Festival special: Dessert Recipes

The festival season is round the corner, make this Dussera and Diwali special with special dessert recipes. Try different easy dessert recipes and make this festive season more special and memorable. There are various places to find simple dessert recipes, explore them and try your hands on a different sweet dish. Whether you like conventional dessert or wish to experiment with the dessert recipes there are end numbers of options for you. Green gram daal Laddoo recipe Ingredients: • rnGreen-gram dal – 2 cupsrn• Sugar – 1-1/2 cupsrn• Cashew nuts – 8rn• Raisins – 2 tablespoonsrn• Ghee – 3-4 tablespoonsrn• Copra (dried coconut) – 2 tablespoons, finely slicedrn• Cardamom – 10 pods, finely powdered dryrn• Salt – ¼ teaspoon rnMethod: 1. Fry the green-gram dal to a light brown color in a dry, hot, heavy frying pan over moderate heat. 2. Grind and sift the fried dal to flour in a blender or in the grinding stone. 3. Pound and sift the sugar also to powder. Combine the dal flour, sugar powder, copra, and cardamom powder with salt. 4. Make the ghee just hot and fry separately in it the split cashew nuts to a light brown color and the raisins till they swell out. 5. Break the cashew nuts into small bits. Mix along the cashew nuts, raisins, and dal-flour mixture in a bowl. 6. Make the same ghee to smoking hot, remove from the fire, stir the dal-flour mixture thoroughly into it, and shape into small lemon-sized ladoos. 7. If the ladoos crumple, bind it with a sprinkling of warm milk or hot water. 8. Your special green gram daal laddoo is ready. Rice Paysam: Ingredients: • Rice - 1/2 cup; soaked in water for 10 minutesrn• Milk - 2 cupsrn• Coconut milk - 1/2 cuprn• Jaggery - 1 cup or added more to tastern• Raisins - 1 tablespoonrn• Cashewnuts – 10rn• Pistachio nuts - 1 tablespoonrn• Cardamoms pods - 8, powderedrn• Ghee - 1 tablespoon Method: 1. Bring the milk and coconut extract to boil. rn2. Add the soaked rice and cook it over low heat until rice is cooked very well and is mushy. rn3. Add the jaggery and mix it thoroughly.rn4. After the jaggery dissolves, allow the payasam to simmer for 5 minutes and remove from the heat. rn5. Fry the cashew nuts, pistachios, and raisins separately in the ghee and add these along with the cardamom powder to the payasam. rn6. Serve lukewarm or cold. Enjoy! The Indian Chocolate Recipes offer exclusive flavor, make this festival season special with easy dessert recipes and indulge into the world of sweet delight.