Sooji Ka Halwa

Sooji Ka Halwa
Hi friends. Today, I am going to post the recipe of "Sooji ka Halwa". It is a regular dish cooked in India specially during festive season. Most of the time sooji is gets roasted before cooking sooji ka halwa, but in this recipe halwa is cooked without the need of sooji to be roasted.
 
 
Ingredients 

• Sooji                                        1 bowl
• Sugar                                       1 bowl
• Ghee                                        3-4 tablespoon
• Milk                                        2 bowl
• Kaju                                        1 tablespoon
• Kismis                                    1 tablespoon
• Elaichi Powder                       2 pinch

Method of preparation

Take sooji in a bowl. This sooji is not fried. There is no need to fry it.

Add milk in the bowl

Add dry fruits and keep it aside for 20 minutes

 

Take ghee (butter) in a heated pan.

When the ghee gets heated, add enough sugar and stir it regularly.

Now when the sugar melts and its color turns brown, add sooji in the pan that was kept aside.

 

 

 

 

Mix the sugar and sooji properly and stir regularly otherwise it will start sticking with the pan.

 

 

 

  

Now cook the mixture for 5 minutes. When mixture stops stickiness, add the Elaichi powder and mix it well with halwa. 

Now, sooji ka halwa is ready to serve. Take it in a bowl or plate.

Garnish it with Kaju and serve it.

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Stuffed Dahi Vada

Stuffed Dahi Vada

Hi friends, Welcome to Jyoti's Kitchen. Today, I am going to post the recipe of "Stuffed Dahi Vada". This is one of  the important dish that is often be a part of our Indian Festival or any other occasion like Marriage party, Holi etc

Ingredients

• Urad                                         1 bowl soaked
• Ginger                                      1 tablespoon chopped
• Green Chilli                              1 tablespoon chopped
• Coriander Leaves                     1 tablespoon chopped
• Coconut                                    1 tablespoon chopped
• Kaju                                          1 tablespoon chopped
• Kismis                                       1 tablespoon chopped
• Curd                                          1-2 bowl
• Cumin Powder                          3-4 teaspoon roasted
• Red Chilli Powder                     2-3 teaspoon roasted
• Black Salt                                  According to taste
• Plain Salt                                   According to taste
• Oil                                              To fry

Preparation of Stuffed Vadas

First of all soak the Urad for 2-3 hours in water.

Then Grind it to make smooth paste.

Now keep all the chopped ingredients besides you.

Now add the chopped coriander leaves to the paste and small amount of salt.

Mix all the ingredients for stuffing.

Now take a small cotton cloth and knife. Soak the cloth in water and squeeze it.

Now wrap the cloth on knife from one end

Now spread the paste over cloth in round shape

Put the ingredients in the middle of the paste

Roll the cloth holding the knife and press from corners as shown below

For better understand, here is a video showing the preparation of stuffed vadas.

Now take oil in pan.

When the oil gets heated, put the vadas in the pan to fry them

Fry the vadas until it gets light golden brown

Now take them out and put over tissue paper so that the oil is soaked by tissue paper

Boil enough water in a pan and add 1 teaspoon salt.

 

Put all the vadas in the boiled water and leave it for 15 minutes  to make them softer.

Now squeeze out all the excess water from vadas and keep aside.

 

Take curd in a bowl. Add some water to make it thin and mix well.

 

Add 1 teaspoon salt in it.

 

Add red chilli powder

Add cumin powder

Mix them well to make mixture

Put all the vadas in the mixture so that the curd is soaked  by them and leave it aside

Topping of Dahi Vadas

Take 1-2 Dahi Vadas in a bowl.

Spread thick curd over it.

 

Spread black salt powder over it according to taste.

 

Spread roasted cumin (jeera) powder

 

Spread roasted red chilli powder

 

Now your Stuffed Dahi Vada is ready to serve.

We can also serve it with imli chutney if you like Sweet Dahi Vada

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