Indian Recipes

Indian Recipes

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CHEESECAKE

1.Crust:

1 cups quick or old fashioned oats

(alternative, 3/4 cups oats, 3/4 cuts finely chopped nuts)

cup packed brown sugar

3 tablespoons flour

1/3 cup margarine or butter (melting/melted)

2.combine thoroughly.

Bake on bottom of springform pan at 350F for 15 minutes

3 (eight ounce) packages cream cheese (at 90F).

(warm room temperature)

1 cups sugar

3 tablespoons to cup flour

3 eggs

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

2 cups (sixteen ounces) sour cream

4.Warm (or microwave) cream cheese to 90F. Beat the

cream cheese at medium to high speed for three minutes

in mixer. Blend in sugar and flour. Blend in eggs

one at a time, then blend in vanilla. Add sour cream

and beat in mixer until a uniform fluff -- about two to three

minutes.

5.Bake between 350 and 375F for thirty-five

minutes.

6.(Alternative, bake at 450F for ten minutes and

then 250F for one hour).

7.Let cool and cure for eight hours. Then chill.

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Coconut Burfi

Ingredients


Coconut grated 2 cups
Sugar 3 cups
Ghee 2 cups

Method:

1.In a pan add grated coconut.
2.Add sugar stir it. In the mean time add ghee little by little.
3.When the mixture leaves the sides of the pan, pour over a greased plate.
4.Cut into pieces.

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Kesar Pista Kulfi

Ingredients

4 Cans of Evaporated Milk
1 Can of Sweet Condensed Milk
1 table spoon Salted Butter
1 1/2 table spoon Custard Powder
Few Saffron strings
Handfull of Pista nuts

Preperation:

1.Keep 3 tablespoon of evaporated milk in a small bowl and boil the
rest of evaporated milk in a non stick pan. Add condensed milk and
bring to a boil.
2.Add saffron to milk and chopped pista nuts and boil it for few
minutes. Turn gas to lower heat.
3.Dissolve custard powder in a small bowl using 3 tbsp of evaporated
milk and add it to the mixture. After milk mixture thickens trun the gas
off. Let it cool down little bit and after 10 minutes add butter. When
the mixture is lukewarm put it in a grinder and mix it.
4.Pour the mixture in kulfi moulds and keep them in the freezer. In
about 6/7 hours you have delicious kulfi.

Note:You can use same method to make pista kulfi. Add green color,
ground pista nuts, 3/4 drops of icecream essence, and no saffron.

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Ras Malai
Ingredients

Ricotta Cheese 2 lb.
Half and Half 2 qts.
Sugar 2 cups
Cardamon pods 5
Vanilla Essence 1 tsp.

Almond - 10 Saffron - a pinch

Preparation
Mix 1.5 cups of sugar with the Ricotta cheese and bake it in a 400o F oven for about 1hr and 15 minutes in a flat dish covered with aluminum foil.
The cheese should have hardened and turned a pale brown.

Take the almonds and grind them well to form a fine powder , then add the saffron and add them to the Half & Half
Thicken the Half and Half by simmering over low heat for a long time, do it over low heat and stir frequently.
Thicken until the volume drops to around half of the original volume.
Add the remaining 0.5 cup sugar, cardamon pods , vanilla essence to the simmered Half and Half.
Heat for a few minutes.
After the cheese has been baked, cut it into 1 inch squares and add to the hot thickened half and half.
Cool for a few hours in the fridge.

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Rava Ladoo:

Ingredients:
Semolina (rava/sooji)
1 cup
Sugar
1 cup
Milk
1 cup raisins
1 tbsp.
Cashewnuts
1 tbsp.
Ghee
3 tsps.


Method:

1.Fry the semolina in a saucepan on a low heat till it turns slightly brown in colour.

2.Then add sugar, ghee, milk and fry till the mixture becomes sticky.

3.Chop the nuts and add them, along with the currants, to the mixture.

4.Remove the pan from the heat and form the dough into small balls.

5.Serve when dry.

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Rasaghulla

Ingredients:

You can use Ricotta cheese instead of Paneer, But the taste still
differs a lot. But you can try using Ricotta cheese with the same process for Rasaghulla

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