Piyush

Piyush

It is a thick creamy drink popular in Maharashtra and Gujarat as lassi is popular in Punjab....

Piyush is made with hung curd or srikhand

and buttermilk or curd and milk with flavours of Saffron, Nutmeg and Cardomom...  it is a good summer drink....

Cooling for children and adults...

Ingredients 

1 cup Saffron Shrikhand 

4 cups Curd

1 cup Milk

1/4 tsp  Cardamom powder 

2 tbsp Sugar or more as per the taste 

Pinch of Nutmeg powder

2 pinches of Saffron

1/2 tsp Almond flakes 

Method 

Add shrikhand, curd, milk, cardomom powder, nutmeg powder and sugar in a blender. Blend it well. Pour the piyush in  glasses and garnish it with almond flakes and saffron and sprinkle little cardamom powder. Chill it before serving...

Nutty Chocolatey Mawa Donut Gujjiya.......

Nutty Chocolatey Mawa Donut Gujjiya.......

Holi hai Bhai Holi hai....

Khelo Rango ke Sath.... 

Gujjiya kha ke mast raho....

Aahi hai Subhakamnaye Hmara Apke Sangh..... 

Gujjiyas are classic dish made with all purpose flour dough and Mava filling, deep fried and dipped in Sugar syrup... 

This is a Gujjiya with a twist... 

For the Donut dough

Ingredients 

2 1/2 cups All Purpose Flour + 1/4 cup extra for handling the dough and rolling the dough 

3 tbsp Melted Butter 

2 tbsp Powder Sugar 

Salt to taste 

1 1/4 tsp Dry Yeast 

1/4 cup Lukewarm Water 

1 tbsp Sugar for the Yeast 

1/4 cup or more Lukewarm Milk for kneading a soft dough

Method 

Add yeast, sugar and  lukewarm water in a cup and keep it aside till it rises. Take flour in a mixing bowl,  add salt and powder sugar. Mix it.  Mix in yeast and milk little at a time as per the milk is required for kneading a soft dough. Add a tbsp of butter and keep kneading the dough for 5 to 10 minutes. Add the remaining butter on the dough and  keep it aside cover till the dough rises. 

P. S. If the dough gets sticky sprinkle some flour and knead it. 

Knead the dough well. Stretch the dough and fold on a flat platform.

For the Nutty Chocolate Mawa filling 

Ingredients 

3/4 cup of Mawa

1/2 cup of Chocolate Chips 

Handful of Almond and Pistachio flakes or chopped

Method 

Take a pan, add the mawa and cook it till the mawa starts to form a dough, take it off the flame. Add the Almond and Pistacho flakes and mix it. Add the Chocolate chips, mix it well and keep it aside.

For the Donut Gujjyas 

Ingredients 

Dough

Filling 

Oil for frying the Gujjyas

Method 

Take the dough and knead it again. Divide the dough in to two portions. Take one portion and roll the dough, cut circles out of the sheet with a round cutter. Add the filling and fold one side to the other side. Press it and fold the edges. Keep it for 20 minutes. Heat the oil. Fry the Gujjyas till brown. Take it out. Cool it. Sprinkle it with coloured sugar powder... 

For Garnishing 

Use coloured sugar powder..... 

P. S. Take 2 tbsp of Sugar in a grinding jar and add few drop of colour. Mix it with the spoon.  Grind the sugar. The colour will get mixed with the sugar. If darker shade is required then add more drops of colour and grind again. This coloured powder sugar canbe used to decorate cakes and other desserts...

Eggdli Muffins...

Eggdli Muffins... 😃😃

A twist with the leftover idli batter with eggs....... Good for breakfast or snacks... Enjoy with Chutney or Sauce... 

Ingredients 

1 bowl of Idli Batter

1 Onion chopped 

Few Coriander leaves chopped 

1 or 2 Green chillies chopped 

2 Eggs 

Salt to taste 

1/4 tsp Chilli powder 

1/4 tsp Sambar powder 

Oil to grease the Muffin tin

Method 

Take a mixing bowl, add the batter, eggs, onions, coriander leaves, green chillies and salt. Mix the batter. Grease the muffin tray moulds. Pour the batter in the muffin moulds. Sprinkle the chilli powder and sambar powder on top of the batter. Bake at 180 degrees celcius for 20 minutes or till done. Insert  a toothpick and check... Serve hot with the Chutney...

P.S. Other vegetables like chopped capsicum, carrot can be added. Leftover keema can also to added for a change...

Thandai

Thandai is a refreshing drink made on Holi. It’s cooling and hence the name thandai .There are variations of thandai. It’s more popular in the north. 

Thandai Masala

Ingredients 

30 Almonds 

20 Pistachios 

4 tbsp  Melon Seeds

8 Rose Petals 

1/2 tsp Poppy Seeds

2 Green Cardamom 

6 Peppercorns 

1 tsp Fennel Seeds 

1 tsp Rose Essences

Few strands of Saffron 

2 tbsp Sugar

Method 

Grind all the ingredients together and store in an airtight container.

Thandai Drink

Ingredients 

2 to 3 tbsp of Thandai Powder 

1 glass of Cold Milk 

Sugar as per sweetness

Few Almond flakes and Saffron strands for garnishing 

Method

Mix in one glass of chilled milk and add sugar according to the sweetness required. Add the thandai powder and mix well. Garnish it with Almond flakes and few strands of Saffron. Let it stand for sometime for the taste to enhance. Serve it chilled.

Coloured Powder Sugar..

Coloured Powder Sugar...

It is used to decorate cakes and cookies. It can be very easily made at home. Using gel colours and sugar. 

Ingredients 

2 tbsps Sugar (take big granulated sugar)

Few drops of desired Gel Colour

(I have used Ameri Gel Colours)

Method 

Take a small grinding jar. Add the sugar and 2 to 3 drops of colour. Grind it. If more darker shade is required then add 2 drops more and grind it. Make it in small batches so that much grinding is not required. 

If made in larger quantity then the grinding jar can become hot and the sugar will become moist.