Sweet recipes for Diwali

Gurugram, Oct 17 (IANS) Traditional sweets are of the essence when it comes to Diwali and the celebrations are simply incomplete without home-cooked stuff. This time celebrate the festival by indulging in some sweet and tasty treats.

Here are some mouth-watering recipes by Chef Sudipta Saha, The Pllazio Hotel, Gurugram.

1. Chocolate Sandesh

   Ingredients

    

   2 litres of full cream milk
   5 gms of lemon salt
   100 gms of chocolate
   10 gms of coco powder
   25 gms of butter
   50 gms of sugar

   Method

   Boil milk at a low temperature. Put lemon salt in it.
   Filter it using a muslin cloth and refrigerate.
   In a double boiler, add butter, chocolate chunks, sugar, and coco powder.
   Pour it to the milk mixture.
   Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
   Cut into squares.

2. Gulab Kheer

   Ingredients

   11 litres of full cream milk
   100 gms of basmati rice
   100 gms of sugar
   Milkmaid
   Rose water
   Rose petals

   Method

   Boil milk at a low temperature for 30 minutes.
   Add Milkmaid and sugar and cook for 5 minutes.
   Add basmati rice and cook till rice becomes tender.
   Add rose petals and rose water.
   Let it cool.
   Garnish with almond flakes.

3. Shahi Tukda

   Ingredients

   1 litre full cream milk
   6no milk bread
   250 gms of desi ghee
   250 gms of sugar
   100 ml of water
   5 pieces of small cardamom

   Method

   Cut the bread in a triangular shape, remove sides.
   Fry in desi ghee till it turns golden in colour.
   Dissolve sugar in luke warm water and dip the bread in it.
   Boil milk till it becomes thick. Stir constantly.
   Pour it on the bread.
   Garnish with cardamom powder.

4. Ananas aur malai champ

   Ingredients

   500 gms of raw pineapple
   500 gms of raw papaya
   300 gms of sugar
   1 litre milk
   200 gms of khoya
   Saffron

   Method

   Boil milk for 20 minutes at a moderate temperature.
   Add khoya when it gets thick.
   Refrigerate for one hour.
   Boil pineapple and papaya for 5 minutes.
   Add sugar, pineapple, papaya to a kadhai.
   Cook till it becomes sticky and add saffron.
   Make small balls of the milk mixture.
   Dip it in the pineapple and papaya mixture.

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