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CHANNAR PAYESH 

Ingredients

1/2 litre Milk
1 Tin Condensed milk
2 tablespoons Sugar
1 cup Water
2 tablespoons Nuts
2 tablespoons Raisins

Method

Make a thin syrup of the sugar and water. Put the chenna (cottage cheese) in a bowl and add the hot syrup into it, blending it thoroughly.
Boil milk in a deep bottomed pan.
Add the condensed milk. Simmer for 1-2 minutes. Cool till just warm.
Add the milk mixture into the channa, a spoon at a time.
Mix vigorously to form a homogenous mixture till all the milk is used up.
Pour into a bowl. Mix in the nuts and raisins. Serve chilled.

 BESAN KE LADOO
 
Ingredients

4 cups Gram Flour
1 cup Pure Ghee
2 cups sugar
1 tsp Powdered Cardamom
1/2 cup chopped Almonds and Raisins

Method

Heat the ghee in a pan.
Add the gram flour and fry it on a low flame stirring continuously till brown.
Once it is browned, let it cool.
Add powdered cardamom and sugar. Mix well.
Add chopped almonds and raisins.
Shape into ladoos and serve.

Diwali is the festival of sweets. Days before the festival , the ladies of the family start preparing traditional delicacies for the family and friends. On Diwali they distribute these sweets to the friends and neighbours and the needy. We cannot imagine Diwali without sweets and savouries that are specially made at home. These sweets are very family specific. Each family has its own recipe of the cuisines which they use year after year. From delicious rawa laddoos to ghathia and other mouth watering delights.

Here we have provided you with the recipes of few traditional mouth watering recepies. We have listed some of the usual Diwali recipes. Now you can try your hand at these too!

BADAM PHIRNI

Ingredients

12 nos. Almonds
4 tablespoons Rice flour
21/2 cups Milk
5 tablespoons Sugar
8 strands Saffron
1 teaspoon Cardamom powder

Method

• Blanch and grind the almonds to a fine paste with 1/2 cup milk. Mix together the ground almond paste and rice flour and keep aside.

• Bring the milk to a boil. Add the sugar and stir till the sugar dissolves. Keep aside a tablespoon of hot milk and dissolve the saffron in it. Add the almond-rice mixture into the boiling milk along with the saffron.

• Stir continuously for a few mintues till the milk thickens and attains a custard-like consistency. Sprinkle in the cardamom powder. Take off fire and cool to room temperature.

• Pour into individual bowls, garnish with almonds and pistachios and refrigerate.

Baisakhi or Vaisakhi is the harvest festival of Northern India. Baisakhi is one of the festivals that reminds everybody of the large celebrations among the huge farms that have various pulses and other vegetables ready to be cut down.

Baisakhi is one of the festivals where huge amount of cooking with authentic recipes and eating takes place. Also, as the festival is celebrated mainly towards the Northern region where people love to eat, this festival brings with itself varied dishes that can be enjoyed while sitting admist these beautiful farm lands.

Here we are providing you with some delicious recepies that are specially meant to be enjoyed around Baisakhi but can be cooked and enjoyed throughout the year. The recipes are: -

India is one of the few countries in the world that can boast of people from different backgrounds and different religions living together and enjoying and celebrating festivals of each other with the same enthusiasm as they celebrate their own. These different religions provide India with a lot of different festivals that are celebrated all year long. As a matter of fact some people say that India is a country where a festival is celebrated everyday.

These festivals offer a great opportunity for people from different religions to enjoy the traditional delicacies that are cooked using the traditional recipes. These traditional recipes have been passed on from generations to generations.

Each and every festival brings with it the joy of the festival and ceremonious food that is awaited for all year long. These special recipes provide a great opportunity to discover and taste the delicacies of Indians. Everybody is allowed to forget about their health related problem and enjoy the food and sweets to the fullest.

Sweets are added attractions festivals like Diwali, Lohri, Eid etc. are well known for offering sweets that are a must eat during the period in which these festivals arrive. A must eat because as one goes from home to home congratulating people on festivals it is considered a omen to offer sweets to the well wisher. Although you will realize how easy it is to prepare these sweets once you have gone through the recipe sections of various festivals.

Every festival in India have a different approach towards food for example on one hand the festival of Karwa Chauth is about staying hungry whole day and enjoying food only in early morning or late at night and on the other hand the festival of Holi offers a great opportunity to enjoy some of the best spicy as well as sweet food. This diversity in the food and the cooking will become clearer to you once you have browsed through our Indian festival food section.

Here we are providing few Indian festival food recipes to make your festival celebrations more tasty and mouth watering.