Recipes
for Indian Festivals:
Diwali
Badam Doodh
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Ingredients:
- 2 cups milk
- 10 Almonds
- Few strands of
saffron
- 2 tsp sugar (more as per you taste)
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Steps:
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Blanch the almonds, peel and cut into thin slices, lengthwise
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Soak saffron in 1tbsp warm milk for 10-15 minutes.
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Bring milk to boil.
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Add soaked saffron, sugar and almonds.
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Let it simmer on slow flame for a minute.
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Stir well.
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Pour into cup, from a height.
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This way a lot of froth will form on the milk.
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Serve piping hot.
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Apple Shake
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Ingredients:
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Steps:
- Run apple, milk and sugar in
blender, till apple is crushed completely.
- Chill the Shake.
- Pour into glass, from a height; so froth forms.
- Serve cold.
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Sitaphal Rabdi
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Ingredients:
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1 cup Sitaphal (custard apple) pulp
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2 liters whole milk
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3/4 cup sugar
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4 almonds
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4 green pistachios, unsalted
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1/4 tsp. saffron strands
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1/4 tsp. cardamom powder
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1 tsp. chopped fragrant red rose petals
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Steps:
- Crush almonds and pasta coarsely, or cut into thin slivers.
- Boil milk in a clean heavy pan.
- Simmer for ten minutes, after it starts boiling.
- Stir occasionally while boiling.
- Add sugar, stir till dissolved.
- Take off fire, add saffron, cardamom, almonds, pastas.
- Cool to room temperature.
- Add sitaphal pulp, chill for 3-4 hours till very cold.
- Put in individual serving bowls sprinkle very few chopped petals to
garnish.
- Serve chilled.
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Coffee Fizz
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Ingredients:
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1 1/2 cup milk
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4 tbsp. filter coffee decoction or 2 tsp. instant coffee
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3 tsp. sugar ground
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4 tsp. hot water (if using instant coffee)
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2 scoops vanilla ice-cream
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1/4 tsp vanilla essence
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Steps:
- Beat together sugar, coffee and hot water.
- When it gets foamy, add milk.
- Mix and keep in refrigerator till required and quite chilled.
- Before serving, add vanilla essence, beat till frothy with an electric
whopper or egg beater.
- Pour coffee in two glasses from
- Put vanilla ice-cream in to glass (one in each)
- Serve cold
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Creamy Hot Chocolate
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Ingredients:
For Cream
Other Ingredients
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Steps:
- Beat cream and sugar till it holds stiff peaks
- Heat milk, remove 1/4 cup of milk in a cup
- Add sugar and chocolate, stir vigorously
- When fully dissolved and frothy, add to remaining milk.
- Bring back to a boil, reduce, simmer 1/2 a minute
- Pour into 2 large mugs from a height to make it frothy.
- Top with whipped cream
- Sprinkle powdered chocolate
- Serve hot
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