Custard Fruity Poha Pudding

Friends its time to pamper your sweet tooth again with this absolutely simple desert, which is very nutritious as its full with goodness of fresh fruits. I hope you will love it.

Custard Fruity Poha Pudding

Cooking Time: 15 mins
Preparation Time: 25 mins
Serves: 5

Ingredients:

Beaten rice (poha)- 1 cup
Milk- 3 cups
Custard powder - 2 tspn dissolved in 2 teaspoons cold milk
Sugar - 3 tbspn
Milkmaid - 2 tspn (optional or increase the quantity of sugar by 1 tbspn)
Mixed fruits (mango, banana, apples, pear or any seasonal fruit except citrus fruits )


Method:

1.Roast the poha in a non-stick pan till crisp.
2.Remove from the flame, cool and grind it coarsely. Keep aside.
3.Boil the milk and add the custard powder dissolved in cold milk.
4.Add sugar and stir continously until the sugar is dissolved.
5.Now add the poha while stirring continuously and simmer for 3 to 4 minutes.
6.Now mix the milkmaid evenly, you will have a mixture with thick consistency.
7.Remove from the flame, let it cool.

You can add dry fruits of your choice and serve it chilled or you can enjoy it with fresh fruits
as described below.

Serving suggestion:

1.Take a bowl and put a layer of sliced mango, then banana and keep layering other fruits
  one by one.Finally add the thick layer of poha firni, press little bit to make it even.

2.Cover the bowl with food foil and keep refrigerated for at least 20 mins.

3.Take out the bowl and invert it on a serving plate, tap slightly.

4.Decotrate it with the raspberry or any fruit jam of your choice.
 (Put up your creativity caps and serve it in your style)

Your sweet, fruity and super easy desert is ready to serve.One FINAL word from my husband-

"Yummyyyyyy...!!!"

Shahi Kheer (for PANEER lovers!)

Thank God its Friday and It gave me an opportunity to cook this yummy desert, this one is for my husband, as he is the one avid paneer lover, Indian cooking is incomplete without paneer and So, why not a desert to make your friday evening special. Enjoy!!...

Shahi Kheer

Cooking Time: 15 mins

Preparation Time: 15 mins

Serves: 3 

Ingredients:

 Paneer 50 gms (mashed) 

 Milk 1/2 litres

 Rice powder  2 tbsp

 Saffron (kesar)  a few strands

 Almonds 5

 Chironji 15-16

 Green cardamom powder  1/4 tspn

 Sugar  4 tspn

  

Method: 

1.  Soak almonds & chironji in luke warm water to blanch them and then chop the almonds finely.
2.  Boil milk in a deep pan and simmer till it reduces and thickens slightly.
3.  Mix rice powder in little water and add to milk, keep stirring to avoid any lumps.
4. Cook till the mixture thickens a little more. Add saffron and continue to cook.
5.  Add almonds, chironji and green cardamom powder and mix well.
6.  Add sugar and stir till sugar dissolves.
7.  Finally add paneer and mix. Take it off the heat and set aside to cool.

Serving Suggestion: Decorate it with some almonds slivers & chironji & serve chilled.

 I loved it over a scoop of vanilla ice-cream.I know you are salivating now after reading this recipe, so why wait ??, rush to kitchen and try your hands on it.

Almond Biscuits (Kuch Meetha Ho Jaaye..)

Finally, I got some time to try my hands on a new receipe, I am sure you will defintely say "Yeah dil maange More.."

 

Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 15-20 mins
Serves: 8

Ingredients:

Plain flour (maida)- 1 cup
Almond (badam) - 1/4 cup (Cut them into small fine pieces)
Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Powdered sugar - 1/4 cup
Lemon rind - 1/2 tsp
Softened butter - 1/4 cup
Condensed milk - 1/4 cup (Milkmaid)

Method:

1. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl. Add the vanilla essence, powdered sugar and lemon rind (to get the lemon rind just grate the yellow zest of the lemon peel, make sure that you do not grate the white part).
2. Rub the butter into the flour mixture till the mixture resembles bread crumbs.
3. Add the condensed milk and almonds slivers. Gently knead it into a dough.
4. Cover the dough in food foil and refrigerate for 15 to 20 minutes.
5. Roll into a 12 mm. ( ½") thick sheet.
6. Cut out in the desired shape, I have used the biscuit cutters of different shapes. Re-roll the scraps and cut out more pieces.
7. Place them on a baking tray and bake in a pre-heated oven at 160°C (320°F) for 15 to 20 minutes.

Remove and cool on a wire rack.