This Holi, don’t just celebrate with colours but also bring some edible colours to the table. Keep on reading to add a flavourful twist to your Holi bash.
- Rasmalai
Rasmalai – The royal sweet made with full-fat milk and delicious rich nuts is often relished by many. Read on to prepare this rich and mouth-watering sweet.
Ingredients:
- 1 ltr. Milk
- 50 ml vinegar
- 100 gm ice
- 1 kg. Sugar syrup
- 50 gm. Refined flour
- 70 ml. Water
- 20 gm. Pistachios
- 10 gm. Gold leaf
- ½ gm. Saffron
- 5 gm. Green cardamom powder
- 100 gm. Sugar
- 20 gms of Almonds
Instructions:
- In a pan add the milk and bring it to a boil
- Once the milk is completely boiled add in the vinegar
- Now, the milk will start getting separated
- As the milk gets separated add in the ice cubes to bring down the temperature of the milk and to stop from separating more
- Now, strain the mixture through a muslin cloth and keep the separated mixture which will form into paneer with some heavyweight so that all the water is released from the mixture
- No residues should be left of vinegar water into the mixture
- In a medium saucepan, add 300 gm of water and1kg of sugar to make the sugar syrup
- Set the sugar syrup aside
- Now, boil 500 gm of milk separately and combine – saffron, green cardamom, sugar and add in the paneer to it
- Once the rabri mixture is set, add in the ras malai to it
- Allow it to chill in the fridge and garnish with almonds, pistachios and gold leaf
- Serve chilled during Holi day!
2. Papri Chaat
Nothing beats a touch of savoury and sweet chaat during Holi. Read on to prepare Dahi papdi chaat at your Holi bash.
Ingredients:
- 15-20 pieces of papdi
- 1 and ½ cup curd, chilled
- 1 tsp sugar
- ½ cup potato boiled and cut into cubes
- ½ cup black chickpeas soaked for 2-3 hours
- 2 tbsp of onion chopped
- 2 tbsp of coriander mint chutney
- 2 tbsp of tamarind chutney
- Salt to taste
- ¼ tsp of red chilli powder
- ¼ tsp of roasted cumin powder
- ½ tsp of chaat masala
- 2 tbsp of fresh coriander
- ¼ cup of sev
- 2 tbsp of pomegranate seeds
Instructions:
- Arrange the papdis in a late and lay them in a circle
- Now, assemble all the ingredients one by one starting with the boiled potatoes, onion and chickpeas
- The garnish layer – spread the mint chutney, tamarind chutney
- Now, add the mixed chilled curd and cover the entire plate
- Season up with spices – red chilli powder, roasted cumin powder, chaat masala
- Now, garnish with fresh coriander, pomegranate seeds, and sev.
3. Puran Poli
Puran Poli – the traditional Maharashtrian sweet, made with chana dal and jaggery tastes as delicious as it looks. Read on to prepare this sweet delicacy at the comfort of your home.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup powdered jaggery
- 1 cup chana dal
- 3 cups of water
- 2 tbsp of ghee
- ½ tsp of cardamom powder
- ¼ tsp of nutmeg powder
- 4 cups of all-purpose flour
- ½ tsp of salt as required
Instructions:
- For preparing this easy Maharashtrian recipe, take a glass bowl and mix flour with water in it
- Knead well to make a stiff dough. Cover the dough and keep aside for 1 hour
- Now, take a pressure cooker and add chana dal and water in it
- Put the cooker on the gas and heat it over a high flame
- Allow to pressure cook the dal and once it’s done, strain the excess water
- Transfer the dal in a bowl and allow it to cool
- Once the dal has cooled, add it in a pan and heat it over moderate flame
- Now, add sugar along with 1/2 tbsp of ghee. Keep stirring
- Cook on low flame till the gram mixture is soft and sticky
- Once it’s done, turn off the flame and keep the mixture aside
- Now knead the dough again, adding salt, water and oil, little at a time, till the dough becomes pliable
- Grind the dal and sugar mixture to a smooth consistency adding a little milk if it is too dry
- Add cardamom powder and nutmeg powder.
- Now, take a lime-sized lump of the dough and a little larger lump of the dal mixture
- Roll out two rounds from the dough on a board sprinkled with rice flour, into flat rounds of about 7 inch in diameter
- Cover the rolled dough round with the dal mixture, leaving half an inch at the edges, and then cover this with the second round
- Roll again over this to seal them together, pinching the edges to seal well. Roll out like a thick chapati
- Heat ghee on a hot griddle and put the Puran Poli on it
- Keep pressing and turning it so that it cooks well on both sides
- Keep adding ghee all around to brown it evenly without sticking to the griddle.
- Serve hot and pair with tea or coffee.
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