook for 2 minutes. Then add sugar and mix properely.

8. Once the sugar is completely dissolved and mixed nicely remove from the gas and add cardamom powder, any other nusts,raisins as desired and serve hot with a little ghee on top....

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