Malpua - The Bong way

Ingredients:

For batter:

• Milk                                     – ¾ Litre
• All purpose flour(maida)      – ½ cup
• Semolina(suji)                     – ½ cup
• Fennel seeds(saunf)            - 1 tea spoon
• Oil                                       - for deep frying

For syrup:

• Sugar                                 - 1 cup
• water                                - 1 cup
• Green Cardamom               – 3

Preparation:
1. Take all the ingredients for batter in a mixing bowl and keep mixing until a smooth           mixture forms. Make sure there are no lumps. Keep it aside for 1 hour.
2. In a vessel mix water, sugar and cardamom pods and cook them on medium heat stirring  continuously until you get a one thread consistency.
3. In a deep bottomed pan heat oil.

      4. Pour one ladleful of batter in the oil to form a circular pancake.

      5. Fry on medium heat. Flip it over when one side is done.

      6. Keep frying until it gets a golden brown color.

      7. When both the sides are done, take it out and put it in sugar syrup and let it immerse      for 30 seconds.

      8. Remove the malpua from syrup and serve hot.

    

Amrakhand - A must have dessert in summer, especially when the king fruit arrives.

Amrakhand is a dessert which in a summer day would not only satisfy your sweet tooth, it also would satisfy your hungry soul for sure. It is a perfect blend of sweet, sour and creaminess. It would arouse your taste buds so much that you will be forced to beg for more. And the best thing about this recipe is, it is very easy to prepare. :)

Ingredients:

• Curd                         – 1 Kg
• Mangoes                   – 3 
• Sugar                        – 1 cup(powdered. Adjust it based on sweetness of the                                               mangoes)
• Cardamom powder    – 1 tea spoon
• Pistachios                 - 10 Pieces
• Almond                     - 10 Pieces 

Preparation:
1. Take the curd in a muslin cloth and hang it overnight to get rid of the whey.
2. Whisk the hung curd(chakka) for 4-5 minutes until you get a smooth texture.
3. Make a puree of the mangoes.
4. Add the mango puree, powdered sugar and cardamom powder in the hung curd and mix them.
5. Blend the mixture until you get a smooth and creamy texture.
6. Freeze it for few hours.
7. Garnish with chopped pistachios and almonds.

I like to have amrakhand with puris. I think this combination goes really well.

Ras Malai - A delicacy my wife married me for!

My the then would be, when came to know that I can prepare Rasmalai(offcourse I bragged about it to impress), she didn't think anything else and all she knew was - she had to get married to me! At least for the sake of Rasmalai. And then within first 6 months of our marriage every week there used to come a taunt, "aaj sweetshop se rasmalai le aana, khane ka bada mann kar raha hai. Mujhe toh aata nahi banana. Kaun banayega mere liye.". And then one fine day I pulled up my socks and thought to put a stop to this torture. This is the outcome of it. For all those men who can take pain to impress their wives, would be's, girlfriends....here you go. :)


Ingredients:

• Milk                         – 1 ½ Liters
• Condensed milk        – ½ can(Optional) 
• Sugar                       – ½ cup
• Cardamom powder   – 1 tea spoon
• Pistachios                - 10 Pieces
• Almond                    - 10 Pieces 

Preparation:
1. Take around 10 rosgullas. Please refer to my earlier post to prepare Roshogolla.
2. Squeeze them gently to get rid of the extra syrup.
3. Cut them into halves and keep aside.
(This is optional)

4. In a heavy bottomed vessel heat the milk by stirring it continuously until it becomes half.
5. Add sugar, condensed milk and cook for another few minutes.
6. Add the pieces of rosgulla and cook for another 2 minutes.
7. Add the cardamom powder and mix properly.
8. Take it out in a serving dish and garnish with chopped almonds and pistachios and refrigerate for few hours until chilled,
9. And the rasmalai is ready to be served.

To all the readers - word of caution. This might increase the frequency of taunts. :) :P