Lime n' Mint

Besan Laddu is popular traditional sweet preparation for festivals all over India. Today's post is easy to make tasty sweet recipe.

Almond Rava Laddu A traditional simple Deepavali sweet - Rava Laddu made with roasted Semolina or Rava in little Ghee(clarified butter) and mixed with powdered sugar and Almonds and flavored with Cardamom powder and rolled into small size round balls.

  Phirni Ramadan or Ramzan is afestival for Muslims it is Eid-ul-Fitr, popularly known as the "Festival of Breaking of the Fast", occurs as soon as the new moon is sighted at the end of the month of fasting, namely Ramadan also known as Ramzan. This festival celebrates the end of Ramzan, the Muslim month of fasting. It is an occasion of feasting and rejoicing. On the occasion of this festival today"s my post is Lovely and delicious Popular Desert Phirni. Ingredients for Phirni: Basmathi rice                     3 spoons (clean and wash with tap water)(soak for 1hour) Sweet Condensed milk       2 cups Milk                                   3 cups  milk(here I used 2% fat milk,usually full cream milk used in Phirni) Green cardamom                2 or 3 Pound it in mo...

Maysore-Pak Mysore Pak is Sweet Fudge made with Chickpea flour, Clarified butter and Sugar. This sweet is usually very popular in most South Indian homes. Deepavali (Festival of lights ) is an important festival for  Hindus in India. This year Deepavali is on 26th of October '11. I'v started my preparation of Deepavali Sweet with Mysore Pak. This being my 100th post I thought to share this wonderful sweet with all my friends. Enjoy.

Hi  my dear blogger friends I am unable to post my recipe from last 10 days.For a short period we went to our native place and back to our home.Today's my post is one of our family Traditional Sweet. Sunnundalu Sweet is a very popular delicacy from Andhra Pradesh,India. I learn this from my Ammamma (maternal grand mother).Often she used to make this sweet in our exams times.This sweet considered to be the highly nutritious.This sweet is specially good for children.We can make this sweet with Sugar or Jaggery. Here i made with sugar. Ingredients: Black gram           1 cup(whole Black gram looks in black in color,after removing skin it looks white in color) Sugar                   1 cup Pure Ghee            1/3 cup Method: Fry lentil in  non stick pan in a medium flame for 4 to 5 min till lentils turn into golden brown color and nice aroma c...

Kheer is classic simple traditional desert from  all over India.Kheer is prepared in each and every occasion in India. Ingredients for Kheer: Basmathi rice                     1/2 cup (clean and wash with tap water)(soak for 20min) Ghee                                  1/2 tea spoon Condensed milk                 2 cups Milk                                   3 cups Green cardamom                2 or 3 Pound it in mortal Almonds                             few(cut into small pieces) Saffron                           ...

Belated Sri Rama Navami Wishes to All The great Hindu Sanskrit Epic Ramayana tells the story about Lord Rama and his Wife Sita.This story tell's us about Sri Rama's (hero of this story) journey.Day before yesterday means April12th is the Lord Rama's Birth day. Normally  Rama Navami festival celebrates great way in India. In South India Sri Rama Navami normally performs Kalayanothsavam means marriage for deities in temples and homes. In Andhra Pradesh Sri Rama Navami Kalayanothsavam(marriage) performs in  great manner. I am also busy in doing Puja. Sorry friends,I am a bit late in posting my recipes for this festival. For this festival Prasadams  in my home,Panakam,Vada Pappu,Panchamrutham,Pulihora,Pal Payasam etc. Prasadams  (recipes) for this festival: Panakam means - traditional method of making cool drink. Making this Panakam we need:Drinking water,powdered jaggery,powdered cardomom (for flavor), little crushed black pepper(for spice).Mix  we...

Ras Malai Ras Malai is an Indian sweet delicacy from state of Orissa. Sweetened paneer dumplings are immersed in a creamy cardamom flavored milk, seasoned with some nuts. Generally this dish is prepared using home made Paneer or Chena.  Today I am going to show you the method of making Ras Malai... Ingredients for Paneer and Ras Malai: Milk    500ml  Lemon juice 1/2 lemon Sugar     1 cup water      2 cups water Pressure cooker Ingredients for Ras malai: Milk       1 cup Condenced milk 1 cup (I used here Amul mithai mate,we can use Nestle (sweetened)condensed milk also) Cardamom 3  (make it powder) Almonds       4 (Soak in water for 2 hours and remove skin and cut into long pieces) Safron is optional Method for making Paneer: Boil milk in a heavy bottomed pan on a medium flame. When milk comes to boiling point, slowly add lemon juice in it and mix ...