Friday, June 20, 2008

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Top 10 Recipes

GAJAR PISTA BURFI
Ingredients

For pista burfi

Pistachios, blanched 2 cups
Sugar 1 cups
Mawa/khoya, grated 1 cups
Condensed milk ½ tin (200 mls)
For gajar halwa
Pure ghee 3 tablespoons
Carrots, grated 5 large
Sugar 1 cup
Condensed milk ½ tin (200 mls)
Mawa/khoya, grated 1 cup
Green cardamom powder 1 teaspoon
METHOD
1.
For Pista Burfi, peel pistachios and crush them with a cutter. Take sugar in a pan, add one cup of water and cook till a syrup of one thread consistency is formed. Add the crushed pistachios and mawa and cook on low heat for five minutes.

2.
For Gajar Halwa, heat pure ghee in another pan, add carrots and sauté on high heat for five minutes. Add sugar and mix.

3.
Add condensed milk to both the carrot and pistachio preparations.

4.
Add mawa to the carrot mixture, mix and add green cardamom powder. Mix and cook further for few minutes.

5.
Grease a tray (12” x 8” x 1”). Transfer the carrot mixture and level it with a spatula. Spread the pistachio mixture over the carrot layer and level the surface. Set aside and allow to cool down to room temperature.Cut into squares or diamonds and serve or store.

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