Ashwini's Kitchen

Carrot halwa popularly known as gajarhalwa is a rich sweet. My husband  has a sweet tooth and this sweet  is one of his favorites.So decided to prepare carrot halwa in this quarantine time.This sweet requires very simple ingredients and it’s a very simple preparation. Ingredients : Grated Carrots 4 cups Ghee 4 to 5 tbsp Boiled milk 11/2cups Sugar 3/4cup Cardamom powdered 1/2 tsp cashews&almonds&pistachios -1tbsp thinly sliced Method : In a pan add 1tbsp of ghee and sauté the grated carrots. When the carrot is half cooked add the boiled milk When the carrot is done and milk is completely absorbed start adding ghee After adding ghee sauté for 5 minutes Add sugar and keep stirring Let  the moisture get completely absorbed Add cardamom powder and stir for few more minutes Now add the sliced nuts as it is or fry the nuts in ghee then add to the halwa Hot carrot halwa is ready to serve

Ghee Mysore pak is an Indian dessert which is soft and melts in your mouth consistency sweet.It's made from besan flour,ghee and sugar.This sweet is one of our top list of sweets for any celebration and occasion. Ingredients:  1 cup besan flour 2 cups sugar 1 cup water 2 cups ghee Method: measure a cup of besan flour  sift the besan flour and add to a bowl measure sugar in the same cup  add 2 cups of sugar to a pan adding one cup of water  heat the pan to make the sugar syrup in another pan add 2 cups of ghee  heat the ghee but don't boil it in medium flame add the hot ghee to the besan flour and  make a batter without any lumps when the sugar dissolves and the syrup starts to boil add the besan mixture little by little to the sugar syrup keep stirring the mixture to avoid lumps on medium to low flame add hot ghee to the pan in intervals and keep stirring till the besan mixture doesn't stick to the pan anymore and the ghee oozes out ...

Banana bread  is my favorite one.As the name indiactes this bread/cake is made of bananas.Ripe bananas will be great for this recipe.Bananas are packed with nutrients so never waste a ripe banana.Let's make some Banana bread. preparation time :20  minutes cooking time  : 30 to 40 minutes Ingredients: Ripe banana 3nos sugar   1 cup egg       1  butter 1/4 cup all purpose flour 1.5 cup baking soda 1tsp cashew,almonds,walnuts chopped (optional) Method: peel the bananas and add to a bowl and mash it thoroughly add a cup of sugar and mix it with bananas till sugar dissolves crack an egg and add to the bowl whisk the egg with the mixture  whisk the 1/4 cup melted butter into the mixture In another bowl add dry ingredients  add 1.5 cup of all purpose flour  then add 1 tsp of baking soda mix the dry ingredients thoroughly add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients whisk the batter without...

Making of Basundi (Milk sweet )        Basundi is a milk sweet done by reducing full fat milk into quaretr adding flavours with   cardamom,kesar,nuts(cashew,almonds,pistachios),sugar.               Patience is a virtue for cooking.Especially sweets ,milk may get easily  burnt  if  we are trying do it on high flame.            I personally love the sweet. It's a heavenly tasting sweet which can be served  hot or cold. preparation time:5 mints cooking time:40 mints course:sweet cuisine:Indian Ingredients: 1 litre milk ,full cream 1/4 cup sugar 2 tbsp cashew nuts 2 tbsp almonds 2 tbsp pistachios 1/4 tsp kesar 1/4 tsp cardamom powder Method: 1. Boil the  milk in a heavy bottomed vessel. 2. Bring the milk to boil and add the nuts to the boiling milk. 3.Stir the milk often to make sure it doesn't stick to the bottom. 4.Bo...