Mavina hannu Rasayana-Mango dessert

I just love summer as we get a variety of fruits and vegetables, very fresh and of differnt tastes.One such fruit which is loved by all is Mango.Its the king of all the fruits.Lovely juicy mangoes hmm..... just the name is enough for the mouth to water, just like my this simple cool recipe.As usual this is very easy and quick to prepare yet the taste is so promising.Without taking a lot i shall come straight to the recipe.

Ingredients:-
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Well ripe mangoes - 2-3 large
Coconut milk - 8 oz
Milk - 1cup
Jaggery - 3 tbsp
Brown sugar - 2 tsp
Cardammom - 1/2 tsp
Honey -2 tsp
Salt - 1 small pinch



Method:-
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1.Peal up the mangoes.It need not be too sweet. Slightly sour mangoes will also do.
2.Then cut it into small squares and keep aside
3.Squeeze up the pulp from the pith part that is the core and keep aside.
4.Now take milk ,coconut milk ,brown sugar,and mix properly add small pinck of salt and mix.Now grate or powder the jaggery and mix to this mixture properly.Adjust the sweetness to your taste.
5.You can add only brown sugar if you wish now add honey and cardammom and mix .
6.Add the mangoes to this liquid mixture with the pulp squeezed and mix roughly and cool it for altleast an hour or more before serving.Enjoy during this hot summer.

Banana cake

I would like to wish all my fellow blog mets a very special and happy valentine day thro' my recipe of cake which fits in perfectly on this eve of valentine day.This is a simple ,less fat,yummy cake recipe just like my previous chocolate cake recipe.

Ingredients:
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Banana - 3 fully ripe
All purposef lour-1 3/4 cup
Sugar-3/4 cup
butter-1/3 cup
salt -1/2 tsp
milk-3/4 cup
baking soda-1 tsp
baking powder-1 tsp


Method:
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1.Seave all the dry ingredients and keep aside.Preheat the oven to 350 deg F.
2.Grease the cake mould and dust with a little flour and keep aside.
3.Mash all the ripen banana's and keep aside.
4.Take the melted butter and sugar and mix them properly in the food processor untill all the sugar has incorporated properly.If you do not have a food processor just wisk it thoroughly with a beater.
5.Then add banana's to the butter mixture and blend it .Then add all the ry ingredients little by little with the milk and for a nice mixture.do not over work it.
6.Then remove it into the greased mould and bake for about 45 mins or until done.


You can also do a bit of froasting if its a special occation like this day .

Ingredients:
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Whip Cream- 1 cup[fresh cream will also be cood or icing cream also]
Almonds-6 sliced
Chocolate syrup-3 spoons
chunks and strips of pine apple


Method
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-Slice up the cale into 3 thin layers.
-Easy whay to do it place the cake in a plate and then insert the knife to almost centre from the side planning the thickness appropriately.Then slowly keep rotating the plate not the cake this helps to form a proper uniform layer and then layer each slices with a coat of cool whip then chunks of pineapple and nuts.
-Then keep another layer and repat the same.
-Any tinned or fresh fruits can be used.I just love pine apple and this makes a wonderful combination.
-Then cover up entire cake with cream and chunks off dryfruit and chocolate syrup..This is ready.I dought if anyone can resist eating cake.Enjoy.

Kesar Khseera

This is a tasty recipe which is very famous in South india.It has an nice flavour of saffron ,and richness of the milk in it.It has a beautiful colour which is again due to saffron.

Ingredients:
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Sooji - 1 cup
Milk - 3 cup
Water - 1 cup
Sugar - 2 cups
Cashews-2 tsp
Drygrapes-2 tsp
Almonds - 1 tsp
ghee - 1/2 cup

Method:
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1.Take a large heavy bottom pan,Add 1/4 cup of ghee into it and add sooji to it and fry for about 5 mins till it turns light brown.
2.Now add milk and water and keep stirring it in medium heat.
3.Just when the liquids dry off add remaining ghee to it,then add the saffron soaked in warm milk and keep stirring it till the cooked sooji starts leaving the edges and forms a non-sticking mixture.and leaves the surface as a single mass.
4.Now add the ghee roasted dry fruits and mix properly.
5.Remove and place in a glass bowl.
6.It should be eaten when hot.
7.It will last for about 10-15 mins when refrigerated.

Dark Chocolate Cake [Eggless]

Here is a recipe which i had prepared for my hubby's birthday this holiday.Well it came out so good i thought of sharing In this holiday occasion


Ingredients:
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All purpose flour -1.5 cup
Sugar - 2 cups+2 tbsp
Baking powder -1.5 tsp
Baking soda - 1.5 tsp
Cocoa powder -3/4 cup
Coffee powder -1.5 tsp
Oil - 1/3 cup
Milk - 1 cup
salt - 1 tsp
Vanilla extract - 2 tsp
Hot water - 1 cup
Cool wip - 1 cup
Chocolate grates - 1/2 cup
Chocolate sauce - 3-4 tsp

Methods:
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1.Seive all the dry ingredients and keep aside.
2.Then take all the dry ingredients in a food processor and add oil,a nd other wet ingredients and mix properly.
3.Then add vanilla extract and blend it.Here i have added coffee powder for extra richness of teh chocolate .Even vanilla also enhances the chocolate flavour and gives a rich colour to it.
4.Grease a baking pan with enough butter and then dust it with the flour and por the batter to it until it fills 3/4 of the pan.
5.Pop it ina 345 deg pre-heated oven for 45 mins or until the tooth prick pricked comes out clear.
6.Allow it to cool for 1 hrs.Then slice it into thin slices.
7.Layer it with cool whip and freshly grated chocolate
8.Make a thick layer of cool whip and drizzle it with chocolate grates and hot chocolate sauce forming strings.Fresh or canned cherries also can be added for the topping and even layering.
9.Tastes even better if chilled.

Eggless Chocolate Nut Muffins

Here is my way of wishing you all a marry x-mas and happy new year.This is a yummy chocolate muffins topped with crunchy dry fruits .The soft muffins has the richness of chocolate and the creamy ness will melt simply in your mouth.Enjoy this vacations with the yummy chocolate muffins my friends



Ingredients:
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All purpose flour -1.5 cup
Sugar - 2 cups
Baking powder -1.5 tsp
Baking soda - 1.5 tsp
Cocoa powder -3/4 cup
Coffee powder -1.5 tsp
Oil - 1/3 cup
Milk - 1 cup
salt - 1 tsp
Dry fruits - 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract - 2 tsp
Hot water - 1 cup



Methods:
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1.Seive all the dry ingredients and keep aside.
2.Then take all the dry ingredients in a food processor and add oil,a nd other wet ingredients and mix properly.
3.Then add vanilla extract and blend it.Here i have added coffe powder for extra richness of teh chocolate .Even vanilla also enhances the chocolate flavour and gives a rich colour to it.
4.Then pour the batter to the muffin pan only to 2/3 .Then mix all the dry fruits in a little bit flour and add to the top.this prevents them from sinking to the bottom.
5.Place the try in a preheated oven of 350 deg for 40 mins.
6.Allow it to cool .Then relish it.



yummy muffins are ready to melt in your mouth.

Sabakki Payasam (Sabudana Kheer)

Here is a delicious recipe for this vacation.Its a creamy kheer with bubbly sabudana,rich dryfruits,creamy milk all combined together with sweet smelling fragrance of cardammon and Saffron in it.

Ingredients:
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Sabudana-1/3 cup
Milk - 1 cup
Water -1/2 cup
Cardamon -2-3 powdered
Safron -2 pinch
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Salt - 1 pinch
Almond - 3-4 sliced
Raisens - 7-8


Method:
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1.Pressure cook the sabudana with water.
2.To sabudana add milk and sugar and bring to a boil.Now add sugar and ghee roasted dried fruits and simmer and cook for about 10 mins.
3.Add safron which was soaked in warm milk and increase the heat and again bring to a boil.
4.Garnish with saffron,cardamon and little almonds on the top .
5.Serve hot or chill and serve cool like a kheer.Easy ,quick and delicious.Enjoy... Happy X-mas

Rice pudding

Friends this is a simple famous recipe which everyone would like to have and if one could prepare it at home so easily then why not give a try to this delicious recipe.....

Ingredients:
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Raw rice - 1 cup
Milk - 3 cups
Bay leaves - 2
Sugar - 2 cups
Brown sugar- 2tsp
jaggery - 2tsp( grated)
Cardammon- 4
Cashews - 2 tsps
dry grapes - 2 tsp
Almound - for garnishing
1tsp -butter
safron - 3 pinch( soaked in warm milk)


Method:
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1.First take butter in a pan.Let it melt a bit and then add rice ,bayleaves.Then toss it properly so that all rice grannules are coated with ghee.
2.Now add 3 cups of milk and then allow the rice to cook in the milk for about 10 minutes.Stir it occasionally.
3.Now add sugar , brown sugar, powdered jaggery.
4.Now add cardammom, safron and add water or excess milk to this .
5.Cook till rice cooks completly in the milk.If desired you can also add heavy cream or condenesed milk for extra richness.
6.Garnish the kheer with ghee roasted chashews and raisens.

Banana Halva

Here is a recipe of a sweet dish which is very famous in the south Indian states especially Karnataka and Kerala. It smells awesome and even the taste is so good. The mouth watering taste of this recipe makes you get edicted to it. The recipe is very easy and you can never get it wrong.It contains less fat and good for health too.
Banana is considered to be the most nutricious fruit .Its rich in many salts and minerals which are very essential to our body like pottasium and zincBanana is a rich source of carbohydrates and fat .It also softens the stools and helps in pushing out the wastes from our body timely and in a easy manner.Hence one must always involve it in thier routine diet may be in different forms if desired.

Required Ingredients:
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10 big bananas - Mashed properly with hand
3 cups - sugar
1 tsp - cardammon
4 Tsp - ghee
2tsp - ghee tosted cashews



Method:
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1.Take a heavy bottomed pan.Heat it and then add the mashed bananas to this heated pan
2.Continously stir it till it turns slightly brown now add 3 cups of sugar
3.Continue stirring it till it turns dark brown and it starts leaving the bottom of the pan and forms a combined single mass.
4.Now add ghee and stir ,then add the cashews and stir.Be carefull at this pointTO prevent it from stick to the bottom of the pan.
5.Greese a plate with oil/ butter /ghee and keep aside.
6. Now pour the mass of the banana into this plate and allow it to cool.When its almost cool draw lines in desired shapes and allow it to cool completly then cut and store in a box.It lasts for more than a month .